Techniques For Personal Growth

The transformational energy now affecting the earth and her inhabitants can have a powerful effect on one's personal energy field. We can feel strong one day and weak the next. We can be decisive in our actions or be in a constant state of confusion. Listed below are some simple techniques that can help you maintain balance in an ever changing world.

To awaken and develop our true self we must first reconstruct our thoughts and feelings.  If we choose to focus our attention on the denial of light we become victims.  If we choose to focus our attention on the acceptance of light we become that light.

The reality you live in is nothing more than where your attention lies.  The purpose of each soul is to dismantle the negative emotional tendencies acquired through previous acts, words and deeds.  To be the emissary of light that you originally chose to be it is important to awaken light within your self.  One way to do this is to let go of the “security of your insecurity.”  This process opens up a world of possibilities.  When you do not perceive yourself as a victim you are choosing to acknowledge your personal integrity and life begins to blossom in a balanced way.

Living in a state of balance is a matter of choice. Because our experiences represent the foundation on which we stand and consciousness expresses itself through that foundation, it is important to remember to acknowledge light in every experience you have.   Acknowledging the light is a simple process.  If a situation arises that you do not like, before you react to it, say this statement out loud, “I acknowledge the light within this situation.” Over time you will find that this simple act will produce positive changes in your reaction to the situation.

The time to let go of the victim role is now, not tomorrow.  If you live in tomorrow today, you decrease your energy, your thoughts become scattered and unhealthy emotions set in.  If you live in the moment however, your attention to that moment manifests a following moment.  Always remember that where your attention lies today determines what lies ahead of you tomorrow.

Love is the avenue we need to walk to develop spiritual perception. When you make a conscious choice of loving more make sure your reason for doing so is not motivated by your personal emotional desires.  Rather do so in order to assist in the activation of the divine flame of creative intelligence that lives within everyone.  When you perceive the light within another, you are drawing on the strength of your own inner light to do so.  This in turn ignites the creative flame within you and everyone’s life becomes enriched.

Many people today hold attachments to an outcome. They have a plan with an expectation of what that plan will produce.  If the expected results are not met frustration and disappointment set in.  Understand that attachment to an outcome gives the ego power to control your life. You are prompted to try again and again to acquire the desired result.  When we let go of our attachments to outcomes we surrender our ego to spirit and everything works out appropriately

Spiritual perception is known and understood when we do for the joy of doing.  Joy awakens light and light transforms insecurities. This transformation awakens love the true quality of the soul.

Are You Living With A Victim Mentality?

Here is a quiz to help you see if you’ve been carrying around a victim mentality that may be robbing you of your sense of personal power.  Answer true or false to the following statements.

My first response to a setback  is to blame another for what’s happened.

No matter what I do, things are not really going to change for me.

I often find myself beginning thoughts with phrases like “I cant….”I’m no good at …. I’ve never been able to…..

When angry, I rarely begin sentences with I

Conversations with others are often about how hard things are.

When I meet a person on the street that I haven’t seen in a while and they ask me how I am, I say, “I’m fine” and then start telling them all the things that are wrong in my life.

I’m always so busy with work and things I need to do that I don’t have time to do the things I want to do.

I must have done something really horrible in a past life because nothing ever works for me.

When friends offer advice, I usually counter it with a “Yes, but….”

No one really understands me or knows how challenging my life really is.

Victim hood is usually a way of staying stuck in old patterns and can be an externalizing way of dealing with unacknowledged anger or fear of change.  If you answered true to a handful of these questions you might want to work on neutralizing the victim energy that limits your life and your happiness.

Get out a 2003 calendar.  Close your eyes and point to a day on that calendar.  (When you select a day while closing the eyes the subconscious makes the selection for you and not the conscious analytical mind)

On a piece of paper write down the hours in the day or evening that you would have time to do the exercise without being interrupted.

Close your eyes and point to an hour listed on the paper.  Start the exercise on the day and the hour that you selected.

For three consecutive days at the hour you chose sit quietly for 30 minutes and ask yourself what events affected your life during 2002.  These events should be of a personal nature, something that made an impact on you.

Once you have discovered an event that affected you in 2002 write it down on a piece of paper.  Don’t spend time reviewing it, simply write it down and continue to add things to your list.

Do this for 3 consecutive days for 30 minutes each day.

At the end of the 3rd day review your list and ask yourself what the hidden gift was that the event offered you.  If there are no immediately discernible gifts, then continue down the list until you find a gift in at least one of the things on your list.

After reviewing your list take a moment and ask yourself the following questions.

How would my life be different if the event hadn’t happened?
What did I gain from the event or experience?

Now take a moment to give thanks for the gifts that came your way in the past year. Make a commitment to stay focused on those gifts so you can fully appreciate what life has to offer.

We often remember things that happen that are negative in nature.  This exercise helps us view things from a different perspective and shows us how to see things in a more positive way. It also gives us the opportunity to make conscious choices as to where we choose to place our awareness.  Remember, your reality is directly related to where your attention lies.

