Being enlightened

I haven't read any self-help or personal development books for many years. Now and then I pick one up anyway, but only to notice the same thing: I've already learned what the book entails through my own understanding and life. The last example I picked up from a book exchange at our local library, is the book: Positive energy by Judith Orloff. Immediately I flipped it open and landed on a paragraph about eating more protein to ground myself in the body, especially as someone often with a "hovering" soul. Check! That is why I think it's so important to always eat cooked meals for both lunch and dinner, and why I started eating chicken again in 2019.

I think we come to a point where it becomes crucial to try, test, and apply everything we read, or encounter online, to see if it really helps us or even feels true. If it doesn't, just disregard, or share your own truth based on personal experience with an example. When we do that, we build our own credibility.

Overall to me, being enlightened means to make your own realizations and deliberatly choose to understand the world from the perspective of the heart.