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Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 7
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Greetings from Learning To Flow!
With today’s newsletter, we come to the end of our series on the Seven Spiritual Truths.
Most spiritual seekers I know (including me) tends to make the whole spiritual journey harder than it has to be. We tend to think that there is one more piece of information we don’t have, one more method we haven’t learned yet, one more class we need to take…but that isn’t our spirit telling us this. It’s our ego mind…who uses these rationalizations and justifications to keep us from simply turning and facing what keeps us from seeing and experiencing our own inner light.
The first few moments of standing there in the midst of your own darkness can be terrifying…but if you can do it, you free yourself from the entrapment of living an ego identified life and take your first step towards living a Spirit identified and empowered life!
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week
“When it’s all said and done, whether you believe you area child of God deserving of love, health and abundance, or whether you believe you’re not…YOU’RE RIGHT!” – Hu Dalconzo “Self-Mastery: A Journey Home to Your Self”
Your God-like Abilities
Truth Seven:
You have…Godlike abilities
One of the most difficult admissions I had to make on my journey to mastery is that no matter what I was experiencing in my life…I was creating. I found that if I blamed anyone else for my experience of life, I was actually dis-empowering myself.
In taking control of my own power, the next step I found was to stop taking responsibilities for others’ feelings as well. Do you have someone in your life that no matter how much you care about them, when you are with them you always seems to say the “wrong” thing or be busy when they want to be with you? It’s important to understand that they are creating this reality of you. It is their perspective that must be changed, but as long as you are taking responsibility for their feelings, you are dis-empowering both yourself…AND them!
We are all Godlike beings with the ability to create what we want. When we start doing that and ONLY take responsibility for our own feelings, others may perceive us to be selfish. But we cannot create what we want for ourselves as long as we are enmeshed with others’ feelings and spending time thinking about what they want.
If we are to create what WE want, we must take the time to consider what it is that we really want. If you are someone who has felt responsible for others’ feelings all of your life, it may be very difficult to figure out exactly what it is that YOU want.
But ask yourself, “Do you want to continue to create realities for yourself that do not match the joy your soul wants to experience?”
This is the calling you feel within you…to experience the highest joys, the deepest love, the grandest peace…and then to create even more expansive versions of that.
God does not judge us if we want to experience material things. We have to let go of our judgment of ourselves for wanting to experience the joy of having a new car or a larger house or nicer clothes. Once we experience all of that, we may want others to experience those things too and may feel inclined to donate things we no longer use to people who would appreciate these things.
Once we have so much abundance that we feel completely safe in the world, we may enjoy the experience of that until we reach the point where we want everyone else to feel that safe as well. Ever wonder why people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet give so much to charity…or spend so much time telling others how they made their money? It is because their souls want others to experience the joy they are living.
They have reached a point where more money will not make them more happy…however helping others find their joy does.
The power to create everything you want is within you. If you are waiting for it to show up in your outer reality so you can feel happy, joyful, safe or loved, you are denying your power. While you may get bits of it here and there, you will not and cannot achieve the deep levels of peace, love and joy without connecting to them inside of you first.
As you learn to connect to them, you may find layers of fear-based emotional energy. You must learn to stand there in the midst of that darkness with your awareness, boring a hole through it with your intention to find the peace awaiting you on the other side, feeling the safety of knowing that it IS there. You must be able to face down the illusions of fear before they will release themselves from you.
You must practice connecting to that peace, love and joy over and over. Once you feel it so strongly within you that you feel it outside of your meditative practice, you will find it showing up in your life more and more.
Your greatest challenge at that point will be to decide in what form you want these energies expressed.
Connect first…then create!
Practice!
Decide what in what form you want to express the energy of your creation.
For example, perhaps you want to create a career that fulfills you, but you have been told that you cannot make the same amount of money doing what you love as you are making now. Maybe you have done all of the research, studied all of the statistical trends, demographic studies…everything out there and you just KNOW that you can’t do what you love and make the money you want.
Are you starting to see the problem here?
You are studying “facts” that were created by people who had self-defeating belief systems. Are you going to base your life and your plans on what someone else was not able to do?
Perhaps you fear that if you leave your current job, then you will not attract enough customers or you will not find a place where you can express the deep levels of creativity you feel burning within you.
So you tell yourself that you just have to “face reality” and “play it safe.”
But do you?
Are these not simply rationalizations from your fear-based egoic mind? Will you ever achieve your dreams if you listen to this?
God knows NO such limits.
It is not important for you to know HOW your dreams will manifest. For them to manifest, you have to let go of the how. You must focus only on what you want to experience, what it looks like, sounds like, feels like and then allow the Universe to create the way it will come.
Then practice feeling the wonder and delight as the Universe starts to spin and create from nothingness the ways and the means to expressing itself through you.
This is all that is happening in our lives. Source energy is expressing itself through us. Our role is to choose how to express it and believe it.
Decide what you want. Let go of the obstacles that seem to be in front of you. Face down your fears. Embrace the feelings of wonder and gratitude as what you want is surely coming.
Take action when the little signs start to come through people (God in drag) and opportunities around you.
And if you need help with all of that, ask for help!
Namaste
Jeff
© Jeffrey L. Scholl 2010. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and intact, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely.
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Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 6
Posted by learning | Filed under Empowerment, Enlightenment, Learning To Flow - The Book, Self Realization, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
Originally published in weekly email newsletter – July 4th, 2010
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
Happy Independence Day! It is an interesting coincidence that the way this series played out provided Spiritual Truth # 6 on this day…since it is when you apply spiritual principles in your life that you truly become empowered!
When you realize you are empowered to change any aspect of your life, you are FREE!
You realize you can let go of any limitation, heal any situation, attract any level of abundance, receive any amount of love and live in greater and greater levels of joy.
It is YOUR independence you seek. It is my intention that what you learn in these newsletters help you to reclaim it!
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week
“Remember, the spiritual creation trilogy is…thought, workd and DEED!” – Hu Dalconzo “Self-Mastery: A Journey Home to Your Self”
Action Leads to Independence
Truth Six:
Your Spiritual Growth Requires…Action
Most who read these newsletters are spiritual seekers. Like me, they have read literally dozens of books on spirituality, metaphysics and self-help. The ego mind WANTS to understand what is happening, but it doesn’t want to actually do it.
Our ego doesn’t want problems to show up in our lives. It wants everything to flow along smoothly without ever having to face our inner pain and fears. Yet it is only when we DO face the energies that manifest as limitation in our lives that we are able to move forward.
It is only when we take action to practice all of the spiritual principles we have learned that we make progress.
