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October, 2008

October 2008 Reflections

Posted in News and Opinion on Oct 31st, 2008

It's Halloween. It's the end of the month, and soon to be the end of 2008. More people are becoming self-aware of their inner potential as the collective consciousness moves into a new era. There is a lot to be said about how uncertain the state of our planet has become, in fact. As things are beginning to change two distinct but separate attitudes can be found if one looks close enough — the attitude of fear and the attitude of trust. 

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How You Can Use Your Emotions for Personal Transformation

Posted in Tutorials on Oct 27th, 2008

Did you know that your emotions can act as a gateway to personal development? The times that people feel greatest anger or sadness are also the times that provide the greatest opportunities for compassion and understanding to be developed.

It is not emotions themselves that make people known as being honest or understanding, for example, but is how those emotions are used that makes all the difference.

  1. Your strongest emotions can facilitate a great amount of personal growth and understanding.
  2. You can choose to respond in at least 3 different ways.
  3. And perhaps most importantly — your emotional awareness can bring you closer to others.

Understanding "Negative" Emotions

No emotion is "bad" in itself. Some emotions are perceived as negative based on the social values and experiences that are attached to them. Some of this social conditioning tends to suggest that emotions like the ones below should be avoided, ignored, and resisted.

Sadness. Fear. Desperation. Anger, and so forth.

Instead of resisting these feelings you can choose to respond to them with awareness. Become aware of what the core essence of "anger" feels like, for example. Don't just encompass the anger or become one with it — instead become aware of the effect it has on you. If you become attached to anger, for example, this can often lead to an endless spiral of other emotions such as guilt that never leads to any real meaning. By becoming aware of the effect the emotion has you gain meaning and understanding into what brought it out in the first place.

You Can Respond in at Least 3 Different Ways

Each emotion you have is not absolute — it is your habit of response that makes the effects of the emotion seem absolute. You have the choice to respond in more than one way, however. You can either reject and condemn the feeling, accept and own the feeling, or fail to acknowledge the feeling altogether.

It is one of these three responses that make up the most common attitudes that people have towards emotions.

A person who is experiencing intense fear might respond in one of the below ways:

  1. "This fear is bad, I shouldn't be afraid, I have to make it stop, if I'm afraid it means I am not courageous enough to face it…"
  2. "This fear is justified and others should also fear this, I believe it can be justified as frightening…"
  3. "I am not afraid, I'm just shaking because it's cold…"

However most of these responses tend to create a gap between the truth of the experience and the reaction to the emotion that attempts to escape that truth. The alternative is to ask yourself: where did this emotion come from… what caused it, and is it valid? Asking these questions helps to figure out what the emotion means rather than just responding to it.

Emotional Awareness

Common emotional responses are often most acceptable with social standards, but that does not mean that those responses provide insight into self-awareness and awareness of others. To explain, we often make the distinction of "Tom was angry" or "Tom is an angry person" instead of asking the question of where this source of that anger lies.

To get to the source is to get to the meaning that our emotions are attempting to make known. Most emotions are just signals pointing towards a certain truth or understanding, but when we misinterpret them and attempt to give them our justification or denial their original intention becomes lost in a sea of confusion and misinterpretation.

Emotional awareness bridges the gap between the truth of an experience and the response blocking the truth. Most "anger problems" are not an excess of anger, but a bad habit that a person has formed to respond to their anger as something horrible that possesses them to act out. The same can be said for a magnitude of other 'problomatic' emotions.

Our strongest emotions are some of our greatest learning tools. However, misunderstanding them can lead to negative consequences.

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Conscious Creation: The Art of Turning Dreams into Realities

Posted in Tutorials on Oct 26th, 2008

Much of the experience we have of the world is based around thoughts and memories. Those thoughts tend to be centred on our senses – what we see, feel, and hear builds up a core image of the world as we perceive it. However this process often occurs on a subconscious level and it is seldom that we become aware of just how fluid the experience we have of life is. Using the power of conscious creation it is possible to re-arrange this core image of the world each one of us has.

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Reader Feedback: Can You Feel the Presence of God?

Posted in Modern Spiritual Practice on Oct 22nd, 2008

One of the simplest truths in life is that the presence of consciousness, or God, or "divine awareness" can be felt when we let go of the preoccupation we have with the outer world and the thoughts we build around it. It is often in that silence that we can feel what some people call God.

