Author: Manprit Suri

Fear accelerates Spiritual Growth

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Have you had that feeling of being fearful about losing your job? And that thought led to more fear of survival itself? Who will take care of my kids? Who will pay for the mortgage?

The worry simply adds on. And these all feel so real. Then you start to feel miserable, lonely, empty inside. And all that panic, sickness, and confusion kicks in that make you feel more negative, exhausted and depleted in your energy levels. 

Unfortunately, this gives way to more fear and negativity, and you start to say to yourself silently: you are not good enough; you are not worthy or you have no divine guidance – as you start to lose all hope. 

Does this lead to searching for answers on the internet as to what to do? (Perhaps that is why you are here.) Navigating through your fear is truly a blessing and is the purpose of this post. 

This post is will help you get past your fears and guide you to what to do as we will delve into:

  1. How fear can be a blessing in disguise?
  2. Why fear fear?
  3. What to fear and what not to fear?
  4. How to find your lessons when you are in a state of fear?
  5. How does fear limit us?

Fear accelerates Spiritual Growth: Question 1: How fear can be a blessing in disguise?

Think of fear as a bridge that you need to pass through. But we remain on that bridge for a very long time. The bridge is the pathway that leads to a realization of your great lessons learned on the other side. 

If you are here to learn how to overcome the fear of inadequacy, then you will be placed in a life story where you may feel that you don’t have enough money before you can quit your job. 

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But the blessing lies in trusting and believing that you have enough money to survive. This fear motivates you to look for an alternate life. It steers you into finding a job that pays less, but you get to work fewer hours and still provide for your family. 

But we simply don’t trust the divine plan because we are very fearful. The question of what if keeps coming to our mind. What-ifs are illusions. Hold the what-ifs by the horns and move out of your comfort zone. 

So instead of sticking with our fear and not letting it go, you should fear fear so much that you start to let it go and surrender. 

Honestly, I repeat, we should fear fear itself, and strive to do our best and leave the rest so His grace flows freely.

Fear accelerates Spiritual Growth: Question 2: Why fear fear?

Fear brings a profound sense of understanding and realization about the nature of your karma or actions in transit. When you are being fearful about an event, person, or a thing, you know deep down inside why but instead of resolving it, you suppress it or try to escape from it. 

When the fear reaches a tipping point, it means that you are not in alignment with the divine will. Fear was a signpost that there was something that you were not doing correctly. 

This is why you must know yourself and be yourself. When you are being your authentic self, and doing your authentic purpose for what you are here to do, the fear simply loses its grip on you. I teach that in my 1-1 coaching sessions.

There is much joy, love, beauty in knowing yourself and being yourself. It is easy and comes naturally. Try it with your kids, and wife for a day. Look in their eyes and simply feel grateful for what you have. The fear will go away.

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 Fear accelerates Spiritual Growth: Question 3: What to fear and what not to fear?

Fear is an illusion. The thoughts that run in your mind are just that, thoughts. You can easily bring it into form by taking fearful actions. But you have been doing that and are now paying for the consequences. Your thoughts need to be pure, positive, optimal, and loving. 

What to fear? You must be fearful to have an attitude of fear. Ask yourself: how does it feel to be fearful? Why am I doing the things that I am fearful of?

What not to fear? Don’t fear your thoughts? Transcend them. I teach that in my coaching sessions. 

Fear accelerates Spiritual Growth: Question 4: How to find your lessons when you are in a state of fear?

By deep-diving into asking meaningful questions that help you reason out your fear. Ask yourself: why is it happening to me?

  • If it is work: what is so fearful at work?
  • If it is your environment: what is so fearful about the environment?
  • If it is your relationship: what is so fearful about the relationship?

I wrote many blog posts on spiritual life lessons that we are here to learn. Those are a great starting gate. Read them to see what resonates with you the most. Then take appropriate actions or reach out to me for guidance. 

There are various lessons that you learn as a courageous soul such as boldness, love, respect, unconditional love, forgiveness, peace, balance, comfort zone, surrender, letting go, gratitude, and of course fear of many things. 

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With a limited mind, we expand ourselves and evolve through various life lessons build on fear. You just need to be conscious enough to allow, accept and embrace the changes.

Fear accelerates Spiritual Growth: Question 5: How does fear limit us?

Fear limits our capacity to think outside our mental construct. Fear is born of lack of something. It limits us from thinking that we don’t have enough. That we are limited. 

It also makes us feel that life has no purpose. That there is no reason to live. It is better to commit suicide. It is a trickster. It robs us of living our purpose-driven life. 

On the brighter side, it makes us feel that life is meaningless which means that it is time that we start to look for the meaning in life, and not to end our life. 

A meaningful life is aligned with our divine purpose and plan and what we are here to do. The mind needs to be detoxed off fear so that we can think, and act clearly. So fear is good until it is not. It can even kill your appetite for meditation. Once you have learned your lessons, you need to move on. 

But many stick to it. Repress it and deep down inside feel guilty, depressed, disappointed and then play the blame game – so and so is bad. No one is bad. It is our perception that needs a transformation. As a transformation coach, I help you find your shining side! 

Fear helps us realize that we have set an upper limit that affects not only how we live by doing but also by being. That is, by being fearful and by doing meaningless work or being in an environment that is fearful. 

Ultimately, when the quality and quantity of trust and surrender will increase and outweigh the quantity of fear, then you will transcend fear. 

But you need to work at it, not escape it, by giving yourself plenty of time to slow down your thoughts until you can take care of yourself and disregard outside comparisons and competitions that deplete your energy. 

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From my experience, once you have completely surrendered you will be divinely guided and experience firsthand how fear can accelerate spiritual growth leading to true spiritual awakening. 

So are you willing to move past your fear? Do you have what it takes to move in a meaningful direction in life? Are you ready for a quick discovery call?

Then check my service page or contact me for a discovery call.

In Conclusion

Fear can accelerate spiritual growth. It brings a profound sense of understanding and realization about the nature and lessons of your karma. We need to reason out why we are fearful instead of escaping from it.

Although fear makes us feel that life is meaningless, it also helps us realize that it is then time to start looking for the meaning in life, and not to end our life. 

Ultimately, when the quality and quantity of trust and surrender will increase and outweigh the quantity of fear, then you will transcend fear, will experience divine will at play firsthand, and witness how fear can accelerate spiritual growth leading to true spiritual awakening. 

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Conscious Gratitude: Power of the Vision Board

“If the majority of the human population consciously practiced creating a powerful gratitude vision board, there could be a leap in the collective consciousness of this planet. Collectively crediting the creator daily with our thoughts, feelings, and emotions can be a powerful exercise in itself. All we need is the willpower to do it.”

Manprit Suri

New Year is a great time to create vision boards. But a vision board is developed every moment of the year on the dashboard of our mind. It is unconsciously developed based on our sanskaras or karmic patterns. Using our mind, we create the art, while the projection of the form is in the 3rd dimension that we see and feel with our five senses system. 

What if you could create it consciously? What power, positivity, appreciation, abundance, and beauty will it bring into your life? It will evolve your conscious gratitude power immensely.

The conscious art of gratitude involves using powerful thoughts, images, emotions, and desires that you vision and will be grateful to achieve.

In the post, we’ll delve into:

  1. What is the benefit of a Conscious Gratitude board?
  2. What if we don’t do it?
  3. I’m still not convinced. What do I need to know further?
  4. Why should I listen to you?
  5. How to create a powerful vision board step-by-step?
  6. How can Spiritual Life Coach help?
  7. Surprise Bonus!

Gratitude Vision Board: Question #1:What is the benefit of a Conscious Gratitude board?

When it comes to a gratitude vision board, you hold a conscious power of creating a positive feeling that you want to experience. When you are in this state of experience already, you tend to appreciate and be grateful for what you have currently. 

As you hold that attitude towards life, you start to let go of negativity. Your focus and vision change for good. You begin to accept big and small changes in life. You locate reasons to be happy. It creates a powerful state of being in the present moment. 

When you are in a state of being in the present, your future and past worries disappear. It is a process. 

Yes, it is a process that starts with your thoughts. When you learn to give credit to the creator for the smallest of things, you receive abundance in the form of positive feelings and graceful emotions. It is that powerful. 

Gratitude Vision Board: Question #2: What if we don’t do it?

If you don’t create a vision board, you will not feel the conscious pull to cultivate a grateful heart. It will give way to an abundance of depression, anxiety, and fear. The force of negativity will hinder your positivity and enthusiasm for a more meaningful life full of love and compassion. 

You will feel less and less grounded, centered, and balanced.

If you are troubled with something such as a trauma, or life-threatening situation, then it is time you start creating a vision board.

Again, if you don’t, you will continue to be in the same lower vibrations that are nagging you to be shameful, feeling of guilt, hate, and impatience. You will feel burnt out for a much longer duration of time. 

Gratitude Vision Board: Question #3: I’m still not convinced. What do I need to know further?

If you are still not convinced with the power of a gratitude vision board, it is due to your lack of willingness to change and is a habit. It is your victim consciousness at play. It is the inertia or force that is driving you towards discouragement. It means that you are hesitant to change. If you don’t want to change, you will not – simple as that. It is a push from your ego self, the not-self, something that you are not. It is wanting you to be miserable. It is holding you back. 

Your ego self gives you all the reasons not to change. Here are a few examples: I don’t quite agree with the idea of a vision board. It serves no meaningful purpose. It is not convincing me. I just came here for no reason. Well, think again. Did you even try it? Maybe you were destined to be here for a reason? 

Or, maybe it is the will of the divine to allow you to experience freedom. Freedom from your suffering. Freedom from the bondage of whatever is bothering you. Maybe you had enough with life, and you needed to read this post. 

Whatever the reason: it is your life, your story, your circumstances, your body, your thoughts. If there is anyone in the world that can change you – it is you. You are the one blocking your way. You are the only inspiration that can change yourself. It is your conscious decision to be willing to harness the power of a vision board.

