Stage 6 is the last stage: purpose, life, and mission.
This is such a beautiful stage. And so basically, what happens in this stage is that you’ve gone through the whole hero’s journey, as Joseph Campbell would say. You’ve gone through the whole hero’s journey of going through bliss, then going through the Dark Knight, then going through the void, then grounding your energy.
And all of these things have happened in your spiritual awakening. By the time you get here, you’re probably some years into your spiritual awakening- at least two years, two or three years into your spiritual awakening.
By the time you get to this stage 6 and in this stage 6, what’s happening is that because you’ve gone through such a deep sense of purge, you’ve let go of your old self. You’ve become a new person, your whole energy system. Itself. Your soul has purged so much crap from the past.
You’re literally a new person, and you’re a new person that’s gone through the groundedness phase. So you’re a new person that’s grounded and powerful. And a person who’s grounded and powerful is in deep connection with their purpose and their life mission in this life.
And so in stage 6, you start to live that mission and that life purpose with a lot of knowing, with a lot of confidence in your heart. You may not know the final destination. You know, lots of people say to me, I don’t know what my mission is yet.
A lot of us don’t know what our mission is yet. I don’t know my mission to its full capacity. I’ll only know at the end of my life, because your life mission is something that you can only look back on, really. But you can know little bits of your mission as you go, and you can walk that path of your mission one step at a time.
You also walk with deep purpose. You may not know the details of your mission, but you know that you are here with great purpose. And every day you take one. At a time, toward that purpose, in stage 6, you start to remember who you are and what you’re doing here, and you generally commit to life.
And the commitment is to follow your soul’s path no matter what. So you are no longer influenced by anything that happens in your life, and you won’t no. Let any of life circumstances or challenges sway you out of your path.
So stage 6 is wonderful in the sense that you’re really rooted; you’re really strong. You may not know all the details of your mission, but you commit to following your soul’s path as it reveals itself to you. And the time frame for this? 1/6 stage, the time frame for it is really the rest of your life, right? It’s really the rest of your life.
But this can go on for years. Actually, the stage itself can go on for years, where you’re fine-tuning your mission, discovering a little bit more about yourself, and stepping one step at a time toward that mission. You’re discovering a little bit more. So this stage 6 can take some years, but it usually continues for the rest of your life.
Now on to the second part of this article: my top three tips or strategies to help you through the stages of spiritual awakening.
The first tip is surrender.
You must surrender. And I just- I can’t tell you how important this is because if you do not surrender, you know, a lot of times clients reach me in a state of such deep resistance because maybe they’re in the dark night, or maybe they’re in the void, and they’re just tired of this whole spiritual awakening thing, says their ego.
And so they come to me, and sometimes they’re really resistant. Sometimes they’re defiant. They just don’t want to do this anymore. They’re tired of it. Sometimes they’re even angry at God or Spirit or whatever for supposedly putting them through this spiritual awakening.
And you know, God doesn’t put you through this; your own soul programs your spiritual awakening. So spiritual awakening is occurring because of you, because of your higher components like your soul and your higher self. It’s not God doing anything horrible to you.
OK, but if you resist and if you fight, all you’re going to be doing is prolonging the stages, especially the hard ones like The Dark Knight. The more that you resist, the more that you kick up a fight, the longer it’s going to take for your soul to pull you along. Because, you know, think about this image. If I’m trying to pull you down the street and you’re resisting me and you’re kicking and screaming, it’s going to take a lot more energy on my part to literally pull you down the street than if you were just walking down the street side by side with me.
We would go much faster, wouldn’t we? And so that’s what your soul’s doing. You’re going to go one way or the other because your soul is much more powerful than your ego, and it’s usually the ego that sets up a lot of resistance.
So your soul is going to win, but it’s going to take longer because your poor soul has to pull you along. And why do that? I do that because you’re only causing yourself more suffering. So this tip is important. You got to surrender, please, beautiful. So you got to surrender. Surrender to the process.
Do mantras. I love to do mantra work. Mantra work was really important in my own surrender process. You can come up with your own mantras, but you know, I have some. I love that I can share with you. It could be a mantra that could say everything is working out, everything is going as fast as it needs to.
Everything is OK. My soul knows what it’s doing. I give up control to my soul. You can keep going. My soul is in command now. You can keep going on and on and on with these mantras. You could write them down and repeat them daily. That’s how important the surrender work is. Repeat them daily if you have to.
You have to become just completely open-handed, completely willing, completely soft. You have to go with your soul. If you do that, if you surrender, if you learn the art of surrendering and saying yes to your soul and where it wants you to go, this whole spiritual awakening will go faster, especially the harder stages.
The second strategy is to work with your heart.
