Spiritual Principles Of Daily Inspirations Part 2

Introduction
My life is the product of my level of spiritual enlightenment, created and maintained by a steady diet of daily inspirations, and supported by spiritual coaching. In maintaining my spiritual life, I need spiritual principles – living guidelines – which direct and fashion my spiritual journey toward the spiritual enlightenment I am seeking. This is an introduction to these spiritual principles.

(These spiritual principles were adapted from the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous using my experience, strength, hope, and daily inspirations)

First Spiritual Principle: We admitted we were powerless – that our lives had become unmanageable.

Our species is addicted to living, and therefore to outcomes that seem to determine our survival -- existence and comfort – we are addicted to Control and Outcomes. With control of outcomes being a major life task of humans, we begin to believe that we are responsible for all outcomes. Such beliefs are encouraged by the following myths:
1. “You can be or do anything you want, if you put your mind to it, and if you try hard enough.”
2. “A person is just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be” (attributed to Abraham Lincoln).
3. Everyone’s ultimate success is determined by his or her “choices”.

Shame begins as we judge and evaluate ourselves by these myths.

Many will struggle with this concept in specific situations, which will be addressed later. For now, let’s follow a simple course of consideration: Our perceptions and reactions to life ultimately determine the quality of our lives – not the specific events and outcomes of life. Research has shown that the major perceptual filters of our brain are actually controlled by a primitive part of our brain that does not operate in thought, facts, reasoning, or judgment. It operates simply in neural impulses.

So when my brain perceives a person, thing, or situation, the major filters that the sensations go through are unconscious to my thinking brain. Therefore, my “happiness” or “success” is not based on reality or fact, but on the unconscious programming that was created either genetically, and/or by prior life experiences stored as suppressed neural energy within the brain.

We are powerless over our mental perceptions and over our emotional reactions and therefore the experience of our lives is unmanageable. Spiritual enlightenment requires that we start here and move forward with finding daily inspirations that begins to address our powerlessness.

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Spiritual Principles of Daily Inspirations

Introduction
My life is the product of my level of spiritual enlightenment, created and maintained by a steady diet of daily inspirations, and supported by spiritual coaching. In maintaining my spiritual life, I need spiritual principles – living guidelines – which direct and fashion my spiritual journey toward the spiritual enlightenment I am seeking.


Spiritual Enlightenment Begins with Human Experience
Over 22 years ago, my life was an absolute wreck – at least inside. The sewage of my past was leaking into my present, and I was emotionally and spiritually ill – my feelings crashed like huge tidal waves of neural energy, knocking me senseless -- wounding me even more – and there was seemingly no presence or Presence – I was hopelessly and helpless alone inside.

In the pits of my humanness, someone suggested and introduced me to twelve spiritual principles – adapted from the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. In my desperation, I grabbed hold, became involved in spiritual coaching, and began to practice these spiritual principles and daily inspirations “in all my affairs”.

Spiritual Principles Are Not Answers –They Are Solutions
Having been a therapist for nearly ten years at the time, I had “answers” – and with these answers I was able to help others -- but these answers failed to help me. I have since realized that “answers” are mental illusions that deceive me into believing that I understand my problems and can therefore control the outcomes of my life. Answers are not solutions -- solutions can really change my life. What is frequently being sold in the market place of self-help and therapy are answers and not solutions.

Answers did “work” temporarily at times. I was able to use my thoughts to anesthetize my feelings, creating an artificial state of well being. Answers are information without experience and higher Presence – facts without the means to spiritually enlightened – serving only to convince me that I know what I need in order to control my life. I become responsible for what happens, no matter what.

Over the course of the last twenty-two years, from personal and from professional experience, I have revised these twelve spiritual principles to fit any and all life challenges – chronic or temporary. I would like to introduce these spiritual principles and my “practice” of them as a means of living daily inspirations that brings major spiritual enlightenment, through spiritual coaching.

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How Do Daily Inspirations Change Our Lives?

To change, we must become willing to experience a certain level of discomfort.
Marie Lindquist

I have tried to change my self, and my life ever since I can remember. I believed that I would be “happy” if something changed. The problem was that “things” have changed over the course of my life, but it never really brought happiness. I did not know that real happiness was not connected to “things” -- at least not external things.

