Spiritual Growth and Development – Aspects of Spiritual Life Coaching
I See You
In this blog article I am intent on examining what is spiritual life coaching and how you might be coached, not so much in attaining such a life but in revealing the essence of life itself. Spiritual lifestyle coaching is a way of learning, that for the most part, you did not receive at school and at centres of higher learning. Education, of the most part, is about learning to become a good producer and consumer. It is not necessarily about learning to express the fullness of who you are. If, as a result of mainstream education, you get to express such fullness, leading to fulfilment, then that is a by product of the system. You leave the system with certificates but certification doesn’t mean you know anything about living your one wild and precious life. Spiritual life coaching is transformational life coaching that gives you the tools to help spiritual growth.
Spiritual Life Coaching and the Soul
Mainstream education for the most part leaves out the soul. Let me share what it is that I understand by this word soul. The soul is not a thing. It is not something that you have inside you. It is an energetic connection that you move with and that moves through you. It is that connection that connects you to the real life you are here to live, love and give away in fullness and fulfilment. This connection for the most part is forgotten but it is never lost. Spiritual Life Coaching invites you to learn how to follow a spiritual path in order to experience that connection to the fullness of this gift of life that you are given and are here to express.
A Spiritual Life Coach can become certified by following a spiritual life coach training program and yet never have had a direct revelation of the spirit of life. They may never have experienced a breakthrough into the awareness that beyond this world of duality that the primary dynamic is that of Oneness. While one can learn about such a connection, life transformation happens from the direct knowing of this experience. What certifies the spiritual life coach is the direct awareness of this Oneness as a living force and their willingness to pay fidility to this primary dynamic of life driven by the force of Love. There are plenty of people teaching religious education and who have been trained in spiritual teachings and all that they know about is religious teachings and spiirutal teachings. They have never had a direct revelation of the experience from which such teachings arose.
Spiritual Life Coaching and Meaning.
The purpose of spiritual life coaching is to invite you to discover meaning. You are created as a unique expression of Love in form. A spiritual life coach knows taht uniqueness within themselves and attempts to live in fidelity to such knowing and such revelation. This kind of knowing is not simply more cerebral knowledge. It isn’t more theology – the logic of God. It is insight. It is revelation and it is a life lived from Love. Spiritual life coaching is a paradox. It is more about learning to do less that learning to do something else. It isn’t about achieving goals but it does involve discipline, commitment and practice. It is more of a process of surrender and letting go rather than more acquisition. This is beautifully illustrated in the Zen teaching story below.
Empty Your Cup
A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring.
The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself.
“It’s overfull! No more will go in!” the professor blurted.
“You are like this cup,” the master replied, “How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup.”
The Zen Master is an advanced kind of spiritual life coach. He or she is interested in what most education establishments seem to abhor. This is the creative experience of emptiness. Emptiness as an experience is more often than not taken to be a negative experience. However, young children are the living experience of emptiness. They only become more rigid in their manner as they learn to fill themselves with ideas about who they are and who they are told they should become. A spiritual life coach teaches you to invite trust and to develop faith in the knowing that life knows how to live through you. Life didn’t simply birth you into form and then, metaphorically speaking, scratch his/her head and say,
Now what do I do?
Any child needs guidance but it needs a certain kind of guidance to learn to live as a child while living as an adult. This is reflected in the wisdom teaching of one of the worlds greatest spiritual life coaches when he advised
He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.
What is it that characterises small children. Provided they have not been made to feel insecure their essential character is one of trusting life that flows through them. Only when they begin to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil do they begin to learn to mistrust the way in which the spirit flows through them. This eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil builds and builds until the body and mind are living in a kind of mistrust and a kind of unease that deepens into disease. The eating of the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil isn’t just something that happened at the dawn of human history when a woman called Eve chose to take a leap into the unknown. She leapt into the experience beyond Oneness into the experience of opposites and opposition. This is the experience of duality as stated by the opposites of good and evil. This is often referred to as the fall but it is as much a fall upward as a fall into the depths of suffering. It is the beginning of the journey from the unconscious awareness of Oneness to the fullness of awareness of Oneness and the direct knowing that who you are is Love dancing in myriad forms.
Spiritual Direction on how to follow a Spiritual Path
In the Forest of Arden – Collier
Spiritual life coaching follows certain kinds of maps. With spiritual life coaching you are invited to become aware of the different spiritual levels of development. You are invited to learn about the different stages of spiritual development and how these stages become stations. In this way you deepen your spiritual development. Humanity has been interested in living the life of spirit all through its development. These phases of spiritual development are mapped out in the religious teachings of the world. Every religion has its own map but each religion has two maps. One map is the exoteric map and the other is the esoteric map. In this personal development and beyond blog I invite you to journey the esoteric way. This is the way of inner knowing that arises from trusting the inspired within you. Hopefully, you will find some spiritual words of wisdom in this personal development and beyond blog that will reveal to you the one wild and precious life that you are here to live, love and give to the world as your fulfilment.
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