Holidays and “Heaviness”

Greetings beloved souls,

I truly hope this message finds you enjoying life, nurturing yourself often, forgiving yourself even more often, and tackling each apparent challenge with a sense of humor and insightful wisdom.

I have decided to switch to a monthly blog, so that I can over-deliver when I am inspired to write, and not under-deliver.

That being said, let’s jump right in.

So, the holidays have arrived and it is often a time of heaviness, both physical, emotional, and energetic. So before I offer the next excerpt from my upcoming book “YOU Are a Mystic!” I would like to offer a few helpful hints that always assist me in warding off heaviness of any variety.

(p.s. I do not receive any compensation for recommending specific products)

Tip # 1: Have you considered an intestinal and colon cleanse? These are recommended once or twice a year, and most Americans that I encounter haven’t done one in their whole life! Please consider Hydro-colonics with a skilled practitioner in your area, or an at-home kit like “Blessed Herbs” (highly recommended) or “Dr. Natura’s Toxinout” will do the job.

Tip # 2: Zeoforce by Healthforce Nutritionals. Zeolite (Zeoforce) is a miracle of nature, helping to bond with and remove a full range of toxins, heavy metals, and chemicals from the body. Dr. Jameth Sheridan of Healthforce is an uncompromising Health Pioneer who has trademarked the term “Truganic” since he believes “organic” has already been sold out to big corporations. His Zeoforce Zeolite is therefore of exceptional quality and can be placed in the bathtub to pull toxins out of all pores, and ingested to work deeply inside the organs. (go to your local natural food store or google his company name)

Tip # 3: The Zapper, by Don Croft. I’ve known Don for years and believe his Zappers (called Terminators) to be the best on the market, and easiest to use. If you’re not aware of this technology, it “zaps” or kills parasites, worms, and other harmful bacteria, dramatically “lightening” you up on a myriad of levels, including alleviating depression! You will feel the difference, but do put in the time. It needs to be used consistently, so if you are inspired to purchase one, use it at an hour (or more) at a time, at least 3-4 times per week, and feel how light you can feel free of the “heaviness” that parasites tend to create within our physical/mental/emotional being. (www.worldwithoutparasites.com)

Tip # 4: There’s no substitute for exercise! As it gets colder, many people retreat indoors…while that may be cozy and comfy, it also means the air quality you are inhaling is considerably compromised with indoor heaters blaring, fireplaces, and the array of chemicals in most households. Therefore it is imperative to get fresh air into the lungs, brain, and body through brisk walks outdoors and plenty of cardio…and don’t forget to stretch!!! I begin everyday with Pranayama (yogic breathing), stretching, and jumping up and down shaking my body like a rag doll while breathing deeply and smiling or laughing. It may sound funny, but it works! Your mind doesn’t know any different – so just smile and play and your whole being will feel the joy!

continuation of “YOU Are a Mystic!” excerpt:

“YOU Are a Mystic! is the simplest road-map I could create to pass along the spiritual gems which I’ve uncovered. It is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom teachings and full of real world insights gleaned from more than a decade of holistic sessions; the suggested techniques have been polished through more than 2,000 hours of personal experimentation, and countless hundreds of hours teaching these techniques, often to total novices. So I come to you with great confidence when I say: these techniques work. I’ve seen them transform the toughest cases again and again for many years. Letters and testimonials continue to pour in as the client sees real, lasting transformations upon returning home and commencing practice of the learned skills. As you read, I encourage intuition, discernment, and open-mindedness – and then, provided that the information resonates deeply – a joyful willingness to demonstrate commitment with any new practice you learn about. I dare you.

 

Ultimately though, YOU Are a Mystic! serves as a love letter to myself when I was awakening spiritually at 15, and felt completely lost, naïve, and searching – it is everything I would have wanted to know at that tender age to demystify the spiritual path, master my fragile emotions, gain confidence in my ability to connect with Spirit, and advance light years in wisdom. So I say to the reader, In La Kesh – meaning you are another myself. Or, as a teacher of mine once said, “your enlightenment is my enlightenment.” It is my sincere hope that in this love letter to “myself,” you the reader will recognize the similarities in your own lives, and thus, benefit from mine and others journeys. Whether the reader is just now experiencing the first glimpses of spiritual awakening or is a seasoned seeker, this book might serve as an essential training manual – the steps that must be mastered before true peace and even bliss can become your daily reality.

I would also caution you not to be fooled by the simplicity of what you might read in this book. A Taoist sage in 200 B.C. once said, “The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away. Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.” I feel certain that I proved over the years that the path was ultimately simple, that the greatest techniques were simple, and finally, that God is simple: God is Love. And to get back to God, you simply have to BECOME the Love that you seek, NOT JUST READ ABOUT IT!

