Your Shortcut to Enlightenment Begins Here
By Erin Kyna of Erin Kyna Life Coaching
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Looking for ways to deepen your journey inward & onward? Check out these powerful spiritual teachers who are transforming ancient awarenesses for a modern world.
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Here’s one thing I’ve learned about enlightenment, based on my own personal seeking for precisely that:
Enlightenment is a beautiful process, but it may not always be pretty.
So many great teachers in today’s modern world are trying to show us that we don’t have to go through the same suffering they’ve endured to get to where they are now. The ancient ways being and believing are valuable, to be sure, but we’re also living in a world where life lessons are coming fast and with full force, so that we can achieve in this one lifetime all that we’re meant to do.
Here are a few spiritual, health, and wellness teachers I absolutely love who have made a profound impact on my practice. I’ve either had personal interactions with them, or believe in all that they’re sharing. I hope that you’ll find golden gems of wisdom within what they have to say.
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Bentinho Massaro
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"Know and consequently feel, that everything desired is already achieved on some level. All possibilities of creation already exist within you".
Bentinho pretty much embodies what I feel about enlightenment. Everything exists in the NOW. There is no enlightenment LATER, because when we place things in the future, we separate from them. And, separation is the illusion. The truth is that all there is, is LOVE. All-That-Is, exists NOW.
He also practices the understanding of true abundance by offering incredibly affordable access to his teachings. Many spiritual gurus lead retreats, trainings, or courses that cost in the thousands of dollars. For many, this can be a limiting factor to such invaluable learnings. That’s why Bentinho offers an online “Trinfinity Academy”, designed for anyone serious about Self-Realization and Self-Actualization to live an empowered human life — all for $35 a month. And, all livestreaming!
Some say the Trinfinity Academy is the quickest available way to achieve enlightenment and empowerment, because he offers tools, roadmaps, and step-by-step lessons in the categories of Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Infinity. With over 150,000 people following his work and growing by the way, it’s undeniably evident he’s offering something effective.
What I especially love about Bentinho is that he truly touts following your joy. It’s such a simple yet profound understanding that the more you follow and act on your joy, the more joy will exude from you — that, in turn, invites you to attract more of the same, and ultimately, this only leads to greater and greater happiness.
It’s pretty simple. And, pretty awesome.
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Melissa Ambrosini
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“Meditation is one of Mother Nature’s most powerful medicines and has no apparent side effects.”
I was a coaching client of Melissa’s a few years back and adore everything she offers. As a woman, it’s especially meaningful to me that Melissa’s goal is to empower women everywhere to love themselves completely by stepping it up, because in her own words, she’s the “straight-talking, ass-kicking, pump-you-up bestie you never had.”
Her objective is to help you “create the most vibrant, stunning, powerful version of your life possible and make you irresistible in the eyes of the person who matters most: YOU!” When I found her, I needed this message more than anything, to believe that loving myself was no longer taboo, that I could indeed choose love over fear, and that being strong, healthy, and wealthy were not only possible, but were absolutely part of my divine rights.
Melissa is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl and named a 'self-help guru' by Elle Magazine. I highly recommend joining her programs and offerings, which include weekly Goddess Groups, Get Your Glow On, MA Academy Business Bootcamp, and guided meditations.
If you’re looking to create a heart-centered life and want to remove any fears around not only being able to do this, but also the tender vulnerability this may bring you into, Melissa’s your girl. She can tell you honest truths in ways that are supportive, nurturing, and fun. I can absolutely say that working with her played a pivotal and fast-tracking part in my arriving where I am today.
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Dr. Joe
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"Be greater than your environment."
Sometimes, there are teachers who appear in your life that propel you forward on your life’s purpose so far that you almost don’t recognize who you were before you studied with them. Dr. Joe Dispenza is one of those people for me. I’ve traveled around the world to study with him. You might know him as one of the scientists featured in the award-winning film, What the BLEEP Do We Know? Since appearing in the movie, Dr. Joe has gone on to share his passion for neuroscience and quantum physics in order to help people heal from illness, as well as enjoy more robust lives.
