Spiritual Growth Articles

You hear a lot today about meditation and depression. Meditation, if practiced correctly, can really help you reduce the severity of your depression, or even eliminate it all together. I can honestly say that meditation has helped me cope with depression in the past. While meditation is generally associated with spirituality, and has its deep roots in metaphysics, you don't have to be a spiritual person or subscribe to any particular spiritual belief to benefit from the effects of meditation.

Reach for the highest thought and your life will change in astonishing ways. Every situation you face has an infinite possibility of thoughts you can choose to think about it. By reaching as far as you can in your mind for the highest thought available to you, you will be able to literally ...

The term forgiveness is familiar to virtually all people, yet it is very likely that few truly understand its real meaning. Most individuals tend to regard forgiveness as being a truly magnanimous gesture on their part: one that is undertaken on behalf of the other person. Moreover, those individuals who, as rule practice forgiveness in their lives, tend to be viewed as upstanding human beings of great moral or spiritual fiber. While some folks may merit such lofty praise, the startling truth is that at its most fundamental level, forgiveness is more a selfish act than a noble one.

The brain has as many nerve cells as there are stars in our galaxy and galaxies in our universe – over 100 billion. With high-speed cameras and high-powered lenses we have expanded our view of both the minute quantum details of life on earth and the contents of the depths of our universe. One thing we can all agree upon is that today’s science has proven that life is beyond what meets the eye.

Being a Metaphysician I sometimes feel as if I am living in the world of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Often I feel that I ride in my spaceship that I call my life, and am in communication with many otherworldly beings from different dimensions and galaxies, which are my advisors and my friends. Oddly enough that is exactly what my life is. Though some find this truth to be mysterious, it is simply my daily life.

Addiction in the city, addiction in the country, addiction in the suburbs, addiction in the schools, addiction in the churches, addiction in the legal system, addiction in the government, addiction in business, addiction in medicine…we simply can’t get away from it. Or, is there another way? What if you didn’t have to buy into everybody else’s reality of addiction and recovery? Could you then end your addiction without the limitations of this reality? What if you recognized addiction as your ultimate distraction, the way you are keeping you from you?

Four Steps for Empowering Change By Sandy Brewer, PhD ©2012 Change is tricky. We begin with the best of intentions but even when we perceive that we are putting our proverbial best foot forward, our efforts often only meet with failure. So how can we bring purposeful change into our lives and leave behind the baggage of the past that so often defines and limits us?

There is a plan, a specifically designed destiny for each person on this earth. This destiny is productive, fulfilling and very rewarding. All other destinies pale in comparison, falling way short of the true destiny created for each person on earth. The problem is most people live and die without ever fulfilling their true destiny. Therefore it is important not to settle on anything but your true destiny to have a productive, fulfilling and rewarding life during your earthly pilgrimage. I will explain in two steps how you can achieve your destiny and fulfill God's plan for you.

“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul…” C.G.Jung DREAMS: FINDING THE KEY by Patti Alle When the year is new we typically search for ways to renew our body and our spirit, however we don’t have to wait for a new year for fresh beginnings. ...

Lifting weights has never been very appealing to me. And the saying – “No pain, no gain” – has never been on my list of top 10 quotes. Growing physically strong might not be your cup of tea either, but hopefully growing strong in the Lord is. Daniel 11:32 says this: “But the people who know their God will be strong...” Here’s a fun Bible object lesson to share with your children to help them learn that they too can grow in the knowledge of God and grow strong. Here’s what you do:r

There's an old saying from the Talmud that every blade of grass has an angel watching over it constantly whispering, GROW, GROW, GROW... If that's true about Grass, what must be true about us? Eric Butterworth in his book, Spiritual Economics wrote, Life is fundamentally a matter of growing, a growth experience. Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target. Failure is a vital part of achieving success. We have erroneously thought of success as "get

When you wash your brain, you don’t do it with water. You do it with thoughts and emotions. The more powerful and “clean” the thoughts, the cleaner your brain. I believe it is necessary to clean our brains just as we do our clothes and our homes. Without a sparkling brain, but a dusty old one, we can’t react, think, or create in the best ways. Brainwashing refers to getting the brain overloaded or so stressed that the person actually began to believe something other than what they previously thought was real.

