5 Spiritual Awakening Traps… (That Sabotage Growth)

Are you doing this to yourself?

If so… don’t feel bad because as you’re about to read I fell into ALL of these traps in an intense and almost embarrassing way!

If I would have known what I know now, it would have saved me YEARS of spiritual stagnation and stress.

1 – Trying To “Wake Up” Others

When we go through our own awakening, it’s usually the most exciting, interesting, and positively life altering experience of our lives!

Why wouldn’t we want others to experience this too?

Especially our loved ones!

This desire to wake everyone up is coming from a good place but it’s just not that effective…

PLUS… it can distract us from our own healing.

It’s about as effective as trying to tell a teenager what they should be doing with their lives.

My daughter is 11 going on 16 and I have learned that if I want to influence her… I have a better chance telling her the OPPOSITE of what I want her to do!

Seriously though…

You woke up when you did because it was your time.

Everyone else will wake up when they are ready to… and often times, stumbling a little here and there is exactly what they need.

Secondly…

It’s MUCH easier to see other people’s issues than our own.

Our ego LOVES to make a job out of trying to save everyone, under the false pretense that we are just so loving and empathic… but in the process we put our own growth on the back burner.

2 – Racing To The Finish Line

Back in 2011, I went raw vegan…

I quit my “3D job”

I literally spent all day preparing my meals, (which included about a dozen super foods and supplements to decalcify my pineal gland)…

I sun gazed and spent hours each day trying to astral travel.

I had no friends, my wife was even getting sick my spiritual elitism lol… and I was not very present for my (at the time) ) 3 year old daughter that wanted nothing more than to play with daddy.

Daddy is too spiritual honey!

He’s got more important stuff to do.

I was trying to raise my vibration at an almost aggressive… and certainly unhealthy speed.

On paper, I was living an extrodinarly spiritual life, but it was fueled by a desperation to complete my spiritual awakening… which is to say, end my suffering, and escape into bliss.

Even though I was “doing all the right things” – eating healthy, dedicating myself to a spiritual practice, studying spiritual principals, etc…

I ended up becoming hyper sensitive, very irritable, very intolerant of anyone not living like I was, and also very physically weak.

I was a hot mess to put it frankly!

I was going fast… and as a result… I went slow.

It was a big learning lesson for me to chill out… enjoy the ride… and not be in such a hurry.

In going so fast, I was missing everything that was important to me.

My daughter… my wife… my family… and I also wasn’t having any fun!

3. Avoiding Anything That Isn’t “High Vibe”

During that same time period, I also swore off anything that “didn’t resonate.”

I was very picky lol.

I stopped listening to my favorite music…

I quit watching my favorite television shows…

I never drank, smoked, or partied.

I had no friends.

I had no life!

BUT… I was “high vibe” so it was all worth it.

No.

Actually, I was living an incredibly inauthentic life.

I condemned many of my TRUE joys and passions like Rock N Roll, enjoying a couple drinks with friends (I was 26 at the time)… Mixed Martial Arts… and Game of Thrones! lol

I did this for the same reason some of you may have… and perhaps currently are…

I went through a phase of heightened sensitivity.

Anything that emitted an even slightly negative tone, like all of those things I shared above… did affect me more than usual.

Game of Thrones game me nightmares lol.

Alcohol made me feel horrible, and just didn’t resonate.

My favorite rock bands like Tool and Nine Inch Nails did feel a bit noisy and overly intense.

At the time… this imbalance was appropriate.

But I clung to it.

I created an entire identity around it.

As David Ike says… “I pitched my tent there” _ I decided this is who I now am.

So, when my adjustment period came to a close…

And those old pleasures started to resonate once again (thank God!)…

I felt a ton of guilt.

I avoided them because I had already determined that they were “wrong” or “bad.”

I didn’t move on…

I stayed in denial of my attraction to certain FUN things in life.

I was stuck, unhappy… and super BORING!

