When The Going Gets Tough, Why Do We Ditch Our Faith?Freefall ...

I launched my first 1 Day Empowerment Workshop in America last week and in the process of 8 hours of live facilitation I was present to the amount of people hurting out there with life circumstances that have just robbed them of any freedom. ?What is alarming to me, and this is not an American thing, it is a human thing, is the amount of people who write off their faith (whatever that is for them) at a time when they need it most. ?So I thought I would focus todays blog on speaking into some preconceptions around faith/spirituality/religion/woo woo from my perspective and would love to generate discussion on this subject.

As a generalization the term Woo Woo, has adverse reaction. ?Someone who talks their faith but does not walk it. ?Someone who is not grounded, abdicating responsibility to some ethereal being outside of themselves, expecting miracles to occur. ?I do not discredit why woo woo gets a bad rap. ?To me we are spiritual beings having a human experience. ?To be spiritual is to be woo woo, but in my context, someone who has transcended their ego and walks their faith. ?To do this means to live a fearless existence.

Faith, even, seems to for some, to have a connotation of meaning ?religion?. ?I am not discrediting those that are religious. ?There are many paths to the mountain, what you call your faith, is a personal choice in my opinion. ?All I question is the authenticity of those who state that they have a faith but do not walk it in their lives; this is the height of hypocrisy from my perspective.

So what?s all the fuss about? ?Is it easier to completely and utterly discount the possibility of something because one cannot tangibly comprehend it than trust it implicitly and in so doing experience the unquantifiable evidence of ROI. ?The more you trust it the more you gain the validation you need.

We cannot evolve as a race if we do not trust the unknown. ?That is a fact. ?If we stay in the known realm we will stagnate as a species and that serves no one. ?Growing spiritually means to evolve to new levels of consciousness. ? We seem to complicate the hell out of something that is our inherent birthright. ?I have written before on this subject, and I will say it again here today ? we were born intuitive, born connected, born fearless, that too is a fact. ?Then we learnt to not trust from a very young age. ?To re-experience the authentic self, and come home to experiencing being fearless, being connected and living intuitively takes one to heal that which severed them in the first place.

Being someone who specializes in the area of linguistics, language as a coach intuitive, I am intrigued how words relating to spirituality and or religion can evoke such a strong response from people. ?I appreciate evolving to new levels of consciousness is not everyone?s trip but why the need to denigrate what others choose to believe? ?There is a lot of hypocrisy in the area of religion and or spirituality, I am the first to admit, however, there are those that walk it and for those who do they lead the way for what?s possible.

People tend to fall into 4 categories where spirituality/religion is concerned:-

1. Do not believe in anything
2. Believe in it but do not walk it ? espouse the virtues of their faith/religion but avoid at all costs living it
3. Believe in it, do their version of walking it when it suits, getting their version of results
4. Believe in it, walk it and experience a transcended existence as a result

I believe, and again this is only my belief based on my own life journey and those that I have had the privilege to coach, we have a choice to lead a connected existence or a disconnected existence. ?Life as a result will be experienced differently. ?Just because something is not tangible does not mean it does not exist. ?The disconnected realm is limited by design. ?The connected realm, which we were born into, is limitless in design.

Back to my opening statement. ?Why does ones faith/religion automatically, at a time of trauma in ones life bare the brunt of being written off? ?It is at these times that it is needed more than any other. ?Why, because we as human beings fundamentally feel justified to be a victim, feeling powerless to change a situation and have to blame somebody/something to abdicate taking responsibility for viewing things from a higher perspective. ?All of human suffering comes from the place of disconnection. ?Disconnection from self, disconnection from source. ?I completely understand why people do not wish to re-associate ? why would someone want to revisit the pain of what had them disassociate in the first place ? why, because until one does, one cannot lead an empowered life.

I will leave you in the inquiry today about what your resistance is to the terms ?spirituality and or religion?. ?I personally am not religious, however I respect those who walk their religion. ?I am however spiritual and I know what it takes to walk it, which is even more reason why people would shun even conceiving believing in it given what it would call you to do in this lifetime?

Source: http://www.freefallselfimprovement.com/when-the-going-gets-tough-why-do-we-ditch-our-faith/

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