Taking personal responsibility for our actions is one crucial key to our spiritual growth. We must know the difference between our responsibility and the responsibility of others to avoid owning the results of another's poor choices. Avoiding the energies of blame, anger and regret, energies holding us back from expressing our true nature, gives us a chance to see what we are responsible for and own it.

HUMILITY - Here's an emotio I'm striving to embrace more fully, because I haven't gotten it all figured out. Humility is a beautiful and powerful emotion, but perhaps misunderstood, overlooked or even avoided by the masses. It is viewed as "weak" by some. Those that practice humility know its ...

A few days ago I found myself sitting in the hospital waiting room while my husband had angioplasty. I wondered to myself, ‘how did we get here, surely we are not old enough to need this’. But low and behold we are old enough, mortality sets in and you have to think about issues that you don’t really want to. As I was sitting there I thought about times when I’ve been in God’s waiting room wondering how I got there. What did I do wrong, have I not been paying attention, am I

Yesterday, after boiling water in the tea kettle, I reached out to move the frying pan out of the way. What I did not realize is that the handle for the pan had been placed above the burner I had been using and as I reached for it, I scortched the skin running from my little finger to my wrist. A loud crash ensued as I dropped the metallic object onto the stove. Its contents flew everywhere, all while my voice projected a painful scream.

Why is it that some people seem to live a charmed life, receiving exactly what they want? Why do other people never seem to fulfill their desires? How can the same universe be benevolent in one case and seemingly indifferent in the other? The truth is, it is the same universe. The difference is in the thoughts of the person who expects to have what they want or the one who expects disaster at every turn. Listen to your own thoughts … are you a positive thinker? Do you expect the best or worry about the worst?

In business, the principle of reciprocity is a widely-used practice in sales. The rule is based on solid human behavior, and states that if you do something nice for someone, they will reciprocate and do something nice for you. Even if they really don't want to, they will feel a need (or obligation) deep within them to reciprocate the action. This principle has worked well for businesses and salespeople for a very long time. Particularly in online sales. How many times have y

Nothing stands still in life. Change is constant, inevitable. As you read these words you are moving, growing, changing. This being the case you would think we humans might be more accustomed to the change process. Instead we often live in resistance, or even fierce opposition, to change, and therefore to life itself. There are many reasons for this, but generally the cause is fear brought on by our unconscious attachment to our mind-made identity. By unconscious I mean we’re not aware of it. By attachment I mean a clinging-to, a dependency on.

Have you seen the film “Josuah”? Another film? You may say… Well, Spirit does have a way to give its messages to us in the way we will be paying attention and I find films inspiring (watch out where you place your attention; there may be a message for you!). Films also help me focus “out of the self” and they create a space for a meditative state and for "hearing": I feel the messages and emotions reaching right through to my heart. Somehow this brings a catharsis and a balance of energy within which I find truly relieve accumulated tension.

Spiritual energy is a part of each of our lives and is within our “being”. When tapped into as done during a psychic reading, the messages received can help solve some of the mysteries of why, when and where things are currently headed based on both universal laws and the influences of the ...

In creation centered spirituality, Matthew Fox (founder of Wisdom University in Oakland, CA) outlines four paths of spirituality. These four paths are: The positive path; the negative path, the creative path and the transformative path. These are different names then the ones used by Fox, ...

In the book The 100th Monkey Ken Keyes, Jr. tells the story of a scientific research study on monkeys that supports the notion that quantum shifts can occur when a population reaches a “critical mass.” This phenomenon is often referred to when one is in need of evidence to support the belief that an optimistic future is possible for humankind. The 100th Monkey empowers us to have faith that if enough people will just think the right loving and compassionate thoughts —

Too many of us are operating out of a certain need despite believing we are acting in our best interest. A need for comfort, a need for achievement, a need for social acceptance, a need for a partner, and so on. As human beings we do continually create situations through our desires, which ...

