Has anyone else noticed lately how many of the ‘spiritual’ folk completely missed the mark on their rather newish personal development journey?
It’s become readily apparent that the idea of being conscious/woke/awakened/enlightened as a concept of belonging and a ‘status’, has become more important than the actual knowledge gained or the attainment of true understanding
Not everyone is ‘triggered’ or ‘projecting‘ or ‘asleep’, or whatever other term is trending that everyone is currently regurgitating. Remember when ‘hater’ was THE THING Every time someone shared an opposing opinion or idea, they were a hater lol
Look I get it, some people are simply jealous or nasty and hide behind fake profiles to write totally inappropriate comments to instigate hatred and create drama. Butttt lately, literally every time someone writes a different opinion these days or offers their point of view on a public profile, all the supposed ‘conscious’ crew default mention of how ‘triggered’ that person must be or how they are ‘projecting’ their insecurities and issues. Whilst in some cases there is truth to that, many people need to realise that just because people see things differently, don't believe the same things as you, or offer differing opinions doesn’t mean they have ‘issues’.
I’m amazed how many people do a ‘bit’ of reading towards empowering themselves on their own personal self-development journey or spiritual path who become so self-righteous about their new found beliefs and their apparent vast psychological knowledge. People all of a sudden become ‘spiritual’ and then anything they say, do or write that you don’t agree with makes you ‘asleep’.
I never want to be so ‘enlightened’, ‘woke’, or ‘conscious’ that I become so self-absorbed to not consider potentially good criticism, or start to believe I am special enough that people are so ‘triggered’ by little old me, rather than actually considering their response, whether I agree or not.
There are often times in our life that people aren’t necessarily being ‘triggered’ or ‘projecting’ their issues onto us, but sometimes perhaps, JUST PERHAPS, we are behaving in a way that is questionable, or our beliefs are inconsistent, unsupported or unreliable? If it is completely authentic and you are just slaying at life ‘doing you’ unapologetically…..then carry on, but if you are so ‘triggered’ by people that you are now ‘projecting’ back at those them (see what I did there lol), maybe you in fact have deeper underlying issues as to why their comments or behaviours are bothering you so much?