If You Think You're Enlightened, Go and Spend A Week With Your Family - Ram Dass

Returning to the UK unexpectedly has transformed my relationships and shown me the powerful results of inner work. The five weeks spent reconnecting with family and friends reveals how clearing mental debris creates space for deeper connections and authentic interactions.

• Received a clear intuitive download to return to the UK for summer
• Committed to personal growth for 12 months with incredible results
• Family still triggers old patterns but now I approach them differently
• Using triggers as opportunities for growth rather than reactions
• Ram Dass quote: "If you think you are evolved, go spend a week with your family"
• Peter Crone teaching: "Life presents people and circumstances to reveal where you're not free"
• Recognising that personal triggers reveal our own wounds needing healing
• Understanding everyone is a soul having a human experience
• Experiencing profound shifts in how I relate to my mother's comments
• Inner work transforms how we relate to ourselves and consequently to others
• Everything you want is already inside you – love, possibility, and abundance

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Becoming Your Warrior
• 0:48 Sudden Return to the UK
• 1:57 Witnessing Personal Transformation
• 3:14 Triggers Reveal Growth Opportunities
• 4:41 Compassion Changes Everything
• 9:07 Embracing Your True Nature

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Welcome to the Becoming your Warrior podcast. This is the place where you get to feel inspired and empowered to step into your very best life. Hello, hello and welcome to the Becoming your Warrior podcast. It's Em. This is coming to you from a rainy afternoon in the summer of 2025 in England, in the northeast, and I am going to say this I've been back here for five weeks. It's been absolutely incredible. The weather has been sensational and it has only rained three days since I've been back. So that's pretty incredible. But yeah, the irony of recording this on a day when it's raining is not lost on me, of recording this on a day when it's raining is not lost on me. So I want to share. I've been back in the UK for five weeks.

Speaker 1: 0:50

My decision to come back to the UK was very sudden, not because anything was wrong, but just because I had a very clear download about eight days before I jumped on the flight. It was just like go back to the UK, go back and have summer in the UK. I'd taken some time off work, I wasn't really sure what I was going to do and it has been the best decision and the best download. Thank you, universe, for that one Um, to come back here because my relationships with my family and with my friends here have just gone 10x. Like I realize that all this work that I've been doing on myself because I'm such so committed to this work, I'm so committed to like freedom and freeing my mind and really really being in the present moment as much as I possibly can that I have been doing so much work on myself for the last 12 months and the diggers have come out. I've got into my subconscious and had some help along the way from some amazing coaches and cleared some old debris out the way and created a lot more space for calm and peace and love and presence in my life. And it really it's really interesting because my friends in Sydney have seen. I guess this more of a like slower transformation where now that I've come back to the UK and I've actually witnessed myself interacting in all my relationships with my mom, with my family, with my friends, and actually feeling the difference you know, when you don't see people every single day to come back and actually feel the difference and just feel the inner energy within me. It's actually amplified my relationships. I'm not saying I'm responsible for, like how amazing my friendships are, but it's like the co-creation, it's just, I just feel so different and it's just been so beautiful to be back here, to be with my friends, to be with my family and still understand that I'm still going to get triggered.

Speaker 1: 3:00

You know, there's a couple of beautiful quotes I want to throw in here. One is by Ram Dass, which is if you think you are evolved, go and spend a week with your family, and that is always where the triggers are, and there's definitely been a few. And the other one is by one of my teachers, peter Krohn. If you haven't heard of Peter Krohn before, jump on Instagram and follow him. He's just Peter Krohn. It's Krohn, like the bird C-R-O-N-E. I've done so much training with him over the last year. He's an incredible soul, incredible man, very, very lucky to have found his work.