Do you want the best of life? Then live as near as possible to God, the Master and Giver of all Life.

Twenty Four Hours

Change began with level of discomfort that made me willing to listen. Then I learned to listen to a higher Voice speaking through others. I began to realize that when I listened, I heard a higher Presence, and as I listened to this higher Presence, we got to know each other -- intimately And that has made all the difference.

I began to experience a closeness to others, to myself, and to my higher Presence that began to change the most important factor in my life – my perceptions. I found daily inspirations within others, within inspirational readings, within life events, and within the seemingly accidental off hand comments of strangers. I was listening and hearing and experiencing changes that my brain could not produce or imagine.

Change – a neverending pattern of miracles unleashed by a deeper experience of self.
Marianne Williamson

As I connected with my higher Presence, I began to be freed – I began to experience life directly and without interference – I became more a natural child with higher Parents. Messages began to appear more and more often. Daily inspirations became moment to moment inspirations I would stress and strain for hours for the meaning of something, to have it appear in an instant of Presence -- when I listened.

Our soul is nurtured and fed by taking pleasure in the beauty in this world.
Melodie Beattie

Experience of daily inspirations produced an intuitive connection that changed my world of perceptions, and made life became very different.

I learned how to ask for help, and listen. I had been trapped inside my pain – some nameless, faceless version of myself was tearing my insides apart – trying to get out. I would freeze, thinking it would go away if I didn’t move. It never did.

And now I am actively listening – and experiencing change. I am becoming – different – and better. I am being freed from the prison of my brain by a continuous experience of daily inspirations – and a neverending flow of inner miracles of Presence.

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How Do Daily Inspirations and Spiritual Enlightenment Make a Difference?

“A consciousness of God’s presence,

as One who loves you,
makes all life different.
The consciousness of God’s love
promotes the opening of your whole being to God.”
Twenty-Four Hours a Day

The normal human condition is one of constriction – closedness – to others, ourselves, and our higher Presence. It is a natural, and generally unconscious reaction to the fear and expectation of ultimately being abandoned – separated from others.

I have learned that there are certain symptoms that frequently remind me of my shame, and my fear of separation:
1. Worry – the mental preoccupation with outcomes related to any person, thing, or situation that catches my attention. My unresolved past attaches to my immediate present, and I live emotionally the neural energies of fear, trying to escape with desperate thought.
2. Anger – when I am irritated, my brain is avoiding shame and separation by bursts of neural energy, generally discharged toward people, things and situations that are not as I think I would like it to be. This is displaced energy, and not true responses.

As my consciousness rises, I become aware that my insides and outsides are tight, tense, and constricted. If it continues for any length of time, I will begin to experience physical symptoms of my illness.

Daily inspirations are about allowing our consciousness to be redirected by “God’s Presence” to an experience of God’s or our higher Presence’s unconditional adoration and affection for us. As we find and experience the cues that are in daily inspirations, we can experience an “opening of our whole being to God”, to ourselves, and to other human beings.

There are various blockages to this opening. One is the human desire or demand for guarantees. How can I know that when I allow higher Presence to open my being, that I will be safe, loved, and nurtured in the future? This is a question that ultimately daily inspirations must begin to “answer”.

“Understanding is the reward of faith.

Therefore seek not to understand that thou mightest believe,
but believe that thou mayest understand.”
Aurelius Augustinus

Faith and belief, in spiritual terms are not thoughts. Traditional religion, being thought based, tends to imply that faith and belief are done by thinking – which is with our brains. Unfortunately, that will not work. The part of the brain that thinks is very tiny. The part of the brain that feels fear and shame is massive. Thought will do little more than distract us from our human condition. Our brains are ultimately not where the spiritual “guarantees” of my life are written.

Daily inspirations teach us how to believe spiritually – to experience an intimate closeness with a Presence that the brain cannot comprehend. The result can be a spiritual enlightenment that transcends thought, and activates our heart to “know” without using our brains to do so. And suddenly there is a peace and confidence that defies and confound mental thought -- and I find my guarantees written on the intuitive tissue of my heart.

My experience is that it was divinely planned by my higher Presence, that I not be able to mentally comprehend the Plan for life – the rhyme and reason of my life. The only way I can know is through an ongoing intimate relationship with my higher Presence -- the goal and outcome of steady and consistent daily inspirations.

