According to a survey of project listeners conducted in December 2019, only 8% of the audience believe that engaging in spiritual practices can cause harm.
At the same time, many write about the benefits of practices but simultaneously provide contradictory examples that demonstrate their inner doubts.
Every few weeks, panicked cries about the harm of spiritual practices arise among the project’s audience.
Similar sentiments are occasionally observed among participants in the project’s paid courses.
Let’s figure out in which cases spiritual practices can cause harm and to whom.
The reason for concerns about the harm of spiritual practices
The reason for this reaction is ignorance. On one hand, people are not well-versed in the topic. On the other hand, they do not even try to understand it, which is very unfortunate.
In the past, information on the topic of development and spiritual transformations was worth its weight in gold; it was virtually absent.
Now there is a sea of such information in various sources: if there is a desire, answers can always be found.
But in cases where you are stuck in a “mythical” fantasy consciousness, believing in omens, spells, curses, the evil eye, etc., these answers become inaccessible to you.
Essentially, you become like ancestors who believed that the Earth rests on a giant monkey.
Everyone is at their own stage of development. Everything is needed, each stage is important, and sooner or later it evolves into a stage of a different level.
But as long as a person is at such a “roundabout” stage of development, with their unproductive thinking they risk creating “the wrong thing”.
See also: What is the true purpose of spiritual practices
“Harm” of Practices from a Spiritual Perspective
From an energetic standpoint, the main types of harm caused to others include vampirism, projecting negativity, fears and anxieties for loved ones.
Let us consider whether it is possible to harm another person from a spiritual perspective.
A person has a soul. No matter how much the ego or personal consciousness might wish otherwise, if the soul makes a decision, the person dies. People who have experienced clinical death confirm this.
You die, rise upward, and you are asked if you are ready to leave. It is not the mind that answers this question, but the person’s soul.
If the person (soul) is not ready, the person returns back (emerges from clinical death). The one who is ready to leave, leaves.
A tricky question for those who constantly fear that they might harm someone in some way: who do you think you are?
Do you consider yourself the Lord God, who has the right to judge, punish, or show mercy, to pass a sentence on someone?
Take the crown off your head – you can do nothing against the choice of another person’s soul.
In life, this manifests in situations where, for example, a loved one finds themselves “at the edge” (gets into an accident, becomes seriously ill, etc.).
You are in your power, you have experience working on yourself behind you, and you try to “pull out” your loved one, to help them.
But suddenly you realize that you are hitting an invisible obstacle – that very choice of the soul, which cares nothing for your self-pity or desire to fix the situation.
Without the permission of a person’s Higher Self, you are unable to influence the outcome of the situation. The principle of free choice cannot be overstepped.
If the Higher Self believes that the person has not completed all the lessons and must play through to the end, the person will continue the game to the end.
And conversely, no matter how much the ego wants to stay to continue the game, if the soul considers that it is already time to leave, the person will leave.
Therefore, if it seems to you that during some practice in which you are working so well on yourself, you might, through thoughtlessness, say or do something that could somehow harm your loved ones, forget about it.
Learn the “material.” It is precisely your ignorance, your lack of knowledge of how everything works, that makes you think that way. Otherwise, such thoughts would not even enter your head.
You are not given the power to overstep the choice of another person’s soul. You can negotiate, try, but you do not have the deciding vote regarding another person.
The answer to any situation is to be in balance.
Parents can have a certain influence on their children. But their influence (ability to cause potential harm) is also limited.
From a human perspective, one can understand people who, finding themselves in a difficult situation and being in a state of clouded consciousness, rush in different directions searching for answers to many questions and do not know what to hold on to.
There is only one option – to become stronger, to become lighter, and to acquire knowledge. Then the experiences you live through will not frighten you.
See also Three varieties of unconscious harm to loved ones from an energetic perspective
“Tests” or can you harm yourself with spiritual practices
You cannot harm yourself either with spiritual practices as such, or with their quantity.
If you get the impression that through spiritual practices you are triggering some processes that entail so-called tests, start giving thanks “for what did not happen” (Kryon).
For example, a person gets into an accident, is injured, but survives. An “ordinary” person in this case will focus on the negativity and self-pity instead of being grateful for surviving. Master the philosophy of gratitude for what you receive.
When you embark on the path of development and “tests” begin, these are usually not tests. Everything you call tests is not tests.
It is the crap you once created by projecting it over a long period before the unpleasant event, and it has caught up with you.
Moreover, precisely because of your practices, this crap catches up with you in a defocused, diluted form, rather than knocking you off your feet like a concentrated targeted projectile.
It is impossible to change your mindset in an instant, especially when it comes to serious matters.
For this reason, there is no short and unambiguous answer to questions like “how to stop living in negativity” or “how to stop arguing with your husband.”
If until today every cell of your subconscious was wired with one model of behavior (thinking), it is impossible to cancel it overnight and replace it with another.
It won’t happen at the snap of a finger.
Therefore, when you embark on the path of development, you do not receive tests or trials—these are echoes of your former thinking. Moreover, such “tests” are an opportunity to apply and affirm your new choice—what you have declared.
An analogy can be drawn here with school experience. You wrote a test (examination) and got a “D,” meaning you have to retake it.
You retake it until you write the test with a passing grade.
See also the Rule of Three Signals. How the Universe Teaches You
Mastery and the Mirror Principle. How Mastery Manifests
Mirrors work up to a certain stage.
When a person reaches a certain level of development – becoming a balanced and harmonious master of their life, the world ceases to be a mirror for them.
No one mirrors a master.
Here, a question arises regarding who is considered a master and by what criteria. First and foremost, a master is a person who has gathered the lost parts of themselves.
A person has gathered themselves, returned to their wholeness, so there is nothing left to mirror.
While you are moving toward your wholeness, you look at the world through the “eyes of mirrors.” In mirrors, you see your shortcomings, what you yourself are unable to see (realize).
When you become whole, perceiving yourself fully and completely, you begin to look into the mirror and see only yourself there (in another person).
The other is you. Everywhere, only you.
When you, a master, encounter a “nasty” person who yells and behaves inappropriately, you calmly observe the scene without getting involved. You understand that this is not about you. It is their story, their wound, their trauma.
Your emotional reaction to what is happening is the main litmus test.
Test how successfully you are mastering mastery using your emotional reaction.
If you have no emotional response, then the current situation is not about you.
If, due to your professional activity, you closely interact and work with people, you may experience not your own emotional response, but that of another person (e.g., a client).
You may experience such states even more intensely if you have to work with a large number of people.
In such cases, it is important to learn to distinguish where yours is and where it is external.
See also 6 myths about spirituality. Who is a spiritual master
We hope we have dispelled any concerns (if there were any) about the harm of spiritual practices.
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The article is based on a broadcast from the #couch_talk section “Can spiritual practices be harmful”