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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Four Ways Your Relationship is Mirroring You back to You

Relationships are relentless in mirroring back to us all that we need to be aware of, heal and transform. The common trap is to make the other person wrong and believe they need to change in some way for the relationship to improve. Truly transformational growth comes when we accept that they are a mirror to us and Life is inviting us to look at all those aspects of ourselves that are being reflected back. Here are four levels through which this mirroring works:

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

9 ways to transform your relationship byraising your self-worth

There are nine important benefits of high self-worth and when we apply these we will truly create more fulfilling relationships. Here is a brief overview of all nine. There is much more that can be said but this will give you an idea of how you can transform any relationship from stress and conflict to happiness and fulfilment. 1. Clarity about What you Deserve

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Be Free and Create Miracles

True freedom means complete responsibility. This is the natural outcome of the truth that life is a mirror for your consciousness. All forms of victim thinking have some reluctance to taking full responsibility for your life along with the need to blame some person thing or circumstance. In that situation you become bound by what you are reacting to and by the thinking behind the reaction.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to strengthen your faith and create miracles

Faith is an inner conviction and knowing based on a clear understanding of Universal Law. When you understand the truth of life, your own self, and the creative process then you have a valid foundation for faith. When you act from this knowledge then you are living with faith. It is not something extra you bring out when you want some added benefit in life, but is the way you act from moment to moment when you know the truth.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to restore the lost passion in your relationship

When this subject is mentioned, people often think about about sex and intimacy and all the physical and emotional stimulation that goes with it – the excitement of it all. That is part of passion, but I want to broaden it out beyond that and explore how we cultivate passion for the whole relationship, whether we are in bed or not.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

10 qualities that will make you a winner

Winning is so much more enjoyable and rewarding than losing. Success is more enjoyable than failure and whatever success you want will involve winning at many internal and exte al levels. Some of these wins may come naturally because of the gifts and talents you already possess but may some may require work.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to Create a Fantastic Relationship, part 1

Relationships are the core of Life, but they can be a challenge. The real challenge is the way you deal with the differences that start to show up. They always show up because you have two people with different communication styles, different ways of resolving issues, different needs and expectations, and different fears. And all of these will have arisen from their earlier conditioning and relationship experiences.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Be fully alive - live in "no-mind."

Living with no-mind does not mean living as a zombie, or drifting through life in a daze. It means being totally alive with your senses, body, feelings and awareness wide open and awake to this moment’s pulse. It means allowing life to happen through you rather than interfering with that flow with your mind and your thoughts. When you are trying to live life through a philosophy or system, then the formula, ritual, or concept, comes between you and the direct living experience of the moment. Life comes second; your first allegiance is to your system.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to Create a Fantastic Relationship, part 2

I previously wrote about the assumptions and expectations we bring into a relationship, and the patterns of forcing they can set up. Sounds simple in theory but what exactly am I talking about? How do you recognise your own automatic assumptions and patterns and then change them in ways that serve you? We cannot change anything we are not aware of, so here are a couple of exercises to help bring that awareness. 1. Take a few moments to think about your parents’ relationship. 2. How would you describe it in general terms?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Why do you settle for less when you could be extraordinary?

What does it mean to live in an extraordinary life, in your own unique way? First of all be aware that it does not mean you have to be larger than life and be involved in super-human achievements. Nor does it mean you have to be famous and stride across the world stage for all to see and admire. That is the destiny for some but it does not necessarily represent the quality of extraordinary living I am referring to here.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Practical Compassion

Compassion has always been recognised as one of the highest qualities we can attain to in life. It is the living truth that flows from the Awakened Heart where we literally see that all life is One and each is a unique flower on the Tree of Life. It is a way of aligning ourselves with the greater life while we retain our individual uniqueness and authenticity. In the heart’s communion there is only the One, and behind the roles, beliefs, allegiances, and definitions that normally separate us there burns the same flame of love, the same divine life.rn.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Are you fully alive or already half dead?

We humans invest huge amounts of energy, time and resources trying to create a sense of certainty and security. Uncertainty can terrify us because it threatens the control we believe we have over life, and so we cling to those things that are supposed to bring us certainty, and refuse to acknowledge that they will all pass one day.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Succeed like Anthony Robbins: The One Powerful Secret Successful People Live by

True freedom means complete responsibility. This is the natural outcome of the truth that life is a mirror for your consciousness. All forms of victim thinking have some reluctance to taking full responsibility for your life along with the need to blame some person thing or circumstance. In that situation you become bound by what you are reacting to and by the thinking behind the reaction.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

1,439 views

By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

It is not the Law of Attraction's Fault

Like most people you probably have some goals you want to achieve in life. If they are important and urgent you will also have a strong focus on them, and are hopefully doing what you have to do to realise them. The usual approach is to make a plan, identify all the actions you need to take, put these into some order, organise your resources, access whatever skills are required, and then apply it all. If you believe in the Law of Attraction you may also be doing some visualisations and affirmations.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Coping with Pain - a Personal Journey

Recently I went through a period of intense physical pain which lasted several weeks and caused some interesting effects. It reminded me of these words by the poet Emily Dickinson: Pain has an Element of Blank – It cannot recollectr When it begun – of if there wasr A time when it was not.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How safe is your relationship from these two insidious traps?

A basic cause of all relationship conflict is the gap between your beliefs of how relationships should be and the reality that exists right here, right now. Whenever you find yourself arguing or in conflict, look deeply at what is going on and you will find this gap. Every time you make the other person wrong about something, the gap is there. Whenever you blame them for something you will find the gap. Every time you try to get them to change in some way there is the gap. Whenever you feel that the relationship is not meeting your expectations, the gap is there.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Beware: This mental attitude that could be undermining your health and happiness

There is no such thing as a vacuum in nature and the same is true of most peoples’ minds. They are full of beliefs, opinions and knowledge that they depend on to give them some identity and meaning. However, the more you fill your mind with beliefs and knowledge the more closed and fixed you tend to become. There is simply no room in there for anything new or fresh. How can innovation or creativity blossom in a mind that is weighed down and overflowing with all that brittle certainty? We need something different.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Does this sound like your relationship?