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls."

- Mother Teresa

I'd like to ask readers which situations or environments cause their connection to this deeper awareness to change or become stronger.

Here are some situations I find this silence easier to experience:

  1. Meditation
  2. Sitting in silence and watching the sun set or rise
  3. Looking out for and discovering synchronicities
  4. Being conscious in the present moment

On the other hand, situations that tend to negate the magic of this presence that flows beneath all of life make it harder to find it once again. I'd like to invite readers to share their own experiences: which situations allow this presence to shine brighter — and which ones make it most difficult to remember that it exists at all?

I look forward to hearing what Your experience is.

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Help Spiritual Blog Grow

Posted in News and Opinion on Oct 22nd, 2008

Have a talent for writing and a strong awareness of the spiritual side of life? I'd like to bring some more diverse opinions to this blog and I am looking for another writer. I will continue posting at this blog, but I'd like to get others involved too… It has always been a goal of mine to make this more than just a regular blog — but one person cannot achieve that goal alone.

I am seeking individuals committed to increasing the collective world consciousness and bringing humankind into a greater state of awareness. Those who are interested: do not hesitate to contact me.

Those who are avid writers and have experience with modalities such as NEW, EFT, Hypnosis, Healing, and other spiritual development platforms, could make a great contribution to this blog in the medium to long term.

Here are the main terms of writing for this blog:

  1. New writers should post consistent blog entries
  2. The writers at this blog receive full recognition for their articles
  3. Content on this blog has to maintain a high standard of writing and style 
  4. Content on this blog cannot be reproduced online, but can be reproduced in print if the author of the article wishes to re-publish it
  5. Each writer on this blog is eligible to a fair split in advertising revenue

Those who are not interested in writing for the blog but would like to participate in the production of other areas that will soon be available on this site (including newsletters and e-courses) are also welcome to contact me.

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10 Ideas of Great Insight From Plato

Posted in Personal and Guest Entries on Oct 21st, 2008

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"Your silence gives consent." 

"You cannot conceive the many without the one."

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Proof of Something Greater and Your Beliefs

Posted in Self-Consciousness on Oct 10th, 2008

There is a short fable about beliefs and truth, where one man would point at boxes each time he saw one and claim "that's a box". The reason that it didn't make sense for him to do this is because all the people around him knew it was a box – there was no reason to claim that it was a box.

However the reason we use labelling in some instances is to attest something that is ambiguous as being real or to fit it into a specific understanding framework. If something is clear and unambiguous then there is no reason to label it. People don't often point upward and claim "that's a cloud" but people do point and claim that 'this or that' is God.

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Proof of Something Greater and The Eternal Search For Meaning

Posted in Self-Consciousness on Oct 10th, 2008

New age ideas, like religion, can become boundaries that restrict us when we use them as validation tools rather than methods of expanding our perception. Using religion as an excuse to permit or condemn certain actions often ignores the reason for placing judgement over those actions in the first place. People do things "in the name of" religion, faith, trust, or even belief that these actions are right and others are wrong. But the ironic thing is that this sense of righteousness is the cause of conflict — each "group" believes their worldview is "right", and therefore we have a clash of differing beliefs and perceptions.

Fluid Perception

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Proof of Something Greater and an Inner Purpose

Posted in Self-Consciousness on Oct 6th, 2008

Sometimes I think - what's the point? Dedicating so much time to studies based in philosophical theories, countless months spent in meditation, or perhaps dedicating an entire lifetime to following one religion or path… what causes people to do this? It almost suggests that someone can get closer to experiencing God or proving that something greater is 'out there' with enough time spent focusing on a specific religion or path.

The Problem of Seeking Something and Thinking it Does not Exist at The Same Time

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Magic in The Mind - Free MP3

Posted in Multimedia on Oct 5th, 2008

Following some production hold-ups, the first MP3 in the upcoming audio section of Spiritual Blog is now available. SPIRITUAL SYNC is a new line of audio downloads I have been working on for the last few months. The first free audio download: Magic in The Mind, which introduces the following series soon to be seen on this site, can be downloaded here:

Download Magic in The Mind MP3 - This file is not available since Dec 08, however it will be available again soon! Subscribe to our RSS feed to receive instant updates on when new MP3 tracks are relased.

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