Why you don’t grow

[Sugarcoat]

A little rant

I get a sense that many people in the spiritual community are lost when it comes to what this journey is really about.

I’m not enlightened or anything but this is still some insights I wanted to share as I think some people can benefit from it. 
 

As a newbie when you get into spiritual work/self-actualization you have ideas about what it is about. So you install these habits. “I’m gonna meditate everyday” “I’ll eat healthy” “I’ll contemplate x hours every week about these topics Leo talks about in his videos” “I’ll say this mantra” etc 

this is good of course. But as you get going on this journey, what I’ve found is that you realize that these things are not really what it’s about. 
 

this journey is more about identity level change, letting go of attachments, such as identities you are attached to, following your intuition.

You see, let’s say you have social anxiety, your highest priority shouldn’t be contemplating non duality, but instead to overcome your social anxiety. Sure some exceptional people might be called by their intuition to jump into enlightenment work before doing the basics , but most people are not like this.

If you are a person who is attached to the identity of yourself as a successful person and you are attached to acquiring money. No amount of meditation and contemplation in the world will give you the growth in consciousness as long as you don’t let go of these attachment. Once again, identity level change.

Why do we see these people who have built entire carriers on spirituality, they do yoga meditate etc but you can still tell that they’re neurotic and not high conscious ? Because they’ve gotten their priorities messed up. They’re not letting go of attachments and getting identity level change.

if the spiritual journey is pleasing to your ego, are you really doing the true work?

For example, my intuition has been telling me to stop enhancing my physical appearance, not that it is inherently non-spiritual, but because I have to in order to let go of my attachment to it as a woman. This is painful to my ego, I don’t want to do this and I’ve resisted it, because I’m deeply attached to being pretty. But it’s these things that your subconscious/intuition is telling you to do that will give you the true growth if you do them. 
 

View meditation as a practice that creates the stillness/space necessary for your intuitions and visions to arise. Then your task is to bring them explicitly to your conscious awareness and act in alignment to them in the physical world.

Dont think “Leo gave me the assignment to contemplate science for a week so I will do that”. Is that TRULY what you need right now? Perhaps not.

You see, you probably have something lingering in the back of your mind that you subconsciously know that you should focus on, but that you are avoiding and instead trying to satisfy your need for growth in consciousness by doing less important things in other areas of your life. That thing lingering in the back of your mind is your intuition trying to get you to change. 

So ask yourself , and answer BRUTALLY honestly 

In what area in my life am I struggling the most? 
What do I fear the most? What am I the most afraid of letting go of? What identity/self image am I holding on to? What am I afraid of admitting to myself explicitly? What is lingering in the back of my mind but that I am repressing? What are my biggest attachment? 

you might think “well I’m mostly attached to my body” and yea of course if someone puts a gun to your head you won’t care about money in your bank but most of us in here are not at the level of consciousness where we can give up attachment to our physical body, so leave that to the side and focus on other aspects for now. 

Let your intuition answer these questions, and align with that in the physical world. This is where true growth comes. 

Leos video about burning through karma talks about this. Very foundational video. 
 

 

Edited December 3, 2021 by Sugarcoat

[gettoefl]

good post, might be better in the meditation section to get more feedback

[Sugarcoat]

1 minute ago, gettoefl said:

good post, might be better in the meditation section to get more feedback

Yea I was unsure where to post it. I’m gonna wait and let the moderators move it if they want

[Nahm]

Might enjoy this short read / contemplation.

 

[Sugarcoat]

On 2021-12-03 at 6:37 PM, Nahm said:

Might enjoy this short read / contemplation.

 

Nicely written. Will reflect on it 

[hyruga]

Yeah you need to have clarity on what kind of person/identity you want to become.