The Dark Side Of Spirituality: 6 HAZARDOUS Traps To Avoid! 

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1) Us versus them 5:21 - victim consciousness - rejection of responsibility Mantra:- " Reality is a collective co-creation 2) Negation of physical reality 14:39 - Remember whatever you are looking at is just spirit animated in physical form.❤️ 3) Superiority complex [ I've been stucked in it] 21:49 4) Dwelling 27:14 5) Chasing the carrot 30:33 6) Toxic positivity 35:48 I loved this video. It broke down my all illusions.❤️❤️

Every "spiritually-awakened, lightworker" should see this video. Very accurate, authentic, and helpful. Thanks, Christina!

Spend as much time you can with trees and plants wherever you can, in parks and in nature - woods, beaches, lakes, rivers. You will feel your direct connection to the Divine of which you are, of course, an important part. No ego, no yearning, no fruitless searching, no confusion. Talk to the Divine in nature as you would a trusted friend. You will get communication and answers.

The one thing i,v learned is we all on our unique journeys of exploration of self.

I needed this so much. I have fallen into quite a few of these and have actually started working through the first one on my own the past few days so it was such divine timing that you posted this. I don't want to live in fear anymore, I don't want to resist reality. "reality is a collective co-creation"

I feel like me using this video was a sign from my guides to change my outlook on spirituality

Glad you mention about spiritual ego as first point. I was guilty of it until I dig deeper into myself and realized I'm not better than anyone else then I ended up dwelling on many things and fell into depression worse than before lol then started to bring myself back up. I'm scared that I'm going into the state of chasing a carrot now, there's this big urge within me to follow the voice and seek enlightenment yet I still don't know if that only means I'm running away from everything and everyone. I really want to be one with my soul, that means I have to take huge risk of being shut out by everyone I know and that includes by my own parents. I'm still contemplating whether to walk towards the place the voice guided me to or stay where I am, stagnant meaningless life. I've been having this unexplainable desire for a few years now and I'm still here... paralyzed by my own thoughts, too scared to take any steps forward. 🍂

Thank you Christina. I’m just realizing at age 67 I’ve been an empath my whole life. I have a lot to learn. Your videos are extremely helpful. ❤️

Us versus them is what makes most religious and social doctrine so effective.. the media plays to this unfortunately. It would be awesome if it wasn’t that way, but it’s usually far from that.

Absolutely, the path of spirituality is messy at times, but working on it.

Money has been a trauma in my life until i let go and realize i have enough money and i can always find a way to make more. I am intelligent and i have made enough money all my life, even when i was "poor"

I’m a middle school science teacher with a family, so money isn’t really abundant for counseling and therapy. So THANK YOU so much for continually sharing these beautiful and enlightening videos. Knowing I’m not alone in my struggles really helps, but learning how to define those struggles so I can discover resources and tools available helps me move through them.♥️♥️♥️♥️ There are no words to express my gratitude and love. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

What's striking is your unconditional love for all souls, whether they're egoistic, or narcissistic or unawakened. Let love bathe this world! ❤❤❤

Thank you, Christina! I got pulled into most of these when trying to find community post awakening, which lead to a really hard "dark night" that put my faith in jeopardy. My sense of trust in myself (discernment) and the divine was wounded. Recently, I was telling a friend about this while we were in the car, and another car pulled right in front of us with the license plate "Trust Me". Funny how something so seemingly ordinary could have such a profound impact!

