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Embracing Awareness for Fulfillment

BeneFIT — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:00:24 +0000

This post is all about embracing awareness for fulfillment. We all want a more fulfilling life and in this post we explore how with awareness and intuition you can connect with your Higher Self to unlock wisdom and live with the intention for greater fulfillment.

Awaken Your Power: Embracing Awareness for a Fulfilling Life

Spirit’s chosen awareness as our focus for today as it should be every day! We all benefit by being awake and aware, observing and aligning with our Higher Selves as much as possible.

Awareness: The Catalyst for Change

What’s going on in your environment(s)? Don’t you want to know if something is amiss? All positive change begins with awareness. Think of it like cleaning a house – you can’t clean what you can’t see. Similarly, you can’t address issues or create desired changes until you become aware of them.

Expanding Your Awareness: Beyond the Five Senses

So what is awareness and where does it come from? Awareness is the result of you being able to take in and assimilate all the information available to you. You can gather that information by means of your five physical senses, the communication from others being conveyed to you and, very importantly, from your intuition, your sixth sense.

The Higher Self: Your Source of Inner Wisdom

Your ability to tap into your intuition stems from your alignment with your Higher Self – the essence of who you are beyond your physical form. This connection allows you to access wisdom and insights that transcend the limitations of the physical world. And all this happens by you embracing awareness for your fulfillment!

Autopilot vs. Conscious Choice

Our bodies operate on autopilot. The heart beating, blood pumping, lungs exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide, etc. Thank goodness that all of the systems are running automatically so we don’t have to be constantly aware and making sure all the quadrillions of functions happening every moment actually do. Our bodies are simply running programs that they’ve been given to run.

Breaking the Cycle: Awareness as the Key to Change

Our thinking and our habitual behaviors also run on autopilot. The only way we break those habits is by becoming aware of them as they’re happening, and then consciously and deliberately changing the way we think and the way we act in the present moment. But this will never happen without you embracing awareness with the intention for fulfillment.

The Power of Awakening: Discovering Your True Self

There’s a profound truth to the saying, “we are all born twice.” Our physical birth brings us into the world, but a deeper awakening awaits. When we recognize our true essence as Spirit having a human experience, a profound shift occurs. This is the awakening Dorothy experienced in “The Wizard of Oz,” realizing the power she possessed all along hidden in her ruby slippers.

Your Infinite Nature: Awaiting Your Invitation

Your Infinite, Spiritual nature is with you 24/7 and is bound only by your beliefs about it. Remember, my friend, It’s all knowing, all powerful, and everywhere present. This incredible resource is waiting for your call. By becoming aware of its presence, you can tap into its boundless potential. It wants nothing more than for you to embrace this awareness and use it for your fulfillment.

A Journey of Self-Discovery: Honoring Your Path

Life is a journey of Self-discovery. We’re all in a process of waking up, and doing so in our own divine timing. Some may never be able to associate with their spiritual nature and the gifts inherent therein and there’s nothing wrong with that. We’re all exactly where we’re meant to be.

The Call to Awaken: Embracing Your Divine Potential

But since you’re reading this article, my friend, let me suggest that Spirit is calling to you and gently nudging you to wake up and begin looking at life in a new way.

Tap into your Higher Self and bring Its awareness into every moment you’re awake.

This post was written as an exploration of how embracing awareness for fulfillment will help you connect with your Higher Self, increase your intuition, unlock your inner wisdom, and intentionally live a truly fulfilling life.

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Mastering Intensity: Finding Your Flow in Life

BeneFIT — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:00:41 +0000

This post is all about mastering intensity in life. We’ve all struggled with feeling uninspired or overwhelmed at times. You’ll learn how to overcome these impairing energies by managing intensity and finding your flow in life. You’ll discover the tricks to mastering intensity and be able to create the focus and clarity you need to attract what you want.

Finding Your Flow by Mastering Intensity

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by intensity, or perhaps wished you could crank things up a notch? Today, my friend, Spirit’s directing us to explore the power and potential pitfalls of intensity.

