Here are some perspectives on celibacy within Hinduism:

Ascetic Tradition (Sannyasa): In the ascetic or monastic tradition of Hinduism, celibacy is highly valued. Sannyasis, or ascetics, are expected to take vows of celibacy as part of their commitment to a life of renunciation and spiritual pursuit. They believe that by abstaining from sexual activity, they can redirect their energy towards attaining spiritual enlightenment.

Brahmacharya: In the context of the stages of life (ashramas) outlined in Hinduism, Brahmacharya is the student stage, typically characterized by celibacy. During this stage, which is usually associated with formal education and spiritual instruction, individuals are expected to abstain from sexual relations and focus on acquiring knowledge and discipline.

Yogic Practices: Some yogic traditions emphasize celibacy as a means to conserve and channel the vital life force, known as “prana” or “kundalini,” upward through the chakras to attain higher states of consciousness and spiritual awakening. Yogis may choose celibacy as part of their spiritual discipline.

Householder Perspective: While celibacy is upheld in certain traditions, Hinduism also recognizes the importance of the householder (grhastha) stage of life. In this stage, individuals marry, have children, and fulfill their social and familial duties. Celibacy is not a requirement for householders, and they are encouraged to lead a balanced life that includes family responsibilities.

Tantric Practices: Some tantric traditions within Hinduism embrace sexual rituals as a means to spiritual realization. These practices are highly symbolic and are intended to transcend ordinary physical desires and achieve union with the divine. In such contexts, celibacy may not be practiced.

It’s important to note that Hinduism is not a monolithic religion, and beliefs and practices related to celibacy can vary widely. Additionally, personal interpretations and choices regarding celibacy can differ among individuals within the Hindu community. Celibacy is seen as a means to achieve higher spiritual goals in some contexts, but it is not universally required or practiced by all Hindus.

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The topic of religious trauma is such an inflammatory topic, and one that has harmed so many people, that I’m going to try and approach it as delicately as I can.

Religious trauma is pervasive and more widespread than I believe most people are aware of. After all, the foundation of most modern societies are based on religious ideals, whether you live in the east or west.

Do I think all religion is evil? Am I an anti-theist? No. Religion serves a valuable function in society by emphasizing social connectedness, support, values, and higher ideals. For many people, religion is what makes life worth living, and it has helped them in their darkest times.

Do I believe all religious people are horrible? No. In fact, many religious people are some of the kindest and most generous souls you’ll ever meet.

Do I “hate” Christianity? (The religion I was brought up in.) No, I don’t hate Christianity. I can see the value in this belief system, and I respect and admire figures such as Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Virgin Mary (who I still feel an affinity with).

But here’s the thing:

Religion, with all of its underlying value, can easily become something destructive, abusive, perverted, and traumatizing. 

In this article, I’m going to explore the dark side of religion as a religious trauma survivor, and also how to heal these wounds from a deeper perspective.

Please note: In the interests of keeping this a safe space, and to respect my own personal boundaries, any comments deemed abusive, harmful, or proselytizing will be removed. Thank you for respecting the healing journeys of others.

Also, this article is written from an ex-Christian perspective, but it applies to anyone from any religion. If your unique experiences of religious trauma aren’t mentioned here, I apologize – they are just as valid. I can only write from what I have personally experienced.

In the interests of being trauma-sensitive, if at any point you feel overwhelmed by reading this article, please stop, take a break, and return to this page later (you can always bookmark it). And be sure to share this article with anyone who you feel might benefit.

What is Religious Trauma?

Religious trauma refers to the deeply felt ongoing mental and emotional suffering one experiences at the hands of a religious belief system. Experiencing religious trauma can happen to anyone of any faith at any point in their lives – and it can be cumulative or sudden. In other words, religious trauma can slowly build through a person’s faith journey or it can occur as a sudden shock such as through a public display of humiliation, sexual abuse, or another unexpected painful incident.

My Experience With Religious Trauma

Religious trauma for me was a cumulative experience that reached its peak at the age of 19 when I decided to finally cut ties with the fundamentalist religion of my childhood (and unfortunately my blood family alongside it).

Since birth, I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church known as the Church of Christ who prided themselves on a strict adherence to biblical tenets. I was taught that the CoC was the “one true church,” that those who belonged to it were “special and chosen,” and that all other beliefs (including other Christian denominations) and belief systems were false – and that those believing in them would end up burning in hell for all eternity.

I was indoctrinated with purity culture ideals of staying a virgin until marriage – that a woman wasn’t allowed to speak in church, couldn’t be a leader or “elder,” or do anything other than be a good homemaker and “submit” to her husband. I wasn’t permitted to cut my hair, celebrate Christmas or Easter (or any other “non-biblical” holidays), or be overly “worldly” because I was taught to believe that “Satan prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”

Imagine being taught, as a tiny little girl, that not only is the Devil always out to try and get you, but that if you’re “bad” in any way, you’ll suffer for all eternity in hellfire in the worst possible agony you could ever imagine? That’s a pretty fucked up thing to teach a young child.

Being indoctrinated at a very young age, for almost two decades with paranoid, bigoted, and fear-based beliefs about the world, it was no wonder that my mental health took a nosedive in my later adolescence. When I began to question why an “all-loving God” would send people to burn in hell forever if they didn’t “follow what He wanted,” my world began to crack apart. Just like in The Truman Show, my whole understanding of reality began to collapse and crumble beneath me. Reading the Bible three times over didn’t solve any of my problems either – it made the situation worse.

I remember sitting in church during a sermon one Sunday, feeling the deeply disturbing sensation that my soul was slowly dying. Sudden thoughts of murder-suicide would flash through my fragmented mind as disturbing bloody images of stabbing the preacher over and over again – and then killing myself – would burst into my awareness. (I later learned that these thoughts signalled the emergence of my heavily repressed and rejected Shadow Self.)

