It’s not your fault, here’s one reason…
One reason we may feel like we’ve hit a wall is because the teacher doesn’t have genuine realization or insight, or they can’t or don’t know how to help you have your own.
I know you’ve been working hard and want to see more results; you certainly deserve it.
You may have recognized this and be on the elusive hunt for a spiritual teacher who actually has some realization, not just a psychologist, preacher, or new age entrepreneur.
The second reason we get stuck…
You probably “get” the teachings intellectually, they have been resonating, they sound good don’t they?
…but… the spiritual teachings are just a little bit too lofty, a little too far removed from our current reality and we can’t see how to reach them.
You want them in your actual experience of life, but despite all your inner work you’ve not reached your goal, are stuck and don’t know how to move forward.
You don’t know what to do next, right?
How do I know? I understand—I’ve been there, too. I heard all the happy enlighenment and “Oneness” stories and teachings, it all made sense, mentally, intellectually, but I was still stressed and stuck actually.
How my journey unfolded
I felt like I needed more than just good literature or lectures; I needed personal guidance on how to go beyond where I was, and what I could see.
At the time, the only thing I could see was painful. My father suffered, became depressed, and died by suicide. That pushed me strongly along the spiritual path.
Years later my own pain and suffering around being dumped in relationship escalated my pain and made my seeking even more urgent. I started looking for personal help.
I wanted a genuine spiritual teacher who was not religious, not woo-woo, not just motivational, and not just a marketer selling woo woo stuff!
To me, that’s all about mind; it’s just about thinking better thoughts, believing and telling better stories about me or others, and honestly I felt that was all pretty shallow and weak.
“Think it and it will come?” Bah! I never believed it. Just like I could never believe in religions. I didn’t want belief, faith, hope or imagination.
I didn’t know it then, but I wanted something real.
However all the real spiritual mentors were either dead, too far away or simply out of reach. I didn’t have money to travel, nor could I afford the time.
And it’s also hard to know who is truly genuine, and not a cult risk.
In my painful stumbling around I managed to breakthrough with the timeless, true and real wisdom of teachers who are no longer alive.
I began to experiment with the reality of the teachings and my living experience.
Insights began to arise, recognitions began to dawn, and then alignments between my actual life experience and the teachings started to fall into place.
How it becomes real in our life
It didn’t only make intellectual or even just intuitive sense anymore—I actually saw what the teachings meant in reality, and they were landing in my life.
My experiments with the body-mind showed me very fundamental things beyond the mind, and even contradicted the mind!
These recognitions contradicted the most basic things I took for granted as real and true my whole life, like what this experience called human life is all about.
They openend me beyond the painful stories in my mind, freeing me from all my stories about myself, others, the world, and even God.
My final, joyful and permanent release happened through my own direct experience and experiments with this body-mind.
That’s how I came to know that it’s not by “preaching” (mere lecturing), and not even by teaching that we truly learn and transform. It’s by your own experience. But not just the usual experience people have.
You have to have unusual experiences to have insight beyond our usual mind.
Insights are not beliefs, ideas nor thoughts of any form; they are not mental knowledge.
True knowledge, especially of your Self
Real insights beyond the mind leave you speechless, but knowing. Real knowledge is not mind-based, it’s the direct, irrefutable recognition of the truth.
As real, and not mere thought, they don’t come and go and so are reliable, stable, and that gives such peace.
The true teachings are important pointers, but if we don’t know how apply them in our real experience for real insight, they are worthless.
So I began to share these body-mind experiments with others, who are also now having insights and realizations that land and are changing their lives, from the inside out.
Why spiritual concepts haven’t worked
No matter how hard you’ve tried, you may still be stuck—and it’s not your fault that woo-woo ideas just don’t work.
They simply don’t work because they remain conceptual when they don’t leave the realm of the mind to become real in your experience.
What happens is that we do have a problem, but we don’t know the true cause, and there are many new age marketers who know how to capitalize on that problem and need to sell things, but they don’t actually know how to help with it.
They make up solutions and then sell these solutions, which are based on their mental creativity and not on realization.
The end result? No results, because it’s not real.
You may become pumped up and motivated, excited about a new idea, but it can’t last because the mind and thoughts are quick and impermanent.
