Hello Friends 🙂
It is time for the final installment in my series on why Spiritual Gurus are screwing up your path.
I hope that you can sense that there is a little satire in the title of these posts. However, I do think it is important that we recognize that we do not need to rush ahead or 'get anywhere' on this path of life, and that is why I have written these posts.
In case you missed them, you can find Part One and Part Two Here.
Now, onto the final chapter.
Have you ever wondered why it feels so good to be around a spiritual master, and why you tend to crash once you leave their presence/turn off their youtube video and go back into real life?
Have you ever gone on a retreat with someone, taken a training, gone to a workshop, felt on top of the world, then when you went back to your life, noticed that you felt worse than ever before?
If so, read on. It is time to find some stability on your path 🙂
We Feel The Vibration Of The Person Sharing, And Confuse Them With What We Want:
Finally, when we get in the energy of someone who has really done their work, who has come face to face with themselves and are living in a place where they are vibrationally in alignment with THEMSELVES (meaning they have come to a place where they have achieved that coveted unity within themselves, and thus by extension unity with life) it feels GOOD.
Really good.
This amazing vibrational boost we feel when we are around these people can be rather addicting.
What is happening is they are providing a DOMINANT VIBRATION – which means when you get around them (or read their books or listen to their videos) you will temporarily be pulled to the vibrational state that they are residing in. Their dominant vibration causes everyone in the room to become a match.
If you are in a place where your current general vibrational state is close to the vibrational state of your spiritual teacher, it will feel like a gentle lifting to be around them.
This lift can actually be incredibly helpful for you along your path, because it will help give you a glimpse into the place you are headed, and it will most likely help you to 'clear' blocks (really, integrate shadow) in your field faster, because you get some practice in how it feels to be more in alignment with yourself than you currently are. And we all know how helpful it can be to give something a test run.
When your vibrational state and the vibrational state of your teacher/teaching is similar, that small bump may be exactly what you need to continue on down your path at an accelerated rate. Being with them will feel like a gentle lift, that you can then go away and practice maintaining on your own. You should be able to easily pull yourself into the feeling that you get being around them, on your own.
If, on the other hand the person you are listening to is at a state of alignment within themselves that is quite different from where you currently are, this is a whole different story.
If the teacher or teaching you are listening to or spending time with doesn’t offer like something you are already doing, or something that feels like a relief - if the teacher or teaching is coming from a place that is not similar to where you currently are, chances are you will feel a HUGE boost when you are with your teacher or listening to a particular teaching.
You will feel high. You will feel buzzed. You will feel on top of the world.
This high will last for a day or two, (sometimes longer depending on how much time you spent or how powerful the vibrational difference was) then you will notice yourself start to slip. You will feel yourself returning back to where you were before, only this time it will feel WORSE than it has ever felt.
Enter, Guilt, Shame And Self Doubt
This will either leave you feeling like you have done something wrong, like you were just not able to do what they told you to do, like you were not capable of living how they live OR this will cause you to seek to be around this person or teaching again so that you can get that boost.
Again, this can actually hinder your progress, rather than encourage it.
If you are constantly feeling like you need to return to a particular person or teaching in order to feel that boost, and you are not able to get yourself to feel that feeling on your own in your life, you may confuse this teacher with being the answer, rather than knowing that they are just like you. Simply showing you an example of what you can be and will be as you continue on down your path.
Because it feels so good to be in their energy, you may seeks to be with them more and more, rather than taking responsibility for moving yourself to a place where you can maintain and sustain that kind of feeling all on your own.
You may start to see your teacher as special, as having something that you don't, rather than understanding that they are just you, a few steps down the road.
This massive vibrational boost will serve as another distraction on your path, as another thing to strive for, to label as ‘right’ or ’better’ in contrast to where you are which is ‘wrong’ or ‘bad’
This could not be farther from the truth.
The Truth Is, You Are Perfect, Right HERE
The truth is, right where you are is right where you need to be. Right here in this place, in this state, in this vibration is exactly right for you.
As far as the Universe is concerned, there are no ‘should’s.’ There is no being in the wrong vibration – because there is no judgment. It is really only us who judge ourselves.
So if you get into the vibrational frequency of someone, and find that it lifts you to a place that you cannot get yourself to naturally, this is not because you did anything wrong.
This is not because you are behind.
This is not because you should spend more time with them trying to do as they do.
Because you cannot learn a state based on hearing what it is like to be there (which is all a spiritual teacher is doing, telling you what it is like to exist in that state, and demonstrating the vibration of that state) you can only learn a state by going through the process necessary to get you to that state.
If you feel a boost around someone or something that you cannot maintain in your every day life, that you cannot repeat on your own accord, you are not lacking. You are simply at a different place. No better, no worse.
Go find someone that empowers you.
That makes you feel like you can be just like them.
Go find someone who reminds you of the light you are already aware that you posses, and who simply encourages you to spend more time in that alignment.
You will naturally cycle through lots of different teachers and teachings this way. It is the fastest way to come into alignment with yourself.
The Bottom Line
You are exactly where you need to be. If you are striving to match a teacher, you can let yourself off the hook. You WILL get there. But you have to let go of trying to get there, in order to get there.
I hope this series has shed some light on spiritual teachers/teachings and why it is so important for you to allow yourself to be exactly where you are, rather than trying to reach for any particular state. You do not have to rush ahead. You do not have to skip steps. There is nothing wrong with where you are.
Find teachers and teachings that remind you of who you are. That empower you. That give you a little boost. That teach ideas that you are already familiar with from your inner searching’s and work. This is the fastest path.
Promise.
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