Are you one of those people who thrive, or are you one of those who just survive.  I doubt if there is anyone who has said that they love problems and yet many have admitted that their greatest gain came from the middle of their pain.  Each time we encounter a painful experience, we get to know ourselves and our friends a little better.  Pain prompts us to face who we are and forces us to acknowledge where we are at present.  What we do with that experience defines who we become as a person.  We know life is filled with ups and downs and yet we all want ups and ups of which we also know is not possible.

People need to be the most important thing in your life because without other people there is no personal growth.  You will either be involved with people, be dormant or give up your physical body and pass on.  The more you are aware, the higher your energy frequency will be.  On a spiritual level, you can always move to a lower frequency but souls of a higher frequency need to come to your level to relate to you.  You need to learn to play the game of society and that means living in two worlds at once, the material and the spiritual. 
 
When you decide what you want to do with your life, you can then mould it into a form of useful service. That is why it is important to plan ahead and obtain positive outcomes to give your life meaning.  Having enough money to spend will not be your greatest challenge.  Your greatest challenge will be to decide what you want to achieve out of life.  To grow into what feels right for you takes cautiousness and discipline to stay alert.  You are the only one who can keep you from your success.  The moment you want praise you will attract blasé people who feel you owe them a living.

Most people equate success with the amount of material wealth they have accumulated. When you live your past glories you will be afraid to try something new for fear of making mistakes. You will want to hold onto things to give yourself security and the more tightly you hold onto things, the more controlling and tense you will be.   The more you fear the more you will become possessive and will tend to want many material possessions around you.  The greatest fear of all fears is the fear of separation from all your material possessions and the death of your physical body.  

Located around your body are energy centres called Chakras.  When the universal energy enters your body it begins its journey at the Crown Chakra located at the top of the head.  The energy then flows through your body to the other chakras and out through your Third Eye located at your forehead.  The Crown Chakra is associated with self acceptance and having a conscious detachment from personal emotions.  It is usually associated with the colour violet for enlightenment and white for balance.  It has healing qualities that stimulate the spleen area and often helps you to meditate, reflect and absorb spiritual information. 

Many of us choose colours instinctively without any regard to how they interact with our feelings.  Colours can make you feel healed and stimulated or sad and lethargic.  Have a look at your wardrobe of clothes.  Most likely they are predominately a certain colour because of how they make you feel and look.  For example red clothes can make you feel warm and stimulated.  Pink often has a feeling of compassion, love, empathy and calm.  Blue clothes can say that you are a private, loyal and a thoughtful person.  Black clothes often make a statement to the world that you are going out there to discover yourself and have some fun.   When you wear all the colours that unite to create white or rainbow, you may have a desire for some soul searching and inner joy or a transformation of consciousness.  

Life is a process by which your soul is seeking to experience what it knows and have a feeling for that.  It is along the spiritual path that your soul arrives at complete knowing and along the physical path that you achieve complete experiencing.  This is why you are living in two worlds right now, as both paths are needed to produce complete awareness.  Home is a place called completion however long that takes and when you ultimately have it all together.  Experiencing what you know and knowing who you are, is arrived in stages.  Each passage through a lifetime can be considered as one of those steps. 

The more pride you have the more you will be operating within the boundaries of your intellect.  Pride is based on your emotions.  Your emotions are your intellectual feelings which are learned reactions.  When you have too much pride you will be afraid to assert yourself for fear of someone hurting you and too proud to admit you are confused.  You will defend yourself even though you are not sure you are right.  When things do not go the way you had them organised, your pride will be stimulated because of your expectations. 

If you need attention you can be easily manipulated because you are trying to please someone.  Resentfulness will build if you do not get what you want because you have allowed people to infringe too far into your personal boundary.  If you play the big shot role for attention you can easily become someone’s pawn.  It is easy to fall into the glory trap because people want to capture what you have and become devoted to you.  That is alright when you are living in a nice comfortable bubble of protection but when you are on a pedestal it is easy for you to topple.

