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What’s the Point of Spiritual Awakening Anyway

by ericadcannon@gmail.com | Jul 16, 2019 | ego mind, freedom, inspiration, true life, words

We are all trying to get life just right so that we can be happy. Whether we’re trying to be more compassionate and spiritual or more accomplished and respected, we’re trying to achieve an outer circumstance that will create inner peace.

When I had my spiritual awakening, I was happy. Seriously. Not to brag, but…well, I had it all right. I had been living in India for a month when it happened. I was supposed to be there to write and I did…until I didn’t. But that’s another story (a very short story, but another story nonetheless.)

For the most part, I spent my time walking the long beaches surrounding and including Arambol beach in Goa. And I was doing that with my mouth open breathing (if you haven’t heard me talk about open mouth breathing, check out this video here).

And life felt good.

If there was ever a time when I could say that my life had found that precarious balance of goodness and ease, this was the time. My marriage was awesome, my business was flowing, my body was in amazing shape, my finances were easy. All of the typical worries were in check. And at 37, even though my husband and I hadn’t been able to conceive a child, with a life like mine I wasn’t really sure I wanted to shift the balance? All was well.

I had not one single care in the world. I had no need for a spiritual awakening. Whatever that meant anyway.

Life had another thing in mind.

One day, speaking with my teacher, my concept of this world we live in including all the words we used to describe it all and all of the concepts of good and bad and right and wrong…they all fell away. Mind stopped. No thought. I simply saw and experienced this world completely in the moment.

It was a feeling of being uncontained and completely free. Completely free. Free to feel every emotion that would and has inevitably come. Free to be a mess. Free to play and not be sophisticated. Free to be precise and not messy sometimes. Free to say exactly what I feel in the moment. Free to not know what’s in store for my life. And free not to force myself to know. Free to be stupid. Free to cry. Free to scream. Free to put down every single rule I’d ever been taught…as well as the myriad rules I’d made up for myself. I was free to see a truth that had been there all along.

The only thing that stops us from being free is our addiction to our minds.

The only thing that stops us from being free is our addiction to our minds. It’s true for us all.

“Don’t cry, people are looking.”

“Don’t curse these folks out, you’re supposed to be spiritual.”

“You can’t have an off day, you’re supposed to be happy.”

And on and on and on.

The mind talks. And we listen. And we adjust to what it tells us. And when we can’t do what it says, we suffer. But what happens when we choose to turn away from the voice in our minds. When we allow whatever experience to be just as it arises in the moment?

Silence happens.

True peace happens.

Real joy flows.

Real happiness just is.

This is why we awaken.

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hi, i’m erica

I’ve spent the last ten years helping people find their peace of mind, release their pasts, and enjoy the present moment with confidence, joy, and a clear understanding of what that really means.