Foundations: 5 Basic Needs of an Evolving Consciousness

These past few weeks have taught me the importance of foundations. I’ve been feeling a huge split in the collective consciousness over the past few months - one that goes towards spirituality and one that goes away from it. And in this split, I feel both delusion and illusion, and I find myself drawing away from both sides.

You see, instead of trying to figure out one or the other, we must begin understanding how they work together, and then work on grounding within that unity. In the union of spirituality and physicality, we will find the key to our infinite nature, the boldness in our life experience, and the knowledge of how to move forward.

I think many things become skewed in the split between spirituality and non-spirituality. But, I’ve learned that in order to bridge the two, a solid foundation must be tended to. It is not one vs. the other, but a collective experience that we must nurture for the well-being of all.

Yes, when we nurture it within ourselves, we impact the greater whole. But, what many forget to realize is that it sometimes also becomes easy to split from the greater whole as we nurture it more within ourselves.

I sometimes struggle with this because I understand the importance of maintaining a grounded nature despite wanting to relinquish it. There are always things in my life that “pull me back to Earth” to remind me the importance of being human - not just a spiritual being. And although this sometimes means that I must suffer in between, my spiritual understanding of suffering maintains knowledge that if I must suffer it is only because there is something I must learn from and grow into in that moment.

The importance of building strong foundations is to nurture the ground you walk on as a human being. Sometimes when we decide to let go and fully embrace our spiritual nature, we forget that there are human experiences we must still navigate. These human experiences are what keeps us connected to who we truly are and the wholeness upon which we come from.

As human beings, we have basic needs. You may have heard of the basic needs of humans being things such as: food, clothing, water, sleep, and shelter. Yes, although those are basic needs for survival, I’d like to bring your attention to the basic needs of an evolving consciousness, not rooted in survival, but rather, rooted in sacred intention.

These basic needs connect to our foundational energy supply. Tending to these needs means we are also tending to our foundational energy, which helps us balance and ground more into our human nature while maintaining elevated consciousness.