What is Spiritual Psychology?

Spiritual Psychology is the study and practice of conscious awakening, a discipline I trained in at the University of Santa Monica. It treats every experience in a human life, painful and joyful alike, as spiritual curriculum, material your soul uses to help you recognize and live from your authentic self rather than your conditioning.

What Does It Mean to Awaken?

To engage in this genre, we must begin by distinguishing the essence of human awakening .

What does it mean to awaken? In short, it means learning how to identify, recognize, and navigate successfully within the context of spiritual reality.

Practically, spiritual psychology means learning how to surrender or let go of anything that disturbs ones peace.

It also means sacrificing our illusions of separation.

Is Spiritual Psychology a Form of Healing?

Essentially, this “surrendering” and “sacrificing” is work that can and has been called healing, which includes healing on the physical, mental, and emotional levels in service to the deeper revelation of who we truly are as loving, peaceful, compassionate, and joyful beings.

What Is the Authentic Self in Spiritual Psychology?

We refer to this level as the authentic self. From the vantage point of Spiritual Psychology, we see that we are souls who have come herein this lifetime to fulfill spiritual curriculum.

What Is Our Purpose as Spiritual Beings?

As spiritual beings, our primary goal is not to change life on this earth .

Rather, life on this earth exists the way it does to provide us with experiences through which we can transform ourselves, meaning learning to express the essence of who we are in fuller and deeper ways.

What Is Our True Nature, According to Spiritual Psychology?

The best description of our inherent nature is that we are , at our core, comprised of the energy we call loving. So spiritual awakening is about becoming more and more aware of our nature as loving beings.

How Is Spiritual Psychology Used With Clients?

Two ways I bring this lens into practice with clients: tarot as a tool for self-reflection, and a daily prayer practice I teach called calling in the light.

If you want to see what this looks like in practice, I have written about the benefits and purposes of working your process in consciousness, and about cleaning your reflection when you want clearer perception.

What Else Do People Ask About Spiritual Psychology?

Where did Dawn Light Amora study Spiritual Psychology?

Dawn Light Amora earned her Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and has practiced it with clients for about a decade.

What does spiritual curriculum mean?

Spiritual curriculum is the idea that every experience in your life, painful and joyful alike, is material your soul uses to help you recognize and live from your authentic self rather than your conditioning.

Is Spiritual Psychology about changing your life circumstances?

Not primarily. From the vantage point of Spiritual Psychology, life on this earth provides the experiences through which you transform yourself, learning to express who you truly are in fuller and deeper ways.

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How Does Spiritual Psychology Compare to Other Approaches?

If you are wondering how this compares to more familiar approaches, here is how Spiritual Psychology differs from therapy.

How does this compare to more traditional, clinical approaches? Here is how Spiritual Psychology differs from traditional psychology.

Wondering what it actually looks like to work with a coach trained in this discipline? Here is what a Spiritual Psychology coach does.

Do relationship patterns keep repeating no matter who you are with? Here is how Spiritual Psychology helps heal relationship patterns at the root.

Is it harder to forgive yourself than anyone else? Here is how Spiritual Psychology approaches self-forgiveness, and what compassionate self forgiveness actually means.

If you are healing from a divorce, here is how Spiritual Psychology helps you heal after divorce.

Does a younger part of you still seem to be driving your choices? Here is how Spiritual Psychology helps you heal your inner child.

Wondering why purpose still feels like a guessing game? Here is how Spiritual Psychology helps you find your purpose.

Curious what a session actually looks like, and what it costs? Here is what happens in a spiritual life coaching session, and what spiritual life coaching costs.