Spiritual Enlightenment

by Lynn Claridge -

The first step to attain higher levels of spirituality is through Spiritual Enlightenment, a process of absorbing knowledge and wisdom without Judgment.

Are you able to tell me what enlightenment means? If not let me explain. 

When I put this question to my clients, they give me a list of things, not just material items but many other things that include love, family and peace. In all the cases, there is something to attain. 

Let me tell you that there is nothing to attain because you already have it, however, there is stuff to discard. 

Once you do this, it leaves you in an enlightened state and it is in this state that you will find happiness.

There are many reasons to seek enlightenment. 

Enlightenment is an ideal state of being, that you achieve via an ongoing process. It is a process of allowing the right amount of consciousness to shine through your physical being. 

Let me explain it another way. When you are enlightened, you liberate yourself from the physical world. This means you have the ability to witness your thought process.

Your thoughts create your future and physical reality. 

You currently identify with your thoughts, you live your life inside your thought process, and you should realize your thoughts are separate from you. 

The vast major of your thinking is done without you being aware of it. When you are enlightened, you free yourself from being swept up in your thinking process, therefore, you liberate yourself from any thought that is not your choice.

Did you know you currently suffer every time you wrestle with your emotions, argue about something or agonize over a decision? Sometimes this can be short lived and mild, however, at other times, it is extremely painful and remains with you for a long time. 

When you are free from suffering, you are free and have more choices.

Desire means you are unsatisfied and in this state, your wants are driven by your emotions. 

Without desire you can still have, however, your wants are closer to preference. When you experience this, you will understand freedom from the material world. This does not mean you cannot have something you want; it just means you are unaffected if you do not get it.

The “truth” is the way that the world really is. 

Being able to see the “truth” means you see beyond the physical side of others. You see who you really are. It means you can read between the lines and you hear what others are saying.

Some people know the process of looking for spiritual enlightenment as “the search for the holy grail” however, this is not so, it is achieved by removing the obstacles. These obstacles are inside you, they are created by your mind.

Have you noticed how I have said nothing about religion, have you also noticed how I have not mentioned morals and have you noticed how I have not told you what you can or cannot do. Good. 

Now I will tell you how enlightenment really helps in everyday life.

To get into this state means you can transmit energy in the form of ideas and words.

What does it mean to experience Spiritual Enlightenment?

• Enlightenment is a continuous realization that you are an eternal being. 

• It comes from a deeper knowing that you are beyond body and behind the mind. 

• It is celebrating every moment of the day, with the feeling of being connected to the universe, as if it is a living, breathing conscious, which loves you unconditionally. 

• It is surrendering to the truth everywhere you are.

Experience Your True Self

So here is, you answer, spiritual enlightenment is a process of peeling back the many layers of your ego to experience your true self. 

It is a process of opening up to your inner most being. Reaching towards the center of you, true enlightenment is the very essence of your being it is where your true spiritual knowledge resides.

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Understanding Enlightenment

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The following will take you closer to an experience of spiritual enlightenment. Read on to understand more about bringing Inner awareness into your life.

Free yourself from the illusion that you are separate.

Feeling separate and discounted is how you create failure after failure in life. Once you untangle yourself from this belief, you can move on.

All experiences of suffering are created by your minds lack of awareness in seeing who you really are.

Quieting the incessant chattering in your mind.

Your ego is a thought program, like a computer. It just spits out information and computes ideas that are about the past and future. 

The mind/ego is a limited construction of ideas and beliefs about who you are. 

The more you can silence the chattering mind, the less likely you are to become trapped in your ego. 

Only through the constant release of the ego can you live in true spiritual enlightenment. You become aligned with the truth and you infinite spiritual being.

Embrace and release all you fears.

As you may have heard, fear really stands for false evidence appearing real. To find what you are afraid of, open yourself up to intimate conversation. Eventually you will be able to see into yourself again and understand truly what you are running from. 

Once you know what you are running away from, run towards it, and embrace it. It will dissolve the fear from your life allowing you to move forward.

Embrace and release all mental, emotional and physical attachment or aversions to everyone and everything in your life.

As a human being you will become attached to people, you will care about what they say, do or think about you. 

This happens because you have an automatic habit of trying to avoid what is painful and stay with what is pleasurable. 

The problem arises when you become too attached to having what is pleasurable all the time. Pain and suffering is the universe telling you to let go! The purpose of pain is not about creating more suffering, it is about creating change, this change is necessary for you to drop your ego-trip and return to your spiritual source again. 