I love this one. So remember, we talked about how the heart opens and awakens during a spiritual awakening through more than one phase, and it keeps opening as the stages continue. So when you’re going through these stages, especially the harder ones, learn to work with your heart. Really learn to work with your heart. Listen to its wisdom. Learn to work with your intuition. Learn to just listen to the heart, not the mind. We’re all very mind-dominant, and when you’re going through a spiritual awakening, it makes it so much easier if you come from the mind down into the heart.
Working with the heart is essential also. The heart, it’s not only the central shocker in the whole system, but your heart is also the great healer. So your heart is the one that’s helping you heal, especially during the dark night.
Your heart is like an incinerator. It transmutes energy, and it helps you heal. So it’s a great healer. But the heart is also the seat of the soul. So when you connect with the heart. you connect more closely with your soul and higher self, and you receive that guidance more accurately and clearly.
So when you do take a step, you’re taking it because you know your soul or higher self nudged you through your beautiful heart center. So a lot of people reach out to me and say, “How the heck do I start working with my heart?” If you don’t know how, I’m going to share a couple of heart-work techniques I love, have used, and still use in my life.
The first one is physical touch. So you can actually start tapping. You can use tapping routines and just tap on your chest right here over the sternum. When you start to tap, especially if you close your eyes, take a nice deep breath. Bring your awareness into your chest and start tapping. The more that you tap on the sternum, on this, on this chest bone here, the more you’re awakening.
Tapping awakens the energy of a center, so it’s easier to connect with the heart. Or you can just put your hands on your heart. When you’re doing a meditation, put your hands on your heart. There, bring your awareness into your heart. You’ll start feeling energy move there. When you start feeling energy move there, you’ll be able to understand what your heart is trying to say to you.
Remember, the heart’s intuitive communication isn’t in words. So you’ll have to learn to speak to the heart through feelings and sensation. So you have to have your concentration, your awareness. In the heart region, the second way to work with the heart is really to quiet the mind.
There’s no way around this beautiful soul. Some people say to me they don’t like meditation; they can’t do meditation. I don’t care what you do, but you have to quiet your mind, especially initially during your spiritual awakening when you’re not used to working with the heart.
So when the heart first starts to awaken, if you’re too much in your mind, if your mind is going 1000 miles an hour constantly with all these thoughts and all these things, all the ego just knows what it’s always knows what it’s trying to say and always has an opinion.
The more that you’re stuck in these thoughts, the more you drown out the system of the heart. System of the heart. Alright, so when you’re working with the heart, the mind has to quiet, whether it’s through meditation, whether it’s through dance, exercise, contemplation, being in nature.
I don’t care what you use, but you have to practice every single day the art of quieting the mind and coming into your heart, especially initially. Otherwise, you won’t be able to decipher what’s mind and what’s heart.
Speaking of the mind, the third strategy is detached from the mind. This is a crucial skill I had to learn in my own awakening, especially when I was going through my dark nights. Because when you’re going through the harder parts of the spiritual awakening, Of the spiritual awakening, your mind really does kick up.
I’ve written in previous articles about how, during my spiritual awakening, you want to be identified with those thoughts. You want to be out here observing your mind in the same way that you observe your heart having spontaneous regressions. I would have past-life memories that would flash; I would have these flashbacks that would come up in my mind of past-life memories that would just pop into my mind.
They were sometimes really violent and sometimes really chaotic, and so I had to learn very quickly how to detach from my mind because if I didn’t detach from my mind, I would quite literally go insane because there’s a lot going on when you’re going through the purging process.
Part of the purging process also involves purging the mental body. So your mind can feel like it’s going insane, especially during the dark night and during these purging phases of your spiritual awakening.
Detaching from the mind was one of the first techniques my spirit guides showed me during my spiritual awakening, and it’s essential. Basically, what does it mean to detach from the mind? You have to remember that you are the observing consciousness that observes everything going on.
You can observe your heartbeat, but you can also observe your thoughts from a distance. You are not your thoughts, and so when you’re going through Spiritual awakening. You must learn, sometimes very quickly, to unplug and detach yourself from all of the millions of thoughts going on in your head because a lot of the thoughts are distorted, negative; they’re chaotic, they’re all over the place, they’re fear-based.
And so you don’t identify with and fight those thoughts; you want to be out here observing your mind in the same way that you observe your heart. So when you’re, when you close your eyes, and you’re observing your heartbeat, you don’t get identified with, you don’t attach to 1 heartbeat versus the other, right? It’s just heartbeats: boom, boom, boom, one heartbeat after another.
The other is that you can clearly observe your heartbeat without getting involved. You can observe your lungs breathing without getting attached or involved, but you can also observe your mind and your thoughts without becoming attached or involved.