I know this from experience. You are stuck in your comfort zone and are unwilling to change because you want to remain uncomfortable and fearful in your comfort zone. You don’t want to move forward and want another day or hour to slip by as there will be no consequence. 

But life choices do have consequences. It is the law of karma that is always at play. The topic of this blog is “Conscious Gratitude” is because it is time to make conscious choices. Intentional choices. Those choices will eventually yield good results with good intentions. 

If you don’t decipher the encrypted signs of the universe, you will eventually have to face more challenging life. No one will come to your rescue. You have to rescue yourself. Attempting to do so is an act of self-care and self-love. It is a game worth playing. Life is an experiment to be had.

Gratitude Vision Board: Question #4: Why should I listen to you?

I have been experimenting with gratitude for a few years now and daily. Creating blogs on gratitude and being a certified holistic spiritual life coach has shown me the power of crediting the creator daily. It is a holistic healing power. I have experienced it. I lived it and still living it. 

This topic is one of my most visited blog posts. 4 Gratitude Questions – Giving credit to the Creator – This post reveals why I started writing and experimenting with gratitude.

What is the #1 form of Gratitude – It’s not what you think! – I urge you to explore and read this post to find out more. 

If the majority of the human population consciously practiced creating a powerful gratitude vision board, there could be a leap in the collective consciousness of this planet. Collectively crediting the creator daily with our thoughts, feelings, and emotions can be a powerful exercise in itself. All we need is the willpower to do it. 

How does it all work? How do we create this vision board?

Gratitude Vision Board: Question #5: How to create a powerful vision board step-by-step?

Step 1: You start thinking about the vision board topics. These are the most troublesome pain points in your life happening right now. Here are a few examples to get you started THINKING:

  1. SLEEP: When falling asleep is painful, create a vision that reminds you of sleeping peacefully.
  2. WEALTH: If you are afraid of growing rich or hate rich people, create a vision of having wealthy people willingly share the wealth with others or opening a charity. 
  3. HAPPY: If you are unhappy, create a vision full of smiles and happy happenings.
  4. FEELING NOT WORTHY: If you are being haunted by not having enough or not feeling worthy, create a vision of things you are truly gifted – such as a talent for public speaking, blog writing, achievements.
  5. RELATIONSHIP ISSUES: If you are having relationship issues, create a vision of people who you truly love in life that are inspiring. It could be people who you want to become. 
  6. ANALYSIS PARALYSIS: If you are overthinking, you are having overwhelming thoughts. Create a vision where you find peace: such as meditation, relaxation, beach, running water, your favorite spot, etc.
  7. HEALTH ISSUES: If you are looking to lose weight, create a vision that shows you are thin and running or thin people running. 

Step 2: After thinking about the vision topics, you need to bring your thinking into a form. To hold that vision, you need to put it into a form such as a PowerPoint slide show, cardboard, a paper. When you start to do such things, your ego-self will rear its ugly end. What is the point of all this? It is very childish. Who will do all this? Then you will shun this idea. 

Just don’t listen to it. Let it surrender itself. Give it time. If you hear these thoughts, then the ego is losing its power. When you start to break down, it is a good thing. A good sign that you are doing the right thing.

Ignore this negative thought process and do it anyway. Say, it doesn’t hurt to do it. What will happen if I do it. It will only take a few minutes. I’ll do it with my kids, wife, or colleagues at work. 

When you start to develop this attitude, your willpower will become dominant. You will see a difference in yourself. Even the feeling of this change is a good sign. The biggest problem is that we have stopped behaving in a child-like manner that allowed us the most fulfillment. 

The culprit is the conditions, comparisons, and competitions that we have been born and brought up in. It is the fight that you need to win with your willpower. All it takes is the will to win. 

It is an illusion you need to come out of that someone else is stopping you. It is yourself that keeps showing up. It is your lower level of consciousness that is trapping you. 

Step 3: After you have gathered the ideas, a space or board that you need to work on, start pasting, cutting, and sticking images that remind you of those ideas. And write down that you are indeed grateful for becoming that change you want to be. Here are a few examples. 

  1. SLEEP: I am grateful to have a great night’s sleep every day for 8 hours.
  2. WEALTH: I am grateful to be wealthy every day and in every way.
  3. HAPPY: I am grateful for a beautiful smile that keeps me and others happy.
  4. NOT FEELING WORTH: I am thankful for all the achievements and awards in my life. I am grateful for all the talents and gifts I have.
  5. RELATIONSHIP: I am grateful to be surrounded by people that inspire and empower me. 
  6. ANALYSIS PARALYSIS: I am grateful to always be in a clear and peaceful mindset that allows answers to flow to me.
  7. HEALTH: I am grateful for a great, healthy, and fit body that I nourish with good food daily.

Step 4: Frequently look at the vision board to help you remind yourself how grateful you are. Repeat this at least twice daily to allow it to sync within your subconscious mind.

Gratitude Vision Board: Question #6: How can Spiritual Life Coach help?

Spiritual life coaches help nourish your mind, body and connect you with your inner being. They connect you with what truly makes you happy and grateful. It is not at a surface level gratitude which is the material level. It is a level above material existence. They help you pull you upward in your consciousness.

The coaches will show you a spectrum of your hidden talents and gifts that you already have – which you should be grateful for. They guide you towards a more meaningful life with a higher level of purpose. They help you multiply your abundance and create daily gratitude habits that will holistically change your life inside and out – so your true authentic self shines.

Bonus!

Check out the Free Gift section to see Vision Board inside a Conscious MIND– Just play!

In Conclusion

Conscious gratitude involves using powerful thoughts, images, emotions, and desires that you vision and will be grateful to achieve. If you don’t create a vision board, you will not feel the conscious pull to cultivate a grateful heart. Attempting to do so is an act of self-care and self-love. Collectively crediting the creator daily with our thoughts, feelings, and emotions can be a powerful exercise in itself. All we need is the willpower to do it. 

Creating a conscious gratitude vision board is a four-step process. It involves: having a powerful vision of what you will be grateful for in the end, finding images of those visions, holding that visions by pasting them on a board, and writing down that you are indeed grateful for becoming that change that you want to be.

Spiritual life coaches help you multiply your abundance and create daily gratitude habits that will holistically change your life inside and out – so your true authentic self shines.

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Blogging: 8 Spiritual Life Lessons on the conscious stream of blog post writing

“If you are looking to start blogging, my advice is to start now – it holds the key to many breakthroughs and transformations. Writing books takes many days or months; whereas, blogging is a faster process – a day to a few hours. Perhaps, this may be the very art or legacy you leave behind for life has its twists and turns.”

Manprit Suri

 I planted the seed of blogging in 2020 with no clue that it would lead me to a spectrum of spiritual life lessons. If you are looking to start blogging, my advice is to start now – it holds the key to many breakthroughs and transformations. Writing books takes many days or months; whereas, blogging is a faster process – a day to a few hours. Perhaps, this may be the very art or legacy you leave behind for life has its twists and turns. 

If you wait longer or do not attempt it, you may continue to feel breakdowns, low, depression, or a feeling of being lost and confused. So go after what is meaningful in life without focusing on success.

“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on the greater meaning”

Oprah Winfrey

Taming your mind to kick start a habit requires a small amount of daily effort and enthusiasm mixed with two spoons of courage and a hint of willingness. It is the recipe for initiating and maintaining a blog. I could have never imagined that I would ever write a blog post inspiring you on writing a blog! But it is worth it.  

Quite frankly, it will nurture your soul and mind. The thoughts that you never knew existed inside of yourself will pour out.

I had difficulty starting as I did not know what to write. But I kept watering the seed routinely. It feels good. In fact, great!

Blogging became a necessary part of connecting inside. The nagging urge to write started during the time of COVID. The acronym for COVID could have very well been Connecting Onto Voice Inside Daily via positive blogging or COVID+B!

While writing blog posts, I realized that I was freeing some space in my mind and letting life run its course on the screen. There was a way with words that started to become apparent with time. A path or a road that was less traveled was unfolding. 

In this post, I will delve into 8 spiritual life lessons on consciousness blog post writing: 

  1. Unleash Creativity
  2. Synchronicities
  3. Present Moment
  4. Grounding in Gratitude
  5. Spiritual Awakening
  6. Finding Life Purpose
  7. Surrendering to the Flow
  8. Letting go and Release

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #1: Unleash creativity 

Blogging allows you to unleash the creativity hidden deep within your soul. A conscious stream of thought runs like magic. It feels like a stream of channeled energy coming deep inside from your higher or purer mind. After you unleash this hidden talent, it feels like dancing with the divine. 

You have no control over this creative creature. Creativity exists in the absence of control structures. Structures can be anything that limits your thoughts, imagination or leads you to analysis paralysis. So the lesson is to let your creativity shine uncontrollably. 

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #2: Synchronicities 

Synchronicities mean meaningful coincidences. After a few posts, you start to see a pattern emerge that helps you connect with various topics you have written.  

Moreover, while I was writing this post, I realized that it is a start of a New Year 2022. If you want to start a blog as part of the new year’s resolution, I can help you get started with my 1-on-1 coaching. 

The year 2022, as per astrology and numerology, is the year of growth. Blogging is the best way to grow if you want to be a life coach, come out of your comfort zone, create a website or business.

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #3: Present moment 

Blogging helps you focus and reflect on what is meaningful in your life right now. It helps you find pearls of wisdom by tapping onto the divine knowledge that you hold with at the present moment.  

This art of expressing purifies your mind further. It brings your attention to hear now. It then helps you hold on to the present moment. It shows you life as it is happening and cradles you in your thoughts.

You laugh, cry, love, hold compassion in your mind for little things that mean the most. You feel a sense of joy at the moment. It helps you create a sacred space within yourself to appreciate the divine adventure we call life.

“If you’re having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up — to know that there’s life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else.”