The fundamentals of the Self-Mastery process require us to practice the exercises of what seems boring to our ego mind to a level of mastery.
Just as a golfer must practice hundred of drives, thousands of putts, shots with every club, every angle, every possible disadvantage to achieve a proficiency…to master our lives, we must practice the fundamentals of living a safe, sane and secure life.
It is from this foundation that we are able to understand that what is happening in any given situation has everything to do with us if we feel it and little to do with what is actually happening. It has everything to do with how we perceive what is happening and to understand that we are responsible for our own perceptions.
While study of spiritual principles is important, it doesn’t help us to read hundred books on meditation…if we do not practice it. It does not help us to listen to every CD we can find on emotional healing…if we are not willing to Self-Parent our inner child so that he/she feels safe in the world. It does not help us to watch every movie we can find on the Law of Attraction, if we do not create and use our own vision boards. It does not help us to read every book we can find on relationships if we simply blame the other person for what we feel instead of taking responsibility to feel our own feelings and to understand what those feelings are telling us. And it does not help us to think the same thoughts over and over that have been creating the same undesired life. We can choose to think what we want to think. It will feel like a lie at first, but this is only because we are so used to feeling the energy of our other thoughts. It is when we practice new thoughts over and over that these start to feel comfortable. We must however release the energy from our core fearful thoughts so that energy can no longer speak to us and for us.
To reach a level of mastery, we may have to do what other professionals require. Professionals in every discipline most often use a coach to help them hone their unique talents into a skill that becomes second nature.
If you already know the basics, then it simply requires you to practice what you know.
There are no limitations to what you can BE, DO and HAVE in your life. The only limitations you have are those you place on yourself.
Practice!
What spiritual practices have you learned during your studies?
Make a list of what you already know how to do and spend the next week just practicing what you know. You will be amazed at how much you already know.
The peace, love and joy you have been seeking has always been within you. Find that connection and allow that energy to flow through you. Allow these energies to transform your perceptions and perspectives. Follow your inspiration to new actions.
Perhaps you have been wanting to get a job, but have been seeking a role in a field you have been trained for and know you can make money at. Yet you feel trepidation every time you start to apply for jobs in this field.
Give yourself permission to find a job doing something you love. Know that none of us arrived on this planet with a skill that was useless to the rest of us. You CAN make a living doing what you love. You simply have to practice believing that this job is out there. Practice feeling excited about your new job.
Does the new role have you working out of an office or from home? Are you working with others or alone? What kind of feedback do you hear?
Are you willing to start over in life doing something you love or do you want to play it safe?
If you are in a relationship that has not been fulfilling to you, practice appreciating what you do like about this person, what drew you to them in the first place. Allow this energy to shift your perceptions to see and hear what you’ve been missing.
Your life is your opportunity to practice…and it is truly is the reason we all incarnated here…to practice being the highest and best feeling aspect of our spiritual selves. There is no end to how good you can feel. All you have to do is…practice!
© Jeffrey L. Scholl 2010. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and intact, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely.
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My first book “Learning to Flow” is now available for purchase in paperback, hard cover or e-book online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders.
Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 5
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Greetings from Learning To Flow!
Spiritual Truth #5 indicates to us that God is within us. I encourage you to explore this connection through prayer, meditation and learning more about your chakra energy centers within you.
This week, I give you a start into that, but it will help you to research this on your own…to find the information that resonates with you…and then use the exercise from this week to flesh out something that works for you.
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week
“Every time I create a gap in the stream of my mind, the light of my consciousness grows stronger.” – Eckhart Tolle
You are Never Alone…
Truth Five:
You are Never alone because…God is always with you!
Each of us are a child of God and yet many feel separate not only from God, but each other as well. Because we feel separate, we seek outer power. The endless search for outer power is what creates war, terrorism and most certainly situations like what is happening down in the Gulf right now. This was an outward act of arrogance and greed…the signposts of the feeling of “not being enough” or “not having enough.” Because many feel they are separate from God, they do not understand that everything we want, need and desire is already within us.
We have a connection to God within us and when we connect to our Source, we find the essence of what we have been seeking. While outward things can be enjoyed, they are the reflection of our connection to joy…not the source of our joy.
When we find our connection to health within us, we follow our inner guidance towards making any life changes necessary to create more health…whether that be by making dietary changes that align more with the vibratory levels of health we intend, breathing in more life force through Pranayama and/or physical exercise…or simply practicing abundance by consuming what we need instead of taking in more sustenance than our body requires.
We find this connection not by “thinking,” but by finding the still small space within us that connects us to God.
What is it that you seek? How would you feel if you knew it was coming to you?
Through the practice of prayer, we send out our desires into the Universe and through the practice of meditation, we can feel the joy of having what we desire.
This is the energetic cycle of giving and receiving.
Practice opening your connection to your own Source energy, getting your mind out of the way and allowing joy, peace and love to flow through you.
Finding your Portal
Close your eyes and go within. Take three deep breaths and allow your consciousness to move down out of your mind and into your root chakra.
Experience the ruby red light spinning from this chakra for a few moments. Breathe into it and just BE there.
Now move to the bottom of the chakra and notice that there is a white oval light there. Move through this portal and find yourself outside of your body and in a new space, full of different colors of light. This is unmanifest energy from which you can draw personal satisfaction, stability and inner strength. Through this chakra, you can access the energy you need to feel safe to be on Earth…even during times that are very difficult.
Just breathe into this area and exhale deeply to allow energy to flow from the unmanifest energy area through the oval portal and out into your world. Notice how this energy feels going through your body. Do you feel more grounded?
Now move up to the sacral chakra and note that the portal of light is towards the front. Once again move through the portal and into the unmanifest energy. Breathe deeply drawing energy through the portal and into the chakra itself. See the orange light from this chakra growing even brighter and expanding outwards.
Feel the joy of the energy flowing through balancing your masculine and feminine energies…cleansing and removing any negative fear-based thoughts about the use or limitations of your sexual energies from your mind.
Travel up to the solar plexus chakra, find your portal and move through it. Breathe into it and allow the energy to move through your Root and Sacral chakras again…cleansing their energy and bringing you even greater insights.
As you move up through the remaining chakras, allow your inner voice to guide you to the portal, to breathe in through it, drawing new energy into the chakra itself and then out into your world.
Through each of these energy centers is your connection to the unlimited creative power of Source energy.
© Jeffrey L. Scholl 2010. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and intact, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely.
Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 4
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Enlightenment, Self Realization, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
One of the most frustrating aspects of our spiritual growth is that it takes more than once or twice to work through an issue. The reason is because there are “layers” to the emotional pain we carry for any given issue.
