EVOLUTION: When to stop seeking spiritual info and tools
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Are you often (or even constantly) looking for new spiritual knowledge, tools, or resources? Do you know when to stop, so you can integrate everything you've learned so far and apply it in your life?
It's so important to keep seeking, to keep evolving, to keep doing our inner work. At the same time, we want to make sure we're not doing this compulsively, or as a form of spiritual bypassing or escapism.
In this episode of EVOLUTION, I talk about:
- how to recognize any patterns of using spirituality or spiritual pursuits to try to avoid reality, uncomfortable feelings, or genuine healing work
- how to avoid becoming "spiritually constipated" (awesome words from a listener email I answer in this episode)
- how to do a spiritual and energetic "decluttering" for yourself
- how to trust your inner knowing more, instead of looking for answers or wisdom outside yourself
I'm sending lots of gratitude to Penny for writing in with this thoughtful topic.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore spiritual concepts, tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide and companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:32.6 | To learn more about how to work with me or study with me, please visit josephinehartman.com. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello, my dear friend and fellow spiritual seeker. Welcome to Inner Work. Today's episode is a response to one of my former students and now a fellow healer and someone who is becoming a good friend. |
| 1:03.0 | Her name is Penny, and she wrote in to say this. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm curious if you could speak about being spiritually constipated. There is such an overwhelming |
| 1:14.6 | amount of information channeling and hoopla out there that I feel people can keep intaking and |
| 1:23.3 | reading everything as gospel and as a way to give their true power away to the author or the |
| 1:31.9 | teacher sometimes. This can lead them to lose sight of their own true alignment along the way. |
| 1:39.6 | Just curious what your thoughts are on grounding down, releasing what remains too heady, and seeing what |
| 1:47.0 | really is true to one's own self. So that was the amazing message from Penny. And there are great |
| 1:55.7 | questions and issues that she is bringing up here, especially I think this issue of becoming overloaded with information, |
| 2:05.3 | with certain belief systems, with hoopla, as Penny called it, even with suggestions or ideas |
| 2:13.4 | from other people, whether these people are authors or teachers we don't personally know, |
| 2:21.7 | or whether they are the teachers, the mentors, the healers, that we might personally work with |
| 2:28.2 | in our lives. Because I think both can happen. We can be tempted in many ways to give our power away |
| 2:35.4 | to far away distant authors and teachers, and also in some cases to give our power away to |
| 2:43.4 | people in our own lives. I like Penny's humorous use of the term spiritually constipated. It feels like that is a great |
| 2:55.4 | analogy for what can happen here. Of course, being constipated means being in an energetic or |
| 3:03.3 | physical state where things are not flowing. Things cannot flow easily or be expelled, right? So |
| 3:11.4 | something is stagnant. If we are spiritually constipated, perhaps that means we are not able to |
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