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Willpower, Imagination and Belief

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Mind Power, Self Improvement
 

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Imagination VS  Willpower

Willpower is meant to fail.

Have you ever tried to relax in a nervous situation? The more you try, the more you fail. Some lucky people have learned to take deep breaths and picture something relaxing or humorous, like a naked audience. Nevertheless, most people will go through their entire lives without being able to relax on command.

Willpower is a mechanism that was built to give your brain an easy way to disobey your orders. Most of the time, it is doing this for your own good, or the good of the human race. For instance, if a man, during sex, starts willing himself not to have an orgasm it will probably make it happen two times faster. But a commonly known method of delaying orgasm is to think of baseball or some other non-sexual subject.

The mind responds to what you believe, not what you want. If you believe something, your mind will go to whatever lengths necessary to make that belief true, including changing you and your perception, or even changing the world around you if it can.

Belief and Imagination – “I’ll believe it when I see it!”

What is more convincing than actually experiencing something? Not even a testimonial from a very reputable source can replace actually witnessing an event. Your subconscious mind works this way too, if you experience something, your subconscious mind lets down its guard and accepts it as true.

Belief and Imagination both trigger the same mental mechanism. In fact, it could be said that belief and imagination are the same mechanism, because they have the same effect. Many studies have been done on the result of imagination vs. belief. A basketball player who believes he can shoot and score is much more likely to make a shot than one who doesn’t believe. However, if the person who doesn’t believe imagines himself shooting and scoring, it is almost as likely to happen.

Try a little experiment. Get a rubber band and shoot it at a spot on the wall 10 times. Now sit back and take 5 minutes to imagine the rubber band hitting the exact spot on the wall every time you shoot it. It never misses in your mind. Every time you shoot it hits. In your mind, shoot 10 times and make it hit every time. After 5 minutes of visualization, shoot at the same spot another 10 times. The vast majority of people will find their shots are much more accurate than before. If you are already good at shooting rubber bands, try something else, like flipping a quarter and catching it with your eyes closed.

The Mind can’t tell the difference

The subconscious mind can not tell the difference between imagination and real experience. Don’t believe us? If you imagine food, you will become hungry and start to salivate. If you imagine an attractive person, you will start to get excited. You, of course, know it is not real, but your subconscious mind does not and its mental reaction is the same.

Using sensitive medical equipment, scientists can spot which parts of the brain “light up” when a person has an experience. What is amazing is that the exact same areas light up when the person is asked to simply imagine the same experience. The neural, electrical response to a real experience is almost identical to that of imagination! So identical, in fact, that the subconscious mind has trouble telling the difference.

The quirk of imagination is something that can be leveraged with Mental Programming. If you imagine yourself strong, thin and healthy, your mind, thinking it is real, will act to make the visualization a reality.

The remarkable effects of imagination increase with the clarity of the experience inside your head. Visualizing while in deep Alpha, near Theta, is enormously powerful because you are near a dream state, which is as vivid as mental imagery gets.

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The Law of Magnetism

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind Power, Self Improvement, Spiritual Growth

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There are many patterns of energy at work in the world today. Amazingly powerful yet unseen forces have very real and predictable outcomes. For instance, if you key in the numbers of a very specific signal to your cell phone and then press the “talk” button, that sequence will be directed by a satellite thousands of miles away to the appropriate recipient. Another phone will ring, and the energy of your voice will be bounced back and forth, allowing you to have a clear conversation even if you’re a great distance away from the other person. If you push a button on a remote control, a signal will be sent to a box in the corner of the room and a television picture will form—complete with sound—again transmitted from a far-distant source. Modern CAT scans and MRIs use energy to create images of the body. Microwaves cook food, sensors ensure security, and lasers remove tumors.

The list of ways in which modern humans have harnessed, directed, and utilized energy is almost endless. All of the above phenomena—and countless more—have very significant physical results, but the influences aren’t limited to medicine, communications, and technical gadgetry. The energetic workings of the Universe impact each and every one of us in ways that most people are never aware of—even to the point of individual experiences of happiness and success.