This allows you to start enjoying your life. You experience pain because of one thing, ignorance. Think of the word ignore add a little dance to it and you get ignorance. When you ignore the truth of your being, your ignorance transmits into suffering. 

To transcend this ignorance and find spiritual enlightenment again, you need to find a deep awareness. With this profound state of consciousness, you can let go. The truth is, all you need to do is to re-discover the truth of who you are.

Freedom from unconscious myths and everyday stories of separation.

What was your story of failure or separation? Usually when you hear your parents and siblings having problems, you attach yourself to it, this is where the separation beings.

Your parents would have sent you off to an education system (which by the way only works 15% of your brains potentiality and capacity), this system is to support and help you learn about life. 

What society never taught you was how to be still inside, quieten your mind and emotions, meditate; focus on who you are or how to achieve inner bliss.

Society leads you to believe that success and truth is all about status, money and career. While these are important, the reality is, success is defined by how fulfilled you are as a human being.

You need to stop thinking that thinking is a way of getting what you want.

Thinking has become the norm. It has become abnormal in society to sit and be silent. 

You might find you run away from meditation because you cannot quieten your mind and you feel you are losing control of it. 

The ironic thing is, that all of the suffering, chaos and illness in life are cause be a lack of control and awareness of the mind. 

Instead of tuning to silence to find the answers, you’re taught to think more and know more, so you can achieve what you want. You are not taught to discover about being in the here and now.

Do not hide from your true power in a safe little fishbowl.

Thoughts are safe, while experiences are real and unsafe. You will find it easier not to take the risk of getting hurt by diving into the ocean of experience in life.

Not only you but also everyone stays comfortable in a fishbowl because it gives you and them a sense of confidence and security. 

Life is like an uncontrollable roller coaster ride because you do not know the future. In other words, you do not know how to respond to experiences that occur outside your fishbowl. Instead, you think about an experience without having one.

Through television, films and books you hide from your powerful spirit and pretend to be complete.

Let go of the need to be right all the time.

Being right can be the hardest ego trip to get off. To get off, means that you need to be wrong sometimes.

If everyone tells you from birth to death that life is a struggle and that it is hard, painful and unfair, you will believe them. 

So how can you relax and let go and trust yourself?

You think you must fight to get what you want. If life is serious, you are probably going to gain love, success and freedom by stepping on or over others. 

The world is a community of beings, it is a playground, a play and a stage where you can choose any role you desire.

Replace with positive.

Lack of awareness (ignorance) of your ever-present connection, stems from a lack of inner peace, power and playfulness, which can create low energy, this means you stay asleep.

When you do not respond with awareness, you just react unconsciously from past habits of being a victim and you create more experiences of being a victim. 

The truth is, you are really a human program. You have the same thoughts day after day. This creates a seriously deep rut in your life and the only way out is through being responsible for your thoughts and by choosing more empowering thoughts to help you move forward.

Choosing to suffer and stay unconscious.

Your society loves people who step out of line. The people around you often criticize you the moment you try to break out of the societal of unconscious living. The unconscious way is acceptable, it’s advertised on the television, films, news, media, radio and newspapers. 

However, we can all agree on one thing, and that is society teaches that everything you need to end your suffering is outside of you, not inside of you!

You may be caught up in the rat race to reach a certain status and to give you the luxury you want, this you believe will rid you of suffering. This never works. 

The cheese you are after just gets bigger. I am sure you are aware by now that suffering comes from constant desire. When you desire less, you remember again how connected you are to your spiritual self.

To have spiritual enlightenment, means waking up from the rat race. It takes a lot of effort to go against what you believe to be true. The great part however is that the universe will not let you down.

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Cosmic Laws of Success

by Lynn Claridge -

When it comes right down to it where ever you go is where you are, whatever you end up doing, that's what you are doing, whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind, what has happened to you, has already happened.

It is a type of mind set.

The important part is how are you going to handle it?

In other words "NOW WHAT". Like it or not this is all we have to work with.

At every moment of the day, we find ourselves at the crossroads of here and now. 

The reason we can often feel lost is because we momentarily lose touch with ourselves and with the full extent of our possibilities. We fall into a robot like way of seeing, thinking and doing.

In those moments, we are breaking the contact with our deepest inner self.

What we need to do is wake up to the way we do things and change our mind set.

