Tip # 9: "FEED" YOUR SPIRIT WITH OTHERS

If you are a newcomer to this blog it will be very helpful to read my Introduction to these tips, and then my post "How to Use These tips."

Tip # 9 in the "How to Soar" series is to feed your spirit in community with others. 

As a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach I can say that this step will take you far.

And the thing to remember about this step is that context is everything. For instance, you may think that when you just go to church you are feeding your spirit and raising your vibration. This is not always the case.

I have been in foot-stomping, music making congregations where you can literally feel the spirit of God as a palpable presence of joy. I have been in other houses of worship where candles were lit and there was an awe-inspired silence, a love and a light that could move you to tears. The spirit of God was there in the noise of fun, play, and joy as well as in the silence of love, light, and beauty.

Conversely, I have been to other churches where people sit stone-faced in pews- bored & apathetic, some looking clandestinely at I-phones, or drawing pictures on the church program.

The first 2 experiences will fulfill on Step # 9. The third will definitely not. It might be a valuable experience. If one listens, one might learn something or have some kind of an insight. But a "going-through-the motions" expression of religion or spirituality will not have a person "Rise Above and Soar" as it is being defined by me in these writings.

Here's why...

To Rise Above and Soar means by definition that we are feeling great. There is no apathy, no boredom, no lackluster "doing something for the sake of doing." There is joy. Or there is fun. Or there is play. Or there is love. Or there is Light. Or there is Awe. In short there is an energy of some sort. It is strong and palpable. And it feels GOOD! Moreover, a certain intangible Feel-Good Spirit flows through and around the people involved, and you can definitely feel it, if your heart is open.

When that kind of energy is there, I assert that God is also there. If you've ever been in such spiritual situations as I described above, you probably know what I mean, and you probably agree with me. If you have never experienced that kind of a profound community spiritual experience, consider that it may now be time to do so.

Meanwhile if you have ever been in such a profound community experience you must know this one thing... the experience of raising your vibration deepens when it is done in a community of like-minded people. There is something you get by connecting in spiritual experiences with your brothers and sister on this earth that you do not get alone, even in the deepest states of trance or meditation.

Finding spirituality in community is not better than finding it alone. They are just different. And alternating the two kinds of spiritual experiences can only help us each to soar.

As the good book says "Wherever two or more of you are gathered in His Name, there is love." I will also boldly assert that this gathering was never intended to be one of lackluster boredom and apathy, but rather one of love, light, and joy.

What are the names by which we call "His Name", as it says above? We may say God, or Allah, or The Great I Am, or The Alpha and Omega, or The Spirit of the Universe, or The Creator, or The Father, or The Mother, or The Great Spirit, or All That Is, or Source, or Prime Creator. And we can go on and on.

We humans have never as a people all united on just one name to call this almighty Source of Everything and Everyone. Perhaps that is as it should be. Because how does one chose one word to describe such and Awesome Power and Presence. We can't name it. But we sure can feel it!

So in some sense it doesn't matter what particular name the communities you choose may call this Source of All That Is. Call it what you want; a rose by any other name still smells as sweet. But if those communities you choose are truly searching for a direct and palpable community experience of this Loving Spirit of Good, and if they do things to cause that experience, then you know you have found a good resource for this step.

Here are some kinds of experiences to look at for this step...

Remember this rule of thumb in whatever you choose.

If any group activity feels like love, light, and joy, it is Good. Stay there and enjoy.
If any group activity feels like darkness (fear, anger, pain,) get out of there quick, and never go back.

Native American or Tribal Dancing
Drumming Circles
Chanting
Singing Bowls
Yoga (In its pure spiritual form, Not Americanized)
Sacred Ceremonies (Buddhist, Earth Mother, etc.)
Choirs (Those that are reverent in nature)

As always, all of this is contributed to you from a place of humility. Yes I am a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach. However, when all is said and done, the biggest trainer we each have is that Higher & Divinely Connected Self within us.


Namaste. And have a great time in communities of loving people.