Hi Christina, I am not sure if I have misunderstood your explanations as I usually love your videos. But in short, I was triggered by this. Though I understand it is your experience. I have only just started to accept the fact that I was abused as a child and due to my programming/brainwashing I continued to be abused as an adult. I was raised to believe I existed only for other people, I was only allowed to have sad/vulnerable feelings that matched my caregivers, I was not autonomous, I gave away my power to everyone, I had a physically abusive sibling blah blah blah, and as such, I was and continued to be physically and emotionally abused into my 40's. I went through a spiritual awakening a few years ago and I realised the truth. I AM judging my family and all others who have abused me as they refuse to even entertain the idea that I might even be a little bit sick due to my upbringing. They refuse to take any responsibility for any of their actions (and they continue to do so). They refuse to look within to help themselves heal. It is inevitable for me to be in a position of judging them as this is my truth and that is the truth external to me. After constant invalidation in my life and other forms of abuse, it is unacceptable for someone to tell me I have to accept that they were doing the best they could considering they are unawake and they are a product of their programming. On a purely intellectual level, I understand that but...NO, it isn't acceptable for me to accept that in myself as that is called turning a blind eye to abuse which is what I was forced to do and that perpetuates abuse, but particularly more subtle forms of abuse, and that is how people get away with bad behavior. Inevitably at some point, you have to judge for your own safety and sanity. Unawareness does not give someone a get out of jail card. And some people are just @holes. I don't care about their programming, the fact is that they are abusing me now, and I am only just starting to learn how to even be in my own body (oh, I have a body that I am responsible for and no-one has a right to my body but me? Well that is news to me)...I have to do something about it to save myself. Though I don't necessarily practice moral superiority toward them...I have just cut off all contact. But in the end, I know I am right and they are wrong. Because they abused me and that is it. I don't care what the intent was or that it was ignorant or whatever. I wouldn't hurt a fly yet they continued to hurt me. Some of it must have been knowingly as well. But they don't care as it has continued to happen. With my vibration and deep shame, I keep on attracting low lifes who attack me just for existing. The difference now is that I am more aware of it but it isn't a quick thing to work through trauma. So no, they do not deserve forgiveness or for me to try to convince myself that we are all one and love and light and open your heart and blah blah, as they do not deserve any kindness of any kind from myself, I hate them. I know I can't talk to them about it, so I just removed myself from any contact. Maybe one day I will naturally get to a point of MEH/indifference. But I am not there yet and at this point on my journey, I am just starting to feel anger which I was not allowed to do, so yes, this triggered me. I couldn't watch the rest of the video. Sorry for the war and peace, but there you go.

Omg!!! Thank you so so much for addressing this in a kind manner. I was going to write you and ask you this exact question. You are truly a beautiful soul.

Christina Lopes is an Extraordinary Woman and Great Councilor. Such a Woman! She can Help You in Your Life for Real. Much LOVE ❤❤

Oh my goodness!!! I just was talking to my spirit guides YESTERDAY about helping me get out of that first rabbit hole and this video pops up! I been battling with knowing evil in the world and wondering why people are sacrificing and hurting kids etc and even with fear of coming in contact with extraterrestrials! Even the whole rich people thing!! You helped me see an entire different way of thinking about this! I was dimming my own light drowning in fear of evil and not being strong enough but I realized I don't have to fear it by knowing and with that it's an even bigger reason for me to keep growing in my gift and walking without fear!!!! This video is definitely affirmation for me!!! Thank you 🌻

My ego really needed to be called out, thank you for making this video! I have been experiencing awakening for the past several years and have fallen into all of these traps at one point or another. Dwelling has probably been the hardest one for me to recognize and respond to, and I really appreciate that it was included in the list. I am so grateful for the timing of this video.... it was exactly what I needed to hear right now :)

Unity consciousness in diet aspect. Im having a hard time transitioning to plant based.. I also felt the superiority mindset in the beggining but im glad that i was able to catch myself and reminded that we are all doing our best as human beings.

I find myself falling into an "us vs them" complex. The separation from universal mentality and gettkng into the victim mindset. I have been watching a few other Christina videos so I let this one come up organically. I will do this workbook, a good starting point I think 😊🙏

Brillant young lady. I'm 64 and I've chased the carrot and keep thing there is more to heal. I feel like I can relax more now. Thank you

Awaken launches the day before my birthday. I'm going to gift the course to myself!

It's strange😂😂😂.. I was trapped in all of these and all those years I didn't understood what's wrong with me even though I am awakened.. today I finally got it.. thank you soo much mam❤️❤️❤️ lots of love from India🙏

I have never heard this explained so clearly. Helped me so much! 🙏🏻

Christina, this is, for me, one of the most helpful videos you've created. The dwelling, not knowing when something has been healed so I can move on, has been real. I appreciate you and thank you for your mentorship as we go deeper into our work. Sending you love ❤

It seems that toxic positivity is cause by a warped understanding of the law of attraction. Positive attracts positive so always being positive will bring positive without bringing negative. But we all know that under the best of circumstances, negative will come. It isn't possible to have only positive.

What an eye opening, ego dissolving video. Thank you for calling out these traps Christina 🙏 I am definitely guilty of most of these...I received a massive download regarding the first trap while automatic writing earlier today so this was great validation.

My dad is definitely stuck on "Us versus them" and it makes me super sad. He's so deep in it I don't know how to help him. I've had a brief period of superiority complex that sometimes comes up and I try to take notice and correct myself. I want to figure out if I'm chasing any carrots, because it's possible but I'm not sure. So it's either I'm so blinded that I cant recognize it or I'm just dwelling too much on it, lol. Toxic positivity is such a pet peeve.

