Let Love Glow Offers a Holistic Approach to Spiritual Awakening

My path to spiritual awakening is a holistic approach to enlightenment, and that's what I teach in all of my Let Love Glow Life Coaching Classes.

What do I mean by that?

I've learned that by taking a whole body, whole mind and whole spirit approach, the path opens up quicker, allowing bridges we build across troubled waters to be constructed with more ease and creativity. Not only are solutions found more easily by looking holistically at all of our I-AGE crises (I-AGE stands for I Am Good Enough), but also the solutions you find can be counted on for the long haul instead of acting as temporary bandages to problems.

The ancient wisdom of the East has always approached life holistically, meaning, for example, if one has a disease or illness, it's not just about what part of their body the symptoms are coming from. It's about the food that's going or not going into the body. It's about what kinds of pressures, stresses, life changes and situations are going on at home. It's about the impact of a job or daily activities. It's about the quality of the relationships in the person's life. It's about his or her spiritual needs and desires and whether or not those are being met. It's about community concerns and world issues. All of these things, not just the broken body part, are examined, and the remedies used involve many if not all of these areas of the person's life.

My path to spiritual awakening began with one single yoga class.

On the first day of class, my instructor gave us the definition of yoga. Yoga is Sanskrit (one of the oldest known languages on Earth) for 'union.' The union of the mind, body and spirit for all over well-being. It's not about the poses (asanas), the special breathing techniques (pranayama), meditation practices and hot yoga pants. It's about the union of all of the parts of our human existence to attempt to heal and live joyfully as whole, dis-ease free beings, connected by love to the Universal One, God-Consciousness, God and Spirit.

Here in the West, any physical problem we have tends to be isolated from the rest of our being, and then either cut out, pharmaceutically suppressed or repressed, a combination of both or simply ignored. Any psychological issues we have tend to be talked about and talked about and talked about on some high-dollar therapist's couch or suppressed and repressed pharmaceutically. Any spiritual crises we have tends to result in us being told we need to go to church more often, increase our tithing or join in a certain group's dogma which is sure to save us from Hell.

Personally, the Band-Aid approach of the West is not my thing. I want to learn every possible thing I can about everything going on in my life. And I want to use all of that information to heal in total from the inside-out. I want to become the wholehearted, perfectly healthy soul I was when I first came back to Earth for another run.

I love how the great yogi Paramahansa Yogananda explained it in 1925 when he founded his spiritual center Self-Realization Fellowship. Yogananda wrote that the purpose of Self-Realization (spiritual awakening) was:

"Healing the body of disease by proper diet, right living, and recharging the body with God's all-powerful cosmic energy; removing inharmonies and inefficiency from the mind by concentration, constructive thinking, and cheerfulness; and freeing the ever perfect soul from the bonds of spiritual ignorance..."

Now that's my kind of holistic approach to spiritual awakening!

Hugs Love and Namaste --- DD

(This is an excerpt from my bestselling spiritual book I AM GOOD ENOUGH: One Non-Guru's Path to Spiritual Awakening (No Trip to India Required)).