Starting Out
This section is split into two main parts.
The first is for people who are new to my blog.
The second is for those who are beginners on the spiritual path.
New to My Spiritual Awakening Blog
If you are new to my blog, welcome! I'm Jim Tolles. I'm a spiritual teacher who helps people realize spiritual freedom. You can read more about me and find additional interesting information in the following sections:About Jim Tolles
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You can find answers to your spiritual questions by using the search tool to dig through the 900 plus blog posts I have. On most devices, the search tool is located in the upper right hand side of your screen often at the very top of your browser page.
You can find a subscribe option next to the search function as well. This subscribes you to get email updates when I have posted a new blog post.
I also have a newsletter. In it, I share more thoughts on the path to spiritual freedom as well as announce openings for new students and other events. You can sign up for that below:
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If you feel like you are in a spiritual awakening or aren't sure if you are, please read this post.
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Spiritual Beginners and Those Just Starting the Spiritual Path
I really want to emphasize that all spiritual paths are sacred. We are all different, and we are all journeying towards different things in life. While ultimately we are all one, there is an importance in honoring our unique divine intelligence within us and how it moves us individually. To that end, this section is aimed to help you listen to your intuition/inner knowing as you build your spiritual practice.A regular spiritual practice is key for most people to break out of unhealthy ego patterns and ignorance. In committing yourself to regular meditation and other spiritual practices, you can enrich your life and deal with adversity better.
Here are some posts to give you a firmer grounding in what the spiritual path even is.
What Is a Spiritual Awakening?
What Is a Spiritual Teacher?
Choosing the Conscious Spiritual Path
Glimpses of Awakening
How to Start Your Spiritual Journey
What Is Intuition? Part 2
Spiritual Healing
5 Ego Defenses and Traps You Need to Know
What Is Spiritual Inner Work?
7 Signs of a False Spiritual Teacher
How the Ego Protects Its Many Stories (And Why This Is a Big Problem)
The Invisibility of Your Own Pain
How to Let go of Your Ego
How to Grow up Smart and Live Your Dreams
6 Reasons People Succeed Spiritually
No Thoughts, But Plenty of False Beliefs
How to Find Spiritual Freedom
How to Be More Spiritually Conscious
The Spiritual Bypass: The Illusion of Avoiding Your Difficulties
Being Spiritually Ready Versus Prepared
Beware the Spiritual Ego
6 Reasons People Succeed Spiritually
SPIRITUALITY BASICS
The link above leads to blog posts that offer some basic terminology around spirituality. Even if you are not new to spirituality, they're really helpful posts so that you understand how I'm using the words.
Specifically, here are a few blog posts that I think are really helpful in understanding key definitions.
Attachment Versus Engagement: How We Learn to Be in the World and Not Lost in It
Understanding How to Hold Space
The Number One Ego Issue
How to Face Fear
Helpful Spiritual Techniques
These blog posts offer specific techniques to help you building your spiritual awareness:Identify, Accept, Embrace, and Let Go
How to Meditate
Stopping the Mental Chatter
6 Tips to Healing Bad Eating Habits
Dissolving Issues With Awareness
How to Resolve Power and Authority Issues
Mapping Out Ego Structure
Adding Breathwork to the Spiritual Toolkit
Staying as Awareness (video)
Developing Your Spiritual Morality
The beautiful thing about spiritual truths is that they lead us towards certain morals. One spiritual truth is that we are all interconnected; we are all one. From such truths, we find ourselves realizing the importance of morals like being kind and honest. The more you develop on the spiritual path, the more it is only natural to discover your own spiritual morality.In this time of technological advance, however, it is also important to consider the new questions and challenges technology poses to us and how that relates to morality. We need to ask ourselves what is the morality of what we develop technologically and how we use it. In this vein of thinking, I wrote this blog post:
A New Morality in the Age of Technology
SPIRITUALITY BLOGS ABOUT BUILDING A SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION
This collection of spiritual blog posts offer some perspective on bringing spirituality into each major level of ourselves from our heads to our hearts to our bodies to our spirits.
SPIRITUALITY BLOGS ABOUT HEALING
For many, the only real healing that can address their wounds is spiritual healing. In the above collection of spirituality blog posts, I offer tips and ideas for healing on the different levels within us. In general, we heal all kinds of attachments on the spiritual path. Even if you don't feel like you have a lot of wounding, self-worth issues, scarcity fears, fears of loneliness, and many others cause a lot more suffering than people realize.
Below are particularly important blog posts about healing.
The Process of Releasing Pain from Your Energy Body
The Newness and Uncertainty After Releasing an Issue
Healing Silent Wounds
Healing things like trauma and abuse is critical. The attachments to those types of pain cause people and the people in their lives immense suffering. The first blog post below directly discusses what it can take to achieve true and complete healing of sexual abuse:
Healing Sexual Abuse
Healing Past Trauma, Issues, and Forgotten Memories
7 Steps to Atoning for Pain You've Caused Another
SPIRITUALITY BLOGS FOR DEEPENING YOUR PRACTICE & CREATING SPACE FOR AWAKENING
Once you've established a practice, it's helpful to have some guidance in terms of deepening into it. For instance, meditation is meditation, but you can go into all kinds of different depths with it depending on your focus. This and other tools are suggested to help you create space for whatever chooses to arise within you.
Building a Mind Strong Enough for Awakening
Building a Heart Strong Enough for Awakening
Building a Body Strong Enough for Awakening
For more guidance, click on my contact page to reach out to me for a one-on-one 1-hour session.
Here are some other useful compilations of spirituality blog posts:
- Quieting the Mind
- Understanding Spiritual Sexuality
- How to Face Your Inner Darkness
- Speaking Your Truth
- How to Reconnect to Your Heart
Additional Spirituality Topics of Interest
Maintaining Your Spiritual Practice During Hard Times
Bullied, Beaten, and Abused: The Prevalence of Physical Violence in Western Culture
How to Manifest Your Dreams and When Manifestation Becomes Control
Facing the Abyss of Self-Hatred
Positive Thinking: The Amazing Power and Utter Uselessness of Positivity
Getting Out of the Rat Race and the End of Competition
5 Motivational Tips To Keep You Going Through Tough Issues
The Error of Defending Your Beliefs
How to Take Conscious Action in an Unconscious World
Eventually, our inner work takes us towards engaging with the world. How could it not? Obviously we're always engaged with life somehow, but many of you are going to be called to take on larger roles in helping to shape and shape-shift society towards loving kindness. Here are a few blog posts to help you do just that.Breaking a Culture of Silence
How to be Spiritually Conscious With Unconscious People
7 Tips for Mindfully Processing the U.S. Presidential Election
Rising Up to Face Abuses of Power
How to Create Conscious Change
How to Consciously Use Money
How to Follow Your Heart
Finding the Right Spiritual Community for You
For those of you looking for some spiritual friends, please check out this page with a set of resources I have about spiritual community.Spiritual Community Information
The lovely caterpillar picture on this page is a gift from Becky Stiller. You can see more of her work on her Flickr account.