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.

Dianetics is the science of the mind that goes over how your mind effects your life and your body in a negative way. It goes over why it is you hold back yourself and restrain yourself thus causing depression, uncontrollable rage and fear of the unknown. Your mind is the thing that holds you back more than anyone or anything else. If you were free from your own mind you would have unlimited firepower and energy to reach your goals. Dianetics goes over how past painful experiences can come and effect you now in the present under similar environmental stimuli you had in the past.

Sound healing has been practiced in cultures worldwide for thousands of years. When most people think of sound, they are actually thinking of a range of vibrational frequencies, and more specifically most are thinking of the frequency between 20 and 20,000 cycles per second, that human ears can normally perceive.

I’m doing my second round of A Course in Miracles and the lesson that really struck a chord with me lately was: “Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.” I immediately recognized the truth of this request. So often we think we know what the problem is, when clearly we don’t because our solutions don’t work!

Letting go is one of the most important, yet most difficult spiritual principles that we are awakening to at this time. Like any art, it takes an open loving heart, expanded awareness, and sustained practice to become masterful. It also requires surrounding ourselves with the people and environments that support us releasing what is necessary in a healthy and positive way. Most of all, letting go requires trust in ourselves and our connection to source for it to become an essential element in our lives such as the air we breathe. Many people have asked me, “How do I let go?

“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.”

This statement has stopped many a war in my house. My oldest two children are two years apart in age and would fight about everything and nothing when they were little. One would anger the other and then deny that it ever happened. One would accidentally harm the other during play and not ...

Everyone is talking about The Secret. But is it really a secret at all? The Secret, better known as the law of attraction, is a Biblical principle from the time of Jesus. The law of attraction for Christians is simply stated, to ask, believe, and receive. Jesus said whatsoever you ask for in my name, believe they you have received it and it shall be yours. Another popular verse states ask and it will be giving you, seek and you will find, knocked and the door will be opened unto you. God wants to give you the desires of your heart, according to the faith that is working in you.

It is common greeting among people to ask each other how are they when meeting, but when you are pregnant there is a meaning beyond the courtesy question: they really are enquiring to know how you are since so many things can happen during the joyous but possibly delicate state of pregnancy. The ...It is common greeting among people to ask each other how are they when meeting, but when you are pregnant there is a meaning beyond the courtesy question: they really are enquiring to know how you are since so many things can happen during the joyous but possibly delicate state of pregnancy.

I was first introduced to the concept of vision boarding in a psychology class in college. We were given the assignment to create a unique vision board that represented what we desired for our futures. In essence, we were asked to create our reality by plotting out with pictures and words how we ...I was first introduced to the concept of vision boarding in a psychology class in college. We were given the assignment to create a unique vision board that represented what we desired for our futures.

I am Kryon. With the immeasurable love I greet each and every one with the words OMAR TA SATT. The Festival of Love is approaching. Thus it was decided that in this time of the present moment of change Melek Metatron, the Eye of God, will go into Sangitar's body with one aspect more than usual. This will be the most powerful and perhaps also most emotional thing you have experienced so far.

Growing up, competition was considered a good thing, healthy even. As a visible minority I was told I had to be better than the rest, because nothing was going to come easy to me, and I was going to need the upper hand intellectually in order to achieve the success I wanted. To be honest, I used to categorize this “warning” as one of my parents rants on the importance of education and never took it too seriously. Thankfully, getting good grades was never a struggle for me, so I never saw myself as having to fight or compete with my peers in such a serious, life altering way.

Our soul jou ey into the physical is to re-member who we are. That’s it! This is the big mystery of life (smile). As we move through this crazy little thing we call life, every person, every experience, every breath is there to help you re-member who you are and who you want to be. Even the ...