Remember to use your own discernment. I know what she’s getting at with some of the points she made in ‘trap’ 1. But its true there are malevolent forces who indeed do pull strings on this world stage. I don’t believe this I know this. I don’t believe in believing there are non. As you grow in conscious and awareness a wider scope of knowledge of different things reveal to you that one might consider to be both good or bad. Whether your let knowledge of certain negative things you discover rule your being is something else.

The feeling is that eventually we will all go through every thing listed here in this video. As for getting stuck? Well I think I’m stuck in all of them and some more then others. After listening to a few of your videos I find myself saying Ding Ding Christina, there it is. This Ding Dig that I do now when a realization hits me is a gesture of gratitude to you.

Not the info I was looking for initially but a great presentation. I have fallen head long into toxic positivity. I'm happy to say I haven't told anyone to let go of any pain. (I think you have to take the time to process things for yourself and work them out in your own time.) I have been beating myself up for letting others anger and frustration effect me and not being able to just stay positive. Hearing that human feelings are neither positive or negative really helped. Thank you

i have been stuck in almost all of these recently. my spiritual awakening was so amazing and then all of a sudden, i felt sucked in to these very negative concepts and ways of thinking. you had perfect timing on this one. i love listening to you with an open mind, you continue to impact my life and thought with your videos. im so grateful for you. sending love🌞

Thank you. I've definitely acted superior and I've tried to bypass most of my negative emotions. I'm only now learning how destructive it has been and how inauthentic I've been. Thank you for putting out this beautiful content. Sending love❤ Karolina

Yesssss!!!! Toxic positivity is the worst....the irony is that "no bad vibes" attitude breeds that shame, which is as low vibe as you can go!

I am so happy and over joyed i found you. I have taken myself to the next level and its so scary. Your channel is so authentic and real. If people knew the truths about the spiritual growing pains a bit more then more of us would I believe move into enlightenment sooner. It’s rough its scary and to know were not alone and to know its worth it. Is such a peaceful feeling.

Thank you Christina for clarifying. I'm just starting to see and feel the oneness and my perspective is broader. This came after detaching from the material and then people in addition to going solo. Like you said I reattached myself to people and situations feeling different and separate from the whole. I'm reconnecting now slowly from the heart and it's just the beginning of a more meaningful life for me. Sooo much gratitude for my life's journey today. Thank you for all you do for the collective (Service to humanity at it's best)👽

I absolutely have and still see myself in many of these scenarios!! Much wisdom and love for this particular video!! Thank you Chris-Tina.. 😊

That spiritual trap of dwelling... I think I am an expert at this. Number 1: I've been thinking a lot about it lately. Never felt superior to anyone and never bothered with toxic positivity (I am struggling with positivity altogether 😂) - Christina, you are helping a lot. Thank you from my heart ❤ Greetings from Greece

I absolutely love love your videos! I really needed this! I wanted to make sure I was on right path. Thank you so much. One day I’d love to attend your classes!!! Much love and wow! Just appreciate you!!! Devine timing is right!!

This was a profoundly needed video. Thank you for creating it. It has changed my perspective. I will be listening again to make sure I really absorb the messages.

Thank you for this enlightening video! Made me really think about my spiritual progress at this point. Peace, love and light🌞

Signed up! So excited!

Glad I found this channel. I forgot that I am a Light Worker and did have a 3rd eye awakening and been struggling lately and your videos have been helping me lately. Thank you.

Thank you and your team for these videos, and works sheets, and EVERYTHING! You have a very holistic, and "academic" (lack of a better word at the moment) way of sharing spiritual/deeper meaning to the experiences we all have in this incarnation. Just sharing some love and appreciation for this content.

I really enjoy the logic behind your reasoning and explanations into spirituality. Very helpful and informative. Thank you!

Brilliant Christina, Great sharing! 😃❤💥

Every time I hear you it seems to open me up more and more. Thank you.

I love this so much!!thank you for always making day

Wow ,much needed

This helped me a lot , I found myself going through all of them ... now I understand we’re simply here to be in the present moment ❤️

Dam I feel like you called me out on this video. I now release my victim mentality. Thank you for helping US evolve and become better. Great video.

I didn’t know you were Catholic, and I am too. I’m Filipino American Catholicism is not my country’s original language, and did some research it’s either Shamanism or Animism. I’m happy I’m self aware of all these traps of the dark side of reality. You’re wise as your zodiac sign Christina.

