Sunday, June 3, 2012

How can our experience of being alive, shift?


With Soul Evolution:
What might we be able to do?
How can things be different?

The leap into a spiritually-focused life can change everything.

Our new capacities that we access and build upon, shift our lives dramatically for the better, inside and out.  
Along our unique spiritual path we find support, connection and the true fulfillment of our deepest calling.  
We become more conscious, effective agents of change in our lives and in the world.

When you access the outcomes below with ease and consistency, how could it change your world?


1.  Turn glimpses of possibility and clarity into lasting change and sustained momentum

One of the universal challenges on the path of spiritual development and personal growth is converting our insights into lasting results.  
Despite hard work, glimmers of tremendous potential, and deepening awareness 
- and even periods of significant progress - 
many of us are frustrated by our tendency to slide back into old patterns.

This waning of consistency and commitment is natural.  
But when we are able to access our soul, 
we discover resources that are enduring and powerful enough to sustain our practices, 
truly embody new possibilities, 
and move us to act on what really matters to us.

Imagine tapping into a source of inspiration that so powerfully transcends the drives of our habitual self, 
that we just can't go back to the way things have been. 
With a larger perspective, and expanded internal resources, 
we become what we access in our most inspired moments. 

The result: 
an active, new-found momentum in our spiritual practices, in our lives, and in our highest aspirations in the world.


2.  Create deeper, more authentic relationships, and find community with others who share our values and aspirations

Stepping up to meaningful change in the world 
and to pioneer a new way of being human is an exciting and enlivening prospect, 
but it can also feel lonely out on the leading edge. 
When we surround ourselves with others who share a commitment to Soul Evolution, 
we can more easily overcome social gravity.

That's where evolutionary partnership with kindred spirits becomes useful. 
We can access deeply connected friendships and partnerships that serve us, and others.  
As a Soul Evolutionaries, we can both give and receive in conscious collaboration.


3.  Discover a spiritual practice that is relevant to our modern world and can be lived 24/7

Many people's spiritual longings are scarcely fulfilled by a half-hour-a-day meditation practice, 
and we wonder how to live spiritually when life's demands don't allow for extended retreats and pilgrimages.

And although traditional paths and practices have helped humans all along, 
many of us are not deeply served by them.

Soul Evolution practices are relevant to the complexities and challenges of modern life 
- an engaged, holistic approach that turns everyday life into a spiritual practice, 24/7.  
We don't sequester ourselves to prepare for a later return to living.  
It's spiritual life - in action - NOW.

When we step into Soul Evolution Practices, conscious living is part of the practice 
- how we relate to our experiences, situations, and other people. 
The result is a practical, grounded spirituality that has impact on ourselves and the world 
- and a daily life infused with meaning and purpose.


4. Learn how to defuse our physical-focus and undermining habits

Our habit of physical-focus is an obstacle 
when we are choosing to live a spiritually-focused life: 
conscious, awakened, enlightened, free.

When these unproductive habits and instincts run the show unconsciously, 
nothing really works the way we sense it could 
- not in our lives or in our world.

What's more, many spiritual and psychological disciplines have taught us that 
our human nature is fixed and must be accepted, 
offering little hope for anything more than "small change."

But the discovery of the soul self changes all that, 
offering a path beyond old patterns and ways of being,  
a path that is more direct than most of us can imagine. 

By aligning with the pure and powerful part of ourselves, 
we bypass outmoded impulses. 
We liberate ourselves from the religious and social programming of our world.

The drives toward survival, emotionality, stasis, 'being right', avoidance of truth and commitment... 
loose their grip on our lives. 
They don't go away, but they cease to be compelling. 

The voice of limitation no longer captures our attention; 
the temptation to play the victim loses its charge. 

With ourselves as spirit in the driver's seat, 
we are free to take creative healthy risks, 
lean into positive change, 
face truths with less resistance, and 
allow the flourishing of our highest human potential. 


5. Live our highest aspirations, wisdom and callings, even when we don't feel like it

From the soul self, we experience an un-linking of the bondage 
between our thoughts & feelings, and our choices & actions. 
We discover the liberation of our capacity to consciously align our self with Higher Consciousness.

Instead of being thrown off-course by strong feelings, 
we are informed by them and we can keep our course.  
You can give up the notion that "I couldn't help it."   
Emotions such as fear don't have to be obstacles to internal freedom and external action. 

This doesn't mean suppressing our feelings.  
We can feel all our feelings deeply - even more so - 
with an expanding care for the whole;
and still see clearly in the face of them. 

And, we learn to read our feelings more accurately 
and obtain the wisdom and data they contain... 
without getting sidetracked by them.

The result:  Better choices, commitment, and a life of integrity and presence.

Emotional and intellectual freedom 
is one of the most liberating and powerful transformations of Soul Evolution.  
Spiritual freedom is key.


6. "Draft" on the momentum and energy of evolution

When we don't seem to be getting the results our spiritual practices were intended to deliver, 
many of us begin to doubt that the ideals we once set out to manifest are even possible.  
Unfortunately, much of contemporary spiritual thought supports this reduced vision, 
suggesting we "call off the search" and accept that this is as good as it gets.  

One of the pitfalls most people don't even realize they're stuck in 
is a context for our spiritual work that's simply too small. 
An unfortunate byproduct of our individualistic culture 
is that spiritual growth is often seen as being strictly personal 
- for our own fulfillment, happiness, and enlightenment.

Entire generation has thus been earnestly working on themselves 
chiefly to obtain happier, more peaceful lives 
- and wondering why this doesn't catalyze significant change.

What if the purpose of a spiritual path includes us, but doesn't end with us? 

In Soul Evolution, we connect with the role our own progress plays in the great game of Soul Evolution 
- the way that, as evolving beings in an evolving universe, we can participate in the advancement of humanity and Consciousness itself.  
Our healing and transformation effects those around us, and beyond.


7. Find the resilience, perspective and genuine optimism to face the biggest challenges confronting humanity today

The Spiritual perspective helps us understand and navigate our problems and challenges more accurately, 
and offers a vantage-point that is the ultimate antidote to cynicism: 
we realize that everything can and will change.

The practices of Soul Evolution infuse us 
with resilience, inspiration, creativity, and energy. 

With spirit leading the charge, 
we're tapped into the limitless, positive and unstoppable momentum of the cosmos itself. 

Rather than take on issues alone, as individuals or even as a community, 
we're fueled by something much larger.

We can also take heart in the fact that by developing ourselves, 
we are "being the change" 
and doing perhaps the most important work of all:

contributing to a cultural and energetic shift 
that may ultimately instigate more improvement than tackling any one issue on its own.

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These are a few of the ways in which our experience of being alive can shift 
when we step into what is an evolutionary relationship to life 
- the fundamental shift in our orientation that is generated 
when we awaken this deeper part of our self as spirit and take the reins.

When we are able to cultivate these very real capabilities, 
we find that our deepest hopes and dreams 
for a comfortable self and a better world weren't a pipe dream after all. 

We learn that we can evolve what it is to be human 
- not modestly, but radically - 
in a way that not only better serves our work, families and lives, 
but fulfills on the highest promise of humanity's potential.

Soul Evolution, take the next step.

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