We have entered the final stretch of 2009. December is a month filled with Holiday parties, friends and family. For many of us, it is also a time of chaos and confusion.
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I have often found that when I first enter a new phase of success, I feel the most amount of sorrow and loneliness. It is hard to explain why this happens without sounding like an ego-maniac, but I truly think that it is hard for people to see others around them attain success. We are conditioned to find the faults in their behavior or wonder how they cheated to get there. Even our closest friends can give in to jealousy and envy.
In the last few months, my life has reached new levels of happiness and success. Yes, there are rough spots, but the amount of growth on a personal, emotional, spiritual and financial level has been extremely rewarding. My greatest nemesis and triumph is over acceptance. I am working hard to find acceptance of all that is around me, though sometimes things accidentally slip out of my mouth before I can stop them, and then I find myself apologizing profusely. 
And yet, in that same time, I have lost the friendship of some that I thought were good friends, had organizations get upset that I am not following their exact rules and been pushed back without reason. I look at these at tests and work with my Higher Self to ensure that these are unavoidable casualties, but putting all that energy into trying to make others find acceptance over my choices can be exhausting. I’m not perfect; I make my share of mistakes, but I try hard to apologize and make amends.
So… if I feel like I am heading in the right direction, fulfilling my life purpose, being the best me I can be, why do the people around me find the need to pull me down or just walk away? And more importantly, why do I let their denial of acceptance over my actions affect me so much. I recognize that it is coming from their own fear, ignorance and/or jealousy, but it is still hard to accept.
All I can do is keep moving forward and be confident in that I will attract a new set of people that are strong and happy in their own choices and can therefore accept mine.
I encourage your thoughts and feelings. Let us learn from each others experiences…
From Sofia:
I’m not sure if my question really blurs into two…
My first issue is that I have thankfully been blessed with spiritual experiences, including OBEs and such where I have met my spirit guides but I have never been able to bring on these experiences, even though I’ve attempted different techniques in the past, from inducing OBEs, meditation, prayer etc. it doesn’t seem to work for me. And I have tried alot of techniques.
There have been times in my life where I have really needed to hear from my guides more than just in the everyday intuition based way but even if I just leave it up to them it doesn’t seem to work. Even if I totally let it go. After a while I begin to doubt and so, my question is this. How can I rediscover that spiritual connection that I find so hard to initiate?
Also, I admit I have lost a lot of faith in finding a soulmate as it were. I’m speaking romantically. I’ve tried getting advice during OBEs and such but either I can’t seem to find my guides (even if I call them) or can’t get out of them what I really want to know.
I guess after seven years of fruitless searching I’m kinda angry. I know its meant to happen when the time is right and trust me I’ve tried to be as open as possible but that has only led to nasty endings when I’ve sort of ‘tricked’ myself into thinking maybe this is who I want in my life when I know deep down that my heart isn’t in it. I also have heard so many times that you have to be happy with yourself and I am, but I’m human and I am designed to love and be loved romantically. So my question is, how can I find my soulmate/s? I mean literally as in the soul group type set up, and not just those who are friends and family in this life.
Inspirations from Binah:
Your spiritual connection is something that is with you always and while it may seem as if there are times when you are not connected, just the fact that you know it exists means you are. One question to ponder is whether you feel connected when you don’t “need” to hear from your guides? When you only turn to your spirituality in a crisis, you may have a hard timing hearing because you have not developed a symbiotic language.
To create that language, you must first hear the way your spirit guides currently communicate. That may sound cryptic, but it just means that you have to accept that the way your guides speak to you may not be the way you envisioned it. Intuition proves that you are connected and receiving messages. This could be the only method your guides have to communicate. Instead of trying to force them to contact you the way you want, take the method they currently use and expand from there.
Which senses does your intuition come through? Have you tried expanding it to another sense? For example, if you usually just know something, the next few times it happens close your eyes and focus on what you are hearing. Take the clairsentience and create maps to expand your clairaudience. If you usually see things and are clairvoyant, then create maps to how you are feeling. You can also study sacred geometry, gematria or any other “language” that allows you to decipher the messages you are receiving from spirit through the world around you. With each exercise, you expand your capacity for receiving messages and give your guides new ways to speak with you.
The blocks before you finding a romantic partner cross new lines. Though you may think that your guides are not providing you with answers, their silence is your answer. Just as you need to learn the language of your spirit guides, you must accept that a soulmate may look at first very different from what you visualized. Each of us has a circle of soulmates that are a part of our world. Accept each person that comes into your life without expectation and let the relationship develop organically. What may seem like friendship, may blossom into romantic love. We have no way of knowing why a person was sent into our lives so do not make a judgment. Release the anger and enjoy what you are getting… this may just give you what you want.
