http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog Metaphysical Articles Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:53:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en 1.0 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog all aboutstevegunn casestudies destinyandfreewill egodeeath meditation metaphysicalprinciples dysfunction ptsennuh quotes soulconnections spiritualgrowth http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?page_id=2 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:06:26 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?page_id=2 2 2009-11-29 11:06:26 2009-11-29 17:06:26 open open about publish 0 0 page _edit_lock 1259547761 _edit_last 1 _wp_page_template default http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=3 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:37:11 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=3 What is a soul connection ? A soul connection ( referred to in differing ways as soulmate, karmic connection or twin flame ) is someone who's destined to enter our lives in order to bring about change. They are tests and challenges we are meant to encounter on our life path in order to drive us deeper into knowledge of self, to resolve issues and transcend in self understanding and self awareness, and to make us realize that some things are way beyond the traditional view of reality as being what we perceive or decide - ie bring our awarenss to powers of destiny and connectedness on a level much stronger than our own will. That does NOT mean we can't have a relationship with them in time nor does it mean that relationship is destined but it does mean we have to pass some tests...Each connection is different and there are many levels. Threre's little substitute for a really good reading on the tests and the karma and the results of your connection but remember YOU will define the outcome even if you can't see that right now... Some people subscribe to beliefs that twins or other types of connections aren't about karma or are more about the relationship and that th level of destiny geared to the relationship is different. All of the evidence doesn;t bear this out, all connections are subject to the same laws.. Whats the purpose of meeting a soul connection ? To challenge us to get closer to our actual existence, that of why we are here, who we truly are, the human experience, and that there's so much more than just birth, paying the mortgage and then death. In other words to get us closer to our spirituality, to realize that we are a part of the universe and always have been and that despite feeling our existence may be some biological function its so much more than that. Here's the tough part…..We always think of them in terms of the relationship, and before that's gonna happen we have to understand that it's a bigger life experience than that and be willing to accept the lessons… Whats the difference between a soulmate and a twin flame ? As we progress through our many physical lives on this planet with the process of learning in each life and progressing to a higher level in the next, we will encounter soulmates in the later lives. Each experience will test us to our limits, often making us feel that the level of love, pain and learning cant possibly be greater than it is this particular soul connection. But it can, as we progress and grow, successive connections can and will get stronger as we get stronger, leading to the ultimate soul connection the twin-flame. A twin flame is the reuniting of the other part of our soul on the last leg of our journey through our many lives on this planet. Only very elevated souls meet twin flames and they are the most powerful, most destructive and most transformative experience. Twin flames are very very rare……. Whats the relevance of karma? Most people see karma as simply "do good get good" or "do bad get bad". That's just one law of a set of rules ( karmic law ) that govern metaphysics similar to the laws of physics that rule the physical dimension. And they are surprisingly similar…. Our individual karma, or set of lessons we are meant to learn, continue with us through all of our lives, they don't end with physical death. And so do the key connections in each life, so that we will reunite in this and other lifetimes if we don't manage to pass all the tests and challenges within a physical lifetime. Psychic readings and soulmates…. Just like we have 5 physical senses (sight, taste, smell, hearing and touch ) , there are also basic 'psychic' senses that can be developed. Some will be able to develop just one and some all 5. And as with anything it takes practice and dedication. Even with a very high level of potential psychic ability, the real challenge is to maintain the discipline to use those abilities and not to think. We all know that the brain intervenes all the time and so in order to read on the highest level whatever ones abilities, a strict and disciplined regime of meditation and practice is essential in order to give only what we are given rather than offer thoughts or opinions... The pressure on readers who do the work full time and need to earn a living can often push people to do too many readings, or to allow their beliefs to enter readings, unless we maintain a code of ethics… Why did psychic A tell me he's no good for me? At this point in his development he may not be, but that's not the whole story, Remember that meeting a soulmate transforms BOTH parties and so change is the order of the day Also, that wasn't your psychic reading that was s/he giving an opinion. Make sure you are clear from them what you want when you ask for a reading….and its probably not opinions. . Why didn't psychic A tell me he was my soulmate? For many readings, especially about conventional non-soul connection type relationships, its commonly taught to use the lower 2 abilities to tune in to the 2 people. E.g what does person A feel about person B ( empathic reading ) and what do they think about each other ( telepathic reading ) . In a lot of cases that’s enough for the reader to get a handle on whats happening and look forward psychically and get an answer. With soul connections it’s a whole new game. The connection is not coming from within you both, it's a set of forces that connect your destinies. In order to 'see' that, one must have developed an ability to see energy and also to see how each persons life path is intertwined with the other and why These energies do not come from the people and therefore cant be read with the empathic or telepathic abilities. Many readers are very very good at 'psychic spying', that is confirming he has blonde hair or drives a green car or is tall and that is often very impressive. But again that's 'what is" not what's really happening… . And so soul connections are a challenge for even the most accomplished readers to see and understand what's going on at a practical, emotional, karmic, life path and spiritual level Only when you put the whole picture together can you get the right answers. Why did psychic A tell me he was my twin flame when psychic B says he's my soulmate? Many people say only the people involved know if it’s a twin flame or a soulmate experience. Given that everyone involved in a soul connection is most probably feeling love and pain on the highest level they've ever experienced they are bound to believe it’s a connection of the highest order. Only when a psychic reader has read and seen and experienced the whole range of energies can we see where yours sits on the grand scale. This is linked to your soul-age as well and therefore we also need to able to see that in the context of your past and future lives and the karmic tests you are being challenged with.. Many people believe that twin souls are more likely to reunite and therefore badge theirs as a twin flame experience. Actually the rules of karma dictate all connections and therefore its no more likely that anything different will happen with a twin flame, except the roller coaster ride is a whole lot bigger than with a soulmate and the transformation utterly staggering. Psychic A told me he was my soulmate and we'd be together forever but now he's left? The way destiny works is that we are led to crossroads where we ( and they ) make a choice. If we didn’t have the freewill to make choices then we wouldn’t be able to learn lessons.. In the case of soul connections, whats destined is that eventually despite both of your choices, the karma has to be settled so you'll be led in each others directions again until it is.. Even in the case where he's eventually returned and on his knees promising all that you ever wanted him to, you can say NO. That’s your freewill, but only when the karma has completed and you've both accepted this connection for what it is and come to it willingly… In the case of lower level soulmates, return is not necessary in order to complete the karma but in all high level ones the karma cant complete until you have reunited…So destiny never decrees we HAVE to be with someone, just that we're given the right choices, even if those choices are taken away for a time by another's free will. Psychic A told me he wasn't thinking about me but I can sense that he is, what's happening? Believe what your senses tell you. You will know if you are deluding yourself or you really sense that…. As always, go with the instincts !. Psychic A said he'll be back by Christmas not next summer, why am I being given different dates? This is a really important question and probably the one most people want to know… I often hear "timing is difficult to read" ? No its really easy - the problem is that people don't realize which timings they control and which are controlled by destiny. When its the timing of a persons freewill it cant be predicted because it hasn't been decided. When its destined its already been decided... Its normal for everyone to consider time as a line from past to future and we site here at the present moment. We see destined events as a given event, with a given person, organization or object, at a given place and at a given time. Well guess what, it doesn't happen like that. Destiny and free will are an intertwined fabric of our reality so there's always going to be a variable that's subject to freewill. For example, a coming events is defined by spirit as that long awaited job opportunity and it will come in October. No problem because any good psychic will get "job" and "October" The universe defined a job and a timing. Now if you take the job or not that’s your free will and you will either love your decision or hate it at a later date. No psychic can get a guaranteed read on if you will take that job or not until you decide, because before you decide it is not a pore ordained event therefore cant be pre-seen! So in this case the universe gave you some control of your destiny, she gave you a choice, but she also did her part in delivering the options to you. You could even have a choice of 2 jobs in October and we are getting that you can choose one. You can still choose not to have one so free will and destiny are still working together…. With soul connections. The timing is the free will because each party has to learn big important karmic lessons, to go through a process of transformation and to come out of the other side seeing their errors and finding the right path. Now the good news is that this transformation is the bit that’s inescapable. The bad news is that the freewill is the only thing that defines WHEN that person makes that choice. So any good psychic can see what's already been planned and HAS to happen. We cant see the timing until the person has decided. Because before that its something that isnt defined. Psychics read what has already been decided by God or man and cant be changed…..and that will never be Event, Place, Person AND Timing…. As soon as the person has made up their mind, its easy to say "you will hear in the next week" and get it right. But understand that until something has been decided it doesn’t exist so therefore cant be read. So many many will offer you accurate timings, but they simply don’t understand how the universe works………and there's no pre requirement for any psychic reader to study metaphysics, so be aware of which readers are working from belief and which from a metaphysical context... Psychic A is accurate about so many things, so why not everything? Spirit wont give us everything, however much we ask - its not 1-800 DIAL GOD. We are here to guide and advise... If someone's working well and has developed all the different levels of ability and is practicing a discipline to keep it working then we will get a lot. Why did psychic A say that I should stop seeing my soulmate and stay with my husband and that otherwise it will all end in tears? They should have answered that and explained the karma, the choices, and implications, your life path and the forces around you. The choice is and was yours not theirs. Remind your psychic to advise you not tell you what to do because thats not being psychic...]]> 3 2009-11-29 12:37:11 2009-11-29 18:37:11 open open soulmate-faq-2007 publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259556563 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=7 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:55:12 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=7 In many cases, after very long periods of 'the dance' (that period where you know you are meant for each other, but one partner always finds reasons why they can't be with you just now but you mustn't walk away,) the 'solid' partner comes to the point where they can't take anymore and are forced to issue an ultimatum. The 'runner' must then deal with the trauma of loss of the most important person in their lives, forcing them to look deep inside and get past the fears that have trapped them and us alike. In my experience, there is nearly always a point where this is necessary for the 'solid' partner, as loving someone so deeply and not being able to be with them while staying in touch and eing 'available' hurts so much, we come to a point where we can't pay that emotional price anymore. Frequently, soul mate parting will trigger some degree of spiritual awakening - sometimes up to full awakening with the advent of visions and psychic awareness. Thus, we are bound to explore this and take our own internal journey of spiritual discovery. Seeking the answer 'why' will initiate this so that we might understand how our hearts know without any doubt that this person is for us, yet they have left and we remain with utter confusion, i.e. the head /heart split. Along the way, we will begin to ask all sorts of questions about our direction and purpose and uncover things that we would have never realized had we not been forced into this position. It is said the 'real' journey of life is the journey of development of the spirit to find how the path ahead lies on a more spiritual basis now that our lives have changed forever. Taking this path, we will frequently find that old ideas and passions and ways of living no longer hold the interest that they did, and many will look to psychics, religion and spiritualism for answers. It is not uncommon for people to lose total interest in their job and other material things that were a part of their life prior to the awakening. The path is often extremely challenging as so much in our lives will change. For a while, confusion reigns as we know that somehow deep down a change has taken place within us and that which made us content no longer seems to hold an interest. Add this to the pain of loss and that's why losing a soul mate is the most traumatic experience imaginable. Hate, confusion and utter disbelief are common responses to separation. However, in order to help the karma along towards reconnecting, we will find that unconditional love and understanding towards our soul partner is the only way. This can be unbelievably difficult in the first stages of separation, as the pain is so overwhelming we often fail to see how we can forgive someone for putting us through this. But as we continue along our path to awareness, eventually we find a place where the love for our partner is the only thing that matters and we offer them healing and forgiveness. The quicker the two partners reach spiritual awareness and live out the karma, the quicker the reconnect. The link between the soul mates is an actual energy link. It's akin to having a twin, where this person feels part of us and part of our soul and indeed they are. Q. So how do I make sense of all of this and my situation? Sense is an intellectual function in the brain, Evaluating what is happening against other 'real' experiences and trying to find out what's going on. Words like obsession and phrases like 'Am I going mad?' flash through the mind in an attempt to compare this experience to others and find an understanding that will give us some peace. The reason is that meeting a soul mate is a soul experience. It's an experience that is so unique it can't possibly be made sense of by comparing it to other more practical and every day things. The universe has decided that two people have to be together for a period of time and they are connected at a deep soul level. So, in fighting it, you are fighting the forces of destiny. Make no mistake. When soul mates come together, there is a relationship beyond anything you will have experienced before. If you fight it or try to stay apart, the pain, anguish and confusion will show you just how special this bond is. Lorna's reflections Having thought through everything and analyzed it to death, I think I'm much closer to understanding things than the average layperson. There were certain characteristics to the whole matter certainly, such as the incredible irony. If everything in the matter isn't just so ironic, then it probably isn't the true thing. The stages I found were something like what one goes through when someone dies. First, there's the incredible shock and realization that nothing can ever be the same again. Then there's the denial, no. can't be...didn't happen...wasn't me, whatever. Then there's the deep pain that hits so hard, and you carry for some time. Then there's a kind of acceptance, and finally some sense of peace again. Also conversely, there are the stages of first love that everyone remembers from high school. First, the glow in the face and eyes is something that shines out of everyone, transcendental and ethereal, and makes everyone more attractive. Then they see with new eyes (rose-colored glasses) and see art and beauty in many things that weren't noticed before. Then you start to understand every poem, song or writing that delves around the subject of love. Then you realize that the depth of your feeling before, which you thought quite deep, was really shallow because there's miles below that which you've just struck into and that makes other relationships pale so strongly in comparison. Physical reactions are varying. When embracing, you might feel a shift inside at the solar plexus like someone gently shoving you over saying, make room, we're finally together here, and you feel whole and more complete. I had struggles for most of my life over suicide. Once meeting that person, or realization of that person, even though the emotional strife is more than ever experienced before, I've had not one day of that struggle since, as the heart knows that once feeling the togetherness, it is inevitable that you must come together again. I've also had a strange golden patina to the light surrounding the circumstances, almost like a sepia tone, which told me in my heart that God was present or guiding me through these times. The extreme physical reactions of heart flopping like a bass in a boat, the highs and lows, like Disneyland on drugs, all wrapped up in a big whirlwind that is hard to ride through. The tsunami of love, 9.5 on the Richter scale of love, just short of absolute destruction. It is always bittersweet, antithesis and paradox, things and feelings together that just really shouldn't be, as they are opposites. There is a great fear of the immense feeling because it is so hard to take, both the highs and lows. One always runs away or is taken away by a controlling person, because likely one partner always bends over backwards for people (so others can get a better aim to kick you in the head), and won't put themselves or their happiness as high as that of others. But there is still a communication on a deep level always present, that tells you that the other one is going through the same thing, and communicates the feelings and love back and forth that sustains through the rough periods. And of course, you know that 'the surgeon has to cut deep for the healing to begin' and this always cuts the deepest, but is healed the quickest by the love of the partner To find where to get the book "When Two Souls Connect" go the main site http://stevegunn.net and click on the book icon]]> 7 2009-11-29 12:55:12 2009-11-29 18:55:12 open open the-dance-an-excerpt-from-when-two-souls-connect publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558057 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=9 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:58:03 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=9 It's one of the most confusing aspects of soul connections and yet i believe something that makes sense when you consider what's going on at the energy level and what has to happen... That lovely old word karma, both parties must have undergone their transition, their change, their inner progression. What i strongly believe makes people act in this crazy way is that indeed they do totally want to be with you but something holds them back. Ive made it a point in the research to talk to a lot of runners and most if not all say that something told them they couldn't do it at that time even if they wanted to. That does often come out as "I don't know what i want" either explicitly or implicitly.. It's also very common to get blamed for coming into their lives and creating this confusion...DUH....yeah that happens a lot. You hear the " I didn't want to be in love" and "you made this happen". All part of runner insanity.. They feel the immense pull towards you but at the same time there's a strong inner voice telling them they aren't ready. This is at the same soul level as the pull..and its working to make them clean-up-their-act, to release old demons, go through the changes that karma dictates and to one day be ready to walk the path. I hear so many times about how freewill is overriding the connection but its not always just that; its some inner knowing they have that they aren't ready but one day they will be. Often the runner is more confused by these immensely strong and diverse urges than the poor person trying to make sense of what is clearly a form of insanity..... It's why i say to people that its often better to understand that dynamics of a situation than what he or she is thinking / feeling right now, because their compass is whirling in circles, and any reading based on where they are is not an indication of what's going to happen. Unfortunately that doesn't stop some people projecting the runners present state into