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“You don't forgive others to let them off the hook. You forgive yourself and others so that you can clear, heal, transmute and dissolve the emotional wounding, trauma, harm and damage that closes your heart.”
These are practices that I do whenever I am trying to release a pattern that no longer serves my highest good. I am using smoking as an example but you can fill in any other habit instead of smoking like drinking, drugs and other addictive behaviors. It is easier to release old patterns and ways of being if you can increase your awareness of what is underlying the addictive behaviors or bad habits.
Often in schools and movies and books, you see classroom scenes where students are made to write down on chalk on the blackboard or on paper using pens a statement over and over again often as a punishment like “I will never lie or cheat or steal or whatever…” It even played a prominent part in one of the Harry Potter books and movies. I think the reason this is so common is because people understand at some level how much importance writing down something is to the subconscious mind.
Long, long ago, God/Goddess created a lovely world and when they thought about what the soul purpose of the world would be, they decided that it would become a school where highly evolved beings from all over Creation could come to learn how to love, trust and accept themselves, others and Spirit unconditionally. One of the problems was that each of these beings knew so deeply in their core essence that they were an aspect of the consciousness of God/Goddess that how could they even see themselves as existing apart from God/Goddess.
In my last physical my blood sugar level was higher than where I would like to see it and when I meditated upon what was causing it to go up, I got that I was drinking too much soda. So over the last two months I have been making a very challenging transition of moving from drinking a lot of soda each day to drinking a lot of unsweet iced tea each day to drinking a lot of water each day. I try to break down huge changes into baby steps as much as possible and the idea of giving up both sugar and caffeine at the same time felt like a huge leap that I would crash and burn on.
First of all I want to acknowledge how hard it is to truly forgive the people in our lives who have hurt and wounded us the most. And what is hardest of all is that the people who wound us the most tend to be the people we most loved in our lives.
I have read hundreds and hundreds of books about personal finances, from the conventional world of financial planning, to the trendy how-to-get-rich programs to the New Age gurus of money. But here’s what’s missing from nearly all of them: VERY FEW of them even mention about our relationship with money. Whether you’re aware of it now or not, you have a personal relationship with money: a complex combination of your beliefs, attitudes, energy, history and fears about money AND the healthier your relationship with money is, the more money, success and financial freedom you enjoy.
I find it very ironic that so many people I know on the spiritual path often struggle so much with money. I feel in many ways that it is far more spiritual to be abundant than to be struggling financially. When Jesus said the Kingdom of GOD is within us what I feel he meant is that our inner divinity “ what I call the highest level aspect of our monad “ is totally abundant.
We all have very challenging, difficult people in our lives. While they often bring up LOTS of stuff for each of us to look at and clear and thus be a good influence ultimately upon us – sometimes the person and situation may become abusive and toxic. So where do you draw the line?
In my earlier years whenever I had a negative experience where I got hurt or wounded, I would look back on that event and beat up on myself for making a mistake. But as I look back on these events now I realize that there really are no "mistakes." Each of these events had a purpose behind it. I just wasn't wise enough or did not have the expanded vision and perspective to comprehend the meaning behind those experiences.
“Balance is so very important for people on the spiritual path. Many people I have observed on the path focus so intently on spiritual growth that they ignore the needs of their bodies; experience out of control emotions; and operate from the ego mind. We are here to ground the energy of Spirit into our body, emotions and mind as well as to evolve the soul.”
I have noticed over the years that whenever I give something purely from my heart (NOT my head or not with intent to receive) that very soon thereafter I would receive something nice back usually within two hours. At first I thought it was coincidence but it happens all the time which suggests that really it is a spiritual law in operation.
I have been thinking a lot about the spiritual growth process and I thought I would share. I think that what enlightenment really involves is accepting the light that already exists within each of us and in every one and every thing. Of course we have created many layers and blockages to prevent us from seeing the light and we have gotten attached to these layers which is why clearing can be so painful. Anyway the approach I am taking to spiritual growth boils down to three things: Commitment, attitude and balance.
1. Understand How People, Events and Activities Influences YOU Energetically Everything we do and everyone we interact with has an energy signature. There are three ways we respond to the energy of the people, events and activities in our life. Usually we are neutral energetically to most activities, circumstances and people so doing something or hanging out with someone often do not change our vibration much either way.
When you become trained as a healer, usually you do not get an operating manual about how to create your practice. But I really encourage all healers and people interested in pursuing a healing or teaching or world service role to create a vision statement or business plan or statement of intent.
“The way the Law of Attraction works is that whatever you focus your mental energy and attention on magnified by emotion is multiplied. So when you worry about money you are focusing mental energy on lack and scarcity magnified by fear and anxiety and this magnetizes even more lack and scarcity energy to you from the Law of Attraction.” “We experience whatever we choose to experience. Most people however have wishy-washy thoughts and they create a wishy-washy life.”
“You don't forgive others to let them off the hook. You forgive yourself and others so that you can clear, heal, transmute and dissolve the emotional wounding, trauma, harm and damage that close your heart. “Release the need for drama! The soap opera aspects of our lives are like the waves that agitate the ocean surface without changing its inherent nature. The dramas in our lives appear much fiercer than they really are. They cannot upset us permanently unless we believe them and act upon this belief.
I have been on the spiritual path for over twenty years now. And when I began out on the path many years ago, I explored every New Age and metaphysical bookstore I could find. I bought crystals and energy tools; explored the mysteries of Tarot and the Kabala; experimented with many types of meditation; followed several channels searching for wisdom. I became an expert at seeking and doing but not so gifted at being and finding and discovering.