This drive toward self-harm and suicidal-ideation began as a teenager and continued until a little after I left the religion, but thankfully it never resulted in anything serious.

There’s a lot more that I could share about enduring physical abuse (aka., “biblical” punishment) with a horse whip, spiritual gaslighting, emotional manipulation, social isolation, learning that my favorite Christian friend was a child molester, and the other nuances of an immature and destructive belief system – but I’ll try to keep this simple.

I don’t blame my parents because I know that they were trying to do the best they could with the level of awareness they had. They’re good people deep down with admirable qualities. I’m sure religion felt like a soothing balm for them and they wanted to instil some kind of values into their children. My childhood wasn’t all bad and there were certainly good parts, and wonderful qualities my parents instilled into me (like creativity and a good work ethic). But religion for me was a horror show that I’m still overcoming to this very day.

Unfortunately, the result of freeing myself from this religious trauma, also meant that I had to become a black sheep and cut ties with my blood family, who were conditioned by their beliefs to see me as a “heathen,” “traitor to the faith,” “sinner,” and so on.

I didn’t leave in a perfect way. I wish I had said goodbye to my siblings early on that morning I grabbed my bags and left. I wish I could have been there to support my little sister and meet my third sister who was born a few years after I left. But returning to that environment would mean deep self-betrayal, threatening my mental, emotional, and spiritual sanity. Exposing myself to the very situation that caused such deep trauma in me to begin with is not something I’m willing to do again.

My story is certainly not the worst out there – there are so many others who have experienced far worse than I have. And while I am a victim, I refuse to stay as one. I’m a survivor and now a thriver. And this deep pain is perhaps the main reason why I’m drawn to the symbol of the wolf, writing for and running this website, and exploring the shadows that obscure our Inner Light.

Religion vs. Spirituality 

I just want to quickly clarify that this article is focused on religious trauma, not spiritual trauma. Religion and spirituality are two different paths. Here’s the difference, which I define in my article entitled Spirituality vs Religion:

Spirituality is connecting to the Divine through your own personal experience. It is primarily concerned with finding, experiencing, and embodying one’s true spiritual nature.

Religion is connecting to the Divine through someone else’s experience. It is primarily concerned with believing in, following, and obeying the rules created by a certain Deity or spiritual teacher.

23 Signs You’re Experiencing Religious Trauma

How do you know whether you’re experiencing religious trauma? Most likely, you’ll need to self-diagnose as this term isn’t listed in the DSM-5 (which is not saying that listing it as a mental disorder is actually always that helpful).

Trust in your own experience. These signs aren’t meant to “diagnose” you in any way (as I’m not a psychologist or mental health professional). But if you can relate to some of them, chances are that you do indeed suffer from religious trauma:

1. Chronic feelings of unworthiness and inadequacy

2. Persistent anxiety or panic

3. Existential depression or melancholy

4. Self-hatred or self-loathing

5. Perfectionism

6. Obsessive compulsive tendencies

7. Weak sense of self

8. Poor personal boundaries

9. Nightmares or sleep disturbance

10. Diminished social connections and loss of community

11. Difficulty maintaining friendships, relationships, etc.

12. Sexual dysfunction (excessive or under active sex drive)

13. Persistent loneliness and feelings of abandonment

14. Strong addictive tendencies

15. Fear of experiencing joy or pleasure

16. Difficulty with self-expression and speaking up

17. Intrusive thoughts

18. Rigid black-or-white thinking and troubles accepting alternative viewpoints

19. Hypervigilance and feeling like one is being constantly watched and judged

20. Inability to trust oneself and one’s gut instincts

21. Difficulty trusting in other people and the Divine

22. Struggles with being self-autonomous and making decisions

23. Deep-seated feelings of shame and guilt about normal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

This isn’t an exhaustive list of religious trauma signs, and if any others come up for you that aren’t listed, trust that they’re just as relevant as what I’ve shared above.

Examples of Religious Abuse

What about specific examples of religious abuse?

As I said at the start of this article, religious abuse can be both cumulative (aka., happen over a long period of time and in subtle/overt ways) or be sudden (due to a specific incident).

The examples of religious abuse below don’t cover all of the nuances of this complex beast, but I hope they give you a clearer idea of how religious abuse can appear:

• A woman is shamed for dressing a certain way and told that she’s sinning against God for displaying her body.

• A man is judged and ostracized by his religious community for his attraction toward other men.

• A family cuts off their child when the child leaves the religion.

• A person seeks help from their religious elders about marital abuse, only to be told that it’s their lack of faith that is the problem, not the other party’s sexual/physical/emotional abuse.

• A child is physically, mentally, or emotionally punished for doing or saying something that is perceived to be against the parent’s beliefs.

• A religious community pressures and coerces an older person to donate more money than they can afford to give to their evangelical efforts.

• A charismatic religious leader uses his/her position of power to gain sexual favors in the name of “God.”

• A person is publicly humiliated for a perceived “sin.”

• A child is raped and the parents and religious authorities don’t believe his or her word, pretending it didn’t happen.

• A person is emotionally blackmailed and gaslighted into questioning their sanity when bringing up reasonable questions about certain religious beliefs.

• A mother experiences control and intimidation tactics when she stops exposing her children to a belief system.

• A father’s mental health problems are minimized or ridiculed by religious leaders, and he undergoes inadequate treatment from an incompetent “religious counselor.”

• A religious leader uses scripture to justify sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, or otherwise violent and destructive viewpoints.

Can you think of any more examples? If so, share them in the comments!

Religious Trauma and Spiritual Awakening

Going through religious trauma is what led to my own Dark Night of the Soul and subsequent spiritual awakening – and if you’re going through this experience, you might be called to the same path as well.

