Spiritual Growth Articles

It is always sad when a beloved animal family member leaves their body and goes into spirit. We call this death, but truly, no one dies. The physical body drops away as the spirit separates from it and goes into another dimension. The spirit is the being that we truly love, although we may be ...

Science has already proven to us that every object we perceive is not actually solid but rather an immense collection of atoms. These atoms are continuously in motion and thus no stationary object is actually still but rather moving with life.

The calling or assignment that God has purposed for your life has the potential of becoming something "great" for God. This means that your purpose has some great expectations attached to it. In raising your expectation level to believe that you can accomplish the assignment means starting at the "visualization point!"

A basic Principle of the mind is that it doesn’t know how to process a negative command. What this means is that it doesn’t work by way of being told what “not” to do, but rather by suggesting what “to” do. It simply holds an idea as a suggestion within the mind’s eye, and begins developing it by thinking about it. We then have an emotional response to the thoughts, which becomes the determining factor of how the thought is developed to create meaning through a story.

The Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur (September 19) is considered the holiest day of the year for the Nation of Israel. It is observed by completely fasting for 25 hours and spending the day in prayer and self-reflection. “For on this day atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you of all your sins; you shall be clean before Hashem. It shall be a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you shall practice self-denial; it is a law for all time.” (Leviticus 16:30-31) Though fas

September is coming. My life will be changing greatly in September as I seek employment and have less time to do the things which I love like writing, studying, meditating, and passing on words of inspiration. Yet again, I feel that things are happening as they should.

Are you afraid of getting cancer, having a stroke, or any of the many symptoms that might pop up in your body every day? In this brief article, I’ll share two powerful keys that can dramatically improve your health and how you feel. As a health and wellness professional, I’ve seen some big changes over the past 30 years. Two things are particularly striking—one is disturbing and other is pretty awesome. To better understand the positive development, let’s first look at a disturbing trend.

My dearest Raphael, I ask these questions on behalf of all who need your insight and love. When now President Barack Obama won the election in November 2008, I felt a major shift in consciousness happen, not just that day but all through the process of his inauguration. I know that when many minds and beings focus their energies together it can bring about such a shift but I also felt it created shelter for other shifts to occur that were hidden. I believe some of those shifts came from the realms of light and others from the realms of darkness.

This is an important point. Many people may have a skill, talent or a trade that they excel in and they think, “Hey I should start doing this for a living, be my own boss and make the profit for me rather than for my employer”. They get a few licenses, set up a bank account and maybe buy some tools and equipment and then find some customers. The American Dream, self employed and all that.

Meditation channeled on the 7th January, `2008 by the group Lazarus. This is a guided meditation for the beginning of a circle, or justnfor a reprieve to groundnyourself after a stressful day. Sit comfortably, feet on the floor and hands resting gently on you lap. Take three deep ...

Here’s an interesting phenomenon that I have seen occur time and time again. Someone comes into your office, looking for self-insight, recognizing that old patterns no longer work, and committed to stepping into their true self. You work with this person and engage in a wonderful and fruitful exploration that results in this person gaining clarity, self-direction and inner connection. Then this person enters a relationship… So very often this person ends up back in your office, looking a little bewildered, saying “What the heck happened?”

I think it’s safe to say that a sign of spiritual maturity would be a boldness to share the Good News or Gospel of Jesus Christ. Roman 1:16 says, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes…” What a great verse and one that every Christian should have as their motto. It’s definitely one that should be passed on to all we meet as the Lord leads. Here’s a fun Bible school activity to help your kids memorize this wonderful Scripture so that they might be a little bolder the next time they share Jesus with their friends.

We know that the iron core of our earth vibrates at 40 hertz (40 pulses per second.) Our earths crust has a different vibrational speed at around 7.5 hertz. When we are at the height of our brain activity we record roughly 40 hertz and a 7.5 hertz low brain activity. This draws a direct ...

Two people work in a retail environment. It is small and employs about six people. Customers visit throughout the day. One of these people is the manager. The other person handles issues regarding credit and group sales. For the past three years they have not spoken to each other. The manager ...

A Spiritual Awakening is a deeply personal experience. At times it can feel extremely lonely and confusing, filling you with trepidation and anxieties. And at other times, you feel elated, on cloud 9 and filled with pure happiness. Everyone’s awakening is felt differently, yet one thing is sure; I would not change a thing, were I to experience the process again. For all of us, we are on a never-ending journey of personal expansion.

I have been guided to speak with you of my recent journey of "self value". Earlier this year I wrote to you of the importance of self value and how I personally had integrated an essence of value in my life by listening to my own needs and doing my best to fulfill them, recognising it was not ...

Yesterday the 22nd of June was the beginning of our New Moon phase ... As before the Angels teach for me to practice for self, for I can only truly share "my truth" - what I have experienced - anything else is simply passed on knowledge,- not wisdom. I have been guided to share a "practice" the Angels assisted me through towards the end of last year, which so far as had a great & positive effect on my life. There is a time for "be-ing" & a time for "do - ing" - Ever had those days when no matter how hard you try you just cannot conjure up the energy to take action? ...

