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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.
www.learningtoflow.com
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
Posted by learning | Filed under Being in the Now, Empowerment, Enlightenment, Inner Peace, Self Realization, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
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 # 3
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Forgiveness, Law of Attraction, Self Realization, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Relationships
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
This week, we will explore the all important Spiritual Truth # 3 of being able to understand that our enemies are our teachers.
It takes a high degree of consciousness to separate our perceptions from what is really happening, so this is something that must be practiced.
But the more you intellectually understand what your “enemies” represent in your life, the faster you can heal and start creating what you DO want to experience.
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week
“Remember, your “so called” enemies will keep reappearing in your life until you learn the lesson that they have come to teach you” – Hu Dalconzo “Self-Mastery: A Journey Home to Your Self”
You have no enemies…
Truth Three:
You Have No Enemies…just Lessons.
This can be a difficult lesson to understand because we are born into this world tied to our ego mind which is filled with the karmic energies we came to work on in this lifetime.
Our ego tells us that if we are to feel better, we need to change what someone else is doing, saying or not doing or saying. We have been programmed all of our lives to believe that we change our lives by convincing someone else to change so that we feel better. But this is a denial of who and what we are. It is also only a short term fix.
So for example, if I dislike my joy and I change jobs hoping that my new job, new manager or new co-workers will change how I feel, I am only trading one situation for another. The new place may feel better for a little while as my optimism may carry me for awhile, but if I have not dealt with the anger that surfaced at my old job, or the fear and anxiety that surfaced again and again, I am sure to experience it again.
Others are simply the mirror to our own pain. It is our perceptions of them that cause our “problems.” Our perceptions are created by the karmic energies we brought into this life to work out and are anchored in this life by the life experiences we had in childhood.
Our parents can often seem like the greatest enemies we have.
But in order to heal this, we must take a step back and recognize who we really are. We are NOT the sons, daughters, wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, friends, engineers, teachers, etc. These are the roles we chose to play in this lifetime. They are the backdrop to the grand play we are in. They provide the opportunity for us to experience the drama of life.
We ARE Divine Vibrational Beings. Whatever we focus our attention (vibration) upon grows in strength and power. So when we focus upon something we do not like, that situation grows and we experience more of that.
And we came into this life with a karmic agenda. Many of us brought all of our past life karma into this life. We chose VERY difficult paths of abuse, abandonment, shame and feelings of inadequacy so that we could remember who and what we truly are and transcend ALL of it.
Our parents, caretakers, teachers, spouses and friends agreed to soul contracts with us so that we and THEY could experience the dramas of life in order to realize experientially who and what we truly are. Some of us are awakening to who and what we are faster than others. This can be confusing for us because others are still enmeshed in their dramas.
So when we look out at our world, the way we start to differentiate between our drama and their drama is by how WE feel. If we feel bad in any way, then the responsibility is ours to heal it. If someone else is feeling it, it’s their responsibility to heal it.
Only you can think YOUR thoughts, feel YOUR feelings, heal your SELF, choose to let it go, choose to visualize what you do want, etc. And only THEY can do that for themselves as well.
When you start to see your “enemies” as your mirror to what you most need to heal…you can silently bless them for keeping their soul contract and let them go.
Then you can turn your attention inward to forgive yourself and others and finally release your emotional karmic burdens.
You can then understand what the drama was really about…your healing.
Practice of the Week
Think of someone you feel angry, frustrated with or perhaps even hurt by.
Does the situation you feel with them seem to happen to you again and again?
If so, understand that this is simply the Law of Attraction in action. It is working 24/7 in response to the energies YOU carry.
So think of this person again and tell them in your mind how you feel…then forgive them.
Forgive them because you don’t want to carry these feelings any longer. Be willing to release everything you feel is the “evidence” of WHY you are justified to feel as you do.
Remember that the Course in Miracles says, “Do you want to be right…or do you want to be happy?”
As long as you want or feel the NEED to be right, you cannot heal. You have to be willing to completely let of of all of it.
For understand that while in this life, you may have been the victim…in other lives you were the offender…maybe even in this life…maybe even something you did unconsciously that hurt someone else.
What you are feeling is simply your own karmic energy coming back to you.
So forgive yourself first and then the other person. The other person is simply your mirror showing you what you have been at some point, allowing you to feel both sides of the energetic equation.
Forgive yourself for it was all part of the growth experience, to KNOW yourself as the Divine being you are.
You were simply learning what power was, what love was, what peace was and how to manifest all of it.
Forgive yourself first…then others.
© 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.
www.learningtoflow.com
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.
www.learningtoflow.com
Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 1
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Self Realization, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
Greetings from Learning To Flow!
This week, I am starting a seven week series in applying the “Seven Spiritual Truths” from Hu Dalconzo’s “Self-Mastery – A Journey Home to Your Self.”
Studying these truths alone gave me greater peace, but in really learning to apply them…gave me a greater view of the God within me and all of us.
I hope you enjoy this series.
Namaste
Jeff
Quote of the Week:
“As a Godlike being, you are incapable of error or failure. What you perceive as an error is either your old Karma self burning off or your spiritual evolution manifesting.” - Hu Dalconzo
You Have Never Made a Mistake
Truth One:
You have never made a mistake because you are incapable of error or failure.
Last weekend, I was recounting to my niece a story from my past in which I had an opportunity to write with a famous country singer. I presented some songs I had written to his partner who was a music publisher on Music Row at the time. He said they were good and he wanted me to write with the singer.
I realized later that as I was recounting the story, I still carried feelings of disappointment, embarrassment, shame and anger…all directed at myself.
