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Your Spiritual Journey Shouldn't Come With Bars and Boundaries

• Susan Sutherland

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What happens when you break free from society’s expectations, only to realize you’ve just stepped into a different kind of cage? That’s exactly what hit me during my recent trip to Switzerland—this eye-opening realization that I had swapped conventional programming for spiritual programming, complete with its own set of rigid rules and expectations.

While skiing through those breathtaking alpine landscapes, I had hours to reflect on why my spiritually-aligned work was leaving me feeling drained. And then it clicked: I wasn’t operating from a place of flow—I was stuck in obligation, following a bunch of unwritten spiritual "shoulds" that felt just as restrictive as the societal norms I had worked so hard to escape.

In this episode, I break down the invisible bars of our spiritual cages—the rles that have us living from a new dogma instead of from our own authority. Even well-meaning habits like morning routines or self-sacrifice can turn into traps when they’re driven by comparison or guilt instead of genuine alignment.

I also share insights from A Course in Miracles on what true empathy really looks like—not getting lost in suffering, but seeing beyond it while staying engaged with the world’s challenges. This isn’t about ignoring pain; it’s about recognizing that it’s not the deepest truth of any situation or person.

So, are you ready to bend the bars of your own spiritual cage? This conversation is an invitation to question every so-called "rule" you've picked up on your spiritual journey, figure out what’s coming from external programming versus your highest self, and reclaim your personal sovereignty. Because real spirituality isn’t about following a new set of dogmas—it’s about deeply, honestly aligning with your own truth.

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Rise and shine everybody. It's time to wake up with Susan. Spiritual awakening can be a beautiful, messy and sometimes lonely journey, so let's do it together. I'm your host, susan Sutherland. I'm an intuitive healer and spiritual mentor. We are all called to rise up above our conditioning and limiting beliefs and shine our light on ourselves and others. So let's get to it. Hi everybody, welcome to this week's episode.

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I am talking about breaking out of the spiritual cage. What's that you say? Well, I know. For me, the journey to spirituality was about kind of breaking out of the cage, breaking out of the programming that we get from our family growing up, from our schools, from our society, our culture, our government, our religion, all of these things that tell us who we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to think, what we should be doing. All of these expectations that are put on us. That just started making me feel claustrophobic, like this doesn't resonate with me anymore. I've got to get out of here and I worked really hard to break out of this cage, and recently I realized that I may have upgraded, I may have switched to the cage that looks like it should be in, you know, a French bed and breakfast cottage with ivy swirling around it, but it's still a cage. It's the spiritual cage of rules and programming, of what this journey looks like, and I've had a break free of that, and so while I'm doing it, I'm going to bring you along with me, because perhaps this is something that you need to hear as well. What happened was I was getting ready for spring break and trying to get all of my to-dos done. Now I get it that I'm extremely privileged and blessed that most of my to-dos right now are in alignment with the life I want to live. However, maybe not in the quantity or in the time frame that I try to get them done. I don't know if I've mentioned on the podcast, but I started coaching a varsity tennis team. My son plays tennis for his school and they didn't have a coach, and so when the athletic director reached out to me, I said, yes, now that is a lovely job for me. Remember how I scaled back my playing of tennis? Well, the universe went ahead and filled that little space with coaching tennis, but I've really enjoyed it.

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I see myself as Maria from Sound of Music, twirling around in the field spreading some seeds, just hoping that one day some of those will sprout. And these teenage boys. Lord bless their souls. They are the unwilling participants receiving some of those seeds, because tennis is very much about mindset and your inner voice and working with each other and supporting each other and all of this stuff. And so y'all know I love that. Now are they receiving it? I don't know, because the feedback is none, but I have to trust that when I'm not looking, one of those seeds is just going to sprout. It's just going to sprout and that's fine.