Natalie Goldberg

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #4: Grounding in Gratitude 

When we write posts, we learn to appreciate every little thing we take for granted. When we ground ourselves with the thoughts of gratitude, we take a deep divine into what we are truly thankful for. It makes us realize that there is so much to write daily.

There is so much credit to give to the Creator and daily. Expressing so much love, gratitude, and appreciation in your posts helps nurture an abundance mindset.

There is no wonder that an attitude of gratitude is the way to live. So write and live in an abundance of ease and grace all the time!

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #5: Spiritual Awakening 

Awakening is a process where your awareness increases and takes a quantum leap. Blogging is a way to see that in action. To see what is hidden deep within you. To experience the transformation with the help of this skill of communication we call writing.

There is a famous adage that the pen is mightier than the sword. It boosts the credibility and power of writing -and has the potential to transform yourself and others. It can be your legacy and is long-lived indeed.

When you awaken, you engage your soul to fight with shadows, inner work and come out strong. Without expressing your divinity in the process that your soul urges you to, such as the art of blogging, you lose that precious time and precious moments.

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #6: Finding life purpose 

If life feels meaningless, you are not fulfilling your purpose. When you start to write on various topics, you see the interconnectedness of the misery of mystery of feeling meaningless.

Blogging helps you find your life purpose. I realized that I was required to push myself out of my comfort zone to find my purpose. 

Until I engaged my conscious stream of thoughts deeply on the comfort zone evolution topic, I realized what was happening. Humanity is suffering due to living uncomfortably in its comfort zone. Ikigai is a good starting gate. 

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #7: Surrendering to the flow 

I had to surrender to the flow of thoughts and see what came out. A little effort, in the beginning, started the flow. I then felt divinely guided to write these topics.  

My lesson in this life is to learn to surrender and let life guide me on my journey. I need to remember that I am a passenger on the train of life, not the driver.

The lesson of patience and submission to the divine will is a strong message and a reminder in my blogging journey.

There is no free will. There never was – it was only conditional. When you are asleep, you are experiencing free will. After you are awake, you experience divine will.   

Spiritual life Lesson on Blogging #8: Letting go and Release 

Blogging is an act of journaling your vulnerabilities out into the world. Why would anyone want to do that? It is an act of courage. Moreover, it is a bold way to release and let go of what is not your true self.

When you showcase your vulnerabilities, you tend to allow your repressive, limiting thoughts to come to the surface. As you express them openly, you release them openly.

These thoughts were what was making your life feel meaningless as you had been holding them back for ages. As you do, you tend to embrace a true authentic self that makes you feel calm deep down inside, slows you down, makes you feel lighter, and feel happier.

It is better to binge-write blogs than to binge-watch TV. It is better to let go of TV and your limiting beliefs and mindset. 

Blogging has so many life lessons to offer. It is all possible when you start writing.

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”

Tony Robbins

The question is how willing are you? Do you have what it takes? What do you want to leave behind? 

In Conclusion

There is a spectrum of benefits to blogging. Starting a blog requires a small amount of daily effort and enthusiasm mixed with two spoons of courage and a hint of willingness.

Blogging allows you to unleash creativity. You start to see synchronicities in topics like magic. It helps you find pearls of wisdom by tapping onto the divine knowledge that you hold with at the present moment. Expressing so much love, gratitude, and appreciation in your posts helps nurture an abundance mindset.

The lesson of patience and submission to the divine will is a strong message and a reminder in our blogging journey and spiritual awakening. Blogging helps you find your life purpose. It is an act of journaling your vulnerabilities out into the world. Doing so helps release repressed feelings and lets you go of your limiting beliefs.

Creating Future Vision: Spiritual Life lessons from my accident

“Everything in this creation is divine. You have this birth to decorate this creation with your divine creativity. All you need is willingness, a vision, and an eye for this creativity to happen through you. You are the vessel for the divine creation. So vision wisely and with love. For the magic to happen, you first need to believe in it, vision it.”

Manprit Suri

After reading this post, you will believe in the power of vision. You will believe in your power of thoughts and how it can help create your future for better or worse. And you will do it now or soon – the transformational power is phenomenal. I have experienced it firsthand and many times. What is the best time to create your future vision than now? 

In this post, we’ll delve into: 

1. Why is it necessary to hold a future vision? 

2. What does it mean to create a future vision anyway?

3. What spiritual life lessons did I learn from my accident?

4. How can you create a future vision?

5. What happens if you don’t hold a vision for a brighter future?

Future Vision Question#1: Why is it necessary to hold a future vision? 

I had no clue about creating a deep future vision, let alone how important it can be. Then I learned a great deal from my mirror therapy during an accident that changed my mind and belief completely. I’ll be delving into this shortly.

Moreover, I have experienced firsthand the power of creating a future vision for various personal and spiritual projects in my life. It allowed me to move out of my old habits, start writing blogs, create a website, create content, earn my spiritual life coaching certification and even serve my clients for the highest good for all. All this in a one-year timeframe. 

Seeing its ultra importance, I have learned and now coach others to create powerful visions for the future. 

It is a hero’s journey where we are all heroes. We need to remember it. Some life-changing traumas shake us up from our roots to see what we are capable of doing. 

Future Vision Question#2:What does it mean to create a future vision anyway?

Creating a vision means to imagine what you like to do, be or have. You should be able to visualize it as already done. It is an exercise and has far-reaching results. 

As a spiritual coach, I encourage my clients to go all-in using their spiritual eyes. It’s a co-creative process. It is to see beyond the material possession and goals and more towards what feels good to your soul. You are ultimately creating a future that serves a higher purpose for yourself and humanity as a whole. 

Future Vision Question#3: What spiritual life lesson did I learn from my accident?

I had fractured and dislocated the wrist bone of my right hand the past year. The pain was chronic and severe. It leads me to go through several therapies for many months.  

The severity of pain signaled from my hand to the brain was even more intense. 

I tried several modalities, but the pain wasn’t getting back to normal. But this one therapy had a very positive effect. It was called mirror therapy. 

What is mirror therapy?

Mirror therapy is defined by Wiki as: 

“Mirror therapy (MT) or mirror visual feedback (MVF) is a therapy for pain or disability that affects one side of the patient more than the other side. It was invented by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran to treat post-amputation patients who suffered from phantom-limb pain (PLP).”

How this works is, a mirror is placed in between both my arms. When I exercise both my arms, I look in the mirror that reflects the image of my (good) left arm. The illusion is that I could see the image (of my left arm reflected) as my right arm. The illusionary image in the mirror showing my right arm moving as normal signaled my brain that my right arm was fine! If this is confusing, try doing it at home or check some of the images here: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Mirror_Therapy

What was happening? I was fooling my brain into thinking that my right arm could move normally. The vision was so real that I could move normally without any pain in my mind’s eye. It was a very promising therapy. I had to perform this exercise daily and a few times throughout the day. 

In a few weeks, the results were phenomenal as my right arm started getting its normal range of motion back. The fact is that I kept seeing my future vision in the mirror frequently and daily. It signaled positive thoughts and changed my belief in the brain.

From a spiritual perspective, there are many life lessons I learned from this accident: 

  • The limited role we play, our beliefs, and attitudes are all illusions created within our limited minds as mental projections. These are our karmas. These are what we are trying to clear. It is a result of our conditioning, environment, people, etc. These impressions on our minds are our sanskaras. 
  • We tend to create lower vibrations and stay as long as we want. But we forget how to come out of it. We are the unconscious creators of our destiny. So we keep enduring the pain unless some way-shower guides us the way out. Someone shows us a better way. 
  • As you awaken, you realize that you do have a choice to change your reality. You can make conscious decisions and change the course of your destiny. 
  • Once you start taking the first step, you will see your free will of creating a vision merging with the divine will. When you surrender to the divine will, you will see no difference as you come to realize that you had no free will. It was conditional. The first step is the vision, and the intention must be strong.
  • We are too afraid to look into the mirror. Or worse, we don’t have time for it. The fact is that even time is an illusion and can be bent, as per Albert Einstein. We create time with our thoughts and visions that lead to our self-deception and illusions. That is the number one reason, we should slow down our pace of life and slow down our thoughts, and slow down our breaths. 
  • The problem is that we are too preoccupied with this drama of life. We keep struggling in this quick stand that we have self-created for ourselves. The irony is that we wrote our own story, and we are the hero of this story; we even wrote our exit but have forgotten who we are. It is the power of this 3-dimensional illusion. Per Albert Einstein, you cannot solve the problem with the same mind that created it. An authentic, unconditioned higher mind is needed to solve this problem.

It is a time for action. I call you now to take action now. To look into the mirror now and change the image. Your image and the dreams that you are carrying. To make a vision that empowers you. 

But how do we do it? What does it all entail? If I am willing, then what is the next step?

Future Vision Question#4:How can you create a future vision?

As the new year approaches, you too can create a better future vision for what is yet to come. Don’t limit yourself with what you cannot do. Don’t dwell on your past, or think about what you cannot do at all. The real question you need to focus on is what you really, really, really want? 

I am now offering coaching sessions to help create a brighter future vision for your authentic self. You may wish to contact me for further details. 

Ultimately, it is all about self-reflection. How do you see yourself in the mirror of your mind? What is your objective? Do you want to find a meaningful life, your life purpose? Do you want to start a blog, create new content, work on a project in 21 days, start a balanced life, be a life coach? It all starts in your mind. You can do it. I can help. The question is are you willing?

Future Vision Question#5:What happens if you don’t hold a vision for a brighter future?

If you don’t create a future vision now, you will continue to be miserable with the same old behavior, patterns, or attitude that may be sabotaging your lifestyle days and months to follow. 

“..The National Science Foundation … found that the average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those thousands of thoughts, 80% were negative, and 95% were the same repetitive thoughts as the day before.”

source: https://tlexinstitute.com/how-to-effortlessly-have-more-positive-thoughts/

So you may continue to be in a state of guilt, fear, shame, or whatever vision you are carrying for yourself. You will remain stuck and wonder how others are getting it, and you don’t see any success in life. 

