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How to Heal

Posted in 2014, tagged , , , , , , , on September 17, 2014|

How do you heal what hurts you? With one simple word – acceptance.

When you accept yourself, what you’re going through, everything in your world, and those around you, you let go of the idea that there is anything ‘wrong’ with anything. You let everything be so that it can exist in its own way, unopposed.

And this letting go allows you to heal what you’ve been fighting. It delivers the sweet surrender of peace. For when we let things be instead of judging them, we stop the battle within. And this changes everything.

The truth is that when we fight something, we actually encourage it. Wouldn’t you fight back if someone attacked you? Acceptance calls off the destructive war. It ends the suffering inside.

We can think that we know what is best. We can try to control what we see around us, but this only creates struggle. For what we suppress rebels from lack of acceptance. It keeps getting our attention, however it can, until we finally accept it.

This struggle includes how you view yourself. But when you accept yourself exactly as you are, you end the war within. You no longer need to manage how you are, and so you don’t have to suppress a thing.

Finally, there is no need to hide what you feel. There is no need to hide what your being longs to do. And so, your expressions don’t have to be imbalanced, unhealthy, or destructive. Full, harmonious, and divine creation is allowed.

Acceptance brings you more than you could ever imagine! It opens your world in ways that you could never predict. And this is because you’re no longer limiting yourself with predictions. You are accepting the magic of creation without expecting anything at all.

This aligns you with infinite possibilities. It lets life surprise you with thrills your mind could never plan! And that is when love is allowed to flood through your being and pour into your life. Because acceptance is unconditional love incarnate.

This is the love that you are made of. And it comes naturally when you accept yourself.

This is how you heal, dear friend, and soar beyond the stars! You see that everything is perfect, and that you never needed to be healed at all.

 

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Are You Resentful or Empowered?

Posted in 2014, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2014|

When I face my deepest pain, what I feel most is resentment. I see that I hold so much resentment about the human experience.

Deep down, I resent that all of us have to live through heartbreaking stuff while blindly navigating our way. I hate the powerlessness that we as humans are conditioned to maintain. We have lived so separate from love and felt fearful of the freedom we deserve. I absolutely resent that we all have to endure such pain.

At a more personal level, I resent that I have really hurt people while finding my way and following my heart. I resent that people have hurt me, especially in my youth when all I wanted was to belong. No matter how much gratitude I feel for life, my resentment lies buried underneath, and it is asking to be healed.

Resentment lies at the core of human pain. But it leaves me disempowered. It keeps me stuck and complaining. I become a victim whose only voice is blame. I point the finger outside and forget that the reflection starts within.

We all create the world we live in. It is time to consciously own this power. It is time to move from “Woe is me” to “I chose to be here right now.” But this means healing our deepest wounds.

The cure for resentment is forgiveness. It is a process of no longer owning pain. And at some point, we realize that we have to forgive ourselves the most. We reach a hell so deep that it becomes obvious that self-forgiveness is the only way out. This forgiveness transforms us at the core and purges our humanity clean.

What comes next is a peace so wide and a freedom beyond the clouds! Right now, I am experiencing this freedom myself, and it is more expansive than my wildest dreams!

I want this freedom for all of us, and with it we will change the world. But it requires an internal shift that begins with a question: are you feeling resentful or empowered? Do you walk around with resistance, or are you open to consciously create? By choosing the latter, you become the beautiful creator you are. And we all want this for you as much as you want it for yourself.

 

* Share the Spiritual now has a Share page! Please feel free to leave spiritual comments here. Thank you for sharing the journey with us all.

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Wake Up!

Posted in Purpose, tagged , , , , on August 27, 2014| 12 Comments »

It has been a while since I’ve posted, dear friends, but I’m back to Share the Spiritual again. While I was gone, personal crisis came into my life and changed it forever, affecting everyone I hold dear. I turned us inside out and served spiritual lessons galore. In retrospect, this challenge I never saw coming had the power to shake us to the core and deliver invaluable riches.

The spiritual journey never ceases in this human realm, and that is what our souls ardently desire. We want this precious opportunity to grow exponentially, and this requires extreme courage. It means that we will know events that push us to the edge of our humanity and obliterate comfort zones. The bigger the crisis, the bigger the growth. The more honest we can be through it all, the more our souls shine with gratitude.

