This is your life - make it happen!

During my adolescents I used to watch a program on television with my mother called "This is your life!"  Each program had guest who was public figure or celebrity.  It was a kind of "roasting" with friends and colleagues who surprised the guest by airing funny little secrets to the public.  It was a good hearted program and it made me think about what life could be like for me.

As a Professional Life Coach I realize more and more that our life goes by very quickly and we can be forever looking at our lives as though it were something on a television screen that will be eventually turned off. 

It becomes clear to us to get up and do something that will change our life and make it into something that we want it to be.  There is risk involved and it can be like free falling.  I have never done anything like bungee jumping or sky diving but in essence when you let go of all that is familiar and soar into the unknown it is similar. I can understand what our restrictions can appear to be like during various stages of family development when there are children to care for that may outweigh our freedom to take risks.  When you are ready you will know and seize the moment when an opportunity presents itself in your life.

Take the necessary steps to prepare for whatever endeavors you are interested in and when opportunity knocks you will be ready.  Always plan and keep your heart and mind on what ever success you want to bring into your life.  Mine has been helping people since I was a little girl and I observed nurses taking care of my dying father.  I am now at a point in my life when I can do other things and that is why I have chosen Life Coaching.  I no longer ascribe to pharmaceutical remedies and like to motivate and promote health life styles as a prevention to ill health.  Diet is a focal point and I ask those who work with me to become vegetarian and develop a regular practice of meditation.

When you are seeking to expand your opportunity to earn income start by building your networks through social network sites like Twitter.com and Facebook.com  When you have a product or service that you would like to build start a business page on Facebook and join similar groups to yours on LinkedIn.com  It takes time to build a following but once you have an interest in your work you will be able to take your particular business to the next level.  Forbes.com has some information on the necessary licenses etc. that you need for a start up business.  There are software programs for developing your website or you can join a free website and go from there.  From my experience it is best to build the social network groups first and then use the website as a place to connect all the groups and offer a fee for product/service.

Always start with yourself and where you are.  If you feel fenced in by circumstances don't think that it excludes possibilities for creating an ideal lifestyle.  Your responsibility as a parent comes before all else.  Write your dream life out on paper and specific goals that you can achieve.  If you cannot see the goals being met in the foreseeable future then write something like "when I can."  Keep this in a special place i.e. with your Bible or by a picture of Jesus or your Higher Power.  Everyday read over your dream and work on the things that you can do.  It might be steps like taking a particular class or setting up a savings account for a future business.  Do something that keeps the dream alive.  Make a special prayer for your dream.  Make each word a positive statement to draw positive results.  An example may be as follows:

Today I bring myself into the work place with an open mind and an open heart,
I welcome everyone I meet as someone whom I see Jesus in (Higher Power)
People like to do business with me because I always go the extra mile and love to serve my client's needs,
I am happy to make my customer's lives better through the product/service that offer from my heart
I spend time getting to know about my clients lives and when a particular problem arises I can offer a wealth of solutions
My God blesses me and all that I have contact with.....

You can use this prayer as a guide and tailor your own prayer to your own design.  Know that your life is under the divine guidance of our creator and we have lessons to learn while living and blessings to receive.  Everything has a season and if there is a time lag know that what you are waiting for to happen will be even better than you first anticipated.  Learn patience.  Meditate and eat vegetarian foods.  Monitor your thoughts.  Always have positive thoughts and if you keep a journal you will be able to improve your minds habits that have been holding you back from the success and abundance that is your birthright.

I am going to attend a talk tonight by Jimmy Ezzell who is a great business and leadership mentor about NutriRain a product that I hope to promote and to incorporate into my work.  Find a Coach who can show you how to develop the right attitude and embrace life to the fullest.  Make your life one that is expanding your horizons and your capacity to create streams of wealth.  Look after your health.  Napoleon Hill said that there could be no success without health and I think that's right.  Think about it.  You can adapt to almost any circumstance but it is an extra burden to try to rise up and achieve your goals.

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Be blessed.

Knowledge is a two edged sword and by that I mean that knowledge alone is limited to the sphere of man's understanding and motivations; knowledge that is acquired by a spiritually awakened person is like the nectar drips off the honey comb.   Knowledge without connection to your higher power or God is limited and arid.  Life without God to light the flame of love within your heart leaves a person to rely on their own limited ego. 

Islam has scholars of math, medicine and astronomy but have not explored the realms of possibilities in the universe that is God's creation.  It is because we as Christians and other religions have a different concept of God.  Their concept of God is one who directly intervenes in their lives and holds the knowledge to the universe that is outside of their scope of relationship with the Creator.  I am by no means an expert on Islam but in essence these are basic differences.  Our God is creator and as His children have use all of His natural forces for our good.  In the Old Testament God can be viewed as a mighty force who punishes.  In the New Testament Jesus shows us that God wants us to know His Love for us and expects us to show this love to one another.  It is simple, pure and true.  Love conquers all.  In the West we have been given authority and power to pursue and understand God's might in the universe as we have explored space.  This power has to be used for the good.  There is great responsibility within the model of a God who allows us to connect with all that he has created from the tiny components of a cell to the infinite realms of space. 