One of the barriers I experience is that my brain is rarely silent. It chatters – with details, observations, and projected explanations and expectations. I use daily inspirations to stop, breath, allow my mind to still, and then quietly listen to that “still small voice” of Presence.

Another barrier is “education” – trying to amass enough information mentally into my brain that I can understand and control my life. I have learned that spiritual education is a private matter – it has nothing to do with colleges or schools. Spiritual enlightenment comes from experiences which take my brain beyond my thoughts, into spiritual enlightenments that are self-changing – the rebirth of my lost selves into present Presence.

This spiritual enlightenment is a return to the child who we really are. To survive, we became adults – took responsibility for the uncontrollable, donned masks that hid our wretchedness, suppressed natural emotional experiences with intellectual thinking, and generally lost sight of the beautiful creatures we were created to be.


“Some of our feelings have been stored so long
that they have freezer burn.”
Melodie Beattie

We are using daily inspirations to be restored to who we are underneath all the fire and ice. We are beginning to have “breakthroughs” – more and more transformative experiences -- that are changing our very genetic spiritual structure back to our natural states.

Our higher Presence is reweaving the tapestries of our lives and we becoming beautiful and awesome – children and masters of God’s infinite and unconditional love and grace.

We are becoming truly amazing.

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Birth of Granddaughter, Nancy Jane

Nancy Jan was born Thursday, January 14, at Baptist East Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 20.75 inches long.

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Necessity for Love, Compassion, and Tolerance -- Daily Inspirations

Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them mankind cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Love, compassion, and tolerance. Why are these terms so important? Why don’t we hear and see them occurring more often than we do?

Maybe because we are distracted – we are too busy trying to find our way through the wreckages of our past and the confusions of our presents.

Love, compassion and tolerance are not the default settings of human beings – especially in the loud glare of our current culture. It takes consciousness, deliberate intent to be and care, a heightened sense of higher Presence that empowers us to be different – to be changed – to be born – to become our truest deepest selves – to be reprogrammed by our God.

Love, compassion, and tolerance – an intimacy, a conscious connection, a deep reverence for the sacred essence of spirit that exists in every human soul.

The challenge is that mankind suffers from an illness. The floods of details and data, outcomes and demands create a mental and spiritual illness of unconsciousness. The solution is be awakened by our conscious experiences of ourselves, our loving Presence with our God, and by giving ourselves to and our sacred messages with those we will come in touch with today.

It can be and is as simple as a smile, a nod, a touch, a hug, a word of caring and attention. We can change lives and protect our lives – perceptions and reactions – by practicing and then living love, compassion, and unconditional tolerance of others.

We will not survive otherwise? Why would we want to?

Listening for Our Heartsong -- Daily Inspirations

Your heartsong is the voice you hear inside when you truly are.

Mumble from Happy Feet

Each of us has a “heartsong” – a musical flow and rhythm of energy and love that touches others at a level of truth, and transforms us into better and better versions of ourselves. It cannot be thought or understood – only experienced. It cannot be “sung” alone – only with a choir of connected others. Our heartsong is the deepest message we carry within us, And it can only be heard by our hearts.

The material world demands material participation. If we are not careful, this will mean giving up ourselves in order to seemingly belong. But we are and must be ourselves. Connected to our God and to others, we radiate with flowing life sounds – that are uniquely ourselves – and life changing to all.

Healing Negativity with Daily Inspirations

“Did you ever wonder how some people seem to thrive on negativity, when negativity is poison to the soul and mind?”

Patrick Z.

A special friend of mine wrote this question on his Facebook page, and I have given some listening time to his question.

Human beings are frightened most severely by separation and abandonment. It is worse than the fear of death. If a person feels alienated and forsaken enough by others, he or she will actually induce death – kill themselves – in order to avoid consciousness of their abandonment – and resulting shame.

So, human beings fear consciousness as much as they do separation and abandonment and greater than they fear death. The pain and fear and shame of conscious separation from others, ourselves and our God is overwhelming and torturous.