Dr. Sam Parnia an anesthesiologist has done many years of research into the possibility of an afterlife. And from Dr. Parnai’s work on consciousness… he has found that with thousands of people who have had the same kind of Near Death Experience that consciousness does go on into another realm in some way. That our essence, our soul, our being, that which makes us “you” and “me” goes on forever into another life of some kind.

The fluoride that is put into our water system is a by product of the phosphate fertilizer industry- it is toxic waste, literally. Before there were environmental restrictions on industry, the toxins were released as gas into the air, causing widespread environmental damage to crops and livestock.

You are too sensitive. Don't be so sensitive! Many people on the spiritual path have heard this criticism over and over again. It is usually meant as a put-down to someone who has a high sense of intuition and a sixth sense 'knowing'. This comment is usually stated with disdain and contempt as a major flaw in an individual's personality. In fact many lightworkers have heard these words, especially as children and it has caused them to close down this gift. "Toughen up..you need thicker skin", usually follows as a comment quickly after to shame and dismiss the individuals' perceptions.

The following paragraph is an excerpt of a message channeled through Natalie Glasson (February 8, 2010) from Ascended Master El Morya titled, "Your Reality is Within You." In this article I translate the channeled message into simpler English.

Love is the fundamental vibration of the universe. Love is attraction. It binds all things together. It is the carrier wave upon which all things communicate. It is a frequency infinitively high, that permeates and composes the All–That–Is. When you feel love, you are in the moment. ...

You should love your life because the Bible says God has given us richly all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17)! Unfortunately for many people, life is just made up of one struggle after another with little to no enjoyment whatsoever. Some may even resort to using alcohol, drugs, food, or sex to escape their unfulfilled lives in an effort to mask their frustrations, resentments, and sadness.

“Debt Will Send Western World into Financial Chaos.” Have you noticed how a few words in a headline can escalate your financial fear and collapse your best intentions to get ahead? With the headlines these days, stress, worry, and fear about finances affect us all. In this article, we’ll explore a simple phrase you can use to soothe and relieve financial stress. Now it’s important to note that stress has as much to do with how you’re looking at things as it does with what is happening. In your financial life, you’ll feel stress if you think two things:

"Under all disorder there is an underlying order." The author thinks this is an interesting quote from psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung. It is interesting because the word "disorder" seems to imply that things are "haphazard", so to speak. What Dr. Jung seems to implying in this quotation is that things make sense if you look at the disorder at a deeper level (underlying order). The Collective Unconscious

In light of the recent events that took place in the sweat lodge in Sedona with James Arthur Ray, I think it’s a good time to talk about what it means to be a spiritual warrior. As a spiritual warrior we learn to change our perspective from being mind-body focused and ego-identified to becoming aligned with the life-force-spiritual-nature that we all are.

It all began a long time ago. I’ve had a healing group for many years and we would gather at “the resort” (R’s place) on the September long weekend. On that long weekend the boys would go North to pick Matsutaki (mushrooms) and one year I was at the resort thinking it would be nice for my friends to go to a resort for a weekend as well. As I was thinking this I realized I was standing in a “resort” albeit a private one, so that is where we began to gather for that

God Answers Prayers. The Divine wants what is best for us. Prayers are conversations with God. When we talk to God and ask for what we want, knowing and believing that God is benevolent, loving and guides us to our highest and best potential, we are Divinely creating in partnership with the Source.

I’ve read many inspirational and motivational books. I’ve gone to seminars and I’ve listened to CDs and mp3 recordings. If connecting to one’s higher self could be achieved by simple osmosis, I would be in a constant state of contentment. The reality, however, is that this is not the case.

The Matrix was one of the most popular and thought-provoking movies of all time. Viewers all over the world were captivated by the film's primary message: People get into deep trouble when they mistake what they perceive for reality.

Fear is not to be avoided. When in proper balance, it is to be welcomed as a guide and a friend. Fear is an emotion that many of us strive to eliminate, or at the very least, hide. Fear, though, has an important function: it warns of the unknown and the possible dangers of something being difficult or dangerous. Fear allows us to pay attention, evaluate a situation and choose the appropriate action. If we completely eliminated fear we would do dangerous, possibly fatal things without thinking it through properly. Of course, some people are overwhelmed or controlled by fear.

The fear of change has been a recurring theme around me the last few weeks. The combination of the current breakdown of social and economic systems and the emergence of a new paradigm connected with 2012 adds to the already high fear level on this planet. This article's purpose is to help reduce some of the fears associated with change, regardless of whether you are making small changes, or are confronted with larger personal crises or planetary transformation, or both.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMANITYnnnI feel great sense of admiration and confirmation from Dr. David Hawkings (not Stephen)nThe author of Power vs. Force, and The Eye Of The Eye.nnHe successfully and scientifically confirmed the specific quantitave levels of all emotions and thoughts on a specific scale from 0-1000!nnLimiting and negative emotions have a value under 150, such as Grief, Guilt, and Fear.nnThe human race resonates slightly above 200, with the ultimate potential of

On my birthday this year, a friend presented me with a gorgeous amber necklace that she had gotten in Russia twenty years ago before she emigrated to the United States. Though she felt that it did not suit her, she held onto it for two decades for sentimental reasons. When she gave it to me, she ...