Intensity: A Double-Edged Sword

Intensity is a force to be reckoned with. It amplifies both our thoughts and emotions, making them incredibly powerful. Notice how it can work for us or against us. Life is always cyclical with its ebbs and flows of energy. All’s well when things are positive, but when they’re negative, look out!

The Power of Focus: Directing and Diffusing Intensity

The good news is, we have the ability to manage intensity through focus. By zeroing in and focusing our attention, we can concentrate and intensify our energy, propelling us towards goals. Conversely, widening our focus diffuses the intensity and creates a sense of calm.

The Chemistry of Intensity: Hormones and Energy

The different emotions trigger all kinds of different hormonal, chemical, and physical reactions within the body. Be aware that by allowing the high stress hormones that flood the body when things are intense to continue and be your norm will cause serious health problems over time. It doesn’t have to be just emotionally generated intensity either. The same thing can happen as a result of the regular, excessive consumption of the various stimulant drugs, which, by the way, includes caffeine.

Our Emotions' Purpose: Don't Shoot the Messenger!

There are times when our emotions get the better of us. But let’s be clear, the emotions in and of themselves aren’t bad. They’re simply delivering a message. We all appreciate the feeling a positive emotion generates. But our inability to control the negative emotions can be debilitating and scary.

Mastering Intensity: Emotions are Motivating

This doesn’t have to be the case. Learning how to decipher the messages our emotions carry is the key to transforming not just our emotional state in the moment, but our lives overall. By honoring the emotion and determining the core issue generating the emotion, we’ll be able to clear the emotional charge, address that issue, and change our lives for the better.

The Law of Attraction: Intense Energy Attracts Intense Experiences

Notice also that when your emotions are supercharged the energy emanating from your body is amplified. The Law of Attraction is a universal law which states that like attracts like. You will be attracting experiences that mirror the emotional, energetic state that you’re projecting. Said another way, what you put out is what you’ll get back.

Embrace the Spectrum: From Extremes to Clarity

The gift of the life we’re living here on this physical plane is that we get to experience everything–the good, the bad, and the ugly. That includes the high intensity of the extremes, both the positives and the negatives. While they’re intense, the extremes help us find clarity, and clarity, especially when you’ve been confused, is a gift. Always keep in mind that you have the power to widen back, becomee an observer, and not get caught up in the fray.

The Art of Intensity: Matching Your Energy to Your Needs

So recognize that you get to generate a high intensity energy or a low intensity energy. When you want things to move faster and fiercer, focus your attention and zero in. When you want things to slow down and soften, take some deep breaths and widen back. Consciously disconnect. What’s the appropriate or most effective intensity for you to bring to your efforts today?

Embrace the power of mindful focus, and navigate the waves of intensity with grace and intention. Remember, you are the conductor of your own energy.

I hope this post has helped you discover ways to master intensity and create focus, clarity, and the ability to attract what you want.

Here are some links to dive deeper:

Your Emotions Are Messengers!

Using Discipline for Personal Transformation

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The Power of Helping: From Helpless to Helpful

BeneFIT — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:47:57 +0000

This post is all about the power of helping and how you can use it to go from feeling helpless to helpful. You’ll discover how helping others unlocks your own strength and ignites positive change. You’ll learn the art of helping with respect and be encouraged to explore the power of your Divine nature.

The Power of Helping: Be Empowered & Empowering!

Spirit’s letting us know we’ll benefit by helping today. We’ve all been in a situation at some point when we were very grateful that someone stepped in to help us. Reflecting on that brings up our willingness, perhaps even desire, to have the roles reversed such that we get to be the ones helping. It’s nice to be able to reciprocate or pay forward by helping in some way.

The Ripple Effect of Kindness

We’ve all been there – facing a challenge and deeply appreciating the intervention of a kind soul. An experience like this highlights the inherent fulfillment that comes from helping others. It’s more than just reciprocating; it’s about setting a positive ripple effect in motion.

