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Noticing your Spirit
Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997).
Although it means “going beyond,” a better way to describe transcending is “seeing beyond.” What can you see beyond the apparently solid façade of live, the constant flow of time, the limitations of space, and the laws of cause and effect? If the answer is very little, the reason is that your perception has not been trained for such vision. Yet every day contains clues of the second reality we all inhabit, which is timeless, unbounded, causeless, and intimately tied to our needs on the path to love.
This practice trains you to stop overlooking the spirit and love that surround you, waiting to be noticed.
Examine the following list to determine if you have experienced these clues of being connected to your spirit:
1. In the midst of danger or crisis, have you suddenly had the feeling of being completely safe and protected?
2. Have you been with someone who was dying and felt a sense of peace?
3. Have you known someone who recovered from an “incurable” illness?
4. Have you prayed and had your prayer answered?
5. Have you ever witnessed a soft light around another person or yourself?
6. Have you ever asked for silent guidance or the answer to a dilemma and received it?
7. When looking at a sunset, a full moon, or something of great natural beauty, have you felt yourself expand as if you were no longer enclosed within the physical limits of your body?
8. Have you experienced a silencing of your mind, perhaps just before going to sleep or upon first waking up?
9. Have you felt a loving presence when you most needed it?
10. Do you ever hear an inner voice you feel you can absolutely rely on? (This voice doesn’t have to speak in words; it can also be a strong feeling or intuition.)
11. Have you felt wonder at the sight of a newborn child?
12. When you think of any of these experiences that relate to you, do you feel that you are loved, safe, that part of your self watches over you, that you know, that the light is with you, that God is real, that nothing is wrong, that you are at peace, that things are OK, that you can love, that everything is one?
Attune yourself to spirit, and it will speak to you in love.
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add your comment »We all direct exactly what we want to bring into our lives. So becareful what you ask for!!! I have really been in aligment with my spirit lately and ask God to allow postive and good teachers to enter my path. I am willing postive energy to enter and negative to be blocked. It is a mazing how it changes you for the better. I no longer look for approval and my ego doesn't get into my way. I no longer judge, but accept and i am gratefull. I can change my direction only, but i can wish good for others and pray for people with unhealthy thinking. My father died May 28th of 2007. I prayed for my dad to have comfort in his passing and with the grace of God, I was able to care for my dad everyday until his death. My mother and all of my brothers and sisters were at his bed side when he passed away. I was the only one who spoke to my dad in his passing everyone else was paralzed by fear. I told my dad to take jesus's hand and not let go while i brushed my fathers hair with my hand. I told him it was ok to leave us. He looked at my mother and said i love you my darling and took his last breaths. I know practicing Reiki, and other ways to align me with my God i was able to do that for my father. I put a note in my fathers pocket, in his casket. I said dad i need your help with help with my fear etc. I have since found serenity in ways i would have never welcomed. Everything happens for a reason. I have learned what i thought were my strengths were my weakness and vise versa.
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I worked for 47 years as an R.N., the last 20 of those years in the HIV epidemic. I have alwys felt I was a spiritual person, but something happened to me inside, deep within my being, during the HIV epidemic years. I learned the eyes are the window of the soul and I looked every patient in his/her eyes. What beauty lies within each of us. Like you Fred, I read and reread The Course in Miracles. I began reading everything I could find on soul work. And I changed, noticeably. Like Jeannine, I believe God is the spirit that accompanies all of us if we live with open hearts and minds. God, Higher Power, Universal Energy, The Source....the Wind Beneath My Wings.
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This is much like th teaching in "A Course in Miracles"(ACIM) and I have had seen/felt the spirit that surrounds me/us and experienced the items in this very good list at one time or another.
Jesus says the same thing in ACIM - just change how you think about what you see; practice forgiveness of yourself and everyone. We are all One,an extension of the Creator, asleep in our home, having this dream of separation.
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I also need to practice being in the spirit. I have had several of the items mentioned happen to me, especially when my mother passed away. She looked so calm,serene and peaceful as if she had touched God. This has never left me.
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Though I can remember a time when I was much more able to transcend life, I still know that I transcend and will be able to return to an existence that does not live in fear, that can help make a difference for those in need, and will be again able to find the special moments of a simple life.
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I have experienced most of the above within the last year and prior to this last year! I now listen always and quiet my mind prior to making decisions, making sure I am in tune with my spiritual path as I journey each day! It is a constant reminder that I am not alone even though one might look at me and say she is a single women!! I am one who does practice, to the best of my ability, and feel blessed! I no longer fear.....
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While I do not believe in any one god, I have had all of the above happen to me, and it changed my life in a big way.
As for the one where someone was dying... I also had something negative attach to me and go home with me, and it was many weeks before I was rid of it.
To this day, I don't know what that was.
However, that actual spark between this dying person and myself that stung us both was incredible. And, the next day I was called from the hospital. This person had miraculously lived. All body functions that had shut down the night before were working again... Doctors were stumped.
I was left wondering just what happened since the aura around her while she was dying was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and felt...
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I love to be in the company of my spirit all the time. But then I have to shake my mind and start being disciplined in order to go out and make a living and face the other, seemingly more important world for my survival.
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Yes, I do need this practice more regularly and notice more calm around me, therefore I will allow the love to show it's face.....
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