This week, we will explore this Spiritual Truth.
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week
“As you spiritually ascend, you must continually SEE, FEEL and CORRECT your old fixed beliefs. This will free up large amounts of your life force energy so that you can keep on…consciously creating your life” – Hu Dalconzo “Self-Mastery: A Journey Home to Your Self”
Truth Four:
As You Spiritually Ascend With Truth, You Bring to View More of Your Ego-Based Avoidance Patterns.
The metaphor of an onion is quite apt for the purpose of spiritual growth. This picture is especially helpful since the core of the onion is a vibrant yellow like an inner light!
You also have an inner light, a connection to Source energy…to your soul from which flows life-force energy. This life-force energy contains the energy of happiness, peace and joy. Through this life force energy and how we envision it playing out in our lives results in how much love, security and abundance we manifest.
As I keep emphasizing, it is what we put our intention and attention upon that we manifest as results in our lives.
But to get to the point where we CAN manifest what we desire, we have to let go of everything that separates us from our own Source energy, from our own inner light.
Look up at those layers. Realize you have layers of hurt, anger, frustration, sadness, sorrow, embarrassment, shame, envy, etc…all of which continue to manifest the same unwanted experiences over and over again.
And your ego-mind in absence of any other direction in your early life came up with ego defenses to deflect the pain you simply did not know how to handle. If your parents had never learned to feel and release their feelings, then how could you learn how to do it yourself.
So the ego-mind avoided the pain. It minimized it, repressed it, denied that it was there at all and focused your attention on coping devices. Some people eat more than their body requires and consume foods other than which their bodies optimally function.
Some people drink alcohol to numb the pain they don’t know how to release. Some people use drugs to escape the despair of facing the pain directly. Others use sex or pornography as a way to distract them from facing their own feelings of inadequacy or inner worthlessness.
Some people use TV, movies, music, jobs, pets, children, etc…as excuses why they cannot face their pain, why they don’t have time.
All of it is just their ego continuing to run their lives and avoid the pain. It is trading a short term avoidance for more long term pain. Your pain cannot be avoided. It has to be sur-faced, felt and released in order for you to heal.
The Earth is evolving as well. She…like us…is sur-facing her pain and releasing it. As she does so, it creates “natural disasters” that cause these emotions to come up within us.
These are not “problems.” They are opportunities for healing.
Every “problem” in your life is an opportunity for you to heal something…for you to turn your attention from what you do not want and to re-connect to your own Source of life-force energy and to re-create what you do want.
Re-Creation
Your life is a process of creation and re-creation. When you create something that does not match your intention, just feel and release any feelings of disappointment or frustration.
Seek to find the source of these feelings. It is best to work with a coach or counselor who can objectively help you find the negatively charged belief that attracted the unwanted experience to you.
So for example when I work with a client, no matter how the client sees or talks about themselves, I see them as a perfect Divine being who is capable of creating anything.
My role is to help them release the layers of emotional pain that separates them from not simply intellectually understanding they are this, but FEELING it. My goal is to help them feel their Divine power experientially.
Once they start to feel it on their own, they start to consciously create their lives. When they then create a situation that doesn’t match what they desire, they then know how to let go of their own pain…and to re-create the experience again using their own God-like abilities.
And that’s when re-creation starts to get fun!
Namaste
© Jeffrey L. Scholl 2010. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and intact, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely.
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Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 2
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Enlightenment, Self Realization, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
This week, we are discussing the Second Spiritual Truth and its impacts on our health, relationships, career, etc.
This is also being explored in a new book coming out called “The Shadow Effect” by Debbie Ford, Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson.
We cannot run from our shadow side. The path to healing requires us to turn and face it directly…then watching it melt under the light of our consciousness.
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week
“If you don’t deal with the shadow, the shadow will deal with you.” – Debbie Ford
Most of Your Core Foundational Beliefs…
Truth Two:
Most of Your Core Foundational Beliefs are Rooted in…FEAR.
Many people have told me…”I don’t have anything to work on.” I smile when I hear them say that, but do not argue with them. Anyone who says this simply has not yet reached the stage where they are ready to deal with it.
But make no mistake, we ALL have these beliefs. We all have a shadow side that we have to deal with. We all will have to deal with it eventually if we intend to grow.
Our ego minds tell us that we don’t need to change, that our spouse, boss, friends, family, neighbors, government, country…etc needs to change so that we can feel better about it. This is denial.
When we change by facing and releasing our core fear-based foundational beliefs, we are then able to see that everyone else has these too and this is what continues to manifest realities both individually and collectively that do not match the highest we can imagine for ourselves.
If we try to imagine more for ourselves and happen to share those with people who have not yet dealt with their shadows, they will all too quickly tell us, “You’re dreaming. That’s not reality” or something similar.
Yet anyone who has lost the ability to even dream is truly the one creating their own living nightmare.
We are seeing the effects of these negatively charged beliefs in our world today. But the way to change our world is not to get others to change. We change our world by changing ourselves from the inside out. It is not enough to simply do positive visualizations or affirmations. We must let go of the negative beliefs anchored within us by our fear-based energies.
Can you imagine your life without worry? How would you live your life differently if you felt safe to pursue your life the way YOU wanted to live it?
What if you felt safe enough to work at the career your soul feels called to do, to pursue interests that you may think you cannot make a living at?
Would you stay in relationships that were not satisfying to you intellectually, emotionally and spiritually if you understood you could have the relationship you wanted and weren’t worried about how others would feel about your change?
Whatever you are experiencing in your life today is YOUR creation. What we are experiencing in our world today is OUR creation. We cannot just blame others and say we had nothing to do with all that is occurring. Our negative energies, the very energies that swell up within us when we read or see things that anger, frustrate or disappoint us are what must be released for us to heal ourselves and heal our world.
Use the exercise this week to dig deeper into your life. Face your fears head on and let go of all of the “evidence” you feel justifies holding onto them. Remember, the “evidence” was just a reflection of your inner consciousness to begin with…the reflection of the consciousness you brought in with you to work on in this life.
Namaste
Jeff
Practice of the Week
How different would your life be if you could let go of any feelings of:
Embarrassment:
- about the way your body looks
- your social status
- abundance level
- how much and quality of stuff you have
- how adequate / competent you feel in areas you feel drawn to enjoy
Anger / Frustration:
- with people in your life
- with your self
- with God
How about for:
Anger-Betrayal-Hatred
Sad-Abandoned-Despair
Afraid-Insecure-Anxious
Sorrow-Grief-Indifferent
Frustrated-Pessimistic-Powerless
Disappointed-Discouraged-Doubtful
Embarrassed-Inadequate-Victim
Envious-Deprived-Jealous
Hurt-Excluded-Helpless
Scared-Hopeless-Confused
Ashamed-Unworthy-Guilty
Read through each feeling and jot down any that you feel something about. Then write out how this shows up in your life. As you write, you will likely feel the feeling welling up within you.