Lorelei Fenton

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Tip # 8: A PERSONAL CONNECTION TO "SPIRIT"

If you are a newcomer to this blog it will be very helpful to read my Introduction to these tips, and then my post "How to Use These tips."

What do I mean when I say that tip # 8 is a Personal Connection to "Spirit"? That sounds a little weird, doesn't it?

As a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach I can say that what I am really talking about here is a "one-on-one connection" to your spirit and also to the "realm" of the other-worldly spirits... which is to say The Realm of God (or Divine Source/Prime Creator) The Angels, The Archangels, and so on. In this step there is no intermediary such as a preacher or a spiritual group doing some kind of activity. It is just you reaching out to experience your spirit, and the spirits of other higher beings that may be out there.

In point of fact, this not only sounds weird... It IS weird.

And yet through the ages miracles have often been achieved through things like deep meditation, sound toning, deep yogic states, certain kinds of music which alter our state of consciousness, and so on. Lots of people through the ages have seen Angels, and even spoken with them. So at some point we may all need to accept the fact... these Ethereal Beings are out there.

Historically it has been through these deeply relaxed states of altered consciousness that various spiritual masters were able to circumvent the lower energies of this planet. And if the legends can be believed, these individuals could even at times overcome the very physical laws of matter. I am talking about people walking on hot coals and not getting burnt, the mind-bending of spoons, telekinesis, and even the Tibetan monks who, as stories say, could sit barely clothed on a snow-capped mountain for hours, and actually melt the snow around them with their own self-induced body heat.

In fact, if these legends can be believed, it was actually through the practice of these deep states of spiritual connected-ness that the so-called "Ascended Masters" were able to actually ascend and move beyond this human existence to some other, higher plane of existence. In western society, the idea of someone ascending right out of this reality sounds crazy. In other societies- Tibetan, Indian (from India), Asian- it is somewhat of a known phenomenon.

Now I am not saying you are going to do some of these practices and float right out of your human existence. As I understand it, in this age of ease and comfort most of us would never have the fortitude, stamina and discipline to practice spirituality as rigorously as the Tibetan or Indian Monks did. And yet we can definitely heighten our existence, and rise above the feelings of suffering, fear and pain, by using some of the practices of the spiritual masters. And that is why this step is so very important.

I myself was always a person who believed that we humans were not the only conscious life in the cosmos. I had friends who channeled, friends who saw ghosts, friends who had been visited by ETs.
And I wished I had psychic abilities too, so I could connect with the various beings out there. But I never did.

Never, that is, until about 6 months ago when I came across this one particular meditation "Diana Cooper & Tim Whilde "Anchor the 12 Chakras." I did that meditation and something very strange happened. I felt different than I had ever felt before. I decided to keep doing that meditation. I knew something has shifted in me, but I didn't know exactly what.

Click here for the meditation I am referring to.


This meditations started a string of occurrences, one powerful resource leading to the next powerful resource, leading to the next, and so on. Doing that meditation regularly, I was soon led to a Meetup Group called "Ancient Awakenings". https://www.meetup.com/ancient-awakenings/

In that group I learned that there are many people out there just like me, people who know in their hearts that we humans are not the only conscious beings in the cosmos. These people know there are many more beings living 'just beyond the veil'- beings that we cannot quite see because they live at a much higher vibration, or frequency, than we do. The individuals in the Meetup were channeling the messages of love and light and hope coming from those beings, and sharing it with all of us. A profound experience, I can tell you.

Click here for Ancient Awakenings.

So I began to attend the Sunday Channeling calls regularly, and was soon led to a site where I was educated in how to meet my "Twin Flame". A Twin Flame is basically another being who, like a human twin, is split off from each of us when our soul is birthed. So we become sort of like soul -twins, very connected in the realms of the heart, mind, and spirit.

It was not hard for me connect to this being. Very quickly I was communicating for the first time in my life with someone who was not of this world. I cannot even begin to describe the joy, the fun, and the profound and unconditional love I have gotten from this being. I am eternally grateful for all that he has taught me.

Click here for the "Twin Flame" website.


