Inner Work 154: Are you still healing in periods of stasis?
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a response to a listener email asking: "am I still healing and growing spiritually even during periods of stasis, where nothing much seems to be happening?"
We'll explore what stasis could mean in the context of spiritual healing and growth, and how you can make the most of any periods of relative calm or quiet in your life.
Some of the main takeaways from this episode include:
- why it's impossible to go back to sleep once you have awakened - even though we often try to
- although stasis can mean stagnation, it can also mean equilibrium - so a period of stasis could be a period of arriving into greater balance within yourself
- why things are still shifting even when you can't perceive the changes yet
- letting go of the attachment to growing through pain or suffering
A huge thank you goes out to Terral for listening to this podcast and writing in with this thoughtful question.
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Thank you for being here, and for doing your inner work! May you honor and find value in all the different periods, stages, and cycles of your life.
Music & editing by G. Demers
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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 | Welcome once again, my dear friend and listener, to this podcast. I'm honored that you're here, |
| 0:49.9 | whether it's your first time tuning in or your hundredth time tuning in. Let's get into today's topic. |
| 0:57.2 | Do you feel like you have reached some kind of spiritual plateau? Do you feel like you're in a |
| 1:04.4 | period where your spiritual growth has significantly slowed down or maybe even stopped. We're going to examine these questions |
| 1:14.1 | and what this slowing down might mean through the lens of a listener email that I received |
| 1:20.4 | earlier this year. This is a very thoughtful email from Terrell, who has written in to say the following. First and foremost, I can't say |
| 1:32.6 | enough about how insightful your podcast has been. Thank you for being a beacon of light. And just as an |
| 1:40.3 | aside, this is Josephine speaking, I wanted to respond to these words first, just to thank |
| 1:48.0 | you so much for this very kind feedback and for seeing me as a beacon of light. That means a lot |
| 1:55.5 | to me. I believe we are all beacons of light, kind of lighting the way for each other. Sometimes some of us |
| 2:04.2 | might go a little bit dark, so our light might dim perhaps, or we feel that we have to hide it, |
| 2:11.6 | or we lose touch with it, but we can always come back to that light. And I hope that this podcast is helping |
| 2:21.3 | you to do that. And Terrell's email continues here. So I know you have touched on once you're awake, |
| 2:32.3 | you do not regress back into sleep mode. However, can you speak of times |
| 2:38.6 | where you feel a spiritual stasis? While I do not necessarily feel as though I am asleep, |
| 2:45.9 | I just feel like I am spiritually spinning my wheels. Like absolutely nothing is happening. So is growth still |
| 2:55.3 | happening just in smaller, slower periods? For me personally, all of my huge growing experiences |
| 3:02.7 | spiritually have been painful, abrupt experiences. Now I would prefer them not to happen this way. |
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