Stop Chasing Your Spiritual Awakening

I know it sounds a little odd, but you have to stop chasing your spiritual awakening in order to finally have one. If you forget stop chasing your spiritual awakening and you start listening to your spirit guides instead, you're going to get everything that you need to know in life and things are going to come to you really easily.

When you stop chasing your spiritual awakening, everything starts to happen on its own. It's not something that you force anymore, and you can sit and do the best meditation in the world with the Himalayan mountains guru, but if you never go on your hero's journey, you actually can't sustain it anyways. And the hero's journey was popularized by Joseph Campbell. It's the idea of each person has their own unique destiny in life. In Buddhism it's called Dharma. Everyone has one.

It's just that most people are on somebody else's path. I think Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best. He said, "don't go where the path may lead. Instead, leave the path and make your own trail." It's just that most people are on other people's paths and other people's trails. They've been taught so much to people please. And they've been taught so much that other people know what's best for them. They've been taught so much to be afraid of failing. Bob Marley once said, "if you don't start somewhere, you never going to get nowhere".

The hero's journey is when you become the hero of your own life, instead of making some actor or politician your hero. Forget about them, become your own hero. And that begins by facing your deepest fears. For me, that was being 19 years old, freshman in college, reading all these books about these types of concepts. And finally saying, you know what? There's no one in my generation that's doing this. I bet you that if this stuff is true, I could go and become a successful author and I could build my own career. And so I dropped out of college when I was 19. Everyone thought I was crazy. My mom thought I was a psycho. I lost the majority of my friends. They thought I'd gone mad. Check my blog about a Spiritual Solution You Must Try For 60 Seconds which may help you overcome your problems.

That was my hero's journey. It was walking away from the tribe as the first component. Then starting to trust myself as the second component. Then releasing my fear of failure as the third component. So ask yourself, how does that manifest in your life? And when you go on your hero's journey, that eventually prompts the spiritual awakening. "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations. Your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world".

The second thing to consider is that your spirit guides are whispering ideas to you all the time. And those ideas become the path that we're meant to walk in life. But it's up to us from our own freewill to decide whether we conquer our fears and actually do walk that path in life. That's the whole basis of freewill in this reality. And so the next step that has to occur is letting go of failing. And when you let go of failing, what that means is you stop doing what you're doing to get an outcome. You start doing what you're doing, just because you think you should. More than thinking, feeling is the way.

You're not just thinking "I should do this". You feel this thing deep in your gut. That's telling you that this is your path in life, and this is what you're meant to do and where you're meant to go etc... And you just feel it.

We believe in these finite limitations because we're attached to ourselves as physical beings. You move away from all that. You start to enter the spirit of your life, your path in life. For me, that was dropping out and writing the books. I remember sitting there writing my first book and I didn't know how to. I failed junior English class in high school. I don't have a college degree. I wasn't a writer to begin with. I got into college because I was good at basketball. I was a first team all San Diego basketball player. But I wasn't intellectually smart. And you know, even in my videos now, some people get mad that I say words like "gnarly" and use slang from growing up in Southern California. People say "use higher IQ words". Well, I'm sorry, I didn't go to do all this formal education stuff.

I self-directed my own learning. I focused on a goal and I went to accomplish that. I didn't worry about the rest of the stuff. I can remember not worrying about the stuff and just saying, I'm going to accomplish this. I don't know how, I don't know how, but I don't need to know how because I'm not doing what I'm doing to become successful. Being in that unknown gave me so much freedom. I can remember writing the book and sitting there and just having the most fun I would go on and do little trips where I'd go five days in a tiny little cabin to write all the time.

I had so much fun with it. I had such a spiritual awakening in the process. It went back to that first quote. Where he says that "when you're inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds". My thoughts were "i'm too young and i'm not smart enough." Those were broken. I found that it wasn't an intellectual exercise writing a book, right? You can do the research. Anybody could do research. What the book came down to was me letting go enough to have everything flow out of me and to stick with it long enough.

Your consciousness expands in every direction when you're inspired by a great purpose. And this is what happens when you lose the fear of failure. So I invite you to ask yourself, how does that show up in my life? Because right in the answer to that question is the key to your absolute freedom in life.

The third and final step to have a real spiritual awakening and to start listening to your spiritual guides is to give up people pleasing. Because if you're so attached to the voices outside of yourself, you're not going to be able to hear interdimensional whispers from spirit. You're not going to be able to hear whispers of your soul that are telling you the right path.

You're not going to hear it because you're volume is so turned down within and the volume in the outside world is turned up so high. Many of us are wondering what other people think and if we are making the right decisions to look good to those around us. If you need other people's approval, you're always going to stay where you are. The truth is some people just don't get it. And some people don't get it so much and that they project all of their fears and insecurities into their own life and those around them.

When somebody speaks their limitations upon your life, say, "thank you. But that's not part of my belief system." It's a good one. Right? Maybe your mom doesn't understand, maybe your boyfriend or your girlfriend or your husband or your wife or your kids don't get it anymore. Your negative coworkers, just saying your ideas are stupid or your business ideas are dumb. It's hard, right?

Turn the volume down on that and turn the volume up on the whispers of your soul. Turn the volume up on your spirit guides speaking the sweet melodies and answers to your life. Say yes to those things.

Remember.

Miracles are normal,

Jake