Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation. Inspiring!
ARIA is that rare musician who has made a career of her favorite art form. Not just a music-loving hobbyist, she works as a performing artist and also as a teacher.
Teaching where exactly? Sooooooo impressive!
At this Point I’d Play an Arpeggio. If Only I Could
ARIA teaches at a music school. Plus, she gives private lessons. Also, she teaches in the music department of a university. Quite some career path after first starting to play piano as an eight-year-old!
At the risk of embarassing her, it must be thrilling to witness her live performances. In my opinion, ARIA’s face is astoundingly beautiful. To me, she looks like a walking lighthouse. (Just ordinarly noticing. What I’m wont to call, “Appreciating her with Stage 1 Energetic Literacy.”)
In case you’re wondering, which are ARIA’S favorite composers? (Audio-peek, Blog-Buddies, into their astounding music. Since these next YouTube performance links… Can help you sample some glorious sounds.)
First Movement, Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation
Blog-Buddies, I invite you to read-hear-feel the duet. As she improvises something beautiful with her Enlightenment Teacher, Rose Rosetree. Because our Enlightenment Validation interview was spontaneous for both people concerned, Pianist ARIA (PA) and her joyful teacher (RR). Here’s how that conversation begins.
RR: Have you cared about attaining Spiritual Enlightenment for a while?
PA: As a teenager, I loved the idea of self-actualization. It meant reaching my full potential. I didn’t know how to do that.
Sometimes I read self-help books ; mostly this was a dream I had. I just knew deep inside, this was one of my most important goals in life.
RR: Later on, did you actively do anything to use more of your full potential?
PA: I came across your booth at the Pathways Expo in Maryland in 2010, in the spring.
Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation 1.
Empath Empowerment®, How the Wonders Began for ARIA
PA: At that Expo, where Rose gave a workshop, I learned about Empath Empowerment . That was a really big deal for me.
Becoming a Skilled Empath lined up inside with that idea I had of self-actualization. I was so intrigued and interested, and went through Rose’s 30 days book for empaths that summer.
It was my life-changing moment. Because that’s when I stopped doing unskilled empath merges. I began living more effectively and being happier.
Then I started reading this Energy Spirituality Blog, and that’s how I learned about Enlightenment now, in the Age of Awakening.
RR: What did you think about that?
PA: I thought, “That’s what I want.”
Incidentally, for You Blog-Buddies Reading this Article
Your active participation is actively invited. An article like this one can teach you a great deal about Spiritual Enlightenment. AKA Personal Development, Spiritual Awakening, Solving the Mystery of the Self.
No need to practice scales every day, either.
Consider yourself invited to ask questions, using the COMMENT boxes below. Both ARIA and I are available to respond.
Or you can simply add your congratulations.
Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation 2.
Milestone
RR: Any milestone along the way?
PA: I had several sessions throughout the years. In one, you told me that, at the time, I was in Spiritual Addiction.
That was a wakeup call for me, because I’d read about Spiritual Addiction on your blog. But I thought, “I don’t have that.”
You educated me personally: how I was doing all sorts of unofficial Technique Time.
For example, I slipped into doing a kind of Technique Time while at the piano, practicing. During our session you described what that was like. I developed this way of noticing how my hands moved, noticing my own hands in a detached way, analyzing them.
RR: ARIA, in that session you learned that this was optional, unhelpful, and was contributing to Spiritual Addiction. What then? How did you stop doing that kind of detached, floaty, watching yourself practice?
PA: I just stopped. After you described this to me, I realized I had been noticing my hands in that analytical way.
In retrospect, this was a bad habit I had slipped into for positioning my consciousness.
Once I understood this wasn’t good, I got back to simply playing the piano in a spontaneous way.
Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation 3.
Spontaneity Works Better than Detached Observing Oneself
In my experience as an Enlightenment Teacher, one of the ironies of Spiritual Addiction is just what ARIA had fallen into. Unintentionally that “Watching her hands playing the music” was a kind of technique. Only this hadn’t been designed by a consciousness engineer; it wasn’t good for her at all.
Note: What if any of you Blog-Buddies have figured out a “workaround” or “personal method to make excellent progress” at some aspect of life? Please bring that to a personal session.