Waking up goes hand in hand, with what we might call "wisdom or spiritual enlightenment" which helps us to see more deeply into the cause and effect, the interconnectedness of things.

By seeing and understanding your inner self and trying to change your mind set for the better does not mean you are weird or becoming a religious zombie.

It is simply being you and knowing something about yourself.

It helps to see the path we call life with its direction and meaning. You can easily remain on a slippery slope right into your grave if you do not do something about it.

We may never quite touch the fullness of our possibilities.

Instead we lock ourselves into a personal fiction that we already know who we are, that we know where we are and where we are going, that we know what is happening, all the while remaining enshrouded in thoughts, fantasies and impulses about the past and the future. About what we want and like, what we fear and do not like.

These thoughts spin out continuously, under veiling our direction and the very ground we standing on.

If what happens now does influence what happens next, then does it not make sense to look around from time to time, so you are more in touch with what is happening around now? 

You can then take your inner and outer bearings and perceive with clarity the path that you are actually on, the direction in which you are going.

You need to look inside yourself, only you can decide if you are happy and fulfilled and I mean "really happy and fulfilled" with the path you are on. 

If you are unsure then the chances are you wish to change something in your life.

This could be a physical or mental change. 

By physical I mean you may wish to me healthier and would like to take up more exercise. You may wish to travel the world.

By a mental change I mean a greater understanding of something that interests you, to educate your mind.

For example you may wish to travel more, see parts of the world that offer great wonders or different cultures. Unfortunately you do not earn enough money to do this. Once again you need to change your mind set for things to change.

If you were to educate yourself in your line of work, gain qualifications and advance your career path. You would then earn more money, which in turn would allow you to travel. You see the choice is yours.

You decide which path you wish to take.

The majority of people do not fulfill their full potential. They lack confidence and effort but most of all they do not believe in there own ability to change their life for the better.

• Change your mindset. 

• Believe in yourself and you will gain confidence. 

• Put in the effort and you will reap the rewards both mentally and physically.

I believe if you do this you will be in a better position to chart a course for yourself that is truer to your inner being. A soul path, a path with a heart, your path with a Capital P.

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Harmonizing and Aligning Your Chakras

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Did you know that by aligning the chakras helps with your health and well being? This self-help technique helps you physical, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

A common misconception about being in harmony with the universe is that you need to spend a lot of time meditating to reach a certain state of mind.

The truth is that one is always at one with the universe and you are aligned with the universe at all times. 

For example, you may not feel yourself, however, what is really going on is that you are aligned and attracting yourself to a frequency that you do not find uncomfortable.

Aligning the chakras helps to balance your whole metabolism. 

The chakras enable you to gather process and release energy from the earth and the atmosphere around you. The chakras conduct and filter a constant flow of energy through your body.

All life forms have chakra centers, the mineral kingdom has one chakra, the animal kingdom has three or four and it is only man that has three trans-personal centers linking you and allowing you to communicate with the universe.

Each of the chakra centers is sensitive to the vibration of a particular color. A healthy body draws in white light, which flows without obstruction into and out of the body’s chakras.

The following technique will show you how to start aligning the chakras to a frequency of your choice. 

Make sure your back is straight and you are in a comfortable position. Energy runs vertically in your body, back and forth from chakra to chakra, from base of the spine to the top of the head.

Each chakra has a color, which corresponds to the colors of the rainbow, and these colors are in order, so they are easy to recall:

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

All you need to do is spend one or two seconds in each center, this will help you focus your consciousness.

Instructions on how to focus so you can start aligning the chakras.

• Start with the base of your spine; imagine a red glow for two seconds.
• Now go to the navel area and imagine an orange glow for two seconds.
• Now the stomach area and imagine a yellow glow there for two seconds.
• Now move to the heart and image a green glow for two seconds.
• Now move to the collarbone (where your neck meets your torso) and imagine a blue glow for two seconds.
• Now the third eye area (on your forehead between your eyes) and imagine an indigo glow for two seconds. 
• Now the crown of your head, the light here is violet, but to the human eyes, it looks white.
• Imagine a column of white bright light there flowing back and fourth from you to the universe, here you can spend more than a few seconds.

Congratulations on aligning your chakras, if you think of a goal or a happy emotion (or the opposite of an uncomfortable emotion), it will prompt divine intervention in your favor.

Doing the cycle once is usually not enough. It depends very much on your goal or your emotional state; you can repeat this exercise until a relaxed drowsy condition occurs.