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From Anonymous:
How do you deal with the human need for companionship when you are entering into a period of intense introspection and solitude?
Inspirations from Binah:
The human need for companionship is often twisted together with fears, attachments and negative ego. What we often think is a need to interact with another person, is usually an attachment and fear of being alone. Though we are social beings, the only connection we require is to Spirit, for when you are connected to Source, you are never truly alone.
That being said, loneliness is an emotion that haunts many and can lead you to do things you never wanted just for the sake of being with someone. Working through this to find a place where being alone does not mean being lonely is why a period of introspection and solitude is needed. It is not until you are physically alone with only your connection to Source and all the beings of the spirit world for companionship that you can fully understand the difference between an attachment to the distractions provided by another vs a true desire to commune.
Remember that extremes are unhealthy, that includes spending too much time in solitude. Take this time to understand the different facets of your feelings – asking your Higher Self to bring in any necessary beings to show you the way. Find the place where you want to be others because the interactions bring you love, not because you fear being alone. When you are ready, emerge from your solitude knowing that you are complete and stay conscious not to allow new attachments to form. Balance your needs for solitude and companionship creating relationships of varying degrees of closeness based on true love and friendship – you will find these more fulfilling that any based on fear.
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There are several people in my life that I no longer associate with. I’ll take it a step further and say that I go out of my way to not initiate contact with them. These are people that have hurt me deeply in the past. For some, they don’t even realize the extent of the hurt. Though I tried to express it as it was happening, they were oblivious to the effect of their actions.
As time wears on, these people have once again entered my periphery. Whether through social networking sites or mutual friends, we have ‘found’ each other. And though they hover near, there is still a distance; I allow them near my circle, but I don’t invite them in.
In contemplating my thoughts around why I let them near me in the first place, I realized that I didn’t really know if I had forgiven them. Could I really have forgiven them if I don’t invite them close to me again? After a long walk with this question and some deep meditation, the answer was a resounding YES! Yes, I have forgiven what was done to me. I harbor no ill will toward these people. I wish them the same happiness I would any person.
Not inviting them into my world again is not about lack of forgiveness, it is about not forgetting. I have not forgotten what they did because it is that knowledge that protects me from disappointment. How do I know that I have truly forgiven them if I don’t invite them in? In order to test myself and ensure that I didn’t harbor any ill will, after I forgave them, I reached out. But what I discovered was that they had not changed and were therefore liable to hurt me again. It is not they intend to hurt me, it is just that they are not the type of people I associate with anymore. They were important to me at the time of our friendship, but as we moved forward in life, our evolution took different paths; the person I am today does not live in their same world.
I know I have forgiven them because if they were to reach out, I would listen. I would give them a chance to show me that our lives are now compatible. I know because I still smile at their triumphs and feel sadness for their pain. I know because my heart is open to them. And so I find comfort in knowing that my avoidance is not about a lack of forgiveness, it is about acceptance… acceptance of who they have become and acceptance that it is ok to be different.
From Andrew:
are things getting better and better on this planet or worse and worse? are we evolving and devolving at the same time? or is it always the best and worst of times on this planet?
From Inspirations from Binah:
Mother earth continues to push toward evolution, she knows what is best for herself. She heals the wounds inflicted by the careless and ignorant. For some, that healing feels like growth, while others are made extinct by the progress. Trying to attach judgment, good or bad, is a futile effort that will leave you with more questions than answers. All you can do is focus on your own actions.
As individuals, we should put into the collective consciousness the need for each person to step up to the challenge and do his/her part. We must strive to accomplish the purpose for which we were given this human body to complete. For some, that purpose physically touches only a small group of people, and for others it is greater than the sum of entire nations. And still they are each important because the combined result means we are moving forward on the path.
In our daily lives, we need to be role models of the types of behaviors necessary for a healthy planet. My favorite quote beautiful expresses this, “Our lives are the books people read; by the way we live and the words we speak we cannot stop setting an example.”
In short, our focus as individuals is to make our personal contribution to the world around us; to fulfill our purpose. The challenge we face is understanding the difference between when our purpose involves stopping destruction, when to be a part of it, and when to sit back and accept that at times, Mother Earth requires destruction before she can create.