a "prediction" ( i'll just put some more """"" around that ) , hence you can get wildly varying answers depending on who you talk to... It's going through this process that you will find out one of the big secrets of soul connections; and this is...... Logic won't give you answers... The "If they loved me they would be with me" is as insane as what they're going through.. It's part of the process that usually involves spending the savings on keen to get many different answers, finding out that friends are totally sick of hearing about it and want you to forget the person, and yet that voice inside that's tearing at you just won't quiet..... This is all part of the learning on the side of the "stayer", often pushing us deeper into true understanding of the human condition, with its complex love, fear, insecurity issues. On the metaphysical front it shows us the true power of the universe when she wants something, and that all the logic in the world does not make sense in situations like these.... What drives us forward is that inner knowing that just won't go away, and when we can begin to understand there are powers at work much greater than we have previously understood - but that their laws are different to what we know, then we begin to make progress ]]> 9 2009-11-29 17:58:03 2009-11-29 23:58:03 open open soul-connection-insanity publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259556557 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=11 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:59:37 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=11 In fact in though all we may be thinking about is the actual relationship - its just one element of something much bigger. Understanding some of these differences is VITAL to getting a grip on the often seemingly bizarre situations we find ourselves in when connected to someone. In a conventional relationship person A meets person B, there's usually some physical attraction, then getting to know the person, then emotions begin to develop. A 3 stage process… In soul connections they can start in the same way with stages 1 and 2 but then WHAM the emotions come from nowehere and they are HUGE, usually massively disproportionate from the time we've spent together or how much we think we know the person. It's also very common that the emotions come first sometimes when we havent even met the person face to face. Or the very first time we meet them the connection happens and we realise we do know them and somehow the emotions are there already. So the crucial aspect to realise here is that its an EXTERNAL force between us and them not internal as in a conventional relationship….. Do we love them and them us, yes but its not a love that’s something we 'decide', its been decided for us by the connection and was spiritually pre existing, all we had to do was meet them in order to be brought to recognise that. Both partners will respond, usually instantly knowing there's something special but how much they are affected at the time and how much they realise whats going on depends upon their level of spiritual openness at the time. We're all familiar with the situation where its fine for a time then one partner just seems to freak out and head for the hills because its all so strong and they don’t feel in control of it. A classic case where the closer they get to it the more theres still there and they fear the lack of control they would have in a conventional relationship. So remember, this is an external force and its strong. To those of us who are open that’s a wonderful thing. To those who still have fear insecurity and doubt it can also be a terrifying thing - something that's so powerful they begin to fear it because they have no escape rooute and no control. So when you have your readings and 10 readers say no he doesn't love you and 10 say yes he does, then you join a huge group of people who have experienced the "what the heck is going on in this situation and what's the reality ?" Well if your in a true connection, the reality is yes the love is there, but it’s a love that is not a conventional 'emotionally decided' love, its something that transcends that. You love each others soul in a pure spiritual way and that has existed before you even met. The thing to really understand is that although the other person may SEEM to have their freewill overriding this, often its pure fear. Also if they are still spiritually closed they arent yet feeling the full force of the connection so the truth may be that yes they feel it but that they havent opened enough yet to let it consume them and they're fighting it. Have faith that spiritual openess is the order of the day, its often why theres a connection, to make the spiritually closed people walk the path of total openess. And when they get there, then the connection will control them as much as it controls you. Don’t be under the illusion that they can somehow choose never to be open or they have enough will power to overide it. True connections are mututal and as the runner opens up they will be more affected by it. Free will can not maintain control over these things forever, its simply not powerful enough. And besides, this is why you were given the connection in the first place, to bring you both to new levels of spiritual openesss and awareness. I believe it was Einstein who said "the only thing that’s constant in the universe is change' People cant choose not to change its how the universe works, they can just delay the process. They cannot use free will to stand still forever. Its why over the years I have thousands of letters from people, all of who have experienced this phenomenon and have been through the hell that often accompanies it. People reunite after incredible amounts of time and the love is still as strong, it nevers goes. Its just that it took so long for one of the partners to let go enough to accept it. A classic case I often site is a client who met her soul connection when she was 18 and knew there was something there but chose to not go with it. Now in her 40's she called me in tremendous pain to say she cant live without this guy. He just cant get his head around how she could stay away for over 20 years and then be in so much pain to be with him. But this story isnt unusual….when people open up it gets to them, they cant fight it anymore. My files are full of cases where people come together across continents, over incredible periods of time. So when you have a reading try not to make any judgments on what he or she is feeling right now, because that’s really not the whole story and most often wont be any sort of guidance whatsoever. Get a reading on the karma, the purpose of the connection, the path and the progression - that’s going to give you the right answers. Above all have faith in the universes process ]]> 11 2009-11-29 17:59:37 2009-11-29 23:59:37 open open soul-connection-or-relationship publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259539213 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=15 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:02:03 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=15 Instead its usually "how many people do you talk to have real connections" and other such stuff…. Well leaving aside that terrible drug - reasurance - the one that makes normally sensible people as less than sensible questons like the "how many" one, lets ook at reality and why connections are a necessary part of the universal processes….. Nothing ever ends….. The "big illusion" as it's often referred to is that we are a creation in this life which ends with our physical death. That its about the time between our birth and our death and all about who we are, what we can achieve and especially about that constant search for happiness and fulfillment on the physical plane. Well then come soul connections which blow a lot of what we thought we knew out of the water…. How can we meet someone, maybe in some cases not even meet them face to face, and connect to them so profoundly and "know" them at a soul level in such a way….. And then WHAM where did they go and why am I tied to someone who has shaken my world so much and im utterly trapped….? I think we all know these types of question when we've had a soul connection. Looking at soul connections from the romantic standpoint we all know too well. But to ask the bigger questions is the only way to get answers. For a start if you ever doubted reincarnation, a soul connection is usually a good way to stem the doubt because you will have some inner sense of already knowing the person and indeed you did, but not in this life….. Taking the "Its all about love" standpoint is an admirable one but still not the full story. Other approaches often are that only God knows or only we ourselves know from the feelings we have for that person… But as many many extremely accomplished and notable people have explained over the years, the universe is explainable, does have method, and can be seen to make sense if we can only escape the prison of our opinion and look outside the box. ( pause for someone to say "that’s just your opinion" ) A couple of quotes from Eisntein….. A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty and Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one It's a very well founded practice going back thousand of years that if we can expand beyond our thought we can once again experience being part of that universe and understand its methods and find answers.....Another way to put this is that everyone has psychic abilities, something pronounced by many notables not least Edgar Cayce. For "psychic ability" just read that we reconnect with source, begin to feel our connection to the divine and can begin to understand the mechanisms at work. I always say to people that i think God has a pretty cool way to wake us up to that and its through soul connections. The "soul shock" as i called it is just that. An electric bolt to wake us up from the prison of our mental consciousness and put us back in touch with the divine from where we came and where we return. BUT we also aren’t isolated from it here and now, we are just hampered by having a physical presence and physical consciousness called thought reality.... So the reason for soul connections is a continuation. Death is no end. So when we reincarnate if the script hasn’t concluded in the past life it continues in this one. The recognition, the feelings of knowing and the immense feeling of destiny at work, all are the big clues to that continuation. Even when the runner runs, do we really feel that’s the end ? No. That’s where all the 'insanity' comes in. The runner may even deny everything but that voice inside shouts "this isn’t over". Is it all about the relationship and happiness on this physical plane, no. That’s part of it but this bigger picture is about our path, our spiritual progress, learning development, self awareness, self love - the whole thing. Its only though this soul shock that we really experience the power of destiny, the fact that some things are just completely undeniable despite what i, them or this or that person thinks. If you doubt it just feel the pull, the pain, the immensity of the sensations to see just a small example of the powers of destiny. You may say "well they ran off and married someone else its over" Well guess what no it isn't. The changes the progression the learning the experiences continue. Its only when we still only see the experience from just the relationship part that we feel this. YES of course EVERYONE wants the relationship its all we can think about....... until... I make it a point to speak to many people after reconnection and when they’re in a relationship with the soul partner, even after many years, In some cases the feelings of that immense pull just disappear. In many it fades. Ive also experienced that same phenomenon. For others they complete their karma and they say they don’t feel the same pull the same need it all seems to dissipate... So then we have to ask why is this... Why does love necessitate pain ? The answer love doesn't .... Love is in itself unconditional. A hard concept for any human being not to have any need to manifest that love in a relationship. But the pain is the waking up process, the shock of feelings such awesome powers way beyond human need yet still having those human aspects of need and want. So if you have had a soul connection at any of the many levels, the trauma you experience is that wake up call. The pain is the clue. What you know inside is the clue. Its just that we as humans tend to focus on the missing part, the lack of the physical relationship that tears us apart. A hard lesson for anyone.. The very thing that hurts us can give us the answer. If and when we can tune into the connection and the love and accept it as the gift it is then it doesn’t actually have any pain with it. Understanding and acceptance of the divine forces at work and not fighting the love or the other persons human aspects that make them do or say this or that, is when we can begin to find peace with a process that’s much more complex than we at first realize.... As for nothing ever ending....... End up with the relationship or not theres more tests more experiences on the way. Not all as painful and many will find yet another even more powerful connection down the line. Many i talk to who have had the most horrendous connections that tested them to the very edge of existance have progressed to other connections. Not a romatic ideal here and i dont say this to be popular, but life is about progression the cycle repeating and us progressing through succesive experience. At the time these people were all 100% certain this was "the one". A common reaction to that statement is for it to be negative, but once again if we see it the right way we understand that progression and change are constants and that the journey is assured by the simple fact of our existance. And it proves the old adage that its all about the journey. The bad news is there isnt one of anything in the universe and the good news is that there isnt one of anything in the universe... So however trapped we may feel things are happening, the trick is to see why and accept it and try to get out from the prison of the human condition of thought and opinion an take that massive journey into greater perception of the divine... How to do that ? just tune into the forces you feel at work within you, dont fear them.. ]]> 15 2009-11-29 18:02:03 2009-11-30 00:02:03 open open why-do-we-have-soul-connections publish 0 0 post _edit_last 1 _edit_lock 1259556550 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=17 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:04:22 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=17 'The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.' -Robert Vallett If you’ve met someone who’s changed you forever If you love someone so much you realize you just weren’t alive before them If you’ve met someone who’s awakened you to the unbelievable beauty of existence If you’ve met someone who is more you than even you are If you miss someone so much you can’t even conceive of existing without them If you've lost someone and it feels like your soul left with them then read on… Typical of many cases I deal with is the story of Fiona and Robert. I first met Fiona when she booked a telephone reading and I realized she was suffering a great deal of pain and confusion from the recent breakup of her relationship with Robert. I recommended she seek healing and, a week later, she arrived at my door. I wish I had a cent for every tear that has been shed on that end of my sofa -- it’s a wonder it isn’t afloat by now. Seeing people in complete despair is a common occurrence for me but it never gets any easier watching someone fall apart, not least because I’ve been there. Some days, you just wonder what the human race is coming to when people can hurt others in the way this girl was hurting. However, she was here now and I was going to help her. Her total devastation and confusion was apparent and, as I read both her energies and Robert’s, I realized this was a very strong metaphysical ( soul mate ) connection, hence the level of suffering she was enduring. She told me her story, described what seemed an ideal relationship – until, in the midst of it, Robert had turned tail and run without warning. To add to her grief and despair, within a week he had hooked up with someone else and told her he wasn’t coming back. As in most of these cases, by tuning into him I knew he was in love with her. Fiona, however, was in no position to believe this, not based on his actions. It was totally clear to me, however, that the bond between them was strong and had grown ever stronger and stronger whilst they were together, to the point that it scared the hell out of Robert. How do you tell someone that a person they love has hurt them because they love them too much? How do you explain that the ‘runner’ fears the intensity of the connection? I could tell this other woman meant nothing to Robert and was just a shoulder for him to cry on. But, to Fiona, it seemed he had been a cheater and had callously lied about loving her. That’s a very natural assumption when someone you trust totally turns a one eighty and goes off with someone else without warning. For those of us who are emotionally and spiritually open to love on any level, the idea of someone running from happiness is bizarre and cruel in the extreme. Fiona was struggling to make sense of it and wasn’t winning at all, which added to her immense grief. As I began her healing and looked at what had happened to her energies, I realized she was suffering from what I call ‘soul shock.’ When someone you have a deep connection with suddenly pulls away, the dis-connect leaves you feeling as if your soul has left your body, like an empty shell. You just can’t get back to reality and you can feel as if you simply exist. This experience is similar to grieving the death of a loved one and I know many counselors, at least those who accept and understand connections, who will treat this pain in the same way as a bereavement . What we're talking about here is not a conventional emotional relationship. A soul connection is the most powerful soul level connection with someone and when separations like this occur you just can't "get over it" or "move on" however hard you try. Many people can't eat sleep or work for a long time, a lot end up on medication and in counseling. Even after more cases than I can remember, it never fails to amaze me how powerful healing is and what a perfect tool it can be for dealing with soul mate connections. I pulled Robert’s energy away from Fiona’s so that she wasn’t being tugged around like a leaf in a gale by his confusion. This process forced out some of her grief. Unexpressed emotions are debilitating and dangerous, so I opened up her heart chakra and used a technique I call ‘accelerated bereavement.’ This acceleration brings out the despair and pain in a burst of crying that’s so deep you know it’s from the soul. But, after twenty minutes or so, this incredible pain eases and the subject calms. That’s exactly what happened with Fiona. What is unique about soul connections is that we feel our partner’s grief and confusion and they feel ours. This creates a tsunami of pain as the energy flows across our spiritual link and bounces each of us around like two corks on a string. Putting a block in a place eases ‘soul shock’ tremendously, so that’s what I did to allow Fiona a chance to get on her feet again. As the weeks and months went by, I saw her and treated her on a regular basis. Throughout that time, she grew slowly but progressively stronger, even as she continued to ache badly from the pain of separation from Robert. When you are separated from a soul mate, you miss your partner every minute of the day and most days are nothing more than a torture of aching and needing. The soul mate connection is unlike a conventional relationship for, in these cases, the pain of separation doesn’t lessen. Some days it feels as if your heart will burst out of your chest and fly to your true partner. Fiona experienced all of this and more, although with readings and healing I was able to reduce the worst of the excesses and keep up her hope that the situation would resolve itself and Robert would come back. At times, she would call in total pain and disbelief and ask how anything could hurt so much and why couldn’t she just get over him? As always, I explained that a connection so strong was something we have little control over and, in time, he would return. While we wait, all we can do is stay strong and accept what has happened. Trying to understand why just adds to the torture. In time, Robert did contact her. Fiona, however, found it very difficult to talk to him. He frequently contradicted himself and didn’t seem to have a clue what he was doing, how he felt or what he wanted. This, of course, made it much harder for her to be in contact with the man she loved so much, as she still struggled to make sense of why he had run in the first place. This is a very common albeit totally bizarre and bewildering phase that nearly always occurs in these relationships. While the more aware soul feels the immense sense of pain and loss, the ‘runner,’ who mostly has a ton of issues, is absolutely confused by the power of the connection and will seem to contradict themselves and not know quite what’s going on. It’s common to hear ‘I love you,’ then a week later, ‘I don’t love you,’ and a host of other seemingly weird behaviors. Understand, however, that this is your soul partner struggling to understand what’s going on within them, as they are also totally overwhelmed by the feelings and confusion that the connection brings. At this point, I asked Fiona to trust me and to follow some simple rules for communication. She agreed when she realized the present interaction was confusing her even more. I asked Fiona to set out what she wanted from Robert, make it clear to him, then to back away. To insist that, if and when he called, she didn’t want to hear how bad his life was, especially after she had offered everything to make him happy. And that if he could not be there for her, then to put the phone down. Staying strong in this phase takes an awful lot of guts and faith when your runner seems so close to returning. To push them away unless certain criteria are met is scary when you so fear losing them again. But Fiona did it… And, as in most cases, after a while it worked. It’s said that runners return properly when the pain of separation is greater than the fear of commitment. And by refusing to negotiate on anything other than coming together properly, Fiona made Robert realize he had to face this once and for all or lose her. They met, they talked, she called me. Robert had accepted he couldn’t go on as he had and he was prepared to face his fears and give it a go. Many more meetings occurred before Fiona was sure he was ready and knew that he would face his fear of commitment. When finally they both came together again, and had put the past behind them, Fiona asked Robert to come to me for a reading and consultation. Seeing a runner is a rare opportunity for me, because when most reconciliations occur, my work is done. Robert arrived and it was apparent he had no idea what to expect. I gave him a psychic reading and saw what was going on within him and how he had struggled to make sense of the past couple of years. What he said was a real eye opener for me, a rare chance to see how the incredible intensity of a soul connection can scare the daylights out of someone seemingly so strong and together. He started talking about a time before Christmas when he realized just how deeply he felt for Fiona and, although he had always shunned commitment of any sort, he had decided to ask her to marry him. On his way to buy a ring, he talked to a friend about marriage and said he suddenly became very scared and unsure. He never did tell me what the friend said but whatever it was plugged deep into his fears. After that, instead of asking her to marry him, Robert told Fiona it was over and that he had found someone else. If you’re astounded reading this, so was I when I heard it. His thinking was that he couldn’t go through with it and maybe he wasn’t good enough for her. What if he wasn’t ready, what if it didn’t work? All the other fear and insecurity-based questions rose up in him. His thinking was if she thought he had someone else, she could move on and not follow him. When runners run, they really do run. Robert had demonstrated absolute mastery of the runner 180-degree speed turn. It was obvious that this man was unsure about himself - never mind what he could offer in a relationship. He made all his decisions from the head, not the heart. He mistakenly assumed Fiona could ‘get over it.’ It’s one of the most frustrating things when runners make assumptions and don’t give the other partner a chance. That’s just what this one did. However, now Robert was back and he was talking to me and that meant he wanted to understand what this was about and how he could deal with it. This was a terrific omen for the couple’s future. The outcome was that Robert did start to deal with his demons. His karmic lesson was to realize that he couldn’t live life by purely mental decisions. He learnt that his heart wouldn’t stay away and that fighting the connection only hurt them both and, ultimately, didn't work. I now have an invitation to their wedding on my desk Fiona and Robert’s case is very typical and, to my mind, reinforces the same message - the heart always wins in the end To get the book visit my site http://stevegunn.net and click on the book picture to see where its sold ]]> 17 2009-11-29 18:04:22 2009-11-30 00:04:22 open open soul-shock-a-real-soulmate-story publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558046 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=20 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:07:14 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=20 In creating such a conflict between what logic tells us versus what we feel inside - begin that most vital and all important journey where we depart from the idea that we really know what reality is about from logic and reason, to begin existing on the multiple levels ...ie spiritual awakening. Being very general - the first part of that journey is usually from a position of that we have found something thats so utterly magical , so utterly completes us...and it's taken away from us or we can't have it. Thus follows the crisis and pain we all know so well... In latter parts of the journey we will by then have begun to think, perceive and exist more on the multiple levels having experienced all of the mental confusion, romance, energetic and spiritual roller coaster effects of the entire experience where it becomes much more about a total and parallel inter woven multi level life experience than just about the other person or just about love. This is when we begin to truly comprehend... If i had to personally summarize what i feel is the key point of transition from stage 1 of the process - with all the pain and shock and comprehension, through to the later stages mentioned above, i would say its this... We are mostly conditioned to think in a way that because God loves us he wants us to be happy and i don't have issue with that. Where it tends to go terribly off track is that we often make the mental leap to that being we will be provided for.. In other words what we seek we shall find and thus achieve happiness... God, life , the universe does not teach most of it's lessons through providing what we need....Rather...if the universe requires us to find answers it poses questions. When it requires us to be strong it provides crisis. If we need to learn to fight we are provided with a battle... NOT to say passing those tests isn't rewarded, because as we know in all things there must be ultimately balance ( primarily law of karma ). BUT that the tests come first. I suggest that when a soul connection comes into our lives it signals a time when we have work to do. As in the usual laws of duality, the karmic burden doesn't reside with one partner but both and there's no accident that karma each mirrors the other if it manifests in the same way or the opposite way. So the question we have to ask ourselves is "what lessons am i meant to learn, what issues has this connection brought to the surface, and what tests do i have to pass." As per another important law of the universe, this person in our life isn't meant to be the answer but to highlight the issues that need resolution so that we ourselves can be the answer. ( The law of not being allowed to want from others what we can't first find in ourselves - ie love isn't need - it's choosing to share what we already have. ) So we have some karmic issue to work through singly and jointly. As i often quote ( sorry i forget the source ) "When God wants us to learn strength he doesn't send strength he sends challenges." Usually it will be something that's been a lifelong issue like power or boundaries or rejection or insecurity, something that the universe wants dealt with once and for all. And whatever has happened in the 'running' phase will have jabbed all those raw nerves in the issue department to bring them to the surface. So when questioning oneself about the lessons or indeed Mystic whatshername and the answer that comes is "the lesson is patience"....be assured no it isn't. The universe doesn't require waiting, ever. It requires lessons, progress, challenges, and change, especially at times like these. After all why else would she have sent us a soul connection? Just before the romantic idealists begin throwing darts at my picture again - yes it's also about love but again never JUST one thing. back to the universe, always duality always balance always reconciliation of imbalance ( karma ). I like to think of it this way - that first come the tests, then the rewards ]]> 20 2009-11-29 18:07:14 2009-11-30 00:07:14 open open soul-connections-what-have-we-learned publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259556545 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=22 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:08:30 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=22 Along with that we wonder "how can anyone run from love"? and we conclude they don't love us as much or they love someone else more and we go into the mental 'spin cycle' What's fascinating about human nature is that we go through this and yet we all understand that human nature isn't as simple as "if he loved me he would be with me", yet our mind plays games... I believe that it's the inability of someone who's developed their own life experiences, to get into the head of someone who's still struggling with theirs. Add to that the behavior of running ( cutting off contact ), which is is, I believe, one of the most painful and confusing of all behaviors and the real stab through the chest for most of us. In this ( i call ) insanity stage, where they either cut off contact or bounce back and forwards or act like 2 different people, we can read what's going on psychically of course but in order to develop an understanding outside of our readings there are also clues from the behavioral patterns that can help us assess what's really going on. Transactional analysis is a very powerful psychological tool that can offer us an insight into behavioral patterns in interactions between any 2 people. In its most simple form there are 3 roles that we can each take on in any transaction. The first is called PARENT and most commonly appears in relationships as the unconditional giving to another even when their behavior doesn't deserve or respect it. The second is CHILD, which breaks down into several behavioral patterns that try to manipulate us into the unconditional giving, parent mode. We learn this as babies when we cry for food and cry to be hugged etc and some of this residual behavior can and does follow us through to adult life. How much depends upon the individuals personal experiences and psychology - but it's associated with the immature me me me, needy mode of being. So the most common form of transaction is where one partner is required to be the unconditionally giving loving PARENT MODE person. When parent mode person starts asking for reciprocal behavior the runner will often go into one of the CHILD MODES in order to subconsciously manipulate us back to unconditional giving again. Running is one of them - straight into denial and 'sulking'. Another is blame and hitting you with the "its all YOUR fault" A third is "if you loved me you would be there for me and not ask me to ( leave wife/husband ) or ( commit to you now ) etc etc etc... Being blamed for "pushing" is another. If we stay in parent mode, giving and giving and being there, then the first thing to go is our self esteem..... Because what we are doing is actually fuelling the dysfunction, allowing whatever underlying emotional or psychological issues are present to rule the relationship. Of course natural PARENT MODE people will give and give and give and give.......BUT we have to remember that giving beyond a certain point is not the answer it actually causes many of the problems when the person we are dealing with cant get into that mode at that time.... A third and most important mode is ADULT MODE. ADULT has the inner fun and openness of the child but not the childishness, the giving of the parent but within healthy boundaries, and has rules and balance. ADULT mode is the way to drive transactions into a responsible mutual functional mode. For example "yes i love you but you can't keep coming in and out of my life" or "yes i will be there for you, but what are your plans for leaving him/her"? Conditional behavior is not ultimatums even if the other person comes back to you in one of the child modes and says something like "your pushing me" or "you know the situation" or just runs off and sulks. In fact the ONLY way to show them that this doesn't and wont work is to stay in adult mode so that EVENTUALLY they realize there is only one way to transact with you and that has rules and boundaries and is reciprocal in respect, honesty and truthfulness. Remember that bad, child mode behavior you experience from them when you enforce the adult mode boundaries, is designed to make you not enforce them again, to make you be unconditionally giving - accepting of their dysfunction.. And if we empower the dysfunction we avoid making it change... Loving people fear losing and so often 'tread on eggshells'. I wish i could tell you i don't have clients who still call me and say "do you think he will ever leave his wife" after many many years of suffering the same situation. The vast majority have not enforced boundaries or have been pushed back by child mode behavior of cutting off contact or other dysfunctional behavior. And back they go to just being there..... Remember that these modes are behavioral modes we can all flip in and out of and we all have some of each of them. The trick to development is to develop the better ones and lose the dysfunctional ones. By being ADULT to someone's CHILD we change the transaction... and ultimately force them to flip into the same mode. Always disown the dysfunction ! And remember that these are behavioral traits not necessarily WHO someone is...but often what they've experienced and certainly driven by underlying emotional issues ]]> 22 2009-11-29 18:08:30 2009-11-30 00:08:30 open open human-transactions publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558795 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=25 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:10:26 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=25 From losing a loved one or a soul mate, to people who just think their life is somehow cursed with bad luck from years of trying to push forward and repeatedly meeting opposition, lack or opportunity or suffering at the hands of others. In these extreme cases destiny’s fingerprints are usually to be found everywhere and “WHY” is always the question. In order to understand why the individuals have to experience such life traumas we need to look at the big picture; their destiny, life purpose and Karma. The secret is that the universe has purpose – rules and challenges. Nobody is here by accident; we are all here to live out our life’s purpose, to learn from experience and to walk the path. No life is pointless, it’s all about progression, learning and succession to a higher level - something that even transcends one physical lifetime because our soul returns to continue the progression. This is our KARMA, the grand plan for our lives – the credits and debits, the good and the bad – the path we must tread. When we can instinctively ‘tune in’ to that karma, we find the purpose and the reasons for our lessons and can finally find our true path, to understand what’s happening and why - and to walk the path in peace and happiness. In other words we can free ourselves. It never fails to amuze me when people call up and ask when they will meet their soulmate; but of course he or she has to be no older than 27, tall, rich and good looking. And of course if they could me them before the holidays that would be great. These are the same people who will most likely call me again in a few years in misery, married to the wrong person and unable to move on because of commitments. Another type of reading are the ones who expect the universe to deliver everything at their door and take care of everything without making any effort. The “I know he’s not good for me but I’ll stay until something happens or I meet someone else” But we and destiny both have a part to play in order to move along the path. She will present the opportunities and challenges but we must continue to walk the path. The secret is understanding how WHAT WE WANT and what’s MEANT TO BE sometimes coincide, and frequently contradict. Sounds simple but as always, in the simplest of things is to be found the greatest wisdom. Consider our destined path as a route through a maze. The maze represents all of the possible challenges and rewards, all of the ups and downs, and all the people who we will meet who are destined to come into our lives to bring happiness or conflict. Within that framework of the maze we have free will. At any point we can turn left or right, go straight ahead or go back. As humans we frequently have the illusion that life is totally free will. After all we can choose what to wear, where to go, who to marry and what color we want our décor. But ( didn’t you just know there was a but ! ) in some things we ultimately don’t. Our ‘free will’ and our destiny are ultimately intertwined by the fact of our existence within the predefined framework of the karma – the maze – the framework of the path from birth to death and ultimately rebirth. What I mean is that if we are meant to pass a certain point, a certain key destined event, then we will. We can temporarily attempt to avoid these events and make a sharp left turn because we have our free will – but we will just eventually again arrive at the same junction having gone around in a big circle but having learned something very valuable on the way – a karmic lesson. Fear, doubt, needing to control and other people’s influence can all make us take these choices in our lives but ultimately we can not avoid destiny, and that’s why the maze is such a good analogy. This is why with these karmic events psychics often tell you that we cannot predict time with any great accuracy – especially where it involves another person learning a karmic lesson . . Having said that many will offer you 97% accuracy and a whole lot of other promises but realize that it’s only the timing that is in the domain of the free will of the person, the outcome is pre destined. Let’s just make this clear, it’s not the better the psychic the better they can read time, it just doesn’t work that way so beware.. Yes of course most psychics will see that new job opportunity arriving within the month and most will be right on that timing because its not a lesson, not your free will and not dependant on another person fulfilling karma.– it’s a pre destined gift from the universe that was always meant to occur at that time and therefore it can be easily seen within a time frame. In other words it’s an approaching junction in your maze. But will you take the job…and when..that’s the free will element…. The universe really doesn’t care what you wear or what color you choose to dye your hair, however in these key life lessons we are talking here, where our free will and what we’ve learned is driving which route we take, timing is in the hands of the individual What is destined is the ultimate outcome. Take for example soul mates, a classic “when will s/he return” question. Well the answer is when they have circled within their own maze long enough to realize that resistance is futile and that they have to come in your direction. How long will that take ? – well that’s something they have a choice of. It’s their karmic lesson…… What can be easily seen is that they will come your way, they have to. And it’s that nagging undoubtable voice within you that knows that. Your guides are telling you all the time that this is something that HAS to happen and its unavoidable. People say to me “oh well my lesson is patience” – no. It’s FAITH. Understand that things that have to happen will happen. Don’t be a slave to the timing, you have your own path to walk and many other things that need to be encountered on the way. Ultimately free will cannot overcome destiny it can only delay things but each person needs to learn their lesson before they can move forward. And they will - the universe has much more control than we realize. What will be will be………. The ultimate goal is to transcend our fears and doubts, to relinquish control, to be open to opportunity and to be prepared to follow the path to wherever it leads. Frequently we as humans ‘want’ our path to be a straight line from where we are now to what we want and set off in that straight line assuming it’s going to work. Understand that it may well be that there are twists and turns, unexpected events, challenges and also unexpected rewards. Use those instincts, intuition, senses and emotions. We all have them and through them we are guided in the right direction…Psychics will help you because we are gifted to see so much more and can point the way and tell you what’s meant to happen. If you make a decision based upon your best instincts and it felt right but it all went wrong then realize that although its been a challenge and a lesson, its just something you had to go through to get to an even better place and without having transcended that challenge, that experience, you couldn’t get to where you are going. Somewhere much better ! Wanting and deciding are mental functions that can create an alternate mental reality that what we decide to do is what really IS. That’s not the case, it can and will just keep us going around in circles. Information is coming to you from your instincts and senses all the time and it isn’t wrong……..Listen to those instincts – be prepared to take what life deals with faith and hope. Be brave, walk the path and above all, as I say to everyone…. DON’T THINK - SENSE ! You wont be led in the wrong direction ]]> 25 2009-11-29 18:10:26 2009-11-30 00:10:26 open open the-misunderstood-mechanics-of-destiny publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558801 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=27 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:12:06 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=27 By that i mean the destruction of the need to control, wanting, judging, needing and any desires based upon other peoples actions or external situations. Along with this is the toughest of all things, and that is understanding 'thought reality' is often far from actual reality... In its infinite wisdom, the universe teaches us this through crisis. Most often taking away what we need, think we need, or desire most. This is the time when most often we are pushed deep into our own selves and struggle with why we feel a certain way or respond in certain ways. But its through this 'going deep inside' that we are meant to learn some of the toughest lessons. The situations force us to dig deep and examine our emotions thoughts, past and to question our life path and purpose. Tough as this is its ( I believe ) the singular largest transformative process a human can experience and much of what i write about and many of the spiritual / metaphysical practices encompass this foundational principle of loss of the ego mental model of "me" with all its flaws, to allow that deeper connection to the inner spiritual energetic "me' that the universe made.. This is what i refer to as spirituality, the time where we really find out what we're made of and are tested to the MAX. But whats beyond this awesome experience is profoundly wonderful. Its when the brain stops questioning and the senses give us the answers. Its when we're once again in tune with the universe and our place in it. When we really feel that however bizarre our path and the events on it, that it has a purpose and meaning. Im often criticized for telling people 'not to think' but truly its most often thoughts and trying to analyze situations that's so confusing because the mind works in a very logical way. Often only negative. ( Still nobody's called to say they're worried they will be too happy ! ) Logic will never understand the total human condition, where emotions work with or conflict with thoughts. Why people do strange things and why we see repeated patterns of events. The mind is far too simple a tool to understand that. The process of transformation is meant to get us to a place where we can accept and 'understand' everything on an intuitive level and not need to reconcile things into one answer. That's what the brain does it needs a purpose a reason and a timing. When we transcend that and can really deal with the universe on its multiple levels we find that inner peace, sense of self and oneness... ]]> 27 2009-11-29 18:12:06 2009-11-30 00:12:06 open open what-is-ego-death publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558781 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=29 