Hello my fellow spiritual travelers.
This is a quick note to update you on some changes that are a comin’.
I have been working on an appointment calendar. When you click the Pay Now Buttons on my Services page you will be taken to PayPal. On this page you can opt to use your credit or debit card or pay with your PayPal account. If you do not have a PayPal account, no worries, it is free to set up. It is not required, however.
You will receive an email confirming the payment with a link to set your appointment or appointments for coaching/counseling. The cancellation policy is clearly outlined. You will be able to schedule appointments ahead of time but no sooner than within 24 hours. Please be sure to write down the appointment.
I have also been working out what information I require from you prior to our appointments. I have come to realize this will depend on the nature of our time together. Since I am not a therapist or licensed psychologist as yet, I will not be conducting therapy with you. However, this does not mean that the situation you find yourself coping with is not important. I will do what I am able in teaching coping skills, for instance.
I am excited with the changes I am making and hope to make the most of electronic means to streamline the process of making and paying for appointments with me.
If you have questions about any of my services or find yourself unsure about the benefits I am available for a free 30 minute consultation by instant messenger or phone. Schedule an appointment today.
Peace be with you.
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I have added a Google Notice for the keyword “spirituality” to keep an eye on the various topics concerning this word. In the course of checking out the alerts I get once a week there is one title that showed more than any other: Spirituality versus Religion.
There is no versus, comparing spirituality to religion is like comparing apples to oranges. It cannot be done with any sense of realism or normalcy, even a definition escapes the comparison.
Got your thinking caps on or did you just think: This is crap. Maybe it is. But my job is not to tell you what is and what isn’t. I would never dream of interfering with your free will and freedom of choice.
However, I do dare bring a few things to mind so that you may be better informed and consider your current belief in regards to these two concepts. Because concepts they are.
Spirituality is an ideal, a sense of, a feeling, a way of being during meditation, it is beyond the physical realm. A state of being. Spiritual is a state of mind, spirituality is the way of living or being. It is not tangible, there are no rules, or ideals to master. Being a spiritual being is beyond the physical senses, physical plain, unseen with the human eye.
Now religion on the other hand is a collective, a culture, a society. Religion is a set of rules, laws, and common belief system that its members choose to believe and follow. The commonality is set with a governing class. The rules are designed to give the followers, members a guide to live by. Fear is the ruling staff in most religions. Do this not that or be punished, with punishment being a strong sensation of pain and anguish. Corporal punishment is meted out by a God who is jealous, designing, and controlling. Well in most religious writings.
Here is the question: How can you say spirituality versus religion? I do not see it, there is no competition between the two and no comparison.
You can have religion without spirituality and spirituality without religion. Can you have religion with spirituality and spirituality with religion? Yes. Of course you can.
Religion is the set of rules, spirituality is the set of being. Why not join them. When Jesus walked this earth he did so to teach the concept of love, not hate and war. His message was born of the spiritual concepts to move beyond the physical and reside in the realm of spirit.
So where you in your spiritual life? Do you assign spirituality to a set of rules to follow? Or are you like me, live in the state of spirituality more often than not? How do you know spirituality exists?
I would be interested in hearing your opinions, ideas, and join in the discussion.
Peace be with you.
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There are few resources in this world, written in English, that I have not reviewed, read, experimented with, tried on for size, and either kept portions, all or none of them. I have been reading self-help books for over 20 years now, from alcoholism and addiction to co-dependency and domestic violence 12-step concepts. There is not one I can say that has had all the resources and answers I required. The amount of money I have spent is not calculable because I do not wish to consider how much I have tossed into my library, then donated to someone else. Not the point of this post anyway.
My point is that visualization is touted as the way to attract your heart’s desire. See yourself as you wish to be, see yourself living the life you want. Another step to include as the secret to the “Law of Attraction,” add feeling to your visualization. Be in the moment with your desires. Feel what it would be like to achieve your goals. Can you do this?
How can you know what it would feel like to achieve your goals? What would it feel like to not look at your bank account and wonder how you are going to pay this month’s bills or where your next meal will come from? I do not have a clue. Do you?
I have continued to “fake it till I make it.” I Continued to pretend that I might know what it feels like to be worry, fear, anxiety, and depression free. The problem is I have not a reference point, no memory of having ever lived in this manner. When I have it to spend, I spend it. I do not know what it would feel like to save my money, budget it so that each time I look, it “feels” like I have plenty. Rather, it feels like never enough. How to make a penny pay for a meal or ten, I know what it this feels like. How to ask for time to pay the rent and the bills, stress over a conversation with debt collectors, this I know how it feels. I have lived a life of poverty, never enough, always wanting for more, actually learning how not to want for anything.
What is the solution to learning how to visualize? My thoughts are to go to the type of homes you desire, walk around in them, hang out, take pictures of your self in the home. You can do this by attending open houses in the neighborhoods that meet your desires. Take a friend or your mate and a camera. You do not have to be anything more than a lookie loo. If asked you can tell them this is a homework assignment, you are building your vision board.
What about a check with loads of zeros? Got PhotoShop? Or another similar program? Make one… Fill in the entire check, make it look real. The print it out and frame it..
