One of the hidden messages we received growing up includes the idea that we are not good enough just the way we are. This makes it feel as though we must earn the qualities for which we long, such as love. Constantly looking for fulfillment outside ourselves is a recipe for disaster. What we most desperately seek dwells within. Sure we can get some love from the outside but it becomes a different animal when one depends on it. As the saying goes, if we feed a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day but if we teach him how to fish he’ll eat forever. Learning to connect with the soul shows us that its presence is unconditional. It does not depend on us being good enough.

The soul has always been with us exactly right where we are in this exact moment but the personality blocks our awareness of its presence. The survival of the personality downplays the soul’s importance. The personality feels pressure to remain attached to something at all costs. Here is the lack of self-esteem disguised as attachment. The personality does not believe it will survive if it lets go. It obtains the illusion of survival from the attachment. Unfortunately the survival is more like spiritual death because it encourages disconnection with the soul, the source of real life.

By Lance Schuttler

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

We live in a world today where the idea of group power is being rekindled and where it’s momentum is gathering. Humanity as a whole is remembering that it is thoughts and actions of kindness, honesty and equality for all that create positive change.

One initiative that is expanding throughout religious and spiritual groups, as well as on blogs and other social media sites is globally synchronized meditation/prayer gatherings.

To some, believing that thoughts or prayers can influence the physical world around them can be dubious. To a quantum physicist on the other hand, thoughts influencing the world around them are something believed in and something that has repeatedly been shown to be true in scientific studies.

In your Earth-plane existence, consciously or unconsciously, you draw to and experience exactly what you ask for. Good or challenging, there is a lesson in each. ~ Creator

Brandon West, Contributor
Waking Times

The most important aspect and benefit of a spiritual practice aside from how it shifts and raises our energy and level of consciousness is its influence and seamless integration into every other aspect of our lives.I believe there is some confusion about spirituality and what a spiritual practice really is. It is not an isolated thing which we do sometimes alone in our rooms, but which has no effect on the rest of our lives. Nor is it based on faith or belief, but rather experiencing directly a new, powerful, and unlimited aspect to ourselves.

What Is A Spiritual Practice?

A spiritual practice is something which brings us into direct contact with the unlimited aspect of our being, and to the truly mystical and dreamlike nature of reality. It is an awakening to the magical nature of ourselves and this unfathomable reality we exist in against all logic and reason. And through this experience we also discover within us true power, unlimited creativity, boundless love, and perpetual inspiration, passion, and enthusiasm all of which we can apply to every thing we do and to all aspects of our lives.

As we found out in Spirit Science 4 and in the Human History movie: we are moving as a consciousness from a head focused species into a heart centered awareness.  We want to take some time to explore what that means, what it looks like, and how we are naturally shifting from expressing from our heads alone to our hearts as we love and nurture ourselves and the world around us.

What is the I?

Self, Ego, Mind, Separation, Solo, Lone Wolf,  Me mentality

This is the part of us that is pridefully independent.  Even when we need help we struggle to ask for it.  There is a sense of separation, independence and lack of general connections with others, or acknowledgment of  our own emotions.  As you can see in this state we are not only feeling separate from others but we are feeling separate from ourselves.

What does that look like?

Overly Analytical, logical without regard to emotion or flow, compromising, assuming, telling yourself negative stories, Critical, Limiting