Welcome back to another episode on the Aaron Dowdy podcast.

My name is Aaron Dowdy and today I'm going to be sharing with you my own personal experience

with going through what I call a spiritual initiation.

Think of a spiritual initiation as there's different stages that every one of us go through

when we're going through a spiritual awakening and there's some people in my own life and

even I can just recognize in my own life at different times I was at different stages

of this spiritual initiation.

But think of spiritual initiation in a way as a way of you becoming more integrated with

your higher self.

Think about it like your higher self is becoming more and more embodying like in your

body and you feel more aligned, you feel more present, you feel more integrated, your masculine

feminine polarity begins to polarize and also heal.

And what happens is when you go through this process it changes so much in your life,

the more integrated you become.

And if you don't integrate the shadow, if you don't integrate these different aspects

of the masculine, the feminine of the childhood wounding, then you find similar patterns in

your life that are on autopilot.

And I'm going to share with you how I shed a nice guy complex that I got from, I believe

my dad and my dad's dad and how that was kind of primed in, how I have become more masculine

than ever before, but in a healthy way.

It was like last year in 2020, I was going through a process of trying to be more masculine

but it was a, it wasn't authentic and it was more in a toxic type way.

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