Profound Simplicities
With so many new opportunities to explore different forms of spiritual practice, it can be difficult to find the one that you have affinity with. I am fortunate to have a found a spiritual teacher and practice that I fully resonate with – to the point where I myself have become a teacher.
You might be disappointed to find out that this story doesn’t have any fireworks. Just the simple truth.
My spiritual path started out the way it does for a lot of people, in that I was seeking something. I didn’t actually know what I was looking for but I did know I wanted to feel less lonely, more happy, less angst, more ease. Maybe catch a glimpse of the secret of life along the way.
I came across an energy healing clinic through a chance encounter with an old friend. It was here that I had my first ever energy healing. It was a short, 15 minute session with the healer moving her hands over specific energy channels and energy centers (or chakras – as is the more commonly used term).
Interestingly, it didn’t seem like anything profound happened in that particular healing. Lightening didn’t strike, I wasn’t enlightened and all of my problems didn’t disappear, yet there was something I couldn’t then explain. An inner knowingness that I was in the right room and I was on the right path.
That was the beginning of my realization that we can recognize truth even if we don’t have tangible evidence to prove it.
And although I didn’t acknowledge my experience in that moment as being particularly profound, I have since gone through almost 8 years of intensive training to become a teacher of Energy Awareness. So as it turns out, that day was one of the most significant of my life in finding my path.
In a culture where we’ve come to base truth on what we can see, feel, or understand intellectually, logically or emotionally, we’re losing something dear to our very nature – our ability to tap into our intuitive selves. Our Knowingness or Capital ‘T’ Truth.
Most of us have had an experience at some point in our lives of something we’ve known to be True. Beyond reason, emotion or intellect; that inner homing beacon that exists in every single one of us. By cultivating, encouraging and fostering this in ourselves and in each other, we can begin to be more awake to this and to recognize the profound in each moment. Lightening doesn’t have to strike. Your world doesn’t have to be turned upside down – or right side up for that matter – to acknowledge and honor Truth in your life.
For anyone looking for – or waiting for – something profound to happen before you take action, my advice to you is this: If something doesn’t look or feel the way you expect or want it to, be curious rather than disappointed. Move towards it, rather than away from it. Meet and shake hands with it rather than resist it.
The Truth is, there is something profound happening right now. The profound is in the silence, in the noise and everything in between. The profound is waking up in each and every moment. As it is. This is where the magic happens.