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:13:39 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=29 This construct of ego self is simply a mental construct and is formed over time as the programming of how we react to the outer world, and how it reacts to us, forms and constantly modifies this programmed model of self, along with deep perceptions of validation and position in a hierarchical society... The ego self forms attachments that validate and devalidate, judge and measure. The ego self is intrinsically judgmental, co dependant and disempowering...placing all validations on external stimulus.... And its only from these attachments, judgments and associations - validations and devalidation that comes the pains and trials of everyday life. The human brain supports this ego self in tha it creates alternate "realities", hypotheses and concepts to support and build a structure around the ego self. Justification, defensiveness, reassurance and other abstracts all keep the brain busy as it works at this.... This ego self is everything we call "I" and is the filter through which we view the world prior to rebirth or awakening.... To comprehend ego death as a mental construct is a paradox..... For example, if i described a house with a red roof and green shutters, the brain constructs a mental 3 dimensional model ( construct ) in order to give us visual comprehension and assimilate ( imagine ) this house..... So how can we imagine or perceive death of a construct by using a construct.... we cant. In other words there is no mental way to fully assimilate an understanding of the death of ego prior to the actual event... So how does the process work, well soul connections are one BIG trigger. The ultimate validation comes along then just to be torn away... The "psyche" ( i don't like that word as a description but lets just use it in this instance as a summation of a persons mental / emotional self ) gets torn and ripped and pushed into trauma. We wonder why as the one thing that was the conclusion and the answer becomes utter destruction. And indeed destruction is the order of the day because the process of rebirth requires a death... Extreme pain and loss and sense of loss of part of self are natural and purposeful in the process of ego death. Feeling like the very fabric of self is being torn apart is usual - but its not the real self, only the ego model and its attachments... Because that's how we view the world we fight the pain, we fight loss of self and emotional trauma - we struggle and struggle. However the other side of the pain is rebirth, the inner connectedness that we couldn't have imagined before the death of the old way. If we welcome the pain - allow it to do its work we become free... In the old way there was judgment, opinion, perspective, viewpoint, belief, likes and dislikes, attachments and dependencies.... Post rebirth there is one view, one way and one peace, the peace of a connectedness to REAL self and the universe which has always been the same universe and is the same for all. Same laws, same reason, same purpose and same mechanisms and we all see it the same.... The drugs of reassurance and validation - the dependencies and addictions of mankind are no longer needed.....the sense of peace and purpose and the ability to love all without need are profound and real... If you've ever heard that the physical world isn't real this is what was meant by that. In losing what we perceive as self, we find true self. If you feel your already losing part of self dont go looking for it - it may well be part that isn't real self and you may be on that journey... Let go and fall....Bring on the pain, let it do its work its there for a reason and what's beyond it is profoundly freeing.... ]]> 29 2009-11-29 18:13:39 2009-11-30 00:13:39 open open more-on-ego-death publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558775 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=31 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:15:26 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=31 Remove an important satiation and we become needy. The ego mind in order to satiate will reach out for reassurance - allowing the pain of need to be validated as a "reality" of some sort to justify actions.. In the ego mode we reach out for reassurance. As we do that the brain constructs many different mental logical models of why we dont have what we feel we should have to take the pain away, to satiate. Often it will do what the ego mind does and further attack self esteem, reasoning that for some reason we don't deserve what we need, or that somehow fate has left us behind. This makes the need for reassurance even more profound as we seek other mental models of reasoning to understand so that we can satiate the pain. Differnet reasoning different thoughts, around and around but with no permanent loss of the pain of need. We reason this, and that and this and then we reach out for a third party reassurance. Anything to take that pain of need away... If we cant get satiation, we blame. Often we blame the person who we perceive in the moment is keeping us from removing the pain of need. This can be family, friends , the loved one who wont call, anyone who wont give us the drug of reassurance - even people we've recruited to help . ( try this job for just a week if you want to sample that one ). The ego mind will construct reason after reason, many having little or no basis in fact, and will assign responsibility and blame to those who don't or cant help us satiate that pain. In addiction therapy this is often refered to as the "insanity"... Even without any clinical addiction there's need, co dependancy and 'insanity' - often the drug is acceptance or reassurance. All are ego mode states. Until we've defused or transcended the core emotions that drive this process through ego death, every living human is subject to it at any time... Finding the truth that everyone is subject to this ego mode model which is simply programming and can be transcended, and that transcending it brings us to true oneness... is the core of all spiritual progression. Most of us find this ego death such a hard process because we have learned ot think of ourselves as our thoughts, our opinions, our fears, our likes, we have become the very ego that needs to be detached from and therefore to many theres such a profound feeling of loss of "self" in this process and indeed there is - but not or REAL self, of perceived "self" which is simply that ego construct of a culmination of all events that have happened to us and shaped our perceptions. In finding this path there is no "ah-ha" moment, no intellectual process, no thought, no board, no book that can make this happen. The reason that we think there is and we keep looking is because we have learned to do everything with the mind, to find new answers that obey the simple logic, to give us the magical insight of the mental process and yet there is none..... The universe at her deepest level, and ESPECIALLY people, don't obey logic and never did and yet the mind can only work at a linear logic level where it needs A+B=C to make "sense of something. Once we stop trying to use such a simple devise to find complex answers then we can look inside at the deeper multi level, multi dimensional reality of existence and thing come clearer. Finally we can purge the residual emotions that were the land mines of daily existence and they wont control us any longer Article - Transformation and Ego Death by Steve Gunn If you would like to know more about a process that manages the transition of ego detachment into the state of oneness and peace ( "ego death" as its commonly refereed to ) , my group of self help techniques and teachings collectively referred to as Ptsen-Nuh ( pronounced "sen-new" or abbreviated as PN ) now have their own separate site http://www.healmyenergy.com including feedback from people who have undertaken the teachings.. ]]> 31 2009-11-29 18:15:26 2009-11-30 00:15:26 open open even-more-on-ego-death publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558938 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=33 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:16:45 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=33 The seven energy centers or 'chakras' resident within the human body and are basically the soul. To illustrate this, if we took those energies away we are left with a dead body.... The physical matter ( carbon atoms ) of the body are tied together with forces on the physical plane; into human form. That includes the brain whose thought energies are of the physical - in small electrical impulses firing between synapses in the brain. The soul energy, the energy of 7 chakras, is on another dimension, that of what we often refer to as the 'spiritual' plane - a plane of energy and not matter. This plane, unlike the physical plane, is one dimensional. It doesn’t have a width, depth and height or timeline like the physical plane. Hence energy exists everywhere all the time - its omnipresent... However when a soul inhabits a human body it exists in a cross-dimensional form. ie it is still present in the spiritual dimension but also resides in the physical dimension in the form of 7 energy centers or 'chakras' Living things are the only place in the universe that this physical and energetic co -existence manifests. So every living thing on the planet truly represent a crossroads of two dimensions At death the soul energy disconnects with the physical body but remains intact as energy. This is because of a universal contiguity of the same laws being applicable to metaphysics as with physics, the laws of conservation of energy which state that energy can not be destroyed it can only change form. Hence a souls' journey is to always exists but to change its form, many times interacting with the physical world in the form of inhabiting a human body, then leaving that body at death - only to go around again...until final 'ascension' when it no longer is required to become human again. In each life the energy acrues, keeps, learns and grows throughout all of these changes....The natural interaction of the energy affecting the physical body, and the human experience affecting the energy is the stuf of karma, growth and learning. So the soul, resident in the human body as the chakras, are a collection of all of the experiences of all lives.... The brain however is of "this life" and learns only from birth onwards... Which brings us to mind versus brain. The mind is a collection of conscious inputs not all of which are thoughts but are often attributed to being thought, as we are conditioned that brain is responsible for so much of the consciousness. Modern humans are conditioned nowadays to be 'brain centered' For example we blame ourselves for being too emotional, too sensitive, too impatient, this that and the other...attributing the "we" to our mental wishes or state... However every human being receives a mass of inputs that are consciousness but not necessarily thought. For example the obvious one of the heart, we feel emotions in the heart. Not the physical heart as that's off to one side but an energy centre ( chakra ) that's located in the center of the chest. Likewise we have "gut feel" and "intuition", "sense", "nouse" and a hundred other words to attribute anything other than thought to some ethereal 'other' ill-defined sense..... We often attribute our passions, fear, insecurity, impatience, loves, fears and other states of being that are thoughts. And in many cases the thought is a tiny part of what's really happening.... So in working with energy we are working with the inate, core, essence of someone as a collection of all their learning and experience from all lives. Along with the residual challenges and learning we are all here to learn in this life - karma.... Spiritual awakenings, at whatever level, are periods when our conscious transitions more from pure logical thought to the deeper, broader, more core awareness of our energies, our soul and its meaning purpose and journey. Hence energy work of any kind can have profound effects on the emotional, mental and physical. as its working at the lowest most profound level of a human. THE CROWN At the other end of the body from the base chakra which is mostly of the earthly physical, the crown chakra connects us to 'source energy' the universal life force, spirit - however you wish to call it. As the source for spiritual energy ( life force ) coming into the body , a healthy crown chakra allows a good flow of chi down through the body along the two pathways that connects all the chakras, all the way down to the base then splitting to go via the legs and into the ground. Thus the human being 'connects the circuit' between the spiritual and the physical. It’s not usual to have much crown chakra sensation but it can happen as we develop this charka to increase the overall flow of chi and allow ourselves to progress closer to source energy. THIRD EYE The Third Eye Chakra represents our ability to perceive outside of ego and logic and to understand reality at the highest most truthful objective level. This includes some of what are commonly referred to as the "psychic" senses, which are really an ability to 'see' and understand beyond what is physically observable. Associated with the mind - it has a correlation to the brain, the brain being of the logical and physical whereas the third eye is that which is beyond logic yet apparent through third eye perception. When in balance, a person uses the brain and its logic for that which can be logically analyzed on the physical plane but the third eye for energetic perception where simple logic cant bring answers. Being near the top of the body the third eye chakra is working on much less of the physical plane and crosses over into the energetic, therefore there is little physical sense of the third eye, however if its imbalanced one can suffer headaches or tension in the brow. A real key to understanding third eye development is that it is about greater perception outside of ego based perception of personal want, need, emotional reaction or "belief" and so for full third eye development we will usually have already been through a process of transformation like spiritual awakening to show us the limitations of thought and ego based perception. THE THROAT The throat Chakra is responsible for manifesting our ability to vocally express our innermost thoughts, desires, emotions and truth. Seems simple in concept compared to some other chakras which have more complex or multi layer functions, however vocal expression of the deeper 'self' without fear and with total commitment to honesty and truth is itself an advanced state of human development. As with the other chakras, many reasons for imbalance or dysfunction in this energy are often others reactions to our expressions of 'self' and so its extremely easy not to express ones true feelings, or to modify ones behavior due to the actions of others - or from the concern of actions of others. This is especially true with the throat Chakra and its association with true expression and indeed...truth. At its most challenged this Chakra will find difficulty expressing when there is a need for balance and justice. It may be that consensus goes one way and we feel the need to speak out in order to restore balance. Vocal expression at times like this can be very intimidating so we will have likely already achieved a level of inner peace, balance, contentment and familiarity with our own power and assertion before we would express this vocally through expression of the throat Chakra. Its important to note that here we talk of the truth, not meaning each persons individual perception or judgment ( their "truth" ) but of the innate truth that Zen declares is inherent in any situation. Hence it is likely that in order to have a fully free flowing throat chakra we will have come a long way in our own personal development and obtained a high degree of objectivity and detachment from ego before we feel truly able to express in any situation, especially those that are likely to receive negative response from others. True expression should be compassionate and consider its effect on others however must prioritize the need for reflecting the causes of others actions back to them. Often in daily life we don't do this simply because of others actions. This is usually peoples need to attribute motive to our expression, even when the motive is simply to express and nothing more. The most advanced expression of the throat therefore is to speak with compassion, assertion and truth but also to understand that sometimes whatever the situation it will receive criticism from others through their need to assign or project motive onto what we say. And to realise that this is about their needs and issues and to be at peace with the fact that they also are on their journey and are learning their lessons. THE HEART Centered in the chest, the hart chakra is the emotional center - as well all probably know only too well. In the previous chakras we mentioned the balance between the lower chakras sitting between the spiritual and physical planes but crossing more over to the physical - whereas the higher chakras cross over more to the energetic 'spiritual' plane. Within this system the heart is the center point of that merging of dimensions. Its the point where the physical meets the energetic, where our mental consciousness is most aware, where the brain 'most connects' and most readily is aware. For example we may have a sacral or third eye chakra stimulus but be much less consciously aware of it than something that’s a heart energy which would be very forward in the consciousness as obvious happiness, sadness, love or pain. The significance of the center point in any system is that its the pivot, the balance point and this is true with the heart. The point where the physical, spiritual and mental energies align. The significance of this is very important as its meant to be from where we operate as individuals, balancing the 3 spheres of consciousness. This however can work in different ways. For example in a person who is heart centered but has not developed to adequately manifest their lower chakra energies to protect themselves, this often appears as someone who is extremely compassionate, loving and giving, but who doesn’t enforce the use of that compassion and is often disempowered. The over-loving, over-giving, putting others first but not asserting enough 'self' to protect from the negative effects of those who seek only to take. An opposite manifestation of someone who’s heart energy isn’t adequately balanced is what a i call the "split". Where the person is working from the lower energies, for instance they're very practical and enforce their territory, maybe quite material and an aware of their needs. But at the same time they aspire to work from the higher chakras and be spiritual but the two don’t meet in the middle. For example someone who wants to be compassionate and maybe even considers themselves to be, but at the same time is operating too much from the "me first" non empathic state. i.e. actions don’t follow words when it comes to others. SOLAR PLEXUS The Solar Plexus Chakra is responsible for outward expression as part of personality through projection or creation. So for example music, painting, art, poetry, even home improvement or other similar projections of ones 'self' physically or vocally into an external manifestation is the stuff of this chakra. Often it's attributed to being linked to ego and personality working with the brain. Undoubtedly this is true however i like to clearly delineate between the chakras energy as 'pure-self and pure potential' whereas the brains role in ego and its perception has an ability to self-defeat and can change ones conscious perception of what is innate and possible within this energy. So for example, a classic case of validation / de-validation - say for instance someone created a work of art that received much applause then the brain would accept the sacral energy and its creative validity - however if the work received lots of criticism the brain can "decide" that the creativity is not valid and changes ones own perception of the energy through external de validation. It doesn’t mean that this energy changes, it just means it would probably not find true expression through being de-validated. So if everyone loves or hates the paintings, either way its necessary to find expression of this energy - to be as creative and expressive as is core to the being. Often the Solar Plexus is also seen as key to generation of the aura as the energetic projection of self.. THE SACRAL ( TUMMY ) The sacral chakras' location is just below the naval ( or tummy ) - centered in the body. Although much teaching is that the primary role of this chakra is sexuality - in practice its just not that simple. More so that the sacral is a deep emotional center but of emotional expression related to physical level response. In the section on the base chakra, we covered the fact that the lower the chakra in the body the more physical the effect and so being only the second chakra up from the ground, the sacral is very linked to physical reaction from emotional stimulus. We often hear terms like "gut feel" or "gut reaction", these sort of terms often referring to a sacral response. For example the sacral chakra is very associated with sensuality, not just of the sexual type but of association with the physical body, touch and sense for example the response to massage, a warm bath, sunbathing or eating when we're hungry. It also has a place in relation to body image. As always a chakra has a nature of response as well as action, so tactility, physical expression of self as in sometimes how we dress and our posture are issues relating to the sacral. And how we react to other peoples view on these issues creates a reaction so physical rejection in any form affects the sacral. With regard to sex, the sacral works in tandem with the base, the base fuelling the basic passions and desires with the sacral working on the physical expression level of these desires. An interesting aspect to the sacral is that it is also a repository for many deep emotions - i often call it "the emotional dumpster". The heart being the primary center of pure instant emotional reaction, the sacral then stores much of this after time has passed and the heart is not so responsive to things on daily basis, the emotions tend to get stored on the sacral if they are still unexpressed or unresolved. Tummy problems, and uneven weight distribution around the tummy area can be ( but not always ) issues relating to unresolved sacral chakra energies. THE BASE The base chakra is a fascinating chakra as its responsible for so much regarding our foundation of self. Not only is it base in that its the lowest in the body, close to the base of the spine, but also in the fact that its effects alter the overall foundation and balance of belonging, self knowing, gender, power / assertion and grounding- hence base as in foundation... The highest chakra in the body, the crown at the top of the head, being furthest