{"id":6361,"date":"2025-11-18T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflexologyforthespirit.com\/blog\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:05:53","slug":"when-belief-becomes-an-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflexologyforthespirit.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/18\/when-belief-becomes-an-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"When Belief Becomes an Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hierophant shows up in your life when you become personally aware of God. The Hierophant offers spiritual growth, a starting point for when you realize all your questions don’t have automatic answers.<\/p>\n

You initially seek out a Hierophant to learn, receive sacraments, therapy, and for marriage counseling.\u00a0 This instruction connects you with traditional spiritual beliefs.\u00a0 The Hierophant shares spiritual wisdom and unlocks mysteries.<\/p>\n

When you study with a teacher, mentor, priest, or therapist, the Hierophant helps you explore guidance on the spiritual meanings you find in life.\u00a0 The Hierophant understands your higher nature, an essential element of spiritual healing.\u00a0 He helps you deal with old wounds or trauma you experienced in a situation that no longer works.\u00a0 The Hierophant offers the experience of organized religion.<\/p>\n

When studying with the Hierophant, expect to be honest with yourself and others.\u00a0 Expect to be responsible for your own actions.\u00a0 You should be exposed to traditional attitudes, ideas, and methods.<\/p>\n

Expect to find the Hierophant in a community church, temple, or congregation.\u00a0 You will find a higher purpose represented by organized religious, philosophical, educational, and spiritual institutions.<\/p>\n

The Hierophant is powerful.\u00a0 He shapes who you are and what you will become.\u00a0 He tells you what your world looks like.\u00a0 The Hierophant presents his students and clients with a choice.\u00a0 You will build a foundation focusing on history and tradition<\/p>\n

Through his teachings, you will come to accept your own spiritual beliefs and truths.<\/p>\n

Through the Hierophant’s teachings you begin to know your own spiritual beliefs and truths.\u00a0 You may see a need to learn from the more orthodox experiences.<\/p>\n

If you feel disconnected from faith altogether, the teachings of the Hierophant can be comforting during difficult times because of his offerings.<\/p>\n

When you go to the Hierophant, he passes down spiritual wisdom and unlocks mysteries, religion, rites, dogma, and doctrine.<\/p>\n

This is a meaning-of-life experience.<\/p>\n

STORY<\/p>\n

I met the Hierophant when I was in Austin, Texas, and engaged to a Catholic man.\u00a0 I was preparing to experience life in a different way:<\/p>\n

I certainly wanted things to work out right because this was my M.R.S. degree in action.\u00a0 So, I met with the Catholic Priest in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

“You’ll need to convert to Catholicism before the wedding and you need to take marriage classes.\u00a0 You can practice birth control for a year to solidify your marriage before the children start coming.”<\/p>\n

The young priest was definitely the Hierophant in my life.\u00a0 I received marriage counseling, life guidance, the sacrament of Baptism, and learned everything he had in his training manual to become a successful Catholic wife in Texas in the ’60s.<\/p>\n

There does not always have to be a Hierophant as a go-between to embark on a spiritual quest\u00a0 but this slight young man in a black cassock took his job as a guide to help me in my journey into spousehood and motherhood seriously.<\/p>\n

This Hierophant\/priest felt his connection with traditional spiritual belief was crucial to my success.\u00a0 His job was to pass down spiritual wisdom and unlock mysteries for me.<\/p>\n

I came away from those sessions believing that the family is a spiritual unit and that one was to engage with and interpret the sacred for my children.\u00a0 The young man in the cassock and I dealt with the importance of education, indoctrination, and spirituality in my family.<\/p>\n

He taught me to be aware of a larger, mysterious order of things that sometimes exceeded our control.\u00a0 He explained that I didn’t have to fix every problem in life that I might encounter.<\/p>\n

FOCUS IN<\/p>\n

Journal about a time when you did what was expected of you.<\/p>\n

MEDITATION<\/p>\n

Find a safe and private space.<\/p>\n

Get comfortable now; the goal is to be so comfortable that you can become unaware of your body.<\/p>\n

Take a deep breath.\u00a0 Hold it for a moment and then release it.\u00a0 Repeat this several times.\u00a0 As you exhale, you release tension.\u00a0 Continue this until all the tension is gone and you are relaxed.<\/p>\n

As you continue breathing, you see a light coming toward.<\/p>\n

As this light approaches, it surrounds you and the space where you are meditating.\u00a0 It further relaxes your entire body – relaxing your muscles.\u00a0 Every muscle and nerve in your body relaxes.\u00a0 As your muscles relax, stress is replaced by a light.<\/p>\n

This relaxing light fills your muscles, nerves, and energy with love – the love of God for you and your love for others.<\/p>\n

This light protects you from negativity and harm.\u00a0 This light becomes a wall of protection surrounding you.<\/p>\n

When you include your friends, relatives, and loved ones, this light protects them also.<\/p>\n

This light sends love as it shines through. Physically, mentally, and emotionally, this love shines on.<\/p>\n

As you feel relaxed, you are protected, healed, and loved.<\/p>\n

Now, slowly, you begin to return to the awareness of now.\u00a0 You feel physically, mentally, and emotionally relaxed.<\/p>\n

Your muscles and nerves are relaxed, loose, and refreshed.<\/p>\n

You open your eyes and look around.\u00a0 You know you can return to this space any time you want.<\/p>\n

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Thank you for reading this article.\u00a0 You can find out more about Thurman Greco at www.Thurmangreco.com<\/p>\n

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