How Does Spirit Butter Parsnips?
Published January 16th, 2012 | 
If you’re like me your spiritual practice will bring you huge comfort. You know when you have those worrying or stressful times you can turn to practice or your guides for reassurance. Your meditation will relax and calm your mind. Your spiritual energy practice will revive and invigorate you. Communicating with your guides will set your mind at rest.
But have you ever felt frustrated that no matter how much you meditate, and put out positive thoughts you still seem to get stuck with the same problems, the same money worries, and the same people annoying you by doing the same irritating things?
I used to feel like that too. I couldn’t understand why. I would be completely clear about my outcome, yet no amount of focussing on the goal seemed to bring it any closer. It was so frustrating and I couldn’t understand what I was doing wrong. Have you ever had felt that too?
Now being an engineer my mind is constantly set to explore and experiment to find solutions. So I set out on a course of experimentation and research to figure out how I could make my spiritual practice create tangible results in the real world.
Here’s what I discovered and how you can use YOUR powerful connection to spirit to really rock your physical world.
Before we get started on what I discovered, I want to mention that none of this relies on what I call “magical thinking”. You know, where you meditate on a purple stone, think happy thoughts and the world just changes by magic.
Granted magic can happen, and here’s how to make more of it happen in your life with your spiritual practice so you can create real and tangible results in your income, your relationships, your health and your business.
Ready to get started…
1. Receive inspiration or your big dream as to what’s possible in the world
Your spiritual practice can enable you to become free of the shackles and constraints about what is and isn’t possible.
Face it. Most people have a postage stamp size view of what their life could be like. And of course when you get really connected to spirit, little by little as the constraints fall away, possibilities appear as your vision grows and deepens and strengthens. Your spiritual vision shows you a truly magnificent vista of what your world could be like. The mark of success is having a really big dream, and being willing to go for it.
2. Let your Guides give you courage
Which brings us to the next thing I discovered, having a big dream is wonderful, but not if you can’t find the courage to start to build it, create it and LIVE it. It’s so sad to see so many beautiful spiritual souls with a magnificent dream of how they could make a difference in the world, if they only had the courage to start.
Your guides can give you that courage. Creating something brings a risk so make sure you use your inspired guidance and spiritual connection to give you the courage you need. Especially when you’re faced with criticism, resistance (including your own) and the limited thinking that many people have been brainwashed with.
3. Ask your Guides HOW to achieve your goals
Your big dream is your WHY. This is why you do what you do. Once you’ve got the dream and the courage, the next step is to take some action. But where to start!
Tune into your guides and ask them HOW you can achieve your goals. HOW can you make your dream happen? Start with baby steps and reward yourself. Work with your guides, don’t ask them what you should do, instead decide on the outcome and ask your guides HOW you can achieve that. With a strong enough connection you can get step by step instructions of all the actions to take to achieve your goals.
4. Guide the right people into your life
When I was first starting out in my business almost 8 years ago, one of the most significant bits of advice I ever got was that if you have a really big dream. You’ll never do it alone. You will need help from others. Maybe it’s from a mentor, friends, colleagues, or a team.
I still find it astonishing that when I have a need the perfect person with the perfect skills, wisdom, knowledge shows up and is willing to help. This is how my team showed up, all at the perfect time. In fact this happened just last week when my new coach Christian Mickelson showed up with the perfect programme to help me get my business to the next level. It was so weird that the exact goals I’d set for the year were EXACTLY what his programme could help me with. Coincidence? No I don’t think so.
If you’ve ever had a goal or a problem and not known who to turn to for help ask your Spirit Guides to direct into your life the perfect people who can help you. They will show up. All you need to do is to take action when they do.
5. Inspire you to take action
Have noticed yet that straight after you finish mediating, or your spiritual practice you suddenly get a huge rush of inspiration and energy to action? Perhaps suddenly want to call someone, or to send an e-mail, sign up for an event or programme. Whatever it is you can feel unstoppable.
You may not have realised it but that rush of energy and inspiration is Spirit guiding you.
Why buttering parsnips?
If you’re wondering why I mention parsnips in the title of this article… have you heard the phrase “Fine words butter no parsnips”? Well I’m not sure why it’s parsnips and buttering, but I can relate to the sentiment. Can you?
Finally, in a nutshell, your spiritual centre is always there, it helps you find your dream and guides you to LIVE it. But beware the pitfall of magical thinking. There is no tooth fairy that’s going to do the work for you. The reason you have a physical body is so you can take action to create change in the physical world.
Just make it inspired action that moves you towards your dream, and bit-by-bit YOU CAN create it.
So what THREE spiritually inspired action steps are you going to take today to move you towards your dream?
Dream it. Bravely do it. Enjoy it.