This feeling can be scary and your mind may want to distract you from it. But let that feeling come up. It is rising to the surface to be felt and released. Breathe directly into that feeling and exhale it out forcefully. Use EFT to tap it out. Use other detox methods to let it go. Physical exertion can help with this.
Be willing to let go of your pain. Forgive yourself. Forgive others.
You grow every time you release fear-based energies. It allows you to fill that space with love. As you release and refill, you gain the experiential wisdom for which the whole experience was created to fulfill.
Be willing to face your shadows…to realize more light.
© Jeffrey L. Scholl 2010. Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this transmission on the condition that the content remains complete and intact, full credit is given to the author(s), and that it is distributed freely.
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The Key to Your Spiritual Practice
Posted by learning | Filed under Being in the Now, Empowerment, Enlightenment, Inner Peace, Meditation, Self Realization, Spiritual Growth
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
Meditation is the last spiritual practice we will discuss in this series. It is the most difficult for me as I have a very active mind. Yet the more I allow myself to just spend time in silence, the peaceful my life becomes.
So in the spirit of silence and simplicity this week, I will keep everything as simple as possible…including my intro. J
Namaste
Jeff
Meditation: The Key to Your Spiritual Practice
Meditation is the place where all of my other spiritual practices come together. In taking the deep cleansing breaths, I am detoxifying my body. I am letting go of that which does not serve me by bringing my focus to my moment of now, feeling my repressed feelings and surrendering these toxic energies to the Universe.
Sometimes I use my meditations to focus on what I intend to create and project the vibration of my intended creations out to bring me the essence of what I am feeling.
It is when I meditate that I realize how much value my mind places on “doing.” My mind tells me all of the things I NEED to be doing, all the things I haven’t done and all the things others have not done for me. My mind places great value on action and little on allowing. And yet what my mind has not fully accepted is that it does not matter how much I do…if I have not aligned my vibrational frequency to what I desire…by simply allowing myself to attune to it, then it cannot come to me.
When I close my eyes, place my attention in the center of my chest and use my awareness to find the stillness waiting on me there and simply breathe into it, the chattering of my mind stops. Spending just 15-20 minutes a day in this stillness allows all that I desire to flow to me…instead of me trying to make it come to me.
I have found that it doesn’t matter how my legs are folded, what chair I sit in, if I have incense burning or not…as long as I am in a space where I can be quiet and comfortable, I can reach the stillness. Quite often I don’t want to leave when my meditation timer goes off. Sometimes I just reset the timer to go another 20 minutes.
When I first started to meditate, I couldn’t say that the practice brought peace to my life. Rather what I experienced was a lack of drama.
But the more I practice silence, I am finding subtle feelings of peace and even joy in my practice.
I encourage you to implement this valuable practice into your life.
Peace be unto you.
Namaste
Jeff
This Week’s Quotes:
“MEDITATION…is the key to your spiritual practice. If you have the right key in your hand, no matter how tightly the lock is closed, when you take the key and turn it, the lock falls open. If you use your MEDITATION KEY you’ll open intuitive heart to your hearts desires” – Ajahn Chah
“Meditation is not at all a way of making your mind quiet, rather it’s entering the quiet that’s already there buried under the 50,000 or so thoughts an average person thinks each day.” – Deepak Chopra
Spiritual Application
Close your eyes. Take in 3 deep breaths. Visualize the light of a candle in your 3rd eye. (between the eyebrows). Watch this candle flame. Notice that the flame flickers with every thought that enters your mind. The more thoughts that flow in and out of your mind the more the candle dances in front of you.
Focus on the flame of this candle. See the light dancing and flickering as if someone has turned the ceiling fan to the highest setting. Now focus on stilling the flame. If a stray thought enters bring your attention back to the flame. Bring the flame back to a place of calm and stillness. Take in a deep breath. Reconnect to the place in your heart that is still and quiet.
The more you practice meditation the fewer and farther between your thoughts will come. When they do interrupt, do not judge them or analyze them or follow them to their conclusion. Just refocus on the light of the candle in your third eye and continue to watch it burn slowly.
- Created by Pratima Scholl
Being in the Moment of Now
Posted by learning | Filed under Being in the Now, Enlightenment, Inner Peace, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
My mantra for the past couple of weeks has been “I AM THAT I AM.” Saying that every day has helped me to become more aware of when I am not in the moment and what I am thinking and feeling about that moment. It has helped me to understand how often I am not accepting someone for being who they are or what I am thinking about a situation in which I am focused on what I don’t like about that situation.
It has helped me to feel the subtle energies of my emotional body, to take my awareness to the next level of being able to feel when I am holding something, where I am holding it and instead of resisting it and allowing IT to control my thoughts and feelings. I can just let it be there…breathe into it and release it.
I know that everyone around me is always doing the best they can and I realize how hard I have been on others and myself. They do not do what they do to disappoint me. They do what they do because just as my first priority is ME, their first priority is themselves as well it should be.
Realizing this has enabled me to take a step back and just allow people to be who they are…and to start appreciating more of who they are. I find that when I step back and just allow myself to be in that moment, I almost automatically start seeing how hard people are working, how much they have on their plate, how frustrated and unappreciated they feel already. Seeing this sparks compassion and understanding within me.
It makes me want to gently shake them by the shoulder and whisper, “Wake up. It’s safe to wake up now.”
And this is the purpose of my writings, my newsletter, my book and the ones that follow it. It is the purpose of my coaching and my classes.
Unlike some teachers who have experienced a spontaneous awakening, I have slowly let go of my ego mind a little at a time. And by sharing what I am doing, how I am doing it and what thoughts and feelings I am experiencing as I do it…I leave a trail of bread crumbs for any who are seeking to find their way as well.
Namaste
Jeff Scholl
Quote of the Week:
“Every time I create a gap in the stream of my mind, the light of my consciousness grows stronger.” Eckhart Tolle
Why I Avoided Being in the Moment
For much of my life, I carried a feeling of anxiety within me. I didn’t allow myself to feel that feeling much. I used alcohol for years to numb it. I fed it with foods that would stifle it for awhile, but which only resulted in more anxiety for the effects that kind of food had on my body. I distracted myself from feeling it by using TV, the Internet, email and video games. I kept myself busy with work, unconsciously taking small problems and blowing them up into larger ones…anything to consume my time and keep me focused on something.
