Characteristics of a Spiritual Warrior

The Spiritual Warrior is a person who challenges the dreams of fear, lies, false beliefs, and judgments that create suffering and unhappiness in his or her life.  It is a war that takes place in the heart and mind of a man or woman.  The quest of the Spiritual Warrior is the same as spiritual seekers around the world.  The Spiritual Warrior faces this challenge with the clarity and awareness that this war is fought within himself and that Truth and unconditional love are on the other side of these battles.  This is what the Toltecs refer to as Personal Freedom. You can find this referenced in the book The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruz.

Characteristics and Traits
To win the war against fear requires awareness, courage, discipline, and commitment to transform the emotional body. These are some of the characteristics of a Warrior.

Awareness of the Spiritual Warrior
The first and most vital tool of the spiritual warrior is awareness. It is easy to we think we are aware, but pure awareness has no thinking involved. It has no thinking because it has no interpretation. Awareness is to perceive with clarity the truth of what is happening without interpretation or opinion. In a moment of awareness the dialogue in the mind stops. We are “seeing” from a point or view separate from the reasoning part of our mind. This could be described as an epiphany. Practiced seer’s live in this awareness in every moment.

Awareness is essential because it is the state of consciousness that allows us to discern between the facts and the Truth, and between the story and the lies in our mind. The realm of our mind is filled with false perceptions and false beliefs. While the mind can be very clever with stories and lies, it is the consciousness of awareness that is the discerning intelligence. We may use very intelligent reasoning to make a decision that is not good for ourselves. Only to look at it in hindsight and realize that we discounted indicators that told us otherwise. This can be done in something as simple as a stock investment. The mind is clever, but it is also full of assumptions and limited paradigms of perception. Conscious awareness allows us to see clearly instead of be blinded by these false belief paradigms.

Self awareness is the clarity to know who and what you are, and not get caught up in self important images of ourselves. These self important images in our mind distort our sense of who we are. False images can lead us to low self esteem and self confidence, or they can take us into being self centered. If you have an idea of who you are, then consider that you are not that idea in your mind. You are the one creating the idea, and observing it. Self awareness that you are not any of those images in your mind is essential to becoming free of self importance.

Courage of the Spiritual Warrior
The courage that makes for a good soldier also makes for a good Spiritual Warrior, but the intent becomes completely different. A soldier has courage to face a challenge that may bring physical harm. The Spiritual warrior has the courage to question challenge his or her own beliefs. By challenging our own beliefs we can dissolve the lies that cause our suffering. To challenge our own beliefs requires courage because it means the end of our illusion of safety. When other people challenge our own beliefs we are usually quick to defend. We defend them even if they cause us to suffer. As a warrior we learn not to defend what we believe, and then to challenge those very beliefs ourselves. In this way we are able to sort out the truth from illusions.

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Discipline of the Spiritual Warrior
A soldier has discipline to follow orders and continues on when faced with challenges. The Spiritual Warrior’s discipline to continue on with their path when faced with challenges from their mind. It is easier to follow orders as a soldier, because we are threatened with consequences and rewarded to motivate us. This is in line with our years of conditioning. A warrior must have the discipline to practice deal with their own mind without someone else providing the motivation with carrots or sticks. A warrior must exercise their own will at the command of their heart, not an outside authority figure. This often means going against the fearful opinions in our mind that tempt us with illusions of punishment and rewards. We must also have the discipline to follow our own heart even when tempted by another person's opinion. This way of living requires disciplined practice.

The Love of the Spiritual Warrior
A soldier has a commitment to love his/her country. The Spiritual warrior must have the commitment to love him/her self. The warrior then extends that love to humanity. The commitment is required because in our journey we will certainly fumble and fall many times. It is in having a strong commitment that we get back up again. It is common to fall to judgment. It can be easy to love some people, particularly the people that like us or treat us well. However, it requires a tremendous commitment to love in the face of those that reject us. This commitment will cause us to challenge our beliefs about our judgments and not being compassionate. We must be committed to love beyond our own self-serving interests of what it will bring us. This is how we will become happy beyond our current paradigm of beliefs. In time we become committed to love for the sheer enjoyment of expressing love. This becomes our commitment. We nourish ourselves with the love we express. A warrior acts in this committed way, even when challenged.

In my point of view, Jesus Christ was the greatest Warrior. He had the courage, discipline, and openness to Love unconditionally even as he was being rejected and physically persecuted during his days. Even when his body was in physical pain, the only emotions he created and expressed were of love and compassion. He did not use a reason in his mind to hate or judge. This is extraordinary impeccability. If he could love in his challenges, then we can learn to love unconditionally in our challenges.