Creating a vision is a spiritual thing. I used to think that doing so is going against the will of the divine. But that is a wrong thinking process. Your free will should merge with the divine will to make you align with your higher calling, serve a higher purpose for what you are here to do, and find life to be meaningful. 

Life and this human suit is not a punishment. It is a blessing through the lens of your spiritual eye. When you don’t see it in this light, the life you will live in your shadows and feel meaningless, misaligned, confused, lost, and that is going against the will of the divine. 

Everything in this creation is divine. You are divine, and you can decorate this creation with your creativity. All you need is willingness, vision, and an eye for this creativity. 

In Conclusion

Creating a vision means to imagine what you will like to do, be or have. Believe in your power of thoughts and how it can help shape your future for better or worse. This transformational power is phenomenal. 

The power of creating a future vision for various personal and spiritual projects can allow one to move out of old habits, start writing blogs, create a website, create content, earn spiritual life coaching certification and even serve clients for the highest good for all.

Creating a vision is a spiritual thing. Your free will should merge with the divine will to make you align with your higher calling, serve a higher purpose for what you are here to do, and find life to be meaningful. 

Everything in this creation is divine. You are divine, and you can decorate this creation with your creativity. All you need is willingness, vision, and an eye for this creativity. 

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Life Purpose: Navigating Away from Misalignment

I have always wanted to know the purpose of life. The meaning of life. Why are we here at this time of the century? As we grow in our search, we feel we have got it when we are happy. Such as when you switch to a new job, new location, make new relationships, etc. But sooner or later, the level of comfort fades away; and the question of life purpose keeps popping up.

We again feel misaligned, and the cycle repeats. The pain grows and grows and starts to crush us inside. We need to examine, research, and find the path that aligns us. Without traveling on the path with a heart, we will all remain misaligned.

Misalignment happens at a mind, body, emotional, and soul level. We need to navigate away from this misalignment. In this post, we’ll delve into:

  1. What is the meaning of misalignment?
  2. What happens to the mind, body, emotions, and soul when we get misaligned?
  3. How would you live if you had six months remaining?
  4. When is the best time to find your life purpose and meaning in life?
  5. Where to find your life purpose?
  6. What kind of life purpose are you trying to find?

Life Purpose Question #1: What is the meaning of misalignment?

Misaligned means not aligned to what you love to do. Or worse, not knowing and doing what you love to do. It arises from working on something that you don’t love or are not passionate about in life. You feel the agony, the pain within as a result. It comes as anxiety, burnout, exhaustion, depression, or fear. Misaligned means ignoring what your heart wants to do. 

Misalignment affects your mind, body, emotions, and soul. It brings down your self-esteem and makes you feel very weak. It makes you feel uncomfortable in your current/old comfort zone. Perhaps you may be doing something for a very long time that you are still wanting to hold on to and not let go.

Life Purpose Question #2: What happens to the mind, body, emotions, and soul when we get misaligned?

  • The mind wanders with uncontrolled, conditioned, and competitive thoughts aimlessly – searching for the meaning of life and starts to give up when it gets exhausted living a meaningless life. 
  • The body starts to weaken in immunity leading to all kinds of illnesses. All these illnesses come with a price tag and with a message. It is an indicator for reflecting on our life lessons and what truly brings us joy, peace, contentment, and balance.
  • The roller coaster of emotions reflects the deep feeling of a soul-crushing lifestyle. A path without a heart is never an enjoyable one. This cycle needs to be experienced and felt before we start to search for what truly makes a difference in our lives.
  • The soul is the life force, the chi or energy that sustains us. When misaligned, we start to deplete our energy levels. We suffer exhaustion and burnout as a result. When we are not willing to do this type of work, and we get a feeling that there is something out there that will help us live better, it’s your soul’s call to evolve- to leave your comfort zone. Your energy is magnetic and is attracts or calls you to do what you love and wants to transform you to move to the evolution zone.

But are you ready to take a bold decision and a big leap of faith to evolve? What do you think it takes to take the big leap? The answer is courage, willingness, trust, letting go and surrender. What can you sacrifice? The answer is your current comfort zone. 

What do you not have? The answer is in you now. What is not enough that you have? The answer is in you now. What if you came to know that you were going to have a heart attack, or cancer, or something serious coming down to get you, like an accident or any life-threatening trauma? How would you change your attitude towards life and live differently?

Life Purpose Question #3: How would you live if you had six months remaining?

When we start putting a timeframe, we stop taking our lives for granted. It catapults us into finding our life purpose as a priority. So what would you do if you had six months remaining? 

  1. The first thing that comes to mind is to stop what we are doing and appreciate what we have. We ground in gratitude and change our perception of life. We start to think differently, act differently, and therefore feel differently – being in an attitude of gratitude.
  2. The next thing is we start to do those fun things with love. We act on it by taking action. We think about those things that will give us meaning in life and do it that make us happy. Not others happy, because it’s about what makes us happy, and you realize that it is not selfish to love yourself. This self-care leads to further change in our positive attitude without conditions. 
  3. As you increase in self-care, self-love, self-appreciation activities, your heart opens more and more to what your true purpose in life is. You realize that to lead a meaningful purpose-driven life, you must find what makes you happy and fulfilled inside. You discover your self-worth tools: gifts, hidden talents, superpower. You can then either help others find theirs or serve others.

Finding the gifts and serving others is the key to navigating away from misalignment and living a life full of purpose. 

Life Purpose Question #4: When is the best time to find your life purpose and meaning in life?

Don’t go by the 6-month time frame. Anything can happen in life as the future is not certain. Even tomorrow or the next moment is a mystery. So the best time is always now when we are awakening to the illusionary life. 

We are currently going through a Great Change and Great Resignation. All these are indicators of our misalignment in life – our poor choices from our conditioned mindset. 

We feel miserable at our soul-crushing job and wonder what we are doing wrong. Or worse yet, we wonder how we end up there in the first place.  

But it is time now to finally admit that we are lost, exhausted, burnt out, and we need to find our path with the heart now that truly makes us happy. We do need money, but we are so darn tired that we put life’s purpose on a higher priority.

Life Purpose Question #5: Where to find your life purpose?

First, understand that everyone is different and has a unique purpose. Second, You wouldn’t be here on this beautiful spinning rock we call earth if you had no life purpose. Repeat in your mind that you have one. 

  • Start from within yourself: When we shift our awareness from outward to inward and ourselves, we start the journey of finding our purpose. Deep contemplation and self-reflection will help us find our talents, skills, gifts, passion, niche, and more. It requires that you slow down and raise your vibrations high enough. When the vibes are high, you will experience a slow down in your lifestyle. Slowing down is comparable to cleaning the lens through which you will see the hidden purpose. Otherwise, you will be confused.
  • Conventional Tools: There are many Personality tests to help you identify your personality type and give some clues. You need to gather as much information as possible. Some examples include Enneagram, Myers-Briggs MBTI. Take in as much information and move on. I am an INFJ and Ennegram type I. 
  •  Unconventional Tools: Akashic Records Reading, Psychic Mediums, Hypnotherapy, Human Design, Gene Keys, etc. Take what feels meaningful and move on.

When we search for our life purpose, we start with a conditioned mind – conditioned by our relationships, jobs, environment, etc. With this state of mind, we are unclear what to do. So we find comfort in searching like crazy and taking several conventional methods. We don’t slow down or take the first step, that is, going inward – another agony of a conditioned mind. 

We spend very little time understanding what it means to find the life purpose. It requires a sacred space and a higher mind. A limited mind can only give you limited answers, limited thoughts, or limited perception of your authentic self. No wonder Albert Einstein once said that, 

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” 

Albert Einstein

As you get more tired, you move to unconventional ways and fear what will happen to me now. Nothing is happening. You are moving past your conditioned fears and taking a leap of faith. You will then realize that this puzzle is much bigger than you had imagined earlier with your limited mind. 

Life Purpose Question #6: What kind of life purpose are you trying to find?

Yes, it’s a strange question if you read this post during the early stages of your life purpose search. There can be two kinds: one a life purpose and the other a higher purpose in life. A life purpose can be anything that includes basic survival: making money from your 9-5 job or feeling like switching on to a new job that will be enough to satisfy you. It is like living in lower vibrations of stress, anxiety, and depressions but to a slightly lesser degree. 

A higher purpose is to rise about your mundane type of living and live with joy and a love-based awakened life. It is where you truly surrender to the Divine and do the things that light up your soul. It is a cry from your soul to search for your natural talents. You feel a divine gift within to be awakened with enthusiasm. 

It could be artistic and serves a higher purpose for humanity. Your gift could be an inborn talent that you may see a reflection of in your life’s work thus far. It may be something that comes to you naturally but may seem a little obvious to you. Such as the way you talk, communicate your ideas, or write about compounded with the interest or a hobby that you like to do daily. 

When you start to funnel your research in this direction, you will find signposts that will take you to new heights. It is a discovery and not an invention. You discover your geniuses, talents, skills, and abilities. When you utilize your gifts, you will feel aligned in life, your agony will disappear, you will find your higher purpose, and you will start to share your treasure with the world as time passes. 

What are you waiting for now? Now is all you have. It is a matter of deep diving into yourself and finding the pearls that make you feel wise. 

It is a Hero journey, and you are a courageous soul. It is why you are here at this time of the century. So find the meaning of life and share your gifts to live a purpose-driven life. It is your soul’s call to evolve and real freedom.

If this interests you, I offer coaching to help you with your life purpose journey. You can invite me to engage with you via my contact page.

In Conclusion

We need to examine, research, and find the path that we are aligned. Without traveling the path with a heart, we are all misaligned. 

Misalignment happens at a mind, body, emotional, and soul level and leads to weakness, exhaustion, and lower self-esteem.  

