Spiritual Growth Without Losing Your Center

In this episode, the hosts explore rather than rushing forward or reacting to external pressure, they discuss how awareness and sensitivity—both to yourself and to others—create steadiness and clarity.

The conversation examines how to balance speed with discernment in personal and professional life, emphasizing the importance of trusting intuition while navigating change. It also reflects on the relationship between spirituality and personal beliefs, encouraging listeners to honor their unique journey with both enthusiasm and responsibility.

This episode offers practical insight into moving forward consciously—without losing your center.

Takeaways

• Pausing can change the outcome of situations.
• Sensitivity allows us to pick up on others' feelings.
• Choosing awareness helps in personal and professional interactions.
• Trusting your inner guidance is essential for growth.
• Balancing speed and awareness is crucial in today's fast-paced world.
• Spirituality can be made practical through self-reflection.
• Everyone has innate spiritual gifts that can be developed.
• It's important to recognize when insights are for sharing or personal understanding.
• Awareness of our true nature as souls enhances our experiences.
• Life is a journey of self-discovery and unfolding.

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In this episode, we're going to talk about pausing and then choosing awareness in the spiritual part of your journey.

How about that, Tom? So pausing. So this to me is really big because my whole life I've jumped at things ⁓ and not paused and many times not chosen awareness, especially when I was younger. And ⁓ I definitely found myself in situations where I could, if I had maybe paused for even a half a millisecond, things would have turned out a little bit differently. And so

I thought this would be a really good thing to talk about today. As you clearly I'm fucking pausing, right? Yeah, well, I mean, for me, what is pausing mean? What do mean by that? For me, how I relate to what you're sharing is that I just take a moment to relax. Exhale, inhale, get a feeling for something. And you were talking about

this morning, before we came in here, we were talking about really looking at everybody as a soul, looking into their eyes or tuning into their vibration. And my sensitivity is such that when I practice it, people can't lie to people because it's just obvious or you can't cover up. It's obvious when I use my natural spiritual gifts, and I'm a visionary, so I tend to get the picture.

and maybe a word and a feeling and an inner knowing about a person. So no matter what front they put on, there's something that I can pick up on their energy. And in addition, how that helps me is to just, how can I be of service to this person? What did they know? So if I pause and do that, I find I'm not running down a path of say, explaining something more than I need to.

would be one example in business where if I just tune into what's needed, I go, oh, they feel competent in this area. This happens at the speed of light. I don't even articulate those words. It's just this inner knowing. Yeah, I think that's where I want to share about because of the fact that we often talk about making spirituality practical, and this is a practical moment that you can definitely explore and anyone can explore for themselves.

And ⁓ it makes sense because a lot of times people can get a sense of what other people are going through or experiencing without any words, even any words. Like you're saying, it's those senses that pick up things. So an example for myself is back before in 2017 when you and I met and I got divorced that year and

whenever all that came upon, you some people around me were like, ⁓ we've known for years you've been unhappy. Like what? They're like, yeah, yeah, literally like we knew you were unhappy. I'm like, I mean, I couldn't verbalize that I wasn't happy, but I obviously had a feeling and I was obviously echoing out that feeling of what was going on within me. And so the sensitivity that other people have and that I have myself in recognizing that

especially in the business I'm working when I'm at work, I can feel, even when I connect with another billing manager or someone in my office, I can feel where they're at before I even go there, before I really interact with them at all. And so that to me is a real gift because that moment of choosing awareness has helped me recognize, OK, well, maybe this is not the right timing to make a joke about this to this person because

maybe they're not in good place or something's going on, I need to be a little more gentle with myself and with where they're at because I can feel what's going on. Yeah, I could often in business, I'd be talking to a client or a customer or someone or colleague over the phone and I could feel what they're thinking without them saying it. That would be one example of using my sensitivity. And, ⁓ you know, we have

We're all programmed with certain responses and we're trained in society to react to certain things certain ways, you know, this is what you say to this person that's what you say to that or here's your script that you and some of that is good, you know, but ⁓ You can't lie to sensitive people, you know, so You can come up with a lot of BS about something but they can feel it and so If I really want to be of service, I just tune in to what they need

you know, what are they here for and how much of what I need to explain. Again, it's not like I think about it and I calculate it. just, it's more an impression, you know, that, that comes to me. And then I think the one that's really striking me right now is certain things are none of my business. You know, I may pick up an impression about somebody and then I have to work with my guidance. Like, is that something I need to share or is that just for my

you know, inner ⁓ knowing, you know, from my wisdom so I know how to work with, you know, the situation at hand. Yeah, I think also the with this with the world we're living in now and how quick and fast everything is that the pausing and the choosing awareness and recognizing how to work how those insights, hunches and impressions flow in and like you're saying, Tom, they they are fast. It's not like

I'm sitting here pausing for 10 seconds. It's like, no, I immediately either know something, or I've got a picture, or I've got a keyword from Spirit about it. But it can be challenging for people these days because of the fact that we live in a world that is so fast. And that's part of my issue at work and has been since I got there. Because for myself, there was so much to learn, and there were so many nuances and so many things that

I had no idea. I'd never done, you know, any kind of invoicing or, you know, anything with money, etc. So and working with, you know, how many billing managers I work with, you I don't know, over 30 billing managers throughout the whole month. So I was going very fast and I wasn't slowing down. wasn't taking a moment to recognize, you know, what how to do something in a certain way. I was just going boom and boom. And then I would have to go back and repeat something and fix something because I maybe messed it up because I wasn't

going a bit slower. And so that's, I'm sharing that because it's the same way with our spiritual part. We can move and I say we, but I also can move so quickly that maybe I miss that insight. But if I take a moment and just pause before I move into a situation, I get everything I need and then some. know, and the other way that people can move through life is they are a little too slow.

