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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How To Recover From Fantasy Addiction

Addiction to fantasy is a defence mechanism against the pain that we feel in our lives. It is a behaviour that is generally rooted in childhood, and it is a coping strategy that was learned to enable the child to survive the pain. Very often the child will use stories like fairy tales to escape from the present moment, and often these children have incredible imaginations and can tell great stories. They imagine that they will be rescued by a charming prince on a white horse.... or that they will meet a kind, sweet princess who will make them happy....

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is The Christ Consciousness?

In Sacred Geometry, the shape of Christ Consciousness (or sometimes it is called Christ Grid) is made from a combination of several geometric shapes, the dodecahedron and the icosahedrons. These two shapes are from the group of five shapes known as the Platonic Solids, or the perfect bodies. The platonic solids are five unique structures that are congruent regular polygons, with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex; thus, all its edges are congruent, as are its vertices and angles. Many religions consider the platonic solids shapes to be holy.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Can We Learn From Trees?

Trees are fabulous! They are the lungs of the planet. They do an amazing job for us- they take our waste product (carbon dioxide) and they turn it into what we breathe- oxygen.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Network Marketing - What Are the Drawbacks?

Network Marketing has a reputation for being a scam. It is reported that people at the top of the chain, or who got into the business early are able to make vast sums of money while the rest- over 90% of the people involved in the industry- fail to make a profit. Admittedly over the one hundred plus years that network marketing has been an industry, there have been some companies with really dreadful products who have acted appallingly and left some people with real problems when the folded.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Do Addictions Prevent Spiritual Growth?

An addiction is a dependency on a substance, behaviour or thought process that came about as a coping mechanism for the pain felt inside, and as a way of getting though life.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is Spiritual Addiction?

Spiritual addiction is an addiction that is not well recognized and yet it is quite prevalent in our society. A person will become addicted to spirituality, and from the outside, appear to be leading an exemplary life. However, the addiction here is chasing the high of spiritual connection in order to avoid the pain of life. Spiritual addiction is one of the hardest addictions to accept and recover from, because the condition is largely unrecognized and outwardly, these people are looked up to for living a spiritual life. Also, the high is very addictive, free, and blissful.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Recovering From Co Dependency - Part 1

Many people do not understand what Co dependency is, and many professionals struggle to describe it so that it is well understood. It is an insidious disease that underpins all addictions. It is born out of abuse or neglect in childhood. The net result is a person who suffers from self- hatred, self -esteem issues and an inability to relate healthily to other people.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Where Does Poverty Consciousness Come From?

Poverty consciousness is the belief that there will not be enough for you. This could be food, money, attention, or any number of things, but it manifests as a fear of lack.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Is There a Negative Side To All This Positive Thinking?

We are programmed by a strong desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is so deep rooted in our subconscious that it motivates pretty much everything that we do. Recently, there has been a movement towards positive thinking as a way of overcoming our challenges, and dispelling negative feelings.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What is Spiritual Growth?

Spiritual growth is a very personal journey. We are spiritual beings in a human body from our first breath to our last. Each time we breathe in, we accept life and all she has to offer us. With each out breath, we release all that we no longer need. As small children, we wonder at nature and the world around us, and we display an enormous sense of excitement about all things new. As we grow, this diminishes as we learn how we are expected to behave.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

The Hidden Toxic Dangers In Household Cleaning Products

It seems that whenever you turn on the television or open a magazine what you see are advertisements about how important it is to keep your home smelling fresh and completely germ free. In order to provide such a high level of bacteria and germ free results, the manufacturers of typical household cleaners have to use some really nasty chemicals. It is not a huge leap of faith to see that if these chemicals are so harmful to bacteria, germs, and contaminants in the home they must also be harmful to humans.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Learning to Take Responsibility

Often when we begin on the path of personal development or spiritual growth, we start to look at the behaviours that we have been practising to this point. We begin to see that our behaviours have caused us issues in our relationships with friends and family, and we gradually learn that we need to alter the way we are around others and with ourselves.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Recovery From Co Dependency - Part 2

In part 1, we looked at rescuing and care-taking. In this article, we are going to be looking at people pleasing. This is a behaviour that is deeply entrenched in a vast majority of our population, and is quite a tough habit to crack. When a child learns that it gets attention for being good, clean, tidy, or doing well at school, for example, the message it receives is that it is only lovable when it is doing what others want. The more it hears this, the more it learns to put aside its' wants and needs, and to adopt the behaviours necessary to gain the approval/ attention it needs.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Do The Angels Communicate With Us?

