spiritual growth

Spiritual Congruency

November 1, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master 2 Comments

One of the most important things to me is to align as much as I can with the highest level aspect of my soul and monad. I call this feeling of alignment with my Source energy – spiritual congruency. The monad is the aspect of ourselves that is most connected to the Creator and GOD.

Congruency is a mathematical term meaning geometric shapes are congruent if the two shapes both have the same size and shape. So I want my personality/physical body self to have as similar a size and shape to my monad/true/authentic self as I can. In a way spiritual congruency, to me at least, really boils down to how true we are to who we truly are. It is about being authentic and real which is one of my core values.

I began working on spiritual congruency after meeting people online. As people who hang out in chatrooms and social media sites know, the chat room self that chats with you is often quite different than the personality self that you meet physically which I personally find very disconcerting. I became aware of this pattern after meeting people I really enjoyed chatting with on-line but found much less enjoyable in real life.

And that prompted me to take a hard look at areas in my life where I was different online or at work than I was at home or with friends and family. It was a very interesting journey to me and I found out a lot about myself from this exploration which is why it is now a blog post.

One of the things I try to be aware of is how aligned I feel to the highest level aspect of my monad and soul at any given moment of time. I aspire to operate from that place and level all the time but I have been working on this for several years now and I am still am not where I would like to be on this one.

I first became aware of the non-congruency issue when I was working for the State of Colorado during the day and doing my spiritual healing work on the side at nights and on weekends. I felt that I was living in two different worlds and one of the main reasons I began working for myself full time as a healer was to heal and release this split I felt. It was a very dysfunctional space to operate from and I felt a strong pull in both directions that was very uncomfortable. I felt much more compassion and understanding for Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde after this -although I, of course, was not as an extreme example.

I really wanted to feel more whole and complete and I feel that spiritual congruency is one measure I can tune into that helps me move in the right direction. The more aligned I am with the highest level aspect of my soul and monad that I am the more congruent all levels of my life feel to me energetically.

I really feel that children operate from a space of spiritual congruency with who they truly are and live more authentically at least until they begin to be taught and buy into mass consciousness. It takes a lot of energy to be non-congruent since this is not our natural state of consciousness.

So I challenge each of you to look at the different roles you play in your life and see how aligned energetically you are to your highest level aspect of your monad and soul. And if you find that you are not feeling very congruent, I encourage you to begin devoting some time and energy toward nurturing that alignment.

About 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 distant 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!

Filed Under: Healing, Relationships, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: healing, relationships, spiritual growth, spiritual journey, spiritual path

Why do Healers and Spiritual People Struggle so Much with Money?

November 1, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

I find it very ironic that so many people I know on the spiritual path often struggle so much with money. I feel in many ways that it is far more spiritual to be abundant than to be struggling financially. When Jesus said the Kingdom of GOD is within us what I feel he meant is that our inner divinity – what I call the highest level aspect of our monad – is totally abundant. So to the extent we become aware of, understand, know and realize embodying the highest level aspect of our monad, then we move into the vibration of total health and abundance on all levels and in all areas of our life.

Just to be clear by NO means am I advocating falling into the pitfall of materialism and the LOVE of money which indeed is the root of all evil. A lot of the financial chaos and instability in our world today originates from the greed on individuals and financial organizations.

Also as a practical matter, we often need to have a certain amount of material wealth to accomplish our world service missions. I know many very gifted healers who will never meet all the people they can help, heal and serve because they cannot manifest the funds to get their work promoted and out into the world. What this means on the bottom line is that many people who can benefit from their spiritual gifts will never be able to find them to utilize their services.

Here are some of my core beliefs about abundance, success and prosperity:

Abundance is broader than money – abundance is the energy of fulfillment on all levels – physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and financial.

How much peace of mind do you feel when you think about money? To the extent that you feel calm and serene and at peace – well that is the extent that you have healed your relationship with money.

Ask and you shall receive has always worked well for me. The person being asked can only say no and if so, I am not worse off than I was before. If they say yes, I am better off.

Often we get attached to having abundance come to us in a certain form or substance and if we do not get it in that way, we often cannot accept the abundance that flows in – because it looks wrong. For me the core of my abundance flows in as the ideas and downloads I receive from Spirit which ultimately and over time leads to money but often does not manifest in money immediately. Laughing out loud often I have to wait several years for some of my work to become more accepted and mainstream before it comes back to me in the form of money.

