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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!

The IFFCAA Approach to the Law of Attraction

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

We each have what I call a material mind and a super-conscious mind that is part of the Mind of the Creator. Universal Mind in a lot of ways is like the Cosmic Internet and we each can access the power of it via our super-conscious mind which accesses it sort of like a cosmic library card works. In a lot of ways the Law of Attraction is one of the most important programming in the Cosmic Internet – sort of like the operating system like XP or Vista.

How Can I Tap Into the Power of the Law of Attraction (LOA) to Create a Life that Works?

After much thought and study I came up with what I call the IFFCAA Approach to working with the Law of Attraction. This is how I work with the LOA but by all means play with it and find something that works for you. We each are wired differently and what works for me may not for you and vice versa.

I – Intent – I created a one page vision statement for my life and a second page that sets expectations for four important areas of my life: Health, Relationships, Finances and General Expectations

F – Focus each day on what you want to create. Each day when I get up and right before I go to sleep I read over my statement of intent and I have recorded it on audio mp3 recordings that I can listen to during the day and when I am driving.

F – Monitor your feelings and when you feel bad, look at what you are doing & stop doing it! Pretty self-explanatory and while it is not easy to do at first, after thirty to forty days of doing this, it becomes second nature.

C- Clear on a daily basis everything that comes up throughout the day that is in opposition to your intent and vision plan. After a month of working intensely with the Law of Attraction and fine-tuning my intent and daily revising my vision plan, I had created a severe cold that lasted three weeks along with an ear infection that I had not had in 40 years; I got in a minor fender bender accident; I was feeling very stressed and imbalanced and ungrounded which was unusual for me.

When I asked what was going on, I got that in plunging headlong into the LOA process and choosing to work on lots of areas at one time, that I stirred up everything in opposition to my intent and vision. And because I wasn’t clearing it daily, it built up in my life and created a lot of imbalances in my life. So I spent a day working on myself clearing out all the build-up.

This by the way is not mentioned in any of the Law of Attraction books and cds I was working with but it did create a lot of chaos for myself. Also I am fairly clear and I naturally operate from a state of instant manifestation which very few people on the planet do – slowed down manifestation is a great blessing in many ways for people on this world.

A – Act when it feels right and only when it feels right. Due to impatience I find I often act when I should not so I am trying to do better in this area.

A – Allow your good to come to you. Patience again@@#@!@

Cultivating faith, perseverance, gratitude and a positive mental attitude helps me at least to work with the LOA a lot more effectively. I am even learning how to become more patient too!!! Grins.

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: Money, Popular, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: focus, intent, law of attraction, LOA, manifesting, money

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!

Filed Under: Money, Popular, Relationships, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: healing, money, relationships, spiritual growth

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

Some of Bill’s Favorite Relationship Quotes, Part 2

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

“Don’t Take on Other People’s Stuff! We all create stuff and attract stuff into our life to learn from every day. This is fine for without our stuff, we wouldn’t grow. But when we get involved with another person’s stuff, watch out! One of the reasons that it is so important to create healthy and strong energetic boundaries with other people – especially our family, friends and clients is because it is so very easy for us to adopt and claim another individual’s stuff for our own.”

“There are three ways I get myself into trouble with relationships. The first way is that I feel the suffering of others so intensely at times that I want to rush in and save and rescue them – often because I don’t want to experience their pain second-hand. The second way I get into trouble is that I focus more on the potential of who a person can become rather than who they actually are right now. And thirdly I always assume that other people view the world exactly like I do and I am a very unique being energetically.”

“People are so funny about things like judging. Some of my gay friends get very agitated about society and the religious right judging them or rant and rave about the fundamentalists who oppose gay marriage. And yet in the very next breath, they will criticize drag queens or lambaste bisexuals. But I suspect that all judging of others originates because somewhere inside ourselves we judge ourselves. We usually have an inner critic or judger or inner parent and often we need to heal and forgive this aspect or sub-personality of our self before we can let go of the pattern of judging others. Gossiping about others is often a more subtle form of judgment.”

