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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
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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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