You have to love, honor, appreciate and accept where you are NOW financially before you can move on to better things. Maintaining a gratitude journal or log of things that I am thankful for helps me to instill the consciousness of thankfulness. The more we look at the world using gratitude eyeglasses, the more things we will attract into our life to be grateful for.

Money is just another form of energy – it is neutral energetically until we spend it. When we utilize the energy of money to make love-based choices, we align with the abundant flow of universal energy which is based on love.

To live an empowered life on this planet and to help others do so you have to be abundant. Often we cannot do everything we are supposed to do because we don’t manifest the money to do so. It often requires money to achieve your world service contracts.

Athletes and lawyers and actors don’t agonize about being paid for their spiritual gifts so why do healers?

My spiritual adventure has had a pretty hefty price tag and while it is true that everything lies within your heart, often we can accelerate the process by working with healers and teachers. And usually the most gifted ones charge quite a bit for their services since they love themselves and value their time and energy.

Healers who don’t promote their work often don’t reach all the people who can benefit from their services and who are meant to work with them.

If you want to move into massive world service focus on becoming as good a business person as you can be or hire someone who is. A lot of healers I have worked with are not terribly grounded and not terribly responsive to customer needs and ultimately that will hold them back.

Our jobs, money, bank account balances, debts, houses, financial assets, etc. are the effect of our consciousness – the external out-picturing of our internal beliefs, feelings, memories, experiences and attitudes around money, success and abundance. To change the outer, material world that we perceive we need to shift our consciousness internally. The more we can unify with the highest level aspect of ourselves – our most expansive, infinite, unlimited self – the part that does not recognize scarcity and lack as even being a possibility, the more abundant, happy, healthy and successful we will be.

Millionaires are masters of abundance – they are conscious and aware about their financial patterns. To become more focused and clearer about money, buy a small notebook and begin jotting down how much you spend and where every day. Within a week you will become much more aware of your money and spending patterns and within two weeks, you will find yourself making changes. I challenge you to do this for just two weeks. You will learn amazing things about yourself and you will no longer be living as much on autopilot about money.

Think about how you can serve the maximum number of people with the least expenditure of your time and energy. Often I will hold off on releasing something until I feel comfortable that the approach I use is the most effective and efficient one. I do believe in the 80/20 rule in that you can obtain 80% of what you want to achieve with 20% of effort. I always have so many projects going on that focusing beyond the 20% doesn’t make sense. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many phenomena, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

If you feel wishy-washy about money, money will be wishy washy to you. Focus and perseverance are attributes most prosperous people have mastered.

Clearing Vows of Poverty

When I work with people on spiritual paths around money often I see in their energetic spaces – vows of poverty that are still active and ongoing. We are children of the Creator and our words, acts and promises are very potent. Often spiritual people have many, many lifetimes as members of a spiritual community like a monastery or nunnery where vows are made as part of the requirements to join those communities. And those vows in those lifetimes often supported their spiritual growth and evolution but now often these same vows hold people back. I am asking the Creator to help you to clear these out as you say out loud or think or pray within:

“Creator, please help me to clear, transmute, heal, release and dissolve all vows of poverty across time, space and dimensions and indeed all vows, promises, contracts, covenants and commitments I made that no longer serve my highest good or support my spiritual evolution. Thank you.”

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!

Filed Under: Healing, Money, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: abundance, law of attraction, LOA, money, prosperity, spiritual growth, success

How to Handle Difficult People: Spiritual Teacher or Downright Toxic?

November 1, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master 1 Comment

I was talking to a healer buddy of mine for over an hour today and it was such an interesting conversation that I felt inspired to create a blog post. My friend is a very empathic and gifted healer. Like most healers I know (including myself), he is a people pleaser so that combination of healer/empathic/people pleaser means setting good, strong, clear energetic boundaries on people he interacts with is very important to his health and well being.

Anyway my buddy had dinner last night with an old friend and another person he had never met before. My buddy didn’t resonate with the new person at all. He felt he was very negative and so my buddy basically disengaged from the conversation and disconnected energetically from the person. Twelve hours later and after a nights rest and he was still disturbed about the encounter. He was upset with himself that he was not more compassionate with the individual and was feeling guilt and regret about the way he handled the encounter and dealt with the person.