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I do not need to enjoy the harvest, I enjoy planting the seeds, but anyway. So I've been doing that, which is time consuming, in the afternoons, but in such a wonderful way. But I've also been, you know, trying to do the podcast and my YouTube videos, and I even had the podcast episode I shared last week with Didi. I had that pre-recorded and I was trying to get it edited for while I was away and I was pulled in so many different directions and I just couldn't get it done and I was just kind of feeling the burden of what I'm trying to do, which is completely out of alignment with trying to do it right. I am trying to uplift people, but if you are feeling dragged down or burdened by it. It's not creating the energy to help anyway, and I know that.

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So when I went to we went to Switzerland on my spring break. When I got a break on my kid's spring break, we went to Switzerland and I didn't take a computer and the second we left the house I realized how much I needed this break and it had me thinking like you get to do exactly what you want to do. How are you burnt out? And, fortunately for me, I had hours on a ski slope where I was trying not to think about falling and tearing an ACL or breaking my face or whatever, because I'm not a confident skier, so anything I can occupy my mind with is better than thinking about going down the hill. So what I did was think of all the ways I have created this spiritual cage and I thought of other ways that probably impact others more than me.

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But there are some bars around this cage and I want to talk about it, because it's not freedom if we have created this whole other set of dogma that we are now subscribing to, and some of it has been really prevalent lately as we are dealing with political unrest, but also because March was crazy energy I don't know if anybody else felt just weird shifts, not weird. Some of it feels really exciting, like we are on the edge of something big happening, and some of it feels just really volatile, like you need to be outside and grounding. And I think that's what I was lacking when I was trying to get everything recorded. Even we're going through the text of A Course in Miracles and it was just a lot of reading and recording and I lacked the outside time, I lacked grounding in nature, I lacked all of these things and I think that's why it kind of snowballed on me. But it did allow me to have this thought about what this spiritual cage looks like and you know what it means to be a light worker versus a light slave and how we have to really check ourselves. So that's what we're talking about today.

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I've named the bars on the cage and I want to go through them with you. Some of them you might identify with. Some of them you might be like nope, not me, I don't, I don't have that issue at all. But let's talk about it, because when you talk about something, it doesn't have power over you. You diminish its power over you, and so I'm going to call myself out for subscribing to rules that I'm no longer subscribing to because this bird needs to fly. I am not good for a cage, y'all Nope. Before I get to that, I want to tell you this because this also came up in a conversation that I was having with a friend this morning who went through a lot of stuff in March and she was saying how she was really kind of impressed with herself and proud of herself because this kind of adversity had. You know, she had gotten through it. She felt okay, she didn't feel like she was bulldozed over by the situation.

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Now we were in Switzerland and the morning that we were going to come back we were flying through Heathrow. Who can jump ahead and see what happened? Mark turned on the TV in the hotel room it happened to be on BBC and there's a fire and there they're saying that Heathrow is shut down. So 20 minutes before we are getting an Uber to go to the airport, we see that we don't have any flights. Our flights are canceled. So he has executive status with American Airlines and called and spent a long time on the phone trying to get this sorted out because, guess what, so was everybody else. So he's on the phone trying to get this sorted out, because, guess what, so was everybody else. So he's on the phone trying to deal with it and there's no flights out.

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They didn't know when Heathrow would open and she couldn't get us anywhere else. This is why, because somehow they had separated our tickets on our way over there so we could get bumped up to business class with his status, but they had to separate us out from the kids, and so we had a ticket with me and Mark, and then the kids were on a different ticket. That will never, ever happen again. If they ever tell you about doing something like that, no, just say no. Okay. Anyway, when she's trying to rebook us now, we can't go like one adult and one child, because we're on separate tickets, and if they rebook it, then it is like a new flight. It's not just a rescheduled flight. We would have to pay for it, and so she's having to look at partner airlines that would give up five seats.