There’s no truth or reality to mere mental ideas, because thoughts come and go… perhaps faster than the speed of light!
We can go ’round and ’round like a hamster on the healing wheel, getting nowhere—and we call it spirituality.
We must not remain on the level of the mind, we have to get real.
Spirituality is not imaginary concept, and it’s not separate from the world. Real world body-mind experiements bring insights into your reality.
Making a real and lasting personal difference
In 2010 my book won the Next Top Spiritual Author Contest, but I turned the win down. Instead of focusing on marketing and selling books, I began to work deeply with people for 14 years.
By actually engaging people personally, together we have honed the revealing body-mind experiments so that people can use them to heal and free themselves through insightful realizations—which can’t be lost!
Once you see and know what you didn’t know, you can’t “unsee” or “unknow” it. There are no “I lost my awakening” stories in our community.
My life’s work (since what I call “the direct seeing” of myself as all, and all as myself), included actually guiding people through using the body-mind experiments.
That work has made the wisdom of the sages accessible and applicable to all in modern life.
You can have the experiences and insights that change your most fundamental beliefs, not just limiting human ones, but existential ones.
The first book I wrote speaks about the “direct seeing,” but it is not about these experiements and insights I now speak of, and that’s because they came later from guiding people.
There is a third book in the works, that will encompass all of this, but as you may know, no book can enlighten you.
You need to do the real work that makes a real difference, and having the guidance you need will speed it up and ensure you don’t get lost and don’t waste any time.
Don’t know how to stay present “in the now”?
What is “the now”? What is the “present”? What does all the new age spiritual jargon really mean anyway, in your real and actual experience? Woo-woo teachings are notorious for being vague, conceptual and inapplicable.
They are often based on the true and timeless teachings of the sages and saints, but they may be distorted or just not made real in your life.
What if someone could help you see what it all means, in your own experience?
It may seem like the days of authentic student-teacher relationships—accesssible ones that go beyond traditional classrooms and are free from manipulative or cult-like dynamics—are long gone.
But that kind of connection is still available!
Of course you have to see for yourself
You’re invited to check out my backstory, find out what happened to me, and to browse my free Youtube videos to get a taste of conscious awakening inquiry coaching.
Don’t believe me though, listen to stories like these from of our reality loving members who keep it real. (We’ve got way more of these to come soon ;).
THE TIMELESS TEACHINGS, applied today that:
- are rooted in personal experience rather than abstract theory
- practical, simple, tangible form of spirituality, not abstract, complex, or unattainable
- offers tools for dealing with stress, anxiety, or conflict in practical ways
- are highly graspable, easy to understand, apply, and integrate into daily life
- are simple, relatable, and intuitive, allowing people to connect with it without needing specialized knowledge, deep study, or complex rituals
- able to trigger insight that transcends yet includes and embraces life
- includes or takes care of how you feel, how you treat others, and how you relate to the world around you
- relatable and easily applicable for anyone, regardless of background or belief system
- Our tools: reality, inquiry, and love and joy
A SPIRITUAL TEACHER who:
- has a long, positive history free from scandal or distrust, and is not pushing pills, chakras or magic mushrooms
- is personally accessible
- is committed to helping you get results, and to your success
- advocates both not running from the moment, and not suffering the moment
- is spiritual and real, not woo-woo
A COMMUNITY THAT
- warmly welcomes all, celebrates diversity, and encourages participants to share their experiences and insights
Through conversation, inquiry, and experiments, the reality of Oneness (or the Single Being) is brought down to ground, into your reality, your experience, and your life, where it transforms your whole perspective and experience of life.
You can get both personal spiritual assistance and the powerful support of community so that you are never lost, stuck or alone again.
Such immersion is a potent, priceless combination, pivotal to inner peace, happiness, love and joy.
You can quickly have breakthroughs that stick.
What’s your biggest challenge?
I’m open to hearing, because I’m always curious about the human experience and how to help.
With open arms, you are invited to click here to drop me an email. (You’re not joining a list, just starting a real human conversation.)
I will personally respond.
Warmly,
Cindy 🙏
PS–Check out our conversations that trigger conscious awakening in my clips from the Reality Lover Webinars on YouTube.
Cindy Teevens
Spiritual Facilitator, who keeps it real