Any new person who enters your life and disturbs you the next day is someone to look closely at so we explored this situation in great depth – this is the executive summary version.

First of all, I NO LONGER CHOOSE TO BEAT UP ON MYSELF for how I handled any encounters or interactions with other people NO MATTER WHAT. Second, I try not to place labels on it or to judge or criticize myself as being selfish or not compassionate in how I handle a difficult person. I also try not to revert to guilt or regret at any time. If I feel guilt and regret, I look for what “I should do” or “ought to do” statements – often from early childhood – are operating and clear them out.

When I encounter a difficult person or attract one into my life, I usually drop what I am doing and focus on what is going on energetically. The first thing I do is ask the Creator to heal and ameliorate any karma I may have with that person or that person may have with me. A lot of time this one step alone clears up the whole incident and I go merrily on my way without interacting again with the person.

If that does not resolve the issue, I go to phase 2 and ask what is that person reflecting or mirroring back to me that I need to look at within myself and heal. Then I work with what comes up and clear it out.

If this does not resolve it, I ask is there a hidden wakeup call in this. Is there something going on that is seeking to gain my attention. In this case, my buddy has an old “friend” in another state who left his life several years ago but now is coming back to FL to live. This person is probably not a divine ideal person for my buddy to hang out with and the new person is very much like this friend. So in a way this encounter served my buddy to warn him to look at his relationship with his old friend and decide how he wants to handle him in the future.

Please note that the encounter with the difficult person is serving the highest good of my buddy even if he does not realize or appreciate it.

If there is no karma, no mirror, no wakeup call then the other possibility is that the difficult person reminds me of someone from my past like a parent, sibling or friend that I need to forgive. Usually the people we have karma with are also the people we need to forgive as well.

The really interesting thing to me for mastery is how should we handle difficult people. And to me that is often a combination of where we are on the path and whether or not the difficult person is a teacher or a toxic. The guiding principle is to be compassionate with yourself.

When I first realized what a strong empath I was, it really changed how I interacted with people. I began looking at the people around me and I made changes. People who I did not enjoy being with or who I LOL judged as lowering my vibration – I cut out of my life quite ruthlessly. It was something I needed to do at that time because I did not have the shielding and filters and protective mechanisms I needed to interact with them.

I was taking on other people’s stuff right and left and the only way I knew how to handle it was to eliminate them from my life. It created a huge amount of stress on my relationship with my ex who did not understand this and thought I was being extremely selfish by no longer doing stuff with my old low vibration buddies. And I did not feel it was selfish at all and still don’t. If I have any regrets at all it would be that I realized earlier in my life that I was so empathic and been more discerning at an earlier age as to who I hung out with. LOL and if I had would I have been with that ex who like all my exes is a great spiritual teacher for me.

Any way – that was sixteen years ago and today I approach difficult people very differently. I have learned over the years that a lot of my growth and evolution comes from difficult people. One of my biggest spiritual teachers was an old boss of mine who I could not cut out of my life. And to be honest, if I could have cut her out of my life and kept my job I would have.

There is a big difference between Difficult People who are Spiritual Teachers and Difficult People who Cross the Line and have become Toxic. Teacher Difficult People bring up stuff and make us explore areas that are not comfortable but they provide a way for us to clear, heal, transmute and release dysfunctional patterns and programs. This ultimately helps us to grow, evolve, expand and raise our vibration.

Toxic Difficult People are another type of creature altogether. Toxic people bring up so much stuff and are so negative that they can overpower a person energetically and lower their vibration. And if I see a toxic person enter my life, I start to run and run fast and hard.

About Reiki Master 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!

Tweets on Twitter for August 2011

September 28, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

Examine your thinking rather than blame life or fate or bad luck or astrology for the quality of your life.

Our three most important relationships are the ones we have with our self, our body and money.

Only the love from our heart can dissolve the cages created by our mind.

The more that you complain, the more stuff you have to complain about!

The more you appreciate others, the more you are appreciated yourself.

Happiness is an attitude, choice and habit Happy people often traverse through the valley of despair and transcend it.

Striving to become something often repels you from it!

I feel that most artists, musicians and creative people in general are often natural, innate healers.

The love you see outside yourself originates from the love that dwells within yourself.

