3 Stages Of Your Spiritual Evolution
Have you been wondering what is happening or where you are going? And where your Personal Development or Growth is leading you to?
For years I was lost myself, in where I was going or where the rollercoaster of life was leading me. I was gazing through the mist and could not see more than an arm's length ahead of me. I did not recognize my Spiritual Stages or where I was in my Personal Development.
Luckily once you travel a long way you can look back and share your journey with others. So... I recently made a video about how I have grown and how I have seen other people grow. Like Steve Jobs said: 'You can only connect the dots looking backwards'.
I'd like to share with you the 3 phases you might be going through...
The first Spiritual stage I define as: Unconscious Doing. It is where we are mainly just running on auto-pilot until we encounter ourselves in a crisis, childhood issues, being bullied in school, a bad relationship, a work clash or shit hits the fan. Then we realize we need to work on ourselves, we realize we need to fix ourselves and it pays of, it works, we maybe use some technique, visit a therapist or have an insight and we improve our lives.
We end up in the second Spiritual stage: Conscious Doing.
Some of us start to become a bit ambitious at this stage because we understand that if we are conscious of something we can change it by force. By doing something about it.
I have been following Nathaniel Drew on Youtube. He makes beautiful video's, for example about the routines of famous people or about meditation and how it changed his life. He is totally in the Conscious Doing phase and is Doing very proactively and is also Conscious about it and reflects in his videos.
Funny enough I just encountered a video by him where he made the obvious next step for him and it has been very interesting to watch the video since I recognize myself from 8 years ago in his insights.
This next shift he made is still in Conscious Doing but this is the shift towards instead of working on your outward self with job goals, routine changes, dietary changes, etc., you start to focus inward. You actually realize that real change can only happen on the inside. It is not life itself changing that is the most life-changing thing you can do, no, it is is changing your perception on life. Your feelings, your setpoint, your thoughts, etc. You could say you start the Spiritual Path. You start Healing. You start looking inward and facing some of your inner demons.
It is still coming from a place of needing to do something though. It still feels like you need to improve. It is still consciously doing something, in this case turning inwards.
This is where a lot of people are at and it is the place I want to help people with.
Money, diet, routines, cars & girls are tangible. They can be seen, touched, etc. Your inner world is harder to navigate. What is our imagination, our feelings, memories or our intuition?
At some point we find the 'real' problem when we are looking inwards. It is not the crisis, the childhood or the trauma... No, it is that we think we NEED to fix ourselves, with the underlaying belief that we are not good enough or not worthy. This is why we come up with all these things to do. If we loved ourselves, If we thought we where good enough, we would not have to change.
Then we can slowly enter the third Spiritual stage: Conscious Being.
Where we can act, but from a place of not needing to act. We can take action but not forcing it but letting it arise. We can know that there still are demons to face, patterns that make us unhappy or pain to deal with... but we can be ok with it. We can face them with love, with okayness, with compassion. They do not need to leave and funny enough then they do leave... for good, one by one.
Of course all this does take time and can be confusing. I have spent much time with other Coaches & Teachers and am still learning every day. It is always easier for others to spot patterns than for yourself.
Because I am dedicated to help people in this proces, I've decided to make myself available to you. I want to help you for FREE.
We can talk about something which has been on your mind, I'll share ideas and ways that can help and how we could possible work on that together from a place of okayness. Click here to Schedule a FREE Call with me. I'd love to talk to you.
Ps. If you want to know more about these stages... I have made an Instagram video: The 3 Stages of Spiritual Evolution.
Pps. I'm making video's every week now on Instagram so it would be cool to connect with you there.
Much love to you,
Kees.
For more check out my YouTube, Instagram and Website. Kees Blok is a Certified Coach & Teacher, Coaching People in Amsterdam and Remotely to Reduce Stress and Improve Flow through Meditation, Nonduality and Coaching.