from earth and nearest the spiritual energies is almost totally operating on the plane of spiritual energy - hence much less consciously affecting the physical body. However as we move down the body through all the chakras, that balance progressively swings until we get to the base which is the other end of the scale. So although still a spiritual energy center, the base energies are much more at a frequency ( often referred to as 'vibration' ) interactive with the physical body and ground or primal in nature. The base is more earth in 'position', more physical and primal, and its energies are of a fire nature.. Fire is an energy that like its name is very powerful primal and can be transient and hard to balance. So we can often see within the base chakra this manifesting or 'flaring up' in physical expressions of fire energy such as sexual drive, frantic physical work or exercise, vocal or physical expressions of power, or if negatively manifested, frustration, temper, anger etc When looking at balancing that energy we find elements of the power that are submissive and elements that are dominant - and these may each manifest in different situations. For example, we may find ourselves feeling powerful and in control in one situation , say for example work, and taking a less confident role in say for example relationships.. So when working with this chakra in order to become truly within our power, its often a very powerful and challenging experience to be journeyed through ones deepest drives and expressions of power and powerlessness. Frequently this involves the most primal elements of self expression and how others have, and do, respond to that self expression, for example rejection issues in relationships causing validation issues, for example " am I feminine / masculine enough, attractive, etc" and "why does my boss pick on me" and other such issues. In some people the power is reversely manifested and we seek self validation through - for instance promiscuity as a continued 'self worth' exercise, or giving ones power away through becoming subservient in relationships for self validation. But with work on allowing someone to find their balance of power through energy work and demonstrating what’s really innately in that chakra, what power wants to manifest, how to manifest it and maintain the flow, and how we can isolate it from being affected by the actions of others - then a better balance is achieved we find self esteem, self expression and sense of balance altering for the good, sometimes on a profound and life changing level. ]]> 33 2009-11-29 18:16:45 2009-11-30 00:16:45 open open the-secret-life-of-your-energy publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259540205 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=35 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:18:45 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=35 Many of us have read self-help books or been to seminars on how to unlock our full potential, to alleviate fear and insecurity and understand how we can be empowered to feel good and to more easily face life’s many challenges. Most of what’s published focuses on conditioning the mind to believe we are capable of an infinite number of things if only we can think differently. If we can re-condition our thought patterns and old behaviors we can unlock our innate power and take away self-defeating mechanisms, fear insecurity and worry. More recently this concept went to another level with “the secret”. Although the “law of attraction” has been somewhat overstated as the greatest force in the universe and the one answer by the marketing machine behind that movie, the movie is an important phenomenon in its time, in that it begins to be a gateway for greater general awareness of the energy world – and to bring universal laws of interaction of energy into greater public consciousness. In other words it demonstrates that its not just thinking better deluding us that we’re happier, but that it has a definite and tangible result from positive energy begetting positive energy in a real world energetic interaction with the universe. This concept and the other equally important universal laws of interaction of energy have been well known for thousands of years and used by everyone from the magi through alchemists, witches, voodoo practitioners and energy workers. For example witches quote the “law of 3’s”, a karmic phenomenon of whatever you put out you get back 3 times. Likewise that energy will also attract opposites. Just like the North Pole of a magnet attracting the south in the physical world. Just as one simple example look at the bible – it features someone who thought good, did good and produced good, but at a huge personal price. This phenomenon is popularized as the “no good deed goes unpunished” law. Energy will attract its like and its opposite. So what’s really important to accept is that it’s the total map, the total world of energetic interaction that’s the deal to be understood. This isn’t to pour cold water on the concept of self improvement and giving out more positive energy however there are other dynamics at work we have to understand. And this is a REALLY IMPORTANT issue when dealing with life improvement. There isn’t one phenomenon to understand - but how all of them interact and particularly how we as humans effect, and are effected by - these energy interactions. The Human Condition. Most of the techniques we’ve discussed here are about training ourselves to think positive and negate negative trends of thought. But do you notice how most people have more than one of these books. And do you also notice, that whilst initially having very positive results, people tend to slip back into the ‘old ways’ once the feel good factor of the work has faded away. Human minds have an innate tendency to slip into negativity, hence the work of forcing ourselves to become always positive requires constant support. The reason for the very limited long term success of these strategies is extremely simple. What underlies, what creates these negative thought patterns in the first place is something infinitely more powerful…EMOTIONS. In other words, we can chant our power mantras, look in the mirror and tell ourselves we are strong and will go forward and take on the world. But do we really FEEL it ? Unless we can get to a place where we really FEEL powerful and centered, old emotional patterns will gradually put us back into that place from where we came, recreating those negative mental patterns. We can feel great and be thinking positive but we go into work and the boss is having a bad day, the results of which find some focus on us and how easily do we slip back into “stinking thinking”. We don’t worry the plane won’t crash when we feel the turbulence. And when we lose a job we rarely worry we’ll get a new one too quickly. So even in these simple examples we can see a basic nature of the brain that has an intrinsically negative and self defeating aspect. As a friend of mine once said, “trying to change emotions from just thinking differently is like trying to decorate the hall through the keyhole” So the $64,000 question is can we change emotions in order to make more permanent positive changes? And the answer is YES. The secret is those 7 energy centers where we store emotions, conditioned responses, old wounds and memories from not just this life but every life we’ve had. Mostly considered as single entities and somehow detached from mental perception of self, chakras are generally worked on and cleared in that way - as single energy entities. However the reality is actually that each chakra is more like a ‘mini personality’, having response tendencies, action tendencies, and sense memory. These are the majority of what we would classically refer to as our ‘personality’. As humans we usually attribute so much of consciousness and perception of reality to the mental state; however so much of how we are and how we respond to external situations is through energetic reaction. We are all picking up the energy from people and situations all around us, not just from what we see or hear but also through these chakras which always sense energy if we realize it or not. So consciousness is a mental integration of logical thought, abstract thought and a lot of input from the present state of each chakra, as well as what it’s sensory input is receiving from the energetic world around. Likewise chakras release energy through action and deed, they are the “us”, the fire the passion the emotions the loves and hates… the inner self. Indeed when we can get them producing positive energies we do send out positive energy and the law of attraction does produce results. So the lower order, more powerful way to achieve a REAL and CONSISTENT feeling of good is through a deeper understanding of our energetic self rather than just the mental self where we find we have to constantly put energy into thinking positively so we don’t slip back. A deeper journey into inner self and understanding our energies in a more detailed sense than just at each chakra level is a key to seeing how and why we react emotionally to different stimulus, and what triggers have been implanted through life’s experiences. Just cleansing this chakra or that chakra is not working at a deep enough level to work on how whatever trigger or action or emotion is in that chakra works together with our thoughts, deeds and reactions. Going deeper into and fully understanding these little and quite complex energy centers and how they really are us, and how they act, respond, and store aspects of our self and our experiences allows us to look at what’s empowering, what’s dis-empowering, what is working for us and what’s working against us. Through this journeying or mapping we seek the balance of empowered compassion rather than our loves creating pain when not reciprocated. We find the balance of instinct and thought rather than the ‘head / heart” conflict. We find that our mind calms as we find that inner balance and we react less from emotions and more from understanding of the real dynamics of situations. Balance leads to calm leads to positivity and the natural creation of positive energy without the need for constant mental effort. It allows us to be loving but with empowered boundaries such that love doesn’t become opening to de-validation or abuse. We seek less from others because we have more within and therefore obey one of the most powerful laws of the universe of individual soul progression…And of course where we came in, positive energy begets positive energy BUT we aren't going to be defeated by the tripwires of day to day life and other people's actions. We become the positive energy rather than need to manage thought to maintain it. http://healmyenergy.com ]]> 35 2009-11-29 18:18:45 2009-11-30 00:18:45 open open the-long-road-to-happiness publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559419 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=37 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:20:32 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=37 The process is one of… Identification of the flaws of the ego state with its needs wants and projections and achieving detachment from it . Following that an understanding of energetic attachments and influences and achieving detachment from others, removal of dependencies and influences. Inner journeying to the center - mapping energetic responses and learning self stimulus to gain control of ones state of being. The ultimate journey to changing self………. Many of us have read self-help books or been to seminars on how to unlock our full potential, to alleviate fear and insecurity and understand how we can be empowered to feel good and to more easily face life’s’ many challenges… Most of what’s published focuses on conditioning the mind to believe we are capable of an infinite number of things if only we can think differently. If we can re-condition our thought patterns and old behaviors we can unlock our innate power and take away self-defeating mechanisms, fear insecurity and worry.. BUT do you also notice, that whilst initially having very positive results, people tend to slip back into the ‘old ways’ once the feel good factor of the work has faded away. Human minds have an innate tendency to slip into negativity…hence the work of forcing ourselves to become always positive requires constant support… The reason for the very limited long term success of these strategies is extremely simple. What underlies, what creates these negative thought patterns in the first place is something infinitely more powerful…EMOTIONS. In other words, we can chant our power mantras, look in the mirror and tell ourselves we are strong and will go forward and take on the world….but do we really FEEL it ? Unless we can get to a place where we really FEEL powerful and centered, old emotional patterns will gradually put us back into that place from where we came, recreating those negative mental patterns…. We can feel great and be thinking positive but we go into work and the boss is having a bad day, the results of which find some focus on us and how easily do we slip back into “stinking thinking”… A deeper journey into inner self and understanding our energies in a more detailed sense than just at each chakra level is a key to seeing how and why we react emotionally to different stimulus, what triggers have been implanted through life’s experiences, and what destabilizes our inner feeling of peace and harmony. Using most of the conventional techniques to just cleanse this chakra or that chakra is not usually working with how these little and quite complex energy centers function with us as a human in our daily life at an integrated enough level to make permanent change….however Ptsen-Nuh Energy Mapping is different You will be shown through demonstration, how to really understand how the energies and energy centers work within the body, what they do , what they control, how they relate and most importantly, how to manage them yourself, which brings an incredible feeling of being centered, empowered and at peace. The core principles of Ptsen-Nuh Energy Mapping are; 1. How to be aware of ego based responses, old conditioning and 'stinking thinking' - versus emotional and energetic responses 2. Learning some simple but powerful meditations to center and balance daily 3. Revealing a complete map of your energetic responses to stimulus from other people and situations 4. Detaching, disempowering and taking control of negative energetic reactions 5. Creating, managing and enforcing personal energy space 6. Maintaining a discipline of staying centered, balanced, empowered and in control How it works. Ptsen-Nuh Energy Mapping is not counseling, psychology or healing of any kind. It does not replace any conventional therapies, offer diagnosis or treatment of any physical or psychological states and there is no hypnosis, no energy transfer, no energetic intervention or "healing" and no judgment of anything of your personal make up… Its 100% non interventional - its simply training in how to use meditation and a detailed understanding of your own energy systems in order to make changes to your state of being… Ptsen-Nuh Energy Mapping teaches you a powerful meditation technique to take you on a guided journey through their your energies with many demonstrations of how you can harness and understand all of the many levels of the 7 chakra energy centers that make up who we are. The method is the result of many years of study and combining some extremely well proven meditation techniques and much detailed knowledge of the energy systems into some simple and easy to use techniques. You are 100% in control and the process happens because you choose to do it…. The secret is teaching a deep and unique understanding of what your energies are, how they really work, how they interact, how they make you feel respond and act, and to allow you to experience this first hand through meditation… Forget the theories, using this meditation you will actually journey into your own energy centers and actually feel them, feel their responses and actions and begin to really become aware of your inner self on a level most people will not achieve without a technique like this. And really most powerfully, be shown how to balance your own energies without the need for energy techniques like intervention from a 'healer' or energy worker…. Although many of these concepts may sound familiar, they underpin many techniques however the process of Ptsen_Nuh is radically different in nearly every way which is why its so effective, and you will not come across its actual techniques anywhere else.. They are not published anywhere and are only available as part of the course of work so that they can be kept separate from other methods All work is conducted via the telephone. How can this be ? Well just like in psychic reading, energy has no distance or time so physical proximity is not necessary, in fact research has proven its more effective to work this way with the recipient in the comfort of their home. Ptsen-Nuh home site http://www.healmyenergy.com ]]> 37 2009-11-29 18:20:32 2009-11-30 00:20:32 open open ptsen-nuh-energy-mapping-pn publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559382 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=39 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:21:59 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=39 As a 'Law', it has validity, ask anyone with a knowledge of metaphysics…Intent creates energy - and energy migrates to energy its always been that way. That’s no secret… As someone who teaches spiritual transformation through acceptance, realization and working through ones karma to transcend to higher levels, this positive outlook approach is an essential ingredient to "lighting our way". Yet recent emails, comments and websites proclaiming magic properties to this phenomenon seem to be confusing what is an accepted law of metaphysics ( in parallel to Newton's Laws of Physics of action creating reaction ) to an almost magical level of manifesting anything we require from a place of want or need. Within the framework of working through ones life karma the law of attraction is definitely an element but if anyone wants to see the bigger picture and how it fits in to what is each of our individual life challenges, we must accept the basic foundation of spiritual transformation which is the overcoming of the I, the ego the want and the need. Attracting abundance can and sometimes will also mean attracting challenges because they are a part of why we're here. Learning, understanding and progressing. The laws of multiplicity and duality and abdication of external satiation or fulfillment are still alive and well too.. So for anyone who wants to manifest from a place of want or need for satiation of personal desire or lack of fulfillment, this law of attraction is not going to work for you, or if it does it will attract what you want with an ever bigger lesson attached.... Not needing or wanting; but becoming what we want to be is the order of the day and will attract like things I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lamah/www.dalailama.com ]]> 39 2009-11-29 18:21:59 2009-11-30 00:21:59 open open the-real-secret-of-manifestation publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558909 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=42 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:23:43 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=42 This concept of time comes from the human life cycle and the physical properties of decay and entropy, we observe in nature....every day getting a day older and watching the seasons change.. Being deeply ordained in the daily reality of the physical world, its natural that we also perceive that when something's physical existence disappears... that its an end to existence period....And thus between birth and death is a period of time that will pass linearly... So how do we sometimes get a feeling of time standing still ? and how sometimes are there periods when nothing seems to happen and everything we do to try to make it happen just wont work...? Well on the spiritual plane, the plane of emotions and feelings and sensations, the plane of destiny and past and present and future in cosmic events, and the plane of lessons and progressions across all our lifetimes....time doesn't exist in a linear way. Nor is it geared to the physical universe in a day-by-day basis, its a series of cycles within cycles... At this point i guess we could all say "oh well i live on this physical earth in this lifetime so i want answers to what's happening in a way that relates to my physical life and time" Often when we feel time is standing still we notice that external events don't seem to happen..like we're in some sort of void of destiny or luck...yet each day we get one day older and work one more day....The key to understanding this is the understanding of how our concept of linear time and energetic time ( the stuff which drives destiny, change,"luck" and external events ) interact..... All of use will experience periods when things move fast, opportunities come in and life is sailing along. And likewise the opposite, at least one time when it feels like time itself has been derailed. Im not talkng about the fact that it just SEEMS slower, but that we really do intuitively sense that things have somehow become derailed.... periods of stagnation, times when it seems the gears of our destiny are unmeshed and we feel 'stuck'.. The secret to understanding this phenomenon is to understand there are times when we are meant to be forced to be devoid of external intervention in our lives that will unstick us. These are times when usually events will generally seem to stop. Waiting for things wont happen and however hard we push doors they don't seem to open....Many of these times are to drive us to question the foundation of our belief systems...When we feel derailed we seek answers externally and when they arent forthcoming we start to look deeper, further......... There are reminders that outside of our little bubble that theres still a mechanism at work and these are twofold usually. One the stunning lack of external events, usually WAY beyond coincidence - to the point where we think there must be purpose behind our situation . The second, synchronicity, those little signs that somewhere the gears of the universe really are turning and we haven't been left behind... Usually times when we're off path, times when there's something we need to learn, something we need to see from another perspective, some turn in the road we missed. Its the universes way of saying "wake up there's something needed to be observed or learned here". Often they are times when there's an element of the transition we call destruction-of-ego. When something we think, something ingrained has to shift.. has to take a major turn. For example when the universe wants us to become closer to our true selves, the partner, the job, the good news seems to be held back.....and that's very deliberate, as a way to finally force us to accept the inner self from being in a total void of external validation.. Often in soul connection situations it feels like things are stuck , the connection brings with it lessons and karma to enforce the learning of those lessons. The feeling of "something is still incomplete" is that karmic imbalance, the pressure to make us dive deep and find what we need to learn. People frequently ask why we have to learn through being given pain and tests. The answer to that is that the human ego will most often take the easiest road and thus given a choice how many of us would voluntarily put ourselves into difficult situations, often for many year, just so we could learn how to climb out....... So how is this time standing still as opposed to it just seeming like it is. ? Well ifanyone reading this has been through one of these cycles they will know that inside the loop is devoid in many ways and it really does have this sense of being "off track" for long long periods of time. The lack of external events is also a sign that our energy and that of our life path the universe has decreed, are not locked together, andso were in the learning zone not moving anywhere. Intuitively we can just feel this.... So how do we escape these cycles and how can we predict how long they will last? In these particular cycles future events can be predicted but the WHEN goes out of the window because your in the "time out" cycle...Its all too often that all thats been predicted comes together once a person has unlocked themselves from the cycle. It may be theyre finally decided to make a change to something, finally decided to stop seeking validation from others, finally decided to be assertive - whatever the lesson is, time after time ive experienced all that was predicted for that person suddenly coming into fruition once they pass the test.Its as if things wait on the timeline at a certain point, and the person decides when they pass that point to unlock them. And that is just exactly how this works ! Now in other times, when theres no huge lessons around and we're sailing along, linear physical time and cosmic cycles can and do interact and relate. This is where the illusion comes about whats predictable. Some events are easily predictable in time, some are impossible because of how time and destiny works....HOWEVER it will probably be to the end of time that many of us consider destiny as that string of pearls all neatly spaced out on the line in time increments because thats how brains like it, nice and logical... To be true to the claim that many psychics make of being 99.9% accurate in predicting time, sometimes the answer HAS to be "there is no time to this event BUT there is a guaranteed outcome" ...the two are inseparable events of the same situation....because in order to move forward one would have had to achieved a certain state of being.... In other events the answer would be "this will happen in this time period". Each is geared to the event not the client or reader.. ]]> 42 2009-11-29 18:23:43 2009-11-30 00:23:43 open open the-metaphysics-of-divine-timing publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558896 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=44 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:33:56 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=44

