Continue reading »]]> The Law of Attraction has many amazing aspects that work well with living in your daily life. In my path as a spiritual life coach, I use many of them every day. I work to deepen them and learn the lessons that come from them. The Law of Attraction is not only a good law to manifest what you want, it is also a good way to learn lessons on how to live your life. This is one of the blogs that discusses how I put the Law of Attraction into action in my daily life.

Spiritual Life Coach Tip on Law of Attraction: Listening to the Whispers

As mentioned in the previous blog on the Law of Attraction, the Law of Attraction is the most effective when you are living your life through inspiration. Living your life through inspiration means that you have let go of the resistance to what you desire, thus bringing your desire into your reality. What does it mean to live your life through inspiration?

Inspiration is when you are listening to that little voice in the back of your mind. It is the whisper of consciousness that you interpret. Generally you interpret the stream of consciousness through a voice, which is why I call it a whisper. This whisper is your higher self, source, the Universe, God, and even your subconscious communicating with you. The whisper is of a greater consciousness than you are experiencing on a daily basis. The whisper understands more about the world around you than you do consciously. When you listen to the whisper and do the actions of the whisper then you are acting on inspiration.

Train yourself to listen to the whispers.

To be able to listen to the whispers, you have to be in a state where you are of little resistance. This can be either without thought or full of positive thoughts. That is why when you meditate sometimes you get thoughts you would never have before. Another time is when you are about to sleep. You have probably noticed that sometimes when you are half asleep you get an amazing idea or solution to a problem you have been facing. Sometimes the message comes when you are asleep and then when you wake up, you notice that you have had this amazing idea.

The message does not have to come when you are asleep. The more you are feeling joyful and thinking positive thoughts the more times you will experience listening to the whispers. Soon the whispers will be a stream of consciousness that you listen to all of the time.

Joyful Transition

Sometimes when you are done with your current position in life you can hear the whispers starting. You may be done with your current vocation or relationship. Sometimes there is a lesson for you to learn. For me it was letting go. This is when listening to the whispers allows for a joyful transition. The whispers will come when you are stagnate and when it is time to expand beyond who you currently believe you to be. When the whispers first occur they will be subtle. The more you ignore the whispers the louder they will become. They will get louder until you are feeling the serious discord between who you are and who you know yourself to be.
Training yourself to listen to the whispers will allow you to go through a joyful transition as you are always becoming what you have already grown into.

What has been your loudest whisper?

Continue reading »]]> Spiritual Life Coach discussing the ego as the New Age version of Satan

When talking to people about ego, I have noticed that many create a new enemy for themselves to fight. Many people think the ego is the reason they are unhappy. Many of those who believe in self empowerment think that the ego is the New Age version of Satan or the devil. Next time someone talks about the ego insert Satan and look at the conversation from a Christian perspective. You will notice that there are many similarities. The ego is the part of themselves that is keeping them back. Even Eckhart Tolle mentions in an interview that he does not see a purpose in working on the ego.

We are spiritual beings who are having a human experience and part of the human experience is the ego. The ego is our earth bound consciousness. It is the part of us that believes that everything we are taught is true. The spirit knows that all of this is an illusion. There is no battle between spirit and ego that people tend to suggest. What battle could there be? The spirit is eternal; the ego dies when the earthly body dies. When people write something like, “when we wrestle with our ego,” what they should be writing is, “when ego, wrestles with ego.” Even trying to let go of your ego just uses your ego to try to get rid of your ego.

Your ego is not the bad guy. The ego is a concept and doesn’t really exist in the physical world. The ego is a good way of explaining a part of our human existence and a good name to get it so you will understand the concept. The ego is not something that you hold in your hand or an evil force that keeps your spirit trapped in sadness.
Adyashanti has given me one of the best ways to think of the ego. Think of the ego as a coat. Enlightenment is taking the coat off. Then you can put it back on when you need an ego such as when you are talking to people.

There is no need to create a mystical thing to keep you from your happiness. There is no need to create a boogieman that barricades you from the life you want. Instead of creating something to blame, look for solutions. That is the beauty of life. Things will always happen. You will never be done with doing things. Done is death. Give up the illusion of being done. Be solution orientated.

Inner Way of Being Intention

With great joy I learn from all situations as I live a life being solution oriented, for the benefit of all beings.

Continue reading »]]> Spiritual Life Coach Tip: Discussing an aspect of The Secret

Molly Gordon who is the author of Authentic Marketing wrote a blog called, “Why The Secret Hasn’t Made You a Millionaire.”

Since I have launched my life coaching business, I have noticed that it is popular to bash The Secret. The Secret is a movie by Rhonda Byrne that describes the Law of Attraction. The best description of The Secret I have heard is, “an infomercial for happiness.”

In her blog she writes, The Secret won’t make you successful and states that it suggests that the means for getting from where you are to where you want to go by invocation spiritual laws is hogwash because the ego is unable to manipulate spiritual laws for its own purpose. I do not understand how that can be hogwash because ego is always a part of the spiritual process. When you go through the processes described in The Secret you are closer to being connected with your higher self. The Secret is basically feeling good and visualizing where you are supposed to go. It is very easy to take pot shots at The Secret as being an incomplete picture of the Law of Attraction. That is like taking pot shots at a first grade math book for having an incomplete picture of math.

