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Are You Enlightened? 7 Ways That You Can Tell

Updated: Jan 25

INTRODUCTION


Welcome to the sixth blog post in my series on Transformative Life Coaching (TLC) and everything related to personal development and enlightenment. My education and training can be found at the bottom of this blog post. I received my training in TLC in London, England. I've been on a personal growth journey. I've had significant changes in my ways of BEing and so DOing. I work as a Transformative Life Coach full-time.


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I believe so strongly in the transformative potential of coaching that I have had, and continue to have, a number of Transformative Life Coaches. I would like everyone to be able to experience enlightenment. This is my purpose - to have maximal impact on the world by sharing this with one person at a time. This will stir you to do the same, so the results will be exponential. Therefore, I do not do 'discovery calls', hard sell or use any sales tactics at all. I simply offer you a free one hour coaching session without expectation so that you can get a sense of the internal shift that can be achieved. We will not even discuss booking future sessions. I am offering an experience of coaching at no charge rather than selling the concept through a discovery call. Below I will set out how you can access bliss any time you desire.


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Enlightenment means awakening. To become self aware: To become fully awake. Enlightenment means to become a Buddha – the pinnacle of human development and potential – and it is the ultimate lofty aim in Buddhism. However, it is something that every single being on earth has the potential to achieve. Enlightenment is accessible to all. So much so, that it has made it into the urban Dictionary: Enlightenment is defined as “Spiritually aware of the Universe and its direct metaphysical connection to one’s own being and the connection it has to all life forces.”


All traditions agree, whether Buddhist, Yoga, Sufi, Vedanta, or Western Christian inspired salvation, transformation and resurrection, that enlightenment is: Permanent (cannot be lost once attained); It involves transcending the ego; It is the end of all forms of suffering. Ramana Maharshi said "There are levels of experience. There are no levels of Realisation." Many of the traditions agree that enlightenment is already here and now, and that it is our true nature – or the true nature of reality. It is not that we have to achieve it or become it, but rather we need to remove the obstacles to its expression. Carl Rogers, the psychologist said that humans have a natural tendency to self actualise; it is not out of anyone's reach: "The actualising tendency can, of course, be thwarted or warped, but it cannot be destroyed without destroying the organism. I remember that in my boyhood, the bin in which we stored our winter's supply of potatoes was in the basement, several feet below a small window. The conditions were unfavourable, but the potatoes would begin to sprout—pale white sprouts, so unlike the healthy green shoots they sent up when planted in the soil in the spring. But these sad, spindly sprouts would grow 2 or 3 feet in length as they reached toward the distant light of the window. The sprouts were, in their bizarre, futile growth, a sort of desperate expression of the directional tendency I have been describing. They would never become plants, never mature, never fulfill their real potential. But under the most adverse circumstances, they were striving to become. Life would not give up, even if it could not flourish. In dealing with clients whose lives have been terribly warped, in working with men and women on the back wards of state hospitals, I often think of those potato sprouts. So unfavourable have been the conditions in which these people have developed that their lives often seem abnormal, twisted, scarcely human. Yet, the directional tendency in them can be trusted. The clue to understanding their behaviour is that they are striving, in the only ways that they perceive as available to them, to move toward growth, toward becoming. To healthy persons, the results may seem bizarre and futile, but they are life's desperate attempt to become itself. This potent constructive tendency is an underlying basis of the person-centred approach." This is the essence of coaching, creating the space for the acorn to become the oak. "At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger" (Carl Rogers).