Helping with Respect: Autonomy and Empowerment

I’ve always found it gratifying to help or in some way to be in service to another. If there’s a way that I can, I do. But I’ve also learned not to assume that they want help because not everyone does. So these days I ask first.

Challenges are Opportunities to Grow and Evolve

One of the teachings I learned at the Berkeley Psychic Institute was that the challenges we face in life are our opportunities to evolve. If you step in and solve someone else’s problem for them, you take away their opportunity for growth. However, teaching someone how to solve their problem is different from solving their problem for them. As long as they learn the lesson, it’s the highest form of help. It’s akin to handing someone a fish versus teaching them how to fish.

Helping Yourself: Unearthing Your Strength

You may feel helpless in some part of your life, but even in your helplessness, there’s sure to be some way you can help another. In fact, by looking for ways that you can be in service to another, you’d find that you’re not as helpless as you thought. When you shift your attention away from the lack in your life by sharing your gifts and talents, your lack will lessen and your gifts and talents will grow. It just may be that by helping another you help yourself even more. That act of helping another takes you from helpless to helpful! That’s a big shift in energy!

Helping as Spirit: Embracing Your Divine Nature

As I was pondering all the ways we could utilize helping in our lives an interesting perspective surfaced. I talk often of the fact that we’re Spirit having a human experience. We are both Spirit and human at the same time, it’s just that we associate with our human nature far more than our Divine nature. So practice helping yourself next time you find yourself in need.

What Would Your Infinite Nature Do?

Shift to your Higher Self’s perspective. Imagine being Spirit, unlimited, all knowing, all powerful, everywhere present Spirit, and, like a loving mother would do, comfort, reassure, and love yourself. Suggest and share all the ideas and ways that the solution could come to be. Brainstorm solutions, write them down, and choose the most inspired ones to take action on.

Always Connected: The Power of Oneness

Whether you’re consciously aware of it or not, Spirit is always present. Why not try on being Spirit? You’re never alone. Whether someone else is helping you, or you’re helping someone else or yourself, notice how everyone benefits by the helping.

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Choosing Consciously: Shape Your Reality to What You’d Love!

BeneFIT — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:00:18 +0000

This post is all about the power of choosing consciously. You’ll learn the importance of making conscious choices throughout your day. This will allow you to overcome negativity and welcome the good so you can live a life you love.

Choosing Consciously to Shape Your Reality

Spirit’s bringing our awareness to the power of choosing consciously today. You’re making choices all day long, every day. You choose what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what to say or not say, etc. Are they conscious choices?

Unconscious Choices, Unintended Consequences

But if you’re like most people, most of the choosing you do is unconscious. You choose out of habit, do what’s easy, or what you’re familiar with. There are consequences to all of our choices, the big and little ones. In fact, it’s the little ones that we make on a repeated basis that accumulate over time into unpleasant consequences.
I recall an interaction with one of my old neighbors. He shared that he’d just been at his doctor’s office for an appointment and found out that he was borderline diabetic. Without judging or suggesting, I asked, “Well, is that something that could be controlled by diet?” and his immediate response was, “I’m NOT giving up my Diet Dr. Pepper!”

The Price of Unconscious Choices

So, alrighty then, I got the answer and there was nothing more for me to say. He moved shortly thereafter so I don’t know if he ever got past his initial resistance and made the changes he clearly knew he should make. But this is actually a very typical reaction by many. It’s not until forced with an ultimatum, the suffering has become unbearable, or they’re facing death that they choose consciouly to make the changes they should have made long ago.

Choosing Consciously : Empowering Even in Difficult Times

You always have the power of choice. You may think there’s no other options, but that’s not true. Even when your back is against the wall you get to choose your attitude in the moment. By bringing your awareness to the moment, you have the option of choosing consciously to do something willingly or begrudgingly.

