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.

Letting Go of Controlling Others

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Something that is very misunderstood in our society, IMOe:
There are body feelings /emotions -> body communication,
as opposed to the spiritual feelings/soul expereince you are vibrating at -> spiritual communication.

I believe Abraham is unclear about this distinction, which leads to confusion and unhappiness, IMOe.
Please keep this distinction in mind, as you understand and integrate the wisdom below:

"
A belief that the behavior of others must be controlled
— so that your observation of that good behavior will make you feel good —
leaves you feeling vulnerable to their behavior.

We would like to help you to understand that
neither the good feeling you find when you observe wanted behavior,
nor the bad feeling you find when you observe unwanted behavior,
is actually the reason that you feel good or bad.

The way you feel is only ever about
your alignment, or misalignment, with the Source within you.
It is only your relationship with the Source within you
that is the reason for the emotions that you feel.

While it is nice to find things in your physical environment
that enhance your good-feeling;
alignment with your Inner Being,
your understanding of why you feel good,
will make it possible for you to feel good regardless of the behavior of others.

Understanding that the way you feel is really about
your Vibrational Relationship with your Inner Being — with the Source within you...
gives you complete empowerment and absolute freedom.
"

- Abraham-Hicks (WRW added white-space)

How does one Become a Spiritual Guide?

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An acquaintance asked me:

How does one become a spiritual guide?
What did you do? How does it all work?

This is a Big question, I can offer a quick answer, from my perspective: What I notice about it when I look right now, reminds me of ‘the Mountain’ image so many use to speak of spiritual life…

Like a Mountain Guide, one devotes large swaths of life to exploring– not in theory, in reality: the main paths the side paths, the deer paths; getting lost and getting found; braving the elements. Doing the Mountain. Being the Mountain. One starts to Know the Mountain, and then one is chosen/chooses to share the Mountain with others.

The guide sees who each traveler is, where they are, where they want to go and offers assistance along the way. The guide works with the traveler to build muscle, to deepen into the practices and abilities needed to go to the next level on the Mountain. The guide encourages, informs and tries to share perspective with the traveler.

One cannot in any way do anything For the traveler. IF and when they are willing to hear, they still may or may not actually apply what they heard. Sometimes folks get in challenging positions, and that is necessarily fine: people get what they get on the Mountain, just as the guide does. Sometimes the traveler enjoys it and sometimes they don’t enjoy it: often both. Regardless, being on the Mountain is its own reward; there is no ‘winning’, anyway.

Being a guide is often hard, uncomfortable, expensive on many levels, and relatively thankless:

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
'We did it ourselves!' — Lao-tsu

And if these kinds of experiences on the Mountain sound like the most exciting way to invest one’s life, then being a guide can be the best ‘job’ on earth!

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Everyone is different; I share a very short, very externally-focused, overview of some of the paths I took to become a spiritual guide, here.

in Life, wendy

PS - And the above is more of the physically-focused answer. My belief is, here is really the spiritual answer:

It is all about Matching - one could say our process is to Resonate, to Harmonize more and more with Spirit, and less and less with our old way of being: letting pass the vibrations that are not Self and allowing the vibration that is essential Self. You or your tradition may call this by other names... But basically, we learn from each other by spiritually Matching each other: by matching how we run, hold, deal with our energy spiritually.

When I have the chance to play with kids I see this so obviously - they learn most everything through 'monkey see, monkey do'.

That is how all of us learn from each other energetically: Matching.

So the most important of the spiritual guide's 'jobs' is to continue to do our own 'work': heal, deepen, learn, grow, be present, keep practicing, match Masters... allow our vibration to rise:

Allow in:
Gd,
enjoyment of Spirit,
invitation of high & light vibration.

Allow out:
anti-Gd,
attachment to physically-focused/hooked energy,
invitation of low & heavy vibration.

When WE: BE ourself, and do our WORK: Everyone profits from these shifts, and can more easily shift because of them.

As an example, my favorite Christian teacher, Dr Bruce Morgan, used to talk a lot about morphic resonance, which is one way to try to explain this: (one of many possible links)

; ) w

Choose: the spiritual way or the un-natural way, the material way

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Excerpts from White Buffalo Teachings

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When I was 12 years old, words of our ancient Prophecies were instilled in me by our Spiritual Elders of that time. 

Those Prophecies concern drastic changes that would come to all life upon Mother Earth. 

These changes are here with us today! 

Our Prophecies tell us that we are at the Crossroads. 

We face chaos, disaster, and endless tears from our relatives’ eyes - or we can unite spiritually in peace and harmony. 

It’s time to bring the Message of the urgent need for Peace, of creating an energy shift throughout the world. 

As Keeper of the Sacred C’anupa Bundle, I ask for your prayers for Global Healing.

 

Our Mother Earth is suffering. 

Her wonderful gifts — the water, the trees, the air — are being abused. 