Competition comes from environmental pressure to get ahead and succeed.  At birth you are just a bundle of feelings just being yourself with no expectations.  Your parents teach you to compete in order to accomplish things.  You are taught how to achieve instead of just doing things for the joy of it.  Society places an emphasis on winning the game, having the highest grades and being the most popular.  This gives you a false sense of superiority, pride, complacency and loyalty, which creates separation and greed.

In our society we are taught to lean on the theories of other people.  If you have this thought stimulated enough you will develop feelings of devotion to a person or a cause outside of yourself.  Your need to be needed can cause other people to be devoted to you.  This can lead to a two-way street with a dead end in either direction because you will both be controlled.  Devotion has associated feelings of power, expectation, control and manipulation. 

A physical body is needed to anchor your soul on this planet so that you can learn through experience.  As long as you are here with a body you have the opportunity to mingle with all levels of awareness.  The zone of consciousness of a soul with a physical body is one of aspiration, action and achievement.  When your soul departs your body, your energy pattern will gravitate to a level of awareness where everyone has more or less the same level of consciousness.

We know the decisions we make today can often determine our destiny tomorrow and yet often we keep changing our mind.  The greatest secret to creation is to keep choosing the same thing over and over again.  Once is not enough.  Do it over and over until your will is made manifest in your reality.  This could take years months weeks days or be instantaneous.  You can tell when you are on track when you see the gap closing between willing and experiencing.

Thoughts are very subtle and yet an extremely powerful form of energy.  It is very difficult to reverse the effects of negative thinking once they have taken physical form.  Thoughts like worry and fear attack the body at the cellular level.  If you think say and act out a negative concept such as ‘I am a loser’ you place tremendous creative energy into motion.  Think thoughts of anger and negativity long enough and your body will translate those thoughts into reality.

If you do not feel abundant, you may be trying to make it rather than earn it.  Successful people set their own pace and view success as something they have earned.  They believe that their goals are achievable and are not afraid to back themselves with commitment.  No matter what happens they have already decided they are successful.  Trying to make it builds an internal pressure of stress and worry.

People who earn a living doing what they love are the people who insist on doing so.  They do not take no for an answer, they never give up.  They dare life to give them a life rather than a living.  Life’s irony is that as soon as your worldly goods and success are of no concern to you, you open the way for them to flow.  When you achieve certain states of being over a long period of time success is very difficult to avoid.  The missing element is to understand the difference between being and doing.

When you go to sleep your soul travels and has experiences in other dimensions.  Earth is like a hotel except you check out when you sleep and check back in when you wake up.  The reason the soul travels to other dimensions is because it needs renewal.  Everything you do on the planet is aimed towards your spiritual unfoldment.  The more you understand that you are your feelings, the more you will realise that true freedom is about experiencing just being yourself.

They say that every 7 years we completely renew the cells of our body.  You are not the same person you were 7 years ago.  You have changed along with the members of your family and the people you know for better or for worse.  Along with the growth of your body, your mind and soul also have a different view of life because of the new experiences your body has encountered.  And your spiritual helpers are forever eager to pass on their wisdom to you with their flashes of inner knowing.

Think of five of your best friends and draw up a list of what you consider are their strengths and faults. Chances are that the area they fit most is where you are at this moment.  When you recognise something in someone that you admire or dislike then you have that in you too.  If there is something negative you recognise but that does not bother you then maybe you had that once but have outgrown it.

Have you ever wondered who you are, where you come from and where you are going?  Stress will often creep into your life when you lose focus of what your life is about. The rules of society are there to guide you and to respect other people’s boundaries.  If you feel guilty for breaking the rules then just don’t break them again.  If you feel you did nothing wrong then just don’t get caught.

Think for a moment of life as one big learning lesson.  Like any learning lesson you tend to like it when you understand the rules. If there is anything you dislike it is when you have not taken the time out to find out what is going on in your environment.  If you accept and understand yourself as an individual you will be the same towards others. The only thing that will keep you from putting it all together is your own lack of sincerity.  We get out of life exactly what we put into it.