Spiritual awakening is what happens when we begin questioning our beliefs, habits, social conditioning, and everything that feels fake or false in our lives. A deep hunger and longing begins to burn within us to find truth, freedom, relief from suffering, and inner peace. We may crave to find what the meaning of life is, what our purpose is, and ultimately, who we truly are on a primordial level (our True Nature).

In other words, spiritual awakening emerges as a deep inner call from the Soul, demanding that we “wake up,” walk our own paths, and listen to our Soul’s calling to find Home.

Not everyone is ready for or interested in spirituality after going through the horrible roller coaster of religious trauma. In fact, many people feel drawn to atheism, and that’s fine. Sometimes atheism is the most healing and empowering path for a person.

But if you’re like me and you feel a calling from the Soul to find truth, freedom, and love, pay attention. Listen to and trust that inner call. 

I recommend that you see the free Spiritual Awakening course we’ve created which can help to offer some grounded support and guidance during this tender and painful part of your life. You can also see my Soul searching article for more insight.

How to Heal From Religious Trauma

Healing from religious trauma is a process. I’m not going to give you some kind of gimmicky “7-steps-to-healing” shit because that’s not how it works.

Healing takes time, experimentation, vulnerability … and again, time.

What I offer below isn’t meant to be a map, just some helpful practices that have supported me in my own journey of healing religious trauma. Am I completely healed? No. I’m still healing to this very day. But I’ve learned a hell of a lot across the past decade. And I want to share that with you now:

(i) Journaling – simple but powerful

Undergoing religious trauma can be a lonely and isolating experience. Most people can’t understand or appreciate the intensity and complexity of how deeply harmful and disturbing to the psyche toxic religious conditioning can be.

One practice that helped me to keep some semblance of sanity during the darker parts of my religious journey was journaling. When I journaled, it felt like I was having a conversation with someone who actually understood what I was feeling – me.

There is a healthy and unhealthy way of journaling (aka., constructive vs. destructive), so be sure to read my article on How to Journal to learn how to journal in a beneficial way.

You can also check out this guided Self-Love Journal that I co-created a little while back, if you want some structured help.

(ii) Mindfulness and self-compassion

Mindfulness helps you to learn how to live in the present moment (instead of getting lost in thoughts about the past or future). And self-compassion helps you to learn how to be gentle, kind, and forgiving with yourself.

Self-compassion eventually leads into compassion for others, which is why it’s such a beautiful and healing practice.

The Self-Love Journal I mentioned above can help you develop more self-compassion. Otherwise, you can also check out the following resources:

• How to Practice Mindful Self-Compassion

• Self-Love: 23 Ways to Become a Doctor of the Soul

• Mindful Self-Compassion Printable Oracle

(iii) Spend lots of time in nature

Being in and amongst nature was the second practice that helped me tremendously when I was in the thick of religion and feeling slowly suffocated. Nature has helped me ever since.

The power of nature lies in how free, flowing, spontaneous, and open it is – qualities that, incidentally, mirror our Higher Self or True Nature (because in reality, we are nature).

Nature also teaches us in innumerable ways about the cycles of birth and death, light and darkness, and the essential non-dual nature of reality.

Researches on the benefits of time spent in nature have called this practice ecotherapy. So be sure to spend time watching, walking in, climbing, or engaging in nature in whatever way feels most enjoyable to you.

(iv) Make friends with your inner child

Before making friends with your inner child, I always recommend gaining some level of healthy self-worth because inner child work is an extremely tender and vulnerable practice. If you go into this practice hating yourself, your inner child will never feel safe enough to come out and be embraced. So remember, self-love precedes inner child work.

With that said, working with my inner child was (and is still) one of the most nourishing ways of reclaiming a sense of creativity, joy, adventure, and even long lost wisdom.

I recommend working with a trained trauma-informed therapist when learning how to heal your inner child – that helped me greatly. Journaling and mirror work also supported my journey of working with and reclaiming my inner child.

You can see the Inner Child Journal that I’ve co-authored if you’d like some support with this deep work (feel free to use it alongside therapy as well).

(v) Mindful shadow work

There are three main forms of inner work that I write about on this website, and they are:

• Self-Love

• Inner Child Work

• Shadow Work

Self-love comes first, then inner child work, and finally shadow work. So the same warning applies to shadow work as with inner child work: pleasure ensure that you have a stable sense of self-esteem before you embark on this work. Loathing yourself and then deciding to explore your shadows (or dark side) is a recipe for disaster and retraumatization. So take heed and proceed slowly and mindfully.

Shadow work is the practice of exploring anything that obscures your inner Light – that could be false beliefs, core wounds, old programs, lost inner parts, or any part of you that feels contracted or blocked.

What is so vital and powerful about shadow work is that it can help us at any point of our life journeys. No matter what degree of awakening we’ve experienced, we always need to be mindful of our shadows because the reality is that we are both human (aka., imperfect) and divine.

If you’d like to explore shadow work, I recommend checking out our highly rated Shadow Work Journal.

(vi) Internal family systems – or working with your inner parts

Internal family systems (IFS) is a form of psychotherapy which I love and highly recommend to those experiencing religious trauma.

IFS works on the premise that we are all composed of many different parts – happy, sad, angry, joyful, creative, sad, childlike, wise, and silly parts (and so on). At the center of our being is a wise and compassionate inner force known as the Self (capital ‘s’), which I love because it’s a form of therapy that welcomes the spiritual into the picture alongside psychological elements.

You can read more about IFS in my Internal Family Systems article. I also recommend looking into getting an IFS therapist if you’d like to go deeper into this work.