Once I realized that I couldn’t deny my actual preferences…

I couldn’t pretend that I don’t enjoy Guns N Roses music…

I couldn’t pretend that a glass of red wine, at the appropriate time, did make me feel great, loose, and take the edge off.

Once I accepted this,

I laughed to myself!

& just like that…

I snapped out of it 🙂

4. Ignoring “3D Responsibilities”

I see this a lot…

I however took this to the absolute extreme!

When I was 23, my father in law bought my wife and I a beautiful brand new home.

However…

Once I realized that the entire planet was going to ascend into the 5th dimension on December 21st, 2012 – naturally — we decided to sell the home.

We sold the home, spent ALL of the money in less than a year…

Because of course…

Money wouldn’t be around post ascension!

I literally believed so whole heartedly that I don’t need a job, don’t need to save money, and don’t need to plan for my future because the planet is going to shift so dramatically that none of these things will mater in the end.

Well, I will never EVER forget how I felt on December 22nd!

I woke up in a shitty apartment, broke, jobless, lost, and feeling like a total idiot lol.

NOW…

I realize that is an extreme example lol.

& to my defense…. and perhaps some of yours…

There is a phase of awakening when 3D responsibilities like a job, house chores, and paying taxes feels horrible!

Going to work, paying bills, and things like that seem ultra un-important in the grand scope of things.

Not only that, but they really don’t resonate, they just don’t “feel right” energetically.

What I found though, is this…

Going into debt, and the “Earthly” consequences of neglecting my responsibilities resonated even less!

I remember feeling so frustrated…

With my spirit guides. LOL

Because they let me get into such a precarious life situation.

What happened to divine assistance?

lol

This was another powerful lesson though, in the end, and it forced me to reintegrate back into society….

It helped me come to peace with the idea that I need to earn a living.

And more so…

I realized that I could ENJOY these things…

Avoiding and resisting I believe was a step up from complete unconsciousness.

However, the next step beyond that rebellion stage is realizing that you can ENJOY the mundane Earth experience.

The real awakening is realizing that incredible awesomeness can be felt from mowing the lawn, or putting in a hard day’s work so you can go home and cook a nice meal for your family.

5. Fear Of Your Own Power

In the beginning…

We are led.

We are provided with clear signs from the universe, God, our spirit guides, higher self, whatever you want to call it.

The force… is there!

However, after a while… when you’ve put your time in… and maybe expect the force to be even stronger… it goes away!

What the heck is going on?

Ah… I just need to exercise some more faith and patience.

I will just wait here… in my collapsing life… until I get a sign!

Months, and for me – YEARS strolled by, and nothing!

Finally, I grew tired of waiting and decided to take matters into my own hands.

Ironically, once I did that, the force returned!

It was waiting on me to step into my power.

We are POWERFUL – CO – creators.

It is a dance, a relationship, a partnership… us and the divine.

In the beginning of our journey, the divine swoops us up like the spiritual babies we are, but once we grow up, it’s time to move out of the nest, and stand on our own two feet.

I say this with sarcasm but understand it’s SUPER hard… and VERY scary!

I trembled out of the nest…

Like a lost little puppy, I flopped around through life, making tons of rookie mistakes.

However, in choosing to own my power… and trying my best… I found myself.

I found a deeper layer of myself than I ever knew was there.

Now the force is back… and it’s an equal partnership.

It’s not all about vision boards, spiritual bypassing, and waiting for the next synchronicity to light the way…

And it’s also not about brute force, a masculine dominated mindset, and grinding through life.

It’s a little bit of both.

Sometimes strong wills are required to break through.

Sometimes it’s best to sit back and wait for more clarity.

Often times it’s somewhere in the middle.

Very often it’s a matter of shifting gears multiple times in a single day!

This balancing act gets easier with experience though…

And the only way to earn this discernment is by stepping out there.

Do you feel called to step out there?

Do you feel called to step into your power?

What are you waiting for?

Theres never been a better time than NOW.