Spirit within

Spiraling Inward to Self

Where are you on your spiritual journey? What aspects of yourself and your greater Self are you in touch with? Have you touched into the Divine within you?

The journey to Spirit and to our Higher Selves is ultimately a journey inward that unravels at the pace that we can accomplish naturally, organically. The unveiling of the greater aspect of the Self is a personal one that involves many steps through our past suffering and successes to remember who we are without all the emotional vibrational static. It often begins with a deep need to find ourselves, and to make ourselves whole. It can happen when we come to an impasse in our lives that we cannot surmount on our own and we look for guidance from professionals in the fields of therapeutic counseling and/or spiritual counseling. This has been referred to as the dark night of the soul and its stored potential is to lead us toward personal growth and spiritual enlightenment. With the help of an experienced, professional counselor we sift through our memories and the emotions that were frozen inside of us by those events. They reveal what happened to us to make us respond to life in the habitual patterns and manners that we used to adapt to whatever was happening around us. With this work, we begin a practice of looking inside of ourselves to find our answers, to change our habitual responses, and to develop into more of our truer, healthier selves. All of this is the beginning of Spiritual growth; we learn from the lessons of the past and we evolve from them.

Heart Connection

Now, let’s take this inner exploration a bit further. Have you ever sat down to meditate on your heart and learn how it feels? Have you stopped long enough to drop your awareness deep into the core of your being that exists inside of your heart and just listened, without judgement, to what it has to tell you? This shift of self-perception is when the true, spiritual learning begins for each of us. When we take time – even just 15 minutes a day – to see how we feel deep inside of ourselves, we are gently, tentatively, in touch our souls. Self-discovery has truly begun when we reach this point in our journey inward as we begin to feel the inklings of our true Selves. Our Higher Selves are alerted to this beginning step and guides and encourages us to come closer. It is when we have begun to relate to ourselves inside of our hearts that we create the initial connections for ourselves to explore the truth of the Spirit within us. We may feel the ache of longing and a hunger to connect to That which has been waiting for us for our entire lives, our true Selves. This connection begins with first learning to listen to our hearts in order to know and understand ourselves and ultimately love our true selves. It is a journey on a spiral that gradually moves into the core of our hearts and then expands out from our Souls. As we gently peel back the layers of events that happened to us and the emotions attached to them, we spiral around and around from the outside in until we find the light inside of ourselves. From here the spiral expands beyond the reaches of our imaginations and connects us to our Creator and to all of Creation.

I know this may feel very abstract and confusing for some, but this is the map of the journey home to ourselves.  Indeed, we each will follow the breadcrumbs of our individual lives in our own ways, so no two journeys inward are exactly the same, but the structure of the path is, at first, a spiraling inward to our hearts and then outward toward the Divine for even greater learning and understanding.

I wish each of you well on your spiritual path, wherever you may be on its trajectory and your personal evolution towards your Spirit within.

Namaste,

Jean