Have compassion for everyone in your life. For each person around you mirrors back to you something inside you!

Wouldn’t the world be awesome if people treated themselves and others as well as they treat their pets?

When you identify an area you want to improve, ask “What inside of myself is coming up to be loved, healed and accepted?”

People would be happier if they focused on how they feel rather than worry about what is going on in the “real” world. The real world is not outside of yourself. It is what is going on energetically within your body and consciousness.

The more energy we use trying to control our life; the less energy we have for healing and creating a life that works.

We each live in the “real world” which is the one we each forge from our internal thoughts, feelings and attitudes!
Ask yourself often today: How do you feel? And if you feel bad, note what you are doing and try to do something else.

How will you accept, like, trust, love and nurture yourself today?

Who do you give away your power to and why do you do it?

How will you look for, acknowledge & honor the inner divinity of each person that you interact with today?

How will you honor your time and energy today?

Are you going to choose to be happy or “right” today?

When you truly love and accept yourself on all levels then you cannot help but create a life that works for you!

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!

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Some of Bill’s Favorite Spiritual Growth Quotes, Part 2

September 28, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

“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!

Filed Under: Popular, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: spiritual growth, spiritual path

Pitfalls on the Spiritual Path

August 1, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

I have been on the spiritual path for almost twenty years and it has been a lot like Simon Says! You take one leap forward and two baby steps backward and one giant step forward, etc. But these are a few of the hazards I have encountered on my journey. I share my experiences with the hope that you do not have to go there do that one like I did or if you do find yourself in that space you are aware of the pattern so you can extricate yourself from it as soon as possible.

Ego/Arrogance: When I began on the spiritual path, I really did not have any role models. Most of my family and friends were on a more traditional path. Over the years, more and more people have woken up and there are a lot more energetic role models now than there were then and this is a good thing. But a year or two into my journey, I began to realize that I was very different. It felt like I was wired or configured differently on the inside than most people and for several months it really went to my head. Although I did not change my outer behavior so much for a while I felt quite superior on the inside to most people. And then I realized that if I really was that if I was so evolved why on the world did I was I stuck living on Earth. This thought pulled me down to the ground in an instant. Today, I view everyone I encounter as a spiritual teacher. This is one of the few things I have done in this life that I am embarrassed about.

Preoccupation with Past Lives: When I first learned about past lives, I was quite intrigued about it and I spent a month meditating on insights from past lives. And then I realized that what happened in the past only really mattered to me to the extent that it impacted my current incarnation. I realized that it was a distraction from focusing on stuff that was going on all around me in the NOW which I needed to do. So I let go of my preoccupation with the past in general and focused my awareness on the now. I was so happy when Eckhardt Tolle wrote the book about The Power of the Now because for the first time, many people realized how silly it is to live in the past or the future or to get distracted out of a compulsive need to learn about their past lives. Laughing out loud: I have had the pleasure of meeting several people who claimed that they were Mary Magdalene in a prior life…

Giving Your Power Away to Healers, Psychics, Channels, Gurus: In the New Age movement, I have known several people who rant and rave about the horrors of mass consciousness and world religions and the Western approach to medicine and how terrible it is that people give away their power so much to society at large, ministers and doctors. And the next day I see them giving away their power to psychics, channels and alternative healing. All I have to say about this is BE YOUR OWN HEALER and BE YOUR OWN GURU. I cringe when people refer to me as a spiritual master and quite a few of my clients have tried to give their power away to me. But you know I really have quite enough power of my own, I really don’t need or want anyone else’s!

Discernment: One of the main reasons why I blog and tweet so much is that I really don’t want to write a book with lots of words (healing art books are a very different thing). But if I ever do write a book, it may very well be about the importance of discernment. Discernment begins by honoring your inner guidance and wake up calls and being very careful before you DO anything to always ask “Is this aligned with my highest good?”

Empathy: It was such a revelation to me fourteen years ago when I realized that the reason I would get upset and angry at work was because one of my co-workers was on an emotional roller coaster and I was taking on her stuff. I had no idea up to then how sensitive I was to energy and that I could be influenced so strongly by the pain and emotional trauma of another person. And over the years, my empathy has grown by leaps and bounds and I have to find new ways to clear stuff out as it arises before I get overwhelmed. And over the years I increasingly take on some of the planetary energies as well so it can be quite intense at times. Thankfully I have been able to download some very powerful tools, like the Universal Clearing Profile, to assist me. I feel that we all are impacted energetically by the energy of others and most of us take on some of other people’s stuff (especially healers, light workers and star-seeds). It is very important for all of us to find ways to go through life without taking on other people’s issues because when we do this, we not only take on more stuff for ourselves but it also does not help the other person at all.