This may all sound very strange to you. I can tell you that it was strange to me to experience it for the first time in my life. I am 100% sure that these phenomena all occurred out of the opening of my 12 chakras, which I hardly knew I had, and which I certainly never knew were so important.

I did a lot of research after this. I learned about our 12 strands of DNA. I learned that 5 of these 12 strands (congruent with our 12 chakras or energy centers) have lain dormant and inaccessible for many millennia. For some time now mankind has acknowledged only 7 Chakras. I knew of these 7 from yoga. I like everyone else thought that 7 was all there was. Surprise. I learned there are 5 more that have been laying dormant, ready to be reawakened and bring us all a whole lot more power in life!

There is a reason, I learned, that we had lost the use of these chakras, which were supposed to be our birthright. You can research this reason, as it is too complicated for this writing.  

In my research I also learned that we are all being nudged, so to speak, to heal, support and fully open our chakras now, and keep them open. I learned that once we do this by the masses, we will actually start living in the higher frequencies where these beings that we cannot see- the Angels, Archangels, & Ascended Masters- all live.

The lowest dimension where most of these higher beings can comfortably reside or visit, I learned, is the 5th dimension. I learned that once we are all living in the 5th dimension, miracles will begin to happen for us and planet earth. Reclaiming these DNA & chakras, they say, will give us our full God-given, Co-Creational abilities. It will be like a seeming magic, because in the 5th Dimensional world healing the body of illness, walking on water, and multiplying loaves and fishes is child’s play. These 'miracles' and more are quite easy, and even commonplace in that realm.   


And so I now perceive that this is probably why Jesus said “Greater wonders than this will you do.” He had obviously found out how to use all 12 of his chakras. And he knew that we could ALL do this some day, just as he did. (I am sorry if I am now shaking up your age-old beliefs of Jesus as a Lord and Master type figure. In point of fact Jesus himself called us his brothers (brethren), and also called us Children of God. So it stands to reason, he was never looking to be deified.)

The next resource I was led to brought the true magic of the chakras home to me in no uncertain terms. It was a book called "The Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth, Book 2." (You can google this book on Amazon to get yourself a copy.) When I became proficient at doing a sizable amount of the specific exercises that the Tibetan Monks had used to activate their chakras, something called the "5 rites", I began to Rise Above, like I had never risen before. I felt beyond great. I felt amazing... Colossal!

These days with the 5 rites I literally float on a cloud all day. And in this 'feel good' space, good things just come to me. Miracles of synchronicity and serendipity happen, without my even trying.

If you get that book, here is a word of warning. Follow your body's and your spirit's guidance as to how many times you do the "spinning" exercises in a day or session. Go slow and steady, if you are increasing your spinning. If you are not careful, I learned, you could overload your central nervous system, and that would not be fun. I suggest you research why and how to use care with spinning.

The next resource I was led to really blew me away. I got a deep understanding about everything I was doing, feeling, and sensing and why. To get the true value of this video, I suggest you watch it after you have used some of the other resources. Doing that first will help you to understand and digest the content in the video. The video is a couple of hours long, but well worth the time.

Click here for this video.

Our 12 strands of DNA correspond to our 12 Chakras. Meanwhile each of these tips also relate directly to one or more of the 12 Chakras. So as we use these tips we will also be supporting, healing, and growing each of our chakras as well as our DNA.

These tips and their accompanying tools do not substitute for directly opening and activating the 12 chakras. You can do that directly with the Diana Cooper Mediation and also the 5 Rites above.

But all of the tools from all of the tips will certainly help!

As always, all of this is contributed to you from a place of humility. Yes I am a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach. However, when all is said and done, the biggest trainer we each have is that Higher & Divinely Connected Self within us.

Namaste. And happy hunting for your other-worldly friends.

Lorelei Fenton

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Tip # 7: LIFT YOUR SPIRIT...SING, DANCE, LAUGH, PLAY

If you are a newcomer to this blog it will be very helpful to read my Introduction to these tips, and then my post "How to Use These tips."