(vii) Non-duality – or seeing through the separate self

Non-duality is an eastern philosophical and spiritual teaching that suggests that everything is ultimately One, and that dualities such as “self/other,” “light/dark,” “subject/object,” are ultimately constructs of the mind.

Furthermore, the self that we take ourselves to be – the “I” – is actually an illusion based on a misunderstanding of who we truly are at a fundamental level.

I’m not saying that non-duality as a philosophy and path will be beneficial to you – but for me personally, it has helped me to see that the separate self, the ego, is at the root of suffering. And unlike religious teachings that divide the world into “us/them” “good/evil” and so on, non-duality encourages a non-judgmental approach to life in which we see the underlying unity and Oneness beneath all beings.

Non-duality is also a path that is said to open a doorway to freedom from suffering via Self-Realization or spiritual illumination.

If you’d like to explore this topic more, you can see my article on Non-Duality.

Other Practices That Have Helped:

• Meditation

• Artistic self-expression

• Exploring inner archetypes

• Balancing the root and sacral chakra

• Working with a trauma-informed therapist

• Learning basic self-care

• Learning how to set personal boundaries

• Prayer (it doesn’t have to be religious!)

There are many other practices (this whole website is a resource open for your benefit), but these are some that come to mind. And I hope they are of help to you.

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Religious trauma is underrepresented and isn’t as explored or covered as I’d hope it to be – hence the need for this article.

I hope you know now that (1) religious trauma is valid, (2) what you’re experiencing is normal and you’re not alone, (3) there is a way through this pain, and (4) religious trauma can actually be a doorway to a deep inner path of spiritual awakening.

What has your experience with religious trauma been like? If you feel comfortable with sharing, you’re welcome to do so in the comments below.

Originally Published: wakeup-world.com

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There are two major theories as to why Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25. One, sometimes called the “history of religion” hypothesis, suggests that Christmas supplanted one or more pagan holidays. The other theory, often called the “computation” or “calculation” hypothesis, suggests that early Christians used some form of calculation to arrive at Dec. 25 as Jesus’ birthday.

In fact, both theories may be true. “The two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive,” Philipp Nothaft (opens in new tab), a fellow at the University of Oxford’s All Souls College, whose research looks at the history of astronomy and chronology, told Live Science in an email. Nothaft has researched and written about the date of Christmas.

Two theories

It’s unclear exactly when and why some Christians started celebrating Jesus’ birth on Dec. 25.

Ancient records indicate that a feast dedicated to Sol Invictus, a sun god, was held in the Roman Empire on Dec. 25, raising the possibility that Christmas replaced it. There was also a pagan festival called Saturnalia in mid-December that occurred over several days.

However, there are some problems with this so-called history-of-religion theory: Christians may have been celebrating Jesus’ birthday on Dec. 25 before the Sol Invictus feast was created, Paul Bradshaw (opens in new tab), a professor emeritus of theology at the University of Notre Dame, wrote in an article published in the book “The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (opens in new tab)” (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Nothaft agreed. “A lot hinges on when 25 December became the occasion of a Roman feast associated with [Sol Invictus],” he said in the email. “Most scholars would probably agree that this is unlikely to be earlier than AD 274, the year when [Emperor] Aurelian dedicated a new temple to Sol Invictus in Rome.

“We know too little about this feast to make confident pronouncements,” Nothaft added. There is also the question of whether the feast was significant enough for early Christians to place Jesus’ birth on that day.

Dec 25 is also “the date on which the Northern Hemisphere observers are first able to detect the northward movement of the sun” after the winter solstice, David Allen, who was an astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, wrote in a 1992 article published in the journal Archaeoastronomy (opens in new tab). The detection of this movement may explain why the festival was held on this date, Allen noted.

The other theory, the computation hypothesis, is based on the idea that early Christians calculated Jesus’ birthday by adding nine months to a day they regarded as Jesus’ conception. One possibility is that some early Christians believed that the day of Jesus’ crucifixion occurred on March 25 and they added nine months to come up with Dec. 25. This means that early Christians considered the date of Jesus’s crucifixion to be the date of conception, noted Bradshaw.

One piece of evidence for this hypothesis is a third-century inscription on a statue that gives calculations for when Easter should be celebrated and has an inscription on it noting that Jesus was crucified on March 25 in the year 29, Bradshaw wrote in his article. (Scholars tend to think that Jesus, who died at age 33, was born around 4 B.C.)

A problem with the computation hypothesis is that it’s unclear why early Christians would associate March 25 as the date of both Jesus’ crucifixion and conception, Bradshaw wrote.

“There is uncertainty around both theories, but I do think the computation hypothesis has a slight edge,” Bradshaw told Live Science in an email.

It is possible that both theories are correct, Nothaft said. “I am inclined to accept that the tradition of dating Christ’s birth to 25 December has roots that go back at least to the beginning of the 3rd century,” he said. “If this is so, some version of the calculation hypothesis, together with Christian solar symbolism, offers the best explanation as to why this tradition originated.”

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The 440 angel number means your guardian angels support your aspirations. It teaches us that everything has a reason, even if we don’t know it.

The realisation that you control your own future can come as a rude awakening at times. You always seem to get your daily coffee fix around 4:40 in the afternoon.

The conviction that you must account for whatever you do. You got your first paycheck, 440 pounds, and you spent it all. The angel percentage 440 is a call to deepen your connection to the divine.
Even while everything appears normal to you, it will take much higher acceleration to reveal any hidden dangers.

Learn to have meaningful conversations with your inner self, and you’ll discover the solutions you’ve been seeking..

440 is a combination of 4 and 0.

This number sequence signifies positive energy. It helps you reach your dreams and ambitions and keeps you focused on what’s important. It can help with moral growth, so if you’re seeking advice from higher powers, try it.

This number combination also signifies belief in angels. There’s nothing and I have faith in them (they’ve been around since the day we were born! ), and sometimes things come out of nowhere, and if they do, someone will know how horrible things were prior. So don’t worry about these situations because they’ll pass.

The number 4 reminds you that your angels will guide you. As the 440 number is about longevity therefore fertility reading selection for the very best purpose to make your fertility long with fruitful outcomes. Your angels will guide you to make your fertility successful. Number 4 reminds us to follow their advice.

Number 4 has angels on their side. They aim to help you reach your goals and enjoy life.

440 doubles the power of 4’s message.

The 440 grace number reminds us that our guidance and protectors are all with us. This can help if you’re confused about your life direction. If you conf

The 440 angel percentage also has 8 vibrations, as it appears twice

The 440 angel code also has 8 vibrations, as it appears twice.

8 represents balance, justice, and wisdom. A compass’s eight points symbolise infinity. Every direction leads to another, never back to where you started (which would be an infinite loop). We can proceed forward or backward, but not both. We must simply focus on accomplishing our goals and objectives lest we take any notice of what concerns us most: ourselves.

If you follow today’s pattern, 444/444 may surprise you. As per numerologists like Edgar Cayce, who studied ancient ruins around 3000 BC across modern times (and beyond), these numbers were commonly used by shamans during earth energy rituals like rainmaking religious activities where they recited prayers over rocks near bodies of water so as not to interfere with natural processes.

Your Spiritual Leaders Want you to have Faith & Show Love

Your spiritual leaders want you to have faith in them. They’ll help you find your purpose, ambitions, and love. Angels are always with you to help those in need. The 440 area code hopes you’ll always choose love, even while dealing with antagonists. It’s important to not respond to hate with more hate. Show their detractors that you care about them and value their position in your life for the valuable lessons they offer you rather than the opposite. You should always be in the company of friendly people.

This divine message reminds you to keep striving toward your goals.

This divine message reminds you to keep striving toward your goals.

• Don’t waste this chance!
• 440 reminds you of available guidance.

The number 4 reminds you of your angels. More would be better. And these are the reasons 0 encourages us that angels will assist us attain our aims. 440 reminds us that angels are always around us.

Conclusion

440 angel numbers keep your angelic close and educate them of their purpose. This number is for individuals who need guidance from above and comfort that a higher power watches over them 24/7.

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One could hardly grasp that the universes editing software for seamlessly splicing and pasting together the strip of film before us, is when we blink our eyes. If we are anything, even before human, we are quantum animals.

So, I’ll be covering the quantum field of timelines. What exactly is a timeline and how you can master being at the cause, and not the effect end of quantum mechanics therefore becoming a master of this reality.

And we can do this by first understanding that the quantum field is made up of pure potential that is expressed as waveforms our consciousness acts as an antenna that translates these waveforms, into what’s known as interference patterns and then once more into particles that make up everything in the physical world, including ourselves.

But providing the raw materials for reality is not where the magic of waveforms stop. They also shape an infinite number of past present and futures since they can accommodate all possibility. We call these past present and futures a timeline. For anyone who is familiar with the mandala effect that is one of the most common examples of memories being carried over from a prior timeline we were on, into the timeline we currently occupy. We are shifting timelines more often than not and many anomalies are left as the artifacts of this.

With the quantum field consisting of limitless potential, the way it even knows what timeline to activate and materialize is through a feedback loop. In fact, when you’re operating at this level of reality, it’s so ambiguous you will need a feedback loop to guide the output. And the guiding force that tells the feedback loop what to produce is the choices we make. The synergy of our thoughts, actions and feelings are what the feedback loop, and therefore reality is responding to.

To illustrate this, the field starts off as countless possibilities that begin to narrow into probabilities through the choices we make. These probabilities are like vibrational momentum building up much like an ocean wave. These probabilities continue to drop off and further narrow the more that we focus our choices until probability turns into actuality, which is what manifested. And this process happens every single moment.

So let’s say we choose to venture down a path of awakening our consciousness, the quantum field organizes a new trajectory with the full unfoldment of that choice containing all possibilities and all probabilities. The more conscious we become, the more we are reinforcing the timelines that reflect that choice. What this does is establish a feedback loop between us and all of the potential future versions of ourselves that we are aligning with. And through this feedback loop, the potential future versions of ourselves send us the resources we would require in order to actualize them. This is also reflected in the ancient wisdom, “You cannot travel the path until you become the path itself.”

Your choices now are already activating potential future versions of yourself.

There are multiple versions of reality on Earth, and we are constantly aligning-otherwise known as jumping-timelines whether we are conscious of it or not.

We can look at timelines a few different ways, we have personal timelines and collective timelines, there are events constantly happening that continuously alter these timelines again and again.

Our personal timelines consist of the past and present choices we make every day. They are impacted by our socioeconomic status, desires, karmic imprints, and belief systems. Depending on how much of our free will we are using, we either make predictable and established choices that we hope lead to a future we have envisioned, or we can implement more chance and uncertainty that would open up the timelines containing entirely different potential futures. If we are content on our current trajectory, the less likely we are to make radical choices that would lead to radical changes in direction. So it’s a matter of personal preference, however this is where fate comes into play.

We always here about free will and determinism either this is all the random creation of our own doing, or this is all predetermined, set-in stone from a higher level, and we are merely the figments that were hallucinated to play out those choices that were already made. This Either/Or mentality is the result of imbalance within the hemispheres of the mental body.

There is a degree of fate that is at work in our life. Just as there is a degree of free-will. Fate is the lessons we came into this life wanting to experience and free will is the journey of how those lessons are lived. Fate can and does intervene when it feels we are not as proactive as we could be. But what is not guaranteed is how well our outcomes come into fruition. That is all left up to our actions, discernment, and will power.