The Law of Magnetism says that we can only attract the same kind of energy that we put out about ourselves. It’s based on the quantum-physical principle that everything—including every person—projects this power. In fact, the Universe is filled with vibrations that scientists call “strings” of energy. It moves within us, from us, and all around us literally all the time. Whether we’re aware of it or not, each of us is a part of a vast exchange and expansion of this force that takes place in the Universe every moment of every day.

Our personal energy moves outward from us and connects with others of like resonance, determining both whom and what we’ll attract in life. Each of us is like a little radio station, constantly broadcasting signals about our self and our life. The people and situations that match those signals are the ones that will tune in to us and be drawn into our life experience. In truth, what we call chemistry—whether it’s romantic or professional—is actually more of a resonance, a matching of signals and personal vibrations. So if success is what you’re after, it will be very important to understand how your energy is created—and what it may be broadcasting about you even now.

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Your Energetic Calling Card

In the Victorian era, calling cards were used to announce the arrival of a visitor or friend, and letters of introduction were sent ahead to pave the way and help someone new connect with others of like society. It was a formal process, but one which let the recipient know that the bearer was well connected and highly regarded.

Your personal resonance does much the same thing. Long before you arrive at an experience in life, your energy has sent messages about you to the people you’ll be interacting with. It announces you to everyone, revealing that part of you that others relate to on an unconscious but very compelling level: your energetic nature. So if you don’t like the society or circumstances you’ve attracted so far, or if you’ve had difficulty finding the success you desire, you’ll need to change what you put into your energetic calling card.

Luckily, since this frequency is something that you produce yourself, it’s also something that you can change. Once you figure out what makes up your vibrational resonance, you can take active steps to improve your magnetic frequency and change all that you attract.

There are three major ways that your personal resonance is created:

1. Through your emotional energy, or the vibrations of your feelings

2. Through your cognitive energy, or the vibrations of your thoughts

3. Through your physical energy, or the vibrations of your body

Let’s take a closer look at the first two methods on this list.

The Emotional Broadcast

Your emotional resonance is by far the most powerful expression of yourself. Your daily feelings broadcast loud and clear signals about who you are and what you expect from the world. If you’re chronically fearful, for example, you project that and will only attract more and more situations that will cause you to be afraid. If anger is predominant, you’re sending out signals that you expect hostility—and that’s exactly what you’ll get.

But if you choose a lighter, happier attitude, you broadcast the message that you expect the world to be a joyous place, and both your energy and your expectation will bring more of that to you. If you have confident and peaceful feelings about yourself, they’ll send out a very magnetic vibration, attracting people and experiences that bring an even deeper sense of serenity to your life. This is your resonant reality; what you send out will most certainly come back to you.

Your predominant feelings energize your destiny creation by virtue of their powerful presence in your heart and mind. The more emotionally charged an experience or issue is, the more power it generates. For this reason, a shift to more positive sentiments is a basic requirement of the Law of Magnetism. It’s an energetic truth that the quality of your emotional life will determine the caliber of your life in general. In this the law is strict: The Universe will return your own joy, love, and happiness to you; and it will return your fear, anger, and unhappiness as well.

But where do emotions come from? What’s the source of this powerful energy that you engage in all the time? Underneath every single emotional experience is a stimulating source. Whether the feeling is anger or love, misery or joy, depression or excitement, boredom or bliss, every blossom or thorn of sentiment has one originating seed—and that seed is thought.

The Thought’s the Thing

The second way that you project your energy out into the world is through your cognitive power. Your thoughts rarely stop, so they’re continually churning out vibrational messages in your energetic field. And since they’re also the source of your emotional energy, they’re doubly important in your pursuit of success.

Thoughts of confidence bring feelings of hope, while those of inadequacy bring feelings of despair. Which is more likely to attract wonderful outcomes to you? The positive results you’re looking for can only come from peaceful emotions and positive thoughts.

If you’re like most people, the process of thinking may seem rather random and spontaneous, something that you just experience rather than decide on. Maybe you’ve never been taught to think positively, or maybe the direction your mind takes depends on the situation you’re in or the people you’re with. One thing’s for sure: If you look around you and find your life wanting, the Universe is telling you to take control of your thoughts!