“Subconsciously, we all trust our first impressions and realize how important they are. When we meet someone for the first time, what happens is that our energy fields mesh together and they exchange information. If our energy fields complement one another in any way, we begin to feel that we like this person and we want to further the relationship. If a karmic relationship is involved, we feel more strongly drawn to that person even if we don’t like them. When we feel neutral about someone or instantly dislike them, usually our energy fields don’t match and we can learn nothing from them. For example, when an old soul meets a baby one, usually they won’t like each other because with such dissimilar soul ages, there is little opportunity to either teach or to learn. This is how we draw into our lives the people we are meant to share them with.”

“Empathic people are more likely to be people-pleasers than non-empathic people. Empaths pick up – often subconsciously – or are bombarded energetically by other people’s feelings and thoughts. Often empathic people and sensitive souls change their energy in response to the signals they pick up energetically from others. Almost all healers, light/love workers and starseeds (highly evolved beings from other time space continuums) are empathic which means that they are much more likely than others to fall into the trap of people-pleasing – often without realizing what they are doing. It was a major AH HA moment for me twenty odd years ago when I realized I would get angry and upset not because I personally was angry and upset but because a co-worker two doors down the hall from me was angry and upset.”

“A big part of living authentically with integrity for me at least is being spiritually congruent. I strive to be authentically who I am no matter where I am or who I am with or what I am doing. I used to live like a chameleon – constantly reconfiguring my energy and how I presented myself to others to blend in and to make other people feel comfortable. Often I would change my energy to appear like what I felt others needed or wanted me to be. This is a form of people-pleasing and giving my power away to others. When I stopped doing this, I found that my personal energy level kept steady and even increased when I was around other people whereas before it used to drop when I was with a group of people.”

“When you get emotionally triggered by someone or something, you can either react to it or respond to it. Most people react. Masters respond. Like most things - It’s a choice. Each time I am triggered is an opportunity for me to grow and expand IF I take the time and do the inner work to identify, look at and heal the underlying cause. Almost always when I get triggered it is about a shadow aspect of myself that I need to accept, embrace and smother in self love.“

“When you pray for someone to get well, focus and accentuate the positive not the negative. Focus on what is right with them rather than on what the nature of the physical imbalance, weaknesses, illness or disease state appears to be. Pray for them to be restored to the state of vibrant, radiant, perfect health which is their natural, innate, inherent state as child of GOD.”

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Some of Bill’s Favorite Abundance, Gratitude, Prosperity and Success Quotes, Part 2

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

“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.”

“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.”

“One of the ways you honor your time and energy is to focus on what is most important. I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can most effectively help people. I do believe in the 80/20 rule in that you can obtain 80% of what you want to achieve with 20% of effort. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule) states that for many phenomena, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes.”

“Most super abundant people on this world either work for themselves or create their own business. It is so much easier to manifest and create a profitable business when you are the dominant influence or major player in the organization. This means that your energy and intentions have the maximum possible power and effect. Of course the other implication or ramification of this principle is that if you begin a business without being impeccable around having a strong intent or energy around it of being abundant, prosperous and successful, then you are likely to create a new business that is not able to survive economically or will struggle to survive.”

“It always fascinates me that most of my clients who come to me for help in releasing addictions are usually much more successful and abundant than many highly evolved souls and starseeds that are drawn to my spiritual growth offerings. But upon reflection, it makes sense in that most addictions cost money. The craving for addictive substances often keeps addicts anchored in the NOW where their personal power is centered. And people with addictions are very focused and intent and dedicate an enormous amount of physical, mental and emotional energy on obtaining the substances they are addicted to so there is no inner conflict as to their desires. In sharp contrast, people on spiritual paths often are ungrounded, live in the future more than in the present and conflicted about money….”

“One of the things I find interesting to watch in this era of chaotic financial energies is that it demonstrates in so many ways, how the worship of money gets played out in our society.

The most obvious form of the worship of money are people who are so focused on making money that they ignore their health, family, friendships and relationships in the obsessive pursuit of wealth. But perhaps the more subtle form of the worship of money is that so many people place their sense of self esteem, identity and worth in what they do for a living and in how much they earn and in how much they are worth. To me this is yet another way that people give away their power… We are all much much more than our jobs or our salaries or our bank balance. I hope that one of the results of the financial crisis is that people will look at these patterns and make different choices. I also notice that people are much more grateful, thankful and appreciative of their jobs than they were before so much financial chaos occurred.”

