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Developing Your Inner Spiritual Guidance

As the world becomes more connected through the technologies of communication, it is also becoming easier to become disconnected from our own selves. The necessary quiet time that develops our natural, inborn connection with intuition and spiritual guidance is no longer easily found in our daily lives, and this can cause feelings of overwhelm, meaninglessness, and an inner sense of disharmony and emptiness.

In today's world as we face unprecedented challenges both individually and collectively, there is also a very high level of daily stress that is constantly affecting our bodies, minds and emotions. Our daily lives are filled with intensity as we witness widespread social, political and climate change, uncertainty about the future, and fear of the unknown.

If these weren't enough, there is also the effect of greater spiritual light expanding on the Earth, which is helping us to awaken spiritually, but is also creating a major cleansing process for us on all levels ... spiritually, emotionally and physically. The pain of the past that we may have buried from our consciousness begins to surface into our awareness, bringing old feelings or physical symptoms to light.

We are all developing ways to cope with the increased levels of stress in our lives today. There are many spiritual tools and transformational supports that can assist you in reclaiming your inner connection with yourself. Once you create an intention to reconnect with your inner being, you will begin to draw to yourself the people, situations, and supports you need.

One of the most useful and simple ways to navigate through these very intense times is to develop a deeper connection with your natural intuitive spiritual guidance. Inner guidance is a gift from our soul to our embodied, human self which we all have access to. Some of us are more attuned to this part of ourselves, especially those who are artists, musicians, athletes, or whose work involves healing. Some of us may have learned to "turn off" this inner gift, because of childhood pressure to conform to social standards.

No matter how connected or disconnected you may feel from your inner spiritual guidance, everyone has the capacity to nurture, develop and strengthen this important part of ourselves. Living with an active and awake inner spiritual guidance offers us the opportunity to perceive and experience a whole new creative dimension of life. The universe of spiritual reality is vast and when intuition is activated, new experiences begin to open and create vaster and more meaningful possibilities.

In addition to expanding our daily experience of life, developing intuition and spiritual guidance serves to create a depth of connection to inner truth. If you've ever witnessed the simple and profound clarity of truth that comes from small children who have not yet learned to censor their inner guidance, you'll have some idea of what is possible for yourself.

In today's world where there are many sources of information that may or may not be accurate or truthful, your spiritual guidance and intuition can offer a clarity of direction in situations where it may not otherwise be possible to know what is real. As your intuition becomes more highly developed, you will be able to sense the presence of or the lack of love, light and warmth in people. You will be able to more easily discern what feels true or false to you, beyond the words that people say or the appearances that are presented.

In today's world there is much at stake, and many choices are presented to us each day about who to listen to, and where to place our attention, time, and trust. If we are disconnected from ourselves and the center of our own being, then it is easier for us to be swayed in directions that depart from love and truth that we may later regret. Developing our inner spiritual guidance offers the precious gift of discernment, allowing us to see clearly what is true and what is not, and to navigate more easily in the great complexities and challenges that we face in today's world.

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Develop Your Intuition

Have you had that experience when all of a sudden you just had this huge hunch that something is about to happen, and to your surprise, that intuition was eventually translated to reality?

When you feel strongly about something without logical basis to it, that's called intuition. It comes in three impressions: clairvoyance or "the third eye", sensing clearly and feeling through listening.

Clairvoyance is when your eye goes beyond what it can see. This is when you know what is happening somewhere.

Sensing clearly is basically what we refer to as "hunch" or "gut feel." This is the time when you are overwhelmed with a feeling and you can't explain it and all you can say is "I just know."

On the other hand, feeling through listening or clairaudience is being able to "listen" between the lines. Intuition also happens at times when a certain sound, whatever it is - be it a car's honk or a bird's twitting - ushers in an intense feeling.

They say only a number of people are gifted with intuition. Astrologers even insist that people born under the Scorpio or Pisces signs are naturally intuitive it almost borders on E.S.P. But studies have been sprouting left and right that proclaim that anyone can develop intuition.

