Hello, Spiritual Warrior!

We were born whole – from our conception to birth, we live in a state of perfect wholeness. And then once we separated from our mother during birth, we began to become layered with conditioning. 

As don Miguel Ruiz states in his book The Four Agreements, we go through a process of domestication.

This is simply a part of the human experience – in fact, we need to separate from our sense of wholeness, in order to come back to it once again. 

All of us have a lot of healing to do. In order to heal, we need to reconnect to our wholeness – to the memory of our wholeness. 

To understand that it never left us, we just forgot about it, leaving it buried under years of conditioning and training to believe that we are not whole.

So how do we return there? 

Here are 8 Steps to Awaken Healing – to return to a state of our own wholeness, and reclaim our connection to the inner knowing that we are always whole, no matter what circumstances are surrounding us.

1. Connect to the present moment, and return to the power of presence.
2. Appreciate the uncertainty of existence. Not just understand it, but to sincerely appreciate it. 
3. Cultivate Self-Compassion. Self-compassion can be one of the hardest lessons to learn, as we often find it easier to find compassion for another than for ourselves.
4. Practice Gratitude. 20 seconds a day of gratitude creates a neurological shift in your brain. Making gratitude an inherent part of your day will create beautiful changes in your life!
5. Awaken our authentic voice. This can be our actual voice, or our persona – our identity in the world. The throat chakra is the chakra of our voice, but also of permission. We need to be heard, and we also need to release our attachment to other people’s thoughts and opinions. Risk being you!
6. Find meaningful work. If you are stuck in a job that you don’t like, that’s ok! You don’t need to leave the work you are doing – you can start by doing something that sparks you inside and fulfills your heart. It can be a side hustle or a volunteer project. 
7. Make time to rest and to play. Remember that burnout is not a status symbol! It’s important to enjoy your life, relax and have fun.
8. Cultivate laughter, song and dance. Even if you don’t know how to sing and dance! Integrate this into life, because it will return you to the memory of your wholeness. This might not be a conventional way to heal, but in the process of doing it, you will heal.

I hope that these 8 Steps to Awaken Healing help you remember that you are always whole, and that there is nothing outside of you that will complete you – all of the answers are available within.

Thank you for spending this time with me. 

Namaste – davidji