The Importance of Cleansing the Soul
Do You Have Soul Sludge?
I spend a lot of time talking about proper food choices and cleaning out the kitchen, but what happens when our bellies are filled with wholesome food, we sleep the recommended 7-9 hours and we include yoga asana (the physical practice) and exercise into our daily lives and we are still off?
What is slowing us down and burning us out? I like to call this soul sludge. This is the hard stuff to face and change. It is what sits stagnate at the bottom of our bellies and our hearts.
Cleaning out the kitchen cabinets is the easy part, cleaning out the junk in our personal trunk is the hard part. Are you ready mentally to face the world and people you have surrounded yourself with and tell them things need to change or it is over? Are you brave enough to do what is best for you and not just what is best for others?
Cleansing the soul doesn’t mean you need to become angry or mean, but rather it means you need to become real, real with yourself and others. When we take the time to self-reflect and determine what we need and where we need to be, we are being honest, brave and ultimately the healthiest we can be.
It is not just about what we eat, it is about what eats at us. Is it a job? Is it a relationship? Is it your friends on social media? What brings you down and what brings you up? When we fill our lives with the positive and start to eliminate the negative, we become stronger, healthier and much more productive. When we drop the dead weight, we have more to give to those who deserve it.
You are not being selfish, you are being the best you can be! When you start to make you the focus, you can love more and give more.
I challenge you to look deep within and be honest. The truth often hurts, but so does living an unfulfilled and unhealthy life. You deserve the best! The journey will be difficult, but the reward will be worth it.
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Who is Sophia in Gnosticism? Goddess of the Divine Feminine
Sophia, the embodiment of divine wisdom in Gnostic tradition, graces us with a profound understanding of the feminine aspect of the cosmos. Gnosticism—interwoven with early Christianity and enriched by Hellenistic philosophy—is more than a religion; it is a journey toward self-realization and communion with a deeper reality. This sacred knowledge, known as Gnosis (from the Greek “to know”), was lovingly passed down through myths found in Gnostic texts such as those discovered in the Nag Hammadi library.
The Myth of Sophia: The Divine Feminine
Let us immerse ourselves in the enchanting myth of Sophia, whose story illuminates the depths of divine wisdom and the sacred feminine.
Sophia’s Origin in the Pleroma
In Gnostic cosmology, Sophia is the radiant feminine personification of divine wisdom and the youngest of the Aeons—emanations of the ultimate reality known as the Monad or Pleroma. Dwelling in the spiritual fullness of the Pleroma, Sophia is intimately connected with the unknowable Father’s brilliance, born of the twin powers of Depth and Silence.
The Descent and Creation of the Material World
Compelled by an intense yearning to know the Father’s essence, Sophia emanates without her consort, creating a disturbance that leads to her descent from the Pleroma. In her fall, she becomes entwined in the material world, inadvertently giving birth to the Demiurge, often called Yaldabaoth. This ignorant and arrogant entity fashions the material universe, unaware of the spiritual realms above. In certain Gnostic scriptures like the Apocryphon of John, the Demiurge is equated with the God of the Old Testament.
Sophia’s descent introduces imperfection, suffering, and ignorance into existence, as the material world is shaped through her unintended actions.