If you are going through personal turmoil of your own, know that you are not alone. You are living in times of unprecedented transformation that require walking through the fires of your own hell. But the other side is sublime. Because you are being given the opportunity to free yourself from lifetimes of human conditioning – lifetimes of feeling inferior and powerless.

Your relationships inspire this and play it out. They vacillate between supportive and heartbreaking, driving you to seize your freedom. And this is because they show you how you are imprisoning yourself.

If you can open yourself to feel what you are being shown, you will get closer to freedom every day. If you can hear your soul’s call and love yourself as you answer, you will grow brighter than you ever dreamed! And you will teach those around you. This is your destiny.

So hold my hand, dear soul, and let’s dive into these last lessons together. Remember, we are all one consciousness, reuniting after eons of separation. If you haven’t already done so, wake up to all that you are beyond this human world. It is time to open your eyes to your unlimited capabilities in these limiting environs. For you are a powerful, multi-dimensional being living out a temporary human existence. And through your bright awakening, you are here to change the earth.

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Love is Easy

Posted in Love, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on December 3, 2013|

Spiritual love is easy. Resisting it is hard. But resistance is what we’ve been taught. It’s what we settle for and plan our lives around.

Resistance means trying to control things by defining them, before they’ve even been experienced. It means denying what we go through before we have seen the lessons there. This is the detrimental consequence of resistance. It keeps us from actualizing what we came here to experience. It squanders the opportunities of our human lives.

In your own life, every time that you ignore an experience, you resist what is asking to be felt. Every time that you measure a human being, you resist the love that is waiting to be known. And when you focus on what you aren’t getting from what’s around you, you end up limiting your very self. Because the judgment that you inflict upon the world begins and ends with you.

The truth is that it takes tremendous work to perpetuate limitation. It is endlessly exhausting to constantly judge your little world. But you can decide to let this thinking go and expand your consciousness. You can open your magnificent heart and feel the ease of love instead.

Of course, opening your heart can be scary. There’s a lot you have buried in there. But once you acknowledge how you really feel about what you have been through, you can let it go. It finally stops defining you.

And then you will feel a peace you may have forgotten, perhaps for a very long time. You may even begin to feel ecstatic, as you let love flow through you again. This is the love that you come from. It is who you really are.

You see, love is easy. Resisting it is hard. You are here to remember this and to act with love instead. That is why you are living as a human being – to heal yourself by surrendering yourself to effortless spiritual love.

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Thanks to You

Posted in Love, tagged , , , , on November 19, 2013| 13 Comments »

At this moment, your life is giving you experiences that your soul ardently desires. Everything that you are going through is prompting you to grow in ways that you have always wanted to. And during these intense times, you are being asked to grow more than you ever have before.

At this moment, you are being challenged to stop the human madness of resisting love. You are being reminded to summon the infinite love that has always been within you. When you do, you open your all-accepting heart, and you grow your very soul. Not only that, but you inspire all of us to do the same in this frustrating, limiting world. You show us that limits are to be overcome, so that we can grow more than we thought possible.

Oh I know how impossible the task can seem! I know just how unforgiving life can feel. And that is why you are such a brave adventurer. You are so courageous to be a human being.

But you have everything you need to break through your challenges with love. You have the exact situations and relationships that will perfectly get you there. When you do, what seemed impossible becomes almost easy. In fact, you become grateful for everything you’ve ever had to endure.

And this gratitude isn’t about repenting or feeling unworthy. It’s not about feeling guilty because you haven’t been grateful before. It means loving all life without condition, including yourself. It means seeing that this love is integral to you.

When you feel fully grateful with love, you behold the beauty in all things, and then you recognize that same beauty in yourself. You remember that you are made of the haunting magic of creation, and yet your stardust is absolutely unique. Your part is essential in the dance of life, and it always, undeniably has been.

If you’d like to experience more gratitude, try this simple exercise:

One by one, think of the people who have touched your life in both “positive” and “negative” ways. Reflect upon what each person has taught you and the myriad ways they have shown you yourself. Think about what you have gained by knowing this human being and how pivotal they’ve been to your growth. Thank this person in your heart, and tell them what they mean to you.

Now view yourself in this same light. Think about everything you have been through in your life and the epic ways you have grown. See that your challenges required brave choices – in fact, every choice you ever made was brave because it created invaluable experience. This led you closer to recognizing the divine truth about you – that you are utterly exquisite to the core, and the universe is infinitely grateful for you.

