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Ingrid Geronimo is a Motivational Speaker, International Radio Host on the Awakened Radio Network, Author, Healer, Mentor & Coach whose intent on getting each individual to embrace their worth, live the life they came here to live and live it beyond self-imposed limits. You can find out more about her at http://www.ingridgeronimo.com
The Awakening Process
What does it mean to you? When you hear someone taut that they are awakened what thoughts come to mind? Or perhaps they’re more like questions.
Well, in this world filled with so much complexity and many contradictions, I’ve come to realize that stating you’re awakened can mean so many things depending upon the filters of the person delivering that statement and that of the person receiving it.
In the community of spirituality seekers, one possible meaning is that of a person who has attained a greater understanding than most of how to be in this world but not be of it. For another person being “awakened” might not mean anything spiritual at all. Or at least they won’t perceive it as that because they think it means just being aware of life.
Since I have leaned toward those things spiritual almost all my life, I can tell you that to me being awakened just means that I’m in tune with my whole being. I am here and I am human and, I am spirit. They are not separate although for many years, I fell into what I now see as a spiral of wanting to be more spiritual. How can you be more of what you already are, I finally thought to myself?
Embracing that truth has led me to new awareness’ and new levels of understanding myself in relation to the world around me and how I interact with it and with others on a moment by moment basis. I’ve come to realize that the power in choice is really making one and not being wishy-washy in that. That was a big one for me because I’m born under the sign of Libra and one of the attributes of that sign is indecisiveness. That’s one thing that I struggled with for many years and yes, beat myself up about it too. Oh Ingrid, I would tell myself, you should be more decisive. I thought that if I didn’t make decisions then others would decide for me and, at times, I thought I didn’t have to decide anything as I could just keep doing what I was doing… right? Well, not so much, because even not deciding is actually a decision and then things unfold in a way that might not be the way you would have preferred.
I think the epitome of being awakened is being fully aware of self, the whole of everything and the expansiveness of all possibilities. It is the ability to face life as it comes and take matters into your own hands as it relates to you and then making something out of it all that will feed your soul without necessarily diminishing the whole.
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