Now let’s focus on the collective timelines, imagine that there is already multiple versions of reality on Earth and in the past of one of these versions of reality, WW1 never happened. That would significantly alter the future of that reality, not to mention the ripples that would create. Now apply this same concept to any event that was devastating and could be traumatizing to our collective psyche. And you could see that although there is an infinite number of potential timelines, that it’s less likely we’d be able to access the ones that are prosperous and optimal if our collective psyche is continuously being directed into timelines that are disempowering.

As I mentioned, we shift collective timelines frequently but the wider the jump from our current reality the more awareness is required to do so. What this means is if we want to experience an optimal and prosperous timeline, we would need to stop feeding the official narratives that limit our true potential and start taking conscious actions that reflect the timeline we would want to call forth. This is how we step into our spiritual sovereignty. To give you an example of how much our environment effects the input to our feedback loop, let’s say the media for 6 months straight, on repeat, blast us with the message that celestial bodies were coming toward Earth at a rate that would accelerate our mitochondria function thereby creating a cascading effect that unlocks more of our DNA. We would all be flying around like superman in 6 months, that’s how powerful the input from our environment is to shaping our consensus reality.

As our consciousness transitions to a higher frequency, we start to experience the living reality of synchronicity. Even the universal law of cause and effect is more lenient when we are living a path that is in alignment with true order.

I say true order because waveforms are inherently chaotic which is why they represent the principle of chaos and when they stabilize into what has manifested this is what we call Order. For better or worse, it’s called order, even if it’s not technically order. And this is the true meaning of a new world order. It sounds scary because they want it to. But when you strip it down to its acoustics chaos is being generating intentionally so that they can use that to harness potential timelines into this realm to create a new order.

There’s always going to be a new order because change is constant, so don’t be intimidated by that term, instead know that you can also make a new world order as well, all we’re doing is turning chaos, which is the quantum field of pure potential, into the manifest, which is order. And we do this by healing the trauma held within the body/mind, becoming conscious as only conscious observers have the power to impact the field and by taking actions that reflect the timeline we would like to shift to.

And that’s what manifesting really is, it’s aligning with the timeline where that thing that’s wanting to be manifested is already occurring.

Timelines split all of the time, they split no different than the way a cell divides, we pulsate into and out of this reality every 10.44 cycles per second through a physics formula known as Fourier’s transform. Those who are making choices that align with timelines where there is an awakening are experiencing that feedback loop incrementally into a future with less external dissonance and that reflects the internal unity we have actualized through our healing journey. But you’re never going to see an actual split, even though it’s doing that as we speak. Instead, what you will see is the journey of the choices you made, and the really cool thing is the more you use your free will to make radical changes and empowered choices, your free will becomes a conduit to the higher order of this universe and the higher order of the universe is expressed as synchronicity aligning things to make it look like it was fate all along.

Originally Published: wakeup-world.com

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Excuse Me…Did you Say Sanskrit?

I was recently on a long-haul flight from Sydney to Vancouver.  In the row in front was a young mother with two little boys.  The flight attendant announced that no one was to use peanuts as these boys had a severe peanut allergy.  All through the flight, this mother provided her children with carefully pre-prepared food. Making sure the boys were occupied, answering their questions, resting when she could.  It was very impressive.  But what has this got to do with Sanskrit?  I’ll get to that.

First, what is Sanskrit?  It is an ancient language, some would say timeless. It is described as the language of the Universe, and a Mother of Languages.

These are grand claims to be sure, so let’s look at Sanskrit on two levels.

First, Sanskrit is a spoken language with grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, and so on.  As a Mother of Languages, Sanskrit is an etymological matriarch in the vast Indo-European family of languages, which includes Latin and Ancient Greek and the Germanic, Indian and Romance families of languages.  English, of course, is an Indo-European language.

To get an insight into the care of that young mother taking her boys home to Canada, let’s look at the power of ‘m?tri,’ the Sanskrit word for ‘mother.’ Our English ‘mother’ is cognate with matri, so, when we’re speaking English every day, we’re connected with Sanskrit meanings whether we’re aware of it or not.

 The second, deeper level of Sanskrit is as the language of the Universe.  But how is this so?  And how did that universal language affect a young family on a trans-Pacific flight?

The word ‘Sanskrita’ means ‘purified and perfectly formed.’ When we are quiet, open and receptive, without mental distractions, we hear a still small voice within.  That voice is always pure and perfectly formed— it is sanskrita.  In that quiet state we just ‘know’ the truth of that voice.

This communication occurs in our heart.  This perfectly formed language then needs to be interpreted into our vernacular language so that our mind and body can take action. This sense of ‘knowing,’ a simple alignment and resonance with this Universal language, shapes itself into a form that our mind and body can use.

Sanskrit reflects that universal language.  It uses a subtle system of verbal roots to establish a connection to that universal language.

Each simple verbal root, called a ‘dh?tu’ (????), gives rise to a myriad of words. The core meaning of all these words comes from the verbal root. This is the powerhouse of the meaning.  These roots are verbal, that is the key to the system. Verbs are ‘doing’ words, they are actions.

We generally think of ‘meaning’ as a concept or an object. We think a ‘table’ is a thing, not as the ‘act of tabling,’ the service that the table performs for us.  Sanskrit, on the other hand, is based on the idea that the actual meaning of something is what it does, the action it performs. So if a table ceases to do the act of ‘tabling,’ in other words provide us with a surface upon which to put our dinner, then it is no longer a table, it becomes something else.

Actions are a form of energy, so words in Sanskrit carry the core energy of the meaning of their particular verbal root. This is one of the astonishing and perhaps unique features of Sanskrit – that meaning is conveyed in experience not merely in concepts.

