Spiritual Growth Articles

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.

Have you ever woke up with a dreadful and eerie feeling that all your hard work, all your goals, dreams and aspirations that you have focused on will not come to fruition? And that anything you are doing in that direction will be and is an utter failure, including yourself? WOW! What a way to start the day! What are you supposed to do to recover from something like that? In this scenario, I think you can do one of several things: 1. Give in to the negativity. Feed the feeli

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.

According to the book "Mystery of the Christos" by Corinne Heline the Christ Spirit has four aspects: cosmic, planetary, historical and mystical. This Christ Spirit makes four major contacts with the earth during the solstices and equinoxes. Heline states that the events in the life of Jesus the Christ represent the initiatory steps that each one of us must take to become a Christed soul. The Christ is not a person but a “office” or “position” we ALL attain to.

I am who I am, who I have always been and shall always be. As Jesus I welcome you. Deeply fused with Sangitar the energies flow to you, touch your soul, expand you, bring you security, safety, trust and strength.

New beginnings are happening here and now for me since I just moved back to Seattle from Saugerties, NY. This is a new season in my life as I received what I needed for my growth and healing these past three years of living in the Catskill Mountains. In fact everyday is a new day, a new opportunity to begin again. In order to do so we need to let go of yesterday incorporating it's lessons, insights and healings as we embrace new beginnings today.

During a conversation with one of my VIPs this week, we were discussing how well her life was going and how she's making progress in various areas of her life. But she was sharing that she was antsy and couldn't put her finger on the reason why. She told me "I am waiting for something bad to happen; because something always does."

You cannot reduce dreams and goals to your size. If you dream of being a high level manager, yet your main goal is to please your boss, it is unlikely you will achieve your dream. If you dream of being wealthy, yet resent those who already have money, it is unlikely you will achieve wealth. ...

Getting Unstuck You will never get unstuck by focusing on how stuck you feel. When you are overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings of being stuck, your creative energies shut down and taking action can feel impossible. Focusing on how stuck you feel will create more situations that make you ...

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.

The Swedish refer to children who are highly sensitive to their environment, especially to the quality of parenting they receive, as Orkidebarn, Orchid Children. If neglected, Orchid Children promptly wither, but if nurtured, they flourish. An Orchid Child becomes “a flower of unusual delicacy and beauty.” Dandelion Children have the capacity to survive, even thrive, in whatever circumstances they encounter. They are psychologically resilient. Our first peek at Esau and J

Years ago, I realized that the primary cause of all our world’s problems and difficulties is the loss of any real sense of life’s meaning and significance. We live in a scientific and commercial age, an age of rationality and utility. This is the culmination of the great humanitarian agenda of the Enlightenment, which sought to attain security and prosperity for everyone, rather than just a few lucky aristocrats.

A common definition of failure would be: The condition or fact of not achieving one's desired end or ends. I think most of us would agree that one of the most potent fears that we possess in our minds is fear of failure. There is so much judgment instilled in our programming regarding this ...

The Holidays bring about good and bad memories of past holiday seasons. I have a girlfriend Nancy who newly divorced is having her first Thanksgiving without the kids this year. It's tough; there is no denying it. Thanksgiving will be different for her; but that doesn't mean it'll be bad. We've talked about my first Thanksgiving without my daughter and new traditions I put in place when celebrating as a single person. For me, service work was a blessing.

Depression is more than that sense of feeling "down" or discouraged at times when things are not going well. Depression involves sadness, pessimism, a preoccupation with personal problems, and perhaps self-pity, anguish, crying, and hopelessness. Symptoms of depression can range from mild ...

Your world is always a crystallization of your thought. The picture comes into existence, first in your mental faculty, before it becomes a solid full blown image in the physical world. The mind is indeed a powerful machine that readily accepts impressions and information we send to it. You are the creator of your own experience, negative or positive. You are also the writer of your own stories, good or bad. To be a giant or an ant is nobody’s choice but yours.