If you lived your life without having a first grade understanding of math, learning addition and subtraction would be very beneficial. Just as learning the basics of Law of Attraction is very beneficial. Exactly like math, which you also can learn the wonders of multiplication to calculus so you can have a better understanding of the world we live in, it is the same with the Law of Attraction. There is more to the Law of Attraction than just visualizing and that is no reason to take pot shots at The Secret.

The Law of Attraction first starts with you knowing what you want. Then it has you getting into the best feeling possible and removing your resistance to what you want. You let go of the negative thoughts and emotions that you have associated with what you want. You take the actions with inspiration. The Secret is mostly about knowing what you want and then feeling the best you can about having what you want.

Check out my eBook which gives a good explanation of the Law of Attraction and how it works in the metaphysical and physical sense.

Continue reading »]]> One thing to make sure you include with your spirituality is a sense of humor. When you take away the sense of humor from your spiritual self, you are closing yourself off to an essential part of spirituality. The part you are closing off is the part that is meant to feel good. Feeling good is essential to a healthy spiritual life. When a person makes a joke at your spiritual life feel free to laugh at it if you find it funny. There are a lot of things about spirituality that is pretty hilarious.

Getting too serious will cause you to stifle your spiritual growth. One way to know that a spiritual guru is a charlatan is if they do not have a sense of humor. If the person was connected to the joy of the source of all there is, they will be able to take a good joke.

If the joke is not good, then just let it go.  There is no reason to take it personally. In fact it is even a good spiritual practice if letting go is part of your spiritual practice. The poor joke is now one of your teachers.

Here are two youtube clips I have found recently that do a good job of spoofy spirituality.

The first one is Arj Barker who created a song called Sickest Buddhist. Very funny if you have read about Buddhism

This one is by BellaVoce123. It is called I Need A Yogi. I found this one pretty funny and it doesn’t hurt that the singer is an attractive female.

Is there a youtube clip that you find funny about your spiritual life? Please share with me.

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Expand your Spirit

Living a spiritually expanded life means I live closer to my beliefs and my service to humanity. More than just living an ideology, it is about living every day of my life as a wonderful example of my spirituality.

Rather than praying and meditating every morning or evening and going to a service of some kind once a week, living a spiritually expanded life is using praying and meditation for a purpose. This way you can bring more of your heart and spirit into your daily actions. From dealing with children to washing the dishes, everything in this life is a part of the great divine. Realizing this and using it in every aspect of your life is living a life of joyous expansion. Like anything else in life, it is a practice. There are times when I do not bring my all to washing the dishes or being as nice to someone as I should. In these times, bringing myself back into my practice is what matters.

I am a human. As a human, I am flawed and will make mistakes. What is important is what I do with these mistakes. Using my mistakes as a part of my spiritual practice has helped me remain grounded and keeps me pointed to my purpose.

All actions are prayers. It is said that you are a spiritual being having a human experience. Use the joy in your life to expand your spirit and soul.

Feeling Expanded

Having a feeling that I am a part of something bigger is something that has deeply improved my life. Even without the idea of having something bigger than you, it is possible to expand your spirit. Reading books that bring joy into your life and finding more and more ways to feel good. Watching TV shows or movies that are uplifting, helping people, eating food that is very good for you, are all examples of ways to experience the feeling of expansion.

I believe that spirit is the energy of feeling good. The more we tap into the feeling of happiness, the more we expand our spirit. It is the feeling that one may get when reading an excellent book or looking at an amazing painting.

One way I expand my spirit is by watching, So You Think You Can Dance Every episode of this show is a spiritual opening to me. Watching people do what makes them happy touches me. Also the care the judges have for their craft is something that I value and appreciate. I can feel my heart open each time I watch this show.

One of the reasons I became a Life Coach is to be able to be a part of someone bringing joy into their life. Too many people live spiritually stunted lives where they do not do what they love and enjoy most of the time. Doing this causes people to miss the amazing journey that life is. Too many people just stop believing there is more to life.

There are many simple meditations that can help one get in touch with the feeling of being expanded. One is to think about something that you enjoy and feel is a positive force in your life. As you think of this action that brings joy into your life pay attention to your chest. Notice how the feeling close to your heart is growing. I call this the Grinch meditation. When you do something great your heart expands three times that day. Now think of something that you do not like at all. Notice the feeling in your chest now. Notice how it is more contracted and almost stiff? There is a reason why traffic may trigger heart attacks.

With this simple meditation, you have a guide to what expands your heart. The practice is to first notice what allows you to feel expanded in your everyday life and what allows contraction. Then increase the amount of things you do that expand you. Just living one day when every action you take is an action that leaves you feeling expanded will do wonders for your life. When that happens the food you eat, the people you hang out with and the actions you do will be a very positive force in your life and will allow you to live a life of joy.

Homework

Next time you go grocery shopping use the meditation to decide what to buy. Notice the foods that expand your heart center. How do you feel after eating these foods for a week?

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