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Well, those were apparently hard to come by, so we couldn't get a flight out for two days, and it was from a different city Zurich so we actually stayed in Geneva an extra day and enjoyed our time there, and then the next day we went to Zurich Because I had never been there, the kids have never been there, and we wanted to tour there If we've got an extra day, see a new city. So we took the train there, which was fantastic you go across the whole country in two hours. It was amazing and comfortable and lovely and we got to Zurich and enjoyed our day there, and the next morning we were up and we went to the airport and got there and, for whatever reason, my kids had been placed on standby. So now Mark and I have a seat on the plane to the United States and one of our children has a seat on the plane to the United States and two of them don't. And I really believe that I am raising adults, that I need them to know how to function and thrive in the world, but I'm not at the place where I can leave two of my kids to fly across the world by themselves, like, hey, y'all, hang out here and see if you get a flight later. We're just not quite there yet, even though my 16-year-old was trying to convince me that that would be fine.

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No, so it was really something y'all, and Mark was dealing with the lady and trying to navigate this and was really keeping his wits about him, and American Airlines was announcing at this point giving up $1,200 travel vouchers for anybody who would give up their seat on the plane. It's overbooked. They need to get us on the plane, but they're having to find somebody's butt who's not going to get in their seat so that our kids could get on there, somebody's butt who's not going to get in their seat so that we, our kids, could get on there. So, anyway, these two guys who were traveling individually they were solo travelers ended up going up and saying that they would stay back. The airline was going to pay for their hotel and get them their next flight and give them a $1,200 travel voucher. So they were doing that, but we didn't know that everything was taken care of until they were like boarding group six. Right it was.

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You get there hours early for an international flight and we didn't know until the flight was nearly fully booked that we would even be on it Not fully booked, fully like loaded, like butts in the seat. And this is from. Mark gets on a plane first. I don't really understand why I need to sit on a plane for 30 extra minutes, but he likes being like first man on the plane, he's group one, he's in his seat, so this is, this is so out of his comfort zone.

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And Zosia says to me she's like you do realize that three years ago dad would have completely blown his head up by now Like he would. He would have like the anger would have just made his skull explode. And I was like I actually do realize that, I do realize that and we were able to, as a family, witness his growth. Now she also did say he would have exploded but we would have had a flight on Saturday because he was really effective as an angry person. Nevertheless, he was able to deal with the people on the phone, he was able to deal with all of the people at the desk in such a clear-headed manner. And it was really nice that my daughter pointed out this growth to him because he was really able to respond and not react out of anger and frustration.

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And I remember seeing something just before that that maybe the universe is not testing you but maybe it's allowing you opportunity to prove you are who you say you are. That's just kind of what came to my mind as I'm watching him and witnessing this growth and my friend that I was texting with this morning, that went through such a rocky march and was just saying you know, I got to prove to myself that this work really matters, that something that would have just bulldozed me a year ago didn't run me over, and I know I've shared with you guys probably not you guys, because it was in a very early episode and likely you didn't hear that, but if you were one of the five original listeners, you've heard this before. But it was about them trying to grow trees in a biodome and when the trees would get to a certain height, they just topple over. And it's because there were no external factors, there was no wind pushing them around, allowing or forcing really the roots to grow deeper so that they strengthen the tree's base. And so when the tree gets high enough, it just topples over because it doesn't have the depth to support base. And so when the tree gets high enough, it just topples over because it doesn't have the depth to support it. And so a lot of times our situations that come up for us don't feel like oh God, the world is trying to knock me over. Maybe it is either strengthening your roots or proving how deep they are, and so that was one of the things, maybe one of the most profound things in my travel was getting to witness him with adversity and handle it so much differently than he would have just a few years ago, and so that was really special and has nothing to do with a spiritual cage. So I'm going to carry on now back to the subject. But I really hope, as you face adversity, you can see where it is just reflecting back your growth, because that's really really important. All right, here we go.

