How can you stop striving for satisfaction?

Striving for satisfation is seen as a legitimate way to live your life. If you're working toward something, then you're goal-oriented, motivated and generally live for tomorrow. 

Perhaps this sounds like you.  Do you ever sense you're missing something? Insisting you need things you don't have suggests you are missing something.  When will you trade in striving for an understanding of arriving where you are meant to be?  That is, when will you realize you are satisfied as you are, where you are, and doing what you're doing? 

If you have no goal in mind, does not everything you attempt then succeed? Have you ever thought what your life would be like if you were flexible and open to possibilities? What would happen if you stopped limiting yourself to what you assumed was necessaary to succeed? Which unseen doors would open if you trusted yourself and the unexpected?

1) Stop seeing all of your doubts in other people.  You choose to project your anger and fears in others.  Everyone tests your beliefs and sensitivities.  Only as you grow to accept everything about self will you become indifferent to how events unfold.  Believe every result is in your favor.  Ego-based expectations and assumptions do not honor the inner child.  Nobody causes you to lose touch with your soul without your consent.     

2) Follow the laws of nature.  You don't need to force things to happen or do what you think is neceassry to become the person in charge.  Observe nature's conditions and discern benefits in cycles.  Setbacks enable us to settle our minds and gain perspective.  How could you listen differently, be more instinctive, appreciate life's 'ups and downs'?

3) Eliminate fearful self-judgment. Thoughts of deficiency only attract it.  Believe greatness is on its way.  You get what you think about, whether you consciously want it or not.  Circumstances do not influence your peace of mind. If you choose confusion or blame, this prevents you from taking responsibility for what you feel.  Rather than resist believng you deserve or already live in abundance, choose gratitude and grace instead. 

What does your heart ache for?

Part of you is driven to pursue a life based on what society conditions and people expect. What you do for a living doesn't define you unless it is your conscious response to a calling from your soul. Do you dare to dream of responding to your heart? Are you bold enough to be true to yourself? What kinds of implications will this have for you now?

Back in school, you may have learned about certain work choices. Your ideas for jobs are often grounded in people you know or hear about.  Funny thing is, we are unaware how we limit ourselves. We get a sense of what we think we should do rather than clarify what we would like to do. Our choices may model others but alienate us from who we are.

It may not surprise you to admit you sense dissatisfaction.  You may not yet have learned to accurately identify preferences, gifts, or talents. The voice of your soul may be ignored, stifled or overwhelmed by external trends and expectations. Come what may, your inner voice translates the language of your heart. Its never too late to really listen.

5 things astral teaches you about what you're not

A great majority of humans accept what they see in themselves on Earth without question.  They may acknowledge a body and mind, but  seem uninterested in their true nature.   Psychic energies take form on the astral and offer insight into your psyche. 

Choose to move beyond superficial self-understanding.  Do not fear who you are, where you came from, and where you're headed.  Consider 5 things astral teaches you;  

1) You are not your body.  In the astral light, you move using your Etheric body.  Since your physical body remains asleep or awake in a different place, you realize its only a temporary shell.  You move beyond that form of existence and learn in another form. 

2) You are not your mind.  Your thoughts stem from the mind, the limits of which aren't easily grasped by humans.  You are not your thoughts.  They change whereas whatever you are is constant.  How you think reveals you are an observer to what happens.  This sets you apart from the larger consciousness.  Astral travel enables you to extend your inner awareness beyond limits of the physical.  You realize you transcend that.

3)  You are not your emotions.  They are often unconscious signs or extensions of the ego.  Such disturbances arise spontaneously to overwhelm or control you.  They differ from feelings from which you learn and manage to detach or move on. Both emotions and feelings change and impact physiology.  They are the driving force behind your identity. 

4) You are not your memories. Recollections ground you in a sense of time and space.  The astral is a dimension where your thoughts become pictures and abstractions become symbols to decipher.  Unconscious forces shape images that fade, but what you are doesn't vanish.  Awareness may be confined to physical or astral, yet neither define you.

5)  You are not your personality.  Your personality evolves from birth, based in part, on your susceptibility to external influences.  It actually masks your true identity.  You are prompted to discriminate and control in astral based on what you learn in the physical world.  The extent of your personality's influence determines how distracted or focused you become in astral.  The nature of astral doesn't change.  Your personality colors it.    

Why lose the things you seek to grasp?

When you prepare to challenge your assumptions, you engage in the process of raising your awareness. What you have been taught to believe is desirable is also subconsciously teaching you inferiority, even when you aren't far away from what you think you seek.   You may wonder why your aspirations seem to collapse or curiously lead to confusion.

1) Move beyond convention and prejudice. How we name things, including what we seek to do or acquire, is how we prejudice the our intrinsic worth and what we hope to gain. Words gain meaning based on our understanding of opposites. Word usage is how we define a set of rules for situations we don't control.  To move beyond this conditioned mindset, you need to reacquaint yourself with the power of intuition and spontaneity.

2) Let go of what you think you can possess. Avoid self-limits. You need not strive. You need not demand. As you decide you require less, you will receive more. Everything arrives on-time. Nothing is late. To permit events to unfold is to ignore the ego's supposed need to attack and triumph. Results you expect will come even if you don't ask.

3) Discern signals that indicate your life is out of balance. To change the way you think about yourself enables you to nurture a happy mind. Do you see everything with awe? Do you choose to love everything about your life, your age, your physical and mental states? Which habits distance you from well-being? You detect your destructive pursuits. Examine fixations. Alert yourself to the accuracy of your emotions. The guilt, suffering, and unhappiness only arise when you do not conform to your imagined ideals.

Isolate your real sense of success

Your sense of success is something that evolves with you.  It can be silent and unassuming or more obvious, depending on your level of self-awareness. 

You may define success by what you think you have or how you feel.  You may define success by a string of accomplishments or developing the ability to stop thinking, period.  It all depends on your frame of reference.  Are you prepared to live according to the natural flow of spontaneous events or, is your success vision driving you elsewhere?

1) Who inspires or motivates you?  You are invited to take an honest look at your thinking and choices and how they create imbalance. The people who inspire you offer practical tools to reframe who you are and how you live.  You can choose to compare yourself or, move beyond judgment.  Discern qualities and traits that matter.

2) How do these people make connections and build relationships?  Recognize that similar traits can be developed in yourself.  As you learn to examine the nature of your own relationships and results rather than things and time, you begin to grasp  clues to the behavioral changes which will transform your life, your outlook and your experiences.

3) Why clarify your values and priorities?  You can learn to reframe and deal effectively with adversity.  Challenges can be understood as your chosen view which can be changed.  Decide you will shift focus from what is unneccessary or unimportant.