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Understanding Your Sixth Sense

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Learning how to use your sixth sense, allows you to have contact with spirit and loved ones. Understanding your sixth sense is better known as intuition or insight.

The sixth sense is better known as intuition or insight. No one can explain where the sixth sense comes from. Researchers believe that you all have a recall button in a part of your brain.

You use your sixth sense in everyday life. Some people choose to believe it and some just like to find logical explanations for it. If you trust your sixth sense, you can totally change your outlook on life and people. It allows you to make accurate decisions in more situations and you feel good about the decisions you make.

Here are some tips about the sixth sense.

• If you regard yourself as a very analytical person, you can still enhance your intuition.

• Do not dismiss any insight you have about people or events.

• If you feel that there is danger trust your intuition.

Start to identify with your inner voice.

When you are finding it hard explaining something that is troubling you listen to your inner voice.

If one of your senses is right, enjoy the feeling.

Test your sixth sense. Play some harmless games. For instance, you could imagine that the doorbell is going to ring and you know who it is.

It is not true to say that psychic sensitivity is a special formula and that only a few are privileged to receive it. Everyone has the chance to experience his or her senses; these are around you all day, and every day.

Your main five senses are made up of Taste, Touch, Smell, Sound and Sight because these senses are automatic you take them for granted.

A psychic has the ability to use a sixth sense that can see life differently. You see full vivid color and that life is full of meaning. Remember; take your senses to the limit. 

Try to focus on everyday things around you and write down your results in your journal. Keep an eye on what gets your reactions going. Whether being excited, frightened, curious, aroused or being inspired. Write your observations in your journal.

Below are the five senses. 

Take one sense per day. This will help you to become more aware. See how things around you become special and try not to ignore them in the future.

Vision

When you wake in the morning, tell yourself aloud - “Today I am going to be aware of my vision”.

At the start of the day look at everything as it really is, not what you want to think it is. Look at things as if you are looking through new eyes. Try not to spend time glaring just look. By doing this you will find you are more visual.

Smell

From the moment you wake up say aloud - Today I am going to see how many different smells are in the world”.

From the time you wake until the time you go to bed write down how many different smells you notice. Once you take note of these smells, you will get your psychic antennae working. You will be very surprised how many smells you have never taken notice of before.

Listen

From the time you awake say aloud - “Today I am going to listen to the sounds of the world”.

You will be surprised to know how many sounds we block out each day. Throughout the day, try to focus on different sounds. Take note of how the different sounds make you feel. Do you feel relaxed, calm, positive or negative?

Touch

In the morning look at yourself in a mirror and say aloud - “Today I will feel the touch of different things”

As you go about your everyday activities touch every item you come into contact with. Make a note in your journal about what sensations each item gave you.

Taste

In the morning look at yourself in a mirror and say aloud - “Today I will pay close attention to taste”

Start the day from the moment you get out of bed. Notice your toothpaste, mouthwash or your lipstick. When you place anything into your mouth chew slowly and throughout the day consider the different flavors you experience.

Sixth Sense Exercise

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How to Mentally Clean your Auras

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How to remove the stresses and strains that everyday life can bring.

There are 7 layers in our auras. When we use meditation and try to 'clean' it, we have to clean every layer. Many new age mystics just tell you imagine and visualize a white light coming down and engulfing your auras, this sometimes doesn't work well. I usually clean every layer as I go along.

To Mentally Clean your Auras start by doing some kind of relaxation procedure like counting 1 to 10 or say to yourself, upstairs, downstairs, over and over again until you feel bored and sleepy or you can get some relaxation music to help you get to alpha or theta brain states.

Once you done that, mentally say to yourself and quote; 'I am at level 1' and move your awareness from head to toe or vice versa, the idea is to scan your level 1 for blockages, once you sense 'something there' move your awareness to it, it should 'melt' or disperse.

If it is still there, try breathing it colors, you have to experiment with the color that will remove the block, repeat the same procedure with all other level, e.g. I am level 2, I am in Level 3...

When you say this, you are telling your mind to adjust to the next level using intent; Intent is the force that changes the level. Sometimes if you are at level 1, and you sense something 1 feel in front of you and you cannot get it off, and you try the usual color breathing method, This could be due to the fact that this blockage is actually at some other level e.g. Level 3 and you can usually remove the block if you move your awareness to level 3. 