“It always amazes me as to how much of our financial life experience are governed by the core beliefs of our family of origin. My father always told me when I was growing up: “If you learn one thing from me son; I hope it is that life isn’t fair.” And my mother could have written an encyclopedia on “You have to work hard to succeed.” It took me years to clear those two patterns/programs from my energy fields, consciousness, beingness and awareness.”

“A lot of times when people pray for abundance or ask how they can create more abundance, it comes in as an idea or opportunity. Everything you see in the outer, material world begins as an internal thought. We each have tons of what I call millionaire ideas – ideas that if we focus our consciousness on them to develop them into fulfillment that would bring in a million dollars. But all too often we blow them off as being unrealistic and impossible. And then later when we see that someone else had the same idea and acted upon it, we kick ourselves… The Law of Attraction is more likely to shower me at least with ideas and business opportunities and connections that arise out of nowhere than it is to shower me with cash. Although I am open to receive a shower of cash…”

“One of the most important relationships we have in life is our relationship with money. To me true abundance is not about how much money you have as it is about how much peace of mind you have around money. Take some deep breaths. I am going to ask you a very important question and that is: When you think about money and your personal finances, how do you feel? If you feel peaceful, calm, centered, happy, content and fulfilled, then you have a great relationship with money and I congratulate you. If, however, you feel stressed, anxious, concerned, worried, depressed or fearful whenever you think about money or your personal finances, then you probably need to heal your relationship with money. The best place to start is to look at what you believe about money deep down inside. I created the Money Healing Program to assist people in this inner work.”

“I used to get very upset and agitated when my money flow got disrupted or worst came to a halt. I would ask myself: What did I do wrong? But I was able to use the emotional energy that abounds when there is no money to catapult me on to the next level of abundance. Earlier on in my path, lack of money would turn into anxiety and then to fear and then to worry and this just immersed me and locked me energetically into the vibration of lack and scarcity which become a downward spiral. Now when my money flow dries up, I realize that it is more because I did things right than because I did things wrong. I just have learned what I could from that past way of creating wealth and I am ready to learn a new way. I begin to ask what is the next step for me before it becomes a crisis. Almost always this situation becomes an opportunity for me to move my abundance to the next level. Often this means I either need to recreate myself or to reexamine the work I am doing or the way I am doing the work. Now when this happens I ask how I can serve in a larger way. As soon as I ask for help, I begin to get the insights, inner direction and guidance I need to move forward. So in a way the drying up of money is the catapult I use to propel me onward and upward into a more abundant cycle.”

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: Money, Popular Tagged With: gratitude, law of attraction, manifesting, money, prosperity, success

Some of Bill’s Favorite Healing Quotes, Part 2

September 28, 2011 By Energy Healing Reiki Master 1 Comment

“One of my best friends in Florida has a co-worker who owns a huge, over 200 pounds Egyptian tortoise. What fascinates me is that this huge animal just eats two heads of Romaine lettuce a day. How in the world can such a large animal get all the nutrients and protein and vitamins and minerals to sustain over two hundred pounds from two heads of lettuce per day. The only answer I get is that somehow the turtle is able to transform that lettuce into the elements he needs to survive and thrive and if a tortoise can do this why can’t humanity? It makes me really question all the theories, beliefs and views both traditional and alternative health practitioners have about diet and nutrition.”

“There is a common belief in the healing community that a many energetic weaknesses and imbalances are layered in a person’s energetic bodies and fields sort of like the layers of an onion. And a lot of healers feel that you had to remove stuff layer by layer for proper integration and to avoid healing crises. I have been thinking a lot recently about how limiting this mindset is and I now go after the whole onion. Sometimes this works and sometimes it does not BUT this approach is much more powerful and effective than going after the layers. A lot is now possible healing wise than was possible just a few years ago. And the new heart-oriented modalities are more powerful and effective than the mind paradigm ones.”

“When I began out my spiritual healing career, I would attend lots of healing workshops that taught me techniques about how I could help and heal others. But as I evolved I found myself doing less and asking the Creator and the angels to do more and the results were amazing. So now I view my role at least as a healer as one of holding a space where healing can occur and acting more as a channel for the Divine to work through. I also server a lot by be3ing an energetic role model for others. It is my intent and hope that I will evolve and grow through every interaction I have with another person and that every one I meet will evolve and grow as well!”

