Understanding Your Awakening: Introduction

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Welcome to Understanding Your Awakening; a project dedicated to bringing a grounded, rich, and tangible beginning to understanding to the most profound aspect of the human experience.

The most amazing! Beautiful! Magical!

Awakening is the very start of a process of realising that we are not our thoughts, we are not our emotions, we are not our stories, our identity, the things that we own, the place that we live, or anything that we have been led to believe that we are.

Which then leaves us with the question; who and what are we, exactly?

Exploring and discovering the answer to this question is a lifelong, ever-deepening, continually awe-inspiring, surprising, and incredible process.

I wish there were more adjectives. I don't think the english language provides enough to truly encompass the majesty of All That Is.

We are not who we have been conditioned to be, we are not what we have been conditioned to think.

And with that, spiritual awakening is also not what we might initially believe it to be; the watered down gimmicky westernised version that places importance on objects and self-interest (in my experience and opinion of the new-age western spiritual movement).

We'll start simply.

Everything that you experience, you are processing through your own unique lens that has been created through every experience you’ve ever had.

Everything you’ve been told or taught or that you have witnessed, your parents beliefs, your friends beliefs, what you learned about yourself through the way that you have been treated by others, everything you picked up from TV, cartoons, radio, Instagram, every single second of every single day from the moment that you were born, the lens that you view your experience through was being created.

And it’s still going!

It’s still narrating, judging, creating on your behalf, in accordance with your past.

This creates an extremely distorted perception; a lens that then generates our thoughts and feelings, responses, and behaviours.

We create our life in accordance with our past and all that we have learned because of it, because our past becomes our software, our operating system.

Our whole life experience, including how we express ourselves and who we think ourselves to be, the types of people in our lives and what our whole life situation looks like and what it is becoming, is, and always will be, a direct reflection of our programming, conditioning, and nervous system.

The process of ‘waking up’, is the very beginning of a journey of clearing your distortion, and as you do, you will evolve.

The way you perceive, interact, communicate, process, and relate, will evolve.

Your life situation will evolve.

The way that you express yourself will evolve, your interests will evolve.

Your friendships and relationships will evolve.

You will experience beauty, magic, and depth. Real PRESENCE.

The pristine nature of presence and the present moment; which really is all there is.

Once you learn and real-ise the fundamental understandings necessary to navigate your own process, the even-deepening spiral of your own evolution will never cease to amaze (and humble) you.

When we talk about spiritual awakening here, we are talking about this profound process of unbecoming who you have been conditioned to be as the starting point for the process.

As we do so, we become less and less identified with our minds, and more identified with the truth of who and what we are.

We come out of our heads and into our bodies, which is the fundamental baseline for most spiritual practice.

The mind is a great tool, but it does not tell us the truth.

As we experience more of our true nature, we begin to find resonance and understanding of spiritual teachings.

We can have what we might refer to as ‘spiritual experiences’, which aren’t something separate from our humanness, but an integral part of our nature, inseparable from our humanness.

A forgotten part that is aching to be rediscovered.

In the same way, a ’spiritual practice’ isn’t something separate from your day-to-day life, it IS your day-to-day life.

In the West, it is common to see spirituality bundled into a set of crystals to ‘manifest your dream life’ or something equally gimmicky.

There is nothing wrong with this, but it does give the illusion that spirituality is a temporary abberation or hobby rather than the absolute Truth of who and what we are.

We can go to a yoga class or a meditation class and feel good and have somewhat of an understanding that it’s good for us, but without fundamental knowledge of why we are doing these things, how and why they work, how to read and navigate this life, deepen your journey, evolve spiritually through your day-to-day experience without it needing to be something separate, then we will never actually feel like we are making any progress, because we aren’t, really.

It is known as a spiritual awakening, because we are spirit incarnate into a human body, human mind, human predicament; a human experience.

We are awakening to the absolute fundamental truth of our humanness and what that REALLY means.

What has been hidden from us and what we have been conditioned to disbelieve.

Deep down within all of us there is a spark of this knowing.

It’s why you’re reading this. Because you know. And you want to know more. And you’re ready to know more.

Understanding Your Awakening is an ongoing project that was a seed in my mind in 2021.

We will explore spiritual understanding, how to heal and do ‘the work’, and what that really means for us. We will explore healing modalities together, have experts on the podcast, and learn HOW and WHY certain things work for us.

We collectively know that something is missing, we are disconnected room each other, from our nature, and from nature itself.

The mental health and medication epidemic is evidence of a sick culture and a sick society. In cultures that have never severed their connection to Spirit, they think us sick because we are disconnected from spirit, from understandings that bring LIFE to Life. Programmed and conditioned to be robots serving and perpetuating a dysfunctional system.

The true nature of Life is Joy, it is Love, it is Abundance. We don’t have to perpetuate the sickness within ourselves anymore.

The vibration of All That Is is the vibration of Love, and the journey of spiritual evolution is a journey home to Love.

This is an absolute truth that can be experienced.

Healing is the process of shedding these layers of conditioning, learning to read life symbolically and use our thoughts as a GUIDE to what needs to be transmuted, rather than as a navigational system, processing and releasing the old stored emotion that is associated with the distorted thoughts and the foggy perception, and witnessing the way that you walk in the world metamorphose! Your whole Life gradually shifitng, and towards a life that is in vibrational resonance with the absolute TRUTH of your SOUL.

There is so much BEAUTY to be felt and experienced here in this Life.

Through applying knowledge and wisdom that is ANCIENT, we can connect to our hearts, to spirit, to Love, come home to ourselves, clear distortion from our personal lens, discover new aspects of ourselves over and over again, evolve, develop, and experience the many layers of profound and incomprehensible magic that is available to all of us at all times, once we know how.

Through what I share through this website, emails, blogs, classes, courses, the podcast, social media, videos, events run through our events project ‘Resonate’, and whatever other ideas come to me, the intention is to share knowledge with you that we all deserve, and that can and will transform your life into a life of meaning, purpose, and understanding. An ability to read life symbolically, use your everyday as your spiritual practice and direction, ‘do the work’, access and begin to transmute your shadow/ego, and all of the absolutely magic evolution of yourself and your life that comes as a result.

It is important to make note here that I feel a deep calling to share in this way, to share what I have learned and integrated, and in the next blog I’ll tell my story.

The note I’d like to leave is that I definitely don’t know everything, the more I learn the more I realise that there is to learn.

The First Nation Cultures, the indigenous peoples of this Earth, those who have lineages who have been in deep commune with Spirit since time immemorial, those are the elders and the wisdom keepers.

I share what I have learned, humbly, aware that what I share is infinitesimal compared to the knowledge of the wisdom keepers and compared to the vastness of the cosmos.

My intention is to continue sharing as my own journey spirals and deepens.

There are also times that I might share a view and then the view might change. I am sharing my own structure of truth, how I, Angela, understand things, and I will be sharing from deep within my heart, with the main reason being that everyone deserves this knowledge, it is our birthright.