December is a wonderful time to reflect upon all the seeds we’ve planted the year before. When I look upon 2008, I can see the actions that lead to the landscape of my 2009 garden. It’s important to take note of which seeds we planted, which plants we watered and fertilized, and which weeds we allowed to overtake our gardens due to our fear and denial.

One of the common spiritual comments made quite often is that everything happens for a reason. I know that people say it to feel better and to not feel like a victim. During my years of being a spiritual life coach and listening to many clients stories, I started to realize that everything that happens does not have

What is the number one stressor and complaint of people today? What do men and women most long for in their lives today? I ask those interested in a personal retreat with me these questions -and more- as part of their retreat application… and here is what I almost always hear: “I just want to find myself; to reconnect with what really matters; to find self-love and unconditional forgiveness and love for my family and others; to live more authentically and to know inner peace.”

Respect Mother Earth is the simple yet powerful message for this time on planet earth. All eyes are on Japan and the suffering of her people as the result of the earthquakes, tsunami and destruction of the nuclear power plants. We can no longer ignore the cries of Goddess Gaia. It is time to learn from our mistakes that Mother Earth is attempting to teach us. Gaia has gotten our attention through her loud rumblings and chu ings of land and sea. This is our wake up call to honor and respect Mother Earth.

BE - DO - HAVE Most people are taught to define success by what you HAVE. You HAVE a great job, or a beautiful wife or a lot of money, etc. People who base success on the HAVE often find that they can lose their success just by losing the things by which they define their success.

We often think that volunteering takes a lot of time, money, and effort. But it's the little things we each do, every day, that have the biggest impact on our world. nnHere are seven simple ways you can reach out in kindness without even getting up from your computer. nn1. Make a child smile. nHere's a site that connects you with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses, so you can send cards or small gifts. You decide what to send and what to say. http://www.makeac

Gratitude- we know it's important to have, but it's not always easy to remain grateful during our day as we allow our attention to stray away from thoughts of gratitude and towards thoughts of stress and lack. Feeling gratitude has become much easier for me since I started using a little eight word prayer of gratitude that I repeat multiple times throughout the day. I came up with this gratitude prayer a while back and it has stuck with me ever since. It came to me as a thoug

To love God, to be in love with God is not the same as loving, being in love with a person because this love is a different kind of love, hard to describe since it is both familiar and unknown. This love is more demanding, more consuming as it gives us peace and steals our peace forever, or so it seems, at least until we come to that point of communion which heralds the merging, that union of one with One. It has nothing to do with the body except in the ways that love comman

I recently had one of those life flashbacks that can make your stomach turn. For me, it was all the complaining I use to do. I would whine about the injustices of my life. Raising my fist to The Big Guy and exclaiming how could you do this to me. It was easy to sit around and do nothing but complain. What was difficult was actually doing something about my situation.

This is my first web based article. I feel joy as I write it, simply because many of my cob webs are gone and I feel like I CAN... do many of the things my prior life said were not possible. It is my goal to offer you inspiration, hope, and a desire to truly clean up and be free... in other words try trusting yourself. Start right now. Don't allow the past to hold you to a state of paralyzation.

Manifestation is all about alignment of energy. The conventional wisdom around manifestation, if there is such a thing, tells us that it is the result of alignment of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, behaviors, choices, actions, and habits. While that is absolutely true, that’s only part of the story. Manifestation involves creating the optimal conditions for that which wants to manifest. It involves tapping into the greater Consciousness and asking the questions, “What wants to happen here?

Expect Nothing and Nothing Will Disappoint You You can shun disappointments by not having any expectations with regards to your honour. If you expect nothing, then nothing can disappoint you and therefore nothing will be taken from you. In order to be a contented person, you must do something for the benefit of others to relieve them from the sufferings and also complete this mission without any expectation of rewards. So if there is no expectation of rewards, there will be

www.atheneraefiel.com What happens when you listen in the silence? Listening in the silence is an art. When you first begin all you hear are your own thoughts. They become so loud that most people simply want to block them out. Those who meditate and use relaxation techniques learn to quiet ...

Nature isn’t just important, it is imminent.

The fact that God even leans His ear toward us is amazing enough, but that He actually grants our requests is even more astounding. God answered Hannah’s prayer and we have a record of her rejoicing before the Lord in one of the most beautiful prayers of the Bible. It is important that our children learn early on that God does answer our prayers according to His plans and purposes for our life. It is also important that they learn to follow Hannah’s example of praising God for His answers.

I’ve always considered my average. I never really thought that I was special in any particular way. Growing up, I think there were times I thought I was “less than”. I was a chubby, shy kid and school was all (I thought) I was good at. My parents couldn’t afford for me to wear the clothes or have the toys all the “cool” kids had and I was always yearning to fit in.