What Is A Spiritual Journey? - Dr. Rachel, Clinical Psychologist

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You’ll know you’re on a spiritual journey if you’re called to connect to something that feels bigger and better. You’ll come to a place in yourself where you just feel this undeniable pull to expand beyond previous limitations.

You’ve likely already become aware of a pull you feel in yourself, and in the collective experience across humanity: with the universe, the sun, the stars, the moon, nature, animals and really everything that composes life. You’re aware that you’re tuning into something bigger, and the more expansive and awake in yourself you become, the more you’re going to pursue experiences, communities and opportunities that will make you feel safe, understood, and connected to that awakening. This is the spiritual journey.

On your spiritual journey, you will come home to your truest, most pure self. You’ll do this in places and with people who elicit that soft, tender, and strong knowing that you are connected to something really very grand.

Top 2 major elements of a spiritual journey:

1. Building community: Look for mentors. You’ll need others who are either on the same path or further along. You’ll need opportunities to talk about your process, and look up to those who have precious wisdom to share. It’ll normalize, validate, and encourage you to stay on your path and help you navigate any bumps in the road you encounter along the way.

2. Connect to other people and places who get it: You might feel alone on this journey, and in an effort to connect to this part of you that you know is real, it’s going to be important to seek out new experiences that help solidify this.

For me it’s been Kundalini Yoga, which frees my body and breathe to move in ways I most need it to (really connects me to my spirit). I am also active in my local Buddhist community, going weekly to sanghas for meditation sitting groups and dharma offerings. I’m also seeking retreats and mentors. It’s all of these opportunities where I can be with people and have these experiences to connect to my spirit, my soul, the bigger purpose, and what’s becoming a real clear passion of mine. It is that type of connection to community and unwavering diligent pursuit that creates this path that you will walk on. It becomes an enlivened, enlightened part of your experience.

If you’re on this journey, you’re not alone. Look on Youtube and Instagram, check out tags that interest you in this area. There are people plentiful across your community that you can connect to and talk to about this.

You can find a therapist who’s spiritually informed and does mind/body/spirit work, like me.

I don’t want you to give up, I want you to stay on your path just like I am.

It can feel a little confusing and scary, and that’s okay because it’s getting us all to a bigger, better place in ourselves, which is primary. Once we’re there in ourselves we can show up for each other in ways that have the potential to transform the world.

So, good work.

If you want to know more about what a spiritual awakening is and how that’s a little different than the journey itself and what it’s been like for me, check that out here.

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Top 2 major elements of a spiritual journey:

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