 

But how do you ‘become the Love that you seek’ if you feel lousy all the time and can’t disassociate from your considerable suffering? That, my friends, is what I aim to share in these pages. Helping you to overcome suffering and all forms of self-defeatism to embody the healed, balanced, motivated, happy version of you is my aim.

 

The great Indian yogi-sage Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) once commented on the American way as it relates to spiritual growth, but it could easily apply to other modern-day cultures as well:

Americans love to experiment, so why not experiment on yourselves: on your attitudes toward life, on your thoughts and behavior? Find out what life is, and how human life might be improved. Discover what people most deeply want in life, and what is the best way for them to achieve that hearts’ desire. Find what it is they most want to avoid, and how they might, in future, avoid this unwelcome ‘guest.’

 

That, my friends, encapsulates what my life, and therefore, this book are about. I am the experiment, along with the countless and similarly-challenged clients I have listened to and coached for nearly a decade. Through the grace of God and years of discipline during this “great experiment” on myself, I have attained a high degree of emotional balance, mental clarity, physical health, and spiritual connectedness. It was no accident I assure you – I worked hard at it! This path requires dedication and a toughening of the spirit. I have dedicated my life to exploring and field-testing practical techniques that truly work. Initially, this took years of suffering for this motivation to even awaken inside me. Later, through heroic dedication and achieving verifiable results – deep peace, spiritual bliss, and profound emotional and physical healing – convinced me I had discovered something truly special. I think of myself as a spiritual “scientist,” perfecting my formula for feeling Divine grace daily. I have become an Emotional Warrior in my ability to strengthen myself and quickly return to balance after any painful experience. It can be done. You can regularly feel confident, peaceful, and happy day after day. Now I have the sacred privilege to inspire people’s lives by offering these simple, practical, and effective tools… and the results have been nothing short of amazing.

 

Again, I will remind you of the most important part. What I am calling the “YOU Are a Mystic! Method” is simple… very simple. It is a collection of the most powerful, bliss-inducing, life-changing techniques that I’ve been privileged to find, learn, master, and now have the honor and permission to teach. I have merely found, organized, adapted, and perfected a system with which to apply these discovered techniques in order to get a verifiable, often life-changing result.

 

It was never enough to have achieved daily spiritual bliss and emotional peace for myself only – it immediately became a question of, ‘Is this teachable? Can others have a similar result?’ You’ll be happy to know that the answer has been a resounding yes! My path is to share, to bless, and to uplift as many souls as possible. Hoarding makes no sense and brings me no joy. Once you get a taste of these glorious states of consciousness, you will understand why as well. A true mystic has understood him or herself to be pure love itself. So the answer is simple: the nature of love is to give, and in giving love the mystic finds his or her purpose.

 

When I truly discovered inner peace and alignment with the Earth and Heavens, no one needed to tell me. I felt an unprecedented strength and confidence – an ability to trust life without fear. The only failure is in not even trying or giving up too soon. But this, a mystic would never do, because the material world has lost its attractiveness for many. You might be starting to look for the finish line to this hectic human experience of endless pain and temporary pleasures, wondering when and if there is ever a graduation? Well, since you’re here for a while, wouldn’t it be wise to learn how to master this human experience? The journey has truly begun for you. Congratulations. You also have the good fortune to have stumbled on knowledge which required nearly two decades of my blood, sweat, and buckets of tears to discover and fine-tune. May you appreciate and benefit from all the pearls you find here. I am challenging all souls who read this to be the mystic you already are. It’s time, it’s safe, and frankly, it’s desperately needed.

 

I have long believed that we are all teachers for each other. In this moment, I have the privilege of being a guide – sharing words that hopefully inspire, ignite, and delight your inner mystical nature with synchronistic truths, arriving in front of you at the perfect “now” moment. In this way the mysterious Consciousness of life guides each soul individually through inspired channels with the exact prodding it needs and simultaneously as a collective of billions of evolving souls. Your personal evolution adds to the collective pool of experience, helping all on Earth eventually graduate to the next octave of experience. Therefore, you too are an emotional and spiritual warrior – a warrior traversing the emotional minefields… a warrior who battles ignorance daily and whose victory is the attainment of Inner Peace in spite of it. Peace, blessings, and much success to all the beautiful and sincere souls who find these pages. May you become a guiding light for many! May your life be a constant blessing to all beings”

(For those of you who have experienced my work, may this be an inspiration to continue with or begin researching further the techniques I taught you. For those who haven’t yet experienced my work, may this be an encouragement to reach out and connect with me, so that I may share with you the Mystic Method. Thanks and God bless!)

Awakening Is a Daily Achievement – So Smile and Have Fun With It!