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Be Human

Posted in Being, tagged , , on June 25, 2013| 14 Comments »

My spiritual journey is asking me to be human. In fact, it is showing me how prized this tactile place is. But for years, I tried to pretend that I wasn’t human. I shunned the heaviness of earth and chose the clouds of heaven instead. This left me a wisp of a person with little substance on the ground. It put a child’s face on my humanness and kept me from being a woman out loud.

But now I know that I am here to be a fully-fledged human being. I am here to feel, to know, and to experience the depths that this experience affords. I was born to touch, to taste, and to sense all of the emotions that my soul longs to feel. And this means that I must dance with my shadow and accept parts of my humanity I’d rather not. But when I do, the rewards are life-changing. I see my pristine soul. I see the perfection in everyone because I am living with expansive love.

You are here to know more love than you ever thought possible, through your human experience. So don’t beat yourself up for having one, because you are supposed to make mistakes. This is how you grow.

Yes, your life might get messy, but orderly stagnation will never provide growth. So allow yourself to be human, and then be grateful for what you get to live out. Then carry this precious wisdom into eternity with thanks for the souls you grew with.

By allowing myself to be human, I am seeing a brand new world. It turns out that paradise does exist on earth, and what a gorgeous paradise it is! During these times of human transformation, we simply have to remember this and create from a place of love. You see, our spiritual evolution isn’t about bringing earth up to the airy-fairy clouds; it is about integrating deeper experiences into this magical realm. That is what the years ahead entail. And you are living your courageous life because you accepted the shining challenge.

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Trust

Posted in Love, tagged , , on May 21, 2013| 14 Comments »

Trusting your growth can seem so difficult, but your soul is asking you to choose this. Your soul wants you to trust because this is what allows you to experience spiritual love. But in order to trust, you have to stop resisting what you want deep inside. You have to heed what calls you the most.

Your soul created a plan for your life before you ever got here, and your job is to trust that plan instead of denying it. Your goal is to give yourself all of the experiences of love that you long to have and all of the growth you want to know.

Thankfully, your life plan is constantly making itself obvious, as is the voice of your soul. All you have to do is notice and listen, and do what you really feel called to do – not what feels safe and manageable. Otherwise, you are letting fear take over your life.

If you trust with all of your heart, your fears will be released, and love will flood in, unencumbered. You will finally let yourself live out loud! And this is when you truly come alive. This is when the world gets to see just how amazing you are.

Now I know that it can be hard to trust after the way this human experience has treated you. I know that your mind might hum with practical details that sabotage love. It is so easy to resist what you really want and to rationalize why you shouldn’t have it. It is so tempting to settle for convention that confines your perfect soul.

All too often, you might let your ego tell you what you want. Or you might judge your most precious dreams to be too dreamy for this world. But your heart knows that dreamy really means magic, and to leap for magic is what you want more than anything! It is one of the fundamental reasons you came here. So no matter how much your mind resists, trust what you know in your heart – that enacting your dreams is more important than anything else in your life.

In my own life, the most important skill that my spiritual journey has taught me is to hear my soul at any moment and heed its call above all else. This heeding is the ultimate trust because it is faith. It is spiritual trust that underlies all life.

So have faith, brave friend, and let your life completely bloom! Let it become a garden that mirrors the bold and breathtaking beauty of you.

 

 

*Writer Sean Lathrop has created an inspiring Peace Pledge here. It’s all about trusting your own ability to change the world. And the exciting truth is that we are doing so, right now, one beautiful soul at a time.

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You Are Perfect

Posted in Self, tagged , on April 30, 2013| 10 Comments »

You are perfect. You are a magnificent soul briefly living out a human experience. If you love yourself unconditionally, you will see this. Your spiritual perfection will become blatantly obvious.

You don’t need to be fixed. There is never anything “wrong” with you because you are simply here to grow. Your human struggles will never define your gorgeous spirit. They are allowing you to expand with love.

We are here as humans to help each other grow, not to fix each other. We are here to hold each others’ hands through challenges instead of judging them. When we judge, we undermine the reasons we came here. When we try to fix another’s problems, we defeat their life goals.

Trying to fix people comes from a place of judgment. It imposes our own beliefs onto this fellow human. And this judgment reflects the growth we want for ourselves. Even healers attract their own issues in their patients. Every teacher is a student, and every student is a teacher. We attract what our souls want to learn.

