as human beings are waking up to
personal growth and transformation
there's a big misconception that many
people are going through and that
misconception has to do with the word
fitness so when you think about the word
fitness you tend to think about the
physical body we think about our
musculature our nutrition our our
sensory fitness our mobility and so on
we think about exercise and working out
at the gym and
yoga
but
what if since we are as a species
accepting the fact that we are more than
just our physical parties that there is
a spiritual side for us what if we also
paid equal attention to spiritual
fitness and this this is where so many
people are quite unaware you see
spiritual fitness is as deep as rich as
the whole physical fitness industry but
when we talk about spiritual fitness
people tend to reduce it to one thing
meditation that's a tiny slice of what
it is to be spiritually fit so this week
on mindvalley we're exploring the topic
of spiritual fitness and the man we are
bringing to help teach you these ideas
is jeffrey allen jeffrey like me is an
engineer so we're both kinda geeky in
this way and we geek out over this topic
but jeffrey as he was an engineer
started noticing certain abilities
emerging in him and soon he quit the
regular world of business to become a
healer he moved to japan and he now
works in japan as a teacher of spiritual
fitness jeffrey's program with
mindvalley is called unlocking
transcendence it's a very popular
program on our mindvalley quest platform
and to introduce you deeper into the
topic and to introduce you to our
teacher this week i want to share with
you an actual conversation i had with
jeffrey allen about a year ago as we
were in san diego just walking along the
beach and he was telling me his
remarkable life story
i trained to be a mathematician and an
engineer
and i did that for 15 years
but even when i was in college i started
having these weird experiences
some of them were like seeing auras
around people i had these like lucid
dreaming experiences and then the
scientists to me wanted to know more so
i started studying like every book i
could find every great teacher i could
find
i'm actually not a natural
naturally born gifted intuitive or
healer it's something that i learned
there was a point where
as an engineer
i thought i had it all together i
thought i was doing the right thing
and then i realized
wow
i'm totally wasting my life here
all these things that i think are
important the things that we're focused
on
that was kind of my darkest moment i
realized
i've been totally going in the wrong
direction as good as i am at it this
isn't the way to go
that's when things started to change for
me that's when i decided
i gotta bring this thing out i gotta
start going with the energy i gotta
really follow my dream
now spiritual fitness is about
a completely different dimension of
ourselves that we often take for granted
now think about it right if you're not
watching your body and you're just
living life like the average person in
the industrial world you're bound to
become a victim of obesity because of
all the crap junk food that's been
marketed to you you're bound to see your
mobility and your strength go down
because of the amount of time we spend
in our nine-to-five job sitting down
rather than roaming the planes like our
ancestors did as hunter-gatherers now at
the same time most of us while we are
aware
that we have to move that we have to
exercise that we have to eat well we're
unaware of the effects that lack of
spiritual fitness are bringing to us and
these include things like anxiety
sadness feeling a lack of motivation
feeling loneliness feeling that you're
working in something that just doesn't
inspire you now spiritual fitness is
about a number of different emerging
human abilities and one of those
abilities
i love this word it's called sovereignty
spiritual fitness is when you gain
sovereignty over your own life jeffrey
allen introduced me to that word and
sovereignty means you are so in tune
with yourself so in tune with who you
really are that the outside noises don't
shake you they don't influence you you
know
why you're here you know why you were
born you know what that purpose is and
you know how to get there with ease with
flow you have that purpose but you're
moving towards it in such a smooth way
without struggle without hard work
without bad luck it seems as if the
universe has your back and when you are
in this state you know you're
spiritually fit so if you're fascinated
by the idea of spiritual fitness i want
you to pay attention to the content and
the videos that are coming out this week
in mindvalley check this out and if you
find these interesting i hope to see you
on this week's master class with jeffrey
allen
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