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So when I started thinking about have I left the rat race and joined the hummingbird race, I just really started focusing on what areas have I swapped one set of rules for another, one cage for another, and I went through like my whole life looking for new programming so that I could get rid of it. So here are the bars that I have named for this new cage. Some of mine are really skinny bars, like don't really apply to me, but they're there and they might be thicker on yours. And then some of the some of the bars are pretty thick and I realized that I've got some work to do in just being like nope, not for me, thank you, all right. The first one is the purity bar, this idea, that spirituality, that spirituality. This life has all of these rules around your food, what you wear, your thoughts, your actions, and I know for me, when I watch certain people, they are channelers that I like. I notice what they're wearing and then it's like, oh well, does that look more spiritual than like my black shirt? I was like what FETF Susan like, seriously, but I have these thoughts because there is this underlying program running of what looks spiritual.

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Also, when I was away, let me tell you the food is different. The food is different. We skied into Italy, had pasta, like I had a red sauce pasta, two of my kids had this cheesy, creamy gnocchi, mark had this big pasta and beer, and then we went back to the mountain and skied, whereas here we would be like looking for our bed to take a nap. The food makes you comatose and feel heavy and lethargic, and there it really didn't, and so I was. Eating is a very different, because I got back from this vacation and I shared the podcast from when I had just returned from Peru, when I was talking to Didi, and I was eating so clean and feeling so good in my body.

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Now I don't feel bad in my body right now, but let me tell you, I did not eat clean in Switzerland. I was not on an ayahuasca diet, and so I had an enormous amount of croissants, some filled with chocolate. I had just delicious bread and delicious pastry, and I had cheese, not just little bits of cheese like dipping in the fondue cheese. I had all of these things and I still felt good in my body. But it had me thinking about. You know, here I have felt like I have to eat a certain way because of my energy, because of what feels good in my body, and I think that's true.

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And over there, energy because of what feels good in my body, and I think that's true. And over there it was different, because different foods didn't make me feel the same as here. And so maybe the food is not the culprit, but our ways of processing it here in our country are the culprit. And so Mark said, well, would you eat chicken here? And I didn't do it. But it just started making me think about, like, do I not eat chicken because it doesn't feel good in my body, which it doesn't, but is it because it's chicken? And I think that it's spiritual to not eat the chicken, which doesn't really make a lot of sense because I do eat the fish. Or is it because our ways of processing meat are not in alignment with the energy that I wish to hold? I don't know, but it started making me think about all of these rules that we have around, what is spiritual, what is spiritual to wear or think or eat.

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And even I had a friend that I was chatting with and she was going through March. She was living in March and was dealing with a lot of emotions and kind of confessed that it's easier for her to deal with sadness and grief than it is for her to acknowledge and process the anger and the resentment that she's feeling. And isn't that true? Because we have labeled which feelings and which emotions are spiritual and the others are like somehow beneath us and we shouldn't be feeling those. So it's like that is one of what one of the bars of the cage is, this purity aspect of these. These things are the spiritual way and everything else is not. And I'm going to go and tell you that's all wrong. That is all wrong. And the more I learn about our soul's origins and what we need, if you have a soul that is particularly fond of earth. Like earth is where you are a earth soul and most of your incarnations have been here, then your food and the density of the food that you eat is heavier. You will need to have different food than somebody of a different energetic makeup, and so having this rule about there is one way that things should be and that's what makes it spiritual is just it's garbage. It's just garbage. So I was thinking about that. So that's one of the I say it's garbage. And also I'm letting you know I was prescribing to it until I brought awareness to it to say it is garbage. I was still following these guidelines without even knowing it that I do this because it's more spiritual and I don't think I would have said that before, but when I started looking under the magnifying glass for where these rules are popping up, it was certainly there Another one that a lot of people struggle with.