Choose to Hand Over the Burden to Spirit

By the way, I don’t recommend you choose the latter option. Instead, let me suggest that you make the conscious choice to hand the burden over to Spirit. Ask Spirit to guide you as you do this thing you don’t want to do but feel you must. There are always more possibilities than your limited human nature mind can conjure up. Handing over the burden to Spirit will open the doors for Spirit to drop in more ideas and options. Remember, in every given moment you get to choose on what and how you focus your attention.

The Magic of Focused Attention

My guess is that you can probably understand how this is likely true. But that doesn’t mean you understand the power of knowing this. Here’s what I’m getting at: In any given moment whatever is happening in the world or in your life is simply what is happening. It’s neither good nor bad. It simply is what is. But your judgment of it, my friend, the label that you put on it (something you choose), that determines how you experience it.

Mistakes: Part of a Divine Plan?

I’ve come to understand that God has Its hands in everything, the good, the bad, and the ugly. And that includes the mistakes I make. That’s a hard one to grasp, but how can it be any other way? God is everywhere at once, all knowing, and all powerful. God is All-That-Is and is present in and loves everyone and everything. So there must be a purpose for the horrible things that happen, including the mistakes I make.

Learning from Mistakes: Finding the Silver Lining

Though we’re often not aware and can’t see it in the moment, there’s always something to be gained from every experience. Who knows? It could leave you or someone else, unbeknownst to you, in a better position in the future. Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better. Do your best to consciously choose to learn all you can from your mistakes so you don’t wind up making the same one again.

Shifting Perspective: From Fear to Grace

I have to remind myself all the time to suspend my judgment and seek the higher and long range perspective of Spirit. I know I get to choose how I view things. I can choose to focus on the horror of what I experience or I can choose to start looking for the good that will come from it. This doesn’t mean that I can get to this perspective right away in every challenge. But with time I do and that’s when things begin to change for the better.

Focus: The Secret Weapon of Your Mind

I’ve learned the hard way that focusing on what I consider bad and continuing to view it as bad will generate a negative energetic state. I know that, whether I’ve consciously chosen it or not, any negative state separates me from my Infinite nature, Spirit. I suffer as a result of this mental separation because it blocks the ease and grace of Spirit moving through me.

Choosing Peace: From Dis-Ease to Well-being

I know this blockage stops the flow of ideas (the first currency of the Universe). I also know that by allowing this mentally created dis-ease to dominate for long, I will eventually experience disease(s) in my body. So I do my best to make a conscious choice to focus on whatever idea will bring me back to a state that allows ease and grace to flow.

Turning the Other Cheek: A Path to Peace

You can do the same thing too, my friend. It’s simply a matter of you choosing consciously to “turn the other cheek.” This is not so you can be slapped on the other cheek. Far from it. This is so that you can focus in a new direction, onto a new thought and vision that brings you peace. This peace will lead you to a future experience you’d prefer.

Surrender and Trust: Finding Strength in the Divine

There are times when all I can do is to think of God and let myself sink into the feeling of being held by that Love. I know that God is with me all the time and Its Love and power is far greater than my human nature thinking. This always does the trick for me, when I remember to do it.
I have to admit that I, just like you, are human. And sometimes I get stuck in my frustrations and suffering for longer than I’d like. However, it’s just a matter time before I bring my awareness to the moment and begin consciously choosing to align once again with love and God.

The Adventure of Choosing Consciously

Remember, Spirit is having us focus on choosing consciously today and it must be for a reason. One thing is for sure, you have the power when you choose consciouly. You have the power to choose to make today be a turning point day in your life. What’s not working in your life? In what part of your life would you benefit by choosing consciously to change? What would you love in your life?

Choose consciously, my friend, and let the adventure begin!

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Heartfulness: Breathe, Feel, Flow and Embrace Its Power

BeneFIT — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:34 +0000

This post is all about heartfulness and how you can use it to reduce stress, enhance your intuition, and open to a life of abundance. You’ll discover why it’s so important to shift your energy from your head your heart and how to do it.

