How To Be At Ease In These Times

Are you lost in your own world? Are you feeling that you are out of touch with yourself and does this feeling create discomfort or even anxiety in you at times? Even nervousness can cause distraction and create problems - yes? So I'd like to suggest something. In this video you will find a way to become aware all the time of who you are and how to be who you are. This way you will be able to be more at ease in these times.

Read about Heart Warmth here: http://benevolentmagic.blogspot.com/2010/01/further-tips-and-tweaks-on-feeling.html 

Some Qualities of a Spiritual Teacher

What is a Spiritual Teacher? Many of you will become or may be perceived as Spiritual Teachers even if you do not claim such a distinction. 

One of the things I advise you to do is to not project or make an effort to put on any kind of image of perfection. This is for several reasons. 

One of the reasons is that you are not that nor will you become that in your lifetime and I’m saying that because it is not something that is a good thing to have. Oh there will be times when you will be that even though you won’t notice it because it will be the idea of perfection to others. 

There will be other times when by being that, and as I say most likely unconsciously to yourself, you will put off others because they feel either that you are putting on some attitude or - and this can sometimes be worse - those who wish to emulate your fine qualities will feel that there is no chance that they can achieve them based upon how advanced you are, in their eyes, to them. 

So if you’re going to speak, for example, and you walk over to your chair and you stumble around a bit or drop something don’t feel like you have to pretend that it was intentional :-) It’s really okay to be you. 

Let people know that this is something that you feel is worthwhile, if you do feel that way and also let people know - it’s okay to be them even as they acquire their own spiritual capabilities and inspire others to do the same.

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Spirituality and Personality - You Can Have Both, Part 2

It’s in the nature of spiritual work that the practitioner needs to be kind, considerate and gentle very often with your work and of course have a desire to want to be of help. Most of you know this.

It can happen, though it does not always, that some people will identify your compassion and kindness with - as you do your work - as it being your full time personality. Sometimes this is simply because that’s the only time or place they ever encounter you. Other times it’s because they actually need to believe that there are people like that and of course, while you may wish to be like that all the time you are after all - like everyone else - a human being. So, please do not expect yourself to be perfect all the time.

Sometimes you may have to let them know just by letting your natural personality come out - not in an overwhelming way but just as yourself - that you are also who you are for yourself and with your friends and loved ones.

So sometimes people will express or somehow emanate to you, or even the word getting back to you, that they were disappointed that you weren’t really as perfect as they thought you were. 

Instead of being worried about that, breathe a sigh of relief and know that it is very important - yes - to keep up your professional standards and ethics and it is almost as important to just be yourself when you’re not at work. 

Please do that or consider it seriously. Otherwise you might be holding yourself up to an unrealistic expectation, perhaps begun by others but if you perpetuate it yourself this unrealistic expectation can become a burden and might in time cause you to let go of your work or want to get away from it before its time.

So, it’s alright to be yourself.

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Spirituality and Personality - You Can Have Both

Long ago, when I was just getting into spiritual work and didn't understand a lot of the - I'd say accoutrement that goes with it - the sort of outer aspects - there were quite a few people who wanted me to be a guru, a holy man, and I didn't really know how to do that. I hadn't been trained for that. 

So they made suggestions - I let my hair grow out a bit, I wore light colored clothes until this one day - okay, don't laugh now - I am laughing a bit - but there was one day when I was walking across a beach and there were several people trailing along and I realized, this is really quite silly. I am just a regular person who's been trained to do things and I am not any different than anybody else. I put my pants on one leg a time - okay? 

So, I just stopped and I said, "Y'know really, I just want to be myself." And that was that. 

Some years later I remember channeling Zoosh - this is when I had just recently started living in the Sedona area, Sedona Arizona, and I remember Zoosh saying that he wanted to urge guru's to come down from the hills because the people needed teachers who could teach them eye to eye and not be seen as exceptional people - not holy men, not holy women - just people like them. 

That means that what you are doing as a person who can do things, spiritual things, is within their reach. It's not something beyond their reach. It's not something that they have to give up on before they attempt to learn how to do these things. And that made a lot of sense to me again. 

So, I'm bringing up these points because it's something that some of you might stumble across and I wanted to give you the benefit of my experience in some way so that that might perhaps be able to help you. 

So recently, I've had occurrences where people again wanted me to be the holy man - somebody perfect - beyond humanity so that anything I had to teach or share with them could be deemed special, exceptional and not possible to be mistaken or flawed - but you see nowadays in this time of everybody's spirits and souls becoming more of their day to day selves people need to not only feel that they can accomplish some of these things - one or more spiritual capabilities - but they need to have permission. 

And when you who are trained to do some of these things have people who want you to be the holy man or the holy woman - think twice is what I have to say because it's important that you be able to be - not only yourself - to have a life aside from your teaching and the spiritual things you do no matter how profound or magical they might seem - it's important to be perceived as a person - not as somebody who is beyond the reach of the normal everyday person. 

It's possible, you see, to be a normal everyday person even if you're not exactly normal knowing many of these spiritual things but it's possible for the normal everyday person to learn certain things. 

That's the purpose of these blogs and the videos that you see here on Blogger and You Tube and other places that I've been putting out things for years, to remind you that you can do these things. You don't have to do everything but it is something you can practice and the steps are here on the written blogs and on the videos at times. 

So, don't be afraid. Take your steps slowly and recognize that you will make mistakes but if you start at the beginning and you learn gently, one step at a time, with much of the teaching you will find here on the written blogs and in the books and in the videos - granted you might have to start from the beginning if you are new to this teaching but if you've come a ways then just pick out things and study them and try to do the homework. 

Sometimes the homework will seem nonsensical or will not seem very important but remember, you are a spiritual person whether you know it or not and the homework often leads to other things. One step at a time. That's how I got to where I am today, one step at a time and it's what you can do too. 

So I wanted to talk to you today about these things because many of you will be enticed or even coerced with the best of intentions to be the "holy man" or "holy woman" but you don't have to be. You can be yourself. You can have your life and you - can - still - do many spiritual things. 

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