Spiritual Growth Articles

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.

According to the Jewish mystical tradition, the Kabbalah, the Sacred Feminine is the ‘Vessel’ that accepts and protects the ‘Seed’, the ‘Light’, of the Sacred Masculine, like a chalice filled with wine. She then pours forth all of nature, abundance, and life. The Kabbalah adds, however, that as the Vessel continues down the path of ‘Creative Descent’ and reaches our level of material life, the divine Light becomes too intense for this lower inca ation of matter and the Vessel shatters, dispersing the Light.

I learned a long time ago in a history class that many ancient civilizations would surround their cities by a large and wide wall. On top of the wall would be watchmen posted around on the lookout for any approaching enemies. Christians have an enemy and his name is Satan. Our children need to be introduced to this fact and must be reminded that we don’t have to fear Satan, but we do need to keep watch for his approach in our lives. Here is a fun Bible object lesson to teach your kids this important truth based on Isaiah 21:11. Here’s what you do:r

Knowing about chief features/defenses is some of the most crucial knowledge for soul development. To summarize, the seven defenses are: nn· Self-deprecation: Fear of not being good enough nn· Arrogance: Fear of being exposed nn· Greed: Fear of not having nn· ...

Prayer is one of the oldest pursuits of mankind. We can only assume that it has been with us as long as humans have been around. Prayer was probably right on the tip of the tongue of the first caveman who saw lightning strike a tree. No one ever teaches us how to pray. Most of us fall into it ...

Thinking about the day, and a message that I could pass along to you in the newsletter, I decided to pull a Tarot card for inspiration. Seven of Pentacles - Patience In the deck I typically use, The Robin Wood Tarot Deck, the Seven of Pentacles is shows a man standing in his garden, leaning on a hoe. The leaves of the plants, which look to be pumpkins, are fully grown, green, and healthy. The sun is shining and it really looks like a beautiful day on a mid-west farm in middle

I suffered severely from anxiety and depression for more than 30 years. It got worse during high school, and even worse later on, as if it were deliberately trying to make my life as miserable as possible.

The best way to generate ideas for spiritual workshops is to draw from your personal experience, knowledge and wisdom. Even if you think that there's nothing remarkable about your life, I have yet to meet any person in this world who did not have something to teach. So just imagine for a minute that you could look at your own experiences, knowledge and wisdom from an outside perspective, how remarkable would they seem then? PictureIdea Generator Exercise: Take out a piece of paper and draw two lines down the page vertically so that the page is divided into 3 equal columns.

Remember the last time you took a road trip? With your bags packed, car loaded, map laid out on the front seat, destination circled, you anxiously anticipated your arrival. Suddenly, you ran into a roadblock and the blaring orange detour signs took you off course. Did the disappointment ...

These are practices that I do whenever I am trying to release a pattern that no longer serves my highest good. I am using smoking as an example but you can fill in any other habit instead of smoking like drinking, drugs and other addictive behaviors. It is easier to release old patterns and ways of being if you can increase your awareness of what is underlying the addictive behaviors or bad habits.

Childhood should be a happy and carefree time of life. But more and more children are experiencing difficulties these days, and many are even being diagnosed with serious conditions, such as Autism, ADD, and Cancer. When a child is diagnosed with a serious disorder, it is a sign that they are ...

We often get angry at that which we cannot comprehend. We don't fully understand the spiritual realm nor its inhabitants. We tell ourselves that blind faith is the answer. However, we are an intelligent species and as such we will never really buy into that concept. Remember that North ...

I sure hope that the stories in the Bible inspire you and your children to do many great and wonderful things for God. But all too often, I am afraid that all of us, no matter our age, struggle with doubts that God can really use us. Mark 9:23 says this: “All things are possible to him that believeth.” Wow! What an amazing verse and here is a fun Bible object lesson to help teach this important truth. Here’s what you do: The object you will use for this lesson will be a chart of the following acrostic for the word “believe.” B – Be a Christian by asking Jesus into your heart.r

The movie The Secret was created by a woman with a vision and a mission. But what happens when the purpose of the movie is somehow misinterpreted or distorted? This article will reveal the secret behind the secret. Not so long ago an angel by the name of Rhonda Byrne had a vision while dealing ...

Years ago, deep into my own spiritual emergence, I had startlingly prescient dreams; in one, the words, "violent emergency" reverberated through my head. It was a violent emergence; birth is fierce. There is an ocean of difference, however, betwee Nature's ferocity and that which is deliberately inflicted by human beings with their own agendas.

The secret to a happy and successful life is having the skills to stay balanced and feel positive. After 30 years of mentoring people in empowerment and self development I have realized that understanding the hidden world of feelings is a first step. Let's Look At Feelings Imagine you have ...