“I feel really strongly that healing is the responsibility of the client not the healer. I can send healing energy all day to someone but if they have not learned what they sought to learn by creating the health challenge then they will usually not be open to being healed. I do cheat a little bit in that I ask the Creator now to send me folks who I can help and who can benefit from what I have to offer rather than depend upon random chance.”

“The Law of Attraction explains why people benefit from spiritual healing. The Law of Attraction is vibration-oriented. As you raise your vibration, you are able to attract more things that you want into your life. Spiritual healing helps people to clear out self sabotage, doubt and fear-oriented mental and emotional programs and patterns. It is often these factors that block our ability to be open to receive our higher good. So as you raise your vibration through clearing and releasing your past and old less-than-love influences, the Law of Attraction sends new things, people, events and circumstances to you that matches your new and higher vibration.”

“One of the popular books years ago was “Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?” A lot of highly evolved beings – especially healers – select challenging and difficult life experiences to learn and grow from. I suffered over ten years of chronic insomnia and sleep deprivation but I emerged from this experience with a lot more compassion than I had before. And like most abundance teachers I have been poor, well off and in-between. But from these life experiences I learned what it was like to be poor and thus I can help empower others to shift from lack and scarcity consciousness to abundance and prosperity consciousness. Every challenge I have experienced has taught me a lot and there has always been a gift from going through the experience. Also I really believe that our souls monitor everything that happens to us and that we are only given challenges that we have the inner resources to be able to overcome it.”

“The reason I choose not to read a newspaper or watch the news on TV, is that usually the “programs” and advertisements focus people’s attention, time, time, energy, awareness and consciousness on things that do not serve their highest good. There are lots of wonderful things going on and miracles occur every day but you will never see that on TV and newspapers which tend to focus on and accentuate the negative rather than positive aspects of life. TV and newspapers and magazines and the antics of the stock market reflect and suck people into the vortices of the emotional roller coaster world of mass and duality consciousness. If you want to live like the masses of humanity – then spend a third of your precious, spare time watching television like the average American does.”

“Studies have shown that people who watch the news are less likely to have a positive mental attitude than folks who do not. And a good attitude helps propel people into mastery more than almost anything else. If you expect the best, you are much more likely to experience it. People who expect the worst usually attract those experiences as well. Mastery often boils down to making good choices.”

“Most Americans, Canadians and Europeans believe that it takes time to heal and so it does. Whereas people who grow up in more “primitive” cultures like Australian Aborigines do not believe it takes time to heal so they heal much faster. When you think about it a miracle is something that appears to be unreal. But truly very very very very very very little of what we feel to be real – really is real so miracles in many ways are often more natural than many things we feel are real.”

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!

Filed Under: Healing, Popular Tagged With: Energy Healing, healing

Thoughts About the Law of Attraction and How to Create a Life that Works!

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

“As I grow and evolve, I find that: I trust more; I question less; I go with the flow;
I do less; and I be more. I tend to live now by how I feel. If I feel good about something - I do it. If I do not feel good about something – I usually don’t do it. This approach to life really cuts to the core essence and simplifies my decisions quite a lot.”

“Earth is a paradise world. The Kingdom of God already exists and surrounds us and enfolds us at all times. But we cannot see and experience it because we don’t believe in it and our vibration does not resonate with it. As we become more loving and align with the Heart Paradigm on Gaia, we raise our vibration and we begin to see the shimmering perfection of the planet that is currently veiled to most of us.”

“We have two minds really: The unlimited, infinite super-conscious mind of the Creator and the limited, material mind of the host human body. Our super-conscious mind is connected to the Universal Mind of the Creator or the Cosmic Internet. When we operate from this mind, we are connected to all that is or was or ever shall be; which is the plane of miracles. Whereas, when we operate from the material minds and brains, we are functioning on the plane of limitation and illusion. When we are born we perceive life from the super-conscious mind but shortly thereafter we are taught to view life from the material mind. It begins when we are told that this is Mommy, Daddy, television, food, water… etc. Since 99% of the world focuses on the material mind and believe that only the things we see are real, then that is the one we develop and orient our lives around. Actually very little of what we see or perceive to be true is true at all. Quantum physicists have found that the more they closely they look at and delve into matter, the less matter they find.”