Most negative thinking is based in one of three fears:

1. Fear of the future

2. Fear of rejection

3. Fear of failure

Fear of the future can range from fleeting worries that something may go wrong to wild anticipation of personal catastrophe, including thoughts such as What if the meeting doesn’t go well? What if I lose this account? What if I get sick or die?

Fear of rejection runs the gamut from nagging concerns about being judged to utter panic about being abandoned. People who have these kinds of thoughts are often self-critical or even self-loathing. Thoughts such as I’m not good enough, I’m not capable, and I’m not worthy invariably lead to fears such as What if my spouse leaves me? or What if I get fired?

All fear is toxic to the energy of achievement, so it’s inevitable that fear of failure creates the energy of a self-fulfilling prophecy; those who see themselves as unsuccessful can only draw defeat. These negative thoughts are your greatest obstacles to genuine happiness. They destroy optimism and increase worry and frustration, two miserable vibrations that attract miserable results. It’s often said that your life moves in the direction of your dominant thought, and your energy is the reason why.

(Excerpt from the book Quantum Success by Sandra Anne Taylor)

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Reprogram Your Mind And Body For Success

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Mind Power, Self Improvement, Spiritual Growth

Creative visualization may sound all fuzzy, new age and far fetched to you. However, if you can put aside your doubts for a moment and give it a try, the results of your creative visualization exercise could surprise and delight you. 

Creative visualization involves the use of mental images to project the achievement of a particular task, performance or any desired outcome.

The key here is the fact that your subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between the images that it is feed during the creative visualization process and reality. As such, perfect outcomes can be created in your own mental lab and used to increase your levels of self belief and confidence. Of course the only way that you can “see” for yourself what creative visualization can do for you is to give it a try. 

Here are some steps to get you off the mental imaging starting block:

1) Recall A Strong, Positive Memory

You can make this positive memory as racy or inspiring as you like-nobody else will know anyway. For example, the recall your graduation day or the birth of your child is the kind of strong, positive memory that I am talking about. What you want to notice is how you recall the memory. Are you able to see the past events in full color, do any scents come to mind or can you recall some of the words that you said with only a vague recollection of the actual event?

Use your dominant areas of recall to model your first visualization exercises.

2) Start With An Easy First Visualization Exercise

Now that you have recalled your past, mentally project a future event or reality based on an aspect of your daily life that you can easily recall. For example, you can visualize yourself reaching to the office on time in your favorite blue shirt and red tie or feeling great while doing your usual morning exercise.

3) Practice Frequently

Do not put off your visualization sessions or you can easily never get to it.  Instead, be sure to practice your visualization on a daily basis, preferably at a time and place where you will not be interrupted for at least ten minutes.

4) Set Clear, Short-term Goals For Your Creative Visualization Sessions

Seeing some early success from your visualization sessions will inspire you to keep on practicing. You can easily use visualization to start to develop new habits such as being punctual or being calm with a rude customer by mentally repeating these desired new behaviors in your sessions.

5) What A Feeling

Allow yourself to truly feel positive emotions such as joy, pride, excitement during your creative visualization exercise. The strong feelings you experience while performing your visualization exercises appear to act like a magnet to draw the desired imaged results to you faster.

Like so many other worthwhile activities, the more time and energy that you invest in creative visualization, the more personal benefits you will be able to enjoy.

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How to Become a Super Conscious Manifestor

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Mind Power, Prosperity & Success, Self Improvement, Spiritual Growth

You are always manifesting something, whether you are conscious of it or not. You have manifested everything in your life from the shoes on your feet, to the amount of money in your bank, to the quality of every relationship in your life. The truth is you cannot stop manifesting. You are a super powerful manifesting being! So if you were to start consciously using this awesome power, what would you focus on manifesting into your life? Are you focusing on what you want from a place of hoping it will occur, or really trusting it will show up? Are you always conscious of how you are focusing on what you want, or do you tend to manifest things at an unconscious level out of habit? We are always sending out a vibrational energy into the Universe that boomerangs back to us in the form of physical manifestations which reflect the quality of this vibration. The question is what quality of energy are you putting into the thoughts you want to manifest?

