Some wise words arrived in my mailbox today, written by my own personal Soul Coach, Spiritual Teacher and Founder of Transformative Coach Institute, Joshua Elijah Benavides. Words that lead to one insight after the other.
I hope they inspire you just as much as they inspired me:
‘In life, you can either learn through suffering and pain or through love and joy.
Suffering and pain come when you’re not paying attention to the wisdom of your Soul.
Ease, insight and flow come when you’re listening deeply and following the guidance within you.
This is the Way of Illumination.
It is the way of being open and receptive to Life’s insight and guidance.
There will be times when you feel lost.
It’s at these times that you may feel most compelled to try to escape your life through food, entertainment, sex, drugs and pretty much anything that may make the pain go away temporarily.
The problem with this approach is that you’re engaged in a self-perpetuating loop, one aimed at attempting to get rid of the feeling you’re experiencing.
This is simply another way of being in a state of not listening, not seeking to understand and not being available to what this feeling is trying to tell you about you, your life and your state of being.
Every state of being, every feeling, is your wisdom speaking to you.
Your wisdom is speaking to you 24/7.
The question is: Are you listening?
INSIGHT IS A GIFT OF NOW
The Way of Illumination is the way of insight.
Insight comes when we’re receptive and welcoming of its presence.
Insight comes when we’re present with a clear, empty mind.
Insight cannot come when your mind is full and cluttered with thoughts of tomorrow and yesterday.
Insight is a gift of the Now.
And the Now is just another word for your Consciousness, that ever-present part of you that is simply aware.
When you are here, in this moment, as Consciousness, as yourself prior to thoughts, you are connected and available to receive the wisdom of the ages, the wisdom that will guide your life to its most beautiful expression.
When you are here, in this moment, as your thoughts, beliefs, opinions and judgements, you temporarily lose that sense of connection to your wisdom.
Instead, you see a world of thoughts that disguise themselves as your circumstances, conditions, other people etc.
The moment you slow down to Now, you will once again regain Vision and you will see that all your troubles and problems were only just thoughts you were believing to be true. Nothing more.
And from this space, you become open to new thoughts, new insights and new points of view.
There are an infinite number of points of views.
We live in an infinite universe.
There is no one way to see anything.
Don’t get lost in trying to find the right way or the right answers.
Instead, pay attention to how you feel.
When you’re aligned with your wisdom, you feel wonderful.
Being connected to your wisdom is being connected to your bliss. It feels warm, open, expansive in every direction. It feels deep, grounding and peaceful. It shows up as a knowing, an awe, a wonder.
This is always available to you.
The door is always open.
But it is up to you to walk through it.
The only exchange is your current point of view, your current thoughts, opinions, judgements and evaluations.
Would you exchange your certainty in these thoughts…for not knowing?
Would you be willing to empty your cup so that it may be filled with new possibilities, new answers, new solutions?
An empty mind is the Way of Illumination.
An empty mind is the welcome sign for insight.
An empty mind is no mind at all.
It is simply awareness, consciousness, beingness, presence.
You have a capacity for insight that will never run out.
Insight is your guide.
It has always been here, helping you to see what you currently cannot see.
Nurture this relationship.
Be grateful that you have this guidance always available and you will be blessed with even more clear, loving and wise guidance.
This is the Way of Illumination"
Ps .... When you're ready, here are a few ways in which I can guide you through the process of awakening, reclaiming your inner Wise Woman & embodying your unique Soul Path:
