Somthing has prompted you to seek answers.  Maybe you've been through a bad breakup . . . again and want to change this pattern.  Maybe you just have a feeling there is something more in life and you want to explore it.  Maybe you've been taking yoga classes or have been introduced to a mindfulness practice and you want to deepen your experience.

Whatever it is that has motived you, you want more information.  The hallmark of this stage is consumption.  You read anything you can get your hands on and are open to exploration.

At this stage I recommend the following.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Learn to meditate!  This is the single most important foundational skill for spiritual development.  Join my free & live guided meditations here to start your foundational spiritual practice.
• If you are curious, follow that divine signal and learn about what makes you curious even if you don't feel like it's the right thing for you.  Exposure is most important now and this exploration will lead you to crystal clarity on your personal spiritual path.

Exposure and experimentation is the name of the game.  When you have read as many books and blog posts as you can it's time to join the land of the living and begin to take workshops and experimenting with what you have learned.

Have you met other spiritual seekers in person at a live event or workshop?  Have you found your tribe?  Have you found some answers to life's questions?  What spiritual teachings are most appealing to you?  What feels right?  What resonates as true?

Keep researching and following your curiosity and most importantly start interacting with others and begin practicing what you are learning.

RECOMENDATIONS:

• You can interact with fellow spiritual seekers on the path and take part in free workshops in my Facebook group here.

You found your sweet spot!!!  Congratulations.

After quite a long time of consuming information, learning about different approaches to spirit and trying them on for size you are ready to begin creating a personal spiritual practice.

Now is the time to create new behaviors, new ways of thinking and new ways of responding to the world.  Life begins to feel exciting and take on a new color for you.  This is a time of expansion and redefining your priorities in life.

Who are you becoming?

This is also a good time to find a teacher that you would like to invest time with. Because you are evolving, it is critical to surround yourself with people that support the person you are growing into not the person you are growing out of.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Find your teachers.  Watch their videos, read their books, take their courses and join their retreats to support the woman you are becoming.
• Practice, practice, practice, practice.   There is no such thing as failure.  There is only practice, experimentation and learning.
• Explore what I have to offer if my approach resonates with you.

This is where things start getting tough.  You are so happy cleaning your chakras, going to yoga, meditating and pursuing enlightenment and all of your old friends think you are totally crazy!  You find yourself thinking judgemental thoughts about . . . well, everyone and you lament that no one you are close to ‘gets it'.

Everyone finds themselves in this place if they are serious about their personal and spiritual growth.  Anyone pursuing their highest potential will run into this problem.  So what do you do?

It's time to put your big girl pants on and start making some changes.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Stop judging other people (and yourself for that matter)!  This is not helping and it is not spiritual.  It is however very, very human.  So what do you do instead?  Embrace the spiritual virtues of equanimity, acceptance (of reality), and most of all step into radical compassion!  There is nothing more powerful than radical compassion and it removes the focus off of how wrong someone is to how much you love them unconditionally.
• Love yourself enough to carefully choose who you spend time with.  Support your growth by surrounding yourself with people that will help elevate you to the next level and raise your vibration.

You are now feeling like a zen master.  You have weathered the storms of change in your life.  You have let go of some relationships and embraced and healed others.  You are steadfast in your spiritual practice and you are gaining wisdom.

Well done young grasshopper.

Now, do the laundry.

Even after we feel we have stepped up to a new level of spiritual consciousness we still live in the material world and must live life as it is.   This means releasing judgement, developing compassion, embodying love and practicing forgiveness.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Practice forgiveness
• Practice the Buddhist loving kindness meditation
• Release judgements of yourself and others
• Accept reality as it comes without reaction and choose your response according to your spiritual wisdom
• You got this!  Life is so much easier this way