- Consciousness Positioning Consults®, or other session centerpieces, can protect you from “great” discoveries that aren’t really so great, not for you.
- Or maybe you’ll learn what you’ve been doing was wonderful. And why, exactly, it is so wonderful for you.
- Possibly I may be able to help you to tweak that technique, so it works better than ever.
Now, back to the interview…
Yes, Spontaneity
When ARIA stopped using her “Detachment Method” for improving as a pianist, what then? What did she do instead?
Quite simply, playing spontaneously. That’s what. Resuming this interview…
RR: In general, do you think that spontaneity has helped you in your musical career?
PA: Your work has taught me a lot about living spontaneously.
Also, another time we had a session where I asked if you could help me to be a better performer. You wound up helping me to live in the present while while performing.
There was some Healing Centerpiece or other, and it worked. After you removed the STUFF, there was PUT-IN, toward the end of that session. You recommended, “Play one beat at a time.”
I still think of that session often. Years later, I had an important performance that was scheduled on short notice. I didn’t know how I would get through it; I hadn’t had time to prepare.
But then I remembered what you taught me. I thought, “I will play one beat at a time. That’s how I’ll get through it.”
Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation 4.
Speaking of Sessions, Last Time, Learning You Were in Enlightenment
RR: Were you expecting Enlightenment Validation when you booked that session?
PA: Not at all. In fact, I wanted to attain Enlightenment but I’d sort of given up. I just wanted to be more effective at life.
I thought, “Maybe I won’t reach it.” Enlightenment wasn’t in the forefront of my brain any more.
RR: Then you got the Enlightenment Validation anyway!
After That, Did You Notice Anything about Living in Enlightenment?
PA: Absolutely shocked, that’s how I felt. At the same time, what you said validated my feeling of the presence of God.
In the background I had felt that but when you validated, I thought, “Yes, yes, I do feel that.”
Subtle. I didn’t know if I was imagining it!
After the Enlightenment Validation I acknowledged that presence to myself. Although this remained subtle, it became stronger.
I also felt more MYSELF than ever before. Sometimes, not so long ago, I would look in the mirror and be shocked: “I am a person.”
RR: Did you read in one of my empath books how many empaths have that experience?
PA: Yes. Now I hardly look at myself I just feel myself. No need to look at myself in the mirror or take a selfie or any of that.
Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation 5.
Anything Else to Share, ARIA?
RR: Finally, ARIA, do you have anything else to share in this interview?
PA: For me, I was surprised when you validated Enlightenment. I hadn’t been focusing on that as a goal. Instead I was living my life the best I could and doing my reasonable best, living in integrity.
I’d read Adrian’s Enlightenment Validation article at the blog, and I really related to what she said there. She’s a teacher who talked about how her approach to problem solving had changed, now that she was in Age of Awakening Enlightenment. That article really resonated with me.
Reading her words, I realized that I felt exactly the same way. Only I hadn’t been thinking that I could also be in Enlightenment.
RR: Do you think this blog can be helpful in other ways for people who aim to self-actualize?
PA: You clarify ideas in Collective Consciousness that are unhelpful. Appreciating that background confusion can help a person to live with more clarity.
And you empower us with knowledge. There’s a wide range of knowledge here at this blog.
For example, you research public figures, like a celebrity who’s in Spiritual Addiction. This helps me to move past illusions about who they really are.
RR: As I see it, ARIA, that’s part of my job. You know, moving past illusions can help us significantly for moving toward Enlightement.
Pianist ARIA’s Enlightenment Validation 6.
Maybe Interesting If You’re Enlightenment Curious
For you, ARIA, I was pretty sure for a few months that you had moved into Enlightenment. Highly unusual.
How could I tell, when we hadn’t spoken for at least half a year? Because you wrote some posts on social media that struck me as sounding like a person in Enlightenment. However, I waited until you booked a session with me, so that I could research you properly.
Thank you, ARIA, for this magnificent interview!
Blog-Buddies, feel free to ask questions on topics like these:
- How ARIA dispelled myths she’d believed about Spiritual Enlightenment.
- When I asked her about Enlightenment Eye Flash.
