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On A Spiritual Journey,

by David Parent

Most people feel there is a destination to reach when on their spiritual journey. You feel growth and that is the equivalent feeling

of“ movement”. People go for many months, years even decades and at some point they feel like they’ re hardly moved. Some situation

There Is No Movement

happens where there is a feeling or realization that they feel they’ ve hardly moved at all. This can turn people away from continuing on their path and it can be upsetting and dishearten.
The truth of this is much easier to live with once you realize that on a spiritual journey there is no movement. The only thing you actually
do is consciously choose to get on that path. But the path doesn’ t“ move” anywhere. The main objective is to be completely accepting of where you are and nothing else.
People can tend to think that all of their problems and issues will go away once they get“ there”. And they work, meditate, join
groups, meditate, make new friends, meditate, change their lifestyle and meditate some more. All of that is great if that’ s where it takes you. But that’ s just it; it doesn’ t“ take” you anywhere

" There is nothing to " do " as a spiritual being. There is only being. That can be hard to accept because we are always doing. There is nothing to do. There is nowhere to be. And there is nowhere to move. You just are "

These changes come to you by your choice because you have changed your vibration to match those vibrations. You didn’ t move one inch and you got all the things you’ ve suddenly feel you are now worthy of while standing in the same spot. Where you are, physically, emotionally and spiritually, is irrelevant.
What throws people about a spiritual journey most can be the thinking that problems will go away and life will be completely free of them. It can be if that’ s what you choose and aren’ t blocking it in any way from happening. But what most people miss is it isn’ t that your life will be free of problems, it’ s really about how you respond to what happens. You can either choose to react or respond. If we choose to react, we come from emotion and the unconscious. Memories get replayed. If we choose to respond, we come from objectivity and the conscious. Who we are gets remembered.
Where did the idea for this blog come? From having a situation that triggered and deep unconscious reaction and being aware enough to look at it objectively while still allowing myself to feel the emotions and choose to change it. It was not pleasant at all but was
it worth it? Completely. Even as I go through it, I can see that, but I do lose sight of it sometimes. That’ s when I remember get myself back to who I really am. And all of that, the remembering and forgetting, is all in the spot where I have always been. Everyone is still a spiritual being whether they have problems or not. If everyone remembered this they would no longer judge themselves when they do forget. You’ re still a spiritual being whether you are loving yourself or cursing out someone else. All of it is spiritual. There is nothing that isn’ t spiritual. And, surprise, you’ ve always been in the exact same spot! You haven’ t moved an inch! And yet, look at how much you have grown! The spot you have always been in changes because you change. The spot is you and only changes when you change. It’ s as simple as that. It only turns into a rut when you choose for it to be.
In Conversations With God: Book Three, author Neale Donald Walsch asks if we are forever doomed an eternal journey to nowhere. The response was that there was no journey and that you are right now what you are attempting to be. I read that not too soon after writing the majority of this blog. It validates what I’ ve written here. In this and other books, Walsch questions whether these answers are coming from God or his own conscience. The answer is what does it matter? Could he think of a better way to live? What that says to me is not only is there no movement for our journey, but all of the“ movement” is inside of us. Call it guidance, conscience, higher self, God or whatever you want, it is all within us. All of the growth needed to achieve whatever point we wish to reach. Even beyond it. That point is always changing and moving and so are we.
There is nothing to“ do” as a spiritual being. There is only being. That can be hard to accept because we are always doing. There is nothing to do. There is nowhere to be. And there is nowhere to move. You just are. All situations‘ happen’ to you in your spot just as you‘ happen’ in everyone else’ s spot and since everyone is just a reflection of our self, then it’ s really our self‘ happening’ to our self in the same spot. And if you can feel comfortable with all of that, then you can feel comfortable with the fact that on a spiritual journey, there is no movement.
David Parent is a Trinity Energy Progression Practitioner / Facilitator since 2014 and a Sound Healing Practitioner since 2013. He lives in Durham, NC.
http:// tshealing. com
It’ s just like time being vertical instead of horizontal. It’ s all happening now. So why would conscious awareness need movement in order to be? If time is all now and not now or later, why would spiritual awakening be anywhere other than right where you are? You just haven’ t chosen it until that point in time.

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