Sometimes when you move your awareness into the blockages, you get 'impression' like a past event or sometimes it plays like a movie in your mind's eye; this is usually the reason for the block.

The stresses and strains of everyday life can bring with it a variety of emotional health problems. These can include depression, anxiety, insomnia, irritability and panic attacks.

Potential problems and suggested solutions to overcome them

Depression

I am sure that we all become depressed at different times of our life, I certainly do. It is easy to let things and people get us down. We can start to feel sorry for ourselves and to think that the world is working against us.

The brain has two halves, positive and negative. In these periods of depression the negative side assumes control and it can become very hard to get out of this rut.

I see the positive side of my brain as an apple and the negative side as a pear. If I only ever eat pears, I will not be able to experience the joy of eating apples. In short I have to give the positive side a chance to help me to reach a state of happiness and I need to learn to ignore the negative.

Anxiety and panic attacks

At times people start becoming anxious about their future or even about their present situation. This can in certain cases even lead on to panic attacks.

In my opinion worrying does not help the situation, it only makes things worse. I have to say that I do worry and that the cloud of doom does descend over my life at regular intervals. When this occurs I try very hard to break the cycle and I even talk to the demons in my head. I have a battle of wills with them. I tell them that they will not win and that I will not stress anymore. This is not that simple but is what I try to do.

Insomnia

Having trouble with sleeping at night can happen for a number of reasons, the main one of which is stress. Other causes are snoring, an intake of too much caffeine, a noisy environment or depression.

I have written about stress and depression already, it is also time to cut down on the coffee. A simple suggestion in potentially solving insomnia, is to read a book in bed before attempting to get to sleep. This book should help you to get your mind away from any anxieties you may have, it should relax your body and should also tire your eyes.

Irritability

When people lose sleep or work to hard they can become over tired and this can lead to irritability. This can cause people to have a higher pulse rate, making their muscles feel tight and can leave people also feeling anxious and lethargic.

It is important to therefore ensure that you obtain a good amount of hours sleep per night (at least seven) and that you only work a certain amount of hours per week. Money is important to people, however in my opinion health should be the priority.

Solutions to these emotional health problems

I have come to realize that I need to treat myself from time to time. I have always found it difficult to relax and would often feel stressed and under pressure.

I now use various methods at different times of the year to help me to chill out a bit and to reward my body. These include aroma therapy, using herbal products, attending tai chi lessons and I have even tried Yoga. I must admit I could never get to grips with Yoga, however have heard it can prove to be very beneficial to people who can.

Meditation

My favorite form of relaxation is by meditating. I do this by sitting on a straight back chair and by basically concentrating with my eyes closed. I pay particular notice to my breathing and it has certainly helped me to see things in a much clearer way.

In conclusion there are many ways of reducing emotional health problems and with determination you are able to see your way to a better and brighter future. Keep your auras clean and you will have a better healthy life.

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The Chakras and the Planets

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Each chakra and planet corresponds to how you interact on a daily basis with others and the environment.

Each chakra and their corresponding planets:

The first chakra is better known as the base chakra and the planet that it represents is Saturn. Saturn refers to the body’s structure. Your skeleton is a structure that holds your body in place, it acts as a foundation. 

Your bones are the security and structure these are the keywords for the 1st chakra. It represents the structure that you need to survive physically when dealing with life.

If you are unable to deal effectively with outer social structures, that can be a very common problem in western culture of today, it could be that you have forgotten how to ground yourself with the energies of the earth. 

If you are a grounded person you will have a strong sense of who you are, and you will know how to acquire what you need in order to survive comfortably. Nervousness and anxiety are conditions that result from not being grounded. Psychologically, it indicates that you are operating too much from your head, your ego.

To open this chakra you need to take a deep breath relax and look around you. Are you safe where you are at this time? This chakra awareness puts you in the mode of fight or flight. This awareness is a serious energy that requires you to make tough decisions. To help you strengthen this chakra you need to establish healthy routines, drink lots of fresh water, eat healthy foods, have a good night’s sleep and exercise.

The second chakra is better known as sacral chakra and the planet it represents is Pluto. Pluto gives you the ability to change and transform. Once you change and transform you start to become creative. 

Doing this in your everyday life, helps you to meet your needs this in turn allows you to focus on what your life has to offer.

To open this chakra you need to honor yourself by finding something that gives you pleasure, so that you can express who you are to others.