You have been born into a highly unenlightened…err, dysfunctional society. Therefore it is not your fault that you have unknowingly picked up (large) traces of fear, guilt, unworthiness, shame, anger, and negativity in your belief system. “Forgive them for they know not what they do” applies here well. Is it time to forgive those who have supposedly wronged you? Is it time to see the Divine Purpose for this challenging cast of characters that make up your life? It’s your choice – you can now live in love, seeing the Divine wisdom guiding your life from the moment you opened your eyes in this world, or you can continue to blame other people and situations for being something other than than what you think they ought to be. What will you choose?

Awakening is not an isolated event – that once you’ve had an epiphany it lasts indefinitely. The “illusion” is trickier than you might have guessed. Everyday you’ll need to re-discover the desire and the strength to persevere in the face of a culture-wide spiritual amnesia – so be good to yourself, and smile often!!!

In my first blog post, which was an excerpt from my soon-to-be-finished book “YOU Are a Mystic!” I left off by saying…

Wherever you may find yourself at this moment in life: a mechanic, a schoolteacher, a high school drop out, a dad, a mom, an actor, an inmate, a restaurant server, an insecure teenager, or a recovering addict… YOU are a mystic! Yes you who judge yourself daily, gossip often, and watch hours of television. Yes you who have betrayed people’s trust, drink too much, and won’t speak to your father. And yes, you who take depression med’s, have cried yourself to sleep more times than you can remember, and are annoyed by everything. Who said you had to be without flaws to be a mystic? Furthermore, who said you had to be born in Tibet or India with Divine signs surrounding your birth to be a mystic? Indeed, like all mystics, you have probably uncovered unique insights through your struggles, however mundane you believe them to be, and now strive to live more in-tune with your spirit’s intuitive nudges. Most importantly, you have a hard-to-define spiritual hunger, an insatiable curiosity which digs deep into your psyche, prodding you along until the hunger is at last satisfied. If you have arrived at this point where these words tantalize your spiritual taste buds… YOU are a mystic!

(New blog…)

So why am I so confident in my assertion? Because for more than a decade now I’ve been teaching meditation and facilitating holistic sessions for many hundreds of spiritual retreat clients – people who told me, “You’re going to have trouble with me. I’ve never been able to meditate, my mind is always racing, I’m stuck in my head all the time, I don’t have a spiritual bone in my body, my heart is closed, I’ve tried everything, I’m too damaged, I have squirrels running around inside my head, my aura is black, and I’m a hopeless case.” I’ve heard it all!!! And do you know what? Through the simple, proven process I’ve taught for years – which is really just an inspired method to blast open the heart, naturally calm the mind, get truly present, and invite in Divine grace – ninety percent of all clients who account for this pessimistic verbal barrage had their first spiritual connection – true peace and a tangible, heartfelt experience that they’d begun to believe didn’t exist!

The only requirement: an open mind and an open heart; in other words, a sincere willingness.

The most repetitive responses I’ve heard over the years: “That is the first time I’ve ever felt peace,” or “That was the most amazing experience I’ve ever had,” or “I never thought my mind would actually quiet down.” Well guess what? I knew better. Why? Because everyone, which includes you, has the potential to be a mystic – it’s just a matter of you becoming aware of it and accepting it as a possibility.

Every master that has ever walked the earth has been inviting you to remember your Divinity while you inhabit this body – don’t wait until you die to find out if there’s a Heaven. Create Heaven in your life now! My greatest intention with this book is that you and all readers, planet-wide, discover a personal and tangible spiritual connection. This is what I have discovered and proven in my experience, and so I am here to deliver a message that you can have this bliss, peace, and spiritual fulfillment now. It is beckoning you forward. Will you accept? I think for readers of this blog/book, you have already made the choice.

Who am I, you may ask? I am a spiritual/holistic practitioner – a teacher of meditation, qigong, and life empowerment skills. I am a sacred land guide (tour guide), a ceremonialist, a writer, and a speaker. I am a soul who has decided that I am not satisfied living in a world of emotional escape artists; rather, I desire a world of accountability. I am not satisfied living in a world of “illusion;” rather I will endeavor to awaken fully as the Buddha, the Christ, and so many other great ones have done. I am not satisfied on a planet where flavor-of-the-month actors and pop stars are treated as gods; I’m ready to participate instead in a society where true spiritual masters are revered and consulted on major global decisions and on how to develop a society of spiritually mature, peace-loving human beings. I’m not satisfied any longer in a world where spirituality is treated either as a seldom-chosen-hobby or a rigid empire-like construct which incites endless feuding; I’m ready to co-create a world of enlightened beings who worship joyfully together even amidst unique cultural and spiritual customs. I am not satisfied living in a world where so few feel a direct mystical relationship with Spirit; rather, if I can help it, thousands or even millions more will have the opportunity to learn how to achieve this. This is the world I envision, and I believe that it is closer than most would expect.

