spiritual awakening | David M Masters

When Everything Gets Harder, You’re Closer Than You Think

There is a moment in every meaningful life when it all feels like too much. Not just busy. Not just hard. But heavy in a way that sits in your chest and follows you into sleep. The kind of tired that doesn’t go away with rest. The kind of confusion where you’re not even sure what question to ask anymore. You’re carrying pressure, responsibility, disappointment, maybe grief, maybe betrayal, maybe fear about the future, and you’re quietly wondering if you can take one more step without something inside you giving out.

And if you’re anything like most people, you’re probably telling yourself that this means you’re failing. That you’ve reached your limit. That something has gone wrong. That you should be stronger, clearer, more resilient than this. But I want you to hear this clearly, because it matters more than you realize: this moment is not evidence that you are breaking. It is evidence that you are crossing something. You are standing at a threshold, an invisible line between who you have been and who you are becoming, and thresholds always feel disorienting before they feel empowering.

Here’s the part most people never get told. Right before anything expands, it compresses. It’s true everywhere in nature. Seeds split before they grow. Muscles tear before they strengthen. Carbon only becomes a diamond under pressure that feels unbearable. Human beings are no different. When your life starts to feel tight, chaotic, overwhelming, when things that used to work suddenly don’t, it’s often because the container you’ve been living in can no longer hold who you’re becoming.

And no, that doesn’t make the pain imaginary. It doesn’t mean you’re supposed to “think positive” or push through. It means there’s a reason the pressure has intensified, and it isn’t random.

There are forces in this world that don’t benefit from fully awake, self-directed, purpose-driven people. They don’t show up as villains. They don’t announce themselves. They don’t kick down your door. They whisper. They normalize exhaustion. They reward conformity. They call mediocrity “being realistic.” They label vision as arrogance and growth as selfishness. They operate through constant distraction, endless noise, information without wisdom, fear dressed up as responsibility, and social pressure to fit in instead of stand out.

And perhaps most effectively, they train you to turn against yourself. To second-guess your instincts. To water down your ideas. To apologize for wanting more. To keep your dreams reasonable, manageable, and non-threatening. Not because you’re weak, but because fully developed human potential is inconvenient to systems that rely on predictability and compliance.

So when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally depleted, disoriented, questioning your own strength, don’t immediately assume life is punishing you. Sometimes life is pressing on you because the old way of being no longer fits, and staying small is no longer an option.

If you’ve noticed that everything seems to be hitting at once, career instability, health challenges, relationship fractures, the loss of someone who anchored your old life, an intolerance for environments or people you once endured, and that’s not a coincidence. It’s often a signal that you’ve reached a non-negotiable turning point. Your old life cannot continue as it was, and your new life has not fully formed yet. That in-between space is uncomfortable by design. It strips away false certainty. It removes coping mechanisms that once worked. It forces honesty.

And right about here, resistance shows up. Not always as an external obstacle, but as a voice inside your head that suddenly gets louder. “Who do you think you are?” “Maybe now isn’t the right time.” “Other people have it worse.” “Just be grateful and stop pushing.” That voice sounds reasonable. Responsible, even. But that voice is not intuition. It’s conditioning. And its timing is revealing.

Pressure doesn’t intensify when you’re stagnant. It intensifies when you’re about to outgrow the structure you’ve been living inside. A person who thinks independently, questions authority, creates value instead of just consuming it, and lifts others simply by being who they are, that kind of person doesn’t fit neatly into systems built to manage and pacify. So the pressure increases right when your inner capacity is expanding, not to stop you, but to see whether you’ll collapse back into familiarity or cross forward into something truer.

Pay attention to when you feel like quitting. It’s rarely at the beginning, and it’s rarely when something is clearly impossible. It shows up when you’re close. When you’ve grown. When you can feel change approaching. When the old version of you can’t carry what the new version requires. That tension is not punishment. It’s an invitation. An invitation to let go of outdated identities, to stop shrinking in order to survive, to stop apologizing for your potential.

The world doesn’t need another exhausted conformist. It needs you fully expressed.

And here’s something else most people don’t like to admit: mediocrity isn’t always accidental. A world filled with conscious, self-directed, purpose-driven humans would buy less junk to numb themselves, tolerate lies less comfortably, accept abuse less readily, and demand integrity more consistently. So sometimes the goal isn’t to crush you. Sometimes it’s just to tire you out. To keep you busy but not fulfilled. Informed but not wise. Safe, but not fully alive.

