"Spiritual Awakening - My Journey Home
I have experienced what is referred to as a spiritual awakening. But what does it mean? And how did it happen?
Since I was a child, I have felt drawn to the spiritual without knowing exactly what it was. Throughout my adult life, I have been on a quest. In my late twenties, I visited a clairvoyant for the first time. She told me that I should do the same work as her. I flatly rejected the idea because I held a master's degree in public relations and was convinced that I had figured out my life path. Despite this, I still felt very alone in my spirituality. The clairvoyant assured me that I would soon meet like-minded individuals. Shortly after, I went through a divorce and found myself alone with two small children.
I decided to pursue a psychotherapeutic education and thoroughly explored the market for possibilities. That's when I came across the Deva training, originally from New Mexico in the USA. I had always felt like I was standing in the median of a large intersection with lights passing by quickly—this was my experience of the world until the moment I entered the garden where the Deva training was held. For me, there was a different frequency, a calmness like classical music—a feeling of coming home. In that moment, I knew it was my path to become a psychospiritual counselor. Here, I met like-minded individuals, was embraced for who I was, and, for the first time in my life, seen as a soul having a human experience.
One of my fellow students also had small children at the time, and she mentioned that her children attended a Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner) school. This piqued my interest, and I subsequently enrolled my children in a Waldorf school. Once again, it felt like coming home, and I encountered even more like-minded individuals. The Waldorf school has had a tremendous influence not only on my children but also on me. It is the only school system in the world rooted in anthroposophy, the spiritual science that recognizes the human being as having a spiritual dimension—a holistic view of humanity.
When I completed my Deva training in 2006, the time wasn't quite right for me to work full-time as a psychospiritual counselor. Sensing that public relations didn't satisfy my desire to work closely with people as I wished, I decided to work as a teacher in various schools and later pursued additional education. I was also involved in starting a new Waldorf school in Copenhagen, where I was responsible for the international part of the school. It was challenging, and I ended up experiencing stress.
This was the culmination—it was the second time I had been severely stressed, and I had also experienced depression along the way. I underwent a stress management program, and the coach I worked with recommended a clairvoyant. It had been 25 years since I had last seen a clairvoyant. I visited her and asked what I should do with my career. She said, 'You should do the same as me.' I then told her that I had received the same message 25 years ago, so the time must be right now.
But how did my spiritual awakening happen? I believe my spiritual awakening has been in the making since I was born and is a combination of many different factors. I've faced adversity in the form of dysfunction in my upbringing and later in my marriage, a divorce, grief, depression, stress, and have managed to transform darkness into light even in the toughest periods of my life. Today, the adversity I've experienced is a tremendous gift, as I can hold space for my clients' challenges no matter what they bring.
My constant search within the spiritual and personal development realms has also paved the way for my spiritual awakening, strongly influenced by various spiritual teachers who have walked the path, such as Rudolf Steiner, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Dalai Lama, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Neville Goddard, Abraham Hicks, Neale Donald Walsch, Thich Nhat Hanh, Byron Katie, Louise Hay, Caroline Myss, Lorna Byrne, and especially Eckhart Tolle and his book 'A New Earth,' which I have read multiple times and fully understand today—that spiritual awakening is being 100% in the present moment, free from the ego's constant insistence and an understanding that we are all interconnected and part of a greater whole, in other words, there is no separation—this is where peace resides. Another significant inspiration on my spiritual journey is 'A Course in Miracles,' which is also a path to spiritual awakening.
I have a daily practice of gratitude, positive affirmations, and meditation, keeping my heart chakra open. I am very aware of what I fill my mind with and prioritize spending time in the forest almost every day, as nature is healing and in harmony with the divine frequency.
My calling today is to support people in connecting with their hearts and thus their higher selves, also known as the true essence, soul consciousness, or intuition. All in all, it is about raising consciousness from being trapped in the ego in fear and suffering to stepping into love and trust and living a peaceful life guided by one's higher self. An awakening to the realization that nothing in the external world can awaken us or make us happy, but there is an inherent power and wisdom that we all possess and can unfold if we are willing to walk the path.
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