Saving and Rescuing Others: As a healer, I always want for people around me to be as well and whole as possible. One of the biggest temptations I face is that I often want to dash in and save others (especially family, friends and clients) rather than viewing them as great masters who have all that they need within to heal themselves. Every time I attempt to save someone, I get hammered by my soul. It is one of the most challenging spiritual lessons for me and although I do this less often now, every now and then I have a weak moment where I get suckered into the past patterns. So this is a lesson that I am still learning..

About Bill Austin

Reiki Master Bill Austin is a spiritual healer, teacher, artist, writer and visionary living in St Petersburg, FL. He is the founder of several energy healing modalities and he specializes in distant healing, spiritual growth videos, healing art and healer training. He provides numerous free healing resources and a powerful line of energy healing products. Please follow Bill on Twitter!

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Tweets I Posted on Twitter in July 2011

August 1, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

I am beginning to invest the time and energy it takes to create and maintain a following on Twitter. A year ago, I created this blog to make the Mastery Training Module articles available to a larger audience. Twitter will be the way I get new Seeds of Mastery tips out to folks.

Each day, I am committing to placing one of my quotes on Twitter. My handle on Twitter is @healwithbill and if you have not followed me already, please go to www.FollowBillAustin.com and follow me.

People who look for problems find them. People who look for miracles find them.
Money flows to me from the flow of ideas within me. Money is an effect of consciousness.
When you focus on self love and healing your relationship with money, the Law of Attraction falls into place.
Ultimately love is the only thing that matters. Love is the only thing that is real.
Earth is a school where we learn how to love ourselves and others unconditionally.
To succeed in business, focus on your strengths and hire or outsource areas you are weak in.
Our outer world is the external out-picturing of our inner consciousness and awareness.
Self love is the only solid foundation to create a life that works and supports you on all levels.
Monitor how you feel during the day and try to only do things that feel good.
A powerful way to take charge of your money is to record where you spend money each day.
Our time and energy are our two greatest gifts. Honor your and others’ time and energy.
Luck is forged in the fires of intent, clarity, focus and perseverance.
It is challenging to live in a planet that is morphing from the paradigm of the mind to that of the heart.
Monitor how you feel during the day and try to only hang out with people who feel good. Flee from toxic people!
Whatever radiates out from you will come back to you multiplied. So stay positive!
People who cultivate a positive attitude attract good things, people and events to them.
People who complain about things become magnetic to negative life experiences.
Be YOUR own healer. You are the expert on your health and wellbeing.
Be YOUR own guru. You are the expert on your spiritual path and journey.
You don’t need to learn anything outside of yourself to grow. Your life is your path.
People who are clear, purposeful and focused are more likely to succeed.
To succeed you have to show up, have expertise and be good at business & connected.
Everything we say, do or feel plants seeds for the harvest we will reap in the future.
People who are very gifted often work for people who are very connected.
A great attitude helps people to succeed more than a great education.
The more you focus on helping other people to succeed, the more successful you will become.
The Law of Attraction works best for people who are connected to lots of other people.
Life is a series of many small choices and wise people choose love over fear.
When we try to please other people, often we give away our personal power and feel depleted.
All of the people in our life mirror back part of our own consciousness to us.
Mastery emerges from the choices we make each moment.
Each time we give away our power to others; we have less power to be ourselves.
People pleasing is often the first step to giving our power away to others.

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 distance healing, spiritual growth and healer training. He is the founder of several 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 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. He offers a number of free energy healing resources on the freespiritualhealing.com web site. Please follow Bill on Twitter!

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Why Do Affirmations Work for Some People but NOT for Me?

June 28, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

Throughout my spiritual journey I have had a love/hate thing going on with affirmations. When I began my path over seventeen years ago, I was broke, sick and unemployed. Affirmations felt so true to me when I first learned about them that I dove in. After several months of doing affirmations for several hours a day without any shift in my daily life, I gave up on the idea and dropped it.