All of it was simply a distraction from being in the moment. Because what that moment ultimately made me face was the very feeling I had been seeking to drown out by all of those activities and substances. Because those moments I had alone brought me face to face with a very uncomfortable feeling that for years, I simply didn’t know how to handle.
This is why I shared last week on how to feel your feelings. When you are able to face your feelings without running from them, you are then able to just BE in the moment.
When I allow myself to just BE in the moment and take a few deep breaths, I often find some of the emotions that I have been repressing start to rise to the surface. I can just notice that my mind wants to start up the thought cycle on whatever triggered these emotions and if I get caught up in my dramas, before I know it, I am thinking about the past or the future or thinking about what they might say or what I should’ve said…thus creating more vibrational signals of drama for the future.
When I can just allow myself to stay in that moment, to notice those feelings and just let them be, I can almost feel the energy as a paper-thin barrier that moves and tingles around different areas of my body. And then if I can breathe into those feelings and allow them to be there without judging them or telling myself that they shouldn’t be there, then they start to dissipate. When I allow them to just be there instead of thinking why they are there or who I am holding responsible for them being there or why I must be bad, wrong or broken because they are there…when I just allow them to be there, they aren’t quite as scary as they were before. And the more I practice being in the moment with them, the faster I recognize it when I am projecting that feeling out onto someone else.
Projecting is one of the most difficult things to detect when we’re doing it…mainly because almost all of us are doing it all of the time. Psychologists have a term for it as “projectional transference.” So for example, when something happens at work that upsets me and I get overly upset, what’s happening it that I am transferring similar emotions that I had already repressed out onto this situation.
If I can slow down however and allow myself to be in the moment and feel what I am feeling, I can actually USE this situation for the purpose the Universe intended. The purpose of the situation coming into my life is to show me where I have repressed emotions. So when I have situations that come up in which I find myself upset, I still get upset from time to time. However, the amount of time that I stay upset has greatly diminished. And the level to which I get upset over something that would have really set me off a few years ago may barely register on my upset meter. And if I just allow myself to BE in the moment for a few minutes and feel my feelings, then I find that I am not thinking about the issue 9 or 10 times later that day. I am not sharing what happened with my wife and then getting upset all over again. I stop and allow myself to be in the moment, feel it, release it and it’s gone. And not only is IT gone, but whatever else that it triggers, I go ahead and release that as well.
I will explain a little bit of how to do this in this week’s exercise, but I will also cover it in more detail as we go in this series when we cover Dis-Creation and Forgiveness.
However now that I’ve released the feeling that upset me and I feel better that I’ve released it, I’m not done. Because I remember that I am a vibrational being, IF I want to experience something different in my future, then I CAN choose to feel good in order to send that signal out. And so in the moment, I may allow myself to just feel relieved and to really enjoy the feeling of relief.
I may feel grateful that I feel good now and grateful to my teachers who have provided me the tools to release the feelings that didn’t feel good. I may just feel at peace or happy and allow myself to enjoy those feelings.
So I take a few deep breaths and allow myself to truly enjoy those moments of feeling good for at least 68 seconds…to send a new signal out into the world…a signal that now says, “bring me more of this vibration!”
Namaste
Jeff
Spiritual Exercise of the Week:
What makes an experience memorable for us is the emotion that is attached to it. I can have a thousand experiences a week, but I only remember those to which I felt something. I may not remember the person who checked me out at the grocery store unless they were particularly nice or particularly rude. I may not remember going out to the mailbox and getting my mail unless something happened on the way there or back.
We sometimes think that we will always remember some memories, but I have found that as I release emotions attached to experiences from the past, either those memories disappear entirely or they become difficult to remember. I find that I don’t lose my good memories. I just lose the ones to which I have released the negative emotion.
So think of a recent situation that upset you and replay the experience again in your mind. Notice what you feel. Again, realize that if you feel some negative feeling you have repressed that emotion.
Take a deep breath and feel what you are feeling. Sometimes it helps to give it a name, so you can see it as something separate from you. So pick a word from the below list that matches it as closely as possible.
- Anger – Betrayal – Rage
- Sadness – Abandonment -
- Grief – Powerlessness
- Disappointment – Discouragement
- Frustration – Dissatisfaction
- Worry – Helplessness
- Afraid – Anxiety
- Hurt – Exclusion
- Embarrassed – Inadequate
- Envious – Jealousy
- Scared – Hopelessness
- Ashamed – Unworthiness
Really allow yourself to feel it. Where in your body do you feel it and what does it feel like? Write this down in your journal.
Allow the feeling to just BE there without judging it or wanting it to be gone. Just let it be. Imagine that you can see this energy in your body. What color is it?
Ask yourself if you have felt this feeling before and when? What was happening? Who was involved? What were they doing?
Allow yourself to feel this feeling again. Has it gotten stronger? Has it changed colors or gotten darker? Has it shifted to any other areas of your body or has it stayed in one place?
Allow yourself to accept whatever you feel without judging it or thinking that this shouldn’t be happening.
Start taking in several deep breaths and envision yourself breathing in a pure, golden white light. Feel the warmth of the light as it comes down into your body. Use your awareness to direct the light and the warmth into the emotion you are experiencing. Notice the light start to disperse the darkness. Just allow this to happen. You don’t have to force it to happen. Just observe it as it is happening.
As the light starts to break up the darkness, deepen your breaths and start to forcefully exhale. Sometimes when I do this, I find that I need to cough because so much is coming up and my body starts to assist me in clearing the toxins that I am releasing.
Continue to take deep breaths and forcefully exhale until you feel the feeling dissipate and be released. Take a few more deep cleansing breaths and use the sound of relief…the sound of “Ahhh” as you exhale. It is important to do this out loud. This sound is a therapeutic sound that you can use any time you want to feel relief in a situation.
Take a few moments and enjoy your improved feeling from before. Realize that you may not feel “perfect.” However after using this exercise, it is expected that you will feel much better than before. Keep practicing and use this with any new situations or feelings that surface. Allowing yourself to just be in the moment allows these feelings to surface on their own…which is much easier than having to experience all of them in your daily life in the form of drama.
Physical Exercise of the Week:
Practice yoga in some form this week and allow yourself to just breathe and BE in the moment. You can practice any form of yoga that you want. It can be something as simple as the Yoga on your Wii Fit program or as challenging as Rodney Yee’s “Slow Burn Yoga” DVD If you have FiTV on your satellite or cable, I recommend “Yoga Zen with Sara Ivanhoe” for beginners. If you want to try something different, try Maya Fiennes’ “Kundalini Yoga to Detox and Destress” DVD. We were able to rent both the Rodney Yee and Maya Fiennes DVD’s from Netflix and liked them so much that we purchased a copy.
