Enlightenment is the Mount Everest in human consciousness. There is nothing greater in life to discover.  It is the peak of ones existence that naturally blossoms when you’ve reached a sweet ripe maturity within every area of your life.  Full enlightenment is not just about reaching a transcendental state of bliss through meditation.  The real deal means you’ve also integrated this expanded understanding into your personal life.  When you have mastered your relationships with people, money, food, sex, health, your body, feelings, thoughts and everything on your inner and outer world, then enlightenment simply finds you.  It doesn’t have to take very long, the moment you discover a deep and complete peace within every area of your life, you will have reached the highest level of maturity and reveal what the enlightened state is all about.

One can only achieve their highest enlightened state when one has grown, evolved and come to know all parts of themselves intimately.  The full ripening and maturity of ones life means you have found peace with yourself, which overflows onto everyone and everything in your outer world.  Enlightenment is a flowering of your divinity that naturally blossoms when you have relinquished this inner battle within you.  When you discover the Source of every thought, memory and feeling on your inner world, you instantly liberate yourself from them. The experience of enlightenment is something quite mysterious and very challenging to capture with words.  It is a state of profound presence that is coming from the beyond, and is heading back into the beyond.  If you are an individual who wants to traverse this spiritually advanced path, there a few things you’ll want to know about the various levels of maturity. 

If a man becomes “enlightened” in a Himalayan cave, then later returns to the city to find himself overwhelmed with stress, strife and struggle, he hasn’t reached his full maturity yet. The ultimate maturity means you are always abiding at your peaceful center, breathing deeply as the “I” of the hurricane, enjoying the cosmic play spinning around you.  This level of maturity comes with tremendous awareness, a consciousness that burns through the ego/mind, and doesn’t let you get snagged in the cyclone of people’s’ drama. The result of constantly abiding at your peaceful center is the continuous realization that a perpetual state of joy, bliss, love and freedom is always at the source of who you are.  These realizations lead one into the ultimate maturity, which ironically has the qualities of trees in a bamboo forest.  Each individual tree contains an incredible strength as well as amazing flexibility. Their roots are deeply intertwined, this allows them to connect with the souls of everyone around them, creating a feeling of a tight loving family with every new sprout that joins the forest.

True maturity is something that’s often misunderstood in our society.  This “enlightened maturity” is unique in that it contains a childlike playfulness at the core, a constant state of receptivity to each new experience, and a profound humility that stems from the willingness to merge with everyone’s heart.  Although a peaceful stillness is always found at the very core of the mature soul, they are easily inspired, outrageous in their ideas and simply excited about being alive in this amazing multidimensional Universe.  The immature soul is easy to identify as he/she will put others down to lift him/herself up.  Since they abide in ego, they always live in a constant state of insecurity because they haven’t yet found the courage to venture deep inside, to the very core of their being, and discover the vast cosmic consciousness and all-forgiving love that’s always there. 

Maturity certainly isn’t something attained through age or adulthood.  There are many children these days who are more mature than many adults, and the numbers seem to be increasing!  The ultimate maturity comes through a welcoming of the large variety of different “hot and cold” experiences life gives you.  It is a willingness to patiently bear the emotional storms of life, knowing always that everything is temporary and this too shall pass away.  This cosmic understanding leads to the ripening of consciousness.  And as Osho once said, “The ripened fruit simply falls from the tree.”  When your consciousness is fully ripe and mature, your burdens, difficulties and problems in life will naturally fall away.  You’ll stop manifesting them because your consciousness will be sooooo high, that you couldn’t be entertained or “hooked” by the ego/mind’s illusion once again. 

You must know that this Mount Everest of enlightenment is tremendously high, and there are many many old unconscious patterns from your past that need to resurface to be transcended along the way.  To climb this peak in your Sunday slippers simply means the journey wasn’t a real adventure, yet only a lazy stroll through your neighborhood park.  If you yourself are spiritually awake, yet find yourself falling back into your ego’s dramatic play again and again, do not be discouraged.  This is just one stage of the ripening process.  The secret here is consciously allowing yourself to fall back into ego/mind, and when it happens do it with utter awareness.  Bring pure consciousness into the ego/mind and let the two merge.  This will burn away your past karmic conditioning faster than chanting a billion mantras and truly liberate you!  We are all swinging on this pendulum that flows between the ego and spirit, and there’s no getting off this ride until you have mastered it.  This mastery is your journey into maturity.  So with pure awareness meet and greet every ego/mind you encounter.  Watch how the ego rises and falls, all the while you are witnessing it, relaxed at the core and in a state of awe of this great pendulum.

