Honoring Spiritual Friendship

Somatic Healing and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing

A beautiful insight I have been recently contemplating is from something the Buddha said.

“Spiritual friendship is the path.”

For many of us, stepping more deeply into an intentional healing process means stepping into new communities of others who are also doing their work. Some communities we stay with for a long time and others are for shorter life chapters. However long the duration of being immersed in a spiritual community or however long a spiritual friendship may unfold, there are profound gifts and growth opportunities for us all.

Today I shine light on the beauty of compassionate, loving reflection from spiritual friends who are also on a healing path. I shine light on the trust and openness of sharing with one another, how we suffer, while standing in our work (grounded). There is an exquisite healing through reciprocity of truth sharing that occurs.

When I share with a spiritual friend how I suffer and am met with spacious compassion and presence, it provides a growth opportunity. This growth opportunity invites me to the possibility of reflection, processing and integration.

Being seen and seeing another is a powerful part of relationship that I invite you to honor with me. This is a process. Not every friend can be a spiritual friend and not every friend can be long lasting yet I invite you to the curious consideration that every friendship can be an opportunity for growth, transformation and healing if we are willing to notice.

With spiritual friends, there is a flow of giving and receiving. There is a flow of connection, dialogue and showing up for one another. There is a flow of quietness, space and reprieve.

With spiritual friends, there is a shared awareness of suffering being a part of life. There is an ongoing learning and discovery we can share together that relates to our own unfolding growth and healing.

Often we are reminded of how to be our own spiritual friends through the tenderness, gentleness and loving kindness spiritual friends share with us. The reflection of ourselves, to us, from spiritual friends, reminds us who we are and supports us to see ourselves more clearly by way of admiration, kindness and abiding presence.

Many of us go long periods of time in our lives where we are hungry for spiritual companionship and spiritual friendship. Engaging in an intentional healing process and stepping into community are wonderful ways to begin aligning with others who are investing in their own growth and health.

Given that so many of us have been wounded in relationship, particularly in some form of a group dynamic (family, school, work, et cetera), I honor the approach to community as letting it unfold to show us what it is and how it is. When we step into community and engage in an ongoing experience with others, what is it like to invite ourselves to allow an unfolding of what the group is, how it is and what connections may or may not unfold naturally? This approach can quell the weight of bringing our expectations (unmet needs) to a group which can result in frustration, disappointment and avoidance of what we are deeply seeking.

Spiritual friendship includes the dimensions of being human and being soul. The content in the dialogue is expansive, inclusive and generative in possibility.

What relationships in your life are spiritual friendships? What do you receive from these particular friendships? What do you offer? What do you notice in your body when engaging in these relationships?

For anyone seeking spiritual friendships, I encourage you to be open to the possibility of new community experiences. I encourage you to trust your gut sense of which communities are in alignment for your heart and body.

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My name is Leigh Aschoff. I am a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Certified Compassionate Inquiry Mentor, Advanced Akashic Records Practitioner/Teacher and a certified Transpersonal Intuitive Energy Healer.

May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and liberation from suffering.

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