Enlightenment is accessible to all, not a lofty intellectual concept


Enlightenment is a state of elevated awareness and consciousness, with psychological and emotional ease, and acceptance of one's life circumstances. An enlightened person feels that they understand fundamental truths about life. Therefore, enlightenment is a state of complete understanding and complete compassion with acceptance of others. According to Deepak Chopra, awakening happens when you are no longer living in a dream world where you filter everything through your ego and focusing on the future and the past. Instead, you have an almost simultaneous awareness of your individual self and the connection between that and everything else. Take, for example, the metaphor of a wave in the ocean. You are the wave, and you are the ocean. The ability to maintain both separation and connection seems to indicate a different level of spiritual evolution. People who model being spiritually awake but not perfect are what is needed to make being awakened feel possible. As Eckhart Tolle says, “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realising who you are at the deepest level.” Spend time focused on becoming yourself fully.


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How do you know when you become enlightened? 7 Ways that you can tell:

Table of Contents

  1. ​Unconditional love for your self and others

2. Total compassion for self and others

3. Synchronicity

4. You vibrate at a higher frequency

5. Equanimity

6. Presence

7. You become fearless


1. Unconditional love for your self and others

Connection comes from shared humanity: You feel a sense of deep connection. You become caring, loving and kind. Carl Rogers, psychologist and father of modern coaching said "In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?... The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself." He also wrote “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

2. Total compassion for self and others

3. Synchronicity

4. You vibrate at a higher frequency

5. Equanimity

6. Presence

7. You become fearless


As Sadhguru says, "So if enlightenment happens, how do we know it has happened? You can not miss it. It will be clearer than daylight. You will not miss it... Birth will happen many times - this will happen only once."


How do I know I am Enlightened? By Sadhguru


By discovering your spiritual magnificence, you will become a better leader, developing your ideal business and career, having the joyful life of your dreams, achieving all of your desires, unlocking your full potential, and becoming truly successful, based on fulfilment of your purpose in line with your core values.


As Carl Rogers wrote: “I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Yet the deeply exciting thing about human beings is that when the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming.” Recovery, coaching, and enlightenment all share the common aspect of transformation that one intuitively develops a programme for living. Carl Rogers famously said "There is direction but there is no destination." The common destination seems to be to develop a commitment to helping others find peace. You become happy, joyful, kind, loving, and insightful. You want to share your joy with others.


The enlightened person is loving, kind, and compassionate for two main reasons:

  1. He genuinely cares about other people, regardless of whether they care about him

  2. He knows that other people provide him with the spiritual nourishment he needs to continue growing

The enlightened person is not self-centred, because he has lost the sense of a separate self. He can see the interconnected nature of our existence. To him, this is not just a concept, but a reality. He realises that all physical manifestations (humans, animals, plants, etc.) depend on each other for their survival. Therefore, he remains spiritually open to everyone. The enlightened person is a leader. Having awakened to the point of understanding the nature of suffering, he realises his duty to help other people find freedom from suffering. He leads by example, rather than control. People follow him because of who he is and what he stands for. The enlightened person never forgets how he achieved enlightenment. He is also aware that it takes continuous effort to remain that way. It takes a great deal of spiritual nourishment to help others along their path, so he's aware that he needs to replenish his spiritual strength on a daily basis. Otherwise, he'll lose his effectiveness as a spiritual messenger. Overall, the enlightened person is mindful of himself, and the world around him. Furthermore, he is curious and willing to continue learning. He is aware that even though he can see with great clarity, developing an understanding of the true nature of our existence takes time to observe and investigate.


As one of my colleagues so kindly called me, a "heart-led servant". Amen to being on that path.


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly



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I have a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge; a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge; a PhD Doctorate in Scientific Research from University College London (UCL); a Medical Degree (MD/MBBS) from The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London and have been a doctor and reconstructive trauma and cancer surgeon in London for 20 years. I have a number of other higher qualifications in science and surgery. I have published over 50 peer reviewed PubMed cited scientific journal articles, have been an associate editor and frequent scientific faculty member, and am the author of several scientific books. I have been awarded my Diploma in Transformative Life Coaching in London, which has International Coaching Federation (ICF) Accreditation, as well as the UK Association for Coaching (AC), and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). I have been on my own transformative journey full time for over five years and I am ready to be your guide to you finding out who you really are and how the world works.




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