Part 1. Brief biog - from an Interview with Laura Crush

Born in Coventry England in 1956, Steve's career spanned some 20 years in the UK television production industry which he describes as his 'first love'. Despite a high profile and much success he eventually made a radical change to the field of metaphysics, something he explains as being "inevitable at some stage in my life" This he attributes to having been aware of inherited psychic abilities since a young age, combined with an insatiable fascination for the workings of the universe and the human experience. In a UK press article on why he gave up a 20 year lucrative career he said; "when the call comes you just have to follow", additionally siting his inability to continue in the media field as "being due to a debilitating personal affliction….integrity" Now living in Florida, he's been busy since his change of career and has developed in his field to be a Master Psychic, Reiki Master, devised two of his own brands of energy works (i)Life Energy mapping and recently a new self help method Ptsen-Nuh. He quotes his personal mission as "making metaphysics accessible and real and demonstrating that the universe has method and reason for even the most bizarre events in our lives" Notably he stays well away from many of the 'traditional' spiritual community who he describes as "too mystical and inaccessible", preferring to write and teach spiritual practices in a very grounded and accessible way. His book on soulmates "When Two Souls Connect" published by Publish America has won much applause as a definitive work on the soulmate experience; he has deised a self help energy healing method called Ptsen-Nuh which is is fast receiving a lot of attention from its successful results and he is currently planning a new book called "Life - the missing instruction book

Part 2. A little bit about psychics, metaphysics and how i came to be involved

Being what’s commonly described as “psychic” is a double edged sword. If ever in the vicinity when someone says “oh he’s psychic” you’ll usually notice me flinch, while I wait to see which way people react.. One option is an assumption that I’m someone who likes the idea of being part of the ‘mystic’ or ‘spiritual’ community and I have aspirations to be different, to set myself apart - more than a mere mortal or at least trying to be. That’s the one makes me cringe… But you’ll find many who use the “psychic” title as a lifestyle, and dress code approach as validation of themselves – their aspiration to perpetuate a mystical aura.. These are the ones surrounded by the trappings of spirituality, the compulsory crystals and purple and books on every metaphysical subject. The people who assign themselves titles like “mystical” or “Goddess” or make ludicrous claims. Now good luck to them, I don’t have any competitive instinct or wish these types of people any ill will, however, this somewhat inaccessible ‘magical – mystical, other worldly’ veneer that this section of the spiritual community projects is really the direct opposite of everything I believe is right or appropriate. I see it as a residual of the medicine show aspect of spirituality. And I believe it’s lead to many peoples detachment, disappointment and disbelief about psychics- and particularly of their own ability to connect to the universe without accessing one of these ‘charmed’ individuals.. My own introduction to the world of other senses started early and gradually grew throughout my life but was never, as far as I intended, something that I wanted to, or intended to use on a full time basis. Television production was my career and over a number of years I had enjoyed success gradually rising to the level of senior executive in a number of prominent companies. The career paid amazingly well and allowed me to have sports cars and travel the world and even to get my helicopter pilots license. But there was always something missing and not quite fulfilling even with all the success. But like many do, I pressed on with the career path and really didn’t see the signs that my true destiny was somewhere else. Every psychic I’d ever met or consulted ( even though it wasn’t that many ) had said that one day I’d do the same work, and I laughed at all of them at the time. But the universe had other ideas……. Some years before I’d met an amazing man who had been an engineer all his life and loved the profession. His story is that one day some very strange events began happening and continued until he couldn’t work anymore. These events included apparitions, things moving around on their own, profound psychic visions and other things. Eventually this had led to a nervous breakdown, after which he decided that the universe wanted him to use this new found ability so reluctantly he began on that path and later came to realize that it was what he was meant to do. Around 10 years after meeting him I found myself in a very similar situation. It got crazy. Apparitions, things levitating, wild incoming psychic messages and visions. And just like the guy who had wanted to stay an engineer, I was looking at all of this and deciding I’d finally flipped over the edge. Eventually, like him, I decided that I didn’t have much choice but to follow the path and that I did. To say it’s a calling is certainly true. The total need to understand what’s happened and why is astonishing as the experiences were beyond anything previously imaginable. At that point you realize how people could, and frequently do, have nervous breakdowns when going through such amazing experiences. So if I was going to go into this, and it seems I didn’t have much choice, there would be no purple robes and trappings for me. Like my friend the engineer I wanted facts and things that would stand up. So years of work, study, meditation, and consultations followed. I made it my mission to find out everything I could and I traveled far and wide to do so. Anything that was too ‘mystical’ and intangible and couldn’t be defined I rejected… You meet some great people on a journey like that but you also realize that some of them intend good but their work is counter productive because their good intentions cloud whatever abilities they may have and they tend to tell people only nice things….And when dealing with something as important as people’s lives, I believe that’s a very dangerous place to be coming from.. Likewise there are the ones who have always wanted to be a psychic or healer and have launched on their career with the grand titles and trappings of their art but actually have limited success due to being more interested in living it than continuing to study and develop their skills. One of the few times I ended up at the local Spiritualist Church, I was put in a circle with some other people where we practiced our reading skills. This was early on in my development and I was still pretty unaware what the extent of my new found abilities were and had gone there to see if these nice people could help me untangle the craziness that become my new existence. Everyone read someone else in the group… After we finished and had gone to get coffee a guy came up and slapped me on the back and said “how did you manage to read like that ? I’ve been coming here for 20 years to learn to do what you just did ?” I looked at him sort of astonished and without thinking asked him if he was insane…..WHY would anyone choose to go through this insane stuff that had happened and lose everything they ever knew to be pushed down what was at the time a blind alley with no lights. ?? Strangely enough we didn’t discuss much after that. But I guess he was one of those who thought that psychic abilities are an “add-on” to normal life rather than a total and profound change of existence, with many great personal costs and sacrifices.. But fortunately on my journey I also met some really amazing people who had been through awakening and had come to terms with their abilities and were doing incredible work. They’d committed and learned and studied and quietly mastered their craft and were out there making a difference in people’s lives. Not with grand titles or yards of crystals strung around their necks but quietly working and achieving amazing things. From these people and my own studies I learned that we are all constantly learning and that we have a responsibility for our gift, to use it wisely, and to continually develop it to the best it can be. I believe the work we do requires a code of practice, a dedication and commitment to remaining detached and true. Being too caring means you become too close to the problem and therefore can’t read with total objectivity. . Believing ones own press also leads to opinion clouding ability. It makes me cringe when I hear of people having readings where the reader says “lose him he’s no good for you”. That’s not a psychic reading that’s a judgment. In a case where someone is seen to be going down the wrong path I believe its vital to point out the pitfalls and advise the client of the issues and problems but never to judge, that’s the prerogative of the client to make their own decisions. My own code of practice, and the one I teach when I’m working with people with developing abilities, is to remain outside of thought, opinion or belief. To be like the forensic scientist, detached and observational, working only on the information what’s coming in and that can be checked by several techniques and works within the known framework of the laws of metaphysics. Any good reader can see what's ahead but and some are tempted, lured in, by questions like “will he call on Thursday ?”, Spirit and destiny don’t sweat the small stuff like that and often we won’t get a definite answer on something so small and not significant on the big path of your life story, especially when it's his free will to decide when to call. What’s important and what’s communicated to us is the story, the big picture, the context, the challenges and the opportunities. Not if your gonna buy a red car or a blue one. You destiny is controlled but not that tightly. So when using a good reader remember the emphasis is on what's happening, what's going to happen and it being right ! From my own perspective looking back after years of learning and practice and mastering every possible discipline I could, from many different types of psychic ability, through healing and mediumship and energy work - I realize that the secrets of the universe are so close it’s utterly ludicrous that we can’t see them. That’s its through mankind’s development of the intellect and the illusion that this intellect makes us somehow separate from the universe that we can’t see what’s staring us in the face. So my work has been very much in the line of a poor man’s Steve Hawking, studying the patterns and nature of the universe in both the physical and metaphysical. Yes I talk to spirits and I can see things that I couldn’t possibly know with the usual 5 senses but the more they develop and the more I experience – the more I see that there’s order and purpose and meaning in a universe that we often consider to be random. So the personal mission for me is to use the abilities I’ve been give to try to communicate, to explain, and to demonstrate the order, laws, cycles and connectedness of the entirety of all things and why and how people find themselves at a certain place, point in time and in a situation that’s caused them to call me. As the antithesis of the ‘medicine show’ spirituality, an important part of any reading, spiritual counseling, teaching, energy work or any other of the disciplines i practice, I seek to communicate and demonstrate that we can all get closer to our destiny through an inner journey. I make it a priority to demystify and make understandable as much as I can about this process. So I guess the purpose of this little ramble is to explain that in this profession often generically called being “psychic” there are many different disciplines, many different abilities, many different types of reading, teaching energy work, many different reasons for being here, and many different ways to approach it. http://www.stevegunn.net]]> 44 2009-11-29 18:33:56 2009-11-30 00:33:56 open open steve-gunn-biog-background publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558887 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=47 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:37:01 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=47 This is for two very deliberate reasons. One is danger of association - whereby other non related processes sometimes have similar sounding names. Secondly - it is crucial that to use PN you undergo the primary foundation course - this is because of the VITAL aspect of how we can assimilate knowledge too much on the THOUGHT side of the THOUGHT/EXPERIENCE boundary, will guarantee failure at the EXPERIENCE or 'non mental learning' side.. Hence most of the actual techniques of PN remain confidential so that, when taught properly as part of the foundational coursework, they can be experienced in their purest, truest, most effective form. ] 1. Recognition of the flaws of the ego state We recognize that every living person has an inner ‘ego” model of self worth, value, place and position in society that has been conditioned by people and events over time… We recognize that we didn’t control many of these events and we can’t control people’s reactions to us, therefore we are more or less powerless over this mental ‘programmed’ value and self worth.… We recognize that every ego has the innate ability to be needy, negative, judgmental, and insecure and most other negative human traits…and that the ego always tends toward the negative. ( Nobody worries they will be too thin too rich or too happy. )… We recognize the usual human state of conditioning is that this ego mode which controls our state of awareness of being, that our emotions are more subject to the actions of others than ourselves, that our self worth is an integration of events and perceptions of others, and that we are not centred, in control or objective. We decided that this state is not who we are but how we are and that it is an unacceptable way of being… We realize that just the same as we can’t unlearn to ride a bike or unlearn to swim, we can’t ultimately change our state of being to think ourselves happy or redress this ego conditioning using thought. We decide that we will avoid ego perception, judgment of self or others and seek the objectiveness and peace of ego detachment.… We decide that our existence is an act of divine creation and that no person, neither ourselves nor others, can judge our validity..… 2. Recognise real vs residual emotions.… We recognize that as emotional caring people we will have emotional reactions to external stimulus. We recognize that in the ego state we will have emotional reactions that are from old emotions being retriggered which causes an unhealthy state of being..… We decide that when any external stimulus triggers feelings that affect self validation, we will recognize that as an ego reaction and therefore we cannot in any way act on, pamper to, or facilitate these energies as emotions, that they are just replay triggered by ego responses..… We decide that when we recognize a trigger we take no action whatsoever. . this is a golden rule of ptsen-nuh. Any actions taken during this time will be counter productive..… We decide to get away from ego and return back to the learned state of inner peace as soon as possible…( this state is taught through a foundational meditation ). 3. Embracing Multiplicity We recognize that the ego's need creates projection and requires what it considers cause, effect, timeline, purpose, person, focus, reason and prediction in order to “understand” or accept things.. We recognize that the ego working on a logical, subjective, judgmental, emotionally reactive basis will place value judgments of “good” or “bad” onto events and situations. We recognize that the above shows us the ego state is unable to accept multiples only logical singularities. We decide to accept the law of the duality of things– that all tests have their reward and all rewards have their price. That the law of cloud and silver lining being two elements of one and the same entity are an inescapable part of nature and we must welcome both…. We decide not to simply label things subjectively as “good” or “bad” but to, through detached unemotional observation, seek to understand the more complex nature of things We decide to accept that all living things will interact energetically and that this interaction is a part of the laws of energy often without implication, and that we will not judge, categorize, or attach need or expectation to that interaction but that we will embrace the fruitfulness of the universe. 4. A place of peace.. We recognize that we need to find a way that our total energy flow can be restored, releasing all old ‘learned’ emotions to disable replay, and that we can be fully expressed in all energies... We recognize that in the world we cannot fully express all energies due to rejection / validation issues from the fact that people judge - which would ensure we are never fully cleansed flowing or open... We decide that just as we may use a gym to focus on our muscles, we need an energy space devoid of others, devoid of external stimulus, where we can release old triggers and blockages and find ways to full expression and release of energies... We decide to create and manage our sacred space, taking 100% responsibility for care, maintenance and control of our energetic state of being, irrespective of external influence.... We decide to gradually track and map old energy triggers, responses and ‘replays’ in order to disempower and reprogram them at an energetic level... 