What Spiritual Teachers Forget to Tell Us

Today I took a drive, looking out the window at the beautiful Spring day.

I was full of many different feelings all at once. I was grateful for the warmth against my skin that has been hungry for it for months. I was grateful for the Spring scents and the beauty surrounding me. I like who I am and where I am in life and I am simultaneously sad that a war is going on and the president is talking about cutting social services for Americans. I am angry that money is more important than people in our culture. That makes no sense to me on any level. At times I feel like I work for the organizations that once provided service for me, like, grocery stories. I now ring up and pack my own food. I needed antibiotics this week and I invested five hours of my time in following the prescription through the system so I could get it then the pharmacy didn’t carry it. Things are changing, always, and most cannot be controlled or even influenced by me in physical form.

What most spiritual teachers don’t tell you is: 1. all emotions are welcome, fluid, and good as they are a feedback system, of sorts, 2. you can have more emotions than one at a time, 3. hard times can be joyful, 3. easy is an inner job; not an outer one.

I recalled when I was in metaphysical training and I kept hearing from each teacher I had about the ease that comes with a spiritual life. THIS IS TRUE. There is magic, synchronicities, gifts, wonder, curiosity…and we are awake to enjoy it. Yet, there is distress and hard, also. This is not bad, or doesn’t mean you’re not on the path, it is a core strengthening of Faith. Tension is a way of growing through into our next unfoldment. So ease isn’t about the external, but is about how much Grace you hold for yourself as you walk through to your next. And, of course, there are moments of incredible ease externally when the Red Sea parts and you walk across it like no big deal, and that feels good and is worth celebrating.

Emotions are interesting and tricky. As I navigated the antibiotics through the system yesterday I was frustrated as each system had a middle (wo)man to rely information to the primary person. I was dealing with many people and no results. I remember when the medical system was easy and everyone who worked full time had a policy without co-pays. Now it appears complex and with each new rule another system is morphed. As my emotions became heightened yesterday I asked a friend to pray with me. I sat in an open state and spoke about the support and love of the Divine, which is True. I reminded myself of the Good I am and the Good I have. After ten minutes of meditative prayer I was restored.

The spiritual journey is about our connection to the Spirit Within, leaning into Trust/Faith, reminding ourselves that the physical world is only a fraction of what is happening, and realizing that the laws in the Spiritual realm are different than those in form. Where there can be ease in Spirit, there can be hard in form.

Have a wonderful week and see you tomorrow night on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@BonnieBarnard-scs