Every problem that you attract in your life is something inside of you that is asking for more love. So the next time you find yourself wanting to fix a friend’s problems, look at your own issues first. See that if you grow through your own pain, theirs won’t bother you at all. You will be able to stand by your friend instead of keeping them from pivotal growth. And you will be amazed by their courage.

We have been taught to fix each other because we’ve been taught that we need to be fixed. We have been told to believe that we will never be enough, and so we live disempowered. But you are perfect inside, magnificent friend, and you don’t ever need to be fixed. You are powerful and courageous, and you have come here to grow with love. You have come here to bring your spiritual perfection to this human experience and transform our sacred earth.

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Open Your Heart

Posted in Love, tagged , , , , on April 16, 2013| 9 Comments »

I talk a lot on this blog about opening the heart, but what exactly do I mean? I mean allowing yourself to feel more unconditional love than you ever have before. When you do, you will see just how beautiful life is.

For a long time as humans, we forgot about unconditional love. We lived in survival mode, and love became a luxury we couldn’t afford. But without love, we are only half alive.

Love allows us to thrive, and in my own life I have been deeply reminded of this. I have been given the highest unconditional love that has shown me what my heart is capable of. In trusting the immensity of this gift, a chain reaction has occurred, leading to yet more love all around. Now, I adore every human being on this planet, and I have new eyes to see the world. I am in love with life, and my heart is opened for good.

Last week, I walked through the airport and saw every human being through the lens of unconditional love. I saw each person’s struggles as though they were my own. I thought how beautiful and courageous each one of us is and how much love we long to hold, if only we would allow ourselves to. I realized that I believe deeply in each of us here and how pointless my ego is. All my cold judgment melted away, and my fear became meaningless. Everything made sense that used to puzzle me before.

Pondering the ills of the world, it’s so clear that all anyone needs is to be loved. It is that simple. And when someone receives unconditional love, they come alive to who they really are! Everything that used to hurt begins to heal more rapidly than the mind can believe.

You see, the truth is that we settle for problems but none of them are really real. They are created out of limitation that has simply forgotten love.

Unconditional love has no limitation. It has no requirements or deficiencies. You don’t have to feel “worthy” of this love because you already, emphatically are it. And once you accept this love, you realize how easy it is. Life used to seem so difficult, but now it is effortless and pure.

Each gorgeous human being who crosses your path is asking you to feel unconditional love, and in so doing, fully love yourself. They are trying to get you to open your heart as you so deserve to do. Your soul is asking you to do this right now – to love bigger than you ever thought you could. And all you have to do is let yourself be as you naturally are. Once you experience the fullness of love, you won’t ever want to go back. You will see that all the time before you simply forgot how you’re meant to live.

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You Are Intuitive

Posted in Being, tagged , , on March 5, 2013| 9 Comments »

You are deeply intuitive, whether you realize it or not. Every day of your life, you are sensing what’s around you and using it to inform how you act.

As you go about your day, you are picking up the energy of people and the environments you travel in. Deep down, you know what’s really going on with everything that you experience.

We are all incredibly intuitive. Energy is always palpable, and our beings sense the truth. We are constantly fielding detailed information. We simply have to remember this about ourselves.

Just walking down the street, we know what the person passing by is feeling and everything to be aware of. We are linking with each other’s thoughts and signaling how we really feel. We can sense each other’s beliefs and all the ways that we judge. We know when actions are suspect and when words don’t reflect the truth.

Right now, we are living in times of increasing transparency that are asking for the truth. This starts with what we tell ourselves inside before it manifests in the world. When you choose to live with truth in your life, you honor your amazing self. And then you see that the real truth is completely full of love.

When you see the truth about the things you go through, you find that they’re helping you to grow. You don’t have to be a victim, and blame becomes a thing of the past. When you align with what’s really going on with you, you no longer have to hide yourself. You get to be your real you, standing strong and empowered, and more intuitive than you ever knew.

If you haven’t already done so, start trusting your intuitive abilities, and they will become obvious every day. Pay attention to the stuff you “just know” and have always suspected is real. Trust what you feel deep down instead of clouding it with thought. Listen to your most loving inner voice more than what people say. When you do these things, you will see your wisdom unveiled in specific ways.

You are incredibly intuitive, right now as you read these words. When you embrace this fact, your intuition will lead you from one miraculous connection to the next. You will be absolutely amazed by the magic that manifests. And then you will see that your intuition has always been available in your life. It is a compass for your soul, steadfastly guiding you towards the truth.

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