Most of us don’t spend enough time giving thanks for our life and the simple pleasures it holds.   We often choose to dwell on the dramas we are involved in.  How many times have you bumped into someone you haven’t seen in a while and ask them how there life is going? After a moment of pleasantries they start telling you all the problems they have. Seldom do they speak about the wonderful things in their life because their consciousness is consumed with the bad.  In fact if you ask them about the good things they really have to stop and think about it.

One way to break this pattern is to start each day by acknowledging at least 2 things in your life that are beautiful to you, a colorful bird flying by, the sound of the wind, a sunrise etc. When we plant a thought we harvest an action, when we plant an action we harvest a habit, when we harvest a habit we plant a character, when we plant a character we harvest a destiny.

Contact Points

There are three basic levels in the human body. The mental, the emotional and the physical. Since all three bodies need to be operating with optimum efficiency for balance to be maintained we must energize all of these bodies equally. Each of these bodies has a contact point in which energies of a healing and balancing nature can pass most directly to each of these three levels.

The mind, in its essential vibration, is closest to the head of the human body. The eyes and the ears are the entry points for energy intended to heal or help the mental facet of being. The eyes view that which they witness and perception is acquired. The ears are the principal receivers of the spoken word which stimulates the mental faculties.

Loving or unloving emotions are centered in the heart. When a person has a heart attack the pain often extends along the arms. This indicates that both on a physical and emotional level the heart, arms and hands are linked. The contact point for the heart is the palms of the hands.

The human being also has a physical body and a physical level of experience. He/she is in direct contact with the earth itself. The soles of the feet are the contact points for overall physical well being.  If you experience difficulties in the mental, emotional or physical parts of your being  spend a moment energizing the relevant contact point for that area.  Doing this daily can make a difference in how you feel on all levels.

We've all experienced difficult times, often through events and circumstances that are outside our control.  Here are ten suggestions for dealing with adversity.

Take Responsibility:  Assume an I can do something attitude rather than pointing fingers and placing blame.  If nothing else, you can control your own response to the situation.

Limit the Focus:  Don't let the problem become all encompassing.  When you compartmentalize the difficulty you can focus on a solution.

Be Optimistic:  The ultimate belief in life as positive, even with hard times and troubles, will result in positive behaviors and positive actions.

Think Creatively:  Approach the problem from new and different directions.  Trust your creativity.

Have Courage:  Having courage doesn't mean you are not afraid, it means you don't let fear get in the way of doing what you need to do.

Take Action:  Rather than rolling over in the midst of hard times, determine what action you can take and do it.

Take The Long Range View:  Remember that "this too shall pass."  Recount other times when you have overcome challenges.

Maintain a Sense of Humor:  Laughter always helps ease our suffering.

Get Support:  There is no need to do it alone.  Always remember that you and spirit are going through this situation together!

Don't Quit:  Among all the human qualities that allow us to overcome adversity, persistence may be the greatest.

To acquire abundance in our life we must realize that abundance is an energy that lives within each of our four bodies. The physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.  Each of these bodies are contributing influences that govern our lives.  If one or more of these bodies are not receiving equal nourishment abundance cannot be achieved.

The physical world that we express ourselves through needs to be fed equal nourishment from the mental, spiritual and emotional components of our energetic field. If one or more of these bodies are not receiving the proper nourishment necessary to sustain itself the energy of lack is projected into our energetic field.  Once done, this lack automatically expresses itself into our day to day world.

If we honor each of our four bodies equally we feed the energy of abundance.  When the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of self are  nurtured  equally abundance becomes our reality. Abundance can only be acquired by realizing that the energy of each body contribute to our over all well being. This contribution is often played out in our physical, material world.

Each morning when you wake up take a few moments and do this simple exercise.

Quiet yourself. Take a couple of deep breaths and relax.
Ask your spiritual body what it needs to feel nourished.  Write down your answer.
Ask your mental body what it needs to feel nourished. Write down your answer.
Ask your emotional body what it needs to feel nourished.  Write down your answer.
Ask you physical body what it needs to feel nourished.  Write down your answer.

Review the answers you received.  Look at each answer as it relates to that specific body.  Discover which of the four bodies are not receiving equal time, nourishment or energy and begin to change this.

Ask yourself how you can supply the needed nourishment to that specific body and dedicate yourself to spending the time necessary to supplying that bodies need.  Do this technique for 21 consecutive days for optimum results.

Overcoming fear is one of the biggest challenges mankind faces.  It appears in every area of our lives.  Almost all of our problems are a by product of fear.  When we remove fear from our lives harmony and balance are acquired.  We must realize that fear  lives within our cellular memory.  To overcome fear we must clear this memory as well as the emotional attachments we have to it.