- The significance to me, as an Enlightenment Teacher, of folks who bring… Bring an East-Meets-West Background to Experiencing Enlightenment. (Like ARIA, ADRIAN, and this beloved student of mine from India.)
Basically, COMMENT below and ask whatever else you’d like to ask.
* Either overcome creativity myths and learn today’s Creativity Secrets with Soul (or the equivalent)
* Or else bow down to Mammon, the craving for fame, and pursue the cheap thrills of aiming for acclaim on Tik-Toc. (Or the equivalent.) Letting external validation DICTATE how you’ll define your art.
I love the way you put it in comment 601, Rose. “A person can bow down to Mammon, the craving for fame, and pursue the cheap thrills of aiming for acclaim..”
I’ve known at least one person who made “art” for fame. And at least one other who could have used the cold bath of that phrase to wake him up.
Thank you, ANNA PATRICIA.
Bowing down to Mammon has gone on for a long time, even after Mammon as a god has ceased being fashionable.
Rose, thank you for your response. I always learn so much from you, and one thing that I love learning about is writing and language.
For you are a master writer and you choose words with the utmost precision (could it be because you’re also a Consciousness Engineer?) Talk about rigor, indeed!
I completely agree with you in Comments #588-591.
Dictate is an incorrect verb, because as you said in Comment #590, “nobody can…. dictate your values or your intent in undertaking any action.”
The verb “dictate” in my sentence (Comment #581) gives our power away.
We all have the power to choose! Especially, the power to choose what you outlined so clearly in Comment #601.
I find it so inspiring and so empowering…. just like the workshop, Creativity Secrets with Soul.
An antidote to creating art for “going viral” if there ever was one!
Learning what you wrote in Comment #599- how we can concrete with God and “allow our creativity to unfold quite effortlessly”- can be so fulfilling and soul-nurturing.
Really, it is the opposite of searching for external validation.
Thank you also for the acknowledgement in Comment #583, Rose. I am honored!
You’re welcome, ARIA. Thanks back to you for these latest comments.
Especially practical is what you had to say about the Energy Spirituality Online Workshop, “Creativity Secrets with Soul.”
Thank you for calling this interactive workshop “An antidote to creating art for “going viral” if there ever was one!”
Although I didn’t have that in mind in cocreating that resource, yes, You’re absolutely right.
Are those musical ears of yours burning around now, ARIA?
Over at this blogpost, aiming to protect spiritual seekers from ideas with little truth value, I gave a link to your Enlightenment Validation blogpost, this one.
I wonder what you would like to say to folks who have been told to look for vague “signs of spiritual awakening.”
Of course, as you know — and as I recently described on a YouTube video about “Wise Discernment about Spiritual Awakening” — every sincere seeker of Enlightenment is allowed to use discernment, aka “Using the brains that God gave you.”
Indeed, burning they are! Thank you for your blogpost “NOT Spiritually Awakened. Merely Gullible”.
Because, as spiritual seekers, we can demand more:
High Truth Value, for one, Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, and an Enlightenment teacher who has the standing to teach.
Not to mention, our self-authority and skills of discernment.
Relying on “signs” is so nebulous- and dare I say, a waste of time?- when detailed information can be read in an aura’s chakra databanks.
“Signs” are not informative, nor are they useful.
It’s more like the term you used in Comment #507 at the blogpost: “mood-making”.
In “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening”, we learn about why spiritual awakening is not Enlightenment.
Instead of mere signs or theories (like those in “21 Signs You’re Going Through A Spiritual Awakening”), we learn about different Consciousness Lifestyles (including that of Spiritual Enlightenment), as well as aura readings of different Snapshots of Consciousness.
The contrast in the depth of information, Truth Value, and usefulness between these sources couldn’t be greater.
So yes, let’s demand more than just popular internet articles for spiritual seeking.
After all, we each have our spiritual self-authority and discernment- which “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening” aims to enliven- and let’s use it!
Such stirring words, ARIA! Thank you.
Today, ARIA, a question came up at my blogpost that aims to debunk the so-called spiritual wonderfulness of living as a vegan. (Comment #659.) How important do you consider it, “feeling blessed”?
