Applying the Seven Spiritual Truths in Your Life – Truth # 2
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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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