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” ~Brian Tracy

Perhaps you are simply humming along in life, living in a tick-tock 9 to 5 job with the TV as your companion without consciously asking yourself, “What kind of day do I want to manifest today?” Think about it. How would you like to FEEL at the end of today? When we are consciously manifesting, we are more specific, intuitive, and can create more energy around our dream. When we are unconsciously manifesting, we don’t exactly get what we really want. It tends to be more hit or miss. We get a little of this and a little of that.

“We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~Marianne Williamson

When you start consciously manifesting, you are more present to each moment of your day. You are always refocusing your mind on the amazing wonderful things you desire into your life. As the mind wanders and you refocus it back on what you want, you automatically speed up your ability to attract those things you deeply desire in your heart of hearts. When you are super concentrated on what you want it is like sending out an ultra-strong radio signal to the Universe that is picked up and sent back to you in the form of your manifestation! Whatever you deeply desire to manifest into your life can be yours with these 3 proven steps to become a super conscious manifestor:

“God can dream a bigger dream for you… far beyond anything you could ever imagine.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

1. Increase Your Level of Present Moment Awareness

Are you truly here now, or more like a robot as you go through your day on automatic pilot? You have the ability to be super conscious in every moment of your day. The more aware you are of what is happening in the Now, the easier it is to consciously choose the energy you want to embrace in each moment, and what you want to focus this energy on manifesting in the physical world. Daily meditation is the key to heightening your conscious awareness of your innermost feelings, thoughts, and patterns. When you meditate, you become fully present to what is present now instead of being trapped in the ego games of yesterday and tomorrow. When you are no longer trapped in the ego game, you are automatically more conscious of what is in the present moment and have the ability to consciously create.

2. Consciously Focus Daily On What You Want to Manifest

Start your day with a conscious manifesting routine. Make sure that you spend at least 10 minutes in the morning focusing on what you truly want to manifest. One of the best ways of doing this is to spend 10 minutes visualizing that what you want to manifest has already occurred in the physical world with the support of a guided meditation. This conscious focus creates an energetic blueprint for your entire day where your mind-body automatically aligns with these energies, resulting in the manifestation of whatever you desire.

3. Refocus your Conscious Energy on your Desire Throughout your Day

As you go through your day, it is key to keep refocusing your consciousness and awareness on the kind of experiences, interactions, feelings, and things you want. It’s like adding extra income to an investment that you can cash in at the end of the year. So every so often ask yourself this powerful question, “What am I choosing to consciously focus my mind on now?” You will be astounded at how this simple question can refocus your energy on what you want versus the programmed mind returning to focusing on what you don’t want. This question will re-center you, ground you, and support your manifesting vibration to grow! Use the mind in a focused and concentrated way so that the Universe can hear you, and easily answer your request in the form of a physical manifestation.

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The Power of Choice

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Mind Power, Prosperity & Success, Self Improvement, Spiritual Growth

Choice is the most powerful of all the tools with which you create your reality, more powerful even than your beliefs, thoughts and feelings, because ultimately choice can supersede these, can steer and direct them in accordance with your will. You make thousands of choices every day, most of which you are not even conscious of. Your habits, for example, are choices that have become unconscious and automatic.

Actions, behavioural choices, are the most obvious choices, but there are subtler yet more profound choices, choices of what we think and feel, the attitudes we hold, the principles and values we choose to abide by, or not as the case may be. Every choice we make has an impact to a greater or lesser extent, each one like a pebble dropped in a pond, the ripples, the ramifications, spreading out into our future and other areas of our life.

Choice is available in every moment as a doorway to the possible, and in such, every moment is an opportunity filled with potential, for a new beginning, for greater love, for a new direction, for expanded success.

What choice could you make right now that would change your life for the better, today, tomorrow, in the coming weeks, months or years?

Perhaps choices of thought, feeling, or action, choices for new beliefs, choices of character, loving choices for yourself and others, choices born of your dreams, courageous choices outside your current comfort zone, choices that make your heart sing and bring you joy. Choice is the flagship of freewill. It is keystone to change and heralds new birth. When sourced in love, choice opens the doors to happiness, success, serendipity and opportunity, as you affirm your desire, assert your will, and the universe ushers in to support you in your creation of reality.

