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Author: Sophie Benshitta Maven
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Spirituality and the quality of your life? Part 1
My method of growing myself, my method of growing what can be known for humans, is running conquering-new-territories campaigns into the unknown.
It is about leading scouting and conquering military campaigns into the unknown and unknowable, and I do it on my podcast calls… the one I have been having for 8 years now. Every week, for 15 years now.
Some calls are huge campaigns, today’s was like that, and most calls are maintenance, cleaning up, clarifying… All needed for a coherent view.
In today’s call, the conversation was about the question: what does spirituality have to do with the quality of your life??
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Spirituality and The Money Story: what is the connection?
Six days before the rent was due I had no hopes that I’d have the money for rent…
In a conversation with Sarah, the woman who drives me to do my grocery shopping, I accepted the fact that the rent wasn’t going to get paid. Continue reading “Spirituality and The Money Story: what is the connection?”
spirituality and machines… The Computer Story
Yesterday my computer started to misbehave.
It shut down without an error message, without the dreaded blue screen.
I went online and researched the potential causes for it.
I have three computers, but this is my newest, and the one I do webinars on, the one I coach on skype, and I have a call already paid for this afternoon… so it was important to make the computer work.
I started with the hardware, the physical parts of the computer, and no matter what part I changed or disconnected, the error, the computer shutting down, persisted.
I was afraid, I was anxious.
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Falling in step, intelligence, tough choices
Falling in step
I just finished a Talk-to-me call. It’s a call available for people on my mailing list, where they can ask any questions and get answers, coaching, whatever they need. The call was a breakthrough for me, in a lot of ways.
First off, I distinguished for myself, for the second time, that unless I fall in step with the person I coach, they can’t get what I am saying as contribution and cannot act on it.
Falling in step with music is obviously fun. Falling in step with a drum circle is fun. But falling in step with another person is a challenge. But unless you do, discord is the result.
So what does it take to fall in step with another person in a conversation? Whether it is a co-worker, a parent, a child, a spouse, a friend, if you learn to fall in step with them, you’ll experience influence, intimacy, closeness… all the things that are missing in most relationships.
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Expectation is the mother of Disappointment
One of the questions I hear on the Talk-to-Me calls or in emails is how to “make it better” or what is good, etc.
It’s all a comparison, past based, from the mind.
One thing, disappointment 1 can’t be made better. It’s like pregnant: it is either a yes or a no.
Now, I assume that we all get disappointed, more or less, depending on us.
Disappointment is the shadow side of expectation.
Expectation, of course, is quite automatic, just like having an agenda is automatic… actually they are just a different word for the same thing.
I haven’t been able to consciously not expect a certain result… on the other hand, for the most part I expect nothing… or expect the worst.
This is another Dark Side suggestion: expect the best and then you’ll get the best… What a bunch of huey! The whole positive thinking movement is a Dark Side suggestion, and has created more misery than even religion, which is saying a lot.
Expecting the best won’t get you the best… Exactly the opposite is true.
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One size does not fit all… or How do you know what spiritual practices to cultivate to get the most results?
Some people want me to give them answers, give them a spiritual practice for growth, to raise their vibration, without allowing me to know anything much about them.
I am an empath, but that doesn’t mean I know your date of birth, or I know your education, your job, your aspirations, your ethnicity…
These are important, because one size doesn’t fit all.
The reason you get more from me than from buying a course, because I give you answers that are a perfect fit to who you are.
But of course the “egalitarian” culture of today… that we are all the same, needing the same food, the same way to exercise, the same thoughts, if you believe it, will mess with your mind.
We may have the same rights… but we are not the same.
We each have the right to demand respect, to ourselves, to our culture, to our beliefs. We have the right to receive respect… but it is not up to rights to actually get them.
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True? You have to believe that you can succeed to succeed
The teaching that you have to believe that you can succeed is utter b.s.
This teaching has been the secret to more failures than anything else I can find.
- You see, you cannot force yourself to believe anything that you don’t believe.
- In addition to that, your actions do NOT come from your beliefs, do not even come from your thoughts, they come from a place much deeper than that.For example, I am your perfect pessimist: I never believe I can do it. I never believe that I will succeed.
But… I am not waiting for my beliefs to change, I do what I need to do, whether I believe I will succeed, or even that I am doing the right thing.
Now, why is this stupid lie taught? Because it makes you sheep… Or conversely, it makes you overconfident.
By the way, all Dark Side suggestions, or emotions are designed to make you sheep.
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Spiritual practice: Recognizing yourself in another, considering the other a mirror
This is probably the most politically incorrect post I have ever written… I could not find a picture to illustrate it on the whole world wide web.
Why is it politically incorrect? Because the current Dark Side suggestion is that you are perfect the way you are, and your job is to forgive yourself any faults, if you even have any, and keep looking to the outside where other people are worse than you…. Dark Side suggestions are designed to keep you miserable and powerless till you die… 1
But the picture and quote I found is true, even if no one understands it. Oh well…
The other day I watched this British comedian mock Robert Pattinson’s acting. I don’t know the actor he was talking about, but I recognized myself having, somewhat the same relationship with some gurus that, in my view, don’t deserve the adulation and the millions of dollars they make, while I “should”.
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