There are many different ways to hear the angels' messages. For this article, I would like to concentrate on the four principle ways that they communicate with us. Clair Audience. This is the ability to hear something inside your head that has not been spoken. If you can close your eyes and imagine the tune of your favourite song, then you are clair audient. People that are clair audient often receive messages as if someone was telling them the message. Clairvoyance.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Do You Worry About?

As a species, we have really perfected the art of worrying. We worry about everything tiny detail, as if worrying about it will lessen the blow, or make whatever we are trying to avoid not happen. We worry about whether or not we are going to get old, sick, die, or any variation on this theme. We worry about poverty, the job market, our social standing and any variation on this theme. We worry about the country, the planet, our towns and villages. We worry about not being good enough, being too good, being rejected, ignored, noticed and any variations on those themes. What is worry?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

My Own Journey With Toxins

I have decided to write about why I wanted to be toxin free as much as I am able. I mention this because we soak up and absorb so many toxins into our bodies unknowingly.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is The Angels Number 1 Message?

The angels are very much with us at the moment as the changes that are affecting our world are causing much fear and worry. They reach us any way that they can, and sometimes, they tell me that being heard can be very challenging when we are so frightened that we prevent their messages from getting through.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is Entitlement?

Entitlement is a mindset that is born out of a troubled childhood. It is developed when the individual was so deprived as a child, and they adapted by thinking they were entitled to whatever they could take. The other side of the same coin is that they were completely spoiled as a child and assume that everything is theirs for the taking. Both behaviours generally indicate low self esteem, and often, both behaviours display a lack of understanding about possession or respect for other people's property.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Do We Grow Spiritually?

There are 5 principle ways to evolve spiritually, and they are all equally as important as each other. Each person will have natural preferences to one or two, but all of them contribute to our spiritual journey towards happiness and peace.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

The Poverty of Loneliness

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. ~ Mother Teresa ~ We live in a society today that engenders loneliness in a large percentage of the population. We are herd animals and yet as we become more affluent, we seem to be moving away from the family unit, and from living in community. The proportion of single parent families and elderly people living on their own is rising steeply and dating agencies are everywhere, which suggests that certain elements of society are not being catered to as they need.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Choose Your Reactions Wisely

A person can only make you angry if you allow them to. What this means is that no one can make you feel angry, only that you choose to react with anger to what they have said or done.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Easily Generate Excited Prospects for Your Network Marketing Opportunity

If you are in the MLM industry, then you will appreciate that one of the most important aspects of continuing to build your empire is the continual search for new leads. If this is a topic that you struggle with, then this article may well be able to provide you will some useful information about generating leads.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Learning to Love What Is.

We live in a society that is addicted to fast, young, beautiful, and me, more, now. We are constantly told that we need to have this gadget, or make up, or job in order to be lovable, and in our constant quest for the quick fix, we really lose sight of ourselves.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Do You Learn to Live Without Alcohol?

Alcoholism is extremely common in our society and it affects the lives of very many people. It is insidious and it ruins lives everywhere it presents itself. Alcohol is one of the only drugs on the market that is legal. Supermarkets sell it off extremely cheaply, with their special offers and year round advertising. We see pictures on the television of the young adults binge drinking every weekend, and alcohol costs the health service, ambulance and police services untold amounts every day.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Growth - A Very Personal Journey

Spiritual growth is a very personal journey. We are spiritual beings in a human body from our first breath to our last. Each time we breathe in, we accept life and all she has to offer us. With each out breath, we release all that we no longer need. As small children, we wonder at nature and the world around us, and we display an enormous sense of excitement about all things new. As we grow, this diminishes as we learn how we are expected to behave.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Why Do People Steal?

Stealing from others has always been seen as a crime- in fact in years gone by, you could be hanged, or go to prison for years for stealing as little as a fish. Why do people steal, and is punishing them always the right course of action? There are many reasons why people steal. One of the most obvious ones is in order to feed themselves or their family. I often hear people say that they would never steal, but I believe desperation and possible starvation would force many people to steal to survive.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Change Is Inevitable, Are You Ready?