Why the need to develop intuition, you ask? Why not let your emotional and psychological state as it is? First and foremost, intuition promotes good communication. It makes you more sensitive to the people around you; it often keeps you from hurting those you love because you are intuitive enough to understand them. Intuition also makes you far more creative than ever. Intuition means releasing more creative juices for any means of expression. Lastly, intuition has a healing power. This healing power is not in the physical sense, but in delving deep into your soul to eradicate some negative energy buried in it.

With that being said, are you ready to develop your intuition? Here are some ways to unlock this gift:

1. Hypnosis

Oh yes, get yourself hypnotized. Hypnosis is not limited to watching a pendulum move back and forth. Perform self-hypnosis or you can avail of hypnotic programs that can strengthen your intuition.

2. Meditation

Meditating means finding peace in yourself. If your mind and heart are cluttered with too many baggage and hurt,  you wouldn't be able to quiet down that part of you that could eventually initiate intuition. There are so many ways to meditate: take a yoga class, or just simply practice some breathing that could bring you straight to Zen.

3. Think positive!

A worry-free, fear-free state could do so much to improve your intuitive ability. By staying positive, you attract good energy that would be able to easily recognize imminent feelings and events.

4.  Just let go.

What does this mean? If you are on the brink of making a huge decision, let go of all the inhibitions and head to a quiet place where you could find out where the letting go has brought you. Sometimes you just have to listen to the voice within you, and that voice wouldn't come out unless you let go.

5. Never expect.

After letting go of the inhibitions and all those things that stop you from thinking and feeling clearly, never expect for an answer right away. Never expect that the "hunch" would fall on your lap immediately. Give it a little time then you'd just get surprised that -- wham! -- now you have your answer.

6. Believe in your first impressions.

When you see someone for the first time and think that he is a bit too arrogant for your taste, chances are that impression actually holds true. Most of the time, first impressions are brought by intuition.

7. Stay happy!

See? All you need to be intuitive is to stay happy! Happiness attracts immense power and such power includes intuition. In tapping your intuition, your motivation must be happiness and contentment. Given that premise, intuition will fall to you easily.

Intuition is helpful, because sometimes it leads you to something that cannot be achieved otherwise. A lot of lives have been saved by intuition alone. Decisions are easier done if armed by this gift. Develop intuition now and reap benefits you have never imagined.

Interested in developing you intuition? Sign up for our workshop HERE .

PAST LIFE REGRESSION, A TECHNIQUE TOUCHING MANY LIVES

Past life regression is a very useful and unique technique which adopts the use of hypnosis for people who are curious and bent on discovering their past life. For some people, getting a glimpse of their past life can be so overwhelming that they seek help from the psychologists and other past life regression experts.

PAST LIFE REGRESSION AND HYPNOSIS

Past life regression is very much related to hypnosis since most practitioners conducting the "hypnosis approach" are able to recover an individual's memories of his past life or what is called as the "incarnation". Normally, practitioners and psychologists recommend people to undergo hypnosis and past life regression to pursue a satisfying spiritual experience prepared in a setting that has a psychotherapeutic ambiance. Experts believe that truly, when the hypnotist or the expert doing it sets the mood first, there are greater chances of achieving the desired results. Really, setting the mood is the first basic need to be able to undertake a successful hypnosis session.

While most believers of past life regression and hypnosis strictly hold fast to their beliefs about the logic and principles of reincarnation, there are still some traditional beliefs about past life regression that is limiting. Yes, the traditional people linked their ideology of past life to reincarnation; however, they excluded from the concept of reincarnation that of one's reserved and self-conscious memories in the previous life.

MOST POPULAR TECHNIQUE FOR PAST LIFE REGRESSION

The most popular technique used for conducting past life regression is where the person undergoing it is subjected to respond to a queue of questions while under the power of hypnosis, lying in the couch unconscious of the surroundings, and supplying all relevant information brought about by his memories of the past, as well as all the details of all his significant experiences which have made him become what he is today.