Stay in Balance When our lives are in balance we feel more stable, secure and better able to handle the changes that life brings us. When we feel unbalanced, our levels of stress and anxiety increase. As stress levels increase, the more out of balance we feel. It can become a pretty slippery ...

1. The only thing you have control over is yourself. Trying to control other people or things is a waste of time and energy. 2. Holding on to something or someone is the best way to lose it. The tighter the grip, the faster they run. 3. You create your life experiences one thought at a time. Thoughts affect perception, which affect choices, which create your life situation. 4. You are completely responsible for your life and how you choose to live it. 5. If you are unhappy with your situation, take action to change it. 6. How we feel matters.

It’s a beautiful morning as I sit under a willow tree at the edge of Chautauqua Lake – the water is lapping gently on the rocks and the early morning mist is hovering over the great expanse of water. It’s quite a mystical sight. I’ve returned to this specific spot under this tree for a few days nearly every summer since I was 14 years old – for more than 40 years I’ve been coming back to sit under this willow where the land juts out into the lake.

Have you ever wondered when your life is going to change? I mean really change. As each year approaches, we have a stirring hope inside that surely this will be the year that our dreams come true, our relationships improve, we are out of financial debt, our anxieties would ease, and the weight will stabilize. The resolutions are in place, the daylight is returning and maybe, just maybe, we'll open our eyes one morning with a sign, an epiphany, a kismet occurrence or revelation that will make everything seem *poof* magically different and better.

If there are negative powers attacking your faith, what should you do to save it from becoming vanquished? Have you ever heard of any approach of these factors such as accidents, poverty, sickness and tragedy which your faith will better respond in the regard that it would not easily trip on the ground? An important thing to negative the bad effects of these powers is a spiritual warfare. Armed with this warfare, you can respond against these negative powers more responsibly

By now you may have you heard about the startling breakthroughs in brain science that have turned our ideas about how the brain works upside down. For years we were told that we were born with all the brain cells we would ever have. If we lost one it was gone and would never be replaced. Wrong! Exciting New Breakthroughs in Brain Sciencer In the last few years as brain imagery studies became available scientists have made a startling discovery. Our central nervous system is actually very flexible and dynamic.

Honor your body especially now that we are celebrating Spring. After the usual excesses of the winter season it is time to get back to our routine and daily practices to bring more balance in our body and in our lives. Moderation in all things is key here. There are many ways to honor your body. Yoga, pilates, walking, exercising, swimming, hiking, massage, Reiki healing, breathing, eating and drinking healthfully are some of the ways to bring balance to your body. Check in with yourself to see what changes you need to make. What do you need to feel more in alignment?

I am writing this in the dark. It is Earth Hour, a rolling blackout around the world intended as a visual, visceral vote for increased awareness and conce about climate change. In fact, it is the first-ever global vote on anything. All of my lights are out. I can see the Manhattan skyline ...

The root causes of the problems in our life. In this article, we discuss the function of the realm of spirituality regarding the difficulties in or lives. Ignorance regarding the existence and role of the spiritual dimension and understanding its duties in our difficulties would only frustrate our attempts to completely conquer these problems. We need to first know and understand the root cause of a difficulty in order to overcome it completely. By digging deeper into the roo

You are approached by a friend, family member, or you go to a seminar and you are told about an easy way to make some extra money, and sell fantastic products. All you need to do is replicate the system that your "upline" is using, and the products will practically sell themselves. So, you sign up, and purchase some products and test them out and decide that this is something you would like to try- after all, they made it look really easy, didn't they? So you make your "warm list" and you practice your sales pitch, and off you go.

There is always within ourselves a wonderful essence of knowledge and joy that can be tapped into and enjoyed. Through regular meditation on pure love, and habitual thoughts of God's wonderful qualities, one can live in wholeness. What one habitually thinks and feels often determines the sort of life one will experience.