Will God forgive every sin you commit? If you are His child, the answer is, “Absolutely!” He loves you and His forgiveness is powerful enough to cover over every sin. Matthew 9:6 says this: “But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” Here is a fun Bible object lesson for your kids to learn about this important verse. Here’s what you do:r

My great good fortune has been to know Allison since just before she was born. I was returning home to Connecticut from performing another wedding. Allison's parents, Tracy and Brian, were in charge of transporting me from Milwaukee to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. But it wasn't to ...

Every one of us has had moments where our gut was trying to tell us something. More often than not we ignore these feelings or dismiss then as nothing more than our imagination. Developing intuitive skills is much like developing any life skill. You'll never become good at it if you don't ...

Please feel free to use this article as long as credit is given to the resource box.n© Copyright Arthur Levine, 2009 I am going stir crazy pacing up and down in my home, with nothing to do, waiting for the scars on my face to heal from my attempted suicide at Harvard as a result of my breakup ...

Agora comes from the Greek word for marketplace, and phobia means fear, therefore, agoraphobia had to originally mean fear of the marketplace. In many cases agoraphobia still means just that: a fear of public places such as a shopping center or marketplace or any such location. However, today's definition has a much more expanded meaning that also includes a fear of any sort of open space, public or otherwise. The symptoms of agoraphobia are most unpleasant and debilitating. Agoraphobia, depression and anxiety disorder tend to go hand in hand.

Healing with imagery is a simple way to relieve stress, ease pain in the body and co-create in the world. Imaginal exercises are very simple, taking only a few minutes. Imagery is a very powerful jewel for self discovery. Our mind is a powerful tool to create in the world. We create through our thinking and our imagination. Healing with imagery is an effective way to bring yourself back to balance in your body, mind, emotional center and spirit.

Gratitude is a state of mind that comes from really appreciating what you have already and being thankful for it. If you can truly look at your life and everything in it and be grateful, you are much more likely to be content, and to attract more of the same to yourself in the future.

Every christian aims to change their lives. From worst to best! From having a sinful nature to having a Godly nature, right? As the bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Anyone who is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come..." How lucky are we if it will be that easy. Changing our lives will take a whole lifetime. Everything will be tested, and each of us will be tempted. Anger is one of the most common sin that people commit. In fact, it is a very ordinary reaction we have. But of course we all know that ordinary doesn't mean its right?

I am an Angel artist on a passionate spiritual journey and I would like to share my story of what it is like to work with the Angels. It is a unique experience and very real. In 1993, I gave over my talent to the Divine to paint Angels. Having a decorative painting business and feeling led to paint Angels I gave that up. One step led to another and so began the journey..."I Shall Paint Angels" I would like to share with you how the Angel paintings and messages are created and convey the experience of connecting with the Angels.

I was a young woman abroad, traveling around and teaching to pay my way. It had begun as a very enjoyable adventure, exploring and interacting with the many different cultures, people and places I cam across as I savored the sense of freedom and play that being abroad seemed to bring. Then one ...

Co-Create in the universe knowing that we are Divine beings of love and light. Our birthright is to manifest our intention through our words, actions and our work in the world. In order to co-create in the universe we need to surrender to God. Then our ego is out of the way. Spirit is now in charge of our life. We need to stay open to being guided by our higher power through inspiration and intuition moment to moment. Spirit has our back, so to speak so that we can co-create in the universe what we dare to imagine in our mind. Surrendering to God

Akashic Records hold the entire thoughts and experiences of our existence; whether you believe you have lived a million lives or just one. Every thought you have ever believed that held a feeling with it is stored in your akashic records. Many people wonder why they say positive thoughts all day long yet nothing changes. As a Dr. of Rohun, I know and understand why, although the law of attraction is at work 24/7, it doesn't always bring to you what you are outwardly thinking. Why?

Cultivate Your Genius You were born a genius. The whole world opens to you when you acknowledge and express your genius. Usually we define the word genius in association with someone that possesses extraordinary intellectual power. But originally the word genius meant “a guardian spirit of a ...