So this is important; this is crucial for you to go through the stages of spiritual awakening more easily. And the more smoothly you can hold that position of observing consciousness, the faster you go through the stages, and the faster you purge and heal the mental body.
To help you detach a little more from the mind, I’m going to give you a simple 2-step process to get you there.
A lot of times, people say, “I have no idea how to.” Separate from my mind, I have no idea how to observe my thoughts without getting attached to them. So I’m going to give you this two-step process. The first step is to simply observe your thoughts and let them pass by, like clouds passing in the sky. OK, just let them pass by.
You observe them, and you allow them to pass by you. Don’t get stuck on any of them. So you observe the thought and let it pass by. If it’s a negative, fear-based thought, which is usually the ones that give us the most problems.
If it’s a negative, a chaotic, or a fear-based thought, then that’s where step 2 comes in, and it’s called refocus. So what you’re going to do is you observe the thought. Passing by, you observe it, you observe its contents, and then you immediately refocus into something different.
So, for example, I’ll give you a very real example. During my spiritual awakening, when I was going through the dark night- and this happens to a ton of people that connect with me- I literally felt like I was dying.
And so my mind would say. Constantly, you’re dying, you’re sick, you need to go to a doctor, you’re probably dying, you probably have some kind of horrible disease, you’re probably going insane. You may be schizophrenic. So I had all of these things going on about my imminent demise, said my mind.
So the way I started to work with this was by observing those thoughts. I would say something soothing, something completely opposite of what my thought process was. So if I was in this loop of I’m dying, or I’m schizophrenic, or I’m crazy, or whatever. I would refocus and say something like, “Everything is OK.” My soul knows what it’s doing.
I put my hand on my heart a lot when I was doing this. My soul knows what it’s doing. Everything is OK. All is well. I’m walking my path as I should, you see. So I would literally refocus. It’s not enough to just observe the thought and let it go. It’s more powerful if you then refocus your thought process on something more optimistic, more expansive. More open, OK, and so the more that I refocus, what refocusing does is it literally causes your brain to rewire from a negatively biased brain to a positively biased brain.
OK, so an optimistic brain- that’s a brain that, even though hard things may happen, always sees a silver lining. Silver lining. OK, so the refocus is really important. It’s going to help you change, shift that mindset. Shift those chaotic, fear-based thoughts, and it’s going to help you do this pretty quickly. And to make this whole process of detaching from the mind easier for you, I’m going to give you a little bonus here.
Bro, Boone is a bonus tip. Ding, Ding. I’m going to give you a bonus. It’s an exercise that I love. This is a transformational exercise, so I hope it works for you. This works really well. It’s what I call the hover, and what the hover is is that we’re expanding your level of awareness way out beyond what we usually get.
Stuck in the rut of our mind, OK. And usually the way that we get stuck is our mind focuses on something really small, and it starts to make a huge story and a big problem out of it. So our focus is too constricted. And when the focus becomes constricted, you, you’re literally, your energy gets stuck, and your mind gets really stubborn in that constrictive fear pattern.
So what the hover does is it expands your awareness. So here’s how the hover works. You may want to do this, you know, do this. Afterwards, you can write down some notes so that you can know how to do this on your own.
After reading this article, you’re going to sit in meditation. You close your eyes, and you bring your hands to your chest, and you’re just going to start focusing on your breathing. As you focus on your chest, you’re going to feel your heart light up. It’s going to light up, alright, and the light is going to start to come out, out, out.
It’s eventually going to pop out of your chest. And it’s going to create this huge bubble around you. OK. This is the light of your consciousness. And what you’re going to do is you’re going to visualize the light of that consciousness.
First, it’s going to get so big that it’s going to occupy the room that you’re in. Then it’s going to pop out of the room, and it’s going to get so big that it’s going to occupy the whole building that you’re in. And then you’re going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. This is going to occupy the city that you’re in, then the country that you’re in, then the continent that you’re in. And you’re just going to keep expanding your consciousness until you find yourself hovering in outer space above the planet, just looking down on this beautiful blue planet.
And I call this the cover because out here in space, with that expanded awareness, you’re in the silence of space, and you’re just looking at the beautiful blue, blue planet below you. With this expanded awareness, it’s like your problems- the problems that your mind makes- start to fall because you get a new perspective on life and what life really is. So we use the hover exercise.
Whenever you feel stuck in a rut, your mind won’t stop, and you can’t detach from it, use the hover exercise. I love this exercise, and it works in my life and in the lives of so many clients. Now I want to hear from you. What stage of spiritual awakening are you at?
Alright, beautiful soul, I love you. I am out.
