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GamblingAccessing Your Spiritual Guidance
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Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
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Title: Accessing Your Spiritual Guidance
Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
E-mail: margaret@innerbonding.com
Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul
Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com
Word Count: 1128
Category: Self Help/Spirituality
ACCESSING YOUR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE
By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
For the last 35 years, I have been working with individuals, couples and families, as well as business relationships. I have 8 publicised books on relationships and healing, several of them best-sellers. In the 1st half of my career, I worked as a traditional psychotherapist, and was not happy with the results. In the last 18 years I have worked with a process called Inner Bonding, which is a powerful six step psychological and spiritual healing process. I discovered that there is no real healing without a personal connection with a source of spiritual guidance.
Everyone in recovery - whether from alcohol, drugs, food, spending, gambling, sex, TV, codependency, or any different addiction - knows that they cannot heal without a connection with their Higher Power, yet for many, this connection is illusive. It is a common experience for me to activity with folk who have been in Twelve Steps for years yet still don't have a direct, personal experience of their Higher Power. All of us want a direct line to our spiritual Guidance. We need this help in maintaining abstinence and taking responsibility for ourselves. We want to cognize what is in our highest good, what is the right decision in several situations, how to set appropriate boundaries, and how to manifest what we want.
It is the birthright of each of us to have a direct line to God, some God is for you. Yet few of us have knowing how to do this at wish on a daily basis. Astonishingly
however, it is not hard to do.
The spiritual realm exists at a higher frequency than we do here on the physical plane of Planet Earth. In order to access the spiritual realm, we need to cognize how to raise our "frequency".
One way to understand "frequency" is to imagine a room filled with folk who are sharing love and joy with each other. This room has a feeling of lightness--a high frequency--whereas a room filled with angry, tense folk has a feeling of heaviness--a low frequency.
So, how do we raise our frequency? There are many
things you can do to help yourself raise your frequency, but none of them wish activity unless you have the intent to discover with Spirit simply about adoring yourself and others.
Our intent is the most powerful tool we have for raising our frequency. There are only two possible intents in any given moment: to discover with God/Spirit simply about adoring yourself and others, or to protect against your pain and avoid responsibility for your feelings. Once
our intent is to protect and avoid we seek to control - through our various addictions - our feelings, others' feelings and behavior, and the outcome of things. Once
our intent is to learn, we seek to take responsibility for our own feelings and behavior by discovering what we may be thinking or doing that is cold-hearted to ourselves and others, and what would-be be loving.
You can try many a methods of raising your frequency, from prayer to meditation to chanting, but if your intent is to protect instead of learn, none of these wish do any nice at all. The reason is that once
the intent is to protect against pain, we close our heart so as not to feel some we are feeling. God cannot come through a closed heart.
We are each given free wish once
we come to this planet. This means that we get to choose our intent - to be open or closed, adoring or unloving, protected against pain or taking responsibility for our feelings. Patch the love that is God is all-powerful, it cannot come into a closed heart. Simply as the air you breathe cannot come into your lungs until you take a breathe, the love, power and wisdom that is God cannot enter your being until you choose the intent to discover simply about loving.
When you have a true, pure intent to learn, your frequency mechanically
raises. None of the actions I suggest below wish raise your frequency without this intent. However, once you have this intent, the following actions can help to further raise your frequency.
o Come into your imagination. Your imagination is a gift from God. Once
you come into your imagination, you raise your frequency and tap into the source of your ability and inspiration. Our temperament
to come into and trust our imagination is essential to being able to connect with our personal spiritual Guidance Once
you 1st begin to utilize your imagination to increase your frequency and connect with God, you power feel as if you are simply mistreatment your imagination to do things up. However, as you take the risk of trusting what you think you are "making up," you wish discover that it actually is coming through you from God rather than from you.
o Support your body clear. Your body is an energy system. If your body's energy is clogged with drugs, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, heavy foods, lots of food or foods contaminated with pesticides, preservatives, artificial sweeteners or any of the thousands of chemicals that are additional to foods, your frequency is lowered.
o Pray. Sincere prayers of feeling
and asking God for help in healing all blocks to adoring can raise your frequency.
o Chant. Repetitive prayers, chants and mantras can open you to higher frequencies, as can singing in general.
o Dance. Rapid repetitive movement, such as Native American percussion
dances, may open you to higher frequencies.
o Spend time in nature. The frequency of a city is far lower than the frequency of nature. Being among trees and flowers, near a river, creek or lake, at the ocean, in the desert, or on a mountain can all raise your frequency.
o Listen to classical or spiritual music.
o Do creative, artistic activities. Moving into your creative imagination raises the frequency.
o Use incense or do "smudging." Incense has been used for centuries to raise the frequency and invite spiritual connection. "Smudging" is mistreatment the smoke from various dried plants such as sage, pine, cedar and lavender to clean the energies in a room and raise the frequency. Smudging has been used for thousands of years by autochthonic folks throughout the world.
o Lighting candles. Candlelight, too, has been used for thousands of years to clean the air and raise the frequency.
If you get into the habit of asking yourself throughout the day, "What is my intent? Am I trying to control something, or is my deepest desire in the moment to discover simply about adoring myself and others?", you wish begin to understand intent. This wish eventually lead you into hearing, feeling, and seeing your personal spiritual Guidance.
Simply simply about THE AUTHOR
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Adored By You?", "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Adored By My Kids?", "Healing Your Aloneness","Inner Bonding", and "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Adored By God?" Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com
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