When you approach a threshold like this, life itself joins in. It starts testing congruence. Are you living aligned with who you’re becoming? Are you willing to let go of what no longer fits? Can you stay conscious when comfort is removed? So life applies pressure… not to break you, but to reveal what’s no longer stable. That’s why temporary fixes stop working. That’s why distractions lose their power. That’s why doing “just enough” no longer satisfies you.

And this is the moment where most people wait for permission. Someone to tell them what to do. Someone to reassure them that it’s safe. But no one is coming, not because you’re alone, but because this moment belongs to you.

Right here, in the exhaustion, the confusion, the losses, the instability, you’re being offered something rare: a clean break from the life that no longer fits. Not a guarantee. Not a map. Not certainty. A choice.

You stop asking, “How do I get back to the way things were?” and you start asking, “Who am I becoming now that I can’t go back?” That question changes everything. This is where you stop negotiating with mediocrity. Where you stop explaining yourself to people committed to misunderstanding you. Where you stop shrinking your vision to keep fragile systems intact.

You don’t take the step forward because you feel ready. You take it because the cost of staying has become greater than the cost of moving on.

And action here doesn’t look dramatic. It’s quiet. Decisive. It might look like telling the truth you’ve been holding inside. Leaving what drains you even without a perfect plan. Choosing your health, your sanity, or your integrity over approval. Creating something honest instead of safe. Setting a boundary that costs comfort but restores self-respect. Committing to the path that keeps calling you, quietly, persistently, relentlessly.

You don’t fix everything at once. You take one irrevocable step that aligns your outer life with your inner knowing. And once you do, momentum takes over. Energy returns. Clarity sharpens. New allies appear. Not because the world suddenly became easier, but because you became congruent.

The people we remember best didn’t wait for calm. They didn’t wait for consensus. They didn’t wait for perfect timing. They moved when everything told them to stop, not because they were fearless, but because they were done living divided.

And whether you’re ready to hear it or not, this is your moment. Not tomorrow. Not after things settle down. Not when confidence arrives. Now.

Decide that you will not betray yourself to preserve comfort. That you will not return to what collapsed. That you will not apologize for evolving. That you will meet this moment consciously, willingly, and fully present.

You don’t need to see the whole path. Only the step that says, “I choose growth over fear. Truth over conformity. Becoming over belonging.”

That decision changes everything.

The threshold isn’t behind you. It’s beneath your feet. And the moment you step forward, life meets you there.

Take the step.

The Broken Bridge and the Road Less Traveled: A Lesson in Courageous Healing

Have you ever found yourself facing a life-or-death decision where the voices of the world insist there’s only one way forward—but your heart whispers, “There must be another way”?

Years ago, I shared a question that caught people off guard. I asked: “Would you rent a car to drive across the country, knowing there was only a 10% chance you’d reach your destination… and that if you didn’t make it, it would cost you your life? And what if that rental car costs more than you’d earn in an entire year? Would you still take the trip?”

Most people paused… they squirmed… some laughed nervously. Few said yes.

The truth? Every day, people take that exact gamble—with their lives.

When diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, many are told that the only path to healing is one filled with toxic chemicals and burning rays, systems that boast success rates far below 10%, depending on which studies you read. And yet, fear grips them.

They mortgage their homes, drain their savings, and put their bodies through hell, chasing a sliver of hope across a broken bridge that history says most will fall from.

Why?

Because that’s what the voices of authority told them to do.
Because that’s what’s been done before.
Because they were too afraid to look for another way.

The Parable of the Broken Bridge

Picture this:

A weary traveler stands before a crumbling bridge stretching over a great canyon. On the other side lies the city of Healing—a place of restoration, peace, and hope. The bridge’s builders promise, “Trust us. This is your only way across. Pay your fee, step onto the bridge, and pray you don’t fall.”

“How many have made it across?” the traveler asks.

“A few,” they admit. “But don’t think about that. Focus on the chance that you might be the lucky one.”

But the traveler notices something else: Quiet trails meander off into the forest below. They’re not as obvious. They require more work. Fewer signs point the way. But those who have walked them speak of beauty along the journey, healing in each step, and guides who walk beside them.

Now the traveler must decide:
1) Take the broken bridge because it’s what everyone says to do? Or 2) listen to the still, small voice within—and follow a path that feels guided by something greater?

The Real Question

The real question isn’t about bridges or rental cars, it’s about how you respond when life throws you its greatest challenge.

- - Will you blindly follow the crowd down a path of fear?
  - Or will you pause, breathe, and listen for the higher call guiding you to something better?

