Jackardive, Jamestors.

Your growth comes in layers.

If you try to force it and skip a bunch of layers, you're going to go back.

If I have a very high spiritual experience or have something, even deep meditation.

You're coming back. Why? Because there's a reason experience or have something, even deep meditation.

You're coming back.

Why?

Because there's a reason you haven't finished.

There's a reason that you need to do forceful, and I'm not speaking against them, by the way,

forceful, willful efforts in order to rise above yourself.

That's what you're doing.

I understand that.

You're trying to raise the energy up through the different centers.

That's wonderful.

That is the process of yoga.

It has a lot to do with different spiritual teachings.

But the real question is, why do you need to do that? Because there's something holding you down.

And eventually, which sometimes takes lifetimes for people to catch on, it's not about going up without getting rid of us holding you down. If you're holding on to a hot air balloon,

don't try to figure out

how to get enough helium in it

or hot air in it

so that it pulls you up with it,

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