When we become afraid of the possibility of an undesirable outcome – possible impending abandonment – our brains involuntarily constrict our feelings by injecting mass quantities of thought into our emotional experiences. As this constriction tightens, one of the advanced stages of suppression is major resistance to external events and relationships – anger and rage. Our brains will resist and then discharge painful energies as negativity – criticism, judgement, abandonment of others, and ultimately of ourselves.

Negativity is a symptom – not the problem. So, if we try to stop being negative, and try to be positive, we fail – or worse the constricted wounded energy ricochets back inwardly and we bludgeon and mutilate ourselves.

People “thrive”, as Patrick said, because their brains are involuntarily using negative discharges of energy as a means to avoid consciousness – painful separation, abandonment, and shame. Negativity is one of the many “drugs” that the brain uses to give us relief from incredible loneliness and pain. Humans “thrive” on it because it is how we are surviving our disease of humanness.

And Patrick is correct: negativity is “a poison to the soul and mind”. When the brain constricts it destroys. And when we judge or condemn anyone – or anything – we set ourselves up for the same and more conditions – we become “damned”. Now we are abandoning, rejecting, and abusing ourselves without any assistance necessary from others to do so. We are destroying the very flesh of our hearts.

So, what do we do about this? Some would say, “Just stop being negative!” Which of course is absurdly impossible – not just hard -- impossible --and negative, judgemental, and abandoning. It assumes that we have the ability and power to decide and do this for and by ourselves. This exaggerated sense of individual power and responsibility is essentially the central root of all separation and self-destruction.

The illness (humanness) that causes negativity is a deficiency of conscious contact with God which separates us from others and ultimately from ourselves. In this state, we are powerless – we do not have the ability to decide or choose or change. Disconnected from intimate conscious contact with our God is like a lamp being disconnected from a source of electical current. Everything seems to be there to create light – but without the presence of electricity, there is only darkness.

In my experience, it has been critical to consciously experience this condition of powerless – profoundly – or I will unconsciously try to fix and change myself – continue to poison myself with some form of negative, abandoning, conditional energy.

To the extent I have a conscious experience of my powerless, I am ready to be reconnected to the loving Presence and Care of my God. Acceptance of powerlessness opens my inner constriction enough to begin letting their Presence begin to flow into my wounded abandonments. In their Presence, my constrictions begin to subside, and I can begin to experience a “peace that passes all understanding” – beyond mental thought, and a “joy unspeakable and full of awesomeness” – unexpressable in mental words.

My God’s loving Presence begins to heal my wounded brain – and my thoughts – the fever of human shame – begins to decrease. There – in the increasing contact with my God, with myself, and with others a rebirthing begins to occur, continuing as long as I remain increasingly connected to my God. I become more and more my truest and most original self.


This healing process is relatively simple – but it is not easy. Our brains are programmed to hide possible pain and fear in layers and layers of thought and unconsciousness. In my experience, we need to develop a practice of spiritual maintenance and progressive spiritual enlightenment in order to have a life of soothing love, and unconditional acceptance.

I believe that if you read some of my other articles, you will find suggestions and directions based on my own experience, strength, and hope that will allow you to begin finding your own personal journey and destinations of higher self with God.

Daily Inspirations are about maintaining a constant conscious contact with our God through continuing connections with others’ experience, strength and hope. We are each others’ sacred messengers – angels. We need to learn how to be increasingly conscious of each others’ messages.

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The Need for Spiritual Life Maintenance -- Spiritual Awakening and Spiritual Enlightenment

Be not afraid of growing slowly.
Be afraid of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Humanness is a chronic disease of separation – ongoing disconnection from others, from ourselves, and from our God. When other problems are added to our humanness -- like alcoholism, mental and physical illness, poverty, etc…, the disease of humanness becomes more and more acute and painful.

There are two basic treatments for humanness – and its subcategory illnesses. Both work effectively. One is the easier, softer way and the treatment used by upward of 95% of all human beings. The other requires conscious effort and life experience. Few people ever find it and live it.

The first and most widely used treatment for humanness is unconsciousness. It is very effective in eliminating conscious discomfort and pain. It involves using things, people, and situations as drugs of distraction to cause the loss of conscious contact with ourselves to the point that there is little to no conscious pain. The pain exists but it is anesthetized into different forms and levels of numbness – unconsciousness.