Yes, the world will tell you that alternative paths are foolish, dangerous, or unproven. But many of the world’s greatest breakthroughs came from people who dared to take a different road, from those who said, “There has to be more than this.”

A New Way of Asking the Question

So, let me ask it this way:

If your life was on the line, would you risk everything on a method that has failed most before you, simply because it’s popular—
or would you take a leap of faith and seek a path of healing, wholeness, and alignment with the life force that created you in the first place?

No one can make that choice for you, but your heart knows the answer.

What Most People Miss

Most people forget that healing is not only physical. True healing involves your mind, your soul, and your spirit. You were designed for healing. Your body knows how to heal. But your soul must give it permission. If your healing path leaves you hopeless, fearful, and depleted—then maybe that path isn’t your healing after all.

There are many ways across the canyon. Some involve medicine, some involve faith, some involve nature, and some involve surrender, but none of them require blind obedience to a broken system.

So today, I invite you to pause, turn down the noise, and listen.

Ask yourself: “What feels like truth to my soul?”

Not what your doctor says.
Not what your family says.
Not what society says.
But what your soul says.

Your life is too precious to gamble on broken bridges.

The Love of God, the Universe, the Source—or whatever name you call it— did not put you here to be a victim of fear. You are here to learn, grow, love, and, yes, heal. Your journey may not look like anyone else’s, but it is yours, and it is sacred.

Dare to take the road less traveled.

You might just find the healing you were searching for was already inside you all along.

The New Age: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Emerged

The rise of what we loosely call New Age spirituality didn’t happen in a vacuum. It emerged during a period of deep cultural fatigue and spiritual disappointment—particularly in the late 1960s and 1970s—when many people quietly concluded that neither institutional Christianity nor Secular Humanism was adequately answering the deeper questions of meaning, ethics, purpose, and the future of humanity.

For some, Christianity felt overly rigid, moralistic, or disconnected from lived experience. For others, Secular Humanism seemed to strip life of mystery, transcendence, and soul. Into that gap stepped something new—or at least something newly packaged.

The New Age wasn’t born as a single movement with a central authority or manifesto. It arose organically, borrowing ideas, symbols, and practices from a wide range of older traditions: astrology, Hinduism, Taoism, Gnostic Christianity, Theosophy, Spiritualism, Wicca, and other Neo-pagan streams. England served as one of its early incubators in the 1960s, with communities like the Findhorn Community and the Wrekin Trust experimenting with alternative spiritual living.

From there, the ideas traveled quickly.

In North America, early mileposts included New Age seminars hosted by the Association for Research and Enlightenment and the founding of the East-West Journal in 1971. Popular culture soon amplified the message, most famously through figures like Shirley MacLaine, who brought metaphysical curiosity into mainstream conversation.

What began as small circles of seekers gradually became a broad, decentralized spiritual marketplace.

Criticism, Controversy, and Consolidation

By the 1980s and 1990s, the New Age movement faced increasing criticism—from academics, religious leaders, and cultural commentators alike. Channeling was mocked. Seminar leaders were scrutinized for the wealth they accumulated. Claims about the “scientific” properties of crystals were challenged and often debunked.

Some critics went further. Carl Raschke, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver, famously described New Age spirituality as:

“the spiritual version of AIDS… a breeding ground for a new American form of fascism.”

Whether one agrees with that assessment or not, it illustrates the intensity of the reaction.

And yet—despite ridicule, critique, and internal excess—the New Age didn’t collapse. It stabilized. It adapted. It diversified. By the early decades of the 21st century, it had become a persistent and influential presence in North American spiritual life, with millions of adherents engaging selectively rather than dogmatically.

The New Age That Does Not Exist

Much confusion about the New Age comes not from what it is—but from what it is assumed to be. There is no massive, underground, highly coordinated New Age organization secretly infiltrating governments, churches, schools, or media. That narrative emerged largely from fear-based counter-cult movements rather than evidence.

Likewise, many traditions have been incorrectly lumped into the New Age category. For example, Tasawwuf (Sufism) has at times been dismissed as a New Age cult. In reality, Sufism is an ancient mystical stream within Islam, long predating the New Age and historically existing in tension with more legalistic expressions of the faith. It has no actual structural connection to New Age spirituality.

Similarly, in the 1980s and early 1990s, some conservative Christian groups failed to distinguish between the Occult, Satanism, Wicca, Neo-pagan religions, and New Age practices—often treating them all as interchangeable or even criminal. In truth, these are very different phenomena with distinct histories, beliefs, and motivations.

Oversimplification breeds fear. Discernment requires nuance.