The reason I didn’t take the opportunity at the time was due to fears of not being good enough. But then I punished myself further by holding onto all of these other feelings.
I know that one of the lessons my soul came into this life to work on is “perfectionism.” That doesn’t mean I think that I AM perfect. It means there is a part of my ego mind that has always told me that I have BE perfect and that if I’m not, if I make mistakes, then I have to be punished.
I realize now that I have manifested my own punishments as an adult by hanging onto these repressed negatively charged feelings…for they just manifest the same unwanted realities over and over again.
I have limited new opportunities coming to me, turned down offers for assistance…instead of embracing all of the blessings open and offered.
I turned down help and opportunities unconsciously by holding onto feelings of unworthiness.
These feelings created a fatigue within me that seemed insurmountable at times.
What I needed to do was to forgive myself for my perceived past errors, to fully feel the feelings I had repressed and allow them to provide me the information contained within their energy to teach me how to respond more joyfully in the future.
In doing so, I find more joy within and feel more confident to put myself out there in the world, knowing that I will not always be “perfect” in new situations, but also knowing that each new situation carries within it either the opportunity for success or to heal and release something else…which also brings me closer to success.
What past “mistakes” have you hidden away? Are you still unconsciously punishing yourself? Isn’t it time to let it go?
Namaste
Jeff
Practice of the Week
Think of something for which you still feel embarrassed and ashamed.
Using your mind’s eye, see yourself as you looked when this happened. Give yourself a big hug and surround yourself with warm, golden light.
Tell your younger self that it is safe now to feel these feelings and let go of them. Tell your self that only by letting these go can you create a more joyful outcome.
Find where in your body you feel the energy of this experience. Move your consciousness into this area by breathing into it. Once you are in the center of it, just FEEL it…just experience it.
Your mind may want to run away from it, but remember…it’s just a FEELING and if you still have it, you HAVE been running from it.
Just FEEL it and keep breathing into the center of it.
You may find yourself taking deeper and deeper breaths into it.
Exhale the energy with the sound of Ahhh…which is the sound of relief.
This is a way to surrender these feelings back to God.
© 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
Creating your Sustainable Spiritual Practice
Posted by learning | Filed under Empowerment, Enlightenment, Self Realization, Spiritual Coaching, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Growth
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.
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The Difference between Therapy and Spiritual Life Coaching
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Self Realization, Spiritual Coaching, Spiritual Life Coaching
In having been to a couple of therapist on my own and in talking with many of my clients about their therapy, I thought it would be a good idea to clarify some of the primary difference between traditional psychological / psychiatric therapy and Spiritual Life Coaching.
So for one thing, traditional therapies like to diagnose a person and give them a label. Common psychological disorders include: ADHD, Anxiety, Addictions, Bipolar, Borderline Personality, Dissociative Identity, Depression, Eating Disorders, etc.
In Spiritual Life Coaching, we start out with the premise that every person is a Divine Spiritual Being. We know this to be true and our role is to help the client realize this for themselves.
Traditional therapy prescribes drugs to treat the various disorders.
In Spiritual Life Coaching, we know that the disorder itself is an illusion created by the mind. While we do not interfere with anyone under a doctor’s care and cannot/will not tell anyone to stop taking drugs if they are on them, the client themselves will eventually stop because they realize they feel much better without the drugs than with them. We will have to peel away the layers of emotional pain to get to that point though.
Traditional therapy gives clients ways to cope with their “disorder.”
We give our clients a way to permanently heal their pain and this creates permanent behavioral change in their lives.
Traditional therapy quite often goes on for years, sometimes decades.
With Spiritual Life Coaching, the average client experiences a 35% improvement in how they feel in 15 sessions. The average client completes their coaching in 30 sessions. Some clients opt to go beyond that to have help to work on some isolated issues, but the average client will heal 80% of their repressed emotional pain in 30 sessions…if they do the work.
Now that’s the kicker.
In traditional therapy, the onus is on the therapist to do all of the work. While there can be homework sometimes, typically the client just comes in every week and the therapist tells them what to do next, sometimes even guiding them to make life choices in their relationships.
As a Spiritual Life Coach, I never guide my clients to make life choices. But all of my clients must do the work if they are going to heal. I teach them how to master each step of the process and how to use all of the tools they are given so that they understand why things are happening and how to heal it long after our work together is completed.
In traditional therapy, the therapist themselves may have completed a degree, studied the disorders, therapeutic treatments and learned how to be a great counselor. But they also likely never healed their own emotional issues. Many therapists are attracted by the field unconsciously because they want to heal their own stuff.
But one cannot heal simply by studying healing. You have to do it. You cannot give away that which you don’t have.
As a Spiritual Life Coach, I had to go through my own course before I could learn to teach it to others. I healed the first 80% in my own coursework. Then I started teaching it to others and have been doing so for the past 4 years. I have healed so much of my remaining pain that I am able to live most of my time in the present moment now because I have very few negative emotional anchors to my past. I have given them up…healed them.
I teach this to others because I know what it like to carry so much pain, anger, disappointment, frustration, fear, embarrassment and shame around. I know how all of that energy attacks the body and creates dis-ease within it. I know how the repression of emotional energies impacts relationships, careers and one’s sense of self-worth / well-being.
Having healed most of my own pain, I am able to help others peel away their layers of emotional pain. I help them to realize themselves as the Spiritual Beings that they truly are and live their lives from that perspective.
I don’t just offer hope…I provide a way to heal permanently for anyone who has reached the point where they know they have to find a way to change and are willing to do whatever it takes to do that.
I am there as your guide every step of the way, leading you to healing, leading you home to your Self.
All you have to do is reach out your hand for help.
Namaste
Jeff