Her children — the two-legged, the four-legged, those that swim, crawl and fly — are being annihilated. 

We see such atrocities occurring everywhere.

 

Nineteen generations ago the beautiful spirit we now refer to as Pte-san win-yan (White Buffalo Calf Woman) brought the Sacred C’anupa to our People. 

She taught the People the Seven Sacred Rites and how to walk upon Mother Earth in a sacred manner. 

She said, "Only the good shall see the Pipe…the bad shall not see it or touch it."... 

We must comprehend in each of our hearts and minds the two ways we human beings are free to follow, as we choose: the good way, the spiritual way - or the un-natural way, the material way. 

It’s our personal choice, our personal decision - each of ours and all of ours. 

You, yourself, are the one who must decide. 

You alone can choose. 

Whatever you decide is what you’ll be - good or bad. 

You cannot escape the consequences of your own decision. 

On your decision — yes, on your own personal decision — depends the fate of the World. 

You can’t avoid it. 

You must decide. 

You personally - each of us personally - is put here in this time and this place to decide the future of humankind. 

Did you think you were put here for something less? 

Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger? 

Know that you are essential to this World. 

Believe that. 

Understand that. 

You yourself are desperately needed. 

 

This is the message that I carry to you as we stand at this Crossroads in history — 

I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, known also as Horse Man, Keeper of the Sacred C’anupa (pipe) brought to the Lakota-Dakota-Nakota Nation by the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman nineteen generations ago. 

Hau kola. 

I am honored to greet you. 

I honor your sacredness, your humanness. 

I ask you to honor mine. 

It is good that we meet. 

Yes, good. Wasté! Mitakuye Oyasin.

 

When we say Mitakuye Oyasin — "All Our Relations" — many people don’t understand the meaning of those words. 

The phrase Mitakuye Oyasin has a bigger meaning than just our blood relatives. 

Yes, it’s true; we are all one human race. 

But the word Mitakuye means relations and Oyasin means more than family, more than a Nation, more than all of humankind. 

Everything that has a spirit. 

The Earth herself, Maka Unci, is our relation, and so is the sky - Grandfather Sky - and so is the Buffalo… and so are each of the two-leggeds, the four-leggeds, those that swim, those that fly, the root nation, and the crawling beings who share the world with us. 

Mitakuye Oyasin refers to the interconnectedness of all beings and all things. 

We are all interconnected. 

We are all One. 

Don’t call us "earth-based," as if we worship the Earth. 

We don’t worship her. 

We honor her. 

But to worship anyone, we, the Indigenous, will never do that. 

We humble ourselves to the sacred energy of all life knowing we are one. 

We stand up when we address the Creator, we bow down and touch the earth, to acknowledge and give thanks to our Mother. 

We see ourselves as part of the universe, part of all that is seen, and part of all that is unseen. 

We recognize that we are no better - and no worse - than the grasses, the trees, the birds, the insects, the animals, the stars. 

But we also understand that we humans are different. 

Each being of Creation has a unique role and place, and a specific task to perform. 

Our Original Instructions tell us what our role is, where our place is, and what our task is as human beings. 

Do you know your task? 

Unless you know it, and then perform it in this life, you have strayed from the Good Red Road that the Creator - Wakan Tanka - has given each of us to walk. 

Even those who don’t know how will pray or meditate. 

They will learn to contribute their energy. 

All people need to learn that within each of us, we have this ability and gift. 

Yes, our life energy must be a gift for our future. 

Your life, my life, everybody’s life must follow your given path. 

So pray or meditate. 

Follow your inner path and learn just how powerful you are and learn that you are a leader for your people, your family, your children, and the Mother Earth. 

What happens within us happens in the World. 

We are the Message of the World. 

As we are and as we do, So the World will be. 

 

When the people of all colors pray together with the Sacred C’anupa (pipe), or with any other sacred gifts given by the creator, even with just our natural spirit energy — without anger or resentment or prejudice — extremely powerful things can occur. 

When we do this with a good heart and in a sacred way we can - and will - change the world! 

When you begin to believe in the sacred way of life, you will begin to understand the importance of the sacred sites, knowing that they are a connection to Mother Earth. 

You will understand the traditions and the ability to see the prophecies that were passed down through the generations of Ancestors, who lived in harmony. 

They had seen what was in store for their seven generations to come (us), they prayed we would re-find the "key" to harmony in understanding the Spirit of the Circle of Life. 

It is then that you assist in bringing health, prosperity and balance back to Mother Earth. 

That is human sacrifice and spiritual growth. 

That is the way.

 

We as the Buffalo People believe in this circle of life, where there is no ending and no beginning. 

The process of mending the sacred hoop continues..... 

Know that you yourself are essential to this world. 

Believe that. 

Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. 

You yourself are desperately needed to save the Soul of this World. 

Did you think you were put here for something less?

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-Chief Arvol Looking Horse 

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