Making Money through Sharing of Spiritual Gifts

One of the greatest fallacies in this world about spirituality is the negative idea towards making money from it. There are people who think that those who provide spiritual value or service to others should do so for free. They associate money as a thing of the world, and shouldn’t be mixed by the higher things.

This kind of mentality is exactly what causes the topsy-turvy state of the world and humanity’s progress. Even those who claim enlightenment from materialism are actually unenlightened about the truth. If people weren’t allowed to receive money for spiritual healings and teachings then this would mean that they would need to get work doing something non-spiritual. This would mean that they spent a lot less time doing spiritual work and practice, which would mean that they may well know less about spiritual
matters and would probably have less time to teach also. This would end up meaning that their overall spiritual contribution to the world could well be a whole lot less! How could this be a good thing?

Easy Breathing Practices

While a part of meditation is getting in touch with your awareness, another part has to do with relaxing and clearing your mind. Breathing is an important tool to get to both those places. Breathing may seem as simple as breathing in and out; however, this is not entirely the case.

For mediation to be successful, you will need to read up a little, listen to some CDs, and most of all practice a bit of breathing properly. Here are a few easy breathing practices to make your beginning mediation experience an enlightened one.

Proper Sitting for Proper Breathing

First and foremost, make sure that you are comfortable. Sitting upright with a straight spine will help the energy flow and prepare you for proper breathing exercises. Do not sit too rigidly, or you will be uncomfortable and unresponsive to the proper breathing format.

Improve your self confidence in 15 minutes

I used to be frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know me now would never believe I used to doubt myself so much I literally had to learn confidence until it became a natural part of me. I can tell you relaxed optimistic confidence is just, well so much more fun.

Here I'll tell you about the things that made the most difference to my confidence levels...

Some people have naturally high levels of confidence but everybody can learn to be more confident

Firstly, it's important to get a clear idea of what self confidence really means, otherwise you won't know when you've got it! So, self-confidence means:

1) Being calm. For every situation in life you need to run on the appropriate level of emotion. Too much emotional 'leakage' into a experience can spoil the experience. You make great strides towards confidence when you begin to relax in a greater range of situations.

2) Being cool. The second part of self confidence is about being able to relax with uncertainty. To be 'cool' in a situation really means relaxing with not knowing how things will pan out. If you truly tolerate uncertainty, you can do pretty much anything.

3) Not being too concerned with what others think of you. You know when you imagine what some place is going to be like before you go there but when you get there it is totally different to your imagination? That's how reliable your imagination is! Stop trusting your imagination so much. I've long since stopped bothering to imagine what others think of me because so often I've turned out to be wrong.

4) Being specific - where do you want confidence? 'Confidence' is meaningless until you tie it to something specific. You are already confident that you can read these words or can switch a light on and off. So you don't need more confidence everywhere. To get what you want in life you have to establish exactly what you do want. Where do you want confidence in your life? Think about the specific situations now and write them down. You beginning to steer your brain towards confidence.

Letting go Technique

My favourite practice that will help you feel calmer and happier is the ‘Letting Go’ technique.

This is based on mindfulness and whenever you begin to feel stress or anxiety about anything, then immediately respond with this simple and very powerful one minute practice.

1. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

2. Inhale to a count of five, hold to a count of five and exhale to a count of five

3. When you exhale, imagine exhaling your stress or anxious thought. Just feel and visualize it leaving your body.

4. Repeat aloud or silently “Let it go”.

5. Just feel the stress disappear.

Never hold onto negative thoughts. Just let them go. When you take a minute to do this you will be amazed at how calm and relaxed you will feel. If you are a visual person, it may help to picture yourself at your favourite place. It could be a beach, a mountain or your garden.

I know that this practice works really well from extensive studies from meditation, mindfulness and yoga. Whenever you pay attention to your breathing, you begin to feel better. This is the antidote to all that thinking and all that activity that traps us in a ‘doing’ mode. Spend more time just ‘being’. There is nothing more powerful to raise your mood and get you back on track. This is truly a marvelous minute!

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