Enlightened Response Coaching

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" ~ Lao Tzu

At some point on our spiritual journey, we tire of toggling back and forth between pain and pleasure. That's when our conscious response and what we choose to embody, becomes more important in transforming ourselves. We don't need to physically die but it takes a willingness to die to the past, embrace change, and stop procrastinating from fully being ourselves (many of us wait till we are older or dying), for us to live fully in the present moment. Taking the first step in anything is the scariest and most difficult thing to do, especially if we are wanting to transform our lives. Many of us will still want to stubbornly cling to the status quo even if it's not working (in business, relationships or our spiritual path), rather than risk making a change that we know will be helpful. When we no longer feel satisfied with what we are manifesting, when not listening to ourselves, remaining in our past, and being externally-validating becomes too powerful to ignore, we will look for answers and seek support. 

 Conflict is held in the etheric body until released. If it is held long enough energetically, it affects the physical body as stress, disease then death.  The various forms of conflict which can unconsciously sabotage our lives and steer it's course, like the submerged part of an iceberg, include any residual conflict from past lives, genetic (conflict passed down to us, like transgenerational trauma), epigenetic (stress which causes genetic tendencies to crop up, like if we have ancestors who had cancer, then we can get cancer if stressed enough), plus any unresolved trauma and relational conflict from this life. Conflict can stem from our family, peers, school, media, religion, government - anything that we give our power to instead of feeling powerful as ourselves. We also tend to share conflict with groups that we belong to (i.e.religious, political, corporate) if they hold conflict as well. 

 
From 0-7 years old, instead of simply being ourselves, we typically experience some type of relationship or trauma wounding, and then instead of healing it, we start forming success and survival strategies as a compensation to get what we want. If we are not conscious enough to dive into ourselves, then our lives are subconsciously hijacked by our unresolved trauma, limiting beliefs and judgements. Our conflict skews our perspective on reality - like trying to look through a stained-glass window - and until we release our conflict, we will attract situations to help us complete it, instead of manifesting our heart’s desire. Our conflicted thoughts and emotions also act like static - preventing us from seeing clearly and acting like a barrier from being in the present moment - impeding us from shifting into higher states of consciousness. Like being in a crowded room with hundreds of voices, it’s almost impossible to hear ourselves or our guides with all the internal noise happening. So what happens if we start resolving our past conflict and learning how to respond by embracing the present moment?  

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." ~ Rumi

 
When we embrace the personal development of knowing ourselves and healing, being present, and manifesting in our spiritual journey, then we come into an even more profound spiritual growth phase. Once we start releasing internal conflict and embracing the present moment, we start experiencing more "stream of consciousness" moments. These are moments where we allow ourselves to release the subconscious judgments and control which can typically dominate our conscious reality, in favor of accepting the flow of the moment. We will have moments of feeling more integrated, peaceful and balanced, which can extend into longer periods of time. 

After we are more comfortable with accepting the "stream of consciousness" as our dominant reality, we reach a state of self-realization. This is where we have released a portion of our internal conflict and feel a consistent flow of bliss which can feel overwhelming at first. This is the pre-cursor to enlightenment. The moments of joy now feel like a continuous stream. We can still have some judgments, but we are we not taking things as personally as before, and we can find ourselves with more abilities. This may sound strange but we can shift in and out of self-realization - it is not a static state. It is helpful to have an internal consistency to move into enlightenment. This means anything which keeps us in conflict can pop us out, and everything that keeps us internally validating in the moment keeps us in the stream and helps move us towards enlightenment. Sometimes an integration period might be desired before the next state of enlightenment, and for some people they experience both self-realization and enlightenment at the same time. 

Enlightenment is a static state, meaning that unlike self-realization where you can pop in and out, we would have to willfully reverse being enlightened. This is a state where we have conscious access to Universal Consciousness or God/Creator/Source through our soul. Enlightenment is not a goal that we achieve but rather it is more of a sudden realization, a remembering, an uncovering and acceptance of ourselves. Any of us could be enlightened in any moment, which means that all the therapeutic, meditative and spiritual techniques are simply designed to get us out of our own way and to fully accept ourselves in the present moment. 

We may choose to work on specific issues and simply stop once those are complete - not taking the Deeper Dive. And it is entirely possible to go through our entire journey with only our own self guidance. Yet we can lessen our struggle and suffering by inviting some guidance and support.