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This is a thick bar, is the discipline bar. This is the pressure to follow spiritual routines or else feel like you're falling behind, to have a set morning practice and I really believe in a morning practice when that morning practice feels like it's in alignment and feels like it is life-giving. Our problem is we make it part of the cage where it's like oh, did you do your this and did you do your that? And if you didn't now you feel guilty about it. Or if somebody else is doing more, then you feel less than, and that's where it becomes part of the cage. Is this comparison, or even self-judgment, that somehow we didn't do enough, or somehow like spiritual ego, where it's like I did all of my things, therefore I am so spiritual? It's like that's not what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to be filling you up from the inside, not creating a source of guilt or comparison or judgment.

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The next bar of our cage is the light only bar, which really ties into the purity of thoughts as well. But it's this rejection of anger or grief or shadow work or anything that seems outside of being all love and light. It's this kind of rejection that, once you're spiritual, you can't feel the murkiness or you can't acknowledge the murkiness and it's kind of I mean, it's not whitewashing, it's lightwashing. It's lightwashing this reality. And just because we are aware of the illusion or aware that this is not our reality, that, susan Sutherland, is not my essence to ignore when things are hard or when I feel sad or when I feel burnt out.

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Doing spiritual work. Me having to come to terms with saying that and how ridiculous it sounds, is part of that cage. That's the light only bar. That's like. No, I'm doing this work. It's always uplifting, it's always wonderful. Check it, susan. Is that actually true? Is it true? And why do I feel like it has to be true? Because me coming to terms with this has allowed me to do a lot of reflection about what is the problem, and for me, a lot of the problem was I need to be outside more, and so I came back with hours that I'm not allowed to work, as opposed to things I need to do more of. It was like you can do as much as you can fit in these blocks of time, and the rest of it you actually need to explore. We had an energetic coaching class recently and he was talking about, instead of entrepreneurship, it was adventurepreneurship keeping yourself inspired by being adventurous. And if you sit in front of a computer all the time, even if it is stuff that is life-giving to you, that is purposeful to you, it is no way to live. So my challenge to myself is to turn it off and go outside. So I planted a garden. Yes, I did this weekend.

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All right, the next bar on the cage is the no materialism bar. This is belief that money or comfort is not spiritual. It is the belief that somehow having things makes you not spiritual. And this is one that's in my face all the time because my husband likes things. He likes things very much, and so I'm constantly having this discussion and I have done a lot of money work to help me understand that that's not the case, but I do have it, you know, come up regularly for me where I have to check that one, and so it's one that I have always known about. That bar that I'm, you know, bending to make sure I don't get trapped behind it, where some of these others were a little more subtle for me, they were a little more nuanced, and I had to dig to find where those bars were.

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The money bar the money bar tied to spirituality, is there and I don't agree with it. I think money is a tool and the more I have, the more I can help others, the more I could create while living in flow. I mean y'all when I start paying somebody to edit these videos and I can make videos and then go outside and play in the grass like life is good y'all. Money can be a tool for that, and so I know it's not bad in my brain, in my mouth, but there are these things that still come up that I have to keep that in check on for sure.

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All right, the next bar on our cage is the authenticity bar, and I feel like 2025 is making it more and more apparent when somebody is not acting authentically. But I feel like this bar is very present in that creators or influencers or anybody who's in the spiritual space feels like they have to always be embodying their highest self, and a lot of times it feels performative. It doesn't feel like they are authentically sharing from their heart, and I think this is one of those big bars that the spiritual cage has. Is this feeling that you always have to be presenting in a certain way, and that's when people are not showing up as their authentic self because they have this expectation of what a spiritual person looks like. All right, the next bar is the right way to heal bar.

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A lot of spiritual people have gone through a lot of work themselves and because it worked for them, they have decided it is the right way for everyone and turns out you don't know. You don't know what the right way for that person is, and so all we can do is say this is, from my perspective, what worked for me. But trying to take your perspective and making it a prescription that will work for everybody else is just another rule. It is another program that this is the way, this is the way and I know I got out of church because I was so uncomfortable with there being one way because there is not and so the right way to heal is is just a different version of that same programmed philosophy that there's only one way and there's not. All right, this is a big one on my cage.

