Shane, so, so nice to hear from you and glad to have you sharing. I felt the same when I listened to Gary’s Seat of the Soul CD 7 years ago. It’s like I knew right then that my life wouldn’t be the same afterwards and it hasn’t! My Soul was longing for these beautiful words and they resonated deeply with me. Being part of this community is a great opportunity to continue your Spiritual Growth and experiment by sharing your thoughts with us. When I committed to making my Spriritual Growth my highest priority, I really focused on the first section of the guidelines where I just focused on noticing my thoughts, my emotions and then my intentions. I learned and continue to listen to what my body tells me each moment. What a guide! me, my intuition, my Soul!!! Who would have guessed! I am very excited to be on this journey and hope to meet you in person one day.

With Love,
Steve

Hello Shane,
I can feel that you have the continued intention to commit to your spiritual growth and that takes a lot of courage-Congratulations! It does sound like your intuition is already guiding you through this journey 🙂 You are noticing your thoughts and acknowledging them. Before you can choose in between Love and Fear, you may want to pay attention to your energy centres and feel what’s going on there. This is your best tool to get to know yourself on a deeper level. It does sound like your life is continually presenting you multiple opportunities to grow – including feelings of abandonment, not being good enough, powerlessness, wanted to be fixed or just that the World around you is not the way YOU want it. Those are all experiences of your FPs. “Confronting” them or simply feeling them will then allow you to make a choice as to how you respond to that fear, the same way that you have been or with Love. You can experiment with that and see what happens. I always remember what Linda said at one point where I wouldn’t be able to feel compassion for anyone else unless I could feel compassion for myself. Having had similar experiences in my life as yours, it has been absolutely amazing as to the insight that I received once I became open – it allowed a real place of healing and compassion for myself (my experiences).
Be gentle with yourself. Take some time to just BE.
With Love,
Steve

Welcome Shane!

“For most of my life I’ve tried to control the external world -external power-to make me happy.As we know it doesn’t work!!slowly as I’ve got older I’ve been able to let go alot of things.daily I try not to let any situation be a problem and always look for the positive solution.”

Boy, do I know that feeling! It is definitely the work I was born to do and as hard as it is to challenge those FPs moment by moment, it’s such a freeing and empowering experience for me.

Hi Shane, The Divine for me is the heartbeat of all life. Not necessarily physically only, but the thread that supports all of life. Further than that, I have no words or explanation that I can use to describe Divine Intelligence. I only know that I have experienced it in ways that I do not have words for. I am interested in what you feel physically when you say you feel it is a man-made construct. This could be a good opportunity to create Authentic Power, as you use your emotions and the bodily sensations they cause.-messages from your soul. You mentioned that you read TSOTS 15 years age. I suggest you read it again. Every time I read it or listen to the CD I hear more, and am able to go deeper into my connection with the Divine. Please let me know what you discover. Love, Pam

Hello everyone,

Over the past several years, I had the opportunity to go deeper and deeper with my spiritual growth and through practicing and living the spiritual guidelines, it really helped me to get a different perspective on the world. It helped me to understand that all the experiences that “happened” to me which were my stories such as being raised harshly, having my mother passed early on, being sent away from home very young, being abused by a priest, were also opportunities to grow. These do not define me anymore and I don’t need to be angry at the “world” which could include my father, mother, priest, religions, but that it made me who I am today. I was very angry but I started to feel compassion for that little boy and it helped me heal those frightened parts of my personality that were holding on, blaming all those around me for “hurting” me. It wasn’t until I felt compassion for myself that I was able to feel compassion for those events and those who triggered them in my life. I don’t need to accept, forgive, feel superior or inferior, I can just move on and be grateful for what I am able to feel now. I don’t feel pain in my heart anymore when I think of those events. It gave me a new perspective of wholeness actually, that we’re all on our own divine path. I always have the choice to create from fear or love no matter what is happening anywhere else.
Thank you so much for sharing, so beautiful.
With Love,
Steve

Thank you all for sharing so openly. I resonate with your experiences. I spent precious years of my life with frightened parts of my personality feeling like a victim, and I am so grateful to have reached a place where I can see this was a choice I decided to make.
As Gary and Linda say, fps can be our allies. I see how the “victim” fp, once I became aware of it, taught me to move into love. Now it’s as though I were watching a play, looking at the fps dancing around for my education and enjoyment. I no longer feel identified with those fps that look at other people as responsible for the pain I have felt or could still feel in the future.
With love, Catherine