This is part 1 of a 3 part series. 

There was a time in my life when I accumulated a lot of spiritual information. I thought the info would expand my spiritual awareness. There was a stack of spiritual books beside my bed. Every time a spiritual teacher came to Los Angeles I would go to hear them speak and then buy their books (and get them autographed, of course).

But I didn’t read all those books, I didn’t read any of them.   They became more of a burden than a help. 

They were stacked up on my nightstand, and even beside my nightstand, taunting me, reminding me that I “should” be reading them. 

If I was a true spiritual student, I’d read all those darn books – or stop buying them. 

But I didn’t do either.
I hung out in limbo land. 

I was damned by ego for buying the books and damned by ego for not reading them.  It was an evil plot to leave me feeling bad, wrong, and like a spiritual failure.

When a friend called me an intellectual, it felt like a dirty name. I wanted to be somebody who lived from my heart! “Don’t tell me I’m just up in my head!” 

Obviously, I got triggered by it because I knew I was living up in my head and not from my heart, like I truly wished to be.

I was collecting all this spiritual information, thinking it was going to help me change.

I hoped these books contained some kind of spiritual key that I hadn’t been able to find.  

Of course, information couldn’t change me or heal me.
Information isn’t healing.

I was identified with a small, selfish, separate, ego-self instead of my true identity, which is magnificent and beautiful and wise and wonderful. A book wasn’t going to change that. 

Only my own willingness to let the false beliefs go would bring a change.
Spirit would bring the change if I was willing.

When we hold onto old beliefs, such as the belief that we can live in our minds and somehow have an amazing spiritual existence in the smoke and mirrors of the  intellect, we build our whole world around these false beliefs about what true spirituality is. 

Then, we interpret everything through this false belief system and what we experience proves what we believe. We’re living from our intellect, which is the ego. 

The ego thought system is a meaning-making machine.
It interprets everything according to a false belief system.
It’s a constant repetition of the past.

Unless we go the other way.

In a sense, we begin to believe that the ego is something that has a personality, that it’s a being with a mind of its own.

But it isn’t. 

It’s so important we begin to understand that, if we believe in lack and limitation, we’re going to experience lack and limitation. It’s up to us to shift it, so we can have a different experience.

One of the most wonderful things that Spirit helped me to see, that I’m forever grateful for, is this:

If I’m trying to understand something,
no matter what it is,
if I’m trying to figure it out,
if I’m trying to understand it,
if I’m trying to make sense of it,
I’m in my ego.
I’m in my intellect.
I’m not in my Spirit.

I’m not aligned with Spirit if I’m trying to figure it out and make sense of it. Because everything the ego doesn’t understand and doesn’t know, the Spirit does know.

If I’m willing to open up to Spirit, listen to Spirit, and be guided by Spirit, I will remember what I already know.

I remember the healing that comes when I’m willing to stand back from my beliefs, my interpretations and the meaning I made of everything, and instead say, as it says in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 25, “I do not know what anything is for.”

So, how do we make this shift from living up in our head, letting the intellect drive our choices to living from our heart and allowing Spirit to guide our choices? I’ll share more in Part Two tomorrow.

Now’s the time to lay our foundation – there’s so much we can call forth when we choose to live as though our mind really is the mind of God.  Make this year the year you go for it!  Gather support, have a strong intention.  You don’t need my help, but if you’d like it, here’s how to begin:

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If Masterful Living is right for you, I trust you will know it when you read what I’ve written on my website.  

Trust your intuition – it will not fail you.
If this feels like it MIGHT be the thing for you this year – follow through.

I would LOVE to have the opportunity to walk step-by-step with you this year if you’d like to join us!

If you feel called to join us, follow your intuition.  You can book an Exploratory Call with one of the spiritual counselors to discuss any questions you have about Masterful Living and that’s a free call!  

PODCAST:  The latest episode of my podcast’s topic is Attraction of Guilt: Obstacles to Peace – Part 4.  Let’s heal the belief in unconscious guilt and get the guilt out of our relationships.