“A lot of people have lost touch with who they are and do not know what they really want – what brings them joy – because they have given so much of their power away to others. If you are in this space, you may want to go back in time to a place where you were happier and ask what brought you joy in that period of time. Begin to reclaim the power you have given away to others and try to do something nice for yourself at least once a day. Take baby steps at first and realize it takes about 30 to 40 days to instill and establish a new way of behavior that your subconscious mind accepts. As you begin to honor and appreciate yourself more and more and reclaim your power, you will begin to live more authentically and you will discover what brings you joy. And let this be the basis of the reality you are choosing to create.”

“When people ask me what is the most important thing they can do, they often expect words of wisdom about their path and plan with the Creator or information about what form their world service work should take. But what most raises the vibration of Gaia is for you to ignite the passion in your heart and live from a space of joy, ecstasy and bliss. As you live your bliss and follow your heart and let your soul soar and sing, then you are Creating Heaven on Earth. And you help everyone you meet to embody Heaven on Earth as well by inspiring others to live their bliss, to open their hearts and to let their soul sing!”

“What we call the snowball effect (the art of turning mole-hills into mountains), the Midas Touch and Murphy’s Law are all examples of how the Law of Attraction operates in our world. When you consistently hold a thought over time, the Law of Attraction sorts through your mind for thoughts, feelings and memories that are similar to the thought and gather them together and that is why the thoughts we hold consistently get so strong. They become core beliefs. If the thoughts we hold consistently in our mind are positive, loving, upbeat and optimistic, we are very likely to develop a Midas Touch in that everything thing we do will succeed and prosper. This is the path of the upward spiral. If the thoughts we hold consistently in our mind are negative, fearful, angry and pessimistic, then we fall into the realm of Murphy’s Law where nothing we do goes well for us. This is the path of the downward spiral. What we choose to focus our mental energy is a CHOICE so choose wisely.”

“Spirit and Matter are flip sides of the same coin. One way Spirit manifests itself is through the material plane and matter cannot exist without the underlying substance of Spirit. But people who focus on the Spirit side of the coin fare better in life than those that choose to focus on the material plane, because the realm of Spirit is the cause of everything that happens including the material plane whereas the material plane is the level of effect. The spiritual plane is purer energetically and more impeccable and pristine; so as you focus on Spirit your upgrade your material body and life.”

“I really love the nautilus shell because to me – this is such a beautiful analogy for living from the multidimensional heart. The nautilus shell is translucent and has many hues of colors just like the heart. It spiral outwards from the center getting larger and larger as it unfolds just as the heart expands out into the cosmos. The nautilus shell spirals to the cosmic design of the golden mean so it is aligned with universal principles. The golden mean is very healing, soothing, harmonious and balanced. The Nautilus as it expands and grows creates new and larger heart chambers. And it is so very beautiful. I have always been drawn to the symbol of the heart and spirals and that is really what the Healing Holograms logo represents. To me life is about centering in the heart and radiating out from there.”

“It is well known and commonly accepted that in order to manifest, you need to have a vision for what you want to accomplish and a strong focused intent on creating this vision on the physical plane. But the origin of the vision and focused intent is often just as important as the vision itself. What space are you coming from when you set the intent or create your vision? Are you creating your vision, goals and intent from your head/mind or from your heart? For example, if I want to create more financial abundance I could set my intent in several ways. One I could set a financial goal in that I want to earn $____ or I could set the intent that I want to help and serve ________ of customers. It is much easier for me to create financial abundance by focusing on helping and serving others because it excites and energizes the power of my heart. My heart loves to serve and help others. My heart doesn’t care nearly as much about how much money is in my bank account.”

“I was raised in a very stable family that values security a lot. Throughout most of my professional career, I held a variety of professional jobs in government. And the last year I was working in my safe, secure and very highly paid bureaucratic position, I felt like Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde in that I would do my safe government job during the day and run my wild and crazy spiritual healing practice at night and on weekends and it was like living with a foot in two worlds. But as I grew spiritually I realized that life is really so very fluid that it is impossible to be stable, secure and safe. In a way security is an illusion especially on a world like Gaia that is ascending. And the path of freedom and sovereignty I was drawn to … well you can’t walk that path and still cling on to stability and security.”

“People who not only believe in miracles but also EXPECT them to happen and ALLOW them to happen experience them much more than people who choose not to believe in miracles. A lot of miracles are centered around concepts of time which is perhaps the biggest illusion operating on the planet. Although closely tied with this one is the unreality of money. Money is perhaps the second biggest illusion on the planet.”

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!