If you are a beginner or even intermediate, it may help you to have someone else guide you through it such as a DVD. Or you may enjoy a class at your gym or a local yoga center. In your practice, focus on your movements and allow yourself to just BE in that moment. Focus on your breathing and allow it to BE what it is. Allow any emotions that you may feel to just surface and release. Some emotions are so strong that they need our attention in order to fully release them, but we do not need to do this for every emotion. Many can be released in our yoga practice simply by allowing them to leave us as we move, breathe and stretch.
May you have a wonderful week!
© 2009-2010, Jeffrey L. Scholl. Learning to Flow
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Facing and Feeling your Feelings
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From LTF Newsletter – September 5th, 2009
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
I had planned to talk about “Being in the Now” this week, but pretty much as soon as I wrote that, I started getting messages that the first topic needed to be about “Feeling Your Feelings.” And then to drive that point home with me, I was forced to feel my feelings all week long even those I didn’t want to feel.
In working again this week with my coach, she helped me peel back the layers on a core belief that had been manifesting more and more painful results throughout my life. The more I encountered the situation, the more energy I repressed that attracted it in the first place. The more energy I repressed, the worse the situation was when it happened again. Over time, this drove me to isolate myself from others because I did not feel safe to be around some without my boundaries being violated.
I realized this week that I had a core belief that I brought into this world to heal. In forgiving those that reflected it back to me, I was able to finally able to let these feelings go and embrace the energy of acceptance of who I am.
As we progress throughout the seven steps of a sustainable spiritual practice, you will find that to do any of it…you must be able to truly feel your feelings…for as it says in “Conversations with God”…’”feelings are the language of the soul.”‘
Namaste
Jeff Scholl
Quote of the Week:
“To be angry with someone is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, for the right reason and to the correct degree…that is difficult.” Aristotle – paraphrased
Facing and Feeling your Feelings
I notice that when I feel angry, my mind wants to play the situation that triggered it over and over in my mind to convince me that I have a right to feel angry. What it has taken me a long time to realize is that my mind does this because unconsciously, I had a belief that it was not safe to feel or express my anger. So in just being able to accept that it is normal for me to feel angry when my boundaries have been violated, I can then feel the energy of my anger in my being, breathe into it and release it.
One of the things prevented me from doing this is because for a long time, I had repressed so much anger that when I felt anger, I did not just feel the anger of the moment; I felt the energy of all of the anger I had repressed. I had forgiven people, but had mostly only done so from a conceptual perspective. I had not actually released all of the energy from that moment. So I was unconsciously repressing all that I had not released. My mind told me that I had handled that situation so it didn’t make sense to go back and feel those feelings again. In fact, because my mind did not want to experience those feelings again, I rationalized that I had “put it behind me.”
What I didn’t realize is that this is impossible. I am a being of energy and whatever I do not release, I hold onto. Whatever I hold onto becomes a part of my energetic signal.
To understand why this is important, we have to examine who and what we are. We are not our physical bodies and we know this. We are not our mind. We are spiritual beings. We are beings of energy that use our minds and bodies to express who and what we are in this world. We are essentially energy and we have been evolving for a long time throughout several lives.
For many of us in this lifetime, we brought all that we had not transcended into this life in order to heal it. The energies we brought in form layers of perceptions that color how we view the world. Our perception of the world is not simply affected by our childhood environment. Our childhood environment provides a stage for the energies we brought into this world. Our environment was selected by our soul to support what we wanted to experience and transcend in this lifetime. Our lives are an ongoing experiment in which we are learning how to allow energy to flow freely through us.
Our minds tell us that if we let go of the anger or the fear or the shame, that we will not have “learned our lesson.” We tell ourselves that only through guilt can we ensure we do not repeat our “transgressions.” But it actually works the opposite of this, for as long as we hold onto the energy we are attracting similar experiences into our lives again and again. It is only when we allow ourselves to let go of the energies we have repressed that we “learn” what that experience was there to teach us.
For me, I had to learn how to feel my feelings, so it was only in allowing myself to fully feel the energy in each moment that I have been able to release repressed energy from my past. It was easy for me to think about my feelings, to keep running events over and over in my mind thereby justifying my right to feel angry, fearful, sad, disappointed, hurt, etc.
I could not understand why I kept experiencing the same types of relationships, career struggles and even traffic incidents over and over until I understood why those experiences kept showing up in my life. They were there to show me what I had repressed. In many cases, it was only when the feeling overwhelmed me that I became aware of how much energy I had repressed for a particular emotion. Once I became aware of it, I was able to start feeling and releasing it.
Along the way, I have learned many methods of releasing this energy proactively rather than reactively and we will be covering many of these over the course of the next several weeks. But none of these methods were effective for me until I learned to feel my feelings. Because in each method, these emotions start floating to the surface. If my mind does not understand what is happening, it distracts me from allowing this energy to be released through the action of just allowing it to BE and feeling it. My mind focuses on things I need to do in the future, things I should have done in the past, things I need to be doing right now…anything to keep me from just feeling what I am feeling.
Once I learned to just allow it to be, breathe into it, feel it and allow it to leave…only then did I learn what it was there to teach me.
Learning to feel your feelings IS scary at first if you are not accustomed to feeling them at all, especially for men. It is much like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Our emotions are designed to be taken in, felt and processed out…much like our food.
This week, allow yourself to either start this exploration of your feelings…or to deepen it.
Namaste
Jeff
There are many feelings exercises out there. One of the best I have found and what I use when I do not have a coach who can guide me through this is “Yoga for Emotional Flow” by Stephen Cope.
This is a two CD set in which the author provides some valuable information on how important it is to feel our feelings and why. On the second CD, he provides three meditations in which he will guide you through both how to clear your emotions on a daily basis and how to release them when you are feeling particularly turbulent emotions. In the “Riding the Wave” meditation, he provides a simple, yet repeatable process that you can learn and master.
Note: I am not connected to Stephen Cope in any way. As with all of the resources I recommend in my books, articles and newsletters, this is simply the most effective methods I have found in my research.
To practice feeling the subtle energies of your feelings this week, get a deep tissue massage. When your therapist finds a knot and presses into, allow yourself to face the pain, breathe into it and release it. The more you become comfortable in facing any pain, the easier it is to feel your feelings when they happen.
