Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -2, 1 August 2020 | Page 16

All spiritual growth has one objective: to help you embody your Soul, Higher
Self or Atman. Once you are able to unite with your Soul, you will
experience what is understood as enlightenment, self-realization, “heaven,”
Oneness or moksha.
11 Traps that Sabotage Your Spiritual Growth
This isn’t a journey about becoming something. This is about
unbecoming who we are not. – Adyashanti, The End of Your World
The problem with the spiritual journey is that it is often laden with traps of
many kinds. These traps are not physical, but they are instead mental and
are often referred to as anti-awakening forces.
As we process life primarily through the mind, we also tend to approach
spirituality with the mind. The issue with this is that spirituality cannot be
contained by the limitations of thought. Once spirituality is captured within a
thought, it ceases to maintain its true essence and instead becomes a
constricting belief or dogma. In other words, spirituality loses its alive, everflowing
essence once it is compartmentalised within the mind.
Think about it this way: have you ever felt immense awe and wonder in the
presence of something beautiful and enchanting like a sunrise? The
moment you stop immersing yourself in the feeling of the sunrise, and start
taking a photo of it or describing it in a text message, is the moment you are
no longer truly present with the sunrise. Instead, you are filtering it through
your thoughts or through a lens of some kind. The same can be said with
spirituality.
The more we use the mind to approach our Soul, the further our Soul feels.
But the moment we drop our thoughts and allow ourselves to purely feel our
Soul, suddenly we feel at home once again. Think of it like this: when you
chase the sun on the horizon thinking you will reach it, you never will,