The comment caught me off guard. Sometimes you go through the motions of daily life, and then something sticks out. This was one of those moments. We were talking about how cynical this world can be, and it can even cause a person to doubt themselves sometimes. The author has a known lack of confidence, and even self-worth. (Orphans have that). These kinds of topics are nothing really new. But, then it came, out of nowhere. The comment (actually a question): "Are you saying God made a mistake in creating you, or that he made a mistake in trying to redeem you?" Wow.

INTUITIVE GUIDANCE by Rosemary DeTrolio www.rosemaryd.webs.com This passage from an angel reading I channeled for someone in 2009. I am reprinting it, since it has Universal information which was meant to be shared.

I will raise my hand and admit. I love to have my parents come in tow AND I also love to see them go home. I LOVE my parents. I enjoy spending time with my parents; we always have a fabulous time. Picking them up at the airport is a joy-filled event and so is dropping them off at the airport. Why?r

Many people talk about changes occurring in late 2012. Call it a celestial speed-up, a shift in mass consciousness, awakening, or evolution in consciousness, but don't get too excited about it yet. If it is happening now, it's for adults only.

The Exciting Reality of the Afterlife Rejected by Closed Minded Skeptics Listening to actual recorded descriptions of "the undiscovered country" through the direct voice mediumship of Leslie Flint is always incredible, thrilling, breathtaking, and astounding. When I first heard some of this material I could not contain my excitement, I became a raving maniac and to the annoyance of my associates, it was all I could talk about for weeks! It is so fantastic!

Have you ever walked by a homeless person and scoffed at them? They are dirty. They smell. They live on the streets. They are far below you on the scale of grace and etiquette. Why bother paying attention to them at all? They don’t deserve even a second look from you. Au contraire, mon ami. That homeless person is you. Maybe you don’t live on the streets. Maybe you are fortunate to have the ability to bathe every day. But, each and every one of us represents the cosmic whole. As such when you hurt another, you are only hurting yourself.

It is often said in the alte ative field of medicine that one of the biggest hurdles to overcome is the fact that when someone visits the doctor, they are given some drugs to make them better. These are always prescribed with the caveat that if they do not work, that you are to return to the doctor to try something else. This system of prescribing something to alleviate the symptoms has led us as a society to expect the professional (doctor) to sort out the issue in one visit. We give our power away to the doctor and let them tell us what to do to get well.

When I teach or mentor new coaches, I talk about four levels of coaching—four levels from which we can approach whatever the client brings to us for the session. Life has the same four levels, if we look at it in really simple and straightforward terms. The surface level is the “drama”—the “he said, she said, then this happened, and then she said, and then he said” level. It’s so easy to get caught up in that level and start reacting to the drama around us. Think about when you have gotten caught in the drama level recently. It happens to all of us—you aren’t alone!

Many Lightworkers today are still working under the tribal attitudes that probably carry over from past lives when we were shamans, healers and tribal medicine men. In those days and places we didn’t have to fool with ‘making a living’, we could just live and take care of the tribe and the tribe took care of us.

Is anything bothering you today? - A job? - A significant other? - Finances? - Car trouble? - Not having enough time? Any or all of these things could be bothering you at a given time. When the problems linger what do you do? Perhaps: - Abuse a substance? - Turn to a hobby? - Watch television? What is the point, you ask? When we examine our problems in life they can usually be attributed, AT THE CORE, to our relationships with other people, or the lack thereof. If we look at the examples above we could interpret them in this way.

This day in age many people are finding themselves single through a chasm of ages. Many are in their forties, fifties and sixties. As we get a little older and hopefully wiser we begin to realize that we need different things in a relationship than what we originally had thought. Love of course is a key element, but, by and of itself, cannot fill in all the spaces of what a good and healthy relationship needs.