I love you
States, Stages and Magic
Published November 10th, 2011 | 
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying by Gandhi “be the change you want to see in the world”. What he seemed to be saying was that if you want to create change in the world you first need to start with yourself. I’m going to show you how this relates to spiritual development and even magic and goes much deeper than is suggested by first appearances. Spiritual development happens in three steps: states, stages, and magic. States Most people are familiar with the idea of entering a spiritual state, a state of heightened awareness, increased consciousness where you have a profound and moving spiritual experience. Altering our consciousness to achieve these heightened states forms the bedrock of most spiritual development. Although these states are wonderful, sadly for many people when they are over they simply return to their normal consciousness and then seek to repeat this. There’s nothing wrong with this, although it may not happen again, leaving the person feeling a constant yearning. If they do manage to find a means to repeat it regularly they may be tempted to use this state to escape the real world, which they still feel powerless to change. Stages Stages in spiritual development are steps along our journey where we become increasingly whole, connected, awake and aware whilst still in the world. When you have moved to the next stage on your journey you feel more confident, more connected, more at peace. Your situation and circumstances may not have changed, but you have, and your response to it has. By healing and releasing your past pain, events no longer trigger you. This change happens at the level of the unconscious mind and requires some sophisticated healing processes to release it. Thinking positively, and using affirmations don’t work. This is because 99% of your thinking is outside of your awareness, so to make them work you would need to be thinking positively, and saying your affirmations 100% of the time. That just sounds like hard work to me, which is why techniques like Higher Self Therapy are so powerful When have moved to this “stage”, you can still access spiritual and heightened states but don’t use it to escape your situation, instead you use it to change yourself and your reaction to the situation. You feel increasingly more empowered, in control, at peace and centred. Magic Magic is an idea that seems pretty far fetched. Many people think of it in terms of Harry Potter, waving a magic wand, saying funny spells and “hingly bongly” a puff of white smoke and something happens. In advanced mystery schools though, magic is thought of as the ability to change the outer world by changing your internal world. It starts with the idea that we create our world with our thoughts, and that by mastering our thoughts we can change that creation. To do this we need to change ourselves at a very deep level. This goes beyond healing and releasing our past pain in our own unconscious mind to tapping into the collective unconscious and working at the level of the higher self. Of course to do this you will need to have cleared and healed the pathways in your unconscious mind. When you can do magic you won’t be waving wands or creating puffs of white smoke but here are some of the things you will notice.
And of course, if you’re still on the planet, which means you’re still evolving and the world won’t become perfect overnight. And how boring would that be if it was. |
How To Avoid The Mistakes Made By Spiritual Entrepreneurs
Published October 12th, 2011 | 
There’s never been a better time to be a spiritual entrepreneur. And if you’re a coach, healer, psychic or complementary therapist that means YOU!
The 2012 shift is bringing the masculine and feminine energies into balance. Feminine energy is the intuitive, creativity, the flexibility and flow, it’s that beautiful heart centered transformation that is that thing you do. Masculine energy is the rational business logic that gives the structure to the business so that you can make money and support yourself whilst you do that thing you do.
As a spiritual entrepreneur you are the role model showing the way for others. For you to be that role model you need to have your own balance right. Here are just a few of the mistakes that some spiritual entrepreneurs make and how you can avoid them.
Mistakes spiritual entrepreneurs make
1. Being fair to others but not themselves
It’s not good business practice to give away too much. Being overly generous with your clients, team and suppliers will only leave you feeling tired, and fed up. Over the long term you may even notice a little resentment creeping in. Instead go for the Win-Win where you win as well.
2. Undercharge and over work
Many spiritual entrepreneurs have issues with money and charging. They don’t charge enough to make their business viable. They end up burnt out, stressed and just plain tired. This doesn’t serve either you or your clients.
3. Not having a clear business plan
Being a spiritual entrepreneur means being both spiritual AND an entrepreneur. And a good entrepreneur obeys the laws and rules of business, which starts with having a plan. Planning how much income you intend to generate and how you intend to do this is essential good business practice. You can’t run a business on “Hopium”.
4. Using intuition where logic is needed
Intuition is great, but it doesn’t make for great business planning. Use intuition to help guide you and then do the maths. Work out the costing and budgets and work within that.
5. Not trusting your intuition
Many spiritual entrepreneurs find it so easy to always see the good in others that they forget to heed their own intuition when it’s telling them NOT to get involved with a particular project or person. Trust your intuition.
6. Not setting time aside to connect to source
When your business starts to take off it can be a whirlwind of activity and work. You might be able to manage for a few days, weeks or even months without checking in with source, but over the long term you can go wildly off track.
How to avoid those mistakes
Make sure every transaction is a Win-Win. If you lose they lose too. It’s OK to be fair to yourself first.
Use logic. Set budgets. Learn how to put together a solid business plan, and then take the steps to put your plan into action.
