The spiritual path…

The spiritual path is to help us evolve spiritually so that we can live our most fulfilled and happiest life. It can be nerve-wracking at times until we come to understand the journey. We will be forced to let go of our old programming so that the new can come in. Sometimes, in letting go of the old, “disaster” upon “disaster” will seem to descend on you for you to change your perception of yourself and the world. But, it never takes you over the brink even though you may feel that way at times. Then, when you let go of your old ways, the new comes rushing in with a blast.

Since, it’s our spiritual path, then we have to look to God for the Source of everything we want and need for he is in charge. We have to understand that God created the Universe including Nature and can create a miracle right on time to give us what is meant for us. We would have been taken back to times when things just happened to us miraculously for us to realize where God intervened on our behalf to give us what is meant for us. Bottom line is, since this is the spiritual path, then if we ask and follow God’s guidance, we will get what he has in store for us at the time he has planned for us, which is always the right time. Once we asked and followed God’s guidance, we just have to learn how to relax; to know that whatever arises is the best that we can handle at any that time; to erase all expectations and enjoy the moment; to have faith; and to be hopeful during uncertainties so that we can enjoy the journey of our spiritual path.

Codependency on another to feel powerful

From my eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn Marshall

Your true power can never be OVER someone else. Your true power is always OF yourself.

If you attach your true power as “feeling better than someone else” then you create a need for that person to exist in your life. Needing someone for your feelings of power is of itself giving your power away.

Ways in which we can create our own stress

From my eBook: Upgrading Your Life by Joycelyn Marshall

1. Obsessing about the negative outcomes in the world when we can’t do anything about it. Instead, focus on the positive. Focus only on the negative, if we are working on a solution to remove it.

2. Not taking control of how we feel. If we feel accomplished, we are accomplished; if we feel we can achieve it, we can achieve it; if we feel we are happy, we are happy – for only we know our true feelings, our true desires, our highest aspirations and what will truly fulfill us. We are therefore the most powerful to always make us feel the best about ourselves. Don’t give this power away by caring what others think about you more than you do about yourself.

3. Not stopping to refuel regularly.

4. Trying to do it alone without help from others. It’s ok to ask for help, delegate and oversee when possible or accept help from others when the load is too much for us. We don’t have to do it all on our own. If you are spiritual, then ask also for divine guidance. Then trust and accept that what arises is the best outcome for you, at any particular time.

5. Always wanting to be seen as perfect by others’ standards. We are here to be authentic and true to ourselves. It’s ok to put our imperfections out there. We all have imperfections of some sort and none is worse than the other.

6. Not making “being happy” a priority, in any situation we find ourselves.

7. Trying to be something we’re not. If it sparkles doesn’t mean it’s better. Being true to ourselves reduces stress as it makes us happier.

Open up to your full confidence

Life is there for us to live our own dreams and not to live it through others. It must be with a freedom of expression of our true nature, desires and birthright gifts and not about compromising in any shape or form to fit in. It is not about attaching to a label to derive some form of ownership or identity as everyone should be his or her owner and should derive his or her own identity from their own true nature. But it’s a process to get to this level of living and it’s ours for the taking when we learn how to align our state of being with our full confidence.

Remain hopeful during uncertainties

From my eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn MarshallRemain hopeful during uncertainties to keep your vibrations high.

Sometimes we are put in “what may appear to us as harsh” situations for us to recognize our true divine gifts and talents. Choose the best steps to empower yourself from this situation and it will open up new possibilities and experiences in your life which would serve you well on your journey ahead. Always make the choice to empower yourself rather than succumb to defeat of any sort, the likes of self pity etc.

Meeting needs of an interdependent relationship

From my eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn MarshallBe cognizant of each other’s needs to “be at home” in any interdependent relationship.

Give them what they truly want from us for them to “be at home”. Consider this carefully as we sometimes tend to think that we are meeting someone else’s need to “be at home” in an interdependent relationship when we give them what we think they want because that’s what we want from them, when this may not be what they truly need from us.

Allow others to also change for the better

From the eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn Marshall

Allow others the space to change for the better

We should not hold people to their “mistakes” of the past if they have changed or are showing signs that they are willing to change for the better. We too would not like others to hold us to our “mistakes” if we have grown and move on from the state of being that we were in at the time of the “mistake”. In other words, allow others the space to change for the better and try to understand them from their current, changed state and not from their previous state. Being able to do so shows spiritual maturity on our part.

Savor the process to getting there

From my eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn Marshall

Savor the process to getting there

While it’s important to focus and work on our dreams, it’s equally important for us to enjoy the process to getting there, one moment at a time.

Being grateful for where we are in the process helps us to be in that state where we can enjoy the moment and hence enjoy the process. Patience comes from enjoying the moment. Impatience comes from focusing only on the outcome and ignoring the joy that can come from the process.

Saying sorry to another is ultimately about us

From my eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn Marshall

It’s beneficial to us when we say to another that we are sorry if our action toward them was not of our highest form as it would not have produced the results that was in alignment with our highest aspirations. Saying that we are sorry gives us a second chance to achieve that optimal results. Remember, we are all a work in progress.