Peace and Rich's Blessings and

And welcome to the Life Question of the Week. The response to the life question of the week.

The response to the life question of the week was so overwhelming

that we decided to make it its own segment.

It will drop every Friday.

So today, our Queenna from Washington, D.C., asked this.

I've noticed that when I start to engage my spiritual practices,

I feel like I'm starting to go backward,

meaning that old stuff that I thought was healed starts to creep back up again.

I know this is a part of the growth process, but honestly, I just want to give up sometimes.

Why do I feel worse when I start to engage in my spiritual practices?

Aquino, you are asking a very beautiful question, a necessary question, because what happens

is we start to purify through spiritual practice,

whether that be life visioning, whether that be the sacred art of meditation,

scientific, affirmative prayer, even yoga, even Qigong, even Tai Chi, any spiritual practice

is going to dredge up the coagulated thought forms that have become emotions in order to be cleared and to be released.

So whenever you stop and start, whenever you stop and then you start your spiritual practice again, you pick up that process

and begin to release again.

Now here's an interesting fun fact, that we all have a sense of separation.

It may have occurred through some trauma, some tragedy, some loss, some calamity that happened in our life,

or some way that we've been taught in our family of origin about life.

And there's a schism, a sense of separation.

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