Thank you. It helps me understand how to balance my light and darkness. We all have both, not being aware can take us to a wild ride 😃🌸. Much love, blessings and success to all

Thank you so much for calling all of these out. In particular, the toxic positivity is brilliant. I see that one a lot and it has always sat poorly, but I couldn’t articulate why. Thank you!!

Awesome ✨ Best video till now ! Just sooo much clarity oon this path !!!! Gratitude 🔱✨🙏

I felt the us vs them mentality for myself during the last four years and especially during election time last year. This was so helpful for me to hear. All of this is so very helpful. Thank you! ♥️🙏♥️ Also I loved your book 📕 over the edge. Just finished it last week. Life changing!

Hi Christina, thank you for your continued work. I definitely feel like I came across it at the perfect time...of course. In future, I am interested in your virtual course. I just moved to or actually...moved back to Hawaii after 20-years. So, am still settling in to the high vib here. Also, I love the Azores! I met my friend from Barcelona there during the winter of 2019. It was gorgeous and luckily due to the holidays, quiet.🙂 Staying tuned...🌈💕

Fantastic video! This video could be your best so far! Well done!

This is so good. Thank you so much ❤️

Ive been going through my spiritual journey for 4 years now. I've become so sensitive to the outside world.. I struggle everyday dealing with ongoing life issues like mass shootings, George Flyod, old forest growth locations being cut down and our leaders not caring! etc... to the point where i dream about these situations.. it takes me awhile to get over these things ans move on.. ive never been like this before. I also suffer from Anxiety. I feel my soul is a happy one however, affected by other people's toxicity .. it is a daily struggle for me to be happy with myself knowing there's alot of suffering out there.. I would love to know how to be content with knowing that I am unable to help the whole world so to speak 🥰

You’ve taught me so much! You truly are a blessing ❤️

Thank you for this beautiful message! We often need these reminders 💖✨

One of favorites! Wow. Thank you Christina. Your energy, wisdom, insight, patience and teaching are deeply appreciated. 🤎🙏🏽💕

The DWELLING part. 💯💯💯 I’ve literally been putting my songs on shuffle to try and find a trigger or something! Anything! And guess what song kept coming up? “On and On” by Erykah Badu 😂😂🤣🤣 I knew I was healed when the things that used to bother me, didn’t anymore. Like AT ALL. I would try so hard to feel something but nothing would come up! Just like a silly laugh... It IS time to move on. Thank you so much Christina! 💐💐

I think what I got most from this video as it relates to my own journey is that it's OK just to be me. I do see that the dwelling has been very toxic for me in the past, as during my early life I was diagnosed (falsely) with depression and bipolar and told that I will be this way for the rest of my life, as well as family genetic beliefs that as a woman I am bad and have to suffer. (Wow, that's a hard one to bring up, especially in the modern USA!) All this healing came through me quickly, but then I felt unsure if it was "right" to let the issues go ... I can see now that it was still that expectation that I have to suffer. Also the spiritual separation from regular folks is hard, not my feeling superior, but feeling inferior if I just want to work a normal job and live a simple, everyday life. The message I personally hear from spiritual circles is to "transcend" this world because it's no good. It's been brought to my attention now that it's OK just to be me and exist as I am and be happy. Which just makes me breathe a sigh of relief. Thanks, Christina, been working with your co-dependency and learning to be being yourself videos as well. Very helpful. 😊 Good journeys to everyone reading this, peace

Well that just shook me to my core! Total reality check! Thanks Christina! I really needed to hear this today! 🙏💖😊

Thank You Christina! It is always a Very Big Pleasure to be able to listen to You. Thank You!

THANK YOU for talking about the “new world order” thing… I got the same intuitive message that it is actually a way for people to displace their own inherent power onto some other mysterious group that is beyond their control. We all have equal access to god / source / power within us!

I was so happy to hear you speak on dwelling. I've been wondering about this for the last few months. Feeling like I was at the bottom of the barrel, like all the old is just worn out and tired. I was wondering if I was fooling myself. Coincidentally, about the same time l had put down the carrot on the stick and just started living my new growth. Thank You for the confirmation and clarification. Again 💕

Omg thank youu christina!!!! I need thissss

Holly Crap!! I needed to hear this!! I am stuck - I was stuck until RIGHT NOW into the first trap, I've been chasing the carrot in the recent past but I did realize that I have to be happy and in balance today and not live "in the future".. and the last trap..you talking about it made me think of me telling my daughter who barely smiles during the day, to put a smile on her face...!! Holly Crap!!

