“When I began out on my spiritual path, I meditated a lot and prayed very little. Now I find that I pray a lot and meditate very rarely. When I began out I had a very active and curious mental body and a lot of that frantic monkey mind energy. I do feel that those years of intense meditation helped me to become more still, tranquil and calm mentally. But increasingly as I become yet more still and go within more deeply, I find myself living in a space of surrender and prayer.”
“When you experience sadness, depression, suppressed rage/road rage and disconnectedness, often this means that you have lost touch with who you really are or you are giving your power away to others or are doing things that no longer resonate with your heart. We pay a huge energetic price when we are not authentic to who we really are and whenever we give away our power to others.”
“For people on the spiritual path, often the biggest blocks we have to attaining our goals is either 1. We are not grounded enough to bring them in and/or 2. we do not live in the NOW – most of the time we live for the future more than focusing on the present. We live in a physical world and if you want to easily manifest and create things on the physical plane, you have to be solidly grounded on the planet and living in the NOW where your personal creative power is centered.”
“I really enjoy watching hermit crabs. I am always fascinated by the easy, quick, graceful and effortless way that they upgrade their living situation and I feel we all could learn a lot from them. As the hermit crab grows and expands, they release their old shell and move into a new, larger one that can easily and comfortably house and suit themselves. They are not attached at all to their old shells and they do not identify themselves with the old shell at all. Think how happier humanity would be if they would live more in the now and easily and effortlessly abandon the structures and limitations of our past (old shell) to embrace a bigger, brighter and more expansive reality (new shell) as easily and effortlessly as the hermit crab does.”
“I am a firm believer in always asking for help when I need it. I don’t think we incarnated here to do it all on our own. I feel each of us has a huge spiritual support team on the inner planes but most of us have forgotten this and don’t call on them for support. I also have learned that when I ask for help, that it often comes to me in a form I did not expect. So I try to surrender my desire to control the situation and any attachments I may have as to what form and shape the answer will come in as. As soon as I ask I become vigilant in monitoring what happens to me looking for the answer to come in so I don’t miss it.”
“I really admire the work of Eckhart Tolle especially the second book he wrote – A New Beginning. When he was on Oprah’s series for the first show, he talked about how he thought a wiser question to ask was not “What is my soul purpose or meaning in being here” but rather instead “What does Spirit want to bring in through me today.” He would set aside a portion of each day for writing whatever came in and often there were days that nothing did. This resonated with me because this is how I operate as well. When I wake up in the morning, I open my awareness to see if there are any messages or if anything wants to come in. And I keep a notebook close to my bed and close to my bathtub because a lot of things come in while I am deep in delta/theta while I sleep or when I am bathing.”
“When I was a little kid, I really viewed God as this angry man that threw lightening rods at people when he was mad. And whenever I said the Lord’s Prayer, mentally I would stumble on the words “Thy Will be Done…” because I thought the Will of God would be something I would hate to do. Now after many years of inner work and clearing my childhood view of GOD, I realize the Will of GOD for each of us is that we do the things we love to do – the things that bring joy to our heart and makes our souls soar and sing. When you follow your bliss and live from your heart all that you do is aligned with the Will and Love of GOD. GOD wants so much for each of us to be happy, joyful and peaceful. He does not want us to suffer or be miserable or in pain.”
“One of my healer buddies calls me a Renaissance man, because I do so many different things. But after much inner reflection, I realized that I really do the same thing over and over and over again. I create and download things and I love doing that. Sometimes the downloads are healing modalities and sometimes they are spiritual activations and sometimes they are beautiful images and sometimes they are web sites. But to me I download and create all the time and I love what I do and I feel that I do what I am meant to do. I know without meeting you that each of you has at least one spiritual gift that is really strong and I encourage you to do that and only that to the extent that you can. Because when you focus on what you are really good at – you will find yourself following your heart and living your bliss and totally aligned with the world service work you agreed to do prior to incarnating.”
“There are two types of knowledge really – mind/intellectual knowledge and heart knowledge. Mind knowledge occurs when we learn something that mentally resonates as being true and we think – yeah that is true. But it is not really incorporated into our beingness, awareness or consciousness until our heart accepts it as True as well as our mind. Those magical AH HA moments we all have are almost always sourced in the heart rather than the head. Sometimes I will work with a concept for years before I get to the core essence of what will resonate with my heart. I have found over the years that my heart is more wise and discerning than my head.”
“In a lot of ways, my life was easier when I was not on the spiritual path at all. I have gotten so messed up energetically from going to spiritual lectures, sacred sites and healing workshops and channels and New Age bookstores and reading flaky emails and visiting flaky web sites. I view this as a lifetime where I have chosen to master discernment since I get hammered when I do not go within and ask if it is OK before I do anything externally. The other big lesson for me is not rushing in to save and rescue other people. So I urge each of you to go within before you do anything and ask the simple question: “Is this aligned with my highest good and does it support my spiritual evolution at this time?” This simple step will save you from incurring so much pain, suffering and misery.”
About Spiritual Healer Bill Austin:
Bill Austin is an energy healing facilitator, spiritual teacher, artist, writer and visionary living in St Petersburg, Florida in the United States. Bill specializes in spiritual healing and is the founder of several Reiki and other energy healing modalities. He has trained healers in over sixteen countries and has helped people from all over the world to heal, grow, expand and to realize more of their full potential. Bill infuses healing and enlightenment energies into healing art images and has created a line of self help books. You can click on this link to download a free healing ebook called: Vibrational Color Healing Art: A Fun, Joyful and Playful Approach to Healing. Please follow Bill on Twitter!