Common New Age Beliefs (But Not Universal Ones)

The New Age is not a creed—it is a menu. Followers are often encouraged to “shop” for ideas and practices that resonate personally. That said, several recurring themes appear frequently:

Monism

All that exists flows from a single divine source or energy.

Pantheism

Everything that exists is God. Divinity is not external but inherent in all things, including the self.

Panentheism

God both permeates the universe and transcends it simultaneously.

Reincarnation

The soul is reborn repeatedly across multiple human lives, evolving through experience.

Karma

Actions accumulate moral or energetic consequences that influence future incarnations.

Auras

The body emits an energetic field that reflects emotional, spiritual, and physical states—interpretable by those trained to perceive it.

Personal Transformation

Intense mystical experiences—often induced through meditation, guided imagery, hypnosis, or altered states—are believed to awaken latent human potential such as healing abilities, psychic perception, or cosmic insight.

Planetary Transformation

As enough individuals awaken, a global shift in consciousness is expected to follow—spiritual, psychological, ecological, and cultural.

Ecological Responsibility

The Earth is often viewed as Gaia—a living, conscious entity deserving reverence and protection.

Universal Religion

All religions are seen as different paths up the same mountain. No single path is ultimate; all eventually lead to the same summit.

New World Order (Utopian Vision)

As the Age of Aquarius unfolds, humanity is expected to enter a harmonious global era marked by world cooperation, the end of war, disease, hunger, and discrimination, and a shift from national allegiance to planetary responsibility.

The New Age is neither the savior of humanity nor the villain of faith. It is a response—a mirror—reflecting humanity’s ongoing hunger for meaning, unity, healing, and transcendence.

Where it invites curiosity, it can be useful.
Where it abandons discernment, it can mislead.
Where it seeks transformation without responsibility, it can drift into fantasy.

As with all spiritual movements, the question is not “Is it right or wrong?”
The better question is:

Does it lead us toward greater humility, compassion, responsibility, and truth—or away from them?

That question matters far more than labels ever will.

Religious Recovery

You’ve suffered at the hands of clergy who you’ve entrusted with the keeping of your very soul. You’ve pledged your allegiance to a religious order, given of yourself in service, sacrificed for the benefit of the organization, then found out it was not what you thought it was. Now, you’re in religious recovery.

Religious recovery is not to be confused with AA, which assumes that you’ve failed if you ever take a snort of alcohol again. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

There is hope for you.

You have had a relationship with God, and you can keep your relationship with your higher power without having to submit to your previous religion. God is not the God of any particular religious organization. Individual religious organizations are stepping stones to a greater relationship with the source of all life.

Had you not had this experience, you might not have been aware of the existence of a higher power. Now that you have been introduced to God and started to develop a relationship, you can keep growing and expanding as you keep pursuing a greater relationship with the creator of all life on your own.

You’ve taken the first step. You’ve exited the influence of an organization whose intent it was to control you, which has held you back from moving forward and beyond the capabilities of the faction you had associated with in the past.

The will attempt to deploy all the fear-based intimidations they can to make you feel like you are unworthy, unwanted, and may even threaten your survivability, tell you you’re going to hell, or decrease your own will to live, and you may occasionally feel like you can’t go on another day.

Your initial reaction might be to rebel, and judge the organization for treating you badly, deciding,

If that’s the way God is, I want nothing to do with it.

But remember, your problem is not with God. It is with the organization run by the people who are doing the best they can to serve God in the only way they know how. They have been programmed by the generations that went before and they live within the confines of a religion based on fear. Fear of doing it wrong, fear of punishment, fear of eternal damnation.

God is not a God of fear. God is a God of love. And you know it.
Now that you’ve taken a step toward your own religious recovery, you have the wherewithal to start your own relationship with your higher power without having to succumb to the heavy-handed mechanisms of religion.

You are empowered to follow your own path to enlightenment in any way that you see fit, sort of like a modern-day shaman. The traditional path of a shaman is more structured, not unlike an organized religion, but the modern-day shaman is widely expanding and evolving along with the rest of the human race.

The times are changing, and the whole planet is evolving from a fear-based system (which is not sustainable) to a love-based system which is heart-centered and seeks peace and harmony for all.

God is loving you, so excited about your finding your own way, and waiting for your awakening.

See you at the Recovery from Religious Trauma Event in Olympia, September 21st

You’re Awakening Not Going Crazy

People generally do not begin the process of awakening which is the precursor to the ebbing evolutionary tide of humanity. While it is a wave, it hits us all at different times and frequencies. When we are initially impacted with an awakening it can instantaneous, abrupt, and shocking to recognize for the first time that things are not as they appear. You could easily begin to lose your mind, and that is exactly what you need.