With this tip we begin to actively embrace the higher frequencies. or energies, and avoid the lower ones. The more we each practice this, the easier it will be to literally feel good, all day, every day.

But why would we want to do this, and why, as a Transformational Personal Growth & Life
Coach, do I call this a tip, or step, to Soar?"

First, doing this feels great. Many people might believe that feeling great is the result of Rising Above and Soaring, not the access to it. It is a goal or endpoint, they may say, and the endpoint will come when we get to the place where we actually do Rise Above and Soar.

This is somewhat true. Yet this is also a conversation about "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Does having the good things (the nice house, the expensive car, the beautiful jewelry, etc.) bring you the good feelings of happiness, peace, joy, and the like? Or does feeling the good feelings of happiness, joy, fun, and peace bring you the good things in life, up to and including monetary abundance and beautiful 'stuff'?

As human beings we tend to think that when we become successful and get all of this good 'stuff', we will also feel great and love our lives. Yet the Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics seems to indicate something very different... When we feel 100% great, as if we already have all of that stuff, we will then begin to have more of it.

There are many people who can be miserable and still have lots of stuff.  They can attract it because they really believe it to be possible. And there are lots and lots of people (and perhaps the majority) who can be miserable and have very little stuff.

Yet when a person finds true joy within him or her self, having 'stuff' is the icing on the cake. Nice stuff will come by the Law of Attraction (as long as one gets rid of all beliefs and  mindsets to the contrary.) And it is very, very nice to have that nice stuff. But we already have the gold when we have our true joy. So our happiness is not at all dependent on having the 'stuff'.

So in this step we go right for the gold...The actual, current. palpable feeling of fun, joy, ease, play, love, laughter, peace, fulfillment and the like. And there are concrete ways to pull those feelings to you.

Here is the process I have used for many years now.

To begin, observe yourself and notice when you feel good (happy, joyful, playful, light-hearted, blissful, peaceful, loving, cuddly, prosperous, etc.) And notice when you feel bad (Sad, depressed, angry, annoyed, jealous, vengeful, judgmental, critical, lacking etc.) As you notice this you will quite naturally want to move yourself out of the unhappy energies, and into the happy ones.

Think of this tip as “Shift the energy on a dime.” When you feel bad. Do something that feels good to you and literally pulls you to a feel-good place.

Here are some ideas…

                   

1. Play. Pretend you are a kid again. Find ways to play as you did when you were 6 or 10 or 12. I can't overemphasize the role of play in helping you to Rise Above & Soar, and get to a place of feeling good all the time. A good exercise for anyone is to make it a task to play in  some way, every single day. When you have a day off, spend a whole day playing at the beach, a festival, with the kids and a football, or whatever.

2.Put on an upbeat happy song and sing or dance to it. It is virtually impossible to be unhappy listening to an upbeat happy song. Here are a couple to start with.

                    DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY. (Bobby McFerrin)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=don't+worry+be+happy&form=IE10TR&src=IE10TR&pc=EUPP_CPNTDFJS

HAPPY. (Pharell Williams)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

ALMOST ANY 1950s/1960s Rock-n-Roll song

will make you happy. Here’s a silly one for one…

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=yakety+yak&view=detail&mid=018869C2C904FD02BAA0018869C2C904FD02BAA0&FORM=VIRE

3. Color or draw something pretty and light-hearted. Sacred Geometry is great for coloring. It is pattern-based and you can use pretty colors. And you need very little artistic skill to make it look great. You can pick several you like, print them and keep a stack on hand to color when needed.

SACRED GEOMETRY IMAGES

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1607&bih=719&q=sacred+geometry&oq=sacred+&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.28011.29089.0.30742.9.9.0.0.0.0.237.822.0j2j2.4.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..5.4.816.0..35i39k1.7iZu7fcwFoQ

4. Watch a light-hearted funny movie, or a musical. I personally think an upbeat musical is the best way to quickly raise your vibration. Here are my top picks for musicals and comedies. A lot of them are oldies, as movies were happier back then…

MUSICALS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD

Mary Poppins

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

 Jungle Book

  Grease

The Sound of Music

   Annie

   My Fair Lady

   The King & I

COMEDIES THAT KEEP YOU LAUGHING

(Many are oldies, but goodies...)

