Seven Essential Truths for a Soulful Life

These seven essential truths were a gift that came to me during a spiritual awakening I experienced when I was 33 and struggling with debilitating anxiety. I had prayed, “Show me the way.” The guidance I received was that these seven truths would help me stay awake, which I understood would be my challenge and ongoing work. Whenever I stumble on my path, they are still where I look first. All these years later, they still hold true.

I hope these truths will help you as well.

1st truth

the human body holds infinite wisdom

Practice: Listen to your body

My awakening led me to understand healing and wholeness cannot happen in the thinking mind alone. After years of devouring and exhausting traditional and esoteric means to try and find relief, I had the realization that the wisdom I sought to end my suffering resided in my body. This realization led me to many years of practice, learning to listen to my embodied wisdom.

2nd Truth

energy doesn't lie

Practice: Move your body

I understood that part of what ailed me was how my personal and collective history and trauma had been stored in my body. Years of unexpressed feeling, and emotion needed to be felt and released. That energy needed to move so the rest of my system could operate fluidly and optimally. I learned to follow my body, and move and witness what is authentic and real, which created ultimate freedom of being.

3rd Truth

a clear body channel holds the highest truth

Practice: Put good things in your body

I learned that everything I put in my body mattered and had some effect, sometimes immediate, other times cumulatively. I began to notice the shift in energy and moods as it related to what I ingested. I was less fuzzy and irritable overall. This reality lead me to embracing intuitive eating and celebration, rather than medicating and distraction. I have an 80/20 plan. 80% of the time I make the healthiest choices possible, 20% of the time I make room for the some “better bad choices.”