A beneficial step to take in life, is to do a deep inner inventory. It can help us feel more free. Another benefit, is that it can lead to a greater understanding of your life and its happenings, which helps us carry compassion for ourselves and others. Inner inventory work can also delve and curtail shadow work. Shadow work, according to Carl Jung is the unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify in itself, or the entirety of the unconscious, i.e., everything of which a person is not fully conscious.
If these grounded and practical spiritual steps are bypassed, it can lead to later troubles in one's life, despite one's spiritual understanding. Be Blessed! The Light Has Come