You may panic. This is the first line of defense of your ego which has been running the show since you were born. Now your heart consciousness explodes and even if only for a moment you get a glimpse of real life and all its possibilities, it can be overwhelming.

If you’re not ready or caught off guard, you could wake up in a hospital or jail, as your ego fights with every mental, physiological, biological, and emotional tool it has access to in an effort to preserve itself and its host: You. For it knows, if the heart consciousness is to emerge in all its glory, the ego must die.

Chaos can ensue in the bloom of your awakening. The contrast between light and dark is ever apparent and up to this moment, the very fabric of your being was convinced that dark is all there ever was. It was comfortable. You exerted great effort to find ways to make it feel like home. Prior to awakening, your world was everything.

Until that moment you are blinded by the burst of brightest light imaginable in a shocking blast. Frightening, to say the least, for anyone. Not to worry,

You’re awakening
Not going crazy

At this point, you basically have two choices; to embrace the awakening and try to find ways to deal with your expansion and evolution, or to reject it. Shut it down. Cover it up. Pretend it didn’t happen and find ways to snuggle back into the life society and your ego built for you. A little denial and self-medication might get you from here to there.

No enlightened being would judge you for making either choice.

Those who have witnessed your struggle in this moment may judge you, especially if they are unenlightened. Those who live in the darkness would certainly criticize you and try every means possible to bring you back into the fold. They might disrespect you, call you names, punish you, diagnose you with mental disorders, and drug you back into your life in the shadows, using force, if necessary.

Maybe…

Maybe you’re not ready to evolve. Maybe you are. Maybe it’s just too much to ask anyone at this time, or any time, for that matter. Maybe you just want to be “normal.” If now is not the time for you, another time will come. Maybe you’ll be better prepared in your next moment of momentary clarity. Maybe not. This is your journey, you are writing your story.

This evolutionary process of awakening and heart-centered conscious expansion is happening every day. “Normal” is shifting as more and more people awaken. When human evolution reaches critical mass, that shift will permeate every living being.

At that point, the world we live in will be a very different place.

Today, you can choose to be a part of the evolution, or not. There is no judgment here. We celebrate you and your story however it unfolds.

Hope your first glimpse of the truth as not too shocking for you. At least you can rest assured that you’re awakening, not going crazy.

Love and peace to you and yours.

Enlightenment and Spiritual Awakening

The process of enlightenment and spiritual awakening is as individual as we all are so to experience it is unique to each person though many characteristics appear to be common among those who are in the process of awakening.

First and foremost, the person is awakening to the idea or knowingness that there is more going on here than meets the eye, here on planet Earth, as God’s spark begins to burn more brightly in you.

Awakening to the fact that there is far more to this life that you first were led to believe is the first clue that you’ve begun your spiritual awakening. You are unable to see past all the barrage of life’s distractions unless you have given a glimpse of something far more real than the life we’ve come to accept as it has been presented to us.

You also are experiencing an excitement or reverence for your surroundings, especially of nature, flora, and fauna, as being special or sacred, as you honor your ability to be in its presence and to share the world with it in all its glory.

Your senses are heightened as you awaken you become more sensitive, a growing awareness of others, and the knowingness of there being so much more of the life experience which is waiting to be revealed to you in vibrant detail.

You are more interested in staying present or being in the now, as opposed to being oppressed by things that have happened in the past. You may be learning techniques to deal with the past, heal past wounds, or you may be one of the ones who simply awaken all at once and the past just falls away, like an old jacket, as you walk into your new, awakened life.

You notice there is a difference between you, the you that you were born to be which is a highly connected part of your higher self and God is vastly different than your ego which has been programmed by society to override your more spiritually inclined sensibilities. It may take a while to sort out the dichotomy of you, who you really are made of pure love and your egoic personality which is dominant prior to awakening and based on fear, not love.

Awakening is not restricted to those who believe and those who do not, as those who are awakening can span all systems of belief and/or non-belief, from atheism to spirituality and churches, believers and non-believers alike and awakening and expanding as part of the evolutionary process of all human beings, though some may resist the evolutionary process, their future generations will not be able to.

You are becoming more authentically real and transparent. You realize there is nothing to prove and nothing to be gained from feeling as though you are better or more deserving than anyone else. Although experiencing life from your own perspective you realize that you are one with all your fellow human beings.

The spiritually awakened feel a growing sense of connectedness or oneness with all peoples, things, and life itself. In fact, you may start feeling as if you’ve never felt so alive as you start to live life to its fullest, savoring each breath and the expansive nature of your growing love with every beat of your heart.