In retrospect, the reason I failed with affirmations was that I was not clear enough to energetically anchor in the new beliefs and thought forms. The almost thirty years of old programming was so strong and active in me that I was not able to bring in the new beliefs. Every time I stated an affirmation – everything that was in opposition to the new belief and paradigm rose up to stop it from being effective.

I created a line of affirmation healing images to help clear, transmute, heal, release and dissolve anything and everything in opposition to the affirmation. The affirmation balloon images on the next page contain healing and clearing profiles to help you to embrace, express and embody the affirmation in your consciousness. I also placed many of these affirmation healing images into magnets, healing elixir mugs and posters on http://www.cafepress.com/energyhealing/7181915!

About Holistic Healer Bill Austin:

Bill Austin is a spiritual healer, teacher, artist, writer and visionary living in St Petersburg, Florida in the United States. Bill specializes in distance healing, spiritual growth, healing art and healer training. He is the founder of several Reiki healing modalities. He has trained healers in over sixteen countries and has helped people from all over the world to heal, grow, succeed and realize more of their full potential. Bill infuses healing and enlightenment energies into color healing art images and has created a line of self help book. You can click on this link to download a free Vibrational Color Healing Art E-Book. He offers a number of free spiritual healing resources on the freespiritualhealing.com web site.

Filed Under: Healing, Money, Popular, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Affirmations, healing, money, spiritual growth, success

Love is the Key!

June 28, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

When I was 29, I experienced a huge spiritual awakening while I was traveling on a Greyhound bus from Washington DC to Philadelphia. I was immersed in this huge wave of love. While the experience only lasted twenty minutes, to me it felt like it had lasted days. That experience was so powerful that it changed the entire course of my life. I no longer was interested at all in pursuing a legal career and my values shifted overnight.

But the biggest change was the deep inner realization that the only thing that matters is love. That love is the key….

One of Francine Jarry’s catchy, bubbly and joyful songs (http://www.rainbowmusic.ca) – Joy, Joy, Joy – has the lyrics “Joy, Joy, Joy. Joy is the key! (you can listen to it at http://www.abraham-hicks.com/audio/joy/joyjoyjoy.mp3)
Well I feel that love is the key.

That love is the only thing that is real.

That love is the only thing that will last.

About Bill Austin

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Why Do You Create So Much Free Healing and Enlightenment Stuff?

June 28, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master Leave a Comment

People sometimes ask me: Why do you create so much free stuff? The main reason perhaps is what one of UK clients said very kindly years ago: “you are very prolific.” (laughing out loud)

There are really two reasons why I do this. The first reason is that there are a lot of people around the world who resonate with my energy; could hugely benefit from my work but they cannot afford to order sessions. I get lots of requests each day for healing support and I often refer them to the free spiritual healing site or the BillAustinArt YouTube site for help.

The other reason that I offer so much free stuff is to introduce people to energy healing and to help make it a safer, less financially risky thing for them to explore. I vividly remember my first personal experience with energy healing twelve years ago and how skeptical I was about the whole thing. I sent some very gifted healers $100 in cash to their PO box but I was a tad nervous about the whole thing and wondered whether I was sending my cash straight down the toilet. I would have felt a lot better about exploring energy healing if I could have done something for free before I sent them the money.

By the way, my first experience with energy healing was magical and very transformative. Up until that moment in time, I just assumed I was stuck with a lot of negative programming and self sabotage from my past and that nothing short of years of expensive therapy could help me. But after this experience, I felt so clear and so much well being that I later went on to take their training a year later.

This is why I became a healer – to help people to get rid of the self sabotage and garbage from their past so they could realize more of their full potential and to create a life that works and supports them on all levels.

Learn More About My FREE Holistic Healing and Spiritual Growth Site

Over the years, I have created a lot of free holistic healing and spiritual growth resources to help people. However, they tend to be scattered all over my numerous sites and it is challenging for people to find all of them. I recently upgraded the www.FreeSpiritualHealing.com web site to be a central location where I place all of these free healing resources and I plan to update it from here on out so that as I add new free healing stuff I will update the site.I have moved all of my free healing and spiritual growth audio and video recordings there as well as many of the free healing art resources and the affirmation posters.

Click on the graphic link below to learn more!