By: Anne Jones / Source: Mind Body Green

Yes, Forrest Gump was one very wise man. Here are ten life lessons from the character that Tom Hanks made famous back in 1994.

1. Donate. Forrest’s mama said, “There’s only so much fortune one man needs, the rest is just showing off.” Keep what’s serving you, and let go of what is not.

2. Heed good advice. “Run Forrest, Run!” Those who love us are good at pointing out our strengths. They may take you far – like across the country.

3. Keep your promises. Forrest kept his promise to Bubba to open a shrimping business, and it eventually benefitted Forrest, Lieutenant Dan and Bubba’s family.

4. Let the universe take care of you. No matter where Forrest was in his life, he never was one to worry.

5. Be loyal to your friends. Love unconditionally. “Bubba was my best good friend, and even I know you can’t just find that around the corner.”

6. Pray. To whomever you pray to, and one day, when the time is right, all the shrimp that you need will appear.

7. See the glass half full. “The good part about being shot in the buttocks was the ice cream,” Forrest said. “They gave me all the ice cream I could eat.”

8. See the world with fresh eyes. Forrest’s innocence helped him see people without judgment. Practice seeing the world through innocent eyes.

9. Listen to your body. Forrest ran for a long time, but one day, he just felt like stopping, and he stopped. “When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.” Nuff said.

10. Don’t be anxious, have faith that everything will work out! “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

By: Openhand / Source: Wake Up World

There’s a natural flow to life beyond judgement of good and bad. It creates circumstances for our optimal spiritual evolution. It’s what a soul yearns for at the deepest levels.

It is here right now for every single one of us if we choose it. There are no mistakes on the spiritual journey, only experiences that invite us to discover the meaning of existence and to unveil the soul.

Each time we feel constricted or out of sorts, is a powerful opportunity to learn something deeper. With each layer we peel away, inner peace unfolds as we realign more with the flow of higher consciousness.

The more we peel away and let go, the more remember who we are from a place of wholeness beyond concepts…

Nothing on the journey happens by chance. Everything is part of a divine orchestration. So if healing is to be truly effective, then above all, we are invited to embrace the deeper meaning of our circumstance.

To me, spiritual healing is the return to wholeness at a soul level or in other words, the remembrance and integration of who we truly are. By ‘remembrance’ I mean at an energetic rather than an intellectual level.

True spiritual healing takes us to the root cause, that will unravel our blockages at all other levels (physical, emotional, psychological). We fully heal an aspect of ourselves when it is healed on all levels from karmic through to physical.

How does healing happen?

In true healing – as I experience it – a vibration of pure soul resounds outwards, simply being true to its own nature. This frequency can resound from a person or other sentient life form (such a a tree or animal).

When a person is ready, this vibration will inspire the remembrance of the same depth of universal life energy within them. Once the frequency is remembered at a soul level, then ‘healing’ happens naturally from within.

The person then vibrates a similar resonant frequency themselves, which unravels exactly what they are ready for.

As human beings we might feel that this is too simple or that we aren’t doing anything much at all. Our true power is veiled earlier in the journey.

True power of energy is beyond concepts, beyond ‘doing’ and mind led intention. We can’t really underestimate the energy of the resounding soul, reminding us who we truly are and inspiring us back to wholeness.

Which camp?

I’d say there are main two camps in the spiritual healing world.

1. The first is about empowering others to get up, awaken and open their eyes. It does not violate free will. It may at times be soft and gentle, it may be at other times be incredibly tough.

Yet, it seeks only to remind us who we truly are and to inspire our own soul to animate our beingness in this world.

2. The other camp owns benevolence for its self and thereby creates something it is not. It creates an alternative reality to escape from the world that we wish to leave behind.

It may appear like evolution or spiritual healing. It just forms another illusionary bubble. Perhaps a more desirable one, but a bubble none-the-less, isolating us from full self realisation.

We have a choice and have to decide for ourselves which camp we are in and what serves us best. I’m not here to convince anybody. We can only see how we feel and resonate about what is presented for ourselves.

The law of karma

If we ‘take away’ the pain and suffering of another person, the karma that created it in the first place, will simply recreate it in another form.

That’s the same with anything. If we have a physical or emotional injury, that is notionally ‘healed’ and the original energetic source of disharmony is still there, then the injury will reform again somehow (if not physically then perhaps even emotionally or psychologically).

