Removing the mask

Suffering is akin to a mask believing it is the face. Awakening begins when we remember we are the one wearing it.

With this awareness, the way in which we view pain or suffering suddenly transforms. We begin to realise that they are merely a tool for growth. It invites insight, without which we rarely ask the deepest questions.

Everything that happens to us is evolutionary. It serves our growth. The key is how we move through the experiences. We only make it heavier by trying to resist it. Resistance creates pressure.

When we begin to release this pressure, we notice that what is happening is actually happening outside of us. It is not who we are.

Don’t identify with the pain.

When we stop identifying with it, we separate ourselves from the experience. Suffering then becomes just an interpretation of information. Learn from that information and grow from it.

Better yet, take off the mask. Remember who you are.

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When we enter our new chapter in 2026 with a sense of gratitude, that is the foundation from which our Highest Self thrives. That is the secret.

According to numerology, we are ending a 9-year cycle at the end of 2025. If we allow ourselves to briefly think back to 2017 when the cycle started, and from there, have gratitude for everything we went through and where it has brought us today, we would find out that there was a version of us 9 years ago that wanted to be where we are today!

So as this 9-year cycle of transformation and completion ends with the year of the snake shedding and metamorphosising, we transition into 2026 and the start of a new 9-year cycle. The 2026 year adds up to the number 1, representing new beginnings and fresh energy. Coupled with the year of the horse representing speed, our manifestations are determined to come into fruition with full speed ahead. There is no need to chase. We just have to take some time to pause and honour how far we’ve come, to recognise the resilience mastered, the lessons endured, and the wins gained. Just being in gratitude for the versions of us that got us here today and that still carries us.

Gratitude grounds us in the present so that the doors to can open and we can step into our next chapter with grace and ease. This moment, this version of us, is the foundation of our future, Highest Self.

You are more than worthy for what lies ahead.

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The secret to stepping into your Highest Self

Why does walking the spiritual path seem so lonely?

The spiritual journey is a lonely one is because it changes the way you connect with people. Conversations start feeling surface-level. The way you measure success and your motivations shifts. Those motivations once rooted in status, comparison and external validation, don’t hold any grip anymore. Your day-to-day, the things you once found meaning in, now don’t have the same definitions.

As the awareness in you deepens, your inner reference points begin to shift. You’re transcending lower density frequencies and patterning and attuning into higher vibrational states of awareness and existence. This transition therefore gives you a sense of separation, even though you are physically still among others.

Walking the spiritual path feels lonely in the beginning. Spiritual growth is an inward journey. The work happens in silence. No one can walk it with you in real time. Even gurus or those on similar paths can only point the way. The actual work must be done alone, by you. That can feel isolating.

Over time, however, loneliness gives way to a different kind of connection. You may have fewer relationships, but they will be deeper ones. Your tribe, those aligned to the upgraded frequencies you now emit, will be drawn to you. But first, you will have to become at ease and comfortable resting in the stillness within yourself, in that spacious void, in the presence of awareness.

Have faith and trust that this time of loneliness is just a sign that something greater is alchemising for you, so that you will be able to embody a more authentic way of being. It is a necessary part of your soul's evolution.

For more insight, read about the stages of hermit mode here.

Awakening (or enlightenment) is not about attaining a special state. It is the great remembering, a waking up to the knowing that we are - and have always been - one with universal consciousness energy, just manifested in physical form.

When we wake up to this understanding, we realise that we've really just been a character in a video game all along. We suffer on the physical plane, believing we are this character. We identify with the conditioned patterns of thoughts, emotions and behaviour of this character. In doing so, we've created suffering for ourselves and others. When we finally recognise this and decide to exit the game, our character doesn't exist anymore, and we see ourself for who we truly are.

Enlightenment is being lit up with the realisation that we have been living from an egoic pattern of consciousness. Once we wake with this awareness, we have awakened, and we realign to that state of pure bliss and peace that has always been our natural state.

What is Awakening?