On the way to Self-Realization we can experience what we know as enlightenment. Enlightenment happens for some people when they are ready to integrate a part of their Essence— their Spirit, and have a profound experience with it. This integration can be incremental or total, depending on what one is ready to take in. It induces a state of bliss and peace. The realization of the Spirit is a step on the way to full Self-Realization but it is not mandatory. It depends upon one’s soul agreement. Some people will experience it, some won’t.
Enlightenment is a great state of Consciousness but it is not wholeness, since a portion of the Essence is still pending within, un-addressed and not activated. This part is the Will, the feminine and emotional energy. We certainly feel a lot but we don’t follow that guidance system to its core. We try to respect our feelings, embrace them and honor them and we certainly do a good job, but not good enough. We simply don’t know that we are stepping over a portion of what the feeling is pointing at, and we stay in control mode with techniques to re-center ourselves to a positive outlook.
In order to retrieve the Will, full transmutation is needed, which entails working with the emotional body, and dealing with pain. The resistance to our emotions is the last bastion that we have to surrender before we can truly realize our Self. The Will suffered from ages of repression and denial; it became frozen at the base of the iceberg, in the subconscious level, where we cannot even begin to feel it. We just have a deaf signal of “ill-at-easiness” that we override all the time, mostly with the control of our thinking, and our avoidance/denial strategies. In best cases, we think we honor our emotions by taking them in account, but we don’t know the depth of their significance. We are stuck in an “in between space” and live in a pseudo-identity, unknowingly attached to it. No mistake, we simply don’t know otherwise.
It is not necessary to first get enlightened to achieve Self-Realization. Once we work with the Will and retrieve it, it will naturally attract the Spirit; because of its magnetic nature, and because it gave birth to the Spirit in the first place. The Spirit wants to get back home to the Will. Once the Will is in place, there is no need for any control of the mind. No need for tweaking our thoughts to feel good. No need to hold to a philosophy or a practice to be aligned. One is at one with Self naturally, organically, and Self can express without interferences.
Natalie Kawai©2015
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