When I first went to one of his multiple-day workshops, I was sitting amidst over 500 people, listening to all he had to say. I was enthralled by his ability to use science to demystify the mystical and create, as he puts it, a “contemporary language of mysticism — to make it practical enough that every single person has at their very fingertips the ability to apply it to some aspect of their life.”
Being in this auditorium with him for hours, I suddenly felt it was odd that he seemed to be staring straight at me, looking directly into my eyes. At the time, my whole belief system revolved around, “Who the hell do I think I am?” I didn’t think I was anyone special, which meant I absolutely did not think I would be noteworthy in such a mass of people.
The next morning, I was waiting for a friend outside the front door and suddenly looked up to see Dr. Joe walking towards me by himself. I would later find out what a rare opportunity it was to see him solo. We said quick “hello’s” to one another, before he went to start the next seminar. As I relayed to my friend what had happened, we began ascending the many stairs to the auditorium only to find that the moment we arrived at the top level, the elevator doors opened and there was Dr. Joe again.
“I should’ve taken the stairs,” he joked, when he saw once more.
Throughout the days I spent at the event, Dr. Joe shared that we do not need a monastery to find enlightenment. We can find the answers within ourselves. Again, as he was teaching, I felt like he was staring directly at me, but doubt kept flooding in that this could remotely be true. “Who the hell do I think I am that he would care about me?” the old records kept playing. Loudly.
On the last day of his advanced workshop in Mexico, everyone rushed to be in his presence. Two staff body-guarded him and managed the crowd. I wanted to go up to him to say “thank you” for helping me to understand that science has begun to support so many spiritual beliefs about consciousness, lightwork, interdimensionality, and past lives. The meditations he guided were immensely transformative and the knowledge he shared allowed me to feel less crazy about things I had always known, but was too afraid to admit to myself.
I didn’t think I would be able to reach him to express my gratitude, especially with the mounting crowd, but again, I felt Dr. Joe looking directly at me, except this time, he was proving what I assumed was true. He moved the crowds apart, then stood before me, gently caressed my face in his hand. He looked deep in my eyes, and said, “I’ve been watching you. You did the work amazingly.” Amazement would be a complete understatement to how I felt in that moment.
As quickly as it happened, it ended. Dr. Joe became enveloped by the crowds again, and to this day, that was one of the greatest affirmative external moments in knowing I’d discovered my purpose. I had been seen and acknowledged for who I am, on a soul level, in a way I had never been seen before.
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Gabby Bernstein
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“I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love.”
It’s no wonder that Gabrielle Bernstein was named “a next-generation thought leader” by Oprah Winfrey. As a certified Kundalini yoga and meditation teacher, Gabrielle has also been recognized by numerous global media outlets as an inspirational role model. What I love about how she teaches and shares is that she makes the sometimes seemingly inaccessible practice of meditation very easy to understand and apply to your daily life, as long as you have the willingness to do it.
Her intention is to help you become the happiest you know and she offers life-changing lessons for young women to learn how to do this. She’s a best-selling author and her book, Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles reveals how a New York City publicist and party girl can be a spiritual teacher for this next generation of seekers.
Her teachings speak to me, because in my history, I was also partying to avoid what my feelings, my path, and my potential. And now, I’m grateful to have been able to turn my life around in innumerable ways to be of service.
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Okay, one last thing about your shortcut to enlightenment:
It’s helpful to know that when you take shortcuts, it can indeed lead you to your destination faster. Sometimes, this alternative route is even easier. Other times, taking a spiritual shortcut means that the learnings can be more intense and more profound because they’re happening in a more faster way.
My suggestion is to open up to the journey, however it may be, and if you believe that your soul came to this plane in full agreement about what was to unfold, know then how strong you are in never being given more than you can handle. You’re not a victim, but rather, you’ve chosen for yourself the prime opportunities to evolve and enlighten. You can have it all, right now. Now is all there is.
If you're keen to join a community of like minded souls, dedicated to evolving, growing, and choosing love over fear, join my online meditation livestream community: The Connection Collective.
Set to launch late April, with fantastic sign up offers for members of the Nourish Melbourne Community.
Sign up at erinkyna.com for launch details.
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