When you realise you have the power to choose in any given situation in your life, you awaken a new level of empowerment, responsibility and self-determination, and as such, you are better able to change it. Knowing that you are loved, loving and loveable ever and always, that the universe is always on your side, and that your choices hold great power, you can wield your choices more consciously, more expectantly, more powerfully, trusting the proceeding unfoldment that will occur and the turnings of the tide that commence in response to those choice made in your heart and mind.

People often accept responsibility for their actions, for what they choose to physically do, yet less often do they accept responsibility for what they think and feel and the impact this has on their life, yet this is where the greatest power of choice lies. It is your thoughts and feelings, your beliefs and attitudes that determine your experience, and in themselves, influence the very types of choices you are likely to make.

What new thoughts, beliefs and attitudes could you choose? How would that change your state of life, your state of mind, your behaviour, your relationships, your sense of self-value, for example…Even one small choice made today that shifts your life by one degree, can overtime lead to a future far brighter than where you are heading, opening you to new worlds of possibility, new doorways, new horizons, new people, places and opportunities, new levels of love, joy and success.

There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ choices as such – but there are choices that are more or less serving to yourself and others at a given time. Don’t beat yourself up for faulty past choices and mistakes. Forgive yourself for less than serving choices in your human journey and let go of your past. You can create a new slate and lay new foundations through choice. You can forge an entirely new landscape and positively reinvent yourself and your world.

Found your choices in beauty and purity of love, and they will always lead to bright outcomes. Choice sourced in love can only ever win! Fear choices, anger choices, revenge choices, on the other hand, unsurprisingly don’t lead to fruitful results.

The mental and emotional state you are in can greatly influence the quality of your choices. Meditating, reflection and brainstorming can open up many possibilities and available choices. When making a choice it can help to ask yourself, ‘What would be the most loving choice?’ or ‘What would the winner choose?’

You might also like to put yourself in the shoes of your brightest future. What types of choices would that you make? It already knows the pathways and decisions that will take you where you want to be. You can also think of someone you admire greatly, perhaps in a given field you are pondering a choice in (be it relationships, business, health, and so on), and ask yourself, ‘What would [NAME OF INSPIRING PERSON] choose in this situation?’

Awaken the power of choice, befriend it, use it more consciously, freely, more wisely and lovingly.

Wield this magical tool to craft your ‘love life’ – a life you truly love!

(by Aine Belton – Author of  Miracle Mind Manifesting Program)

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The 5 Steps to Manifesting Financial Abundance

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Mind Power, Prosperity & Success, Self Improvement

The Universe wants you to be financially abundant and is always supporting you in making this a reality. So it really doesn’t matter what the economy is doing, or how long you’ve been struggling financially, it’s more about the vibration you’re sending out into the world today! Financial abundance is your birthright! It’s time for you to claim your abundant nature and start manifesting the financial abundance you truly deserve. Here are 5 easy steps that will support you in manifesting much abundance into your life:

1. Fully Acknowledge, Accept, and Embrace Your Abundant Nature

The secret to feeling your abundant nature is to open your heart, and fully embrace the abundance that has already blessed your life. Let your armor melt away. Remove any shielding around your heart and imagine throwing it into a big fire. Breathe deeply and physically open your arms wide, inviting this abundant Universe into your heart. With each in-breath, imagine that EVERYTHING in the entire Universe is pouring into your heart; all the stars, planets, Earth, and all its people. Feel how truly abundant life already is. Let your heart welcome it all!

“It is not only my right and my privilege to walk in the abundance God has for me, it is my responsibility…just as it is my responsibility to live the rest of my truth.” ~ Jan Denise

2. Welcome with Gratitude the Abundance that is all Around You

There is an abundance of people on the planet to create things for you, grow food for you, and supply water to drink. Let in the abundance of joy, pleasure, opportunities, and laughter into your heart. Feel this abundance of support at your very core. You have already been and will always be blessed by the abundance of the Universe. You may have partially closed the door to feeling this abundance due to past conditioning or scarcity thinking. Consciously open the door now, and proclaim the truth to the Universe by stating, “I am a truly abundant being!” Say this message over and over until you feel that it has penetrated deeply into your soul.