Beyond what one might think of as seeing the silver lining in a less than desirous situation, the spiritually awakening and expanding see the sacred divinity in all things, both blessed and vile, which makes little sense to our less evolved, heavily programmed, and unenlightened contemporaries. We do not judge them. We bless them and allow them to find their own way, or not. Their journey is just as sacred as ours.

You are changing and you’re noticing the change. You’re noticing a decided and distinct difference between the awakening “you” who you are becoming and the “you” who you were prior to your spiritual awakening as if you’ve been reborn, and in a sense, you have been, like a butterfly emerging from his or her chrysalis.

You are embracing a more peaceful state of being, where love expands, you have a growing compassion and understanding of others as you become more tolerant and accept things simply as they are, without taking them personally. You bless all others and are less likely to hold onto the idea that one religious perspective is more right than another.

Instead, you understand that everyone is only doing the best they can with what they have, just as you are in regard to any understanding or view of life.

You have a higher respect for your relationship with your body, seek to find ways to honor it, and celebrate all the experiences which can be enjoyed by maintaining your body as a further extension of your higher self, accompanied by a respectful growing moral ethics and/or personal code which is not dictated from without but embraced and emerges from within (or above).

Your relationships are more real, as you find less satisfaction with idle chit-chat and seek to connect more deeply and have more meaningful relationships.

Among other signs, these might give you insight as to what to expect as you begin to awaken.

Fading Fear

As you continue to grow, expand, and to evolve into the new you, you will find yourself less likely to engage in negative thinking patterns. Fading fear and doubt will lead you into a more positive attitude toward life and love.

Your conscious confidence is growing day by day, and you are seeing more and more that things are not as they appear. This awareness is making you wise to the methods used by social engineering to keep you distracted by fear and doubt and you are becoming increasingly stronger in your resolve to be true to yourself.

You are spending time looking within yourself to find all those things which make you react negatively to other people, situations, and news stories. You have a growing understanding and you are seeing how much about the way you feel about things (or felt about things) was because of those who are lost in the ways of the world.

There’s no judgment against them, your parents, your friends, teachers, mentors, celebrities, people you trust(ed) because you know now that they were just doing the best they could with what they had.

You’d love to tell them, they need not believe in the pervasive fear and doubt which encompasses the world we live in, but it doesn’t take you long to discover that they are unable to hear you. They are so immersed in the fear and doubt that anything else does not resonate with them. And that’s okay.

Maybe someday it will resonate with them, and if not, that’s okay, too. Everyone must find their own way to his or her authentic self. We all are on different journeys and we’re all doing the best we can with what we have.

You are now free to think more fully for yourself, less likely to be emotionally controlled by the invisible forces of negative thought and social programming as the fading fear and doubt continue to dissipate.

There will be times when fear and doubt will be triggered again, but you will notice the decrease in both frequency and severity because you are doing the deep work, and the more time you spend in resonating at higher vibrations, the less you will attract lower vibrational states of mind. And when they do show up, you are less likely to entertain them, as you allow them to flow by, with you being less affected, or possibly not affected at all.

This is tolerance. When you start to embrace the idea of full allowance. Letting everything to be what it is, without having to take it personally.

You are enveloped in a sense of calm and peace of mind which cannot be shaken, as you are able just to let it be and keep moving onward and upward, unaffected by the trappings of this world.

You are more apt to find yourself being in the now than responding to those emotional triggers of the past as you continue to evolve into the highest version of yourself, which is the future for all human beings. And as you become more and more aware of your evolution, you can, along with others who are also evolving, finally…

Say, “Goodbye,” to fear and doubt.

Oxytocin Awakening Love

Well known for its increasing the bond between those who are in love, Oxytocin is also an active component in the process of spiritual advancement. You will find Oxytocin awakening love, opening the heart to new possibilities, making you more curious about expanding thought, having a sense of purpose, and a desire to make the world a better place.

We continue to uncover the part that Oxytocin plays in the part of love and relationships. Quaintly referred to as the “cuddling hormone,” Oxytocin fosters a feeling of connectedness between two people. Active when a personal bond is felt between a mother and her child, as well as men and their children, as well as increasing the connection between the romantic couple in love.

When you’re actively falling in love, you will find a natural increase of Oxytocin makes everything associated with love much better. Combined with extra doses of Dopamine, you feel even better, with increased intimacy, sexual satisfaction, and more in love. You have a tendency to overlook “the small stuff” and see the big picture and all the possibilities the two of you may be able to share in the future.

