In two days, we celebrate Christmas.

For many, it’s a holiday filled with lights, traditions, joy, and sometimes grief. But beneath the surface of the story there is a deeper metaphysical truth, one that has nothing to do with religion as an institution and everything to do with consciousness.

Christmas is not just the birth of a man named Jesus.

It is the remembrance of a state of consciousness available to all of us.

A rebirth.

An awakening.

What mystics across traditions have pointed to as Christ Consciousness.

Christ Was Not the Exception. He Was the Example

Paramahansa Yogananda taught that Jesus was not meant to be worshipped as the only one who could live in divine union, but as one who demonstrated what is possible when human consciousness fully aligns with divine truth.

Christ consciousness is not a person. It is a level of awareness, one rooted in love, unity, compassion, faith, and unwavering inner knowing.

This understanding aligns deeply with yogic philosophy, where enlightenment is not something bestowed from the outside, but something remembered from within.

In Yoga Sutra teachings, wisdom is not created. It is revealed when the mind quiets and we align with truth.

Christmas, metaphysically, is an invitation to do exactly that.

Śraddhā: Faith as a Living Discipline

In yoga psychology, faith is not blind belief. The Sanskrit word Śraddhā means that which is held in the heart. It is a disciplined trust in something deeper than the thinking mind. A steady devotion to truth, even when the outer world offers doubt.

Śraddhā is listed in yogic teachings as an essential quality for awakening.
Not because faith makes things magically happen, but because it stabilizes consciousness.

Jesus embodied Śraddhā.

His faith wasn’t hope or wishful thinking.
 

It was certainty. It is an unshakeable alignment with divine law.

And it was this alignment that made the “miracles” possible.

Miracles as Metaphor for Aligned Consciousness

When we hear stories of walking on water, feeding the many, or turning water into wine, the metaphysical teachings invite us to look deeper.

These are not performances meant to impress.

They are symbolic of what happens when consciousness is no longer fragmented by fear.

Walking on water represents mastery over emotional turbulence.
 

Feeding the many represents abundance that flows from inner alignment.
 

Turning water into wine symbolizes the alchemy of awareness, where the ordinary becomes sacred.

Joseph Campbell taught that myth is not a lie. It is truth told symbolically.
These stories are not meant to be taken literally, but instead, they invite us into a deeper understanding of what is possible when faith, awareness, and love are fully embodied.

Awakening Happens Now—not Someday

Eckhart Tolle reminds us that awakening is always available now.

Not through striving, but through presence.
 

Not through effort, but through surrender.

Christ consciousness is not something we earn.
 

It is something we allow.

And this is where modern psychology meets ancient wisdom.

Positive psychology shows us that belief, meaning, and coherence shape how we experience life.

Yoga psychology teaches us that consciousness shapes reality.

Faith (Śraddhā) is the bridge.

It brings us out of fear-based thinking and into intuitive wisdom.

Out of separation and into unity.

Out of survival and into love.

In my book, If I’m So Spiritual, Why Am I Still So Anxious? How to Find Your Center and Reclaim Your Joy, I explore this very tension.

Why we can be deeply spiritual and still feel anxious, disconnected, or uncertain.

Through the lens of yoga psychology and lived experience, I share how faith is not about bypassing fear, but about developing an inner steadiness that allows us to meet life with clarity and trust. This is the same invitation of Christ consciousness: not perfection, but presence; not control, but alignment with a deeper truth that already lives within us.

This Christmas, What Is Being Reborn in You?

Christmas, at its core, asks a simple but powerful question:

What is ready to be born in you now?

Not a perfect version of yourself.

Not a spiritual persona.

But a deeper trust in your own inner wisdom.

Christ consciousness does not ask us to become someone else.
It invites us to remember who we already are beneath fear, doubt, and conditioning.

This is the quiet miracle.

The inner rebirth.

The return to truth.

And it begins—not in a manger long ago—but in the heart, right now.