But most importantly, I am a mystic – that is the only fitting title; a passionate soul on an unstoppable mission for liberation from the wheel of human suffering, and upon achieving that intention, helping as many others as possible to find happiness and liberation as well. Like you, I am someone with a great interest in self-healing and spiritual enlightenment who was determined to find a direct path to the Divine – and hopefully, a path I could easily share with others. I don’t have a long list of titles next to my name, and yet people continue to shift, open, heal, and awaken with the simple formula I have taught for years. Perhaps you are now realizing that you are a mystic who has simply been denied mystical training – if so I invite you to discover why this formula (the YOU Are a Mystic! Method) has worked such wonders for so many souls. Perhaps this information is what you’ve been looking a long, long time for.

My gifts are being an insightful observer, an empathic intuitive, a constant simplifier, and an inspired facilitator, with a tireless spirit laser-focused on helping the spiritually hungry. If you are suffering like I was, please know, once and for all: techniques to permanently heal emotionally and establish a tangible spiritual connection exist, and are learnable! There is hope, and lots of it. Great Spirit never abandoned you. Creator sent innumerable guides to re-teach the road map back home. Get excited and search for the “clues” in the teachings I will present to you. They carry great secrets within them. Fully grasping and implementing even one of these clues can make an incalculable difference in your spiritual practice.

This blog/book is my humble attempt to offer one perspective on how outer peace might be created among a worldly civilization by first achieving inner peace. The phrase, “think globally, act locally” fits well here. To even approach these stated objectives of creating a world of mystics as feasible in this century, a massive and concerted effort would have to take place planet-wide – but it must start from within you first. To accomplish this, intentions would have to be established and a clear road-map created. This book is meant to inspire your ability to problem-solve as well as expand your perception of what is possible as a worldly culture and within your own personal spiritual evolutionary path. My intentions behind this book can be stated as such…

 

Mission Statement: To help inform the masses about the existence of practical, non-denominational mystical techniques which lead to a consistent and deeply felt experience of one’s personal spiritual connection, in order to demystify the science of spiritual evolution and provide a powerful result to a skeptical public. Such techniques can and should be adapted to one’s own faith, in order to establish comfort in the user. Such mystical practices, when adeptness is reached, will facilitate a transformation of one’s character, thus developing a kinder, wiser, and more tolerant and loving population, regardless of one’s religious affiliation or lack thereof. The current concept of religion would evolve into a direct and personal mystical experience that knows no end to its potential – an exciting journey of conscious self-discovery, self-healing, and peaceful exploration into the mysteries of Universe that all of Earth’s inhabitants are aware of and following in one form or another.

Suggested Solution: Albert Einstein once said: “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” This statement best explains what this book is attempting to show. Humans will need to learn about and ultimately attain what is known as a higher state of consciousness in order to transcend the common “problems” that befall many humans – fear, hatred, judgment, ignorance, and strictly logical thinking. Only higher consciousness, this different “level of thinking,” could develop greater wisdom in the worldly populace through a vastly enhanced ability to love.

This blog/book posits that if people knew how to have a tangible mystical connection daily, the result may be so enjoyable that it would directly influence countless more potential mystics to attain a similar connection. Furthermore, if each person invested the time and effort into utilizing these proven techniques for emotional healing, heart-opening, and consciousness expansion – the world would change overnight and permanently, greatly decreasing the tendency for religious and/or spiritual disagreement. Instead, the focus would be on peaceful and productive cultural exchanges for the collective advancement, absent of the need to be “right.” Therefore, it is this book’s objective to teach the reader how to achieve the direct spiritual experience of non-ordinary consciousness, which may be punctuated by heightened and sustained feelings of love, peace, spiritual bliss, and a heartfelt recognition of a connection with all life forms to name just a few qualities of this on-going, even daily attainment.

It’s important to note that the higher consciousness experience has reportedly been achieved, explained, and taught by great mystics for thousands of years, as recorded in sacred texts, personal accounts from spiritual masters and countless other varied sources from around the world. It is this book’s intention to show that this experience is feasible for all beings, and perhaps, the only true solution if a peaceful planet, and thus, the survival of the human race is to be achieved.

Welcome: Why I know that “YOU are a Mystic!”

July 9, 2011

Mysticism: the belief that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is attainable through immediate intuition or insight.  – Merriam Webster Dictionary  Once I was the master of suffering. Now I am the “master” of peace. Guess which one I enjoy more? So, how did I, once a severely pimple-faced, manic-depressive, angst-ridden, insecure, and suicidal [...]

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