I’ve personally designed an online program that is guaranteed to shift you into the highest state consciousness so that you start manifesting everything your heart desires.  Whatever your Mt. Everest is in your life, it can be reached.  You can manifest anything by using this manifesting technology.  The Super Manifesting Program contains the 8 habits Manifesting Routine that will dramatically raise your consciousness so that your desires effortlessly begin showing up in your life!  Simply follow this program for 90 days in a row and we guarantee you’ll experience the magic of manifesting!!

Your gut may say one thing…..and then your mind keeps telling you another.  Which do you follow?

I was at the crossroad last summer and wondered which direction????  I felt strongly that I should step back, stop what I was doing and see what happens.  So I did….I stopped blogging, tweeting, facebooking, etc.. I was in a resting place. 

I really didn’t know why or what or who or how…I was to follow my inner guidance.  And as you all know, life can get in the way and the guidance system is sometimes hard to hear.  Maybe I needed to brush off the dust and cobwebs off the system so I could hear more clearly the inner wisdom.

Maybe I needed to take a rest, to be quiet to be able to hear where I was to go next.

Maybe I needed to make room for the next great thing to enter my life.

So I listened and stopped and trusted I would hear my next step to take in life.

WOW….looking back now I can’t believe what really happened!!

You may find the process of journaling helps you recognize areas in your life that you can feel good about and areas that you want to change.

Find a quiet, comfortable spot to do your writing. Spend as much time writing as you want. You can write several pages, a couple of lines or even just one word to express how you feel or what you are thinking.  Understand what’s important in your life:

Make a list of what is important to you, such as your goals, dreams and what you hope for in the future.
• You could have a short-term list related to the next few days or weeks and a long-term list related to the next month or year.
• You can decide what is most important to you on the list and try to accomplish those things first.

Create a plan of action:
• From the list you have created, pick at least one or two of the short-term items and make a plan of action for how you can accomplish them. For example, you might have on your list something related to wanting to enjoy life more.
• The plan of action might be that you would do at least one thing each day that brings you joy. This could be sitting quietly while enjoying a cup of tea, going for a walk in the park, playing a musical instrument or soaking in the bathtub.
• Also, you can pick one or two long-term items. For example you might want to learn more about a specific topic.
• The plan of action could be to get a class brochure for a local community college or to look for courses online.

Sometimes we are so busy and don’t take the time to relax and open to our true potential.

And then we wonder why we get what we do in life…………hmmmmmmmmmmm

This is a short video that will ask empowering questions that will open you up  to YOU!

You ask yourself questions all day long. Are they empowering? Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant, has created these empowering questions that you can ask yourself. When you ask yourself empowering questions, you open yourself to receive empowering answers. Relax and listen to the music and the questions.

Ask Yourself Empowering Questions

“We can and ought to love everything around us, our family, our friends and each stranger, indiscriminately, as we love ourselves.

If we cannot love and serve those close to us we have nothing.

 We love not by feeling or thinking but by doing, by being love and in being love we know that we are here to serve the One, the All, because when we serve that is when we are love.

We are able to choose love over the self, over the ego, and that is true freedom, not whether we have the right to vote or to speak up or to get angry or to be naughty or to earn a living or to be happy.

If our concept of love is distorted then we have forgotten to serve. Why is there that conception that the mother or father is the one whose love is the purest?  Is it because they serve their children above themselves?

 We can apply this concept to all, without being radical about it, just in the smallest of things, through this we are able to allieviate the suffering which most of our brothers and sisters are living with each day, each hour, and to do so in those moments where and when we can.

Love in One, love above All.”

Do you believe its there?

We are connected to all that is…or God…we are part of God and with that have the power within us to feel the power and love of who we are.

If you can’t feel it, why not?  If you can’t live in the space, why not?

I guess we call it life…we let life get in the way.  Life’s activities seem to take us over and we begin to live in the activities and not in the energy of our power within.  Activities become easier, less stressful, more enjoyable when we start from within.

How do we do it?  Most of us have forgotten….don’t you think?

Start with quiet time with you….just you…five minutes a day.  Make this a priority.  Just be quiet, relax and just be.  Don’t do anything or strive for anything…just be.

Then before you begin any activity……stop, and just breathe…..calm yourself…..feel the energy rush down from your head through your body….feel your body relax.