“Feelings are not right, wrong, good or bad…they just are!” – Hu Dalconzo
© 2009-2010, Jeffrey L. Scholl. Learning to Flow
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Creating your Sustainable Spiritual Practice
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From LTF Newsletter – August 27th, 2009
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
This week, I am starting an eight week series of how to create a sustainable spiritual practice. For the next seven weeks, I will share a fundamental spiritual practice, how I have applied it in my life and some ideas on how you can apply it in your life as well.
Each week, I will also be sharing a way to apply this spiritual practice as it connect to the physical body, either in exercise or diet so you can balance yourself physically as well as spiritually and emotionally.
This week, I am providing an overview of the topics I will be covering as well as an exercise to plan for how your life would look if all of these areas were balanced.
As always, if you have any questions, comments or feedback…it is all welcome!
Namaste
Jeff Scholl
Learning to Flow
Spiritual Life Coaching
Creating Your Sustainable Spiritual Practice
This week, I am sharing the seven basic elements of a sustainable spiritual practice. I learned these seven elements over the course of my studies and the use of these elements ensures that I continue to grow and evolve as a soul. There are a myriad of ways to apply these different elements and I am going to write a more in depth newsletter on each of these, what I have found to work for me and what resources I’ve found.
What has worked for me may or may not work for you. What I have found is the result of a significant amount of exploration and while I will be sharing how I found the avenues to explore…the actual exploration is up to you. I can tell you that quite often throughout the course of my journey, I have felt this inner pressure to speed up the process…to grow NOW. For a long time, I confused that with the whispers of my soul. I thought my soul was telling me I needed to heal it all now, but I was misunderstanding the message. While my soul was indeed pulling me forward, the sense of urgency was the underlying anxiety that I had carried all of my life. The anxiety that I felt twisted the message from my soul as is so often the case with many of the messages we receive.
Just as we perceive the outer world through the filter of our repressed fears and pain, we also quite often perceive our inner world…the world of Spirit the same way. It is only through a conscious practice of these principles that we can release our false perceptions and understand what is being reflected to us in our outer world and receive the purity of what is available in the NOW moment of the inner world.
The seven spiritual practices are:
- Surrendering in Prayer
- Feeling our Feelings
- Healing the Inner Child
- Meditation
- Detachment
- Imagination
- Acceptance / Being in the Now
Now just because I am writing about these elements does not mean I have mastered all of these. I along with the other spiritual teachers on the planet are teaching and practicing our way to mastery. There is an old joke that those that can’t do…teach. J
There is actually some truth to that…especially for spiritual teachers. We teach what we most need to learn. We teach it over and over in order to master it. Some of these seven elements I have practiced a lot and have grown significantly as a result. There are others of these that my ego still resists and of course, when that happens, I find myself with excuses like, “I’m too busy” and “I don’t know who could help me learn this.” Because any time I am telling myself or the world that I am not making progress due to forces outside of me, I am denying who and what I am. I am simply not open to receiving the very assistance I need. When I open to receiving assistance, it shows up. But it does not always show up the way “I” want it to…meaning it does not always show up the way my ego wants it to…or the way in which my inner child just feels completely comfortable. As I noted in the newsletter last week, it is precisely when my inner child feels triggered that I need to accept the help that is in front of me…instead of telling myself that this person just isn’t the right one.
In order to achieve that ever elusive balance in our lives, we must also balance the emotional and spiritual with the physical. When I found these spiritual practices and started using them in my life, I unconsciously created an imbalance because I focused almost exclusively on my spiritual health and did not focus as much on my physical health. As a result, while I felt more emotionally and spiritually balanced than ever, I did not feel as good physically as I had before. Over the course of my spiritual studies, I gained about 35 pounds. I also noticed when I would go to Wellness and Holistic Expos that almost all of the spiritual teachers were either significantly overweight or abused their bodies in other ways such as smoking and drinking. Intuitively, I knew that most of the time when I ate, I was not actually feeding my body. I was feeding my emotions, but even after I had released most of my emotional burdens, the habits of over-eating remained.
Being physically healthy isn’t rocket science. It didn’t require me to research and study the latest and greatest authors as I had done with my spiritual work. All it required was for me to follow the patterns of people who had done this successfully time and time again. There are many choices of programs out there that work, so this is one path that you will have to explore to find the one that works for you. My wife and I are currently following the Body For Life program by Bill Phillips. We work out in the gym six days a week and eat healthy. We are eating primarily vegetarian…about 90% veg and 10% or less meat. The program allows us to eat whatever we want for one day a week which is a nice bonus. This week, I will be adding yoga a couple of days this week as well.
But everything I am doing, I am now doing mindfully. I realized that part of my overeating was that I was just putting food into my body to satisfy the need for food, but I was not really enjoying my food. I would eat primarily in front of the TV or the computer and focus more on what was happening in front of me instead of focusing on tasting what I ate. I discovered that the more I focused on really tasting what I ate, I could not eat as much.
This initially created a conflict within me because I had a belief that I had to finish everything on my plate. This was a habit that my parents kind of forced upon me with good intentions, but I continued as an adult even though I knew I didn’t have to do it any more. I used to use techniques to reduce how much went on the plate such as eating on a smaller plate or putting less food there and eating more slowly. Both of these work, but I am now also following that up by releasing the energy of frustration and disappointment that I felt as a child when my parents forced me to eat past the point where it was comfortable for me.
My parents believed in the paradigm of eating three meals a day and what is interesting to me is that my body knew at the time that this wasn’t what was healthy for me. My body knew that six small meals a day were healthier and now the nutritional research supports that. My parents gave me the knowledge they had, so it is important for me to forgive them for teaching me unhealthy habits and allowing my inner child to release the frustration I felt. Because it is actually these energies of frustration and disappointment that perpetuates my unhealthy eating.
For awhile, I also told myself that I couldn’t afford to eat healthier because “healthy” food costs more. But what I have found is that in eating healthy food and eating mindfully, I eat less food so it works out about the same or less. I realize now that my mind comes up with any excuse it can in order not to change, but once I decide I am going to make a change and turn “downstream” so to speak, that everything becomes easier because I am simply not allowing excuses any more.
I can also say that my new eating and exercise habits have deepened my spiritual practices. By creating a balance with my physical body, my meditations have become deeper and resulted in more realizations. I am able to get to sleep faster and sleeping more peacefully. I am staying more in the Now and finding myself enjoying those moments where I find myself in a moment of stillness. I have noticed that I do not focus on health issues that have been a concern such as my weight because I am now doing something about that.
It is easier to accept where I am now when I know I am headed downstream with the flow.