Drugs and alcohol have an addictive ability to do this for addicts and alcoholics. But drugs and alcohol are by no means the most widely used and effective anesthetizing substances.

Thought, by far, is the most effective and pervasive “agent” of unconsciousness used by human beings.

The primitive involuntary part of our brains possesses ultimate control the actual operation of our brains. It monitors and attempts to control the amount of neural energy – consciousness – we experience at any given time. It has been programmed by past stress and pain of actual and possible separation from others.

It controls by using the rational and thinking part of the brain – the cerebral cortex – to lower and control the level of conscious neural energy being experienced at any given time. It does this by inserting massive quantities of thought into the conscious stream of experience – which slows the brain’s impulses down, and suppresses its overall functioning. Thought can be a depressant or a stimulant – whichever is needed to take the overall brain, and mind away from consciousness of what is. It can be racing thoughts, memory loss, or even overwhelmed and blank thoughts.

Denial is one very effective result of thought. I have experienced that denial means “Don’t Even kNow I Am Lying.” Thought is so effective that a person can be staring at the facts and be unable to consciously see or experience what is. Unconsciousness works.

The second and rarely used treatment for humanness is consciousness. This treatment involves increasing our conscious contact with God, with ourselves, and with other human beings. Instead of thinking ourselves into an oblivion, we experience our neural perceptions and reactions initially as feelings, which can continue until they become an expansive and flowing conscious experience of ourselves with our God.

This treatment is normally avoided because it will always begin with the conscious experience of pain and fear, which the primitive brain perceives as “life threatening”. The primitive brain will attempt to avoid consciousness in any way possible – at any cost – including physical and mental illness.

Another major barrier to consciousness is that it is not the default setting on our brains, and so our brains instinctively and involuntarily return to this unconscious setting without conscious choice or intent. To remain conscious requires an ongoing process of conscious vigilant experience of ourselves and an ongoing process of conscious contact and reconnecting with the unconditionally loving Presence of our God.

Spirituality is about conscious contact with our personal God, frequently through the means of conscious contact with others. It is possible to have spiritual experiences of heightened consciousness without it becoming an enduring and continuing spiritual state of consciousness.

People can attend church, spiritual support groups, and meetings with other spiritual persons, experience a higher consciousness, and then quickly return back to their unconscious selves.

Frequently consciousness is difficult to maintain because higher spiritual contact with God also increases our conscious contact with ourselves, resulting initially and sometimes persistently in pain and emotional discomfort – a sense of separation and abandonment.

What occurs with spiritual experiences is that the constriction that the primitive brain maintains on neural energy relaxes in conscious Presence with our God. So there is a temporary relief without the numbing constrictions of thought. And then there is a heightened vulnerability to the effects of life events and relationships. So, when we are reexposed to normal life, our primitive brains have to reconstrict the energies to protect our brains from death by abandonment -- the lack of consistent conscious contact with God and others.

To become and remain spiritually conscious and less constricted --- to begin to heal and grow into health and well being -- we have to establish a consistent practice or “life” of ongoing spiritual maintenance – a steady flow of our God’s intimate Presence.

But why bother? Unconsciousness works fine! It’s just not that bad. Don’t fix it if it is not broken.

If it does not consciously hurt “bad enough”, we are hopelessly and helplessly lost within our own unconscious abyss.

If it maybe sometimes hurts “bad enough”, we can begin to develop a steady life practice of experiencing God’s Presence. Who knows?

13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. 14 For narrow is the gate, and narrowed the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
Matt 7:13-14 (ASV)

Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matt 7:13-14 (ESV)

Finding Daily Inspirations in the Storms of Life

In the storm, the tree that bends with the wind

is the one that survives to grow tall.
Brenda Scheffer

Most of my life was spent surviving actual and perceived “storms” –inside and out...

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How Do Daily Inspirations Reprogram Our Hearts?

Daily Inspirations:

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.
Marianne Williamson

Except ye become as a little child, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven…The kingdom of heaven is within you.

Jesus

The material world operates based on outcomes. Every interaction with a person, object, or circumstance is ultimately judged as being either good or bad – based on outcomes. And in this system, every moment of human existence within the brain neural network is assigned these same judgments of “good” or “bad”. With every “good”, there is a sense of connection and Presence. With every “bad”, there is an experience of separation and abandonment.


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