Just these two practices EVERY DAY will bring your awareness to right now.  JUST do it!

These simple practices will become part of your life and as they do you will experience a new awareness.

Listen to my connection to my power within and how it saved my life!

She is an amazing woman with much wisdom and experience in the field of health and well being and consciousness.

We are the creators of our own reality and our beliefs form the experiences we encounter on this earth. 

So can we change our health by changing our beliefs?  Can we change the consciousness inregards to cancer and eliminate it? 

As the debate rages on in Washington and across the nation dividing us along party lines as we search for the best methods and methodologies for administering healthcare in America. However there is an underlying Truth that is missing from the debate. This Truth is that complete and perfect Health is everyone’s birthright. This capacity is innate, fundamental and within the sovereignty of individual being.

The Body’s Default Position: Wellness

Haven’t you ever wondered how a cut heals, you recover from a cold or the flu, a broken leg mends, or that severed nerves regenerate? In recent news, 12 year old Hannah Clark’s heart repaired itself, much to the dismay of doctors. The only reason we don’t see these types of “healings” with respect to cancer, aids, Parkinson’s and other diseases is that we don’t believe it can happen.

The beliefs and concepts held as “true” in the human mind collective are the prevailing human physical reality; but when someone creates a “new” reality previously held as impossible, we call it a ‘miracle’. The good news here is that if one person can do it, it inspires others to reach for that thought and create that miracle (a new thought) for themselves, as well.

The Body-Mind Connection Surely enough scientific studies have been done by now that point the way to a definitive body-mind connection. For example a collaborative study between the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Genomics Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, demonstrates how a single, non-pharmacological intervention can help patients deal with disparate medical disorders. However what makes this study definitive is that is takes the body-mind connection from “soft” science to “hard” science by documenting how the mind can and does affect gene expression.

 There can be no doubt any longer that our internal state determines our physical condition. Our internal state is wholly determined by the beliefs and concepts that we hold to be true. When we can shift this baseline “truth” to Truth, hearts heal themselves, limbs will regenerate, and eventually there will be no need for healthcare as we now experience it.

Spirituality and Science Converge The spiritual community has long held the space of this knowing for the rest of human consciousness. From the ancients to the moderns, such as Louise Hay in her book Heal Your Body and Deepak Chopra in his books, Quantum Healing and Molecules of Emotion, they have faithfully iterated that by our free will to choose where we focus our attention (to change our mind), we create the whole of our own reality. We are the Creators of it all here on Earth; every single bit of it.

Spirituality and science are converging into One, no surprise here for the spiritual community. The personal mastery of self has always been and continues to be quintessentially the free will choice of every human to focus on what is desired and create it for their personal Good and individual pursuit of happiness.

It is only limited, finite human-mind thought that distracts and derails us from our Connection with Source, the fulfillment of all our Good. The Shifting Paradigm: The Age of the Prodigal’s Return We are beginning an evolutionary shift in human consciousness returning us to our spiritual home, our birthright of Oneness in human mind consciousness. This is the story of the Prodigal Son in the Bible, only it was never about a boy returning to his father, but was always about human consciousness returning to the Consciousness of God, Source, All That Is – which is Who We Really Are and always have been.

I’d say these are pretty exciting times on planet Earth!

Kathy Kirk:
Kathy Kirk lives in Ohio. A graduate of Cornell, she is founder of Applied Spirituality and author of, Well Done, and The Earthling’s Quick Start Guide.
Website: AppliedSpirituality.com
Blog: A New View AppliedSpirituality.com/blog
Kathy is a powerful and inspirational speaker to groups as NAS North Island, Qualcomm, BAE Systems, SPAWARS, Mensa, the US Post Office, Cornell, Phoenix House and San Diego County Libraries. She gives Seminars and Workshops.
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What do you think?

This is a question that we could ponder, analyze, discuss and never intellectually grasp the answer.  Intellectually the mind cannot grasp the depth of the question or answer.  When we think things out we use such a limited aspect of our selves.  The mind is limited in its capacity to search the depths of our entire being.  The mind wasn’t created for this.  The mind is used in our finite reality of the world, not the infinite of the universal mind.

The universal mind as I talk about it here is the ALL…is the everything….is all of energy….is God.

And this is beyond the mind, beyond thought or belief…

So a spiritual solution to healing disease in some way, is beyond our mental capacity.

