The Truth Within: Moving from Societal Conditioning to Inner Knowing
- Joy Howell

- Nov 3
- 4 min read

There is a reality to duality, meaning we are spiritual beings having a human experience, we are two things in one. When we were born, we were 100% spiritual beings. As the days, weeks, months, and years went by the world around us began to shape the human aspect within us.
Ego, is our human aspect. We understand little about ego due to the society’s focus on ego being pride. However, ego is far more than pride. Ego is that part of us which desires, wants, and expects. Our desire to fit in and be loved, comes from our ego. Our desire for perfection, acceptance, to be heard and seen, to be right, to be respected all are from our ego.
Our higher self is the spiritual side to us. It is eternal, flawless, true, loving and kind, wise, stable, all knowing, and it loves unconditionally. As young, impressionable children, we listened to the voices around us and adapted to their messages. This separated our two natures, and this is the void we feel within that we constantly try to fill with all sorts of things. Nothing can satisfy that void outside of closing the gap between our spiritual nature and human nature. We must unlearn all that we were taught and reconnect with our higher self’s truth to find wholeness which is the wellspring of the peace that is already inside waiting to be found.
To close this gap, to unlearn, to connect with our truth and find wholeness we must make a journey within to see what needs to be purged and to listen to our inner voice and what it wants us to remember about who we truly are. We must set down what the world around us wants us to be and find our authenticity and live within it unapologetically.
We are leaving the astrological age of Pisces and what an age that has been. Pisces was/is an age driven by ego and fear and control was its weapon. The emotions shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger and pride are all low frequency emotions. The age of Pisces was deep in these emotions, and they imprisoned us all through “us vs them” mentality. We are constantly comparing, judging, proving ourselves, with a high need to be right, seen, and heard. The crazy thing is we not only do these things to others, but we also do them to ourselves. We are self-loathing and self-critical.
The good news is, the age of Pisces is drawing to an end. We are currently transitioning into the age of Aquarius. This age holds hope and love for humanity as it will be driven by harmony. Humanity is finding the “courage” to be “neutral” with a “willingness” to “accept” others as they authentically are through adapting “reasoning” skills that birth “love” which produces “joy” and “peace” and through this growth process humanity will experience “enlightenment”. ALL of these emotions are HIGH frequency emotions, causing an energy shift that many can feel spreading across the world at this moment.
The more people who turn away from shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger and pride in their thinking, in their listening, in their talking and transmute those low frequency emotions into courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reasoning, love, joy, and enlightenment the higher the frequency of humanity will rise. This effects the whole! How do you feel when you are around someone who is vibrating at a low frequency compared to how you feel around someone who is vibrating at a high frequency? It changes things, doesn’t it? Another person’s frequency level can change our day around for the good or the bad. Same with humanity in general. The higher frequency the whole of humanity is vibrating at the more humanity’s frequency as a collective will rise.
Are you feeling the energy shift?
Physical Sensations:
Fatigue or tiredness, often accompanied by deep sleep
Unexplained aches and pains throughout the body
Sensations of buzzing, energetic vibrations, or tingling
Disturbances in
sleep patterns, including night sweats and hot flashes
Heightened sensitivity to light, sound, and other sensory input
Emotional and Mental Experiences:
Emotional turbulence, including sudden irritability or surges
Feeling disconnected from the outside world, yet more aware of yourself
Overwhelm due to the volume of information and social interaction
A desire for solitude and time in nature
A craving for deeper meaning or purpose in life
Spiritual and Perceptual Shifts:
Increased intuition and a sense of "knowing" without logical reasoning
Noticing more synchronicities or "coincidences"
A lessening sense of ego and a desire to stop hiding your "truth"
Vivid dreams
The more self-aware we each become to this shifting of energy, the more we can be a part of it ourselves. It takes mental work to join this movement that is sweeping across our planet. I can tell you the work is worth every ounce of discomfort. Change is not fun and growth always comes with growing pains BUT change births amazing things and growth builds a solid foundation under our feat that makes life flow so much smoother.
I encourage you to take time to journey within, to unlearn what has not served you, to seek to find your personal truth and live within it, and to flip from the low frequency emotions into the high frequency emotions. Please subscribe to my blog, follow me on social media, book an appointment with me for a reiki session, and/or reach out to me about life coaching. It would be an honor to shine a light for you to find how best to raise your frequency and spread it to the world around you. Let’s join together to usher in the age of Aquarius! I think we can all agree, it is time for harmony to rule our world.
Joy Howell
928-951-6295



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