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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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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