Why Spiritual Growth Depends On You Having More Fun

Fun! It’s desirable, motivating, mysterious, and guess what: learning to have the best fun for you is both a benefit and requirement of spiritual growth. So join us this Sunday, Oct 8, 2023, for a fab free fun talk on what fun really is, including where it comes from and where it can take you.

You may need new insights on fun because - in case you haven’t noticed - the standard group reality doesn’t teach you to have your own real healthy ever-growing fun. The domination culture relies on socially accepted methods of pain-numbing to feel good. This means you should have loud extreme addictive forms of fun that will impress and encourage others to join in the same big doomed party. Omg the newest blockbuster movie – have you seen the tiktok spoof of it? Heard the latest gossip over the latest taste sensation? The newest sport, get rich quick scheme, romantic thrill, travel destination, etc etc. There’s no end to the sensation variations, so you’re not expected to ever stop and appreciate what matters just to you. Time to reflect is unproductive in the everybody-work-more-to-consume­-more paradigm.

For more fun, you must slow down and be present with yourself. Real fun is an ever-evolving manifestation of your spirituality, which is in turn your ever-deepening relationship with your uniquely beautiful infinite immortal soul, aka inner being, higher self, Source self, divine essence, muse, beloved, and real eternal You. What’s fun may start out with an impulse toward a pleasure in the world – gee, that looks like fun! – and then it wants to grow with you. That’s why deep hobbies and careers that offer life-long satisfaction often start with an introductory experience that many people could enjoy, but for some reason certain individuals become fascinated and absorbed in ways that just keep on going. Soon they’re buying supplies and accessories to explore a passion that’s ignited beyond anything else. They found a handle on their soul.

If pursued well, passionate fun will open up a path of joy all the way back to divine creatorship. Yes, you create your own reality, and for the love of fun and fun of love is why. But if misunderstood and mishandled, the intensity of initiatory pleasures will lead into addictions that end up no fun at all. Addictions give diminishing returns of fun until there’s nothing left but the pain of separation from the soul and healthy living. Then all that matters is survival and numbing the pain. Sound familiar? Yes, that’s the all-consuming domination culture, where everyone is addicted to being powerless, scared of what might happen next, and competing to manipulate each other.

You must consciously manage your own fun in life. Don’t let the social roller coaster take you for endless rides away from your soul. You want to still live in the world, just not be limited to the problems of society. You can hold compassion for all the people who seem lost with choices that would be bad for you, and choose to love yourself more without fighting them. Society is doing its job to keep the herd together, so it’s not really out to get you when you practice a live and let live attitude - which is also perfect for manifesting your own choices by the law of attraction. Of course you still care about other people, which is why you let your soul guide you to help them when you truly can.

For this meetup, think about your go-to fun activities. How old were you when you discovered them, and do they still always work? What limits to having fun were you taught growing up, such as that it might make you selfish, guilty, or irresponsible? After some check-ins to share and relate, we’ll consider how learning how to have more fun is actually the most responsible and caring thing you can do in life. We’ll see how to allow profound qualities of healthy sustainable fun, such as graceful ease, trust, creative focus, self-esteem, and gratitude. I’ll explain the four stages of fun that start with pleasure and continue through flow and purpose into the destiny of belonging with your soul’s community. We’ll learn the seven stages of life to decide when more fun isn’t doing the same old activity but rather loving a past inner self. We’ll see past common blockages to fun, and conclude with fun helpful healing meditation.

Welcome! Our Inner Selves Mastery spiritual support group is free online every Sunday 11am-1pm EDT. You can signup here for this meeting and check www.meetup.com/Inner-Selves-for-Outer-Mastery for all events including dream and mystical experience sharing groups, plus subscribe at www.signupism.com for our weekly newsletter of events and ideas.

Best wishes,
Carl Johann Schroeder
spiritual teaching and life coaching
www.InnerSelvesMastery.com