We are currently going through a Great Change and Great Resignation. All these are indicators of our misalignment in life – our poor choices from our conditioned mindset. We feel miserable at our soul-crushing ways of lifestyle, and wonder what we are doing wrong.

The time is now to discover your genius, talents, skills, and abilities. When you utilize your gifts, you will feel aligned in life, your agony will disappear, you will find your higher purpose, and you will start to share your gift with the world as time passes. Discover and travel your path with a heart!

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Self-Love: A game worth playing

“The intense rules of the game of self-love involve: having healthy boundaries, creating a discipline for balance, nurturing self-compassion, growing in gratitude, evolving in self-worth, being mindful of self-care. It is a courageous hero’s journey. All you need to do is to let go and surrender even more – so you always win.”

Manprit Suri

All of the labels and titles in life that we call ourselves are not our self. We are unconsciously attached to it with force. Our five senses create this forceful illusion of unconscious conditional attachments to earthly 3-dimensional existence. And eventually, we become unbalanced, exhausted, burned out, and remain a victim or slaves of it. 

We assume that we are powerless without it. If you enter a challenge/game with no power, what kind of challenger are you? 

What is our power? Love. It is your divine power. It is your conscious power. Having a love relationship with yourself is the key to driving the divine power. 

As you awaken spiritually, you realize the power of self-love. Knowing how to channel your positive energy, power, or love consciously is the name of the game. 

In this post, we’ll delve into:

  • What is Self-love?
  • How to decondition self-love?
  • What is Self?
  • What are the criteria of teaching self-love?
  • How to play the game of self-love?
  • Can we play the game of self-love now?
  • When is the right time to start self-love?

Self-Love: Question #1: What is Self-love?

Self-love means giving more attention and awareness to your own ‘inner’ power or self with compassion. Giving priority to your inner-being leads to your well-being. Doing so requires vibrating with a higher level of consciousness. 

  • Self-love means being yourself, in love with yourself, being worthy of yourself. Being grateful for who you are, where you are, how you are!
  • Self-love means pushing other priorities that do not serve to love you. Creating boundaries and saying no to things, people, processes, relationships, careers that you do not love and doing what you love. 
  • Being with what you love may require isolation but may also mean balancing life the way you feel loved inside.
  • It means going to places that you love and not going to places that you don’t love. 
  • Loving your mind, your body, and your soul. Giving and receiving graceful vibrations to your thoughts, emotions, and physical body. Keeping and sustaining yourself in a higher state of happiness. Doing so requires being aware and away from any conditions. 

Self-Love: Question #2:How to decondition self-love?

Self-love can only happen in the absence of conditioning. The more you start to love yourself, the more deconditioning tends to occur. The many layers of the false sense of self begin to go away. 

Self-love strips away unconscious biases and the victim consciousness mentality caused due to comparisons, competitions, and conditions – weights on your soul-self. Such things only leave us with the symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression in the long run.

We need to dissolve our false self (not-self) to find the inner self. Only then can we truly understand our true selves and then experience the nature of self-love. 

The problem is we don’t quite remember what self-love feels like anymore. An even bigger problem is we have forgotten what self means. 

We have been busy becoming ‘not’ ourselves for decades and lifetimes that we have forgotten what it means to be ourself let alone love it. So we first need to come to terms with the definition of self itself!

Self-Love: Question #3:What is Self?

A self is beyond the terms we are given by our so-called society, relatives, and cultures. These terms are condition-naming limiting variables of our inner self that keep changing as we move across our timeline on this planet earth. 

There are various types such as dad, mom, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, religious titles, career titles, country titles such as citizens, aliens, etc. – a tiring proposition to remember them all. 

The real question is that are we the titles and labels? If so, then we wouldn’t exist if we didn’t have them? The titles did not exist before you started a career, had a baby, were married, when you were still in college, studying in school, were kids, an infant was still in the mother’s womb.  

These labels keep us tied here in competitions, comparisons only to create a divide among us humans – to belittle us if we don’t recognize them or achieve the many ambitions placed on us. Such living only distances us from our original self and makes us feel inferior. Why? Because it is a guilt game, not a game of self-love. 

Such a game is not worth playing. At least not anymore as it encourages corruption, self-hate, self-blame. It is a time of karmic settlement. We should consciously end such a game now. The challenge is that these titles are a necessary evil in our society. 

But unless your SELF hits rock bottom in life via life-changing traumas or events that trigger you to wonder if these things are what we are here for, you will never wake up to the reality. The traumas include mental illness, seizures, cancer, NDE or near-death experience, or anything that could trigger your spiritual awakening. 

It is after all these setbacks that you realize self-love is indeed a game worth playing. But how? What are the criteria?

Self-Love: Question #4:What are the criteria of teaching self-love?

Why teach? The best way to learn something is to teach it. You can only teach self-love when you have learned it yourself. Otherwise, your service to others will feel hollow from inside. 

To teach self-love, you must first reach a state in life where you feel a sense of emptiness, lack of something meaningful, something inadequate that gives birth to low self-esteem, lower vibrational frequency, unconscious living, and low confidence. Interestingly, this is the very state of our century currently. 

Many are reaching this tipping point or striving to unconsciously. It is the truth. And, it is also the criteria or an unconscious learning step towards self-love. That is, feeling miserable and hating yourself – by attaching to things outside of yourself and detaching from your inside self. 

Interestingly, you go through setbacks, unconscious self-hate, feeling not good enough, and floating in lower vibrations to ultimately wake up and rise, recognize, and realize the process of self-love. 

It is after you have distanced your outer self with your inner self far enough that you will come to realize your true self and start loving it. 

Self-love is a game worth playing and then teaching. But you will need courage for both as you will be challenged and stretched in all different directions. 

Simply knowing you are playing the game is a blessing in disguise that ultimately leads to increased awareness of yourself.

Self-Love: Question #5:How to play the game of self-love?

In my experience, self-love is a challenging but playful journey of self-compassion, self-worth, self-care, gratitude, courage, discipline, let-go, surrender, boundaries, balance. It’s quite an art of living away from the ordinary. It is a forgotten art. It is a game that requires playing with a different elevated level of consciousness.

I deeply contemplated my steps for playing this game after reading David Hawkins’s spectrum of consciousness levels. Then I created my own game of self-love to help trigger you.

This game is real and comes with a warning – it will transform you inside. It will elevate your consciousness. 

Take a few deep breaths and calm your mind and body. Be in the right environment of calm. Most of all, you need to permit yourself if you wish to play this game. If you are willing to play and are ready, then let us play now.

Self-Love: Question #6:Can we play the game of self-love now?

Yes. Read the steps below, and follow them carefully:

  1. The first step is to admit that we don’t know how to play this game. To surrender to the fact that there exists a more conscious solution beyond what you think. To permit to the core of your being that there is a way to play this game. This level of empowerment comes with courage – to admit that you don’t know what you don’t know. Permitting self-love is an act of courage. Then affirming, “I love myself” should be a good starting point. Hold that thought and contemplate on it. 
  2. The second step is to be willing to learn the art of self-love. To allow it to happen. Do not block it. To be teachable – to enable it to flow through you. To be willing to go beyond your limited self. To move past the ego voice of “I know” to “I am willing to know, learn and intent to trust.” Awaken to the possibility that there is indeed more to know than your limited mind can admit. Just trust, be hopeful, and feel positive in knowing that you are willing to learn. 
  3. The third step is accepting the way you are. Believe in yourself. Bring a sense of satisfaction for what you have. Move past the thoughts of lack – of what you don’t have. Contemplate on it: Just accepting the way things are – job, work, colleagues, project, relationships, life. Just be loving, kind, and forgiving to yourself. Just forget and let it be. Just be. Accept it. Just accept. Relax into the knowing. Just affirm, “I forgive others, myself and accept the way I am. I love myself just the way I am.” Accept the showers of love and let them fill you inside. The acceptance will trigger the thoughts of self-worth. 
  4. The fourth step will automatically trigger you to find reasons for what you are truly worth. Start to find the meaning in life that you have forgotten, give importance to your being. It will provide reasons for what it is like to be human: breathing, eating, seeing, and simply living. It will trigger more specific events in mind that will show your sense of self-worth in the forgotten areas of your job, talents, skills, relationships, and the subtle art of being human. Take it all in. You will start to see the beauty in your life and respect yourself. You will understand what a remarkable person you are in essence. Perhaps even wise beyond your years. Then affirm, “I am worthy of a loving, meaningful, and purpose-driven life. I am a vessel of love, light, and positivity. I am important and worthy of love.”
  5.  The fifth step is the appreciation of yourself. You have been doing this all along. Feeling grateful for what you are inside and outside. The only difference is it is effortless. It comes naturally. You know you love yourself, take care of yourself – not once in a while, not weekly, not daily, but every moment. You evolve into this state of self-love with confidence, patience, compassion, and serenity. Look at your hands, hug yourself, be grateful for a loving heart. Just affirm, ” I am a peaceful soul. I am positive. I am grateful for everything and more. I am strong. I am love. I am Joy. I am brave. I am humble. I am a winner. I surrender to the Highest Good for all.”

As you play the other games and complete your other missions in life, be sure to repeat these affirmations daily. Integrate the game of self-love with other games you play.  Here is a video I prepared for your daily affirmations. Please click to play.

Feel the self-love!

Self-Love: Question #6:When is the right time to start self-love? 

The right time is when you have slowed down the pace of life. If you are driving your car at 50 miles an hour and see an exit sign that you need to take, how do you start taking that exit? 

The first step is to slow down. Apply your brakes. Use it now. As soon as you apply your brakes now, you will start to feel more clarity and control of the direction. Similarly, as soon as you slow down in life, you will feel an increased sense of awareness of the object you need to love – that is you. 

So slow down now. Take a day off. Week off. Month off if you can afford it. Spend time with yourself now. Course-correct your thoughts with positive affirmations daily by starting today.

In Conclusion

Self-love is the innate power to love yourself deeply at all levels: mind, body, and soul. To invoke this power, you must be with yourself, find your worth, respect yourself, take care of yourself, protect yourself with boundaries, and have a balanced life. 