Nobody (no matter who they claim to be), can remove the actual karma that causes our suffering for us. To do that would defy the energy of existence itself.

If we ‘do’ then we do so as an illusionary reality. Others can assist and inspire us in a way that might catalyse the most profound shifts, yet they cannot ‘remove’ the karma.

An Energy Worker can help clear the debris once we have broken through the karma ourselves. They can help you to the gate and perhaps even greet you at the other side, but no-one can walk through it for you.

Freewill and non-violation

• Benevolence will often inspire a shift in perception, an insightful break through or even a miracle. It does so by inspiration.
• It does not interfere.
• It does not manipulate.
• It sends out a frequency that touches the same resonance in others who are ready to awaken those aspects of themselves.

Benevolence does not ‘effort’ to awaken higher consciousness in people. It just does so by resonating outwards, fulfilling itself by its very existence. It is like a trusting that it will go exactly where it is invited.

True spiritual healing is the same. It does not seek to disempower another by manipulating their energy field. It often awakens a life changing moment of realisation, igniting a recalibration at an energetic and then cellular level.

It simply awakens that which was already in there waiting to be unleashed.

Co-creating together

It may already ‘be in there’, but it’s important to remember that we co-create together. It can be invaluable to have the support of another on the journey… especially one who can dance with the benevolent spiritual energy of the universe.

So, even if we have to walk through the gate ourselves, we need not be alone.

Soul to Soul

Trinity

By: Katrina Cavanough / Source: Wake Up World

There is a re-emerging truth. Western society is finally embracing what Eastern traditions and our indigenous cultures have always known.

Most people with a spiritual orientation recognise the existence of the mind, body and soul, however, there is more. Our soul is not the only energetic form we encapsulate. Let me explain.

For 10 years, I worked as a social worker in a busy hospital. Over those years it came to pass that I worked with over 400 deaths. For most of the patients I attended to, their death had been sudden, unexpected and always traumatic.

My role as the social worker was to support and guide the patient’s family and loved ones as they attended a viewing, said goodbye, and completed the police identification.

I always felt the privilege that comes with this type of position. To be present at one of life’s most sacred final rites was something that always held its own reverence.

Unbeknownst to my professional colleagues and the patient’s family, there were times where I found myself in a state of awareness and communication with the soul of the patient who had died or was dying.

This was profound at first and over time became normalised as the way I experienced hundreds of deaths. I always maintained professional boundaries, and would never disclose to the family or medical team that I was having a spiritual experience with the souls as they moved across into the non-physical world.

It was simply not professional to do so, and I held my role as the social worker in the highest regard.

My experience with hundreds of deaths taught me a lot about dying and the afterlife. I have a new understanding of what death is like and what happens when we die.

I know for instance, that death itself is gentle. Every single time, with no exception. This was a surprise to me as my human mind could not conceive how a person could die so tragically and not suffer. Yet each time, this is what I was shown.

I felt a great sense of humility to be both present at the time of physical death, and to hold awareness of the soul crossing over into the spiritual realm.

As the souls moved into the non-physical they would reflect. Not only about their death and their experience of the afterlife, but also about the life they had just lived.

I began to notice there were consistent themes and some unexpected new understandings about how the non-physical world works.

It is these reflections, both about living a wonderful life and the dynamics of the non-physical world, that I now describe as The Wisdoms in my book Wisdom for Your Life (Allen & Unwin).

The Fourth Dimension – the Greatest New Understanding

The Wisdom of Your Powerful Spirit has the greatest potential to permanently transform the way we experience ourselves and live our lives.

This wisdom invites us to consider a new understanding of ourselves as four-dimensional energetic beings.

Through my communication with the non-physical world, I now understand that beyond our body, mind and soul – there is a fourth dimension of ourselves.

We are aware of our bodies, and the concept of the mind still holds varying definitions dependent upon which context is being used. I use the word mind when referring to the thoughts, beliefs and emotional intelligence that comes with living each lifetime.

Your soul moves in and out of each life, holding an imprint of your memories across many lives. As it moves through each lifetime, it holds a central and singular purpose to simply experience life.

While working with hundreds of deaths, I was shown that there is more to us than body, mind and soul. There is a fourth field of energy. This fourth dimension of ourselves holds a centre point at the core of our being and then radiates out into infinity.

I have come to refer to this fourth dimension of ourselves as my (or your if I am speaking with you) powerful spirit.