The car of your dreams? Go to the car lot and ask for a test drive to get a feel of driving your dream car. Get a picture of you in the car. Tell them it is a homework assignment. Sociology or psychology class. Be creative. Cannot take a test drive, sit in the car, close your eyes, let your senses fill you in, notice how you feel, remember it.
Vision boards are great for those who can imagine. But for those of us who have not reference, create it. Go visit those places or similar ones, get a feel, pretend it is yours. What does it feel like? Take plenty of pics with you in the frame. This is your reference.
Journal the feelings that come up for you, notice your body’s sensations, what draws your attention? Yeah, first get over the fear of doing these exercises. I feel the fear of rejection just writing about it. But I can tell you that once you do it, you will remember what it felt like to own it.
Give it a try. You won’t get arrested and no one is going to condemn you. If you are told to leave, then tell them thank you for assisting you with your assignment and find someone else to help. Smile and wish that person a great sale. Do not indulge in anger or shame… These are no longer necessary. Besides, if you allow this to hang out, it will be a permanent house guest. I do not know about you, but me? Sick and tired of being sick and tired. I like experiencing the great feelings and of ownership.
My next goal? To own a newer RV. Guess what I get to do? Yep, go visit a few RV dealerships, ask for pics of me in them, put them out for me to see. Remember how it feels to own one. Yep, watch for pics of me in the driver’s seat and laying out on the couch or the bed. Who knows. Not the kitchen, sorry, not so much domestic any more. 
Maybe I can hire a housekeeper, cook or a housewife? Who knows…
I send you my blessings and best wishes. May today be the prosperous, fun, loving day you hoped for. Peace be with you.
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I enjoy this book, especially the Teacher’s Manual where the description and requirements are explained for God’s teachers. It also reminds me of those qualities I have that are special to each of us.
I am a firm believer that what we require to live a life of joy, happiness, and empowerment we own. These gifts are an innate part of who we are as humans in spiritual form.
This morning’s reading Chapter 5: How is Healing Accomplished? pg 17 of the manual.
The first paragraph discusses that one must first perceive the purpose of illness. Illness has a reason for existence, not a lesson to learn, but a way of escaping life. Yet to think that one would consciously choose to be ill, especially life threatening illness, is absurd. I am not saying we consciously choose illness. Nor would anyone ever wish to opt for suffering of any sort. We do not make these choices in the usual manner of making decisions.
However, we do choose illness. All illness is a choice. Aw, you are not happy about reading this, I can hear you now saying bulls…t. Well, let me explain. Just as A Teacher’s Manual goes on to say that we can gain health and heal our illness when we take responsibility for our choices, even the unconscious choices. Here is what I mean…
When I was a child I discovered that illness got me out of chores, going to school and kept me from being molested. So over time I learned how to become ill without consciously choosing it. The daily life filled with opportunities to contract an illness, become fatigued, even the food choices lent me a way to be ill in some form. Even now I consciously choose to eat food that is going to make me tired, worn out and sluggish. But I only do this once in awhile. It is also a form of punishing myself, feeding the chaos I grew up with. Familiar territory, but another topic for discussion later.
To gain health and healing one must first look to the source of dis-ease, illness, fatigue, and know it is curable. All illness is curable. Again it is in the choices we make, this time consciously choosing health. It is in all we do, one step at a time and gradually changing the order of illness.
You have permission to be who you are at this moment. Permission is granted to never change, slowly change, eat junk, eat healthy, have a temper tantrum, scream, or laugh and play. You own this permission, it is your God given right. Goddess did not create junk, she birthed you, a beautiful jewel that is shining every moment. Each breath brings you healing.
The secret to healing? Own your benefits to illness. Then change the reasons, be honest. First with self, then with others.
Bless you.
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WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO….. I cleaned my blog out of the hacked links, as if I would use those anyways.
Learned a great deal about making my blogs secure against attacks.
The tools I have included can be located under security plug ins at the WordPress.org site.
A few things to take note of were the version of WP is readable in the readme.html, so deleted it. There are several files that should be read only by you, so changing those to 400 should help a great deal.
I forgot to delete the install files. So for newbies please remember to go back in and delete these.
I am grateful to those who have helped me out in cleaning up and blocking IP addresses. Because my hosting company has a Latest Visitor Log I was able to track back over three days and make note of the “problem” IPs and have them blocked.
I host with GVO Hosting. The fees are extremely good. Especially when I look at the response I get from the tech teams, the help and they do stick with it until it is resolved. Not one of the techs has ever treated me as if I was a moron, stupid or should not be doing this. Rather they willingly answer my questions, direct me to more resources when needed and help me fix the wrongs, even when they are my mistakes. That is why I will never go anywhere else unless I am forced to, oh, please do not make me. With GVO you get 24/7 tech support through email, conference, and chat. Free software is ready for you to install and update automatically, no download then upload. Besides hosting your business or personal site, you are an affiliate earning revenues from each person you refer. I have not done a great deal with GVO as a business so my earnings pay my hosting fees nearly every month.
I am so glad that my blogs were hacked. It gave me an opportunity to learn and to grow. Plus I got to fix some of my previous mistakes that would have remained had I not had to go back over every post. Grateful right now I did not have more posts than I do. Whew.
Thank you for the visit. If I can help from my experience let me know. I will not publicly list the plug ins that are keeping me secure right now or the files I had to add and change. That would just be plain silly and asking to get hacked again.