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It's the no shoulds bar, the paradox of feeling like you shouldn't have rules, which is a rule itself, but for me, I feel like I tried so hard to give myself time, freedom to break out of I don't know the conformity of what I was doing, of the rat race, and then I ended up feeling like anytime I give myself parameters, that it's a should and I shouldn't have shoulds, which is so stupid. And I'm having to work on releasing that, because actually having discipline and organization is very much in line with what I should be doing. However, I am so resistant to having even a calendar and a schedule. I know how ridiculous this sounds, but I'm telling you my push to get out of that cage, that old cage, that old programming. So much, uh, about finding this freedom and and when I think about programming anything like regularly scheduled into my life, I have this resistance. And it is about this, this feeling like I should always just be going with my heart and doing what, what feels good and y'all. That's ridiculous. And so, as I'm saying it, I realize how ridiculous it is. But I'm telling you, when I was thinking about this cage, the no shoulds bar is a thick one. It's a thick bar for me.

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Another big one is the self-sacrifice bar, this belief that service means giving until you're empty. It's kind of the being a light slave and not a light worker and really needing to strike that balance. And I try to always remember to add with joy and ease. When I'm setting an intention to be impactful, when I am setting an intention to call in new clients or call in new ways to make a difference, I try to always remember to add in with joy and ease, because I do know it is very much a spiritual trap right To choose, and if you request to be impactful, if you request to help many people, they will find you. They'll find you at the grocery store. In all different ways, you will be the person people come to until you are drained to nothing. So it's really important to set the intention that you serve with joy and ease, whatever will replenish you while giving out. That is what we have to do, because otherwise we really push ourselves past the capacity and we are here to also play the game, to experience adventure, to experience joy and living on this beautiful earth and having a good time. And if you are stuck always in service, it will drain you. And we have to be careful because I think that is a big one that we have such good intention and good hearts and we want to do so much and make such a profound impact that we can do it to where it really is draining as opposed to uplifting us and everybody else. So watch for that bar on your cage, all right. And now this is one that was coming up for me even before spring break and it's a big one, y'all.

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It's the detachment bar, the idea that being spiritual means staying out of politics, out of world events, out of having personal opinions. It's like this spiritual bypassing, that somehow being spiritual means you don't have to see what's going on because you understand that the situation is not their true reality, that you don't see it at all. People kind of bypassing what's going on or pretending no, I shouldn't say pretending I think they really believe it. But feeling like being spiritual means not having an opinion and it's just not true. You can have an opinion. We are here in these human bodies to live out with our personality, knowing that even the perpetrators are not outside of love or outside of God and they are playing a role in divine order. But we can still witness to the situations that we're going through.

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There's a beautiful quote in A Course in Miracles that says to empathize does not mean to join in the suffering. So our ego mindset would have you think that to empathize is to feel someone's pain, to suffer alongside of them. A Course in Miracles would remind you that when we join in suffering, we are affirming that it is real and powerful and strengthening it with our energy. For example, if somebody is drowning in grief or anger and you join them in that space, you are now amplifying the energy of that grief or that anger and, instead of lifting them, you sink deeper. So, while I understand, from a spiritual space, when we know that we don't want to be part of the nasty things that can go on in our country or in the world, we don't want to empathize in the way that would bring us into the suffering.

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However, true empathy means to see beyond the suffering, to see beyond the pain and holding a space there for truth and love and wholeness. It does not mean dismissing or ignoring someone's pain. It means recognizing that their suffering is not the deepest truth about them. So, instead of matching their energy, you remain anchored in love. But it doesn't mean you turn your head. It doesn't mean you don't participate. It doesn't mean you ignore the circumstance. Instead of saying yes, this pain is real and overwhelming, you can silently say you are whole, you are loved and this pain does not define you. Instead of drowning with them, you offer them a steady hand to lift them up back to peace, of course, in miracles, uses Jesus, of course, as an example and describes him as the ultimate example of this. He saw the suffering in the world, but never believed in it as reality. He healed not by joining in the pain, but seeing beyond it, recognizing the divine truth of each person and reminding them of their wholeness. When you approach suffering, from this place you become a beacon of peace instead of another lost traveler in the storm.