Without a true surrender to your higher power whatever path you take, Jesus or Buddha for instance you have to totally love God with all your heart.  Spiritual teachers such as Gandhi have transcended our limited human nature that includes negative emotions such as hatred and jealousy and their soul has merged with God's in this life.  Thus they can be viewed as Divine beings.  Their lives become a life of service and helping seekers connect with God and start on the path toward their own spiritual liberation.  Christianity is a way to connect to God through Christ and in that there is freedom from sin and liberation from life where there the experience is either arid or downward spiraling and hopeless.  Because the message of Christ is pure Love and the teachings give the disciple a map to becoming a better person.  If the person is sincere Christ will direct their lives through His Grace to understand how to live a good life and it is not something that has to be earned it is given if that person remembers Jesus and listens. 

Spirituality gives the seeker an experience of God through a direct awakening under the guidance of an ascended Master who has either been born into this life as a fully spiritually liberated being or has reached that state through his/her own self effort and the Grace of his/her Master.  There is no God to obey in the sense of the Judo Christian God Yahweh who even gives Commandments that must be taken seriously and followed.  My current Spiritual Master teaches that the soul begins at conception and this is in alignment with the Church.  Many teachers do not approach absolute truths and these truth's will only become alive for the person when he/she reaches an inner state of purity.  Then the truth is known but I believe that it is essential that people follow laws set out for them both to protect themselves as well as others long before they gain the consciousness to recognize this absolute truth.

People have gained medical knowledge to heal as well as kill the most innocent among us - the unborn.  Knowledge without Love which can only be experienced through our relationship with a higher power is exhaustive and has the potential for the misuse of power.  The power of God's creation is available for us to know but so many times the people who explore have limited knowledge of God.  Without God all knowledge is for self gain and thus a potential to harm others.  Self gain is sought when there is ego.  When one is under the direction of a Spiritual Master as I have been, they will bring into being circumstances that make one face the small ego inside yourself and that is a painful process but worth the fruits of freedom from ego.   It is a dying of the self to God.  It is total surrender.  Once a person has transcended the limited self then knowledge will arise with good intentions and for the upliftment of mankind. Whatever one has learned at some point then is offered to others because like the great Masters themselves our lives become acts of Love.  Our love for God is expressed as love for others.

So many people on the spiritual path I have noticed are able to be present in the moment when chanting or participating in other spiritual practices with a total focus on God.  However, as soon as the spiritual activity is over it's back to the usual way of being.  Many people judge others which Mother Teresa has said leaves no room for the most important thing, Love.  I think that it is a difficult task to transcend the ego and unite with love in spiritual liberation and as my Teacher has explained, it takes up to four life times to attain absolute freedom thus never having to come back to clear karma.  I have wondered why the door to their hearts are closed to love.  During a visit to my Teacher I attended a talk where she described three doors to the heart and that some people had their doors closed.  After the talk I walked to the dormitory where I was staying and had to cross a lobby.  As I stepped into the lobby the door behind me suddenly slammed shut.  I wondered whether fire alarms where about to go off as there was no other reason for it to have slammed so hard and unexpectedly.  As I approached the door ahead of me it too slammed shut in the same dramatic way.  Shortly after I saw my Teacher as I stood by one of the doors in this same lobby.  As she stood by me she suddenly reached out to my heart area with a grabbing and twisting motion.  I believe that she was taking out the knots in my heart.  That is the beauty of having a living Master to guide you on the journey and I am eternally grateful for the Love that she has allowed me to experience in my own heart.

I believe that people who are homosexual and not accepted by various religions are like the rest of us as a group with some who are spiritual and wanting to know God.  I believe that they should be treated with respect but that it doesn't include partaking in the institution of marriage.  I believe that the sanctity of marriage is for the communion between a man and a woman as well as procreation of life, thus providing a guarantee for future generations.  One of the temptations that we have now is the control of conception through science and this procedure enables gay couples to have their own children through the various means necessary.  It is this reliance on our own control that is ultimately what leads us away from God.  Not just away from our conceptual understanding of His laws, but of our relationship with God in our hearts.  The path to enlightenment can be seen as a continuum thus some people will be further along than others.  For children I pray that they will have parents who love them and that the secular view of family is not one that is right for their well being because children need to bond with the parent of the opposite sex as part of their own sexual identity formation in their early childhood years. 

Spirituality is good and the path is one through which one becomes elevated through the teachings and direction of the Master to experience love and respect nature and mankind.  Because of the lack of a framework of religion there is a potential for misuse of the power of knowledge before one develops more fully.  The experience of God is felt inside the heart.  For instance when someone sees a beautiful landscape or sunset their is a recognition of God's majesty and love for His creation.  These kinds of experiences help us to connect with God and then relate to God's natural world as stewards as we see the sacred within all that he has created in much the same way that the Native American Indians.  Religion has a framework that teaches about absolute truths such as do not kill.  Islam actually commands people to kill, so all religions do not equivocate to the same relationship with God.  Spirituality lacks such frameworks and my first teacher did not comment on such matters.  A book written by her own teacher listed all kinds of social problems as things that the organization did not hold an opinion about.  I felt from the beginning that I have strong feelings about some things and abortion is number one on my list and that I wanted and needed for that issue to be addressed.  I believe that it is the responsibility of the teacher when students or disciples are not advanced enough to recognize the sanctity of life that it needs to be defended. 

I in no way have wanted to offend anyone of judge others behaviors by writing this article.  It is written from my own experience and I too have sinned.  My Teacher says that each time we attend an initiation that we are absolved of wrongdoing and sin.  When you know what actions you need to take to keep pure do them.  If you are Catholic, repent your sins and attend Church and partake in Holy Communion.  Know that all life is awakening and wants to live their lives out naturally.  Be tolerant but that doesn't mean that you stop speaking power to truth or truth to power.

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