12 Steps to Activate Conscious Wholeness
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Monday, October 27, 2025 at 2:41PM
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 10:33AM Many people are taught to evade discomfort, or that moving away from hardship is always the best course. Yet, is it? Consider this story:
Two men visit a Zen master. The first man says: “I’m thinking of moving to this town. What’s it like?” The Zen master asks: “What was your old town like?” The first man responds: “Dreadful. Everyone was hateful. I hated it.” The Zen master says: “This town is very much the same. I don’t think you should move here.”
The first man leaves and the second man arrives. The second man says: “I’m thinking of moving to this town. What’s it like?” The Zen master asks: “What was your old town like?” The second man responds: “It was wonderful. Everyone was friendly and I was happy. Just interested in a change now.”
The Zen master says: “This town is very much the same. I think you will like it here.”
One view of this story relates to karma (the Law of Cause and Effect). It echoes that whatever happens stems from our actions. We may travel far and wide in the hopes of escaping a life we disliked. Turns out that we are the common thread. That is, how we feel about ourselves is with us wherever we go.
Another view of this Zen story is that discomfort or moving away from difficult situations may offer short-term relief, but often prevents the deep growth and integration that such challenges are designed to catalyze. Consider 5 Key Soul Messages:
1. Discomfort is a Messenger
Difficult emotions — grief, rage, shame, fear — are not enemies. They are signals from the soul, pointing to unmet needs, unhealed wounds, or inner misalignments. When we avoid them, we silence our internal guidance system and miss the deeper message encoded in the pain or suffering.
2. What We Resist, Persists
Unresolved trauma or avoidance of conflict doesn't disappear—it gets stored in the body, nervous system, and energy field. It tends to resurface in different forms: new relationships, repeated patterns, or even physical illness. The soul repeats lessons until we consciously engage.
3. True Freedom Requires Integration
Freedom isn’t escape; it’s the capacity to remain present with discomfort. Facing the fire allows us to alchemize pain into wisdom, fear into clarity. Avoidance may feel like protection, but it often prolongs the suffering.
4. Initiation Requires Ordeal
Ancient sages echo that discomfort is the portal to transformation. The dark night, the betrayal, the collapse— brings greater consciousness. By staying present in the challenge, we gain resilience, awareness, and spiritual maturity.
5. Our Presence Is the Healing Agent
Sometimes we are placed in challenging situations not just for our healing, but to bring light to the collective field. By staying—consciously, not passively—we become a stabilizing force, a living transmission of courage and wholeness.
In short, while discernment is essential (not every situation must be endured), evading discomfort as a default strategy cuts us off from our soul evolution.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 8:46AM
Notice a key question that arises in this moment is: can I see, observe wholly without division? To observe through the lens of wholeness is sanity, lucidity, clarity. To watch how our mind is operating - to observe, not correct it, not shape it, not say, 'I must become whole or act to feel whole, or take steps to be sane,' may feel insane. It depends how the mind watches. Does it watch with judgement and analysis- form a conclusion, a condemnation, or refer to memories? Wholeness is as mind freely observes. Tremendous joy and vitality arise right here without us. Tune in.
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Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 7:47PM
Notice to begin to feel more alive is to recall what happiness truly feels like. Its a deep visceral journey. Living from or being guided by 'Soul' implies total aliveness, not with or due to someone else, or some situation, but with yourself. This version of absolute aliveness has no outward causes. It is ever-present and also inalterable. Free will simply implies one can tune into/ out of any vibration.
Monday, July 24, 2023 at 4:43PM
Notice at some stage, it dawns no separate personal, public, professional or spiritual life exist. The fragmented ways we are taught to view our lives are paths and back to wholeness.As we begin to make the shift from ego to soul, we may encounter opposition or interference. Those most closely connected to us resist our shift because we have created predictable patterns (healthy or not) and this keeps others in their comfort zones.
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