Ocean Of Perspectives

Self Respect

The most powerful form of self respect is when you honor yourself through your words and act from a level of integrity and honesty that reflects your higher self. This means you display behavior and attitudes that reflects the values that you say you believe in. When you respect yourself, you stand by your deepest truth, know your inner most feelings and make yourself the authority of your feelings, instead of giving this authority to other people.

Believe in yourself and know that you did the best you knew how at the time, even if later you saw a better way. Allow yourself to feel good about who you are. Rest, think, take time to be alone and to be silent. Follow your own inner flow. This is how you nurture yourself and increase your self esteem.

Respect Yourself

You don’t have to be around people who don’t respect you or treat you well and if you find yourself around people like this, remember that they are not respecting you because they do not respect themselves. Not everyone you encounter is going to treat you with respect. Relationships you have with other people can only be as good as the relationship they have with themselves and vise versa. There’s no need to get angry or demand your rights. That will only create a power struggle. Accept that they can’t recognize their own greater selves, so they’re unable to recognize your greater self.

Self Worth

It’s easy to feel self worth when other people are being respectful to you. The real challenge is to respect yourself and appreciate your value when those around you do not. Acknowledging that you have self worth, allows you to let go of any need for other people to validate you. If you need people outside of yourself to validate you in order to feel good about yourself, then you’re giving away your power. It may feel good when others believe in, trust and support you; but if you want to keep your power, realize that you don’t need anyone but yourself to validate who you truly are.

Being sensitive to other people’s feelings is not the same as trying to please them. Be more aware of the effect you have on other people. The more you respect them, the more respect you will get back. Respect their worth, their time and values and you will find they will respect yours.

Respect  and value your truth

Your truth may be different from that of other people.  Don’t automatically accept someone else’s truth unless it resonates as truth for you also. You’re a special being whose dreams, fantasies and goals are just as important as anyone else’s.

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This series of four videos is about what the creator of the series, Rob Cutter, calls the mystical path. I appreciate the first video because he discusses how people can not give us knowledge because we all have the same knowledge, it’s just that we have forgotten. Some of us has rediscovered this knowledge, while others have yet to. Masters can point us to this knowledge, but they can not sell it to us, nor will true Masters try to sell knowledge. Here is an excerpt of what Rob write on this:

Charging for a conference or a retreat is okay when you are helping make up for the cost of the event, but a “guru” cashing in on a large monetary profit should send up a red flag. I pay for psychic readings out of courtesy, but I am wary of those who do this for a business… Something enlightened masters will never do. Real Masters work for the benefit of humanity. They see humanity as their own SELF. Quietly elevating the SELF and not the ego-self is their purpose.

Rob starts the first video with a story to demonstrate how some people will try to sell you what you already have, but are unaware that you possess.

Daily Practices Mystical Magickal Path Part 1

I have used the following exercise several times in my course of developing focus, my awareness and various levels of consciousness. It a simple exercise, yet very helpful.

Daily Practices Mystical Magickal Path Part 2

Rob gives such good, practical information and guidelines that are easy to learn and use as stepping stones to discovering your higher levels of consciousness.

Daily Practices Mystical Magickal Path Part 3

This is the final part of this series. Rob mentions the various benefits of discovering your inner knowledge and power, such as raising your energy vibration, discovering your psychic abilities as you open yourself to your higher levels of consciousness. I hope you find the videos helpful on your journey and I wish you continued success.

Daily Practices Mystical Magickal Path Part 4

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Anger as a Motivating or Destructive Force

Anger is something we all experience and can be a great motivating or destructive force. Anger can be triggered by feeling offended, betrayed, taken advantage of, being inconvenienced and countless other emotional triggers. Most times, the situation can be cleared up by talking to the other person or people involved. There are times, though, that talking it out is not possible, either because the other person is inflexible in their position, they’re unable to see your side or they’re are unavailable for one reason or another.

As I studied and practiced certain concepts on my path for self improvement and personal evolution, my perception of the things that would have previously triggered anger in me, altered until I found that I had reached a point that people’s words and behavior didn’t affect me as much as they did in the past. That is not to say I never get angry now, after all I’m not a saint or a Yogini, but if I do get angry, it’s usually to a lesser degree and dissipates quickly.

Releasing Destructive Anger

Some techniques I have found useful in releasing anger is to go for a walk. Being outside and in nature is healing, at least for me. If I find my anger is strong and more difficult to release, I will rant to myself out loud. Of course, I make sure I’m by myself when I do this and I don’t talk louder than my normal voice. If I’m out walking and ranting, by the time I return home, my anger is gone and I’m feeling more like myself.

Another method I was told about a few years ago and have found to be useful is writing out my anger on paper. After I write until I’ve exhausted all my anger, I leave it until the next day. The following day I read what I wrote, then I destroy it; some recommendations are to burn it. Sometimes I write it as a letter to the person I feel the anger towards. It’s a great way to release anger and to initiate healing from emotional wounds, whether they are old or new. I’ve also heard this method with a recommendation to write over a period of two or three days before reading it for the last time a day later. I think that might be a suggestion if your anger doesn’t show signs of dissipating after one session. Another variation suggests using a timer, set for ten minutes, while writing. Setting a time frame can help you to dig deeper into your feelings and bring them to the surface. Thoughts and feelings that might have been repressed and buried previously, need to be exposed and examined for release and healing to occur.

Some other anger release activities people use is to hit pillows or cushions, even throwing pillows at a wall, do their exercise or workout routine, either at home or at the gym. Some will do chores around the house or in the yard, etc.

Anger does have positive aspects and can be a great motivator for taking action and initiating changes that will improve ourselves or circumstances in our lives. But it also has a destructive aspect in that our emotions can distort our perceptions and thoughts in such a way that we can behave irrationally. It can also lead to feelings of resentment if we’re not able to let it go. This only leads to further misery. These destructive aspects of anger is what makes it important to find constructive ways to release it, so that we can move on to more pleasant feelings and experiences.

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This is a segment from the BBC show, Supernatural. This particular extract is from an episode that talked about extrasensory perceptions of plants and animals. Science is discovering that plants are a more complicated living creature than previously believed. Plants are able to send extrasensory type signals to other plants to warn of danger, which in turn, produce toxins to protect themselves from destruction by animals.

The Extrasensory Perception of Plants

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