Now let’s go back to that flight to Canada.  Consider the word ‘mother’ —m?tri —written as ???? in the beautiful Devan?gar? script.  It draws its meaning from the verbal root ‘m?’ (??). M? means ‘to measure.’ So, the essential meaning behind ‘mother’ is the act of measuring.

Measuring what?

A mother cares for and nurtures the body, mind, heart, and spirit of a child.  She provides everything just in the right measure, the perfect amount for the time and place. The measures of what is needed change all the time, but a mother is perfectly designed to give the child what is needed when it is needed. The knowledge of this measuring is innate and comes in response to the child. It is known and expressed in the very act of mothering, it is not a theory or a concept. The true meaning of ‘mother’ is in the action and the experience.

Any woman, whether they have given birth to a child or not, has this natural and innate power of measuring or mothering in the presence of a child. Measuring love, encouragement, discipline, boundaries, knowledge, food, what to wear in the winter or summer, the list is endless. The measures needed to care for a baby, a young child, or a teenager are different, but the act of measuring is the constant. The greater the level of presence and awareness in the mother, the more precise the measure is.  That was certainly in evidence on that plane.

Delving into the deeper meaning of words like this is very important. The meaning we give to things shapes our world. Things such as Values, Attitude, Truth, Being, Love, Mother, and Father are not actually things.  They are actions.  What is your attitude doing to you and to the people around you, what are your values doing?

Through the timeless wisdom of Sanskrit, we can redefine, clarify, and realize new meanings, which can have a powerful and positive impact on our life.

Originally Published: omtimes.com

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A lot of people think that going through a heartache or a relationship lost is the greatest pain one could ever experience. I was definitely one of those people who thought that way until I realized that there is something far greater and more painful than having a broken heart.

The pain I experienced, one excruciating Sunday, was certainly the worst a person could ever feel. It was early morning when the beeping of my cell phone suddenly awakened me from a very peaceful sleep. At around 9 a.m, I was groping for my phone somewhere around my bed and under my pillows since I have the habit of propelling too much when sleeping. As usual, I expected to read morning messages from friends who always take the time to remind me that friendship still reigns despite distance and time. This is my typical Sunday morning, or so I thought.

After ten minutes of exploration, I successfully managed to locate my phone ad quickly opened it with much anticipation. However as I scrolled down my inbox, much to my excitement, I was shocked and horrified with what I was reading. The messages contained one same thing: My friend was dying. I found it hard to breathe at that moment. It was as if everything stopped around and inside of me. I could not move. I could not think. I could not believe.

I struggled for strength and words. I wanted to know more about what happened but somehow, a part of me was also hesitant to know. I was afraid of what I might hear. Sometimes, it is easier and less painful when you don’t know.

Suddenly, the cacophony outside suddenly snapped me out from the deafening silence that was contending inside of me. I was then brought back to the reality I was too afraid to face. At that time, I wished that it would have been better if I had not woken up from my sleep.

When I finally gained a little courage, I called up a friend and nervously asked for details on this awful news. My friend, who was obviously sobbing, frantically told me that our dear friend had been hit by a Jeep last night while she was on her way home from a party and that she was being operated as we spoke.

Upon hearing those dreadful words, an immense anger was raging inside of me. I was furious at the careless drunk driver. I was mad at her friends who persuaded her to go to the party even if she didn’t really want to in the first place. Most of all, I was angry at myself because I was not there for her. I felt helpless because I was miles away from her. I wanted to see her but at the same time, I was fearful to see her suffering. My heart could not even bear to think of the pain she was going through. I was told that almost all of her ribs were broken and that even if she was to survive, she would only suffer more since she was already brain dead.

Everything seemed very distant to me. It was as if I was being stabbed in the chest over and over but I still could not feel a thing. I was immobilized. It took me awhile to let the news sink in. I didn’t want to face the reality. I was scared of the things to come.

Indeed, sometimes God really plays jokes on people. Often we are being shown of what we are most afraid to see. The words that we dread to hear the most are usually spoken the loudest. That’s how I felt that time. It was like someone was playing a very silly joke on me. I wish that was the case.

The truth then finally hit me. Moments later, I was informed that my dear friend didn’t survive…I was crushed into pieces. The pain I felt was unbearable. It seemed so unfair that she had to die that way and that soon. She had a beautiful life ahead of her. I knew she would have wanted to live. She wanted to fight but God must have needed her so much that He wouldn’t let go of her. I became angry at Him. I just couldn’t understand why He had to get her so soon. I could not accept.

Two weeks had passed since my friend’s tragic death. I am still trying to figure out why it had to happen. Even now, I am finding it hard to move on. It’s just so difficult to let go of someone who means so much to you.

Letting go has never been easy. Losing someone will always be painful. But then I know that in time I have to let go, and for me to do this, I need to forgive myself. Forgiving others is easier than forgiving ourselves. Somehow, I must forgive myself for not being there for her. I must forgive myself for not letting her know how much our friendship means to me. I know that she knows this, in some ways, I believe I got my message across.

Moreover, letting go requires acceptance. To let go is to accept, and acceptance takes time. In my own pace, I am slowly striving to loosen my grip. As much as I don’t want to, I just know that I need to. Surely, my friend would have agreed with me.

Without a doubt, the agony of losing someone is unbearable. But as Leo Buscaglia put it:“There is no holding on, that we must let go, that there is nothing wrong with tears of parting or the pain of mourning. But the tears eventually must be dried.”

Slowly, I am now drying my tears…

Every hurt feeling that we encountered we must wipe our tears and inhale to relieve those bad feelings.

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Being capable to take duty for our affect on other people, admit and own our errors and defects, and restore trust and connection with the people close to us are all important aspects of living an accomplished life and creating healthy relationships.