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” ~Anthony Robbins

3. Reprogram your Body-mind for Financial Success

The words you say to yourself are the most powerful manifesting vehicles. Each message that you think internally and say externally carries a certain vibrational energy that programs the cells in your body. The words you use actually create chemicals in your brain that bring you experiences of inner peace, love, abundance, or struggle. If you are struggling in your life and you’d like to program your body-mind for financial success, start by using affirmations daily. State what you want as if it’s already here now. Say to yourself “I easily attract all the abundance, love and joy that I need. I am a powerful being who manifests any amount of money I desire.” Notice how you feel inside just thinking these thoughts. You can use any guided Money Meditation that can dramatically boost your ability to attract abundance to you.

“Start believing in yourself and the world will start believing in you.” ~Vijay Thadani

4. Take Massive Inspired Action

The Law of Attraction applies to your physical actions as well as to your emotional and mental state of being. Every action you take sends out an energetic frequency into the world. The movement of your body shifts the molecules inside you and around you on a physical level. This energetic movement is directly linked to the types of things you manifest or don’t manifest into your life. When you take actions from an inspired expanded heart, you send out positive expansive energy which magnetizes even more of what you desire. Engaging in consistent inspired actions throughout your day will create a momentum of powerful manifesting energy, which will quickly materialize into the financial abundance you desire. So today, take a moment to tune into your heart and find out what it is really excited and inspired to do! Start with that first action step that truly inspire s you (it may be small), and then add on another one. You will soon see an inspired momentum of energy take over you which will catapult you forwarded into the financial abundance you are seeking.

“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.” ~ Nicolas de Chamfort

5. Let go of Attachment to the Outcome of your Actions

The golden secret to manifesting financial success is gently holding your attention on the FEELING of receiving financial abundance while at the same time not demanding it shows up. You can do this only when you can find inner peace with where you’re at and what you’ve got. The idea of needing financial abundance means that it’s not available here now and implies a big disconnection with this all pervasive Universe. When you take actions from an inspired place AND are detached from any outcome, you allow the Universe to completely and utterly support your manifestation. You stop hoping that your inspired actions create future outcomes and are truly ENJOY your life here now. This makes you into a Manifesting Magnet! Detachment enables you to be fully open and receptive, which in turn attracts new opportunities and people to you. So just have fun taking inspired actions, and see what amazing surprises the Universe will send your way!

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Learn How To Forgive

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Self Improvement, Spiritual Growth

Got Forgiveness?

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart not from the mind. Knowing in your rational mind that your parents did the best they could to raise you is not enough to constitute forgiveness.

If you have any type of negative emotional reaction in the presence of someone, you have not truly forgiven that person. What would happen if you took 5 minutes to walk in the other person’s shoes? Could you find compassion for them to understand why things happened the way they did?

Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to agree with what they did or how they did it. Not at all. Your values and beliefs may be very different from theirs. It simply means that you can see the whole truth of what happened and that the Truth encompasses all points of view, not just your own. True compassion of the human experience is that place from which all forgiveness begins. Compassion is an act of unconditional love that is free of any attachment.

Forgiveness is about seeing life with clarity so that you stop judging the activities of others and, instead, take responsibility for your interpretation of those activities. When you judge something that happens in life as good or bad, right or wrong you aren’t able to have gratitude for the challenges and experiences life sends your way. No matter how enlightened a person you may be, challenging situations will always happen. However, if you have gratitude for life’s challenges you will always find your joy in life and never feel victimized by your circumstances.

Once you have seen the truth you simply make the decision to let go of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to. If you are addicted to your pain, resentment, self-righteousness, this might be a challenging step for you. There is comfort in what we find familiar, even if we are suffering. However, once you let go, the weight of the world will be released from your shoulders.

In the forgiveness process, it is important to forgive not only the other people in our lives, but also ourselves. For most people, forgiving ourselves is more difficult then forgiving others. Here are a few things to check in with yourself to see if you could use some forgiveness on.

- Forgive yourself for using people in your life to hurt yourself.

- Forgive yourself for not having clarity, for blaming others, and for not taking responsibility for your actions.

- Forgive yourself for wounding others and for the anger, jealousy, and hate you’ve directed toward others.

- Forgive yourself for participating in situations that went against your integrity.

- Forgive yourself for not respecting yourself.

- Forgive yourself for not trusting yourself and having faith in your abilities.