Your powerful spirit is a form of energy, with its own vibrational pattern that once again is unique to you. Just like our fingers have fingerprints and each soul has its own vibrational pattern, your powerful spirit has its own unique energetic fingerprint.

The most profound revelation about this fourth dimension of our energetic selves is that it is entirely the same energy that is god, source, the great universal oneness.

This is most profound news indeed as it means we are all naturally pure love, infinite wisdom, infinite compassion, and complete abundance in all its forms. Once this was revealed to me I felt transfixed, empowered and relieved.

Once we are reminded that we are actually made of the same essence of god, then it all becomes very exciting as this actually means that the power to truly change your life, feel better, choose kindness, respond rather than react – the power to live a more happy and balanced life – is not something that you need to find in a place external to yourself, because the energy of happiness or kindness or compassion is already who you naturally are.

In this way you do not have to look outside of yourself; just shift your attention to focus upon the energetic dimension of yourself that is naturally pure love, happiness, compassion and success.

The strength we need to attend that job interview, the passion you need to complete that project, the healing we need to experience as we have lost a loved one, and even the love we need to feel for ourselves, become more easily experienced when all that is required is an awareness we are already the energetic vibration of those things.

It is who we are and we can easily tap into that resource. Better yet, it is available to us 24 hours each day.

So what does this really mean for all of us?

How can this concept of the existence of a fourth and powerful dimension of our energetic self be applied to real life?

Let me share with you how connecting and utilising your own powerful spirit can make a phenomenal difference.

Real Life

Living with the awareness that you do not have to reach outside of yourself to access infinite wisdom, love, compassion, success, health and abundance really has changed the way I live my life.

By simply using the art of self-awareness, I have made substantial changes to the way I feel about myself (my self-concept), and the way I operate in my own life.

I have always believed anything is possible, however, now I am aware that all I need I already have.

This has supercharged my capacity to really create and experience the life I desire exponentially. The last seven years have seen the realisation of so many of my dreams.

From career and business success, material gains, health through to happiness, by using my own powerful intentions program coupled with the strength of my own powerful spirit – my life has gratefully delivered many wonderful experiences.

Beyond creating magnificence in my own life, I have found that living in awareness of this naturally occurring fourth dimension – powerful spirit – has been transformational for my clients and myself as they have moved through the challenging experiences life has to offer.

Happiness and success are important to each of us to varying degrees, however, there are times when just getting through the day becomes the focus.

When we experience loss, tragedy, relationship breakdown and distress, then this is when our powerful spirit can be a source of strength and healing.

When you live your life in unity with your powerful spirit, it does not save you from life’s challenges. There are still events that hurt and cause varying degrees of anxiety, sadness and trauma.

The difference will be that as you rest your awareness on your powerful spirit, you will experience a direct connection to all that is possible.

In moments of suffering, when we connect to the energy of our powerful spirit, we can more easily access the wisdom that will guide us toward the best way through the situation.

I have experienced trauma, grief and loss without the awareness of my own powerful spirit, and have been through my version of hell and back with the awareness of my powerful spirit, and the difference was extremely noticeable.

Sandra is a woman in her mid-fifties who has been attending therapy sessions with me for the past 6 months or so. She has a son who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

As I listened to Sandra talk, I could hear the grief flow through her words as she struggled to understand the injustice and harshness of her son’s life.

I was acutely aware that her only desire in relation to her son was that he find a way to manage his mental illness so as to have some quality of life.

Over time, I coached Sandra to connect with her own powerful spirit, through mindfulness and meditation techniques. Very quickly, she made a clear connection with the part of her powerful spirit that is in a natural state of compassion, healing and grace.

As she felt this part of herself, she found it easier to cope with the grief and loss process. It did not change her son’s mental illness, but it did help Sandra realise she did not have to attend twelve months of therapy before a state of healing was delivered to her.

She could access this feeling state now.

As the souls of the dying shared with me the concept of your powerful spirit, I felt a great responsibility to share this with you.

Over time my friends in the non-physical world have helped me to understand how this fourth dimension of ourselves works, and how we can use it in our real lives.

I felt energised by its potential to help many of us feel better and experience our best life. I feel a deep sense of gratitude to reconnect you with this wisdom now.

I now know that when we step through life with complete awareness of all that we naturally are – the capacity to access the part of ourselves that is the same energy as god – then anything is possible and we are truly free.