Have great boundaries. Clearly express them and enforce them. Use the magic words “that won’t work for me” as gentle way of saying no.
Separate yourself from your business. You HAVE a business. You are not your business. This helps too when stating your fee.
Don’t be too trusting. Remember the saying. “Trust in Allah and tie your camel”, which is another way of saying “read the small print”.
Decide how much your service is worth and charge that. Work this out, not on the time you spend, but the value you deliver. It’s about what they get, not what you give.
Stick to your fees and don’t discount. You are only selling your client short. If they value your service and the transformation, they will pay for it. If they won’t pay, then it’s because it’s not worth it to them. Find someone who for whom it IS worth it.
Have you got your energy balance right?
Published June 2nd, 2011 | 
Did you know that your success in life is largely down to having a good balance of both masculine and feminine energy. When you have too much or too little of one it can cause your life to seize up like as stuck as a very stuck thing, or wreak havoc and chaos.
Masculine energy is Rational Thought, Logic, Systems, Process, Control, Heat, Stillness, Light, Discipline, Steady State, Status quo, Consciousness, Structure, Order. It says “NO”
Feminine energy is Creative, Inspired, Raw Power, Cool, Dark, Movement, Change, Flexibility, Chaos, Intuition, Permitting, Dynamic. It Say’s YES
For example, a project will be a success if you take inspired creativity (feminine energy) and channel it systematically, with a logical plan (masculine). The result is you have fabulous finished project.
But when the balance is out the result could be very different.
Here are some of the signs your energy is out of balance.
Too Much Feminine Energy
- Fuzzy thinking, you can’t concentrate, start things but then get distracted and fail to finish things. Is your home or office full of unfinished projects
- You can’t focus, you have lots of projects on the go at the same time
- You say yes to things and later regret it.
- You find it really difficult to make decisions, and agonise over them for days, weeks or months.
- You are disorganised, lose things forget things have a “head like a sieve”. Sometimes you can’t even remember what you said in a meeting yesterday or last week.
- Your life is rather chaotic, with your days lacking structure or plans
Too Much Masculine Energy
- You find it very hard to take risks, even if you know it’s the right thing and miss great opportunities as a result. Have you ever kicked yourself for saying no to something that later turned out to be a great idea?
- You like to have everything planned out to the last detail. You get very stressed when you have to change your plans at short notice or if there isn’t a plan.
- When circumstances change and you need to adapt, change you often don’t notice until it’s too late.
- Others accuse you of being rigid, Inflexible or a stickler for rules.
- You like to know the “rules” and what’s expected. You can’t stand it when things seem to be disorganised or if others are making it up as they go along.
- You regularly try to make changes in your life, but things just go back to how they were.
Signs You Have Low Energy Generally
- You try to manifest money, or things but it never works
- Others don’t listen or ignore you. You lack power, authority and presence.
- At the end of the day you have been really busy and are exhausted but have little or nothing to show for it.
- You attract lots of interest and attention but it’s often from people who you really don’t want to be around. You find them repellent, but can’t seem to shake them off as they stick to you like glue and keep showing up wherever you go.
- Your personal relationships aren’t working or nonexistent.
- You try to get the attention of people who you know will be able to help you and they give you the brush off, you can’t connect with them.
- You are very spiritual but find it hard to bring your spiritual insights into physical reality. You have great spiritual wisdom, but no-one will listen to you.
But when you’re energy is working, and you can maintain a dynamic balance of both polarities success becomes almost inevitable
Here is just a sampling of what is possible if your sexual energy is functioning exquisitely.
- Would you like to be highly creative and able to channel your creativity into successful and profitable projects?
- Would you like to finally get organised so that you know where things are and don’t waste time?
- You would like to be fully in your body and feel alive in the present moment.
- Would you like to just KNOW if an opportunity is a good one or not, and be able to take decisive action?
- Would you like to be able to focus with laser clarity so that you could get things DONE?
- Would you like to have crystal clarity of mind so that you can think logically, rationally and clearly? It’s this that makes it possible to make good decisions and get things done
- Would you like to manage your time better so that every day you achieve something extraordinary and can feel satisfied at the end of the day?
- Do you wish you could just make snap decisions that are the rights ones without agonising over them?
- Do you wish you could be more spontaneous and have more fun?
- Would you like to have the “Midas touch” and create amazing coincidences all the time? would you like to experience amazing LUCK and good fortune
- Would you like to be able to say NO to things (and the right things)
- Do you wish people would listen to you, seek you out and have them hang on your every word. Can you imagine what it would be like to have people flock to hear you, see you, talk to you, be near you?
- Would you like to attract and keep your soul mate and have the relationship be fulfilling and satisfying on every level?
- Do you wish you could magnetise money?
Well who wouldn’t? find out how it’s possible click here
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