The MOST Effective Spiritual Path

Have you ever wondered whether healing work could be a trap keeping you from enlightenment? Are trauma healing and shadow work actually an endless distraction from where your focus should be, namely, on oneness, unity consciousness, and pure awareness? And yet, on the other hand, why does nonduality seem to be a road to spiritual bypassing and emotional repression? Is it really the most effective path to true liberation?

I’ve traveled the world in search of the truth and enlightenment, and spent over a decade healing my own trauma, processing my emotions, changing my limiting beliefs - and helping my clients do the same. In this episode, I share with you what I’ve learned after many years of spiritual practice and energy healing to give you my perspective on answering this timeless question: Which is the most effective spiritual path: nonduality or healing?

EAST AND WEST

Welcome back to the jungle. Today I’d like to bridge a gap between the two main paths most people take on their journey to self-realization: nonduality, the focus on pure awareness and oneness, and healing work (energy/emotional/trauma healing).

I started out on a nondual path. After my initial awakening, which was bewildering to say the least, I started looking for answers. I traveled throughout Southeast Asia on a pilgrimage made for one, and every step of the way, in every country I arrived in, I learned more and more about reality and put more pieces of the puzzle together to understand that there is only consciousness and that I am truly one with everything.

By the time I got to the far East, I learned from my friends there, who were deeply committed to the nondual path, how to abide in the pure presence and peace of the Absolute. I am forever grateful to them for their compassion and generosity, their sense of humor, and everything they’ve taught me.

And yet, being the empath that I am, something felt off. I could feel their repressed emotions. I wasn’t imagining it, because sometimes they would burst into tears spontaneously in grief or sadness, and then immediately try to hide it by literally spraying water in their face to mask their tears. And there were so many emotions ignored and hidden, so many things left unsaid. And of course I was equally guilty of that at the time, because I hadn’t processed my own trauma, so it was also a mirror of my own inner state as well.

When I finally arrived back in Europe after a year or two, which was kind of my home base at the time, I discovered emotional processing and shadow work from the more Western traditions. I dove into that for years and eventually got my initial certifications and could already start helping people through their own healing process, while continuing to do upkeep on myself of course.

I didn’t fully realize the split between the two paths until much later, when my nondual friends would be quite dismayed to hear that I was still “dealing” with emotions years after we had met. In their eyes, emotions were a stage or a hurdle to overcome through the sheer strength of focused attention and pure presence. There are surely some people who can do that, but in my personal experience and perception, of myself and so many others, it easily devolves into spiritual bypassing and rejecting parts of oneself – exactly the opposite of the true oneness that is our absolute truth.

Jumping back to the healing community, I had very often asked myself: Where exactly was this unity consciousness, if we were always getting upgrades and activations from various entities and energies and digging through a seemingly endless cycle of self-improvement? I had a nagging feeling somewhere that a lot of this was a distraction from the absolute truth of oneness. In fact, my own teacher who certified me in intuitive healing reserved her highest teachings of expanding our consciousness to include the whole universe until the very last day of our final retreat at the end of our many years of shadow work training.

And so now you know why my first pair of videos on this channel are already guiding you to connect to Source in your everyday life and to expand your consciousness out beyond the universe – because I’m laying a foundation for everything that comes next, and because I owe it to you to tell you the end of the story even before we begin.

BRIDGING THE GAP

You are already enlightened. Oneness is the very fact of how things are right now – as you read this: right now. That reality is never going to change. As much as we want to seek the light, some future experience of enlightenment that seems so far out of reach, we must admit that any change between NOW and a future state of enlightenment must begin some day… and anything that has a beginning is not infinite, so it cannot be the ultimate truth.

The ultimate truth is already here. So instead of looking for the light, what if: We are the light, looking for the darkness? Why don’t we just seek out the limitations that are keeping us from being aware of our current enlightenment?

And that’s where trauma healing, changing our beliefs and integrating our shadows comes in. If there is a part of yourself that you have rejected, welcoming it back with pure acceptance and self-love expands your awareness – you expand to include that rejected part of yourself and all the wisdom held within it. You know yourself to be more.

Then, if the healing work expands your consciousness, your expanded consciousness now has more space and bandwidth to accept and heal more of the shadow without getting lost in it. From your expanded self, you can allow the emotions to come up and integrate without getting caught up in them, because you’re not identifying with your small self.

Do you see?

You know you are more than your body, you are infinite. And so allowing those painful emotions to finally move through your body and dissolve into the light of your awareness is easier than if you thought you were limited to the body.

Even releasing your identification with your thoughts in the true nondual sense helps to diminish their control over you. Knowing you are not your thoughts helps you to observe them, recognize when they are not serving you, and change them before they pull you into negative thought loops because you are bigger than the mind and so you are in charge.

Because the body and mind might think they’re going to die if they feel those darker and denser emotions like fear and shame, which is why the trauma got locked away in the first place. Your body and mind are doing their best to help you, but they can sometimes feel small and powerless in the face of those overwhelming emotions and thought patterns.

So by incorporating a nondual practice, your expanded awareness becomes infinitely bigger than your shadows and can easily contain any dark and hurting part of yourself with true compassion because you see that it’s just a small part of you not to be feared, but to be loved.

So that’s why my work with clients has completely changed over the years to include both paths. Instead of the endless war against the dark within ourselves, we integrate it to expand beyond it – through radical acceptance, not judgment. And instead of dissociating, we seek to embody our soul’s pure light directly from Source every minute of every day. And then our bodies become enlightened as well – through love, not discipline.

Because the ultimate act of sovereignty is self-realization, and with that, self-love comes automatically: In the end, all you really have to do is polish that diamond in your heart and let your true brilliance shine – you know, that light that’s always been there?

Somewhere, somehow, you know exactly what I mean :)

Namaste, my friend.

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