You will have your own story and your own patterns that play out, but see read through this story and see if you can recognise any patterns could be affecting your relationship. “Karen and David (names changed) came for help because their marriage had been deteriorating since Karen started her business and David took more responsibility in raising their two children. When I saw them she was frustrated and accused him of not pulling his weight, not supporting her, and of being passive aggressive when she tried to get him to cooperate.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Relationship Alert: 3 Ways poor self love is ruining your happiness

Our relationship with ourselves is our first and most fundamental relationship: all other relationships flow from that. So the most powerful thing you can do is to love yourself unconditionally and allow that to flow into your relationships. Two of the core issues underlying relationship stress are a lack of self-love and low self-worth. Therefore, the absolute starting point for healing and transforming your relationships is to grow self-love and self-worth. However many struggle with this, and do so for three main reasons: 1. The belief it is selfish to love yourself.r

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

What is Stopping You from Having What You Want?

The Law of Pure Potential tells us that our true nature is infinite and in every moment we have infinite possibilities. It gives us choice in each and every circumstance, especially the choice about where we rest our consciousness. Is it on the limitations we may think are our lot, or do we rest it on our greater unrealised potential?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Warning: 8 Signs that low self worth is poisoning your relationship

Most of us were not taught how to conduct relationships effectively, harmoniously and happily. We learned in a haphazard way through the role modelling we experienced and as adults just do what we learned from our parents and other significant adults. If those relationships were unhappy and dysfunctional we come into our adult relationships with a recipe for unhappiness.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How Safe do Your Feel in Your Relationship?

We all need a minimum sense of safety and security to relax and get on with our life, whatever we are doing. That level will vary from person to person but the need is universal. The following story is typical and scenarios similar to this get played out in many relationships.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

The Secret of Success is in Your Yes

One important secret all successful people know is the importance of their “yes.” We all say yes to many things, and no to many things. However for most people it is largely unconscious and automatic. They have a default position that they live from every day and often do not look beyond that.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to find Peace in a Divided World.

The great Christmas theme is, Peace on earth and goodwill to all. We all desire peace yet it seems to be such an elusive quality. When you look deeply into the human mind you find a state of agitation which drives all conflict, and it comes from our habits of straining, forcing, reacting, and holding on to limited perceptions - the demands that life is supposed to be a certain way before we can be happy.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

The grace and wisdom of living with uncertainty

We humans invest huge amounts of energy, time and resources trying to create a sense of certainty and security. Uncertainty can terrify us because it threatens the control we believe we have over life, so we cling to those things that are supposed to bring us certainty, and refuse to acknowledge that they will all pass one day. The separated ego has a huge need for certainty and security, but the attempt to isolate anything from the flow of life and make it permanent freezes it into a static shell devoid of vitality and aliveness.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Succeeding With Clear Intent

Success means different things to different people. We all operate within a paradigm, or view of the world, and this will determine how we see success and how we act in all of life’s situations. For many, their success involves struggle, hard work, competitiveness, and looking after number one. This can help you cultivate qualities such as commitment, a strong work ethic, focus, courage and the willingness to take risks. But sadly it often does not include your deeper sensitivity and can end up diminishing your sense of humanity, and disconnecting you from others.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to Deal with Rejection, Part 1

Rejection is a painful experience to go through and it can undermine your life in many obvious and subtle ways. Here are a few ideas about dealing with rejection, and coming through it as a stronger healed person. The problem with rejection is the feeling – it feels terrible and that is what people struggle with. That sounds so obvious but we need to be clear about what we actually fear and resist. Most of the time we fear the feeling that goes with the event rather than the event itself. Think of it in the following way

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

Does Your Vision Grow Your Business

We all know about creating a vision and mission statement as part of doing a business plan, and we have probably all done it. Yet how many have put it aside as they became focused on the business of running their business and trying to keep ahead of the competition. So much time and energy is taken up with the hard realities of business life that your vision can become a nice ideal which does not easily fit into your daily routine. Yet a true compelling vision is the lifeblood of your business and can fulfil many vital functions for you.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

New Beginnings that Bring You Freedom

We have a psychological and spiritual need to experience new beginnings because then we can experience two very important states: 1. The state of transcendence 2. The state of redemptio Transcendence helps us lift our awareness above the business-as-usual life that is bound to our sense of local identity. Being caught up in surviving in this material world it is easy to become narrowed down to the extent that we end up just repeating the same old stuff year in, year out, waiting till we grow old and “retire.”

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

How to Deal with Rejection, part 2

I mentioned in part 1 that when we are rejected we have to deal not only with the emotional pain but also the conclusions and beliefs that may get stuck in our thinking. Everyone has been conditioned by life and have taken on many beliefs, some of which serve us while some don’t. When something painful happens we tend to automatically use it as evidence that our limiting belief is true and we end up with a second level of pain caused by believing that is the truth about us.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Clement McGrathRecently published1 topic

The Healing Grace of Forgiveness

The world needs forgiveness as much as it needs peace, and without it we remain chained to the past, our hurts and our story. But what is exactly is forgiveness and how do we activate it in our consciousness? Let’s start with what it is not. Forgiveness is not a warm fuzzy where you kiss and make up and pretend that everything is now okay. It is not an attempt to minimise what has happened. It is not a matter of just getting on with life and putting it all behind you as you suppress your real feelings, and it is not a matter of acting tough and pretending that you have not been hurt.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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