Question: How much of our life is really in our control? Are not the events in our life (and maybe also how we react to them) influenced and driven by a higher consciousness, which we are not aware of? Say, for example Arjuna's life.. Isn't his succumbing to despair in the battlefield of Kurukshetra preplanned, so that Lord Krishna's purpose of coming to the earth gets fulfilled? Did he really have any choice to make when Lord Krishna asked him to take on the battlefield afte

Recently, I was out of money again and the last day of my house-sitting job was quickly approaching. I had nowhere to go and couldn’t afford a hotel room. I asked someone in the U.S. for a loan which would allow me to rent an apartment for 6 weeks until my next house-sitting assignment. I estimated how much it would be and was told that the money would be deposited in my account on Monday morning, which meant Monday night for me. This was cutting it close as I had to be out of the house I was watching the following morning, but I was grateful nonetheless.

When the hard times find you, where do you find yourself? Reaching out to your best friend, someone you trust? Sitting on a sandy beach in the moonlight with nothing but the sound of your thoughts? On an afternoon drive with no destination besides the hope of clarity? Or maybe on your knees seeking salvation? Good news? You're never alone. Bad news? You have to accept that. I never used to ask for help. I was full of a mixture of pride and fear. I was afraid that if I admitte

I am Shiva. I greet each and every one and the collective with the words OMAR TA SATT. Shiva has the task to carry out transformations, and it is an honor for me to transmit the messages to you through Sangitar here in this room. Transformation means change. Change means new beginning. New beginning mostly means freedom and peace.

As I look back at my spiritual journey it is clear that my personal understanding of enlightenment has evolved. Early in my search I remember getting a glimpse of its promises through self-help and spiritual texts. I associated enlightenment with visions, specialness, power and bliss. It was all very attractive to the ego. What better way to aggrandize oneself than to achieve enlightenment? Hence I became a spiritual “seeker.”

Thanks to Natalie I have a whole new understanding of the word “bless.” Natalie received her first Holy Communion almost twenty years ago with great joy and the accompanying ceremony that welcomes new members to experience the body of Christ in this way. Her uncle, a devout man of the Greek Orthodox faith, gave her a very special gift to honor her commitment, a rosary dipped in what he believed are the tears of Mary, the mother of Jesus. He had been saving the rosary for her specifically for quite awhile.

I had the opportunity to watch the movie The Reader last night and I was stuck by profound impact of the characters decisions throughout their lives. As I sat back and reflected upon the movie - I thought of hundreds of personal choices that changed the story of my own movie-worthy life. So often we make choices totally unaware of what we are creating. Just one seemingly small choice may have catastrophic effects if made without consciousness.

Once in a while I do it. By do it, I mean look at things through a different lens, like through sports. This time I just couldn't resist looking at a sporting scenario to demonstrate a religious belief, as an Ohio State football fan. Their run to the title this year was so unexpected, so amazing, so unique and so fulfilling it is worthy of a blog post. It seems like a fitting, relatable way to demonstrate a point. The Underdogs

There are numerous ways we can communicate with our partners. You may not have considered some of the ones I am about to share. We do not all communicate the same; therefore we should not expect our partner to communicate in a specific way. We need to learn how he/she communicates best and work with that. At the same ...

Angels What are Angels and what is their purpose? Before December 2000, if I had been asked that question, the answer would have been from a store of knowledge from my mind – pictures of human forms with wings, stories from the bible of Angelic visitations. But now I know the answer and the ...

Forgiveness is another tool or jewel for self discovery to assist us on our spiritual journey to enlightenment. The Oxford English dictionary defines forgiveness as such: “to grant free pardon and to give up all claim on account of an offense or debt.” Forgiveness is also about letting go of resentment, anger, bitte ess, limiting beliefs and vengeful thinking. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.” Jesus Inner Peace and Joy

“A Powerful Immune System Boosting Agent with No Side Effects” “Great for Cancer, HIV, Colds, and More” In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Turkey Tail Mushrooms have been used for thousands of years for healing and it’s powerful immune system boosting agent… thus helping to heal all kinds of diseases. Other Names - Turkey tail mushroom is also known as Trametes versicolor and in China, Turkey Tail is also known as Cloud Mushroom or kawaritake. What They Look Like - Turkey tail mushrooms grow on old logs and have the appearance of turkey tails… with brown and grey bands of color.