This week, make a change to balance your physical self with your spiritual self…and enjoy the benefits it creates.
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week:
“There are two keys to eating right. First you have to know what to do and then you have to do what you know! - Bill Phillips Fitness guru and author of “Body for Life” and “Eating for Life”
Exercise of the Week:
Schedule a few minutes every day to look at your vision board and practice your intention to create this life. Allow yourself to imagine hearing how this life sounds. Most importantly, FEEL the excitement and sheer joy of living a life YOU have created for yourself and the satisfaction of knowing that when you tire of something, you can simply create something MORE joyful!Unless otherwise noted on a particular article or message,
Over the course of the next seven weeks, we are going to be exploring Seven Spiritual Practices. It will be important to balance your spiritual and physical practices. While we are inherently spiritual beings, we need healthy physical bodies to carry out our spiritual work in this life and of course to be able to fully enjoy the incredible opportunities we have in this life.
Every week, I will be including a tip for improving the physical along with the spiritual practice of the week.
This week, your assignment is simply to create a vision board for your new life when you have achieved the balance of the physical, emotional and spiritual. Look in magazines, copy images from the internet, include inspirational quotes and allow yourself to create a collage of your ideal life.
Allow yourself to dream BIG.
© 2009-2010, Jeffrey L. Scholl. Learning to Flow
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LTF Weekly Newsletter – June 27th, 2009
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Enlightenment, Law of Attraction, Physical Healing, Spiritual Growth, Vibrational Being
“When you have felt the silent, yet all-pervading joy of simply being with yourself, you will know that is is what you’ve been looking for all along.”- Pamela Kribbe “The Jeshua Channelings: Christ Consciousness in a New Era”
Where are We Going?
In learning how to heal myself and teaching others to do the same, I have come to understand that there is really nothing to heal. As long as we believe that there is something to heal, there will be. As long as we think we need to DO something in order to heal, there will ALWAYS be something else to do.
We heal fully and completely when we give up all of our struggle about what to do next and simply allow ourselves to truly BE who we are. When we give up, we relax.
This is the same way we achieve goals actually. As someone that has been called a “neurotic overachiever,” I was never satisfied with where I was. Unconsciously, I was always trying to prove that I was worthy of something…abundance, love, appreciation, etc. I was never at peace with where I was. My eyes were always to the future, hence my title of “where are we going?”
When I hear people talk today, they are always worried about where the world is going, what is happening and not realizing that it is our collective past fears that have created what we are experiencing today. If we want to create a different world, we must start accepting responsibility for all that we have created and THAT responsibility starts with each and every one of us.
So this is my “coming out of the closet” article…so to speak. I have been living in the closet of denial for most of my life. I have blamed everyone in my life for my life being the way it was. I blamed my parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife, her family, my family, my co-workers, my managers, my community leaders, my government, other governments, my ancestors…all because I did not truly understand and embrace who I am.
Who I am is an immortal and constantly evolving soul. I did not come into this life as a blank slate as I once believed. I brought in a perception that had evolved to a certain point. I picked parents, soul mates, lovers and friends to be with in this lifetime in order for my soul to continue to evolve. In my other lifetimes, I only worked on a few karmic issues. But this lifetime, I chose to resolve ALL OF IT. So I chose the most difficult path I could in order to evolve quickly.
MANY of us that have had not only some tremendous challenges in this lifetime, but a LOT of them . Many of us made the same choice. We wanted to transform the negative energy we held in our energy patterns into positive, loving energy.
When we came into this life, we looked out at the world and through the perception we already had as a constantly evolving soul, we created NEW perceptions. The perceptions we formed early in life formed the basis of our belief systems. Now while we can certainly transform those beliefs, it is also possible to simply transcend them.
But that requires us to live from a heart consciousness instead of a “mind” consciousness. We have a consciousness in our heart…and when we start feeling for every experience there instead of our head, our lives will start to slow down and make more sense. We start to understand that our mind is not designed to be the mechanism that runs our lives. This is our heart’s job. Our mind’s job is to use the energy that comes from your heart to plan, to create, to write. Our body’s job is to take the plans and physically carry them out. It all starts with the heart though.
When we try to start from the mind first, we fail because the mind (without the loving, peaceful energy from the heart) looks for all the things that could go wrong. When we initially get our loving intention from the heart, we already know it will work out so we aren’t wasting energy worrying and fearing what might happen. We focus all of our energy on what we know will happen.
At this point where you are isn’t right or wrong. You are not “wrong” for being where you are. Where you are is just where you are. Once you accept this, you will not even consider what other people think about you…because it does not need to have any bearing on WHO you are being in this lifetime, what you intend to accomplish and what you want.
Realize that your desires to be more, have more, do more don’t come from your mind. They come from your soul! This is what the soul does. It is constantly expanding, constantly growing, constantly desiring for more, More, MORE! It wants to experience itself as JOY in every way possible and then it wants to expand THAT version of itself.
The problem is that we let the mind get in the way instead of just reconnecting with our heart for the source of our desire. When we are connected, the mind quiets. It starts to understand that raising the warning bells is not needed.
Once we transcend our own negative energy, we can actually help the world heal by transmuting others’ energy. As enough of us are able to do this, we are able to help the world heal.
This is the role of the Lightworker. This is the path many of us are on in this lifetime. This is the reason that our souls are pulling many of us forward.
It’s time to let go, to relax, to tune into our hearts and to finally just LOVE ourselves as we are…today…right now.
Namaste
Jeff
Exercise of the Week:
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Start at the top of your head and move down to your feet, breathing in every area of your body. Allow each area to relax.
There’s no need to think about it. Juat allow it. Allow yourself to relax.
Breathe into your heart area and notice any tightness or tension there. Notice if when you breathe into it, you feel tightness or tension anywhere else in your body. Realize that it is your connection to Love or your resistance to this connection that manifests lack of abundance, health, love, peace…in your life.
When you establish this connection through your heart to these aspects of your soul and you maintain it through meditation, this energy will flow freely into your life.
Any area of your life that is not working the way you desire it to be is simply cut off from your Higher Self. So be still, be present and breathe into your heart. Allow yourself to connect with Peace, Love, Joy, Happiness, Safety, Abundance, Excitement…whatever you want and just FEEL it.
All you have to do is breathe and feel it. Your world will start to reflect experiences to you to match this new vibration you are practicing.
Once this happens for awhile, you will realize that you have not been creating your world. You have simply spent your life reacting to what has shown up in response to your unconscious vibration.
Connect to your heart. Feel the Love that is waiting for you and allow it to flow!
Fifteen minutes a day is all it takes!