We are witnessing some of the biggest astrological events of our lifetime. Last year, there were events like a grand cross, an eclipse, and all the major planets moved into a new house. I do not profess to know anything about astrological events, but was informed of this by a wise teacher that this is significant. Add this to the dramatic weather that is occurring across the globe, and the collapse of major institutions, and what are you left with?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How To Use The Internet To Succeed In Network Marketing

Are you trying really hard to make your network marketing business succeed, and yet not having the results you had hoped for? Have you tried lots of different approaches, and still have a disappointing number of signups? Or worse still, are you on the verge of leaving the industry altogether because you are seriously disillusioned? If any of the above relates to you, then I suggest you continue reading. There is a different way to succeed in MLM, and it entails looking at the business from a completely different angle.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is My Brain Trying To Do?

The human mind is an amazing piece of equipment. It processes an astounding 400 billion bits of information every second. It is at the same time trying to regulate healing, breathing, moving, thinking, repairing, protection, prevention, temperature, food absorption, hormones, chemical reactions, and a whole host of other processes that enable us to stay alive in each moment.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Where Is Your Passion?

Are you living your dream? Is your life full of magical moments, and do you jump out of bed excitedly each morning? Or do you struggle to haul yourself out of bed and drag yourself to the job that you loathe, and get home, tired, stressed, and miserable? Much of the literature in the self help industry asks you what you are passionate about. It is never money that inspires people to be happy, it is what the money can buy you- free time, plane tickets, a fast car, or whatever the money would represent to you if you had it.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Do We Really Know About Love?

When we look at this question, I would imagine that we think we know a lot about the subject. After some consideration, however, I believe we would find out that we know less than what we think we do. This is because have been sold a myth by the cinema and television industries about love, and how it should be. We chase an ideal, and always end up with a disappointing human.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Adding A PayPal Button To A Website or Blog

PayPal is one of the most well known e-commerce services worldwide. It provides a simple and secure way to allow customers to pay you online, which helps to facilitate business. Not only is it easy to add a PayPal button to your website but it also is very low cost, based on the actual transactions that you process through their account. A small amount of the total percentage of the transaction is kept by PayPal, but the rest is deposited directly into your account.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Change - Does It Excite You or Scare You?

Einstein said that "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it" We are often the last people to be able to see our own issues because we are living them. Einstein was saying that is not possible to change ourselves unless we look at the issue from a different perspective.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Understanding That Change Begins With Me

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world". Ghandi. There is much talk in the spiritual communities about how the world that I see outside of myself is a reflection of the world that is inside me. Part of the journey to peace, love, and happiness, is understanding that I am not always able to recognise my part in the creation of my life.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Looking For The Answer To Life's Questions?

How human beings locate information and learn about what they need has changed dramatically. Today, more than at any other time, information is available literally at our fingertips every second of every day. While there are some very positive benefits to f this type of information availability, there are also some significant risks and potential dangers to consider. Understanding how the quest for information has evolved over time is the first step towards knowing where we need to look for the answers.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is Your Truth?

In life there is what is true, and then there is the Truth. What is true is that I am writing this article and that you are reading it. We both share some form of English as a language. We are both interested in personal growth, and self improvement. We are both on a journey to discover what is real, and what really counts, otherwise you would not have started reading an article called "What is the Truth?"

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is Ho'Oponopono? And How Can It Improve Your Life?

Ho'oponopono is a method of healing that has been developed over centuries in Hawaii. One of the leading practitioners of Ho'oponopono is Dr. Hew Len and his teaching on this ancient tool of spiritual healing is known throughout the world. Ho'oponopono consists of four different statements that are designed to allow the individual to accept responsibility for their own thoughts, actions and feelings. The four statements are: • Please Forgive Me • I Am Sorry • I Love You • Thank You

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Amway Distributors - Learn How To Generate Leads Online For Your Business

Amway is one of the oldest and most successful network marketing companies in the world and it has been succeeding for over 50 years. With a turnover for the group of companies over the 7 billio US dollar mark, Amway is a great prospect to work with. Their slogan is "Think Global, Act Local", and it has certainly served them well for their half a century in business.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Boost Your Forever Living Products Business Online With Internet Lead Generation

Forever Living Products was created by Rex Maughan in 1978, and is today a thriving direct sales business with over 30 years of growth. He was looking to improve his health and his wealth simultaneously, and introduced the first products to 43 people and the business was born. Today, Forever Living Products is a network marketing success story, as it now boasts over 9 million distributors in over 140 countries around the world. His original dream of helping others to become healthier and wealthier has come true over and over again.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Is The Importance of Angels in Our Lives Today?