1.  Develop a spiritual practice so you can experience your higher self…your God-self………..

There are many paths and practices to connect to this awareness of your true being. Choose one and consistently practice it and apply it, to access this place of awareness to yourself-your God-self.  So you can experience your God-self in every moment of your life.  This is where miracles happen….. This will restore you to the truth…the truth of who you really are.

Below is an excerpt from DavidPaul Doyle and Candace Doyle’s book, The Voice for Love: Accessing Your Inner Voice To Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose.

“God’s Voice within you is not a word or a term. It is a Presence, a state of Being, a way of thinking that gives you the experience of Who and What you truly are … of what your True Nature is. It does not matter what words you use to describe this aspect of yourself, this quality or state of Being. It is merely to call It something so that you can put your attention on It. You can call It the Holy Spirit, God’s Voice, the Voice of your true Self, the Voice for Love and Peace within you, or any other name you like.

In Truth, this Presence or state of Mind is your Voice, and yet who you think you are in the world is usually much less than what this Voice truly is and what You truly are. You think you are a person walking around in the world—possibly a husband, a partner, a friend, a business associate—and you become identified with these things, with these forms and concepts. It is possible to use the term Highest Self when thinking of this Voice within you, and yet for most people, the term Higher Self would be associated with a wiser aspect of their personality, a part within their heart or mind that is more connected with Truth or with the big picture. For some, the term Higher Self might even be the voice of their own soul, and yet few would believe that they are much greater than the concept of a soul and that their true Voice is much grander than that of their soul. One still perceives them self to be separate, and for many, the highest concept that they can come up with for who they truly are is that of an individualized soul. The Truth is, you are much grander than that. You are, in fact, One with your Creator, One with All That Is, One with this Voice for God within you.”  click here to learn more about the Doyles

If this is true…..which my experience with stage 4 melanoma, says it is…..

Is there a Spiritual Solution for Healing and Disease???

If we are one with God, are we not powerful enough to heal??

Go get my book, Song of My Soul and learn more about how I found my connection to God.

 I saw myself for many years of my life as this physical body.  I thought as long as I maintained this physical life with success, my life would go smoothly.  Through time many aspects of my physical world and life began falling apart.  I didn’t understand what was happening.  Everything was happening TO me and I didn’t see the connection. 

Everything was outside of me.  My connection to my true self was lost.  I no longer could hear that voice within.  It was clouded or veiled by all the external noise of life; my activities, job, kids, roles I played, just the dramas of life.  I had forgotten that I was not all of those activities and roles, but didn’t know it.  I was all of the external noise.

I didn’t know my mind was really trying to control everything in my life.   I didn’t recognize how my mind was creating stress and chaos and trouble all around me and in me.  It created physical ailments and emotional ailments.  Completely unaware, I treaded through life believing or convincing myself all was well.

Then, YOU HAVE CANCER!  Quite a wake up call and one I knew deep within I needed.  I didn’t know how to stop!

I began the journey healing my physical body through nutrition and cleansing.  It is the most logical place to start.  Then through the journey I began to see more clearly I was more than this physical body.  I was being led on a journey back to myself.  A journey from the outside in.

After seeing and feeling and experiencing this transformation, I realized it is all about living from the inside out.  I had forgotten and had gotten distracted trying to live and survive in the world.  I had forgotten how to use my emotions as my guide in life.  I had forgotten how to use my mind for the tool it was created for.  I had forgotten that I had a voice within, with the wisdom and love that I was.

Now speaking with others I share the steps of living from the heart.  When we master the 5 Steps of Living From the Heart we can master our life. I want everyone to experience Living From the Heart. 

I have put together a workbook that takes you through the 5 steps I learned after 12 years on my cancer survivor journey.  An audio accompanies the 50 page workbook and walks you through the steps.  You will be on your way to mastering your life.  

 Get it here now.

Sheila Ulrich Cancer Survivor Speaker

Your presence is a gift to the world,
You’re unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be what you want it to be –
Take it one day at a time.

Count your blessings, not your troubles,
And you will make it through what comes along.
Within you are so many answers,
Understand, have courage, be strong.

Don’t put limits on yourself,
Your dreams are waiting to be realized.
Don’t leave your important decisions to chance –
Reach for your peak, your goal, and your prize.

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying –
The longer a problem is carried, the heavier it gets.
Don’t take things too seriously –
Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.

Remember that a little love goes a long way –
Remember that a lot goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment,
Life’s treasures are people…together.

Have health and hope and happiness,
Take the time to wish on a star.
And don’t ever forget for even a day…
How very special YOU are!