Elvis Presley's Inner Spiritual Voyage Millions of words have been written about the turbulent and legendary life and career of Elvis Presley: from his humble birth and extremely poor early days in a tiny wooden shotgun two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi; to his musical beginnings as a teenager discovered at Sun Records by Sam Phillips; to his spectacular ascent to worldwide celebrity propelled and supervised by the infamous Colonel Tom Parker. Despite this abundance of d

“Guayusa Tea goes back over 4000 years as a herbal tea that is still used today by the shaman and villagers in the rainforests of Ecuador, Brazil, and other countries. This tea contains caffeine and the relaxing agent theophylline and polyphenols that provides balanced energy without jitters or the caffeine crash we associate with drinking coffee. Plus Guayusa Tea has other health benefits because it’s one of the most “Powerful” antioxidant around… and it can create lucid dreaming.”

Oprah recently re-aired a show featuring The Secret, and guests: Louise Hay, Cheryl Richardson, and Martha Beck - each offering their perspectives on the best-selling book by Rhonda Byrne and The Law of Attraction. One of the stories featured on this show was about a woman who overcame grief and ...

How old are you?nnSome of us might hear from time to time that we are “Old Souls”. I remember when I was told this for the first time. It sounded great, even without understanding the deep essence and meaning of it. That expression did not feel strange to me for one reason, I always felt old, even as a young child since the age of 7. I am probably touching upon many different people who share that same feeling from young age too!nnWhat is an “Old Soul” in the first pl

The Wise Mind is one aspect of higher consciousness. Other aspects are love, peace, light, and compassion. The Wise Mind is a part of the superconscious, and everyone has the capacity to experience it when the conscious mind becomes quiet. The Wise Mind is the voice of the Universal Self ...

The benefits of spiritual partnership are the highest goals that you can reach for, such as freedom from fear, and also the most grounded, pragmatic, and useful tools that you can develop, such as how to use power struggles to grow spiritually. All the benefits of spiritual partnership are interconnected, and each lead

Deep within our Being lays a priceless treasure waiting to be discovered. It has always been there. It will always be there. It is we who have abandoned it. This treasure is what I like to call our Inner Sage. So many of us, when faced with challenges or adversity will automatically search ...Deep within our Being lays a priceless treasure waiting to be discovered. It has always been there. It will always be there. It is we who have abandoned it. This treasure is what I like to call our Inner Sage.

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.

Why does God allow pain? This has got to be one of the most asked questions of all time. It is a difficult question and has an equally difficult answer. I believe with all my heart that God can stop any and every pain that is suffered in this world. I also believe that God is completely good. So, why doesn’t He stop the pain? Why do people have to suffer? I can only say this: If God allows us to suffer, it is only for our best. He uses the pain in this life to draw us closer to Him. I choose to trust in His goodness and His unfathomable love for His children.

Do we understand those little signs and messages that come into our lives every day? Do we pay them attention, or dismiss them as coincidence? “There is no such thing as coincidence” – a saying we hear often! It is true to say there is no such thing as coincidence; all is pre-planned on a sub-conscious level or a reflection of your inner being.r

Do you find yourself in the same cycle each week, day in and day out? Are you feeling frustrated about not being in a certain place in your life, ministry, business or career yet? If so, then it may be time for you to "stop going around the same mountain" expecting a different result. It may be time for you to break camp to possess what God has shown you.

If you want to gross your kids out, show them some mold or mildew that has grown on some food. It’s disgusting! It can also be very damaging to anything it touches. Who would ever eat moldy bread? Mold and mildew have also been known to destroy whole crops. Haggai 2:17 says this: “I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy everything you worked so hard to produce. Even so, you refused to return to me, says the Lord.” This verse is showing a very serious side to God that our children need to know about.

Have you ever tried running with weights? It’s hard! It takes way more effort. We all know that life is like a race we are running. Many of us carry unneeded baggage in our lives that gets in the way of our running the race God has marked out for us. Hebrews 12:1 says this: “…let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…” Sin is the worst baggage of all. It completely hinders us from running the best race we possibly can.

Here in LA we are bombarded with false information about tantra. Tantra is the union of two souls, the art and science of joining body, mind and spirit. It is the study of vibratory energies, the union of opposite polarities, the feminine and masculine conjoined in a harmonious duet of love and beauty. This yoga requires the aspirant to master and discipline his/her body and mind to illuminate the Spirit within and without. Tantra yoga can be a difficult and treacherous practice. Surrender of the ego insists upon commitment, dedication and the spirit of the warrior.

We have entered a new era in human understanding. Modern science and ancient wisdom have converged in a consciousness-shifting realization. It is now known that, at the most fundamental level, “everything is energy.” We are energetic beings in a Universal Energetic Field. Because of that ...

No matter what you're looking for in this world, or in this lifetime, chances are that the underlying reason you're looking for it is so you can be happier than you are now. Think about it for a second; you certainly don't want more money and better health so you can be miserable. Likewise, if ...

The new testament Scripture, “The love of money is the root of all evil” gets misinterpreted quite often. Despite what many people believe money, it is NOT the root of all evil. Neither is it good or bad, nor does it make a person good or bad. Here are 3 important truths behind the Scripture, “The love of money is the root of all evil:” 1. The “love of” money.