The third chakra is better known as the solar plexus chakra and the co-rulers are the Sun and Mars. This is the chakra of personal power. Think of the symbolic energies of the sun. The sun radiates its essence; it can either blind you or enable you to enjoy its presence by honoring your own inner essence. 

Mars becomes the warrior that enjoys pushing others around or responds to life challenges with inner strength. If you lack the will to take risks, it normal means this chakra is blocked, it can show you are afraid to express yourself because you have not learned how to set limits.

To open this chakra you need to practice personal courage. Do what makes you feel happy, not what makes everyone else happy. When you fail to do so, you waste too much personal energy blaming others for not being able to do what you would rather be doing. 

Do it, be yourself! When you do so, others will recognize your individuality, and they will know what your limits are. They will respect you more because they will know what to expect of you. As long as you are allowing others to also be themselves, do not allow yourself to be swayed by accusation of selfness.

Before we move on to the next four chakras I would like to point out that the first three chakras deal with self-awareness. It is also important to point out that these chakras need to be balanced before you can move on to the higher spiritual realms of awareness.

The fourth chakra, better known as the heart chakra is ruled by the planet Venus. Your ability to love (both loving to others and being able to receive expressions of love from others) acts as a fulcrum between the lower three chakras of self awareness, and the upper three chakras of awareness. 

This chakra of balance is the first place where you are able to perceive higher spiritual realms. If you have suffered emotional hurt, you would tend to block the fourth chakra. This is because you are afraid to make yourself vulnerable. This is a deliberate act of creating an emotional wall as a method of self protection.

The way to open this chakra entails having to go beyond who you are. At this level, you need to become aware of the vibrations, magnetism or resonance that you feel when you are around others. Spirit will start to provide you with synchronizations that will attract and direct you to people or events that are beneficial for your evolution as a soul.

The fifth chakra, known as the throat chakra corresponds to Jupiter and Mercury as its co-rulers. When this chakra is, open it makes you very persuasive and charismatic; often you can be a great teacher, a good speaker or a good writer. 

You have a natural ability to sense what others are thinking, and you can put it into words. Once this chakra is open and functioning correctly, you will be able to speak your personal truth with conviction. 

Once you are able to speak your own truth, then you are able to create your own reality through power of words. If this chakra is not working smoothly, you tend to limit your conversations to superficial concerns and when someone asks you for a serious opinion, you may respond with. “If you really want to know”

To open this chakra you need to pay attention to all your thoughts specially the ones you do not express. How often do you bite your tongue? You need to understand that it is OK to speak your mind. Sometimes you do not speak the truth because you fear you will appear foolish. This chakra allows you to speak words that come directly from the heart, and to express your innermost beliefs.

The sixth chakra is known as the bow chakra, however, most commonly it is known as the third eye. The planet that rules this chakra is Neptune. Once this chakra is opened you will become highly imaginative, you will come up with original and insightful ideas. 

This is because you are allowing this chakra to feel incoming messages, intuition and dreams. Usually, the whole concept appears suddenly, and then you become driven in an effort to share and express your message with others. If this chakra is blocked you can have a lack of imagination.

To open this chakra and in order for the energy to function smoothly you must have an awareness of yourself as a spiritual being. For this chakra to work you need to have all the other five chakras balanced, otherwise the incoming visions create a chaotic disturbance of images. Live a lifestyle that has support and a healthy routine. 

Attend to your dreams (keep a dream journal) meditate at regular times and listen to your unconsciousness. Being intuitive is nothing more than paying attention to the subtle flow of energy. Allow yourself quiet moments so you can hear that inner voice, everything you need to know is right here inside your mind. However, it does not and will not scream at you.

The last and seventh chakra is known as the crown and it corresponds to the planet Uranus. At this level of awareness, you are able to see all events as a reflection of spirit. 

When it is out of balance trying to express yourself can be extremely depressing and confusing. Because this chakra operates at such a high vibrational frequency, you must become selfless. Hanging onto your ego awareness brings up images of bleakness.

To open and strengthen this chakra you must become empty to become full. Many spiritual writers refer to the body as an empty vessel that best expresses its spiritual potentials when it allows itself to be moved by spirit. In order for this chakra to function effectively, you need a clear understanding of your purpose on this planet.

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Stepping Stones on the Spiritual Path

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A Spiritual Path is the awakening of a major occurrence in your life because it reveals a purpose for existence.

To solve life’s labyrinth, to see the marvel in everyday experience, fulfill the soul’s craving for union and ultimately find one’s way home is the true meaning of your spiritual awakening that leads you to your spiritual path.