Breathe, Feel, Flow: Embrace the Power of Heartfulness

Spirit’s guiding us to shift the energy from our heads to our hearts so we can operate from heartfulness today. Do you ever consciously bring your attention and energy into your heart center? Do you allow yourself to experience life from that place of feeling, with no thinking or judging, and just being in the moment? This is what Spirit’s asking of us today.

The Source of Stress: Caught in the Head

All the stress and tension you feel, whether it be from angst, frustration, anger, grief, etc. is a result of your thinking. All you have to do to release the stress and tension is to stop in the moment and take a deep breath. Use that breath consciously to reconnect with the essence of who you really are, Spirit.

The Body-Mind Connection: Thoughts Shape Us

In that one breath you will completely change the physiology of your body because it will release a whole new batch of hormones and chemicals throughout. Your body is incredibly responsive to your thoughts; it’s the subconscious mind, simply running the programs just like the operating systems on our computers do.

Thought: The Source of Your Body's Electromagnetic Force Field

Each thought you think sends an electrical signal through your body. Your body responds with a magnetic impulse you feel as your emotions. Some thoughts are highly charged, perhaps triggering a trauma from your past, and generate an alarming response. Certainly you’ve experienced your cheeks turn red when you think an embarrassing thought. This is a clear demonstration of the power of your thinking to generate your energetic state and even change your body’s physiology instantaneously.

The Power of the Heart: Opening to Divine Energy

Your head is where you do your logical, often stressful, thinking. When you let your energy shift from your head to your heart, your energetic field opens and expands. Your open heart naturally aligns with the Divine and allow its healing energy to flow effortlessly through your body. You’ll no longer feel a need to rush or control circumstances. Instead, patience and trust take over. Your intuition becomes heightened and you’ll be guided by Spirit. In this calm state, you can trust that everything is being orchestrated in divine timing and have the grace that allows life to unfold naturally.

Science Confirms the Power of the Heart

HeartMath® is an institute that has done decades of scientific research on the heart. They’ve discovered that it sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Their research has shown that the heart energy is really the governing force for the body. By tuning into the energy of the heart, we create a coherent energetic state that allows all aspects of the Body-Mind continuum to integrate and function optimally.

Heartfulness: Tuning into Your Infinite Nature

You benefit immensely by shifting your energy from your logical, human nature mind — the thinker, critic, and analyzer — to the heart. When in the heart, your energy field will expand and you can tap into your Infinite nature and Unlimited mind. The moment you do, you’ll feel calm and grounded and have access to the powerful and healing energies of the heart.

Recognizing When You're Disconnected

Love, grace, compassion, patience, gratitude, understanding, joy, bliss, etc. are the energies of the heart. Contrast this to the times when you’re saying or thinking, “I’ve got to figure this out.” The stress you feel and the information in the words themselves are a clear sign that you’re letting your limited, human nature mind rule. This cuts you off from your Highest and Best Self where you have easy access to solutions and answers.

The Simple Fix: Reconnecting with Spirit

And what do you do when this happens? There’s a simple fix, my friend. You start by recognizing that you’ve lost connection with your Higher Self and have let your finite mind dominate. Next, take a deep breath in through your nose and let it out slowly through a small opening in your mouth. As you do, direct your attention to your heart and tune into Spirit. Remind yourself that your true nature is Divine, it’s not of this world and is not limited by your perceptions.

Heart Energies: The Power of the Present Moment

As you bring your energy to your heart you bring your awareness to the present moment, to the NOW, where there are no issues, stress, or tension. It’s just you and your breath, the Infinite. It doesn’t matter what’s going on around you. You can trust that your Higher Self is present for all to see and interact with.

Embrace Heartfulness: A Life of Grace and Abundance

Allow yourself to rest in and be held by this Love that is far greater than your or anyone else’s thinking could ever be. And remember, you welcome the best of life when you experience heartfulness and allow it to run your day.

I hope you found this post informative and helpful in learning about the power of heartfulness and how you can use it to reduce stress, enhance your intuition, and open to a life of abundance.

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