Even a casual observer of the world around them will acknowledge that we are living in times of great change. Weather patterns are much more variable, political changes are occurring around the world and even religious views are changing at a very rapid and sometimes dramatic rate. These changes are creating a sense of unease around the world, but are also providing the opportunity to make some very positive and life altering decisions.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Can Sacred Geometry Help You?

In times gone by, humans were more in tune with the environment they lived in. Today, we have little connection to nature and the planet. The ancient wisdom that was often passed down through story- telling and tradition seems to have been forgotten or lost. The understanding of the importance of different geometric shapes and patterns found everywhere in nature seems to be amongst the wisdom that has been thrown away. With all the changes that are happening on earth at the moment, some of this information is being revived.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Is It The Angels Talking Or Your Ego?

In our society today, we very much live in the ego. The ego was formed when we decided to come to earth and inca ate as humans. We made the decision to separate from God and the ego was born. It works very hard at trying to prove to us that we are separate from God, and that we need to hide, play small, and suffer.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How to End Relationships That No Longer Serve You

Many people in our society choose to endure relationships long beyond what is deemed to be healthy. To some people, having a relationship at all, regardless of how miserable it makes you, is better than being on your own, and all that this implies. To others, early childhood programming has taught them to put up with what life presents, and so there really does not seem to be a choice to them- they must make the best of what they have.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Can We Learn To Talk To The Angels?

Angels are woven through the different religions and cultures that span our planet. We see them depicted in paintings, on murals, in books, poems, in the Holy Scriptures, and throughout films, and programs. In fact, they are everywhere! We think of Angels mainly at Christmas, but they are with us constantly, from birth to death. They guide us, assist us and watch over us as we travel along life's path. Anyone can learn how to interact with the Angels, regardless of your religious beliefs, age or where you are in your life.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

How Can You Help Mother Nature?

How often do you think about how closely connected to the earth we really are? Do you think about the impact that man is having on the planet? Are you conscious of how disconnected we have become from the earth that we call home? The earth is a living, breathing mass of rock that houses every living thing on this planet. She has a self- regulating mechanism that focuses more on the survival of the planet, than how to make human beings comfortable. She has existed for millennia longer than we have and will most likely survive us by as long.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Why Do We Choose To Be Born?

Many people ask what the purpose of life is here on earth. It seems to be one of the ete al questions that is thought provoking and emotive, depending on your view of life, death, and why we come here. Firstly, we choose to come to earth to have experiences and feel life through our five senses. Being on earth in earth school is a chance to really connect with the magic of human life and Mother Nature.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

What Energy Do Your Words Carry?

There is much talk about how when you dissect things down to their smallest levels, what is left is space, or energy. According to the quantum physicists, everything is energy, including solid matter. If everything is energy, then our thoughts and words are also energy. I have become very mindful of the words that I say. When I began to look into this, I found that 2 of my favourite phrases were "I'm dying to tell you" and "I'm gutted" both of which are really negative things to say. As I became aware of my language, I began to listen to what I was hearing around me. This is what I heard:r

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Keeping Your Ego From Getting Out of Control

Why does the ego have so much power over us? The ego is born when we separate from the Divine and decide to inca ate on earth. We spend a life time of pain trying to get back to where we have come from, and are aware that we are missing a great part of ourselves, but are unsure as to where to find it, so we keep searching.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Why Do We Suffer From Self Hatred?

Many of the issues that we are faced with in our daily lives are a result of self hatred. These include illness, mental health issues, addictions and compulsive behaviours and affect nearly all of us in some way or another. As children, we learn that in order to get attention, we need to adapt ourselves to be able to please those that provide for our needs. We do this at home, at school and anywhere where we feel we want to fit in and be accepted.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Caroline NettleRecently published1 topic

Recovering From Being a Victim

Victims are often people that have grown up in households where the Mother or the Father demonstrated the role of victim to them. If one parent was abusive towards the other the child may identify with the abused individual and assume that putting up with physical or emotional abuse is the right way to behave. As they get older they will accept being bullied, abused and treated poorly in their own relationships, because that is what they have witnessed growing up.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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