The energy of fear thrives within polarity.  To eliminate it we need to move out of polarity and into neutral consciousness.  All fear has a thought and a feeling associated with it.  If you change a thought but don't clear the emotion that is connected to it total healing cannot be achieved.  Most healing affirmations work primarily on changing the consciousness which is only part of the solution. The emotion attached to the issue often remains stored within the body.  This is why affirmations alone don't always work.  We must rid ourselves of the emotion that is connected to the thought for total healing to be accomplished.

The technique listed below is part of a course I offer called The Orhai Method of Total Healing.  This technique can be used in your individual spiritual practices although permission from me is required for it to be used in any workshop, group work, lectures or written material due to its powerful effects. If you work with this technique in your individual spiritual practices, please contact me if you have any questions or concerns about it.

Whenever you take a shower or bath repeat the following affirmation.  I acknowledge I have fear, I choose to be ok with it and  it feels warm.  Send this concept down to your mid section and repeat the process over and over. All of these statements are neutral statements  and do not feed polarity.

The emotional body is the most curious body you have.  It takes you around the corner to see what's on the other side.  It doesn't really care about what you think, rather it responds to feeling.   By connecting a thought with a feeling you have a complete package that forms a program.

Eventually this affirmation sparks the emotional bodies curiosity.  The emotional energy associated with old unhealthy programs begins to move out into your energy field  to investigate the affirmation you are sending it.  As soon as this happens the new neutral program you have created has the opportunity to slide into the old programs space.  When the old program decides to return to its familiar residence inside of you, it cant. The new program that you created is occupying its space.  Because energy follows thought and you are no longer giving attention to the old program it starts to dissipate of its own accord. Cellular memory lives within polarity and consists of fear based programs.  When we are not governed by polarity we are one with the energy of Spirit.

Lie down on your back and begin to breathe deeply. Close your eyes and place the palms of your hands over the eyes. Visualize the color creamy white entering into your eyes. Do this for 30 seconds.

Now cover your ears with the palms of your hands and visualize the color cobalt blue entering your ears. Do this for 30 seconds.

Now place your hands on your chest. Place the palms of your hands together as in a prayer formation. Visualize the color gold pulsating between your palms, moving up your arms and into your heart. Do this for 30 seconds.

Take a few even breaths, open your eyes and gently sit up. Bend forward; reposition your legs so that you can reach your feet. Now place the left palm over the left sole of your foot, the right palm over the right sole of your foot. Visualize the color rust red entering each foot. Do this for 30 seconds. When you feel ready, get up and carry on with your day.

Upon awakening in the morning say out loud. Good morning spirit. Good morning (your name). Good morning world. These three simple statements can have powerful benefits for you. One of our biggest problems is that we feel separated from spirit, uncertain within ourselves and frustrated with our world. By acknowledging spirit, yourself and the world each morning you create a link to a unified consciousness, which empowers you instead of dis-empowering you.  Try this technique; it just might be the ticket you've been looking for.

Each morning before stepping out your door do the following exercise. Stand, quiet yourself, and visualize an indigo bubble surrounding you. Do not do this to protect yourself from negative energies, rather, do this to strengthen your personal energy field so that it continually revitalizes you throughout the day. If we were to surround ourselves in a white light our energy fields would reflect our brilliance. The brighter we shine the more of a target we become. The color Indigo has the same vibratory frequencies as white but it doesn't glow in the dark. If you don't glow in the dark negative energy can't find you.

Throughout the course of a day we often encounter unpleasant experiences. These experiences can make us feel depleted, scattered or confused. One of the best and most efficient ways to clear unwanted energies and influences out of your energy field is to do the following technique at least once a day.

Begin by taking several deep breaths. Visualize or think of a small cord extending out of your crown chakra and connecting with spirit. Leave this cord connected while doing this exercise and never clip the tip of this cord.

Once this is done visualize or think of a small cord extending out in front of your brow chakra approximately one inch in length. Visualize or think of a pair of scissors clipping the tip of the cord off and then roll the cord back into your brow chakra.

Now visualize or think of a small cord extending out in front of your throat chakra approximately one inch in length. Visualize or think of a pair of scissors clipping the tip of the cord off and then roll the cord back into your throat chakra.

Visualize or think of a small cord extending out in front of your heart chakra approximately one inch in length. Visualize or think of a pair of scissors clipping the tip of the cord off and then roll the cord back into the heart chakra.

Visualize or think of a small cord extending out in front of your solar plexus approximately one inch in length. Visualize or think of a pair of scissors clipping the tip of the cord off and then roll the cord back into the solar plexus.

Visualize or think of a small cord extending out in front of your navel chakra approximately one inch in length. Visualize or think of a pair of scissors clipping the tip of the cord off and then roll the cord back into the navel.

Visualize or think of a small cord extending out in front of your root chakra approximately one inch in length. Visualize or think of a pair of scissors clipping the tip of the cord off and then roll the cord back into the root chakra.

When you have clipped the tips of all cords connected to your chakras simply roll the crown chakras cord back into your head.

This technique clears the debris we accumulate in our energy field and helps us stand in our own light. Try it; I think you will be happy with the results.