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So next time you witness suffering, do not turn away, don't pretend that it's not happening, whether it is a loved one or a stranger, or even yourself. Just ask am I reinforcing the illusion of suffering or am I holding a space for healing? Am I joining in the pain or am I anchoring in love? How would love respond in this moment? And the reason I'm telling you this is because I think there are so many people who are not engaged, and not engaging doesn't help the solution, and I think we are called to help the solution. So sometimes it's with our voice and sometimes with our action. And if you're not called to either of them, you can still anchor in love and lift the vibration of the situation by seeing it beyond the suffering, by uplifting the situation to meet you in love.

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That's the other bar. Just thinking that somehow you're not spiritual if you have an opinion or if you have a stance on something? No, if you are judging people who do, though newsflash. That judgment is keeping you less spiritual than them having an opinion. What we have to do is see everyone as playing the game. We are playing the game, but how would we like to the game to be played with love? How can we uplift this to love? How can we expose the aspects that are not of truth and not of love? Because maybe that's the game right? All right. So what we did there was name our bars, and we named them because in naming them, it weakens their hold. Once we see them, we can make conscious choices.

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And so, as you're evaluating your decisions, if you start thinking like I have to do this because it's spiritual or I'm not doing this, you probably don't even put it in those terms, but when you are facing new shoulds, new rules, ask yourself where they came from. Which bar would this be? Is it in alignment with your true self, your true beliefs? Like, if something doesn't feel good in your body, don't do it. Don't do it because it doesn't feel good to you, not because you read a spiritual book that you shouldn't do it. You see the difference there. It is all about gaining that sovereignty and dude, that's a whole series coming soon. It's about reclaiming our personal sovereignty, because I think this is what this was for me is making me realize the new rules, and I don't want any rules. Thank you very much. I'm done with them. I'm done with the rules.

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So I told you, the things I'm coming back with is really bringing awareness when I'm making a decision, from a place of this new role paradigm, when I am inside the pretty little white bird cage making decisions and then check with myself and it's like wait a second. Am I doing this because it's something that resonates with me or is it because it's something I read or I watched or I was told is spiritual? Because it's very different when it's my choice, when it's my choice, and it feels in alignment with love. That is spiritual, but it is coming from me. I would love for you to share with me some of the rules that you have unknowingly adopted in the name of spirituality. What would it look like if you dropped them? Maybe you wouldn't keep on the same practice, maybe it would still feel good to you, but it wouldn't be a rule. I am incredibly curious. So I do hope you will share if you've got any of those rules yourself, and it could just be like.

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I learned that this fabric holds a higher vibration and that feels in alignment with what I want to do. I choose to not use single use plastics or whatever it is like this feels in alignment with who I want to be. Is it because it's truly your decision and in alignment with you, or because it was prescribed, as these are the things spiritual people do? I really hope we can have a little bit of a conversation on this one person podcast about some of these rules, because I'm really curious. I don't feel like I'm the only one who ended up in a new cage, but I'd love to hear from you about this.

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Let's just remember spirituality isn't about following a set of rules. It is about deep, honest alignment with your own truth. Let's crush the bars. Let's be barbenders. Who is going to join me in breaking those bars and getting out of the cage, finding that true sovereignty so that your decisions are from your highest self, which is the most spiritual thing you can do? Thanks for listening. This was a ramble. I hope you got through it and I hope perhaps it gave you something to contemplate about your own journey. I love you so much. Thanks for listening or, if you are, on YouTube with me. Thank you for watching. Thank you so much for joining me this week. Be sure to not miss any upcoming episodes by subscribing to the podcast. That way, it's available automatically in your RSS feed. This is a crazy journey. Let's do it together.

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