Walking into the unknown…that’s what it feels like when you’re first recognizing your spiritual path. I know my own has meandered here and there and continues to be unpredictable. One of the difficulties I’ve faced is balancing my intuition and faith with logic and reason.

I’ve tried to rationalize my way through my growth, but have reached a point where I cannot carry it all. What I’ve come to accept is that logic and reason is of the ego, not the spirit. They have helped to direct my growth in the physical world around me, but has no place in understanding everything on the next level.

Reawakening requires quieting logic and reason and removing the burden of preconceived beliefs. In realizing this, my growth is now based on opening up, being vulnerable, and accepting life as it is. I am releasing my need for control over everything in order to relearn everything as it truly is.

 

 

Finding Your Spiritual Path

I’ve always been interested in personal growth and development. It’s the virgo in me, always striving to better myself. Even with this, it wasn’t until last year that I truly went through my spiritual reawakening. My reality was forever altered by allowing a new perspective to take hold, where my focus was on accepting life rather than controlling it.

This shift did not fit with what I believed my path was meant to be. It challenged me to expand past my perceived boundaries by releasing limiting beliefs I had no idea were holding me back.

I chose to accept my growth as it came and in return was given signs that I was on the right path. In particular, I relied on these signs to feel grounded and confident in my chosen direction and actions taken.

In my moments of uncertainty I’d reach out and look for a sign, a handhold, to steady me on my path. At the beginning, I received signs more frequently than I could count. More recently though, I’ve noticed that signs to affirm my decisions are not as frequently received.

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I ask myself, is this because I’m doing something wrong? If I’m continuing the same healthy habits then why am I not seeing the same results?

I began to question myself, my direction, and also my ability to do it — to continue growing into my highest self. I would call out, seeking guidance and ask why I was left alone. But then it hit me. I was relying heavily on the signs I received as validation that I was doing it right. My growth was being built on confirmation and praise from others, not on a foundation of my own self-confidence, esteem and motivation.

 

Spiritual Empowerment

This realization clicked. It was an “A-ha!” moment. I decided to approach the situation from another perspective. In particular, viewing my growth with the eye of a teacher.

A teacher’s primary goal is to share knowledge and empower others to stand on their own and be independent in managing the skills or knowledge provided. In my own experience as a teacher, I would relinquish the reins as the students would better understand the information. I would do this so they could find their footing with the skillset rather than be stifled by my overbearing, hovering presence.

Was that what was happening here? Was it that I wasn’t being abandoned, but being given space to take more control? To exercise what I had learned?

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One Step at a Time

I believe many experiences we have are cyclical and spiritual growth is no different. The analogy I eventually thought of that resonated the most with me, was likening my experience to that of a child learning to walk.

When children begin walking, they fall down a lot. At the beginning we hold their hands to stabilize them, continuing to hold on until they can effectively take one step after the other.

But in time, our supporting hands need to let go. We place trust in the child’s potential that although they wobble, they will only get stronger in doing it themselves. This is how it is to grow spiritually.

Even when you feel like you are alone and the hands that once held yours are not there — know that you are still supported. You are just at a point where they are not reaching out because they know you can do it.

So when you wobble and don’t have the hands reaching forward to catch you, trust that it is because you have it within yourself. You no longer feel the hands because you are ready to shed that layer to enter a higher form. Turn your fear and hesitation into faith and resolve, and build a foundation recognizing your own merit and worth.

 

It is nice to feel the warm embrace of support and comfort, but I believe it can be even more empowering to move forward without that embrace up close. The hands may not be holding us, but they are nearby. Most likely clapping as we continue to take one step in front of the other.

 

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