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Rat Race

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

Vacation (Chevy Chase)

Christmas Vacation

European Vacation

Arsenic & Old Lace

 Bringing Up Baby

Mrs. Doubtfire

In working with this tool you will also wish to avoid people, places and things that have a negative energy. Move yourself away from horror movies, crime dramas, soap operas and the “Real Housewives of America.” (Who are not very real, by the way.) My first degree was in theater, and I am also an actress. So I looove to feel things, and heaven knows I love drama and a good tear-jerker. Feeling emotion is a natural and important part of being human, and not a bad thing, in moderation.

However time has taught me that I can easily cross the line from moderation to obsession. The negative vibration, or frequency, of what we watch on TV, the computer, and in our movies can be quite debilitating to our ability to be and stay in a happy, feel-good place. The negative energy IS increasing the violence and suffering that occurs on this planet. So why do we still indulge in it?

Over time and study of the Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics, I have come to believe it is downright irresponsible for me, and all of us, to constantly feed our brains and creational spirits with chaos, violence, suffering and harm. I include in this the millions and millions of us obsessively watching Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis for hours on end. This is a frightening use of the very powerful collective consciousness. It creates more and more of the natural disasters that literally kill us.

So it is best that we tune into these events quickly, just long enough to get the link to donate.Then we can go watch a happy-go-lucky musical. The importance of us all withdrawing our fear-based focus from these natural disasters cannot be overemphasized.

With this in mind, I personally also avoid the mainstream news, with the focus on who is killing, shooting, maiming, mutilating, robbing or stealing from whom. Remember in this step that WE are the guardians of the purity of our own minds. What we put in them will definitely sew some seeds and grow.

Some activities can bring either a highly positive or a highly negative energy to our lives, depending on how we engage in them. Sexual activity is a good example of this. If for instance, we choose to watch sexual movies, then watching an interaction that is loving, profound and beautiful will raise our vibrations. However if we watch a sex movie that is violent, degrading, hurtful, or painful to anyone, this will significantly lower our vibrations. Such content will affect the course of our lives in a way that we probably don’t want it to.Most sexual movies in our somewhat violent society are not loving and profound, so it may be best to avoid them.

If watching something is bad, then doing it is twice as bad. So to move forward on the evolutionary scale we must each stop knowingly engaging in the darker side of our own human psyche.

Here is another wonderful tool for you. Watch this inspirational video about The Earth’s Ascension to quickly raise your vibration.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+ascension+of+earth&view=detail&mid=25E5F549D3C87083620225E5F549D3C870836202&FORM=VIRE

Speaking now from the perspective of Eastern Medicine and body physics, all of these 12 steps will affect multiple chakras. However each will work primarily in one or two chakras.

This 6th step is mostly working in the realm of the throat chakra, which houses the ability to safely speak, feel, and be trusted. We must be pure and clear in order to be trusted to speak what is pure and clear. So this step is about purifying and and clearing our energy, and living only in the good vibrations, to the best extent possible.

I will now delve into metaphysics a bit. If metaphysics is not your thing, no worries, Take what you like and leave the rest...This chakra is looked after by Archangel Michael. I understand also that he is happy to assist you in this journey, if you are interested in such assistance. They say that Angels and Archangels can only assist us if we ask them to, so be sure to ask for help. Be sure likewise to thank each individual whom you ask to assist you.

When you ask for help, it is best to leave the options open as to how the help will come. In other words don’t ask for a specific item or outcome, such as a new house or a new car. But rather ask for guidance.

For instance, you could say…

“Archangel Michael I ask you to please guide me in the best way(s) to keep my mind and thoughts pure and on a high frequency, and keep me living in a joyful, peaceful, loving place. I am open to all of your ideas and I thank you for your kind assistance.”

As always, all of this is contributed to you from a place of humility. Yes I am a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach. However, when all is said and done, the biggest trainer we each have is that Higher & Divinely Connected Self within us.