- Forgive yourself for trying to control the people you love.

- And, of course, forgive yourself for not loving yourself 100% just the way you are!

If you forgive you will be truly happy, and your life will reflect the change back to you in every way. After all, what we think in our minds is what manifests in our lives! The bottom line is that we forgive not because the other person necessarily deserves it, but because we do not want to carry that load around until we die.  Anger, hate, and jealousy will make you old, resentful and ugly, inside and out. The question is, how much do you love and respect yourself? Is it enough to give yourself the gift of forgiveness? I hope so.

by Sheri Rosenthal DPM (a master Toltec teacher and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Toltec Wisdom)
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How to Discover Enlightenment in Negative Feelings

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SimNZ Spiritual Counselor, Pranic Healer and Angel Intuitive
Posted in: Mind & Body Wellness, Mind Power, Self Improvement, Spiritual Growth

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi

One of the most common questions people ask is “How do I stop having negative thoughts and feelings? As you know, holding onto a negative emotional state will keep you from manifesting what you truly desire because it holds you stuck in a lower vibrational place. Negative feelings arise because they are trying to push you into a higher positive experience. Each feeling is trying to ignite your spiritual path and help you to grow exponentially. The problem in life occurs not when you have a negative feeling, but when you resist the experience of it.

Avoiding negative feelings means you are attached to having a positive experience, and live as if you were on a life preserver lost at sea. The more you try to resist negative emotions, the more they have a grip on you. Whatever we resist persists. When you cannot feel a negative feeling, you are saying IT is more powerful than you, and are unknowingly advocating that you’re not connected to the all-powerful divine God Source. If you never allow yourself to feel what’s going on inside, you are overly attached to positivity and avoiding negativity. You cannot find clarity until you relinquish all attachment to it. The key is not in control, but in total acceptance of all your parts and pieces. When you stop resisting and start accepting, your energy and consciousness instantly expand and you become more receptive and available to the Divine within.

The good news about negative feelings is that there is a hidden state of divine joy and freedom at every core. Negative feelings are like deep pools of mud, each with a brilliant shimmering diamond buried at the bottom of the muck. Each gem is soooo amazing and perfect that we may not be ready to see it, feel it and own it fully in all its glory. We may be over-identified with negative thoughts about ourselves, so its hard to feel worthy of its all accepting love and Jedi Master quality. So we tend to hide it in the deepest and safest place possible (where nobody will look for it) at the bottom of our inner muck. Here the mud covers the light emanating from the diamond and makes us believe we are dim struggling powerless light beings who need to cleanse, purge and purify our dirty selves. Yet, the truth is that when we dive into the very center of the muck (negative feelings), the beautiful jewel must rise to the surface to be fully revealed.

The secret to success in this wild inner adventure is using your breath as your “life line” as you dive through your most gruesome negative feelings. By using your inhalation and exhalation to guide you into and through a feeling, you will discover the power within you to transcend it. The breath is your passage to freedom, as it naturally releases any resistance or distractions that bubble up and allow you to remain focused and on the healing track. Diving through a large muddy pool of emotions can be scary or exciting, depending on your attitude towards it. It may take you a few minutes or hours to get focused enough to dive completely through a challenging feeling, yet with a solid intention to find the diamond, and using your breath to guide you down, you’ll discover a beautiful state of liberation at your core! Just dive into your feeling and observe the story, judgment, or resistance of it. Whatever you experience will transform when you stay with the breath, feel your feelings, and remain open to the experience.

True inner peace is always found in the last place you would think of looking for it. Only by diving into and through your heaviest, hardest, coldest, and loneliest feelings will you find inner peace. The enlightened state within you is always available, the question is are you willing to face the dark night of your soul to experience it? This highest enlightened experience of life emanates from the deepest most calm stillness inside you. This great lightness is at the very bottom of your well, at the center of your muck, at the core of your being. You’ll find the most beautiful clear mind and lightest feelings from accepting all that is unclear and heavy inside. The enlightened mind knows it is that completely blank screen which is behind every muddy or sparkly movie. It has no judgment, preference or care as to what movie plays on its screen. It simply allows for the images, words and emotions to flicker upon it and it always remains untouched and unharmed.

by Jafree Ozwald

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