You are badass Christina! Love you!

I fall into a few of them quite often... Dwelling, Me vs Them (especially wen I feel no one z understanding me) and also occasional Superiority complexes. I am trying my best to get over d last two as I was made aware of these by my own conscience a few months ago. However, I just realised, after watching ds, dat I have to deal wd "dwelling" also! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Very nice reminder for all awaken people. I can't agree more!

I’m truly grateful for this video and all your videos, and your amazing workbooks ❤️ thank you for your generosity to the community for making these workbooks and resources available ✌️🙏 love the funky music in the intro 😎☺️

Lord yes thank you for helping me overcome the “dark side” of spirituality. This video was a trip down memory lane for me! Of course some of these experiences manifested in different ways for me so maybe not exactly as she described it or as intense but I’m glad I was able to steer through and out of it! Lol 🎉

Hi Christina, happy about the content of the video 🤗 i have one thing to say about the first trap You mentioned. I have to add that it's important to know that You have been manipulated by organsied religion and political mafia and that everything You thought was true...it's not.. only after that happens, You take Your power back..not before the awareness of the matrix. And that group exists in that collective unonsciousness so IT needs to be made conscious and integrared. As well as in the example of the blaming parents, it's important to Connect with the pain of the innerchild and validate his emotions before getting to the understanding of the parents. It's really important to see the pain of the inner child as valid and see the mistakes that the parents did, and only after that, get to the forgiveness part. Sending love 💛

Dear Christina, its Trap 2 and 5. You always save my day, just amazing what i experience since last year with your videos. We love you over here and you i am sooo extremly grateful for your Work. As a Filmmaker..the lighting is very smooth.😊

This is the best thing I’ve ever listened to so far!!! Thank you! 🥰

P.S. just remembered that the late American painter Georgia O'Keefe always said, "Be of the world, but not in it"! Also the late American actress Katharine Hepburn's script in the Academy Award winning film, "On Golden Pond" 1981 said to Jane Fonda's character who played her daughter, "We're all doing the best we can"! Art reflects life, life reflects art!

Love you, Christina! Thank you for all you do! I believe the correct quote is... "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil"- not just money... that one little word makes a difference. Blessings and Abundance! Much love.

This was really beautiful and informative, thank you for posting.

Such clarity! 💙✌🏻😇🙏🏻 Thank you so much. Many, many, many, many blessings!!!!

I'm always doing my best, even when I am not perfect, even when I get overwhelmed and emotional. I'm still doing my best. Give people a get out of jail free card every chance you get.

Thank you. Still one of my favorite awakening mentors after five years 💚

Christina thank you so much for this video. I can relate to so much of it and looking so forward to working through the workbook. Stay safe and be blessed always ❤

This came at the right time. I've been dwelling for months and months now and it's starting to get grating. I've been putting all my energy towards trying to find this wound to heal so I can remove my triggers, but I've been totally stuck forever now, and I'm beating my head against the wall now. I know there is still healing to be done, I'm just lost

When you come from true life experiences and see people bullshit, you see the world for what it truely is.

one of your best videos ever - without the forced acting - your eloquence ad explanation skills are top notch

omg, thank you for saying this. a long time coming.

I am certainly stuck within the us vs them. I feel I am making good progress but the points you make certainly resonate. Hopefully I will let go of the victim consciousness soon 🌻 Also "rejection of responsibility" resonates too.

You're the best, wish I could hear from you everyday. Very interested in Awaken in July!

Brilliant and posted at the right time for my personal journey. Thank you!

Thank you so much Christina, I LOVE this content in this video, and I have joined your waitlist. I also want to support you the way I can to continue doing this very important work. What you have mentioned here, it's exactly what I have been seeing happening in some spiritual communities, and sadly it has affected my contact with someone I felt fairly close with (felt like twin-flame connection), but this separation consciousness and victim mentality, I kept bringing up to him so many times. I am in separation now and open to new connections, as I could not live in this ego mentality. You either believe you are powerful or you are a victim, choose again. Thank you for being here with us, love and gratitude.

❤️❤️big love from india

You have helped me so much through my spirtual journey

Brilliant. Utterly helpful...we all are tempted to fall in any of these traps....knowledge is power...awareness the tool to change

Thanks for this vid Christina. I have fallen victim to this earlier on before I knew better. Right now I struggle with dwelling too much but working on it. 💜💜💜