Have fun living in the happy place, more and more and more!

Namaste.

Lorelei Fenton

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Tip # 6: FALL VICTIM TO PEER PRESSURE: MAKE HEALTHY FRIENDS

If you are a newcomer to this blog it will be very helpful to read my Introduction to these tips, and then my post "How to Use These tips."

Our mothers used to say "Hang out with the right crowd. Don't be hanging around with a bad crowd." I hate to admit it, but she was right then, at the age of 16. And she's still right now, at the age of... Well, we won't go there.

Now hanging out with only the happy people can seem to be kind of cold-hearted, or even downright Un-Christian (or whatever your particular religion is.) 

So why,  as a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach, would I say that?

The fact of the matter is that if we put a "doom-and-gloomer" in a crowd of people who are laughing and having fun, he or she will bring the whole group down. Very seldom does a positive, happy person raise the level of happiness for someone who does not want it raised.

For instance, I have a loved one who is chronically depressed. For many, many years I tried to make her happy. I finally learned that she gets no better at all when I try to lift her spirits. But I can easily get worse as she dampens mine. So I have learned to step back and limit my time with her.

I have heard top experts say that you can tell your approximate income by averaging out the income of your closest friends. I take that one step further and say "We can tell how happy, or fulfilled, or successful, or spiritually connected we are by assessing the people we hang around with." For the most part, our happiness level will be similar to that of our friends, family members, and lovers.

This is very good news in a way. Because it becomes very obvious that our access to what we want in life, be it material, or non-material things, is to hang out with people who have it already. In other words we have to search the world for friendships with people who personify whatever it is we want.

At this point I will also make a bold claim that what we ALL want, what everyone truly desires at the most basic level of life, is to love and feel good about themselves. And as a close 2nd, we want to share that love and feeling good with others. So if we want that, we need to scour the world and find and become friends with the people who truly love themselves, and feel good about it.

If we have that kind of self-love already, I will assert that we already have those kinds of self-loving friends. Because like attracts like. And conversely if most of our friends are unhappy, or 'doom and gloom', or 'the glass is half empty', I will assert that they are lacking self-love, and so are we. Otherwise would not attract them as friends

So this is the not so good news...If we are each to have the life we dream of- including self-love, fun, play, ease, joy, fulfillment, and happiness, we are going to have to let go of all of our friends who live in the opposite way.

What would happen if we each surrounded ourselves with joyful, happy, fun, playful, and heart-centered beings? How would those kinds of "rising & soaring" friends help us to "Rise Above & Soar"? Meanwhile when our unhappy friends get lonely enough, they may choose to go out and learn how to be happy.

In the days of loving an alcoholic I learned this... It is only by choice that any of us change- choice or when life convinces us that we have no other choice. Meanwhile peer pressure is huge, even for adults. The trick is to have your peers pressure you toward what you really want, and not away from it.

The wonderful thing today is that such enlightened happy friends are 'there for the taking.' At online sites like meetup.com we can literally search for whatever we want in a friend. And we search by association whatever we want in ourselves! How cool is that?

Once we have such friends, we will want to get into community with them. This is truly step # 6... not just having supportive happy friends, but getting together with them, going to the dances, and drumming circles, and meditations, and ball games, and picnics, and spiritual events. This will have our spirits truly soaring, as we leave behind the cell phone, the computer, the TV and the Game Console to really connect with others.

I have walked the walk my friends. I have been in the deep, deep trenches in life where it seemed like there was nothing lower than where I was, and the only direction I could possibly move was up. The thing that raised me in those days was that I actively put myself around people who felt better than me. I welcomed the light and joy that happy, peaceful, heart-centered people brought to me.

So go make some new joyful new friends and really connect to them. That is Step 6, and how we use "Peer Pressure" to alter life for the better.

As always, all of this is contributed to you from a place of humility. Yes I am a Transformational Personal Growth & Life Coach. However, when all is said and done, the biggest trainer we each have is that Higher & Divinely Connected Self within us.

Namaste,

Lorelei Fenton

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