It’s relatively easy to feel centered when the conditions around us support being centered.
The harder test is what happens when life doesn’t cooperate.
You slept badly. Someone says something that triggers you. A relationship feels uncertain. Work is overwhelming. You have an important decision to make and don’t know what to do.
This is what I sometimes think of as the Tuesday afternoon test:
What does your spiritual practice offer you then? On the average day where maybe things are not quite going as planned.
One of the things I value about Empower Thyself is that you leave with things you can actually do in addition to learning and getting more attuned to deep esoteric wisdom.
You learn daily practices for clearing and strengthening your energy, tools for working with attention and focus, and a framework that helps you better understand what you are experiencing.
Over time, this can become very practical. You catch yourself before reacting, recognize when something has knocked you off center and know how to work with it, or recover more quickly from a difficult experience that might once have affected you for days.
Empower Thyself isn’t about becoming someone who is never overwhelmed, hurt, angry, or uncertain.
It gives you more ways to work with yourself when you are.
For me, that is one of the most important measures of spiritual development: not only what we understand or experience, but what our practice helps us become capable of in the lives we are actually living.
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If you’ve been curious about the work, this is an opportunity to experience the foundational training and begin working with these tools for yourself.