There have been times when, in retrospect, I've chosen to learn the hard way to make sure the learning "sunk in" deeply. In general I do my best to learn the easy way. I look for the insights and changes in thinking and behavior I can make to create a smoother, happier, more loving and joyful life. For sure, there are more changes to be made to maximize that.

The change that is coming up for me now is to stop being so hard and critical of myself. Telling myself over and over that I'm not living up to my potential, that I'm not using my talents all I could be, that I could have created a much better life for myself than I have; aren't helping me. I choose to acknowledge those thoughts and allow more accurate thoughts to enter my mind. That would include; I've grown a great deal in this life, I've lifted myself and many others up, I've made a great many spiritual principles practical for myself and others, and the list goes on. I've led a life to be proud of.

I want to at least reduce the degree to which I live the life the hard way as a result of being so critical of myself. I just need to be aware of the negative thoughts and choose not to act on them.

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Stephen Paul Edwards shares hard won wisdom about relationships.

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We thrive at our highest level when mind, body and spirit are in alignment. I understand mind to be our thoughts, body to be our actions and spirit to be our essence. Of the 3, our spirit, the part of us that is ONE with GOD and all that exists, never changes. Therefore, to have greater alignment we need to change our thinking and our behavior to be in alignment with our essence, spirit, that never changes.

One way we create this alignment is to act on thoughts that have the devine qualities as part of them. Those devine qualities include love, compassion, peace, self confidence, high self esteem, joy, enthusiasm and in general all uplifting emotions. The more we act on a thouht, the more the emotion tied to that thought becomes a larger part of our experience of life.

Another way to create alignment is to be conscious and fully engaged in the present moment, allowing our essence to freely express. In my coaching I help people recognize the many times they're in alignment and how that is created so they can make being in alignment a larger part of their life. To schedule a coaching call to advance your alignment, contact me for a free initial session at [email protected]

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I know what works for me, and it is different than what most people would advise. Acting on thoughts that have uplifting emotions as part of them, works best for me. I meditate daily. In my meditation I listen to the thoughts that arise and take note of the emotion tied to each thought. I do my best to take note of the thoughts that have emotions I want more of in my life and act on those thoughts. Thoughts that have emotions that I don't want more of, I do my best to let go and choose not to act on them. I know that's not how most people go about living their life. I hope they find what works for them and do that. I wish success to everyone, regardless of how they define success.

Their is a longstanding pull to abondon focusing on what works for me and I know to be true in favor of adopting what works for others, or is commonly believed to work. I find I need to remind myself often to focus on what works for me, what I believe are the true measures of success, what I believe to be true rather than trying to adopt what others recommend. I listen to others and consider their input, and decide to act or not act on their advice depending on the emotion and resonance I feel connected to their advice.

Sometimes, I agree with the advice and don't seem to be able to access the energy and clarity to implement the suggestion. I've come to accept that sometimes I don't have access to the resources within myself at that moment to implement a suggestion I believe would beneficial to me and others. That's ok. I wanted to write a book for 20 years before I finally did. It took growth over decades to allow myself to write and publish books. Now, I've written and published 13 books as of this writing. The growth and clarity it takes to create something I want in myh life takes as long as it takes to achieve. Understanding what growth is requied to be effective at creating something in my life I desire has helped me be more efficient in my growth. I know that to create the contribution I desire to share with society, I need to accept and relate more fully to being ONE with all that exists. It's wonderful to know the cause of my success and be able to focus on that.

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At our highest level we are present. One way to move more in that direction is to take things one day at a time.

I meditate daily taking note of uplifting thoughts I can use to make my day as great as possible.

Today, I am inspired in meditation to more and more see everyone and everything as a projection of myself. When I think of the people I'll be meeting with today, I have great respect for them and find associating with them to be uplifting. That can only mean I have great respect for myself and find listening to and accepting myself uplifting.

When I find myself being frustrated with others not making faster progress, I know that is a projection of my own impatience with my spiritual growth, my acceptance of being ONE. When I accept that self criticism, I find that acceptance of the existence of the negative thought to make space for a more accurate thought which is, "I'm doing very well at being increasingly honest with, accepting of myself, growing spiritually."

As I write this, I am experiencing love for myself and an enhanced feeling of well being. I am having the thought, I am doing what I should be doing with my life. I am at peace.

