How would you start building your house - with the basement or the attic? I think we all agree where it makes more sense to start. Actually it is quite similar with your healing journey, personality development, spiritual path…however you want to call it!
Our energy system and body has a similar kind of structure: we have a basement (located in the root chakra), a core (in the middle chakras - womb to heart) and an attic (in the upper chakras).
Unfortunately I see so many people in the so called „spiritual“ scene starting with the attic in order to have these "cool mystic experiences" or identifying as „conscious“: pre-maturely opening their third eye, forcefully activating the kundalini energy, talking to alien species and trying to fly out of their body before even knowing how to be IN the body. And trust me when I say out of experience, it is NOT comfortable doing these things too early!
It might have been a useful mechanism to escape through dissociation when you were a child and couldn’t endure the pain of existence while being highly dependent on your caregivers. As an adult though it is rather the opposite: When you don’t learn healthy coping strategies for your discomfort, you will inevitably hurt others. Avoiding your body sensations, emotions and pain disconnects you from your capacity of compassion. Because if you don’t feel yourself, how will you be able to feel others? And if you don’t even do the real work for yourself, how can you truly care for others?
In order for a tree to grow, it needs to develop strong roots. The stronger the roots, the higher it can grow. Feeling safe in the body, anchored on this planet and maybe even in this society is where we can start. Don’t disregard the „dirty work“: healing trauma, cleansing your gut, learning non-violent communication, making peace with your past, presence and the unpredictability of the future, meditating, living a truly forgiving and compassionate life… and first and foremost: JUST BE PRESENT! (Not so much to do here actually.)
Even Buddhist masters were explaining to me: as you do the real sh*t, all the magic will organically unfold by itself… from the heart! Don’t worry about any „advanced techniques“! :)
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