Look, the world feels like a dumpster fire right now, and "numb" is a whole vibe—but it’s not YOUR vibe. Stop treating your spiritual practice like a chore and start using it as your sanctuary. 🧡🧚‍♂️🧡

Is Your Practice a Sanctuary or Just a Fancy Gilded Cage

March 11, 20262 min read

The Silent Altar (AKA: Why You’re Hiding)

Been a little ghost-y lately? If you haven’t touched your spiritual tools in a week, honey, take a breath. You aren’t in trouble, and you certainly haven’t failed the "enlightenment test."

What you’re feeling is a very human reaction to a world that’s currently being shaken like a cheap snow globe. Between the doom-scrolling and the collective anxiety, your nervous system is basically screaming for a nap. In the Freedom Systems, we know we only go silent when we’re hiding. You aren’t failing; you’ve just temporarily moved into the Altar of the Numb, trying to find a volume knob for reality.

Drop the Fortress, Grab the Sanctuary

When things get heavy, we accidentally turn our practices into a Fortress—all rigid rules and heavy "shoulds" to keep the chaos out.

A Fortress is built out of fear. It’s a gilded cage that says, "Do this perfectly or lose your grip." Gross. A Sanctuary? That’s built out of love. It’s where you go to remember you’re a powerhouse, not a prisoner.

If your practice feels like another annoying to-do item, you’ve built a Fortress. Don’t beat yourself up, just notice it. Your inner rebel is always going to seek freedom, but if you aren’t careful, you’ll settle for sensory escape (hello, Netflix binge) instead of actual spiritual freedom. Numbness feels safer than presence... until it doesn’t.

The Theology of "Fine" is a Trap

In Freedom Systems, "Fine" is a sin. Not because you’re bad, but because "fine" is the ultimate rejection of your sparkle. It’s the spiritual equivalent of beige paint in a neon world.

Every time you use a "numb"—the apps, the wine, the transactional fixes—to avoid reality, you’re telling the Universe you don’t trust the life-force you were given. You’re the Creator of a True Awesome Life, but you can’t run the show if you’re an Absentee Landlord of your own body. Don’t hand the keys to your kingdom to a ghost just because the world is loud.

Washing Away the Numb

As we move through these final days of March, we aren't just checking a box. We are observing the foundation. We acknowledge that we cannot build a high-vibration life on a numb nervous system.

The noise isn’t going anywhere, but your reaction to it can. We’re washing away the Numb and clearing out the "Fine" so you can actually breathe. It’s time to stop doing and start the Un-Doing.

You are loved!
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Jeff describes himself as a Divine Space anchored by his in-breath and solidified by all other sparks of the Divine.

Some of the labels that have been used to describe him are productivity expert, Jedi Cleric, tantric practitioner, systems specialist, clothing designer, author, speaker, cohost of the Spiritual Sex & Candy Show, and The Fabulous One

He guides gay men (and those who love them) in breaking free from their default life, rediscover their inner spark, and becoming the fabulous creators of their True Awesome Life. All while traveling the country in his classic motorhome with his two pups.

He is also in the process of creating the Orange Dragonfly Transformational Center and Temple of Jediism which he says is going to be a cross between an RV park and summer camp where people will come to balance their mind, body, spirit, and business.

JP Adkins

Jeff describes himself as a Divine Space anchored by his in-breath and solidified by all other sparks of the Divine. Some of the labels that have been used to describe him are productivity expert, Jedi Cleric, tantric practitioner, systems specialist, clothing designer, author, speaker, cohost of the Spiritual Sex & Candy Show, and The Fabulous One He guides gay men (and those who love them) in breaking free from their default life, rediscover their inner spark, and becoming the fabulous creators of their True Awesome Life. All while traveling the country in his classic motorhome with his two pups. He is also in the process of creating the Orange Dragonfly Transformational Center and Temple of Jediism which he says is going to be a cross between an RV park and summer camp where people will come to balance their mind, body, spirit, and business.

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