All this is available to me because I begin my day with listening deeply to myself and choosing to act on uplifting thoughts and heal negative thoughts by accepting therir existence and choosing not to act on them.

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When we heal ourself, we heal the world. We create the world as a projection of our thinking. When we are more conscious of our thoughts and how they create our world, the thoughts and behaviors change for the better, as does our life, as does our world.

If you ask a number of people to describe the world as it is now, it's likely you'd get very different descriptions. This is a testament to the fact that we create our own world. Once we accept that we have the power to create our own world, we cabn utilize more of that power as we choose. However, some thoughts are uplifting and others are self defeating. Some people drink large amounts of alcohol in an effort to escape emotional pain. Eventually that drinking and denial creates even greater suffering. On the other hand, being kind to people lifts everyone up and creates a better world.

I choose to create as kind, wise, loving world as I can. I do my best to align with what is true and uplifting.

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We can select how much and what we want to do with our life. Every course of action has challenges associated with it.

I've chosen to make all I can of my life. I've set a goal of fully accepting and relating to being ONE with all that exists. I can monitor my progress by tracking the degree to which I see that awareness reflected back to me in the world.

At this point I see I have friends and cliens where our relationship reflects that we do all we can to help and uplift one another. That win win thinking is a reflection of being ONE. My podcasts reflect this win win orientation and being ONE orientation as well. The podcasts have been downloaded in over 130 countries.

There is more internal acceptance ahead of me as my perception is that the dominant thinking throughout the world is zero sum, not win win. I know as I more fully accept and relate to being ONE, that win win thinking, the understanding that what we do to anyone we're doing to ourself, and our percepting of everyone is a reflection of my perception of myself; will be my experienced of life.

To accomplish this I need to have a greater and more complete acceptance of the fact I am ONE with all that exists. I work on this every day, accepting where I'm at in my progress.

This represents a big challenge for me. I could change the challenge I've taken on at any time, and I choose not to.

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We all want deeper connections. What we benefit from knowing is that the source of the deeper connections we seek is a deeper connection with ourself. When we're deeply connected to ourself, we're deeply connected to everyone else.

For example, if I'm deeply accepting and understanding of myself, confident of who I am, I can more easily open up to others and provide an accepting environment for them to open up to me, resulting in a deeper connection.

We grow our connection to ourself by listening to ourself. By listening to our thoughts we become more connected to ourself. By listening to our body, we become more connected to ourself.

Take time to listen to yourself and note the difference it makes in your life.

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The more we relate to seeing everyone as a projection of ourself, the more we relate to being ONE and the less separate we feel. There is love, joy, flow, inspiration and everything good being experienced when we are experiencing being ONE. There is no suffering.

The way to be more in the zone, experiencing more of being ONE, more conscious of the present moment is to be conscious of when we're not in that state. My experience is that by accepting I am identifying with being an individual and all the suffering that comes with that, the more that acceptance throws me out of the suffering of thinking I'm separate and into the experience of being ONE.

When we're in the flow, experiencing being ONE, we are not thinking; just being spontaneous. We're not aware of time. These descriptions attempting to describe what it is to be ONE in the present moment, are approximations. The full greatness of being present in the flow can only be experienced. All descriptions falll short of that experience.

From the perspective of being an individual, you can reach me for a free introductory coaching session where we build our capacity to use thought to end thought, and live more experiencing the present moment, what it is to be ONE. Contact me at [email protected] to learn to relate more to the fact that we each create our own world in the present moment.

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Our perception of others is a projection of ourself. We can only recognize in others what we have in ourself. Otherwise we could not relate to or identify with others.

I have many friends who take responsibility for creating the most loving, joyfull and happy life they can. That's me too.

At times I see people struggling. I can relate to that as well. The more I accept struggling, the more that acceptance heals it in both me and others. Instead of seeing then as struggling I see their determination to create a better life in action.

The more we identify with others, the more we experience what it is to be ONE with all that exists. Accepting that truth brings us into greater alignment with who we truly are, greater self acceptance. In experiencing the deep connection that is part of being ONE we feel safe, loved, secure and confident.

If you are engaged in efforts to uplift the world, I offer coaching. Part of what I offer is the understanding that in order to have a greater positive impact in the world than the current impact, it is necessary that we grow in our own self acceptance. We must work on ourself in order to be stronger and more able to have a greater positive impact in the world. If that's you, contact me at [email protected] .

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