Speaker 1: 3:37

But he has a quote which I love, which is life will present you with the people and circumstances to reveal where you're not free and what that basically means is. In life, we are going to have people who say things, who do things. We're going to have circumstances show up in our life and they are going to trigger us, they are going to evoke some sort of emotion in us and that is an opportunity for growth and to evolve that. And really now, when I look at all everything that's happened in my life, I am so grateful for it all, because all of the triggers, all of the people and that includes not very nice people from my perspective who have been in my life or who, you know, in some way shape or form have, like inverted commas, hurt me. I'm grateful for it all. I am grateful for it all because every single one of those people has helped me to understand more and more about my inner self-worth, my inner self-value. So, so, so grateful for it.

Speaker 1: 4:41

But I want to share a funny little thing that happened not that long ago, maybe about three weeks ago. I was down south visiting one of my friends and we were talking about a mutual person that we know who has happened to have an affair. And it was so interesting because my friend who I would say is a very evolved person spiritually and just a really beautiful soul, you know, was very sort of calm and at peace when she was telling me what had happened. And it was so interesting noticing this trigger in myself because I actually got angry and I was just like, oh my God, like what the heck are they doing? Like, come on, grow up. And it was really interesting because we had a conversation afterwards and I was like, do you know what I realize?

Speaker 1: 5:28

The reason that I had such a strong reaction to that story, even though it doesn't affect me at all is because I grew up in a household where my mum was cheated on in her second marriage and I saw that and I also dealt with the aftermath as a young girl and so for me, I guess there was a lot of judgment that came up and there was a lot of kind of my own anger and my own judgment and my own belief systems around cheating where in actual fact, it's like it's absolutely none of my business, it's got nothing to do with me, and this work over the last 12 months has allowed me just to see I'm a soul in a human body. That person having the affair is a soul in a human body and you know, my friend is a soul in a human body and all of us are just on this journey. Does that mean that there are people out there who harm people intentionally? Yeah, and, and you know I don't agree with that. You know if people are harming people, but we're all on our own journey and we're all here to evolve and bust through our own constraints. And I, you know, with the work that I've been doing and without making any presumptions, there's probably a part of that person that just didn't feel enough growing up, and so maybe you know and this is me just projecting maybe that person is doing that because they just need to feel that they're enough and that validation comes from doing whatever they're doing. So it's been such an interesting trip, as I said.

Speaker 1: 7:06

You know my relationships with everybody, oh, it's just been so nice and just witnessing even, I guess, some comments that my mum would have, you know, said in the last five weeks. You know it's, it's almost, they're almost comical. Now I'm like laughing at it and we're both laughing at it and laughing off where maybe three or four years ago it would have triggered me or I would have felt angry that she said certain things. And so it just goes to show, when you commit to doing the inner work, when you get the um, the old diggers out and you go into the subconscious and you, you know, really clear the path and really commit to evolving your constraints and evolving beyond your belief systems, everything can change and how you relate to yourself and how I relate to myself now is how I am going to improve and have more beautiful relationships with other people.

Speaker 1: 8:01

The more that you believe in yourself, more that you love yourself, the more well not even love yourself the more that you realize that you are love, like I am love, I am presence, I am possibility, I am, you know, joy, I am bliss, I am all the things, I am abundance. And the more that you actually realize that this is your soul speaking inside your human experience, the more compassion, the more your relationships are going to improve and it's just beautiful, beautiful work and I highly recommend it. So, wherever you are, whatever's going on in your relationships at the moment, especially, more importantly, the one to yourself, I really want to just remind you. You are love, you are possibility, you are presence. Everything you want is inside you.

Speaker 1: 8:47

I used to hate it when people used to say that, because I didn't understand what the heck it meant and how people got to that stage. But everything you want is already inside you all the love, all the possibility, all the abundance. Everything is here. And the more that you start to tap into that and realize that, the more it's reflected on the outside. Sending you so much love and I will talk to you soon. Have a beautiful morning, afternoon, evening, wherever you are. Lots of love to you and I'll chat soon. Bye, thanks for listening today, and if this episode helped or inspired you, just remember to share it to friends or family who could also use some inspiration. Today, we are all about sharing the love you.