When you have a chance, I’d appreciate it so much if you would respond here, at our interview about Enlightenment. (And later I can re-post it there, as well.)
Hi Rose, thank you so much for the invitation to comment on this topic. I would consider “feeling blessed” to be entirely different from “being blessed”.
Feeling blessed is a feeling, an emotion— a slice of subjective reality.
After crossing the threshold into Age of Awakening Enlightenment, life is not any less challenging than before.
However, now I feel more resourceful and empowered to face those challenges and to solve problems. As I understand it, Spiritual Enlightenment is not the result of a feeling or a belief system.
This reminds me of something that you discuss in your book, “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”
Rose, I love the way that you distinguish between content and process. For example, you note, on page 71, “… Process is the point of spiritual teachings, not content. Process means having a direct experience with your consciousness…”
I feel so grateful for our new Consciousness Positioning Superpower after the Shift, an ability that allows us to position our consciousness at a Divine Vibrational Frequency.
I look forward to doing twenty minutes of Technique Time each day, and then spending the rest of the day living my human life!
All so beautifully put, ARIA. Thanks.
Seems to me, you were perhaps too polite to note something else about the difference between feeling blessed and being blessed: Essentially, the former is mood-making, getting oneself into a mood due to a belief system or the eloquence of a sermon or… even some soul-stirring music.
It’s easy to catch a “blessed” mood from others, much as people in a crowded room can catch a yawn.
According to some aura reading research I’ve done, nothing signficant changes about a person’s aura while that believer is feeling a happy mood with words attached like “blessed” or “saved.”
By contrast, Spiritual Enlightenment is a process — not content — as you rightly noted.
It most definitely shows in a person’s aura, all the chakra databanks, when a person has crossed the threshold into Spiritual Enlightenment… or is living there.
Millions of people can — and do — feel blessed. Why not?
With all due respect, it’s mood-making. It’s easy. It can even be instant.
Personally, I strongly dislike the expression “feeling blessed.”
What, is that supposed to make one spiritually superior to all the others who don’t have that emotional experience or belief system?
This year, one of the books I read was “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.” Author Max Weber clarified the different nuances of being one of “The Elect” in Lutheranism, later in Calvinism.
Horrifying ideas mixed in with the sweet ones!
BTW, the link just supplied will take you to my book review and reading notes, available together on the Goodreads website.
Again, ARIA, thank you for sharing these beautiful insights.
As usual, Rose, I’m moved by the power of your words. Because, with precision, you pinpoint nuances of language and explain them so well.
Thank you.
Indeed, I agree with Comment #634- why would a belief system or a mood suddenly make one entitled to spiritual blessings- as it is implied in the common usage of that phrase.
Seems to me, it’s a mere distraction from the real thing.
And, thank you for sharing the link to your illuminating review and reading notes on Goodreads.
Wow! There’s just so much to learn!
Yes, so much to learn, ARIA. (And thanks.)
I appreciated Aria’s story. The detachment for me, the analyzing, though, is in every moment. It was activated to this degree due to a combination of an inability to sleep while my nervous system was in serious fight or flight. A lot of my self-help searching has because I have been in need of help with a variety of issues, and I was open to addressing root causes (as best as I could determine what those were). My question is how Rose’s books, sessions, programs address serious nervous system disregulation. Would EFT, self-inquiry, Eden Energy Medicine, and somatic techniques be contraindicated for Rose’s work? Could they be complementary?
The constant analysis is often a defense mechanism. There’s a fear of doing things wrong, getting in trouble, and the like. Food, chemicals, mold, and a host of other environmental issues can also push someone into this habit. Was Aria using any other methods to address her detachment issues, or were sessions with Rose and reading her books and doing course material sufficient to shift everything?
Thank you.
CLOUD, you worked hard at this comment and packed it with all kinds of questions and allusions to pop psychology, environmental issues, etc. You’ve aired your views. Congratulations
Nothing that you wrote, though, is related to our comment conversation here. You meant well, I hope. Still, this comment from you is an example of a “question” that is not appropriate to ask at my blog. You’re learning. I appreciate that.
ARIA’s beautifully written, powerful comment on Empath Empowerment® was just published yesterday as a guest post.
For any of you who are empaths, come read this and be inspired.