STEPS TO HELP YOU ON YOUR PATH

1. Self control

Means not depending on sense experiences or the default influence of past habits, one can exert true free-will and experience the inherent happiness of the soul. Whereas the norm is to act based on what one is accustomed to doing, rather than following one’s true wishes.

A spiritually committed person throws out bad habits that offer temporary pleasure before ultimately bringing suffering and chooses the lasting satisfaction of the spirit found through self-control.

2. Humility

Your spiritual path and your spiritual awakening is cultivated by the willingness to learn and show understanding, striving for the well-being of others and contributing to the environment by setting an admirable example without speaking of one’s greatness.

Once one realizes that the self is something far beyond the body, and that the soul is a microcosm of the greater Spirit, one acts with the intention of being a vessel for this benevolent force to express itself. Rather than taking credit for good actions, it is possible to present successes as offerings to the divine aspect of the self, holding gratitude rather than pride for the attributes and achievements.

When your thoughts become centered on the welfare of others, you have reached true manifests.

3. Selfless unconditional love

Love is the driving attractive force that gives life and purpose to existence. Spiritual Master Sri Yukteswar said that ordinary love is selfish and based on personal desires and gratification, while divine love is boundless, changeless and unconditional.

Spiritually brings harmony with nature and other people, loving equally all humanity and holding compassion indiscriminately regardless of creed, nationality, deed, or any other boundary. Love entails great freedom, but comes only when the mind is quiet and selfless.

Only love, mercy and goodwill developing in each individual can bring peace and stability at both a personal and global scale.

4. Calmness and concentration

A spiritually developed person has formed great powers of concentration to accomplish their goals. If one compares the true self to the bottom of a lake, it is only visible when the ripples of thoughts have subsided and the water is tranquil.

If the water is muddy or disturbed, the bottom cannot be seen. Events, memories, concerns, and desires all try to intrude ceaselessly throughout a person’s day. If your thoughts are strongly attach to your emotions, they are even more difficult to let go.

Concentration and meditation techniques train the mind to prevent restless thoughts from clouding and obstructing the experience of one’s true spiritual path.

5. Non-attachment

Part of spiritual awakening is mental freedom from possessions. By practicing non-attachment, one can enjoy things and perform material duties with a sense of service rather than of personal gain.

The ego wants to cling to objects, ideas, youth, and other aspects of worldly experience; by letting go of these things gracefully when they have served their time, inner peace becomes strengthened.

6. Intuition

Intuition is a resolute, unfailing source of wisdom and guidance to one who is receptive to its subtle advice. When one taps into this resource by surrender and daily meditation, one is able to hear and trust what the right course of action is to fulfill his or her best interests.

Everyone has this quality and with increasing awakening and clarity, it becomes a fountain of growing insight and security.

7. Self-Knowledge

Those committed to a spiritual path constantly examines themselves in order to make progress and implement necessary changes. Spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti asserts that without knowing who one really is, there is no starting point for right thought so there cannot be transformation.

By being aware in each present moment of one’s thoughts, intentions, and desires, one can begin to chisel away unwanted personal qualities and give life to new traits that lead to triumph over oneself.

8. Happiness

Everyone strives to be happy. One becomes devoted to the spiritual path ultimately to find an unchanging peace and bliss that is elusive in material things.

9. Freedom

In the end, one is individually responsible for his or her own habits, mistakes and resolutions. Once your greater self is found in the soul with devotion and faith, one attains freedom and life is truly beautiful.

The Bhagavad Gita says,

“Unattached to the sensory world, the yogi experiences the ever-new joy of being. His soul engaged in the union with Spirit, he attains indestructible bliss.”

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Free Yourself from the Illusion

by Lynn Claridge -

All experiences of suffering are created by your minds lack of awareness in seeing who you really are.  

Feeling separate and discounted is how you create failure after failure in life. Once you untangle yourself from this belief, you can move on.   

PATH OF SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT

• Quieting the incessant chattering in your mind. 

Your ego is a thought program, like a computer. It just spits out information and computes ideas that are about the past and future. The mind/ego is a limited construction of ideas and beliefs about who you are.

The more you can silence the chattering mind, the less likely you are to become trapped in your ego. Only through the constant release of the ego can you live in true spiritual enlightenment. You become aligned with the truth and you infinite spiritual being.

• Embrace and release all you fears. 