How to pray effectively is related to praying God’s Word because it’s the most effectual prayer there is! Since God is bigger than any circumstance you could possibly face, it doesn’t matter what kind of situation you’re in, what assets you lack, or what your inadequacies are, praying God’s Word can give you victory! When learning how to pray effectively, simply conceive God’s Word in your mind, fashion it by your tongue, and verbalize it out of your mouth in conviction. This will turn out to be a spiritual force releasing the power of God within you.

“It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.” From: W Clement Stone, from The Success Principle by Jack Canfield That is one of my all time favorite quotes for it is the stepping stone from your life now, to the unlimited potential of your future. Recognizing the truth: that you are a creative genius, and that you were the one to engineer your current circumstances, allows you to perfect that genius by your own conscious design.

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Have you ever wondered if miracles still happen today? You might be surprised. But first, shouldn't you ask, "Just what is a miracle anyway?" There is no way to know if miracles happen in modern society unless you truly know the definition of a miracle. Perhaps, your definition is different from someone else's. This ...

Spiritual workshop flyers can be an effective way to market and fill your events if the following are true... • You use flyers in combination with other marketing materials and strategies. • You display them in a place that has good foot traffic (provided that those feet are attached to your ideal workshop guests). • Your flyers ROCK! Here are a couple of MUST HAVE tips to make sure YOUR spiritual workshop flyers ROCK... MUST HAVE #1: An Engaging Workshop Description With Benefits-Rich Bullet Points

Grief. It’s very real. It comes in different forms, sometimes subtle, hovering just below the surface, and sometimes like a gray blanket suffocating our hearts. I recently received an e-mail from a mom filled with tears and sorrow. Her pain stemmed from the loss of her son…not by death, but ...

Laughter is an integral part of the universal human vocabulary, as every single human being understands it. Regardless of the language spoken, everyone laughs. We don’t even learn to laugh as we must for speaking; we are already born with the innate ability to laugh. One of the important ...

I have always loved crystals. I love to be surrounded by them, I love to hold them in my hands and place them on Chakra points during meditation, and I especially love to wear them. When I was young and broke, I remember saving my change in a jar until I had enough money to buy a piece of raw amethyst from a little shop in Woodstock, NY! It cost all of $5.00, but that was a lot of money back in the 70's when I was working full time and putting myself through college. I still have that piece of amethyst in my library, along with dozens of other beautiful crystals and stones.

I mentioned Soul Circles in Shadow Self article. Soul Circles have to do with Karma and Reinca ation. If you were not good in your last past life or lives you return back with the same people you did bad things with or did bad to. Like in one of my past lives I was horrible to people but my husband and I were evil. We hurt people but I don’t think killing or anything like that. I just know people were afraid of us. So when I came into this life I brought back all the people in my bad past lives which I haven’t learned anything or tried to clear my Karma in to this one.

BACKSTABBERS LOSEn© Rhoberta Shaler, PhDnwww.OptimizeInstitute.com www.WorkplacePeopleSkills.com Whatever are people thinking when they are two-faced? Are they really thinking that people are stupid and can't see the forest for the trees? When meetings take place surreptitiously, behind ...

How to fulfill your divine destiny? Christians have struggled with the flesh since the early apostles walked the dusty roads of Jerusalem, hence the Bible states, "The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26:41b KJV). How do you overcome the flesh to fulfill your divine destiny, the destiny especially designed for you by God? Can you overcome the works of the flesh in your own strength? Not hardly. But before you role up your spiritual sleeves to tackle this task of overcoming the flesh to fulfill your divine destiny, let's first define what the flesh is.

Any person, situation or condition that interrupts the flow of joy and abundance within our lives represents a wilde ess experience. God intended for the earth to be joyful and filled with love and peace among mankind. However, the kingdom of darkness had other destructive plans, including the prevention of all happiness and prosperity. Nevertheless our faith in God will always prevail. Our Source of Victoryr

Last evening, as I was reading, with my 13 year old son, Spencer, from the book Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth, we entered into a delicious dialogue on the meaning of resistance. We were reading a passage that says, to realize prosperity, you must accept the responsibility of your own thoughts, which is how you can take charge of your life. I have shared the teachings of The Power of Awareness with probably a thousand folks by now, and I have gained a clear understanding of how the mind works.

“Osha Root Shortens the Duration of a Cold and Helps with Mucus” Osha root is a Native American herb that has been used for thousands of years for healing lung problems such as colds, flues, coughs, inflammation and for getting rid of mucus in the respiratory tract. And now that we are going into the cold and flu season osha root is very important to have in our herbal medicine cabinet.

Yesterday I was listening to the Michael Baisden show where the topic of the hour was Identity theft. This is not the first time that this was discussed on the show. I don’t remember who the topic guest was, as I was in the car, but the information, testimonies and methods used to get, sell and ...

To learn the Law of Analogy and Correspondences in learning how to interpret symbols, images, numbers, geometric shapes, colors, sigma’s, etc., we literally retrain our mind to a whole new level of comprehending a reality that exists in a unified, ecological state. Interpreting symbols and images works by connecting or opening the pathway to higher consciousness.