Couples who share an Oxytocin-fueled sexual bond have an increased potential for not only being connected to each other, but also in achieving higher shared levels of spirituality, and impactful effect on others, the local community, and the world at large.

This is not dissimilar in the role that Oxytocin plays in your spiritual advancement. It makes you feel as if you are part of a bigger whole, fostering a feeling of connection with others, even the whole of humanity.

Scientific studies report groups with increased Oxytocin levels feel more, “love, sincerity, hope, inspiration and interest,” when compared to their peers.

Fostering an optimistic outlook with unlimited possibilities for the advancement of the world, including the proliferation of love, peace, and harmony between all peoples, as well as an increased interest in self-improvement and spiritual expansion.

Left to itself in the process of falling in love, levels of Oxytocin are likely to level off then fall, causing a reduction in the early phases of the love process, leaving the participants to question each other, but combined with spiritual awakening further increases bonding and a longstanding growth in love, connectedness, and optimism.

The connection between romantic love and burgeoning spiritual exploration could very well keep a couple in this state of romantic exhilaration while combining forces to make the world a better place, exponentially.

Far beyond the hormone’s role in social bonding, childbirth, and sexual reproduction, Oxytocin is also referred to as the Bliss hormone playing a part in expanding consciousness and spiritual enlightenment.

Oxytocin also increases the efficacy of the use of imagination’s role in engaging in processes such as the Law of Attraction, manifestation, creating abundance, increased potential for an inclination to prayer and/or meditation.

To make Oxytocin even more interesting, you will find this hormone increases the positive impact of the immune system, self-healing, and cellular regeneration.

More and more, the more we learn about the connection between science, the built-in hormonal and expansive evolution of human potential and its connectedness to something far superior than imaginable by our less-evolved ancestors, is ushering a new world of possibilities for all of us.

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What to Expect as You Awaken

Everyone’s individual awakening is separate from anyone else’s, so there is no need to compare the intricacies of the evolution of others – and keep in mind, this is not a competition – as your evolution is as individual as your DNA, probably more so. That said, there does appear to be similarities among those who are consciously allowing their evolution to take place.

Prior to awakening, a great deal of focus and energy is preoccupied with temporal things, the day to day frustrations and details of life as we find ourselves struggling to get by when our concerns are emotionally charged by the news and media as we worry about employment, interpersonal relationships, transportation, meal planning, home maintenance, raising the kids, caring for pets, and keeping up appearances.

1. Peaceful Perspective

As your awakening begins to expand and you begin to evolve, the immediacy and importance of day to day life decreases as your awareness is lifted to a higher perspective. Rather than seeing yourself lost to the struggle for survival, or a victim of life, you are able to find a sense of peace in an aerial perspective, seeing life as it is, and a more calm sense of awareness and allowance when you are able to view the big picture. From this vantage point you can see life as balanced and integrated as your life becomes more rich and fulfilling.

2. Tolerance

As you let go of things outside of your control and allow life to be as it is, without taking anything too personally, life takes on a different flavor. You don’t hold tight to personal expectations or rigid ideas of how things should be. Tolerance is the idea of allowing things to simply be. You have a growing sense that everyone has their own right to make their own way and see things from their own perspective, only expecting the same from others but understanding that few can accomplish this state of mind, and that’s okay, because after all aren’t we all only doing the best we can with what we have?

3. Abundance

When we are focused on struggle, all we can see is our competition for limited resources. As you awaken, you begin to realize resources are not as limited as we once believed. Once you start seeing things in life, circumstances, people, things and lifestyle as energy, you entertain the idea that by adjusting your energetic state or frequency, the details of life within your proximity simply match your personal vibration. You realize the better you feel, the better life goes for you. By finding the best feelings you raise your state to a frequency which attracts all the best things in life and you take an active role in manifesting your desires.

4. Love

As you awaken, love takes on a new paradigm that is unconditional. It takes time to move from the concept of the selfish type and style of love we learned to expect to unconditional love. It is an evolutionary process, moving from contractual expectations to a love that persists regardless of circumstance or the actions of anyone outside of you. You are becoming an unconditional lover, one who is compassionate and understanding of others, loving them regardless of the people (even those considered evildoers), their actions, beliefs or their imperfections. You have empathy for those who have yet to awaken, without requiring them to conform to any ideals you have.

5. Creativity

As you continue to do your own inner work, you will find an increase of intuition and creativity that allows you to pull ideas and make connections in ways that seem otherworldly. This is a natural aspect of allowing your connection to the source of all life to permeate your being, specifically your thoughts and feelings. You develop a sense of knowingness with an increased capacity to resolve uncomfortable situations, circumstances and challenges as they arise.

