Category: spiritual practice
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Until We Learn What We Need to Learn …
As I began my new job about a month ago, I have come to realize that many of the old issues are repeating. I am seeing the same issues with different people, and the Universe has brought back lessons apparently I have not fully learned. At work, I am encountering people who do not take…
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Loving Fearlessly
When we live without fear, we are able to love fearlessly. After five years of emotional healing and spiritual work, I finally learned to love fearlessly. My fears of abandonment, being unloveable, and rejection are in my past, and I am living a different life now. Recently, when I went through a box of old…
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Creating Our Illusions
Through addiction, we create an illusion for our lives. Some are addicted to people called codependency, some to places called destination addiction, some to substances such as drugs or alcohol, and some to activities such as work, gambling or gaming. Addiction is a form of self medication or negative coping skill we developed to deal…
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Through Dreams
In my dreams last night, I said goodbye to those in my past who I will not have an opportunity to say goodbye as I move onto the next phase of my journey. In my dream, I spoke to each person separately saying my farewells. My interaction with these important individuals who I encountered…
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First Step to Transformation
It has taken me most of this lifetime to find inner peace. It has always been illusive to me because I wanted to control everyone, everything, and all situations around me. As a person who experienced childhood abuse, this is the natural response after experiencing trauma. Most people are on auto pilot using the same…
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Gratitude for 2017
I have much gratitude going into 2017 as there is so much to be grateful for in my life. I am grateful for all the doors that closed in my life and the many situtaions that did not turn out the way I wanted them. In retrospect, those people, opporutnities, and situations were never meant…
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Closure of Our Past
At the end of each phase of our emotional and spiritual growth, we need closure and house cleaning of sorts. They are closure on relationships that no longer conform to how we live or want to live our my lives. Similar to alcoholic who want to change and quit drinking, they must let go of…
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New Lenses, New Perspectives
The final days of this phase of my spiritual journey allows me see the last five years in a different perspective. What I tolerated earlier on my journey, simply is unacceptable now. My level of toleratnce for bad behaviors become less, and the quality of my life has improved significantly. The two things are directly…
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Healing the Trifecta
There are three other members of my immediate family, including my parents and my younger brother. Because of the abuse and dysfunctions within my family, which I believe is our family karma, I needed to overcome the abuse and dysfunctions of my family, including the roles I played with each member of my family. About…
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The Feeling of Letting Go
How do you know if you have healed your emotional pain? I explain this to many seuxally assaulted students with whom I work. You know because you no longer are triggered by people, places, and events that remind you of the trauma or negative experience. This is what I have learned. Recently, I looked back…
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