As you may have heard, fear really stands for false evidence appearing real. To find what you are afraid of, open yourself up to intimate conversation. Eventually you will be able to see into yourself again and understand truly what you are running from.

Once you know what you are running away from, run towards it, and embrace it. It will dissolve the fear from your life allowing you to move forward.

• Embrace and release all mental, emotional and physical attachment or aversions to everyone and everything in your life. 

As a human being you will become attached to people, you will care about what they say, do or think about you. This happens because you have an automatic habit of trying to avoid what is painful and stay with what is pleasurable.

The problem arises when you become too attached to having what is pleasurable all the time. Pain and suffering is the universe telling you to let go! The purpose of pain is not about creating more suffering, it is about creating change, this change is necessary for you to drop your ego-trip and return to your spiritual source again.

This allows you to start enjoying your life.

You experience pain because of one thing, ignorance. Think of the word ignore add a little dance to it and you get ignorance. When you ignore the truth of your being, your ignorance transmits into suffering. To transcend this ignorance and find spiritual enlightenment again, you need to find a deep awareness.

With this profound state of consciousness, you can let go. The truth is, all you need to do is to re-discover the truth of who you are.

• Freedom from unconscious myths and everyday stories of separation.

What was your story of failure or separation? Usually when you hear your parents and siblings having problems, you attach yourself to it, this is where the separation beings. Your parents would have sent you off to an education system (which by the way only works 15% of your brains potentiality and capacity), this system is to support and help you learn about life.

What society never taught you was how to be still inside, quieten your mind and emotions, meditate; focus on who you are or how to achieve inner bliss.

Society leads you to believe that success and truth is all about status, money and career. While these are important, the reality is, success is defined by how fulfilled you are as a human being.

• You need to stop thinking that thinking is a way of getting what you want.

Thinking has become the norm. It has become abnormal in society to sit and be silent. You might find you run away from meditation because you cannot quieten your mind and you feel you are losing control of it.

The ironic thing is, that all of the suffering, chaos and illness in life are cause be a lack of control and awareness of the mind. Instead of tuning to silence to find the answers, you’re taught to think more and know more, so you can achieve what you want. You are not taught to discover about being in the here and now.

• Do not hide from your true power in a safe little fishbowl. 

Thoughts are safe, while experiences are real and unsafe. You will find it easier not to take the risk of getting hurt by diving into the ocean of experience in life. Not only you but also everyone stays comfortable in a fishbowl because it gives you and them a sense of confidence and security.

Life is like an uncontrollable rollercoaster ride because you do not know the future.

In other words, you do not know how to respond to experiences that occur outside your fishbowl. Instead, you think about an experience without having one. Through television, films and books you hide from your powerful spirit and pretend to be complete.

• Let go of the need to be right all the time. 

Being right can be the hardest ego trip to get off. To get off, means that you need to be wrong sometimes. If everyone tells you from birth to death that life is a struggle and that it is hard, painful and unfair, you will believe them.

So how can you relax and let go and trust yourself? 

You think you must fight to get what you want. If life is serious, you are probably going to gain love, success and freedom by stepping on or over others. The world is a community of beings, it is a playground, a play and a stage where you can choose any role you desire.

• Replace with the positive. 

Lack of awareness (ignorance) of your ever-present connection, stems from a lack of inner peace, power and playfulness, which can create low energy, this means you stay asleep. When you do not respond with awareness, you just react unconsciously from past habits of being a victim and you create more experiences of being a victim.

The truth is, you are really a human program. You have the same thoughts day after day. This creates a seriously deep rut in your life, and the only way out is through being responsible for your thoughts and by choosing more empowering thoughts to help you move forward.

• Choosing to suffer and stay unconscious. 

Your society loves people who step out of line. The people around you often criticize you the moment you try to break out of the societal of unconscious living. The unconscious way is acceptable, it’s advertised on the television, films, news, media, radio and newspapers. However, we can all agree on one thing, and that is everything you need to end your suffering is inside of you, not outside of you!

You may be caught up in the rat race to reach a certain status and to give you the luxury you want, this you believe will rid you of suffering. This never works. The cheese you are after just gets bigger. I am sure you are aware by now that suffering comes from constant desire. When you desire less, you remember again how connected you are to your spiritual self

To have spiritual enlightenment, means waking up from the rat race. It takes a lot of effort to go against what you believe to be true. The great part however, is that the universe will not let you down.

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