Doing so requires going through the deconditioning process of yourself: removing the false labels, titles, unconscious self-hate, low self-esteem, feeling not good enough, and floating in lower vibrations until you wake up and rise, recognize, and realize the process of self-love.

The five steps to play this game help you elevate your consciousness to that level of love. 

So slowing down right now, spending time with yourself now, and course-correcting your thoughts with positive affirmations daily can help you start the game of self-love today.

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Get Unstuck, Let go or Surrender: Pearls of Wisdom

The path of letting go and surrender is rich with pearls of wisdom. But it is a difficult path to travel. Let me clarify how it is difficult.

I have heard that if you want to let go of fear to attain peace, you need to do so with compassion, love, and surrender. To reach this state, you need to “just be” in that state and then watch how the magical events unfold. 

I have also heard that the time to let go is always in the present. If you are presently in a state of chaos, then how can we shift to peace by letting go of this chaos. This goal seems impossible, unreachable, and unimaginable. If you are/have been in this situation, you will understand what I’m trying to say.

Whether it is a tough job, life circumstances, relationships, overall career, an old comfort zone that you are planning to let go of, you may feel stuck along the way. But you don’t have to. There is always a way out.

In this post, I’ll reveal the many pearls of wisdom on getting unstuck, letting go, or surrendering by delving into:

  1. What if we don’t let go?
  2. How not let go?
  3. How to plan to let go? A let go scenario
  4. What are the two signs that you are on the right track to let go?
  5. Why is it beneficial to memorize the 4 Cs of let go?

Get Unstuck, Let go or Surrender: Question #1: What if we don’t let go?

If we don’t let go of what is causing us so many symptoms: misery, suffering, despair, then it may have adverse effects on our health in the form of heart attack, cancer, seizure, migraine, backache, or any form of illness. 

Get Unstuck, Let go or Surrender: Question #2: How not to let go?

There are at least two ways you should not let go:

  1. Escaping Temporarily:

The majority of us fall into this category. It pertains to those who turn to binge-watching TV or do a ridiculous amount of screen time. The mind escapes temporarily by diversion. It usually does not solve the problem and leads to more stress eventually. 

2. Escaping Prematurily:

When the goal of letting go feels unreachable, unattainable, and unrealistic, people choose to take premature decisions such as those thoughts to kill themselves. The minority of folks do so via committing suicide. 

Since we don’t know how to tackle the art of letting go, we feel stuck.

What is the feeling of getting stuck?

We feel confused and stressed. We get so attached to the present situation that we start to overthink, overanalyze, overwhelm, and overburden ourselves about what the future holds for us – we get stuck in analysis paralysis. This stage exhausts us completely, and we reach the stage of burnout. 

The burnout state further complicates and clouds our judgment by “forcing” us to make a decision. The cloud of worry starts to hover around us – making us more miserable, out of control, unhappy, and indecisive.  

I like to call this being in a state of uncomfortableness within your comfort zone. If you choose to stay (stuck) here for long, it gets even more challenging to let go.

So let us look into a scenario of how to plan to let go and what options we have.

Get Unstuck, Let go or Surrender: Question #3: How to plan to let go? A let go scenario

Imagine being a passenger on an express train running 400 miles an hour. That train has lost its brakes. You are now sure that it will crash but don’t know when. 

As you see outside the train, you notice how fast it travels across terrains: grassy areas, muddy areas, rivers, roads, bridges, and the like.

As you look inside the train, you see other passengers panicking too. But those people cannot help you. So you decide to help yourself. That is clear to you. But the BIG question is how? Let’s look at the three options:

Option 1: You decide to escape from the train by jumping outside without any plans. You are so tired of being on the speeding train for a very long period and in a state of indecisiveness that you finally want to escape it with no plans. 

It is an escapist attitude. A premature decision to escape can lead to suicide. You may land anywhere and will be dead as you have no resources and strategy. Most of all, failing to plan is planning to fail. At this moment, the best plan is to wait.

Option 2: You can decide to wait on the train and see what happens. 

You are now in your comfort zone, where the majority of us get stuck and sucked in. You are comfortable being uncomfortable thinking this too shall pass. You choose to exhaust yourself until the end of your patience-testing period. 

Consequently, you start to get sick of the environment, become impatient, begin to lack trust, self-doubt, feel a sense of victim consciousness, and a sense of not being worthy of an escape. You also start to distrust those around you for not jumping in to help you as if they owe you something. 

You get stuck in a vacuum as you don’t know when you will crash any moment. Nevertheless, you don’t want to let go no matter what happens due to indecisiveness. This fear turns into anxiety as it keeps haunting you minute after minute. 

Since you are unwilling and unaware of what to do, this anxiety and fear of the unknown turn into depression. The ultimate result can be devastating as it may lead to any serious illnesses. The first option killed you quickly from the outside; whereas, this second option kills you slowly from inside and out. 

Option 3: You decide to escape the train with a plan and willingness to survive. You lay out the groundwork to help you let go of the train. You work out an escape strategy. You change your mind, beliefs, attitude and feel empowered to commit towards working out a plan of action. You gather whatever resources you can – people, processes, and or technology. You call upon the higher powers for increased awareness and trust. 

You begin to develop a grateful attitude amidst the mental storm. It is the key as you shift your perspective towards a positive mindset. The more you are in an attitude of gratitude, the more courage starts to fall in your lap. The more the courage, the more the willingness to have a plan that helps you reason out things.

You then start to think right, and with intuition and a better vision of a bright future, you start to ‘simply know’ the right (divine) timing as you begin to surrender and listen to what the inner voice is trying to tell you. 

Eventually, you learn to relax, and with a calm and clear state of mind, start to let go (of that train) with confidence and courage. With your since efforts and His grace, you gracefully land in a more comfortable land – a new comfort zone. 

In this new comfort zone, you are no longer the same person you were before. You are now a newly evolved soul, a peaceful soul, more mature, and a sense of direction.

The jumping from that train taught you all the shadow sides of how it feels to be fearful. But it also balances your being by teaching you many lessons about courage, vision, grace, gratefulness, surrender, and the art of trust, timing, and letting go.

If you replace the train with our current attitudes, jobs, relationships, you’ll come to realize that we are doing things speedingly (speeding train of thoughts) with no sense of direction.  

Get Unstuck, Let go or Surrender: Question #4: What are the two signs that you are on the right track to Let go?

  1.  When you start feeling grateful for what you have:

This first step will help you slow the speed of the train of your thoughts, calm your mind and move you in a positive direction. It allows room for you to think about your escape plan and come up with a strategy. So don’t jump ship without a plan (don’t just quit your job, for instance). Prepare for it.

Have a vision of what you want from life, create a plan of action, then be willing to do those steps, and the true grace will follow. 

2. When you start to see synchronicities from the universe:

When you start to let go, you ‘sense’ the higher powers at play. You realize that you are not in control. You still need to make efforts and then surrender to the Divine Will. It can only happen with a calm mind and grounded energies. If you are very serious in life and are out of balance, you will feel as if you are in control.

Seriousness leads you to be out of sync with the universe as it is an ego game. When you are too worried, you create a fence against His incoming grace. 

Get Unstuck, Let go or Surrender: Question #5:Why is it beneficial to memorize the 4 Cs?

The 4Cs are the condensed form of many revelations and realizations that can be picked up from the above story of our lives if you replace the train with life/work/career.  

  1. Control Factor: Remember that you are the passenger and not the driver of the train of life. So trust that you are ‘being driven’ in life.
  2. Cultivate Habits: Turn the negative to positive mindset by cultivating healthy habits: doing positive affirmations, gratitude journaling, being mindful, and doing your meditation daily as a habit.
  3. Comparisons and Conditioning: Mindless comparisons and social conditioning can cause misalignment on your path of purpose. Perhaps, you did not follow signs and missed your stop, and now you are going nowhere and speedingly. 
  4. Creator’s Comfort Zone: Your decision to leave, the plan you make, the steps you take are all part of a higher power’s plan to help you evolve. So you need to realize that you need to completely surrender and stop thinking that you are driving the train. As you start to silence your thoughts, you awaken to your new (Creator’s) comfort zone’s direction. 

In Conclusion

It is challenging to let go of those things that are causing you pain. So it is best to think with a positive mindset, make a strategy and a plan of action, and then let go. 

The two signs that you are on the right path of letting go are when you start feeling grateful and when you feel in sync with the universe. It is only possible if you realize that you are not in control of life but are driven, cultivate habits for a positive/grateful mindset, stop comparisons and conditioning from others, and finally trust that you are in the Creator’s comfort zone.

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6 Spiritual Life Lessons and questions on Comfort Zone Evolution

“If we are always in a state of becoming, then we are always evolving . Comfort Zone Evolution means to transform and evolve by transitioning to your new comfort zone mastering the lessons from the old comfort zone.“

– Manprit Suri

I reached a point in my life when my interests at work, relationships, and career started to fade away. It felt unsatisfactory. I did not know what was going on. I realized that I felt comfortable being uncomfortable. But it sure was eating me inside. 

I soon started to realize that I was in a sort of comfort zone. I did have conflicts that I was avoiding. The more I avoided dealing with these conflicts, the more stressful life became. I kept drifting and still felt as if I was in control. I was limiting my joy and thought that I was in a state of content. It was an illusion. Do you feel this way?

Let us ask ourselves: Am I running away from conflicts at work, relationships, careers instead of solving them? Am I avoiding something such as a new job or transition to a new career so that I can always be in my comfort zone?

In this blog post, we’ll learn about:

  1. Why is it painful to be in your comfort zone?
  2. What is the definition of a comfort zone anyway?
  3. How does coaching transform your comfort zone?
  4. What are the 6 life lessons from the comfort zone?
  5. How to come out of this comfort zone? 
  6. Can we put the pieces of the ‘comfort zone puzzle’ together holistically – at a Mind, Body and Soul level?

