Category Archives: Being Spiritual

Looking Inside for What You Have to Give

*Video: to give you must have contemplation To Give, You Must First Have “To give, you must first have.” is this week’s contemplation. It seems a very obvious thing to state. In this world, if you are going to give … Continue reading

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Another View: Putting Negative Situations into a Broader Viewpoint

Re-Contextualizing Here we are Being Spiritual. I am going to talk about two things: context and something called re-contextualizing. Don’t let the words put you off. The intention is simply to offer a way of living life from a far … Continue reading

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The Challenge of Forgiveness

*Video: forgiveness Forgiveness What does forgiveness mean? It is letting go of grudges or hurts and guilt’s from the past. It is realizing that every thing, every event in life can be seen to be for your good. What will … Continue reading

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Forgiveness Mentoring

*Video: forgiveness mentoring Personal Freedom through Forgiveness We begin today by pumping up our energy and affirming: “Yes,yes,yes,” in order to find the strength to begin to face the idea of forgiving our past. Forgiveness offers us the key to … Continue reading

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Spiritual Path? Or Spiritual Growth?

*Video: spiritual path or spiritual evolution What We Call a Path is Spiritual Evolution There is no path. Yet as we progress, as we evolve, as we go along, those are the words used to describe what we are doing. … Continue reading

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Watching the Mind

A Cure for Thinking? It seems odd that you live with a constant stream of thoughts flowing through your head, yet rarely notice what they are saying and whether or not you believe them. Millions upon millions of thoughts flow … Continue reading

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Spiritual Mentoring: The “I-Know” Mind

*Video: the i know mind Spiritual Mentoring: The “I-Know” Mind The “I-know” mind is a huge topic. If you think you know all there is to know about a person or topic, then the mind is closed. That is all … Continue reading

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Spiritual Evolution and Spiritual Mentoring

*Video: spiritual mentoring spiritual evolution Spiritual Evolution – We are all Going Home I have been asked to talk about what I do with spiritual mentoring. It seems that I have not put enough information on my website, so I … Continue reading

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Change Takes as Long as it Takes

Releasing Doubt Through A Course In Miracles (ACIM) I am a long-time student in A Course In Miracles (ACIM). In the early years of study, I drove with the Course at the center of my chest, locked it in place … Continue reading

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Kinesiology: How to Muscle Test

*Video: kinesiology Kinesiology: A Lesson We know when presented with something that is true either for us personally, or more globally. We cannot always tell that we know. The physical response of our muscles flash out an immediate response to … Continue reading

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Releasing Resistance to Commitment

*Video: releasing resistance to commitment What Blocks Your Spiritual Commitment? Resistance to commitment will stop you from practicing consistently. It results in great frustration for those wanting to practice. Perhaps your resistance is from the past. When you do something … Continue reading

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The Emperor’s Clothes – Abandon Desire and find Truth

Do we Hide the Truth from Ourselves? Think of the childhood story of the emperor and his new clothes. Those tailors saw his need to be “special” and used it to sell him a lie. They told him their magical … Continue reading

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Doing Matters Most

Doing The Important Things You Do Not Do Your amazing mind notices only the events that confirm your personal beliefs. It sifts through everyday situations to find proof for you. It will even sort through and re-write your past, in order … Continue reading

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Being Radical

Being Spiritual? Being Radical Radical was a seventies word for me. The specter of tie-died kaftans, headbands, bells and beads and that inevitable fist waving in the air, hovered around it. Those radicals were extremist, and extremists were, well, over … Continue reading

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Being Spiritual: Sharing Love

Erasing the Conditions on your Love 35 million people viewed Matt and Melissa of You tube fame documenting Matt’s round-the-world dance-a-thon He danced and you loved him. Love as Matt expresses it, is tangible; a magnetic field, effortlessly recognized by … Continue reading

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Being Spiritual with Ho’oponopono

*Video: ho’oponopono How to Use Ho’oponopono Ho’oponopono is a system to make right what is in error or in need of forgiveness and restitution. Saying, I love you; Please forgive me; I’m sorry; Thank you, sets up both an intention … Continue reading

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Surrender – The Essence of Spirituality

*Video: surrender Surrender: Be What You Are Why would we want to surrender what we know? Why let go of our thoughts, our feelings and our understanding about life? Having spent our whole life focused on being assertive and empowered, … Continue reading

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Real Spiritual Growth: Taking the Long Way Home

A Spiritual Mentor serves you Here we are being spiritual… We are multifaceted. We are physical, mental-emotional, and spiritual beings. Our personal karma (we reap what we sow is what I mean here) our spiritual maturity (or how far along … Continue reading

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Why Choose a Spiritual Life?

*Video: choosing a spiritual life We Evolve Toward the Light We make many choices in our lives, but some things seem to draw us towards them whether we will or no. Perhaps a spiritual life is more of an evolution … Continue reading

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Worry and Spiritual Action

*Video: worry and spiritual action The Worry Treadmill Quote: “Worry is like rocking, you are doing something but going nowhere.” We all know that worry is useless. Still we worry. What can we do? Worrying at night can be decreased … Continue reading

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Contemplation: Living in an Upside Down World

*Video: contemplation Finding New Context First, contemplate how upside down this world is. Love is considered weak, warring strong. Defend and fight are our usual responses to apparent attack. Then you are invited to consider what is right side up … Continue reading

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Living Your Intention

*Video: living your intention Holding on to Unconditional Love Unconditional Love: how do we hold it in our lives? We consider it our intention. Rather than beating our self up when we have been other than unconditional in our love … Continue reading

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Can You be Unconditionally Loving?

*Video: can you be unconditionally loving Is Unconditional Love Possible? The quote for you this week is:”Love as I have loved you,” – Jesus It is offered to encourage you to consider moving towards being unconditional in your loving attitude … Continue reading

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How Meditation and Contemplation Help

*Video: meditation vs contemplation Meditating and Contemplating In keeping with the theme of Being Spiritual what is the difference between contemplation and meditation? Both are powerful practices. Meditation offers a daily discipline and the opportunity to access deep states of … Continue reading

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How to Offer Spiritual Help to the Japanese People

*Video: sending light Japan. What can we do? When disasters happen in life, such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, many feel called to help. High spiritual teachings such as, “This world is an illusion or the body is … Continue reading

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