6. Everything Gets Better

You find a growing tendency to experience good luck and clever coincidences as more and more of life seems to be going your way. In fact, life is going your way because you are allowing yourself to flow with the current of life, rather than to fight or swim against it. You begin living the good life as onlookers think you are just lucky or living a charmed life, but you realize you are just finding your happiness within and avoiding negativity (including negative self thoughts), which brings your life a balanced goodness.

7. Wisdom

Your growing awareness of life, the laws that govern the universe and the specific role playing of the peoples who populate our planet, gives you an alternate perspective of life, its meaning and the condition of the world as it is. This awareness will have subtle, yet impactful affect on the growing consciousness of the world. You become a humble, yet powerful source of life and substance, often without saying a word (or very little, if anything at all). Your vibrational state affects the world around you in positive ways.

8. Nowness

You are seeing the value in the sense of nowness. You are less concerned about the things that went before as you increase your ability to live in and focus on the now. Less and less will you find yourself worrying about the past or hoping for a better future as you are increasingly living in the moment and enjoying all this life has to offer: Now.

You can start to allow your conscious evolution to take place now. Actually, now is all there is. Of course, much of these ideas will appear to be silly or inconsequential if you have not experienced it first-hand, and that’s okay.

May you experience all the good things in life that are waiting for you.

Personal Development Quantum and Spirit Science

There’s a certain type of individual who is attracted to personal development. That is to say, they are concerned about who they are, how they interface with the world, how to make the world a better place, and become the highest and best version of themselves while doing it.

They find themselves less concerned with the distractions of this world and more concerned with attempting to discover what is real. They are becoming increasingly aware that something is more real than the material world, which we previously interpreted as real.

While the material world is definitely experienced in 3D through our senses and cognitive interpretation, there are even more dimensions around us that we are unable to understand or experience with our rational mind. A small but growing part of our planet is reaching out to connect with these realms in various ways.

It starts when one realizes that there is more to this world combined with an elevated sense of self, as in feeling as though there is some purpose to being here, that we as individuals are summoned to this planet for a reason. As you begin to have a sense of personal mission and purpose, your self-confidence begins to expand, and you find yourself more acquainted with positive thinking and a reluctance to enjoy the lower vibration of negativity.

You might begin rationalizing the quandary between the conscious and subconscious minds while creating a safe space to focus on your personal development. As you try to make a safe space to conduct your research, you will find yourself less attracted to drama and unhealthy relationships as you focus more on your personal growth and self-development.

Deciding to embark on this journey (which is highly personal and does not seek validation from mass consciousness) imbues you with a unique form of self-empowerment and responsibility as you create your own path to individual self-improvement.

Some investigate with the power of mind via scientific models led by quantum physicists exploring quantum mechanics and quantum theory (the Pandora’s Box of quantum science), while others are seeking to explore from within via a more heart-centered spiritual approach. These two separate camps are unraveling the secrets of the universe using different methods, yet their conclusions have striking similarities.

It requires a relative disconnection from mass popular thought to reposition one’s thought process in a way that is open to possibilities that may exist beyond the confines of science, technology, philosophy, religion, or beliefs for those engaged in this investigative journey to approach those ideas, concepts, and matters unrecognized in our everyday world.

While quantum physicists struggle with the traditional scientific method, spiritual researchers also can be found working against peers ready to “save them” from their spiritual pursuits as they engage in fringe parapsychology and likely dipping their toes in the water of the law of attraction. At the same time, they begin to question everything we know.

Both the advancing scientific and spiritual communities making the quantum leap are asking the question:

“What if everything we know is wrong?”

Blazing a trail that may not have existed before can be confusing. Thankfully, we are not on this journey alone. There are those who have gone before and have some previous work, which we can springboard to more heightened levels of experiential knowledge. Any time each one of us advances in our research and development, someone, somewhere, is also moving in the same direction.

It’s as if a global consciousness is being shared among the global community. While yet in its infancy, as our numbers may be minuscule, we are growing together. As this growth continues to expand, it is having a profound effect on the world at large.

Seekers of these leading-edge technologies and seekers of truths that supersede previously known or accepted thought lead to more of a spiritual awakening, as researchers are expanding in spiritual growth and scientists are redirecting their laboratories to incorporate spirit science and conducting experiments which can only take place from a position of spiritual enlightenment.

The world as we know it is changing.

Are you a part of the change?

You’re awakening Not going crazy