Comfort Zone Question 1: Why is it painful to be in your comfort zone?

I was working with a client who was stressed; and binge-watching Netflix as a result. He enjoyed watching it very much. But after talking for a while, my client realized something that caused him a few breakthroughs. 

He immediately realized that he was avoiding something he always wanted to do. He was escaping from the life he wanted. He was procrastinating on the tasks and actions that he wanted to perform. But the laziness started to drown him into binge-watching Netflix. 

As the conversation moved forward, he had another breakthrough. He realized that he wanted to get up early but couldn’t. He had been sleeping late because he was watching TV until late hours. His lack or inadequate amount of sleep was another reason for stress.

Why was my client avoiding the tasks he needed to do and waking up late, sleeping late although he knew he was not going anywhere with it? Why was he repeatedly doing the same thing every day and expecting results? 

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The answer is that he was in his comfort zone. When we are in our comfort zone, we tend to get lazy, procrastinate, and think our life is going well. In fact, perfect. Interestingly, when we see others getting results, we then wonder why didn’t we get that?

We get what we deserve. Thinking otherwise is a form of self-delusion.  

So we tend to avoid conflicts by escaping them and watching TV, instead of doing something about them and achieve results. How can we live our lives miserably and wrongly call it a comfort zone?

Comfort Zone Question 2. What is the definition of a comfort zone anyway?

As per Wikipedia, “A comfort zone is a psychological state in which things feel familiar to a person, and they are at ease and (perceive they are) in control of their environment, experiencing low levels of anxiety and stress. In this zone, a steady level of performance is possible.” 

Above is a great practical definition as a start. But it leaves me wondering how we can remain in our comfort zone (that we worked so hard to build in our and around our life) and at the same time feel like we don’t belong to this planet? Shouldn’t we enjoy our life’s comfort zone? 

In other words, why is life feeling more and more meaningless? Why do we feel like a square in a peg hole? That we don’t want to work a 9-5 job with a haunting on-call schedule that keeps us up most of the time. Why is life becoming fast-paced, pushing us outside our comfort zone even after our many achievements? Did you signup for this type of life only?

The answer lies in the level of your awareness to your achievements, needs, and wanting for more and more. It simply never ends. 

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So we need to have a balance and perform better, live better. And better does not mean fast-paced but a steady-contented paced.

So what characteristics do we need to have in a nutshell:

To live a love-based purpose-driven life full of passion, meaning, work fewer hours each day, meditate better, feel balanced, content, spend enough time with our loved ones, have an abundance of finances, and live joyfully doing meaningful work that evolves our level of consciousness and raises the vibrations within us and that of this planet. 

Wow! Now that is my new definition of a comfort zone. That is our big dream or a new comfort zone we want. To reach this zone, we need to be willing to take the necessary steps to live a love-based life. 

Comfort Zone Question 3. How does coaching transform your Comfort Zone?

Spiritual Life coaches help you move out of your ‘old’ comfort zone and find a ‘new’ comfort zone. They empower you to course-correct and grow in your dream direction positively.  

When you reach a plateau in your comfort zone, you start to grow in victim consciousness. Your narcissist ego triggers a negative inner dialogue that leads to low self-esteem and self-sabotage. 

As you remain in this state for extended periods, you start to develop less trust around people and mostly with yourself. Your beliefs, attitudes, and behavior reflect negatively. You feel trapped in your self-created old comfort zone prison. What a soul-crushing life!

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To break-free yourself from this old lifestyle, we have a Freedom Design coaching session. It helps with removing any roadblocks to your freedom and guides you towards attaining your goals, vision, and destination you are dreaming of with peace of mind. It is a mindset change that takes time as you are required to heal at various levels.

Comfort Zone Question 4. What are the 6 life lessons from the comfort zone?

Choosing to remain in your old comfort zone may come with a price. Here is a quick summary of the 6 lessons:

  1. Lesson #1: Ego makes you feel in control. It gives you a false sense of pride gift-wrapped in a ‘comfort’ color paper.
  2. Lesson #2: If things start to look and feel perfect without effort, it is time to change yourself.
  3. Lesson #3: Hold yourself accountable for your actions all the time. It’s your life.
  4. Lesson #4: You tend to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. It is a sign that you are not in alignment with your dharma or life purpose. It is time for a change.
  5. Lesson #5: You start to avoid conflicts, become an escapist, and are unwilling to change. It can lead to severe consequences in the form of physical and mental illnesses.
  6. Lesson #6: You start to feel bored, stressed, lazy, and out of place.

If you see such signposts, it is time to start coming out of your old comfort zone. 

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Comfort Zone Question 5. How to come out of this comfort zone? 

Here are some quick ways to help you move forward:

  1. Self-care: Detox your stress and fears
  2. Self-love: You are here to evolve as a soul. Love helps you evolve – Love what you do by doing what you love.
  3. Self-worth: Access your talents, skills, and be willing to grow. Remember that you are unique. No one is like you. You are priceless. 
  4. Discover yourself by doing a lot of inner work, and outer work. Find your life purpose and do what “feels” most meaningful to you.
  5. Take a hobby to the extreme – if you love journaling, try being a writer or a blogger; if you like to communicate, try being a public speaker.
  6. Explore different companies and industries for the same work.
  7. Explore different career options. 
  8. Discover your areas of passion. Find out what you are here to do on this Earth at this time of the century. Is the career conventional or unconventional? Will it matter if this was your last reincarnation on Earth?

It is a puzzle, a mystery to solve, in all honesty. Things will unfold in due time and with a lot of effort and soul searching. 

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Comfort Zone Question 6. Can we put the pieces of the ‘comfort zone puzzle’ together holistically – at a Mind, Body and Soul level?

There are many lessons to learn when: you are in a comfort zone, remain in your old comfort zone, or want to create a new comfort zone. The old comfort zone is a perfect place to rest and nest “against” our soul plan. 

“Old Comfort zones are puzzling as it clouds your vision, restricts you from your passion, and hampers your ability to take actions that lead you to a better and brighter future-you. It restricts your growth potential. The more you stay in your old comfort zone, the more unclear your life becomes moving forward. Try moving out of your way by removing the roadblocks that prevent you from finding your passion. Then move into your new comfort zone.”

Manprit Suri

The primary reason for our soul is to evolve. It evolves by learning life lessons – which is a bitter way to evolution. Once it reaches a tipping point, that is, when it has learned the lessons in its comfort zone, the soul wants to further evolve, instead of continuing to rest. The desire to rest is coming from the ego-mind. It doesn’t want the soul to evolve. It wants to keep it confined in that old comfort zone illusionary prison. 

When this happens, we start to lose our power since the force of our ego is in control. But you are still learning lessons on powerlessness. 

This fight between the soul and ego creates friction that causes various symptoms such as anxiety, fear, depression. It dips you in those oceans of lower vibrations. Here you learn the lessons of fear: fear of failure and fear of future causing procrastination. It is where your perfectionism lessons boil up to the surface. 

Perfectionism is a negative quality as you want a perfect life from an ego-mind which is an illusion. You cannot be confined to prison and feel good. So you cannot understand the calling of the soul. It is a mind trap. But you are learning the lesson of powerlessness, perfectionism, fear of failure, and procrastination as a result. 

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Your mission is to snap out of it but don’t know-how due to emotional issues, attitudes, behaviors, and limiting beliefs. Your thoughts are also prisoned and are inside a mental ego box. 

So this imprisonment backfires by creating an urge to be free. Free from all this misery. Free from these blocks. Unless these blocks are freed, you cannot look clearly at the end of the tunnel. But what is at the end of the tunnel? What do you need to be free from? 

At the end of the tunnel is your soul – waiting for you to come out of your old comfort zone. It is calling you. To answer the calling of your soul, you follow the bread crumbs that it has already placed before. What are those bread crumbs?

When you reach the tipping point in your life, your feelings of meaninglessness and loss are one of the many first steps.

When you start to reason why this is happening, it is your next step.

Willing to finding answers to how am I and why am I here, what’s my passion, my purpose, and how I can achieve my big dreams; the next. 

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The purpose behind coaching is to pull you out and clear of your tunnel and free it from the mental, social, and belief factors. It is the process of inner healing and emptying the cup. Doing so helps you see your vision clearly, and navigate the muddy waters of your life that became polluted while learning the various life lessons. 

It is a cleansing stage – where you start to increase your spiritual awareness and awaken spiritually. To trust the universe more, become bolder, and break free from unwanted conditioned desires.  

As you break free, you realize the game of life more clearly. You start to integrate the various spiritual lessons of letting go, trust, gratitude, being an authentic version of yourself, and continue to the high road like a hero, warrior, or an awakened person.

By this time, if you are trying to find a perfect time, date, place, career, then you’ll realize that nothing is perfect here now. You are to again move into a job for a short while, learn some lessons and then find new ones. But this play starts to become a little boring as an old soul. 

So you want to quit this world with a bang by being famous or even being of service to others. Whatever satisfies your soul. So you may start to teach people from your wisdom. 

One may start to coach others on navigating their life better – who are struggling in this 3-dimensional world. Perhaps teach how to do things that they love and are passionate with. You come out of your old comfort zone closet and move into your growing new comfort zone!

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If you are in your same zone for some time, there is no willingness to move out of it due to resistance. It is because of the fear of failure and the thoughts that life is perfect when it is not. You are simply less willing to move forward in life. It is mere laziness. 

So does moving forward means more title and power? Moving forward does not mean more title and power. That should never be an aim as it is an ego playground with its sweet rewards.  

But if you are doing something out of love, passion, and compassion, then the success, titles, and fame runs after you. And, that’s the way to roll. It is the stage where you are in service to humanity and for the highest good for all. It is a reward from the higher consciousness and universal consciousness. 

Being of service is the highest form of achievement. Soul growth and evolution do not reside in the old comfort zone but a ‘new’ comfort zone.