Even so, many of us devaluate, contempt, and do harm to ourselves and those around us, by Apologising for who we are in a shame-based way – which generally comes from a place of shame (feeling as if we’re not good enough or there’s something inherently wrong with us).

Apologising genuinely is about accepting responsibility for our actions, our affect, or our answers, as an adult. This is addressed compunction – wishing we had not done or said something, and taking actions to address and amend the situation inside ourselves, with other people, or both.

Apologising for who we are is very much about us thinking or saying some adaptation of, “I’m bad, it’s my fault, or do not hate me,” like we are a baby looking for establishment or approval. This is a particular example of how shame comes on in our lives. And, regardless how much we might “apologize,” when it comes from this insatiate, shame-based place, we are never capable of shaking the feeling of something being wrong with who we are.

The more we acknowledge that we are apologizing for who we are, the more chance we have to look abstruser – acknowledge, experience, and carry our shame, and in the process begin to heal ourselves in a genuine way.

Stop Apologising for who you

While we all have “issues,” “blemishes,” and “challenges” in life – at the abstrusest level, there’s nothing inherently wrong with any of us. Most of us, myself included, spend and waste way too much time adjudicating, criticising, and being mean to ourselves.

Treating ourselves in that decisive way never works – it does not help us convert to better people, it does not give us accession to more passion, power, or talent, it does not make us less committed to those around us who we would like to support – it simply keeps us stuck in a negative story about who we believe we are and what we believe needs to be “fixed” about us so we can then live the life we truly would like to live.

We must love ourselves in a reliable way, we should not look for approval. There is nothing wrong with who we are as long as we are responsible for what we do. Do you agree? Please take time to comment below and share it.

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Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse.

But if you get a closer look you will notice something quite interesting…

One of the horses is blind.

His owner has chosen not to have him put down but has made him a safe and comfortable barn to live in.

This alone is pretty amazing.

But if you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell. It is coming from a smaller horse in the field.

Attached to the horse’s halter is a small, copper-colored bell. It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.

As you stand and watch these two friends you’ll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is, trusting he will not be led astray.

When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, he will stop occasionally to look back, making sure that the blind friend isn’t too far behind to hear the bell.

Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect. Or because we have problems or challenges.

He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need.

We are Not Perfect

Sometimes we are the blind horse, being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives.

And at other times we are the guide horse, helping others to find their way.

In our life, we may be the blind horse in some instance or we can be the guide horse. As a person, we may have blind spots. We won’t realize that we have done wrong somebody has to guide us to minimize the mistakes. Sometimes we can be the guide horse, guiding anyone who is weak in the aspects we are good on.

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All the wise men were puzzled by the King’s question.  They thought and thought. After a lengthy discussion, an old man suggested something which appealed to all of them.  They went to the king and gave him something written on paper, with a condition that the king was not to see it out of curiosity.  Only in extreme danger, when the King finds himself alone and there seems to be no way, only then he can see it.  The King put the papers under his Diamond ring.

Sometime later, the neighbors attacked the Kingdom.  The King and his army fought bravely but lost the battle.  The King had to flee on his horse.  The enemies were following him, getting closer and closer.  Suddenly the King found himself standing at the end of the road – that road was not going anywhere.  Underneath there was a rocky valley a thousand feet deep.  If he jumped into it, he would be finished…and he could not return because it was a small road… the sound of enemy’s horses was approaching fast.  The King became restless.  There seemed to be no way.

Then suddenly he saw the Diamond in his ring shining in the sun, and he remembered the message hidden in the ring. He opened the diamond and read the message. The message was – “THIS TOO SHALL PASS”

The King read it.  Again read it.  Suddenly something struck him – Yes! This too will pass. Only a few days ago, I was enjoying my kingdom.  I was the mightiest of all the Kings. Yet today, the Kingdom and all his pleasure have gone.  I am here trying to escape from enemies.  Like those days of luxuries have gone, this day of danger too will pass.  A calm came on his face.  He kept standing there.  The place where he was standing was full of natural beauty.  He had never known that such a beautiful place was also a part of his Kingdom.

The revelation of the message had a great effect on him. He relaxed and forgot about those following him.  After a few minutes, he realized that the noise of the horses and the enemy coming was receding.  They moved into some other part of the mountains and were near him.

The King was very brave.  He reorganized his army and fought again.  He defeated the enemy and regained his empire.  When he returned to his empire after victory, he was received with much fanfare.  The whole capital was rejoicing in the victory.  Everyone was in a festive mood.  Flowers were being showered on King from every house, from every corner.  People were dancing and singing.  For a moment King said to himself,” I am one of the bravest and greatest Kings. It is not easy to defeat me.  With all the reception and celebration he saw an ego emerging in him.

Suddenly the Diamond of his ring flashed in the sunlight and reminded him of the message. He opens it and read it again:“THIS TOO SHALL PASS”.

He became silent.  His face went through a total change – from the egoist, he moved to a state of utter humbleness.  If this too is going to pass, it is not yours.  The defeat was not yours, the victory is not yours.  You are just a watcher.  Everything passes by.  We are witnesses of all this.  We are the perceivers.  Life comes and goes.  Happiness comes and goes.  Sorrow comes and goes.

Now as you have read this story, just sit silently and evaluate your own life.  This too will pass.  Think of the moments of joy and victory in your life.  Think of the moment of Sorrow and defeat.  Are they permanent?  They all come and pass away.

Life just passes away.  There is nothing permanent in this world.  Everything changes except the law of change.  Think about it from your own perspective.  You have seen all the changes.  You have survived all setbacks, all defeats, and all sorrows.  All have passed away.  The problems in the present, they too will pass away.  Because nothing remains forever.  Joy and sorrow are the two faces of the same coin.  They both will pass away.

You are just a witness of change. Experience it, understand it, and enjoy the present moment – this too shall pass!

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