Illness provides the opportunity to embark on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and spiritual awakening. - Dr. Paul Epstein

Having a chronic illness, like chronic fatigue syndrome, forces us to grapple with the meaning of life, with why we are here, with how to be at peace with and accept the life we have now, in every way that is different to the life we had before. And accepting the life you have now, is what the enlightenment process IS.

​Grappling with those issues lays a perfect foundation for a spiritual awakening, which would have been less likely if we were living the way we have been conditioned to do. 

Work, work, work is the American way - hustle for success because that’s the meaning of life. Don’t be vulnerable. If something upsets you, just don’t think about it. Shake it off and keep on moving. If you get sick, ignore it, and keep going until you drop. And if you can’t feel wonderful, make sure you look like you do.

Well, there’s nothing like a chronic illness to drive a monster truck through that way of life!

And since I believe that we were never meant to live that way, but that most of us struggle to let go of the societal conditioning that taught us otherwise, chronic illness actually moves us in the right direction. 

​If we let it. Once we stop fighting it.

I see it as a call to the enlightenment path, and I believe that every crash & every flare-up offers us the opportunity to move further along the path of spiritual awakening.

I believe you came here, at this time on earth, to help heal the planet, to raise the frequency and consciousness of humanity to the next level. And your chronic illness is meant to sort of stop you in your tracks, and wake you up so you could experience awakening first for yourself, and then, offer it to those you came to serve.

Spiritual awakening is the process of returning to the original self.
-Michelle Nguyen & Ali Monsen

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