In Conclusion

There is no conclusion to this ever-evolving and puzzling comfort zone riddle. If you feel uncomfortable being in an old comfort zone, then it’s time to move out of your fear-based life. To move into a love-based life, a new comfort zone is the next step.

If you feel comfortable being in a new comfort zone, stay there and willingly enjoy learning, reasoning, and fulfilling your big dreams, goals, and being of service to the highest good for all. Therein lies the answer to your passion and desire for a meaningful, purpose-driven love-based life. Live comfortably with a growth mindset.

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Life in the 3 dimensional world

Sometime back during lunch hours at work, an intense feeling of discontent gave way to many questions in my mind in a haphazard manner – to find conscious connections. One went like this: what is meant by the 3-dimensional world? Why was life becoming more and more meaningless? Why is there a feeling of loneliness and being stuck?

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During the spiritual awakening stages, I started to write this post connecting the dots between many aspects related to dimensions, social conditioning, limiting beliefs, and spiritual life coaches. So this post delves into: 

  1. What is the 3-dimensional world?
  2. Why are we stuck here?
  3. How are we stuck here?
  4. How do we get unstuck from here?
  5. How do spiritual life coaches and healers help you with your limited beliefs in this dimension and direction?
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3-dimensional world: Question 1: What is the 3-dimensional world?

We live in a 3-dimensional world, and this human suit is the portal to the 3-dimensional consciousness. We perceive this 3-dimensional world with our five sense perceptions.

We wear different suits to gain different experiences and life lessons so that our souls can evolve spiritually. But we have a sort of longing, a nagging feeling, to go back home without knowing where the home is at this dimension of existence. So we are now getting bored and feel stuck. 

3-dimensional world: Question 2: Why are we stuck here?

After eons of being on this planet and switching different suits, again and again, we have come to realize that we are living an illusionary life – a 3-dimensional prison with no escape.  

Especially during this time of the century, we are growing in anxiety, fear, and depression. We are living in lower vibrations. 

We feel like we want to do something big. We are trying to find our soul’s purpose because life feels meaningless. 

We are tired of this 9-5 work life. But instead of finding the cause of this misery, we try to escape it by working more hours, to get more money, to get more famous, to get richer, to get higher titles, to get more powerful, bigger houses, more expensive cars, and more of everything. 

Eventually, we land up nowhere and feel more misery and stuck in soul-crushing careers and lifestyles. How do we get stuck – at least in this life?

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3-dimensional world: Question 3:How are we stuck here?

Being stuck is the crux of the problem we are tiring to understand but get blind-sighted. Instead of learning from our lessons and trying not to react to them, we start to enjoy this illusionary 3-dimensional world using our five senses. Why illusionary? 

From birth, we are a certain way or act a certain way, look a certain way. Your persona wants to be called Joe, for instance, at birth. This Joe plays a role like a computer scientist, for example. Has he attained everything if he is filthy rich, higher titled but has lost his peace of mind? No. Because the mind is a bottomless well of materialistic desires guided by the 5 senses. So what should he do? He must listen to the voice of the soul, not the senses. 

This “soul” is playing the part of Joe, who thinks like Joe based on social conditioning from birth, then further develops limited beliefs based on his occupation as a scientist. He keeps on running after material success and progress believing it will free him. That is not freeing but getting stuck in a quicksand scenario.

As a soul, we limit ourselves as a character who plays a specific role. Based on the upbringing, the character accumulates many unlimited limited thoughts that create his limited belief system. So now this soul is in a limited 3-dimensional world playing a specific limited character role, with a limited belief system.  

As time progresses, the character keeps limiting itself to the point that it starts to feel burnout. This burnout is the trigger that helps kick start the journey into the unknown in search of the true self. It is the “knowing” or calling that we tend to respond to by following the signs from the universe.  

So when we start to realize that we are stuck with our limiting thoughts, beliefs, and emotions that caused stress, anxiety, and depression, we start asking the deeper spiritual questions: who am I, why am I here, what is my purpose? The first step is indeed to wake up now from this illusion created in this 3-dimensional world. 

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3-dimensional world: Question 4:How do we get unstuck from here?

The answer is simple. We get unstuck from here using this human suit (again). The difference is that instead of using our 5 senses to the fullest, we start to do the opposite. We start to see inside, hear inside, and most of all heal inside. 

Yes! Now, to wake up, we need to heal the wounds (inside) caused by our limited beliefs from eons of lifetimes. Many people are already doing that. 

In addition to mediation which helps you connect with your higher self, source, God; we need deep inner work. 

The inner work is a serious business and requires courage, effort, discipline, and determination. It requires the willingness to heal yourself. It is a deep process that takes time and is for the hero-hearted. It is not woo-doo magic just because it is not casually or commonly spoken. It is healing for your mind, body, and soul to experience total transformation inside and out.

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It is comparable to lifting (healing) the weights (limited belief) put on a needle (soul). When the karmic ego-weights are removed one-by-one, (day after day, week after week, month after month, and even year after year), from the needle (soul) it is then attracted to the magnet (Source). The attraction process is the letting go, true surrender, and submitting to the highest good for all. 

3-dimensional world: Question 5:How do spiritual life coaches and healers help you with your limited beliefs in this dimension and direction?

Spiritual life coaches and healers help lift those weights of limiting beliefs accumulated in this 3-dimensional world. They act as a catalyst for your change before, during, and after your awakening. Most people are unaware of and are lost. But many are waking up.

In Conclusion

We live in a 3-dimensional world, and this human suit is the portal to the 3-dimensional consciousness. We are limited beings in this world playing a specific limited character role, with a limited belief system due to social conditioning. As time progresses, the limitations cause burnout; and we start to wake up to the reality of this dimension. 

In addition to meditation, we need deep inner work to heal us from this burnout. Spiritual life coaches help lift those weights of limiting beliefs accumulated in this 3-dimensional world. It is the healing for your mind, body, and soul to experience total transformation inside and out.

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What is the #1 form of Gratitude – Its not what you think!

In my earlier post on gratitude, I discussed how to give credit to the Creator through thoughts, words, or journaling. But our thoughts and journaling fall shot of our thanks eventually. Perhaps, we need to stack on another form – without any thought-strings attached.

In this post, we’ll delve into this other form of gratitude by answering:
What is the #1 form of gratitude?
What are the two ways to prepare for it?
What happens if we don’t prepare beforehand?

#1 Form of Gratitude: Question 1- What is that #1 form of gratitude?

The #1 form of gratitude is thoughtlessness, silent prayer, meditation, or connecting to your inner/higher self.

Practicing this form of silent gratitude helps ground our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and energies to zero. Doing so helps us direct our consciousness upward and allows us to enjoy the journey inward.

This silent prayer pleases the Creator, releases the thoughts while directing our attention inward. Doing so brings self-peace, self-love and is the ultimate way to give thanks to the Creator daily.

This selfless energy of silent gratitude needs a lot of preparation. Why? Because you can only be prepared for it when you have no words left and no thoughts left to describe how grateful you are.

When your thoughts, words, deeds, and emotions fail to truly thank him for all the things you have manifested in your life then no amount of journaling satisfies you.

So to give credit to your Creator for everything, you start to become more and more silent. That’s the ultimate form of gratitude.

#1 Form of Gratitude: Question 2- What are the two ways to prepare for it? 

The two ways are: silence the body and mind.

  1. Silence the body 

These can be in the form of simple requirements such as a quick bath, food, and body stillness. 

  • Quick Bath: A bath becomes a need when you want your consciousness to rise above your throat chakra. If you are not fresh enough, your consciousness will fall. 
  • Food: Similarly, you cannot observe silence if your stomach is growling for food intake. Your focus will go down wanting food. Trust me. I tried it! A quick cup of tea with cookies helps prepare us to practice body silence!   
  • Body Stillness: Contemplation in silence requires that we first practice sitting still. But the problem is not the body alone. The mind also needs to be still – to experience total silence.

2. Silence our mind

To have a silent prayer, we need to silence our thoughts. The problem is our mainstream way of living. It has many ways to disrupt our silence.

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative; 95% are repetitive thoughts.

Just by silencing your news, phone, and people in your life, you can have a mindset shift and experience transformation.

  • News Silence: We keep programming our subconscious mind with mindless news that leads to negative thoughts. Watching or listening to the news can cause a lot of damage to the mind and make it violent instead of silent.
  • Phone Silence: During meditation, it is disturbing when the phone starts ringing or when some apps start sending alerts. I found a “do not disturb” button that silences the alerts and any incoming phone calls. It is best to switch the phone off if you are not using it as an alarm clock.
  • People Silence: It is difficult to practice your morning gratitude if you have babies, kids, or even adults making any noise. Babies and kids will cry and screen and rock your silence out the door. Adults’ talk will turn silence into topics of discussion. I think our thoughts have enough momentum – we don’t need anymore.

#1 Form of Gratitude: Question 3: What happens if you don’t prepare beforehand?

Lack of preparation will give birth to an anxious, disturbing, toxic, and unstill body and mind instead of grateful and graceful.

Let’s say you want to observe silent prayer in your room. If you are feeling sleepy, and if you are trying to meditate on an empty stomach, you will not be able to hold your body still.

To top it off, no sooner the phone starts to beep alerts. Those alerts will connect us to various news feeds, which in turn, will divert our thoughts to people in our lives who are directly or indirectly connected.

Thoughts of people bring you to your attachments, relationships, toxic environments, and so on. You are then not observing silence. So silence takes work and preparation beforehand.

In conclusion

The #1 form of gratitude is silent prayer or meditation. A silent prayer requires that our mind and body observe silence – which requires preparation beforehand.

To prepare for body silence, take a quick bath, eat an adequate amount of food, and practice body stillness.

To prepare for mind silence, take the necessary steps to ensure news, phone, and people are silent in your life.

Once your mind and body are silent, you will be able to connect with your inner silence and deliver your gratitude to the divine with ease and grace.

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