Givers VS Takers
How can you tell the difference between “Givers” and “Takers”? Here’s a simple listing.
| Givers |
Takers |
| Why shouldn’t I help? |
Why should I help? |
| Don’t question motivations |
Ask “I wonder what they want?” |
| Ask, “How will this benefit others?” |
Ask, “What’s in it for me?” |
| Releasing |
Controlling |
Finds power and peace
in spiritual wisdom |
Finds power and peace in externals and things |
| Willing to be servants |
Must be “lords” |
| Follows the flow with insight |
Appears “In control” |
| Rolls with the punches |
Easily overwhelmed |
| Love unconditionally |
“Love” conditionally |
| High capacity for pain |
Low capacity for pain |
| Bear pain silently and with patience |
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The events of our life and the circumstances we find ourselves in are the direct result of the emotional and mental energy we radiate outwards from our inner being at every moment. Feel anxious and afraid for example, and you will draw events into your life which will allow you to feel even more fear and anxiety. Think what a horrible life/ job/ home, relationship(s) you have, then you will draw more events to you so that you can experience more of the same “reality.” The trick to creating the reality you want to experience is to imagine, think and feel only what you want to experience. Not what you don’t want.
Basically, our thoughts, beliefs, expectations , imaginings and emotions, flow outwards from our inner being and shape the events, dramas and circumstances that we are going to encounter later today, or tomorrow, or next month, or next year. When we become conscious of the cause and effect relationship between our inner and outer worlds, however, we can move on from believing in the illusion that we are a powerless victim of fate and start to create the life and reality we choose to experience.
There are, however, certain feeling-states and ideas that are incredibly powerful. Simply by Read the rest of this entry »
Workaholism: An Example of the Imbalance of Male/Female Energy.
Many organizations and institutions subtly pressure their employees to become workaholics. Some managers and employers even expect their workers to be workaholics. With increasing numbers of people suffering “burn out” and other work/stress related illnesses and problems the health sectors have grown more concerned attempting to determine whether workaholism is an addiction, a symptom or an illness. Whatever the answer, workaholism (see definition of workaholism at end of article) appears to be highly detrimental, physically, mentally and emotionally, to those who suffer from it.
Seen from a spiritual perspective, however, workaholism is a more extreme example of the current imbalance that Read the rest of this entry »
“The Wounded Masculine” by Julie Smith
The term masculine I am referring to is the male/sun qualities within each gender. In using it I am not making reference to gender. The masculine qualities are the acting/doing qualities in both men and women. The masculine quality is the seed or idea that is planted in the soil/womb of the feminine. Our masculine quality is our acting out or manifesting ideas in the world that have been created in the feminine. In Jungian psychology, the masculine aspect of the psyche is the animus.
The wounded masculine aspect in our culture and world is evidenced in an abuse of power. It is the male aspect that feels it is not strong enough and so it overcompensates by being aggressive, filled with bravado, and disrespectful of the Read the rest of this entry »
To create heaven on earth requires all of us to be willing to make changes, and these changes need to begin with our self! Remember, we need to be the change, before change happens. And one of the most important, indeed urgent, areas that we need to look at and change are the ways we relate to one another; because sadly, most of us, through no fault of our own, have learned patterns of behaviour that are toxic and abusive, at least to some degree.
We have learned these dysfunctional patterns of behaviour from our parents, who learned from their parents, who learned from theirs, and so on, unconsciously passing on unhealthy styles of parenting and behaviour down through the generations. If we are not to pass these painful ways of relating and behaving on to our own children, we have to call a halt now, and let it end with our generation. If we are to accomplish this, however, we are first going to have to take full responsibility for all of our actions and behaviour, including any ways in which we might be allowing, accepting , condoning, or enabling, toxic, abusive, disrespectful, non-honouring behaviours to continue. Read the rest of this entry »
”Finding your truth and acting on it
regardless of how others might react
is the benchmark of personal sovereignty.
Such action
requires the ability to create and hold boundaries.”
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“In this world there will always be some people who, for whatever constellation of reasons, need to tear down others in order to feel okay about themselves. There will always be people that cross our paths to criticize us and to attempt to dump a chunk of their own lostness, brokenness, and negativity upon us. Read the rest of this entry »
The Rule of the Ego.
When we attempt to control anyone or anything it’s because we ourselves are under the control of our ego, which is very dominating and controlling. Our ego is that part of our conscious mind ( that voice that’s always chattering in our head ) that’s always comparing, judging, and commenting on everything, as well as always telling us what we should and need to be doing if we want to survive, be safe, successful, admired, happy, loved, secure etc. etc. etc.
Basically, our ego controls and dominates our lower self, which is comprised of our physical body, our emotional body, or aura, and our lower, mental body, or aura. Spirit, that aspect of our being that is still connected to the Divine, or All-That-Is, resides on the causal, or fifth astral plane. Spirit has control over our higher, mental aura, which exists on the fourth astral plane. Our lower, mental “body,” or aura, exists on the third astral plane, while our emotional”body” exists on the second plane. Naturally, of course, our physical body exists on the physical, material, plane.
At a certain stage in our journey to enlightenment, or on our journey to live as our true, authentic self, we need to free ourselves from the rulership of our tyrannical ego. When we achieve this, all parts and aspects of ourselves, both physical and non-physical, are then able to come under the leadership of spirit and we begin to manifest and live as our soul, our higher self.
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Who Are You, Really?
If you can find out who you really are on a soul level, you’ll uncover the unique being you were always intended to be, before the world and its conditioning inflicted its wounds on you, and made you ashamed and afraid to reveal who you really are. You’ll also discover your unique place in the overall scheme of things, because in finding your true self, you’ll also find your unique gift, and the contribution that only you, with your unique combination of characteristics, experiences and abilities, can offer the world.
For this to happen, we need to go in search of ourselves. We need to remove the layers of the false self we have spent years constructing over and around our true, authentic self: our soul. So deep are these layers, and so thorough the conditioning and the wounding we have received, that sometimes just the smallest gathering of threads of our original, genuine identity, remain in expression.
When this is the case, it’s because our soul has been brutalised almost beyond recognition, so brutalised that it has withdrawn from showing itself, and fallen into deep unconsciousness, leaving an almost empty space where a strong, confident and unique identity should be. This space, which the false self attempts to fill with a ramshackle collection of hazy notions about who we are, leaves us not only uncertain about our identity and place in the world, but equally uncertain about the kind of treatment we deserve to receive from other people. In short, we have lost our sense of who we are; we have lost our soul. So the question we all need to ask ourselves, is, Do I know who I really am?
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