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What Is Spiritual Awakening with Lyndsay Toensing

Episode Summary

If you feel like your life is meaningless and fake, and you’re questioning everything and lost and feeling like you’re going crazy--congrats. You’re in the first stages of spiritual awakening. And here you are to learn more about your experience.

Episode Notes

Lyndsay is a leadership coach, energy healer, and author of The Beautiful Un-Becoming: The Ultimate Guide to Life after Spiritual Awakening. She is passionate about empowering people on their spiritual journeys to reconnect with their inner light and wisdom to live an authentic, inspired life.

Quotes to remember:

“I suddenly was face-to-face with my own mortality.”

“I was so focused on that goal of financial security because I didn’t have it growing up, that I forgot that we’re actually here to experience life.”

“Why do you want to wait that long? Why do you feel like you’re not ready now?”

“It’s not just one spiritual awakening and you’re done.”

“Spirituality is woven into my fiber.”

“Follow what lights you up because that is your biggest indicator of what you’re here to do in this lifetime.”

Takeaways:

When you realize that things could be over in the blink of an eye, you begin to question if you’re doing the right things
We have whispers of the things that call to us
Making the world a better place can appear very small
We will need to rebuild our community when we have different priorities from those around us
When you don’t have support you can get stuck in your own head
Healing happens in spirals/circles
Our resistance often comes from our social programming
When you find yourself wanting to get rid of stuff, that’s a big sign you’re in spiritual awakening
Many spiritual concepts are understood in other terms like burnout or depression or anxiety
“It’s harder to fix my inside so I’m going to fix my outside”--consider if this applies to you
Our ego loves to catastrophize
Staying safe is often staying small
Society often tells us we need to know what the next step is and what we want, but that’s not how it works
Do what you do for the highest and greatest good of others
If you want to do something exciting, you need to be excited about it--and our childhood reveals clues of it

What you’ll learn:

What created the circumstances for Lyndsay’s “crumbling,” or “dark night of the soul”
How she navigated her spiritual awakening on her own
The 11 symptoms of spiritual awakening
How to know when you are acting from the ego rather than from the heart/inner wisdom/higher Self
Where to begin when you feel bombarded by stray thoughts
The 6 stages of spiritual awakening
Signs that you are progressing in your journey
About Lyndsay’s relationship with the future

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