Making your spiritual practice holistic

I generally see three main types of spiritual offering out there:

1. I see a lot of emphasis on the physical and emotional in spiritual communities. Yoga, sexual/intimacy work, dance, sharing circles. It's all powerful because it gets us to be consciously in touch with those aspects of us. We can learn a lot about ourselves.

2. Some offerings emphasize energy work and self-realisation; Kundalini activation, shadow work, plant medicine, manifestation practice. All can be powerful, yet also even dangerous if held by people who haven't worked on their own distortions/karma. Energy work is essential. However, I often see it done as a means to something else; becoming more 'enlightened' or creating a desirable life. Energy work is not about forcing, but rather enhancing an experience or process that is already naturally happening.

3. There are spaces which emphasize transcendence of identity with the physical, emotional and mental - think certain forms of meditation, vipassana, etc. Also very powerful, but not necessarily complete if there's a skipping of the physical and energetic components. There is a subtle disembodiment that can take place.

While these are all powerful practices, it's my experience that they don't build a complete picture by themselves. Therefore, I've always been attracted to offerings that holistically include all three (unfortunately very few).

This way you actively deal with your karma - that which keeps you tethered in this reality. You can be present in all the density that you've accumulated energetically, noticing how that plays out in your body and mind, then transcending into the pure presence of the witness. That way you are being the full multi-dimensional being that you can be. In the world, fully experiencing the gross physical and subtle energetic aspects, but then orientating yourself beyond them.

Here are 5 benefits of working with this kind of work over time:

1. You're less affected by what happens in everyday life. There's not so much triggering and if there is, you work through it quickly. You are fully in the everyday physical life, but not of it.

2. You're able to hold a lot more energy. That means that you don't get overwhelmed so easily. You can be present in the light and the density. This means that you make more empowered decisions based on where your soul is taking you rather than seeking pleasure/avoiding pain.

3. Other dimensions of reality become available to you. Your consciousness pipe expands, meaning you're able to perceive the more subtle realms of existence. Life seems much more magical!

4. Your spiritual soul gifts start to shine through. After some time of working through identity and karma, your soul will have enough free flow through your system to open up. Gifts such as intuitive knowing, empathic connection with other spirits, reading of the higher flow and of other peoples fields start to kick in. Now you can use these gifts to be of divine service.

5. To get profound insights into the workings of the universe. This might or might not be mind based. You will start to get a profound sense of how life functions in terms of energy. If somebody was to explain quantum mechanics to you, you would say "that makes total sense!" This makes you appear wise to others even though you aren't trying to be.

Photo: Ana Bernardes

So, my work is all about the shifts in consciousness necessary by incorporating all of these practices. That's where the real transformation takes place. Not as amazingly powerful one-time breakthroughs (though certainly people experience very powerful breakthroughs and initiations in this work). Rather it's in the progressive breakdown of the identities and wounds that keep you small and embodied expansion into the higher densities of reality.

There is a great shift taking place. I feel more and more parting between the simulated societal construct and the new energies coming into our solar system. This is going to make regular societal living harder and harder for those dedicated to conscious living. That's ok. We'll be at the forefront of the shift, illuminating the way. Feeling the magic of a new paradigm of living and relating.

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Richard gives 1-1 soul facilitation sessions to support you on your journey through this shift. Individual programs are also available: Conscious Relating Reset and Soul Alchemy Program