Janet McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the welcome, I got a question. What am I doing wrong? Everytime both ,my husband and I ,start to get ahead ,learning new postive things,,we seem to fall back again . He gets more health problems which means he cant work ,,meanwhile its my pay that pays everything ,,well a bit here and a bit there,,,seems like we never get ahead,,,how do we get out of this cycle? I am reading or joining every self help stuff I can find.
Big hugs for you and your husband…
Instead of thinking you are doing something wrong, I would encourage you to look at what you are doing right. Focus on the positive forces of your life and let those grow. Learning something new is hard and we can’t expect to get it right every time. We all encounter setbacks, but it is those that see them as a learning opportunity that truly persevere.
Release your attachment to falling back. Attachment comes from a perception of lack… from fear. Accept each new challenge and move through it. Health and money issues can be overwhelming at times, so when you feel at your worst, take a minute and be thankful for all that you have. Look at the last good thing you accomplished. Do you remember that feeling? Reach into that energy and take it into the next problem.
Life is an iterative process requiring successes and failures in order to move forward. Plot your course forward and don’t stop. When you fall, pick yourself up, note what you need to learn and start moving forward again. It is only when you stop moving that you have ever really failed.
Posted anonymously: i’m referring to your sentence in a previous comment – ” I have just started working with
a being and look forward to what he has to teach me. ”
i’ve heard some recordings of the spiritualist medium – leslie flint
.. particularly of the indian thinker – rabindranath tagore ( the first asian to receive a nobel prize )
i’ve also attended a seance in bombay about two decades ago and the memories of it are fresh as ever in my mind
with time my belief ( for lack of a better word ) in the spirit world gets only strengthened
now , existing in the material world , like everybody else , taking the visible reality as ‘ be all and end all ‘ .. it’s not so easy to keep your balance in the ‘ two worlds ‘ that you inhabit ..
i mean there is a strong need to ‘ withdraw ‘ yourself from an active participation in the material world
i know it is different with each individual but with me this ‘ pretense ‘ out here , is not all that pleasant
i’d like to know how you feel about this
Great questions. Let me clarify a few things:
1. The being I was referring to is a Pegasus, not a person that was once incarnate. I don’t communicate with the earth bound dead because I believe that the should be guided to the light not held back in this earth.
2. I was not channeling the being, I was astral traveling. When you astral travel, you shift your consciousness actively. I do not invite them into my dimension of existence, instead I travel to them.
There are several ways to communicate with beings, whether they be elementals, dragons, angels and so forth. One way is to astral travel to their spiritual dimension. Another is to meditate through the physical dimensions. And still another way is to channel.
When you channel, you close your consciousness off in order to allow another to enter. This can be extremely dangerous unless you know what you are doing. A trained channeler has one contract they work on (one being they communicate with) and agrees on how and when contact will be made.
Both in meditation or astral traveling, you initiate the journey. In this way, you are always fully in control of what is happening. You should always make sure that your body, soul and spirit are protected at all time. There are several rituals that help facilitate this.
So as you can see, I choose who I am going to contact and when. If a being makes contact with me, i can choose whether or not to respond at that moment and they will respect my choice.
Does that bring clarity to your concern?
Posted anonymously: while you are on this physical plane , where all you have is the supposedly material world , do you not feel uncomfortable with the compulsion that you are faced with… ie you have to treat this physical world as a ‘ physical world ‘ knowing inside that it is not the case .. that you have to deal with relationships , money .. you have to plan your actions does it not come in conflict with the spiritually evolved mind ..
looking at your life buzzing with activity i’m only trying to figure out how you straddle the two worlds ..
I don’t see a conflict. Human existence is about being on this physical plane. What might seem mundane is really an opportunity for continued spiritual growth. We can build our relationships, acquire money and work in a way that elevates our vibration. Each person is one piece in a global quest to raise the consciousness and move on to the next dimension of existence. We each have to do our part to get us there, that is why it is so important to find your life purpose. God needs us to work here, in this plane.
For a long time, I couldn’t use the word god. I still struggle with whether or not to capitalize it. When I teach and speak, I usually say: God, or Source, or Light, or whatever else you want to call it.
I see us all standing in front of a mountain. We are all trying to reach the top, back to Source or Ain Sof or God or whatever feeling defines it for you. There are big, paved roads of organized religions. There are little trails of the lessor known, but still structured religions/thinkings. And there are shoe prints for the places in between. We can go either way, jumping from one to the other as needed. Ultimately, we are all going to get to the same place. What is most important, is that we are always moving forward.
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