Someone said to me recently that preparing to teach a class is not as easy as it looks. She said that while preparing the notes for her class, she has to make sure that she knows the information and have integrated the info to a certain extent before she can teach it. And that it is not just a matter of compiling notes together.
I agree.
In fact the process of compiling notes and preparing the content of the lecture requires one to learn the lessons and interestingly, one may find that life itself also helps to partake in the integration process by dishing out all the necessary lessons.
In my early days as a spiritual teacher, I was often confronted by challenging lessons and some are very funny ones too. For eg. the computer decides to retire just 2 days before the workshop; attacking phone calls and emails from 'fellow lightworkers' a day before a major workshop; the door to the healing centre where I was doing the class refuses to open until the owner turned up 30 mins later; being booted out of the booked venue a month before the spiritual event because someone claimed I was a devil worshipper (isn't this hilarious!); a partner then who was also a spiritual teacher was becoming a father soon but I was not the pregnant one, and I found this out just before a workshop/class - the dramas of life but all very funny.
They were certainly very valuable because they helped me to integrate all the lessons I was going to teach like owning my personal power, being the master of my feelings/emotions, learning when to let go, and so many more.
As I continue to teach, I am sure there will be many more lessons coming my way. So I totally agree that teaching is not as easy as it looks.
So to all of you spiritual teachers out there, three cheers to you, your service work and commitment to be the best that you can be, so that others can learn by your better example.
Namaste.