Remember how I told you that the law of attraction and gratitude journaling started bringing new experiences, people, teachers, etc. into my life? Well this funny little “inconsequential decision” effectively changed my life and romantic relationship forever.
While in the process of moving to Philadelphia, my dad invited me to Maui to take a new workshop that my spiritual mentor was teaching. It was an advanced form of Ancient Hawaiian healing. I didn’t think I could go because I would have to fly out the day I moved into my apartment in Philadelphia. I wasn’t even going to consider it until my partner convinced me that it could work. So I took his advice and went to Maui.
My teacher, Laurie Grant, is nothing short of amazing — she is intuitive, loving, awe-inspiring, and has a real knack for making you feel completely empowered. She is a mother, spiritual guru, psychic, best friend, and school counselor wrapped up in one neat little package. She can channel and control energy with the same deftness as Spiderman swinging over the streets of Manhattan.
Combine Laurie, the spiritual superhero, with a darling little man in the class named Arthur who taught me about Dr. David Hawkins and “surrender” and you get a peak spiritual experience unmatched by any other.
When I “surrendered” completely while Laurie attuned us to higher levels of energy, I went into a state of complete bliss or what the Buddha refers to as Nirvana. I was complete, I was whole and I felt fantastic.
Unfortunately it gave me such a bad case of spiritual pride that my partner of 10 years ran for the hills. I may as well have been a blood-sucking vampire for the way he avoided me. He felt he had made the worst mistake of his life by encouraging me to go the workshop. When I came back I was ungrounded, blissed-out, I had no motivation because life was perfect, and I simply couldn’t be around him because, quite frankly, he was a real downer.
Spiritual pride is sneaky. It took me years before I realized what I was doing.
Apart from the dangers of mounting a spiritual high-horse, “surrendering” remains the quickest and easiest way to bliss I have experienced. Dr. David Hawkins Power vs. Force is a very good book discussing the topic of surrendering and Oneness/Non-duality.
While in the process of moving to Philadelphia, my dad invited me to Maui to take a new workshop that my spiritual mentor was teaching. It was an advanced form of Ancient Hawaiian healing. I didn’t think I could go because I would have to fly out the day I moved into my apartment in Philadelphia. I wasn’t even going to consider it until my partner convinced me that it could work. So I took his advice and went to Maui.
My teacher, Laurie Grant, is nothing short of amazing — she is intuitive, loving, awe-inspiring, and has a real knack for making you feel completely empowered. She is a mother, spiritual guru, psychic, best friend, and school counselor wrapped up in one neat little package. She can channel and control energy with the same deftness as Spiderman swinging over the streets of Manhattan.
Combine Laurie, the spiritual superhero, with a darling little man in the class named Arthur who taught me about Dr. David Hawkins and “surrender” and you get a peak spiritual experience unmatched by any other.
When I “surrendered” completely while Laurie attuned us to higher levels of energy, I went into a state of complete bliss or what the Buddha refers to as Nirvana. I was complete, I was whole and I felt fantastic.
Unfortunately it gave me such a bad case of spiritual pride that my partner of 10 years ran for the hills. I may as well have been a blood-sucking vampire for the way he avoided me. He felt he had made the worst mistake of his life by encouraging me to go the workshop. When I came back I was ungrounded, blissed-out, I had no motivation because life was perfect, and I simply couldn’t be around him because, quite frankly, he was a real downer.
Spiritual pride is sneaky. It took me years before I realized what I was doing.
Apart from the dangers of mounting a spiritual high-horse, “surrendering” remains the quickest and easiest way to bliss I have experienced. Dr. David Hawkins Power vs. Force is a very good book discussing the topic of surrendering and Oneness/Non-duality.
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