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Hello - I would like to thank Spirit Warrior for the invitation, which I gracefully accept.

As a Medium, exercising this gift for people all around me, as a psychic/spirit coach, I have been spoken to in many different forms, ways, visions and insights.  This I attest to "Spirit".  Those loving Souls from the Other Side of Life, that guide us in this journey, as most of you are aware.

The fear of War is all around us.  What is the fear about?  From the many Peoples that sit with me, their greatest fear is to "get to know themselves".  Some fear their own power, hence at war with Self, others fear the power from others.  If I am able to offer one seed, that they pick this up, plant it, nurture it, water it, shed Light on it, then their own battle is over.  They see It, for Themselves.

Spirit knows no battle.  Mother Earth has become the battlefield.  All in Divine Order, strangely enough.  Even with all the strifle and hatred, greed and lust, negative words, negative thoughts, this is in precise Order. (not the New World Order as the few speak of).

We must not fight this, yet we must continue to shed Light into areas where there is darknes.  If I myself, Liz, have looked into the darknes of someone, and don't see Light, then I must look deeper.  Only if I have been given permission. 

Personal responsibility is Highest gift we can share with each other.  I am unable to carry anyone's burden, or cross, yet I, we, can give support in the battle, surrender in the fields, for each have their own journey, their own lessons of life, their own reasons for coming to Earth, this time around again.

I will walk a mile with anyone, if they will walk with me.  I will listen and hear what they have to say, I will bathe their feet, I will lighten their load, I will ask spirit to assist and guide, I will be there, I will in equal Life Force, continue to Empower the Self through the Eyes of this Divine, Creative Life Force... the Universe.

the Universe is not in battle at the moment, why do we here on Earth feel .... feel... the need to battle, is my question.

The Minds of Man are out of control.  question.  Do you control your mind,... or does your Mind control you?

For me, this is a part of the "spiritual warrior".  As I continuing to learn about Self, only then, can I assist others, and as my spiritual teacher and dearest friend of life, Mrs. Perkins has stated...  everyone learns in their own time.  Universal time, not our time (the georgorian calendar and the Maya Calendar).. God's time.

I shall in all ways stand in Light and Love and Beauty.  As I do so, the ones with the "glint" in their eyes, shall see it.  Sad but true, others shall not.  I can not Save them.  This I know!

Thank you for listening and sharing.

I am here because of You, and You are here because of me.

Namaste'

luv life is the best medicine we have.  Liz in London

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Hello Liz, very nice to meet you.  Thank you for sharing yourself with us.  I think more of us need to listen to our souls.  If we can learn to move from our ego based thinking we will achieve the peace within and will be able to assist in creating peace outwardly.  Being the change we wish to see.  One step at a time. 

I am looking forward to hearing more from you.

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Spiritual Warrior
Life offers us the opportunity to become a Spiritual Warrior.
A warrior is one who bravely goes into those dark areas within themselves to ferret out the Truth of their being.
It takes great courage, stamina and endurance to
become a Spiritual Warrior.
The path is narrow, the terrain rough and rocky.
You will walk alone: through the dark caves, up those steep climbs and through the dense thick forest.
You will meet your dark side. The faces of fear, deceit, and sadness all await your arrival.
No one can take this journey but you.
There comes a time, in each of our lives,
when we are given the choice to follow this path.
Should we decide to embark on this journey,
we can never turn back.... Our lives are changed forever

On this journey, there are many different places we can choose to slip into and hide. But the path goes on. The Spiritual Warrior stays the course, wounded at times, exhausted and out of energy. Many times, the Warrior will struggle back to their feet to take only a few steps before falling again.
Rested, they forge on, continuing the treacherous path.
The journey continues. The Spiritual Warrior
stays the course. Weakened, but never broken.
One day, the battle, loneliness and desperate fights are over.
The sun breaks through the clouds; the birds begin to sing their sweet melodies. There is a change in the energy.
A deep change within the self.
The warrior has fought the courageous fight.
The battle of the dark night of the soul is won.
New energy now fills the Warrior.
A new path is now laid before them.
A gentler path filled with the inner-knowing
of one who has personal empowerment.
With their personal battle won, they are filled with joy.
A new awareness that they are one with the Spirit beams as they go forth to show others the way.
They are not permitted to walk the path for others.
They can only love, guide and be a living example
of the Truth of their being
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SPIRITUAL WARRIOR....By Terri Amos:

A spiritual warrior is someone who walks with God, standing for truth and integrity, releasing all others' opinions and judgments. A spiritual warrior lives from the heart with uncompromising faith. Are you ready to walk the path of the spiritual warrior? If you are ready to walk this path, Click Here to get started.

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