Right, I know. know that they get that impression and they procrastinate on communicating and you know for whatever reason there's some confusion there or a concept there that's holding them back copying one of their parents. So the great thing about you know our We Awakening subscriptions that we work with through the Wayshower College is that we're provided some materials to help us become more aware of you know habits and attitudes that work against us.

and the habits and attitudes that do work for us, you know, are also shared. And then we do some self-reflection, people learn how to work with their spiritual helpers, they unfold their spiritual sensitivity through their four gifts, and their purpose in life and the meaning in life just gets re-ignited and re-inspired and re-awakened. Because none of what we share, this

does someone not innately know they might not be as aware or they've forgotten because of the, you know, these skin suits that we have. But you know, the other comment I was going to make is that, ⁓ so it's important that you don't blow your timing by pausing too long. You know, it's like, right. And it's important that you don't, blow your timing by being, you know, too fast or like, like you were sharing about.

So there's both the ideas to be in balance have a thought for every feeling a feeling for every thought have an an interpretation for every feeling a feeling for every interpretation and then you know things flow a little smoother in the timing of success and the timing. Yeah and it's also around trusting trusting yourself trusting the insights that you receive as your

as you're trying to be more aware and pausing for a moment, it's interesting because I hear that from a lot of people as I go through my day, don't, most people don't know exactly what I do, especially at work. Cause you know, they might not have followed me on Facebook or whatever. And so, or my, or the podcast, but, the awareness and that ability of what they say, it really shocks me. Cause I, several people, even some people close to me will say, well, I've always had that ability.

Well, yeah, that ability is your psychic ability. And my mom is number one like that. You know, she's very prophetic. And just the other day, we're in the car and she says something like, I've just I've always known what's coming. I've always known this. I'm like, well, yeah, that is your that's your prophetic part. And whenever a person is able to trust, even if they don't put words to, know, it's my prophetic part, my visionary part, my.

you know, feeling part, whatever, because, you know, in the work that Tom and I do at TNT SpiritWorks, you know, we put we put names to it just to give it give it a plate like a placeholder. OK, well, that's what this is. But if you don't do that, like my mom does it, and that's totally cool. But she does trust and she does is aware when that trust when that comes in, that ability, that prophetic part to trust it and to just allow it to unfold. It is beautiful when someone absolutely

trust from their soul essence. Sure is. One of the thoughts that I have as you're sharing is how sometimes people who are really sensitive and they do pick up insights all the time and yet they'll say, no, I don't have any ESP. I'm not, you know, I don't have any intuition when in fact I'm like, boy, if there was ever anybody that I thought was sensitive, it's you. You know, that's not what I observe in you. You seem to be picking up thoughts and feelings all the time.

So by being aware, we allow ourselves to work with it because it's our true nature as a soul. We're energy, we've always been, we're always going to be. And the time is of the essence to really, for me, to know what am I learning? ⁓ How am I evolving? How am I becoming more aware with every opportunity?

And then my guiding light is just that feeling of my thrust, which is to be happy and free. And everyone can find out about their thrust. know, we have tools and techniques that we pass on to each other that we practice and we share about so that we really go through this journey of self-discovery rather than have somebody tell us it's more of an unfolding with a bit of help from those who have made it.

who have done some of it before, have some experience in it. Well, yeah, I think that's a good key right there is because no matter if you're out there listening and you understand a lot of what we're saying and relate to it in that you also work with your awareness and work with your psychic abilities, but you also know people that may not. And so, I know the person you were sharing about a minute ago and it's quite interesting because this person, yes.

very psychic, very insightful, very aware, but then also the religious overtones and religious aspects to what this person has experienced this lifetime comes in. And there's been remarks like, know, ⁓ Teresa does witchcraft and, and Teresa does this and you know, the woo woo stuff. And it's interesting just to the dynamics of how, you know, where we've all come from, from the beginning of this lifetime and what we've put together for ourselves from our

concepts from our mom and dad, from the environment, from, again, the religious overtones or religious background, how they can flow in and out depending upon what person's talking about. Yeah, and as we've often shared about, you know, it's, we're not talking about ⁓ emotions, you know, which are like programmed responses. It's more that my true feelings, my true nature, my, when I feel relaxed, balanced within my intellect and feelings, I have confidence.

I'm in that positive frame of mind that loving mode, which is more my true nature as a soul I have a bigger picture as a soul. It's just people around us who ⁓ You know or the environment that wants us to move too fast It wants us to be thinking thinking thinking, you know, keep that intellect active instead of taking a pause So that we can get a feeling to be more in balance Yeah, so we want to invite you all out there listening to

Maybe in the next week, notice if you have times when you can take a pause and choose awareness and just get an insight as about around, know, what are you picking up on? What insights, you know, coming in that you might need at this moment after you experience that pause? Sounds good. Take a deep breath, relax, pivot yourself back into that relaxed, happy, balanced mode. And then get her done, cause. Yeah.

Again like you're saying I know people too that are freaking slow and it's like my god, let's get wait There's no time like tomorrow. Let's do it now. Yeah So staying in balance is a key also for pausing and choosing awareness So we hope you enjoyed this episode of enthusiastically spiritual. We appreciate your time We appreciate you tuning in every week and if this was something that inspired you or brought up some enthusiasm for what you're for your life and who you are

Please feel free to share it with friends and family. We would love to have more people listening and more people in the world getting more insights on how to work with the spiritual part of who they are. Yeah, let's turn on some positive vibes for everyone. Cheers to that. So until next week, remember that life is too short to not be enthusiastic about your unique journey.