RECOVERED MEMORY THERAPY

Another technique for past life regression is the one that reveals the true identity as well as all the real events that transpired in people's past lives. This kind of therapy is known to work well. It works by misrepresenting memories of a person and therefore misleading the chronology and validity of past events instead of an assembled block of reminiscences. By merely using the technique of hypnosis and evocative queries, one can actually make the subject have the tendency to cling to imprecise, vague and artificial memories.

This led to more and more serious investigations about different sorts of memories being reported during past life regression, and it was revealed that there are actually times when history can be so inexact and incorrect as they are easily discussed on some books pertaining to the fundamental knowledge of history.

HISTORY BOOKS ENHANCE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORICAL EVENTS
You could also try checking up on the various elements of well-loved and popular culture books which frequently discuss various aspects of a historical event. Conducting experiments with people undertaking a session of past life regression can really be quite an interesting topic. And the farthest that past life regression has gone as of today, is that of demonstrating that a belief or advocacy in reincarnation as well as heeding the advice and suggestions of the person conducting the hypnosis, are indeed two most essential and indispensable aspects of past life regression!

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I Hate Moving....

I hate moving especially packing and unpacking...ughhh!

And of course leaving my home of 15 years...another major ughhhh!

My mom proposed moving closer to her and my sister. I really struggled with this decision. Mostly, because I like my privacy and truthfully, my relationship with my mother has been strained for years. Only recently has it begun to blossom into something new and tolerable.

I asked myself the same question I always do when faced with challenging situatio
ns or decisions: does this move me closer to or further away from my goals?

So I moved.

Both of my sons get to be closer to their grandmother and she's been cooking for them every weekend.

They also get to have a relationship with their aunt who has been absent for most of their lives.

And me...well I get to see them smile and enjoy the benefits of close proximity to family. Plus, now I'm closer to the city and will have more time to devote to building my business because everything including public transportation is literally blocks away. Yayyy!!

I also get to rebuild relationships that slipped away because of pride or pain. These are bonds that I miss deep down inside of my soul. Hard to admit, but very very true. I'm still a little leery, but I know that even though forgiveness may be immediate, building trust takes time.

Have you been struggling with any major decisions? Do me a favor and leave a comment below to let me know some of your life struggles or wins that you're experiencing.

I would really love to hear what's going on in your life. Leave a comment below to let me know.

Simone

Don't Believe... Know!

The spiritual evolution of the this planet and its inhabitants is currently in a rapid state of change, a new era is being born, and we are no longer content to be believers, as sheep in a "flock". People are waking up to the knowledge that we can be masters of our own destiny, and are looking to the ancient cultures who have survived to show us the way forward.

How can we break free from our definitions, when we are bound by systems, and rules and regulations, and "normal procedures" . What escape routes are there when all we know is all we have been taught. What is there outside the world we know, and how can we find it and finally be free.

Ancient knowledge and practices from Shamanism, Wicca, Vodou, Druidism and many others are being used and adapted to our modern lives to re-connect us to the worlds of spirit. We are re-discovering that everything in our universe has energy, consciousness, vibration and a power of its own, something the ancients have always known.

By lovingly connecting ourselves to this universal energy, we can know that everything within it has its own spirit, and is connected to everything else. Deep personal transformations can occur as we align ourselves to the loving universal consciousness, giving us back the power to create our own personal spirituality, and to KNOW spirit to the very core of our being.

“I don't believe, I know.” Carl Jung.

“You are not my enemies, you are my brothers and sisters. You did not do anything to me or my people. All that happened a long time ago in the lives of our ancestors. And, at that time I might actually have been on the other side. We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our Planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.” Chief Seattle.

“There is no one who can take our place. Each of us weaves a strand in the web of creation. There is no one who can weave that strand for us. What we have to contribute is both unique and irreplaceable. What we withhold from life is lost to life. The entire world depends upon individual choices.” Duane Elgin.

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