5. On the path We recognize that when we aren’t flowing energetically – that we create ‘waves in the energy’ of our interaction with other and even more importantly, with our own path and destiny.... We recognize that pre conceived idea about what we want, who we are and “what we should be” has isolated us from the deep inner connection and recognition of that which drives us onto our path..... We decide we choose to remain true to the fully open energetic state and to flow with the energies of self and of the universe…... We decide to remain in the mode of being a merging, a crossover point of both spiritual and physical energies in harmony as we are meant to be.... ]]> 47 2009-11-29 18:37:01 2009-11-30 00:37:01 open open foundational-principles-of-ptsen-nuh publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559368 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=49 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:39:15 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=49 http://www.keen.com/uk+psychic If you wish to leave feedback please do so here as a comment at the bottom of the post.. thank you ! -------------------------------------------------------------- I want to thank you for helping me through my long journey to be reunited with my soulmate. When I first started reading your ebook it was August 2007. I read it almost daily, and it helped me through several tough months where my soulmate kept me at arm's length and never let me close to him. The stories helped me understand what was happening as no one else could. In December 2007 you did a reading for me, and recommended that I deny him access to my energy. For 4 months I gave him tough love: ignored him, never called him, didn't return his calls and refused to meet him. You mentioned perhaps he needed another year to come around. So I waited patiently for it to happen. One day in March 2008 he suddenly asked me to be his soulmate and thinks we have been lovers in previous incarnations. I told him I was very proud of his realization. Well, it is now May 30, 2008 and he has finally taken down his defenses. Last week he called me and told me he is tired of being a super human. He wants to be human and wants to be happy (with me). He openly admits and recognizes that we have a connection that can never be broken. The big step has been taken: he knows he can no longer tolerate the pain of staying in his unhappy marriage and he wants to be with me. This has been the longest, toughest 3 year journey of my life: waiting, hoping, doubting, worrying: every minute, every hour, every day for 3 years. It was the lesson of a lifetime on how to love someone who was in continual denial, who kept pushing me away, and sending out mixed messages. Once he told me he couldn't live without me, then the next week he withdrew, and told me he was not "the one." It took all my strength to continue loving him, unconditionally, having no guarantee that we would ever be in a relationship or if he would ever realize that we were meant to be together. When I couldn't be with him physically, I learned to be with him spiritually (what choice did I have?) hoping he would show up in my dreams. There were days I missed him so much my heart would literally hurt. I spent entire weekends and holidays in a state of numbness, not knowing where he was and not able to function. I cried so much, eventually I had no tears left. As the seasons passed, I gathered more strength, my own pain began to heal, and my dependence on him as a source of love diminished. As you advised, I focused on my own life, hoping that my connection and love for him would be eternal. This was a journey of pain and frustration, and a tough lesson in unconditional love. Without your readings to give me validation, I would have surely gone mad. Few people in this world know how it feels to be in this situation. Most people are quick to pass judgement, and everyone will tell you it is stupid and wrong, to get involved with a married man. If I could have severed the connection, I would have. But in this case, the switch off was impossible. Only those who have met their soulmate understand. Today I am ecstatic that my soulmate recognizes me and is now willing to start a relationship. Steve, you told me this day would come but it was so hard to believe. How true are your words and vision. I am deeply grateful. Thank you so much. Appreciative --------------------------------------------------------------- "He is amazing, not only did i spend a long time talking to him, but he reads the people and energies so well, its hard to stop listening to him talk.. thank you so much for helping me out with the situation ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks Steve. You really helped put a lot of things into perspective for me! Hope to talk to you again soon! ------------------------------------------------------ "Quick, perceptive, insightful. Thanks so much, as usual... " ------------------------------------------------------ "Steve excels at his metier. He's fast, concise and offers useful spiritual guidance. Wonderful, as always! " ------------------------------------------------------ "One of the BEST! So glad to be able to talk to him today. I wish he will log on more often. I love his reading with the big picture and no sugar coat. CLEAR, DEIRECT, CONCISE DETAILS, and big picture guidances, VERY GOOD, BIG HEART, AND SINCERE ADVICE. He has been my no. 1 advisor for more than 5 years now and I always impressed that all of his prediction came to pass like what he said. FAST, SINCERE, INTEGRITY, UNIQUE, and AMAZINGLY ACCURATE is his best qualities. He is the ABSOLUTELY REAL DEAL. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Great, thank you. Talk to you soon " ------------------------------------------------------ "ALWAYS THE BEST! HONEST, CARING, INTEGRITY, AND ACCURATE. " ------------------------------------------------------ Makes a tonne of sense.....very practical...very useful.....in terms you can understand....so you can move forward and make changes!! Thank you Steve! Charlene ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks Steve God bless!!! ------------------------------------------------------ "Warm, kind and comforting. Tuned in very quickly and was very reassuring. A+ " ------------------------------------------------------ "Professional, accurate-call him. " ------------------------------------------------------ GReat reader.. ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you very-very much! I need to digest all this information. Thank you for showing to me all the sides of the picture. ------------------------------------------------------ "Stellar reading. Steve can distill the most important things for you quickly and accurately. Moreover, he offers helpful spiritual guidance. Thanks!! " ------------------------------------------------------ What a wonderful reader. He picked up immediately on the person and gave excellent advice. Most definitely someone I would call back for advice. Exceptional. ------------------------------------------------------ "Quick and doesn't try to give teaching lessons, only what he sees/feels! Great! " ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks Steve for another excellent reading! ------------------------------------------------------ Amazing; highly recommend !! ------------------------------------------------------ You're great! Everyone should call you... ------------------------------------------------------ Gifted psychic!!! Call and see...... "This guy is fantastic! His ability to read people and situations is impeccable. A truly brilliant reading--gets to the heart of the matter, sees the big picture- a master, indeed! Thank you, Steve!! " ------------------------------------------------------ "EXTREMELY INSIGHTFUL, ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING PROFOUND DETAILS WITH ASTOUNDING AND UNCANNY ACCURACY! I DID NOT TELL HIM ANYTHING. He does it every time I mean nails the person like he knows them. I just give him a name the he takes off with details & character traits. His predictions are flowing in. EVERYTHING he has predicted has is unfolding,and right on point with the situation that was discussed. Great with knowing what the other person is feeling and someone who is passed away which only I know it. He is definitely not a person who tells you things that you want to hear. Always tells the truth, which hurts sometimes but saves heartache in the long run. “ ------------------------------------------------------ He told me some things that were honest and truthful. I will take heed and follow through. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------ "The best!!!! For almost 6 years of my advisor, always come to pass, always is my trust advisor. ------------------------------------------------------ Always caring, integrity, intuitive, insightful, stright to the point, and VERY accurate. I can't say enough ------------------------------------------------------ What can be said about STEVE that hasn't been said already - he is very AWESOME! he's continuing to be my best advisor. He is A M A Z I N G L Y A C C U R A T E ! Trust me! Stay in line - He is so worth any wait in line to talk with him! Just love him! ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks Steve! I can't thank you enough to helping me out for last so many months. ------------------------------------------------------ VERY helpful in clarifying a situation and spelled out exactly how to handle it. Thanks so much for the insights and sound advice! Thank you also for confirming my faith in my own intuition! ------------------------------------------------------ Best on KEEN! Call and see... ------------------------------------------------------ "Always excellent! Kind, intuitive, integrity, caring, and accurate. " ------------------------------------------------------ EXCELLENT! THANK YOU! ------------------------------------------------------ "Always the best! Excellent quality... intuitve, integrity, and very accurate. He knows things without telling him any things and a lot of things are unfolding like he sees. Highly recommended. " ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the calming influence and suggestions. I'll try it and time will tell. ------------------------------------------------------ "Thanks Steve. You have been a great friend, thanks for being there. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Alway amzazing accurate advisor. Highly recommend. Fast, cring, and extremely accurate. Highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------ I'm so glad to be able to talk with you again. " ------------------------------------------------------ "He is the best of the best!! Always see things so clear. Very fast and honest. Integrity, straight to the point and accurate. He has been my advisor for many many years and never goes wrong yet." ------------------------------------------------------ Always a pleasure to talk to. ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks again Steve for everything. Everything that Steve has predicted for me to happen for the past 4 years has come to pass some with lenghty time frames but everything is meant to happen at the time it is meant to happen no matter how many years it can take. Stve has always been 100% accurate with everything he is truelly a AMAZING and gifted person he is always right about everything and he knows automatically when you first speak what is going on just a AMAZING person call him and believe it does happen even if it does take 6 years Thanks again for everything you are the BEST Karen ------------------------------------------------------ "Steve's the best! I really appreciate his clear view on things, and his efforts to help me understand the situation I am dealing with. He is a wonderful reader. " ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks once again! ------------------------------------------------------ "Listen people, this reader is the cream of the crop. Highly Gifted, truly being used by Spirit. Worth every penny and more. He can make a significant different in a person's life, because his reading has in mine. I recommend him. We should feel priveleged that we have access to his readings! " ------------------------------------------------------ "Excellent. Very skilled reader--sees it all, gets to the heart of the matter and puts it all into a clear context. Thank you!! " ------------------------------------------------------ Always great to talk to. Thank you so much. ------------------------------------------------------ very good. I will let you know if you are accurate ------------------------------------------------------ "WOW, an excellent reading, a real one-stop shop for insight into the present, what's coming down the pike, excellent practical advice, and spiritual diagnostic and guidance as well. Very kind, honest and fast. No need to go elsewhere! Just great, many thanks and blessings. Will definitely call again! ------------------------------------------------------ *********** " ------------------------------------------------------ "Excellent! For many many years, he has prooved to be correct and come to pass again and again. Moreover, he also has the integrity, intuitive, straight forward and not try to keep you on the phone. I do appreciate very much. Have a happy holidays! " ------------------------------------------------------ "I appreciate your gift. Thanks so very much, as usual. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Wow! I'n kind of blown away by this reading, so clear and definite and chock full of specific points that really hit home. Truly amazing accuracy! Direct, coherent and very convincing information. A fascinating, reassuring, enlightening, and empowering experience. " ------------------------------------------------------ Thank You Steve for helping see into all of this mess that is going on.. Highly recommended!! Give Steve a call you will not be disappointed!! ------------------------------------------------------ Absolutely spot on !! Thank you so much ------------------------------------------------------ Always great to talk to. ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks steve you make so much sense. ------------------------------------------------------ The best and always. excellent qualities. Always see the big picture and accurate! Highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------ Can't say enouhg about his excellent qualities. SO many.... He has been right and been my advisor that I trust for many many years. Highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------ "Always the best! He is so caring, honest, stright to the point, intutive, integrity, fast, and super accurate. He has proved so many many times and it has come to pass again and again for so many years. ------------------------------------------------------ HIGLY RECOMMEND!! " ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks Steve for your advise and what to expect as thing happen will keep you posted. ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the reading! He is very accurate and honest! ------------------------------------------------------ "Not only did Steve tune into my energy right away and knew exactly what I am dealing with at the moment (as well as in the past), but he empowered me with clarity about why things are the way they are and how to positively deal with them. He also gave me predictions for the not too distant future. He's a true guiding force and I feel blessed that I called. He definetely has a gift! Quick and to the point, no bull here. Thank you for the powerful reading Steve. Another WOW!!! "thank you! always a pleasure to speak with you! ------------------------------------------------------ Good stuff! Give him a call ------------------------------------------------------ "It is always a pleasure to talk to Steve; even though it has been well over a year, he remembered the general details of a previous reading; he was totally consistent with what he said previously; highly recommended! " ------------------------------------------------------ "Diamond in keen!!! Very very very real deal. Fast, straight to the point. He knew things without I tell him anythings. Give him a try yourself. Highly recommend. " ------------------------------------------------------ very professional and in tune with my situation... thanks so much for your continued guidance and for explaining things so well ------------------------------------------------------ was honest and very right lovely to talk to thank you ------------------------------------------------------ "First time caller and he tuned in immediately to the person I asked about including issues from the past. ------------------------------------------------------ My predictions are a little further in the future, but I am confident it will play out as he said and I will certainly be calling back. " ------------------------------------------------------ What a delight to talk to! Steve picked up on personalities of all the players involved to a tee!! I know what I have to do and feel all the good things coming!! Thanks!!! ------------------------------------------------------ "Thanks for the reading, very helpful as usual. MB " ------------------------------------------------------ You won't find a better advisor anywhere. ------------------------------------------------------ "Excellent as usual, thank you! I will definitely call for an update. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Thanks Steve, I really appreciate your readings. I will let you know when things finally start to happen. " ------------------------------------------------------ "I am very grateful for your kind, wise, and truthful words. Thank you for the encouragement too! And, finally, thank you from all of my heart for being there for people, sharing your gift of insight. May God bless you and your loved ones... " ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you. You're the best. ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you steve for all your help and I will follow your advice. I Look forward to the next time. ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks Steve. Thank you for telling me that i am on the right path and everything will work out in the end for me. It was a pleasure talking to you and I will be in touch soon. ------------------------------------------------------ "I've contacted dozens of psychics about this issue without finding the answer that really resonated with me. However, Steve zeroed in on it RIGHT away without me having to give dates of birth or answer any questions. Wow. ------------------------------------------------------ Steve! I know in my heart what you said is right! " ------------------------------------------------------ HE IS TRULY GIFTED AND GENUINE. HIS ACCURACY IS AMAZING- VERY WARM AND KIND AS WELL. ------------------------------------------------------ "Practical and insightful....worth the call. I'll call back. Thanks so much, Steve. " ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks so much. ------------------------------------------------------ Great advice. thank you for shedding light on this situation as usual. I will call again. ------------------------------------------------------ Always excelllent!! Highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------ This guy is fantastic and so accurate. I look forward to his predictions unfolding. 2 weeks. Darlene ------------------------------------------------------ Best on KEEN! ------------------------------------------------------ "Thank you Steve!!!! I value your insight and your incredible ability to calm me down and re-evaluate each situation I present to you. Your time and your expertise is greatly appreciated, as I will look to you in the future to help me through other situations or issues which arise. You are the best and worthy of all the five star ratings!!! " ------------------------------------------------------ thank you for your guidance today Steve... i do hope that there will be some changes coming because i'm getting a bit tired of the same old stuff...you've been a great help ------------------------------------------------------ Always the best.. so excellent! He can pick up very fast without telling him anything ------------------------------------------------------ Very amazing advisor! Give him a try yourself! ------------------------------------------------------ "Very insightful, saw the situation, helped to keep me present in the moment with what is. Divine timing! ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks so much. " ------------------------------------------------------ Excellent! Thank you very much for your advice. It helps me a lot. ------------------------------------------------------ Thankyou soooo much Steve sorry I had to go. Call Steve and believe and have faith and listen and YES everything will happen when it is meant to happen even if it takes years but everything that Steve has told me would happen has come to pass he is a brilliant reader and always always 100% right about everything he is just amazing he just always knows he is just brilliant call nad have faith and believe and LISTEN to him he is the BEST always always right about everything. ------------------------------------------------------ "Always excellent, big heart, very intuitive, and rare qualities! I'm looking forward for the changes. ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you so much for being there for me, listening to me, and helping through those time. I won't forget all the good things you've done for me and your KINDNESS. " ------------------------------------------------------ "More than the word 'E X C E L L E N T'. Always straight to the point, honest, and accurate. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Excellent! You are the best advisor. Always integrity, honest, and accurate. Always help me see the big picture. I can't say enough how much you have helped me. Highly recommend to everyone. " ------------------------------------------------------ "awesome, my best reading ever. thank you so much I will call again and follow up. " ------------------------------------------------------ EXCELLENT!!!! just amazing!!! he picked up on my situation- - this man is so awesome!! I will call him again!!! ------------------------------------------------------ Highly recommend. His energy is so real. He can see things in the future so clear and it always happens. I couldn't say enough about his excellent qualities. Give him a try yourself. ------------------------------------------------------ Excellent. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------ Top of advisor on Keen. His intuitive is so amazing. Many of his prediction has been through all. I do trust his advice and highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------ Your ongoing support is very helpful. TY ------------------------------------------------------ More than excellent! ------------------------------------------------------ "Thank you for your intuitive, kind, and accurate. I appreciate very much. You have been my number #1 advisor for years and always be #1. It's so hard to find someone who does the job with compassion like you which makes you the BEST. " ------------------------------------------------------ "For so many year of being my advisor, he never fails even once. Always integrity, kind, and accurate. ------------------------------------------------------ THank you so much for your guidance. " ------------------------------------------------------ "I don't know what I would do w/o this man. If you don't want to waste your money and want truths that can help you with your situation and to help you grow, this is the one stop shop. He has such incredible clarity and guidance as if he were seeing my life from a bird's eye view. Truly truly he has a great great gift. I would not be in the better place I am now without his help and wisdom.... " ------------------------------------------------------ * * * A W E S O M E * * * ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update Steve. Call Steve he is truelly the BEST just a amazing reader. Everything he has told me would happen has happened and he picks up on things while we are speaking that I didinot even tell him about he is just AMAZING his clarity and insight is just amazing a very gifted person call him and believe and have faith things do really happen despight slight time frames things do happen when they are meant to happen at the right time. Thanks again for everything ------------------------------------------------------ "Again, Steve. You are always right again. I could gone this those time without you. I almost miss the chance to say good bye to him. I believed you and I was so glad I did talk to him the last time before he passed away. You are so amazing!!!! " ------------------------------------------------------ thanks! it is always a pleasure to speak with you! ------------------------------------------------------ "This is the true real deal. If you want to go to one person and not waste your money, have a reading w/ ------------------------------------------------------ He will tell you the absolute truth. He has helped me grow through a very difficult situation. " ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for everything Steve. Steve is AMAZING everything he has told me would happen has happened and still is happening at this moment he is always 100% right about everything. He is the BEST on here call him he is amazing. ------------------------------------------------------ thanks Steve.. awesome as usual and very professional ------------------------------------------------------ Most highly recommend this reader! Will definitely call again. ------------------------------------------------------ Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! ------------------------------------------------------ "You have been excellent and yet, you are so right again. " ------------------------------------------------------ Mr. UK is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Not only is he confident in his predictions but he is able to help guide you in the right direction to find peace with any situation. Love the accent! ------------------------------------------------------ "The best!!! HIghly recommend. He is so kind, integrity, and very accurate. Always sees things ahead in the big picture and details. Everything he told me has happened all. I would highly recommend to every one. AMAZING ADVISOR!! " ------------------------------------------------------ "An insightful reading. Steve provides useful, helpful and pertinent information. All of which makes sense to me. Thank you Steve for the ""common sense"". " ------------------------------------------------------ Highly recommended. ------------------------------------------------------ "More than excellent! The best! Integrity, straight to the point, extremely accurate. I can't say enough about him. Highly recommend to everyone. He has been my advisor for many many years and a lot of things comes to pass....all. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Thanks Again for everything Steve. Steve is a amazing advisor, he is always and I mean always right about everything I have learned sooooo much from him, just call him and believe he is just amazing. Thanks again for everything I'll let you know how everything turns out. ------------------------------------------------------ "Many thanks Steve, you have helped me today more than you'll ever know! I didn't say very much as I was lost for words - everything that you said about him was so true. I feel much more secure now and will follow your advice. But I'll talk to you soon again, I need you to help me survive this waiting game! Many thanks once again. I am very, very grateful for finding you! " ------------------------------------------------------ "Steve, I really enjoyed your reading as well as your spirit.You picked up on my situation very quickly without any question asked or any further detail needed. I have to say that you are the best:friendly, caring, generous and gifted person. You are a real psychic and giving him a call is not a waste of time or money. I will definitely and highly recommend. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Very accurate, thank you for the peace of mind. I can do what you've suggested. Will definitely call again! The REAL DEAL! " ------------------------------------------------------ thank you! it is always a pleasure to speak with you! ------------------------------------------------------ Exceptional. ------------------------------------------------------ "Excellent, will definitely call again. Thank you. " ------------------------------------------------------ Always excellent! Thank you for all your suport and advice. "Thank you for your enormous compassion, wisdom and deep insight, and integrity. ------------------------------------------------------ Highly, highly recommended call to those seeking... " ------------------------------------------------------ Really excellent call and great information. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------ great thank u ------------------------------------------------------ "Great advisor. Friendly, helpful and professional. Thankyou very much. " ------------------------------------------------------ "Highly recommend!! Kind, care, and accurate. " ------------------------------------------------------ Excellent! always accurate. ------------------------------------------------------ Extremely warm and generous reader. TY for all your help. ------------------------------------------------------ You won't find a better advisor anywhere. ------------------------------------------------------ Always helpful; always gracious. A terrific advisor. ------------------------------------------------------------ What can be said about STEVE that hasn't been said already - he is very AWESOME! he's continuing to be my best advisor. He is A M A Z I N G L Y A C C U R A T E ! Trust me! Stay in line - He is so worth any wait in line to talk with him! Just love him! ------------------------------------------------------------ VERY helpful in clarifying a situation and spelled out exactly how to handle it. Thanks so much for the insights and sound advice! Thank you also for confirming my faith in my own intuition! ------------------------------------------------------------ Always excellent! Kind, intuitive, integrity, caring, and accurate. ------------------------------------------------------------ EXCELLENT! THANK YOU! ------------------------------------------------------------ Alway amzazing accurate advisor. Highly recommend. Fast, cring, and extremely accurate. Highly recommend. I'm so glad to be able to talk with you again. ------------------------------------------------------------ He is the best of the best!! Always see things so clear. Very fast and honest. Integrity, straight to the point and accurate. He has been my advisor for many many years and never goes wrong yet. Truely A M A Z I N G !!! Thanks Steve! ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks again Steve for everything. Everything that Steve has predicted for me to happen for the past 4 years has come to pass some with lenghty time frames but everything is meant to happen at the time it is meant to happen no matter how many years it can take. Stve has always been 100% accurate with everything he is truelly a AMAZING and gifted person he is always right about everything and he knows automatically when you first speak what is going on just a AMAZING person call him and believe it does happen even if it does take 6 years Thanks again for everything you are the BEST Karen ------------------------------------------------------------ Steve's the best! I really appreciate his clear view on things, and his efforts to help me understand the situation I am dealing with. He is a wonderful reader. ------------------------------------------------------------ Listen people, this reader is the cream of the crop. Highly Gifted, truly being used by Spirit. Worth every penny and more. He can make a significant different in a person's life, because his reading has in mine. I recommend him. We should feel priveleged that we have access to his readings! ------------------------------------------------------------ Excellent. Very skilled reader--sees it all, gets to the heart of the matter and puts it all into a clear context. Thank you!! ------------------------------------------------------------ WOW, an excellent reading, a real one-stop shop for insight into the present, what's coming down the pike, excellent practical advice, and spiritual diagnostic and guidance as well. Very kind, honest and fast. No need to go elsewhere! Just great, many thanks and blessings. Will definitely call again! *********** ------------------------------------------------------------ Excellent! For many many years, he has prooved to be correct and come to pass again and again. Moreover, he also has the integrity, intuitive, straight forward and not try to keep you on the phone. I do appreciate very much. Have a happy holidays! ------------------------------------------------------------ I appreciate your gift. Thanks so very much, as usual ------------------------------------------------------------ Wow! I'n kind of blown away by this reading, so clear and definite and chock full of specific points that really hit home. Truly amazing accuracy! Direct, coherent and very convincing information. A fascinating, reassuring, enlightening, and empowering experience. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thank You Steve for helping see into all of this mess that is going on.. Highly recommended!! Give Steve a call you will not be disappointed!! ------------------------------------------------------------ Absolutely spot on !! Thank you so much Thanks steve you make so much sense. ------------------------------------------------------------ The best and always. excellent qualities. Always see the big picture and accurate! Highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------------ Can't say enouhg about his excellent qualities. SO many.... He has been right and been my advisor that I trust for many many years. Highly recommend. ------------------------------------------------------------ Always the best! He is so caring, honest, stright to the point, intutive, integrity, fast, and super accurate. He has proved so many many times and it has come to pass again and again for so many years. HIGLY RECOMMEND!! stevegunn Site Admin --------------------------------------------------------------- Steve, Thank you so much for your help. You offered me clarity when all I saw was thick fog. Steve definately didn't tell me what I wanted to hear but what was real and true. He also guided me on some techniques for meditation and grounding that are helping buffer this wild time of dealing with someone who is a pile of contradictions. What he advised and offered has been very helpful. I've never called a psychic in my life because I didn't want any crystal ball charlatan type of thing. My circumstances were stressful enough that I actually did call and what luck I had in Steve. He made logic of the illogical. Many thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------- Within minutes into my reading it became obvious that Steve's understanding and ability are genuine. He is a gifted healer with a sincere desire to help people. He also came across as very kind and generous. I really feel that 'stumbling upon' his website was God's answer to my prayers at a time when I had lost all hope. I'm so glad I trusted my instincts and took this reading. I can never thank him enough, God Bless !!!PreciousLove --------------------------------------------------------------- I just wanted to share my story with you which Steve has been a great help in. Back in 05 i met my soulmate online and got to meet him in person in 06 before i did i contacted Steve on Keen and kept in touch w/ him thru here. Steve told me about the difficult jounrney that my soulmate would have to go thru before we could properly connect and it would take 2 years before he could accept what we actually had. Strangely enough Steve was spot on about this man and he has entered my life again after a two year absense. Telling me all the things Steve said he would. Well to say the least it was abit unnerving. I've not turned him away yet but i haven't taken him back yet something else Steve did tell me. So he is worth talking to! Just want to say thank you Steve for your insight and help! Reet xReet ]]> 49 2009-11-29 18:39:15 2009-11-30 00:39:15 open open steve-gunn-feedback publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559180 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=55 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:45:28 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=55 Prior to learning the difference, most of us would simply describe all of these as "emotions" and react to them equally, often struggling to rationalize thoughts and actions that they drive. The purpose of this article is not to go into these aspects in detail, that’s something that is part of the process of learning PN, however it is to illustrate a state we call "HP", and illustrate how the flip-flop behavior of these trusts, associations and affiliations is generated from energies within the chakra system. In PN we recognize that this is an energy issue - we do not seek to use in any way any traditional clinical or psychological methods, to look into mental illness or diagnosis, nor represent, judge, qualify or otherwise any medical practices. We simply seek to explain how the most powerful forces at work in the human, the soul’s energies within the 7 charkas, can drive behavior, and to explain those processes. "HP" In a stressed situation, most people's emotions are very close to the surface. These will include all residual emotions stored in the energy centers, along with all the sense memories (remembering what pain feels like etc)... The culmination of this process is that we don’t have clarity on the "real" emotions, ie the proportionate energetic responses to actual situations, as opposed to the residual ones. Residual energies and sense memory come hard-wired to triggers and usually in this energetically destabilized HP state, we find that someone has had these old wounds and memories triggered. There may or may not also be real energies, ( ie emotions that are proportional and relevant to an actual situation ), however usually the residual ones are more powerful and thus the person will usually be exhibiting emotional stress way above that which we would expect from the situation they have experienced. When in this state, in PN we refer to it as HP or "Hyper Personalized". What that means is that an individual is in a state of energetic disarray and will be subject to random thoughts and erratic behaviors as they flip-flop or become polarized in tendency, going from one extreme to the other trying to find a solution that "fits". They will also tend to lose objectivity and make things very subjective, responding in the opposite or an irrational way to things that aren't personal to them but because they are so easily emotionally triggered in the HP state, they simply can't depersonalize things. What we mean by the flip-flop association trying to find a solution that "fits" is that that part of the human mind that reacts to things, seems to try to "think" of a concept, a construct, that is the one solution or gives us the associated emotion of peace or "aha i found the answer i can rest easy"...Its like searching for a person, belief, structure or something to make us "feel ok" as the anti drug for the emotional stress that’s being experienced. Of course if the person is reacting to old ( residual ) emotions and sense memory ( which most will be ) then there is no one fix because the very state of emotional confusion they are in, isn’t solely brought about from one external force or situation, therefore no one external solution will ever fix it...Thus the person flip-flops to and from different 'constructs' of what the answer is. What we tend to notice in these HP situations is that the person takes everything very personally and attaches significance to things in a way that they may not when they were in amore stable emotional state. People tend to be idolized or berated, and often ideas or concepts are similarly polarized in extreme ways... The swinging from one person to another, one solution to another, the next one always being the ideal and the last one the problem, is very common... Its not uncommon to find people in this state following a pattern of attachment to people who they see as the solution and idealizing them very quickly, later to simply trash them and move to the next one, extremely rapidly. Every human can experience these aspects but the great news is that they can be dealt with and the residual triggers removed... Its not a judgment of anyone if they're suffering from residual emotional triggers, it's a product of life experience that most of the time was beyond the persons control.. Because the ego "dies hard" its more lilely the person will be judging themselves and thats the only barrier to resolving and healing this problem.. When we can unlock that underlying emotional residual and release it using good disciplined guided release, the behavioral aspects subside as rapidly as they came... The results are profound and permanent http://healmyenergy.com ]]> 55 2009-11-29 18:45:28 2009-11-30 00:45:28 open open ping-pong-polarization publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558870 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=57 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:46:48 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=57 Talk to others and many times you’ll find the same story; one of the innate ability being awoken within us at some point in our lives that pushes us to do this work.. One of the first things I noticed was that suddenly to many people I’d become some sort of alien. A lot were sure I’d totally “lost it”, giving up the big salaries and high profile of my previous occupation to become something they saw as ‘flaky’ and ‘weird’… What undoubtedly influenced them, was the word ‘psychic’ conjuring up a vision of the archetypal end-of-the-pier’ fortuneteller sitting aloft a crystal ball professing that ‘you’ll meet a tall man driving a sports car and have 3 children’. This stereotype is far from the truth of most psychics’ daily work, which is being someone who can commune with the universe and spirit to offer guidance, reason, direction and foresight beyond the conventional; being there for people who need to find their way onto their destined life path. I use the term ‘calling’ because when it happens, the drive to use the ability is profound and transcends other concerns such as what other people are going to think. Even with the chuckling and comments received from others when I changed my situation I’ve rarely come across anyone who isn’t fascinated by psychics and psychic ability – both skeptics and believers alike. Somewhere within all of us we’re intrigued, we have an underlying human quest to know what life is all about and that makes most of us express at least some interest in anyone who could possibly see beyond the physical world. It’s this fascination that seems to be a part of everyone that makes those of us working in metaphysics the subject of endless conjecture. Many want to believe but can’t see past their own boundaries that if it hasn’t happened to them then its hard to believe and they need what they call ‘proof’. You won’t ever meet a psychic who hasn’t been asked to ‘prove it’ and yet despite proving it every day in our work, many individuals need to personally experience a psychic reading to start to accept on any level that there is something ‘out there’ beyond what we can see and touch and taste and smell and hear. This is because we live in a world of 3 dimensions, looking to our five senses for our sense of reality, which actually blinds us to the other dimension, that of energy. Our ‘proof’ that something is real is if we can see, touch, taste smell or hear it. To question that 3 dimensional reality for a moment in order to illustrate the point…Very few people understand the theories of electromagnetic propagation, yet we all experience turning on a TV set and watching the pictures sent through the air…We can’t see, feel, smell or touch these magical waves and most don’t understand them; yet radio transmission has become an accepted norm and so we don’t see the need to question it, we just turn on the TV. It’s being trapped in this physical version of truth and reality and only accepting what can be manifested in 3 dimensions i.e. the TV set, the radio, the microwave etc, that has conditioned us away from our natural psychic ability to read energy. Energy is at the core of our being. It’s emotions, senses, intuition, sensation, spirit, vibrancy, courage, love, passion and pain - all of those things that aren’t thoughts. In other words it’s primal to our existence…and yet we often only credit what we think is real because it has some sort of 3 dimensional form. A classic I often hear when telling someone another does actually love them is “my friends say if he loved me he would be with me”…Well ok but these friends just discounted the entire range of negative human emotions like fear, insecurity, doubt, guilt, worry etc. In being slaves to their ‘reality’ they are being utterly blinded to what’s actually happening.. The client will often then ask how I ‘know’ this person loves them. That’s an easy answer, I can feel it… When we can allow ourselves the freedom to open our minds and more importantly our instincts to a world beyond the physical, that we open a doorway to accessing our own spiritual / psychic potential and then things that previously seemed supernatural begin to make a new sense and reason. nlocking ones own psychic potential isn’t an add-on to our conventional way of living - it’s living life in a totally new awareness. Once we can do that our natural abilities can be accessed up to each individuals maximum potential. Remember I said that many of us find ourselves on this path whether we chose it or not. That’s because as part of our destiny we had to go through some personal transformation that brought about this awareness, and with it, our ability to use our psychic connection to the universe in order to help others. Ok so if you’ve managed to stick with me this far, then I guess you may want to know how you can access your own abilities… Well like most powerful things the concept is ridiculously easy, but the implementation takes work. Today you are reading this and thinking; thinking that’s driving your actions, for example you may throw the article away and not read any further or on the other hand you may decide to read on. You may also be worried that you’re late for work, feeling too hot, too cold, too tired or haven’t paid the latest telephone bill etc.. So we think, that’s how we convene with our daily reality…. but while we’re doing this thinking what do we feel and sense… Feeling and sensing are the tools used to commune with the dimension of energy but thinking diverts us from attuning to these other senses.. Cosmic energy is the energy that our souls are made of, the energy that the universe is made of, the energy that links us all together and as one humankind links us to the universe. It links our destinies as individuals and the connections between us, plots our pasts, present and futures. As an example; all of my readings are via telephone and people will often ask how I can read them over a phone line. Well the answer is simple, I’m not. I don’t even need the phone line because I’m accessing their energy via the universal pool of energy from which we all came, to which we return, and within which we all live. Just like the TV transmissions mentioned earlier, spiritual energy is all around us, and all we need to do is know how to tune in to it. From this energy psychics sense and feel thoughts and emotions and situations and often-physical descriptions. Any attuned psychic can read someone on the other side of the planet as easily as someone in the next room because we access them through the universal energy – the energy dimension which doesn’t have a distance or time, it’s omnipresent… Do we all have this ability…yes, although some can develop to a higher level than others dependant on each individual’s maximum potential. Having worked with many people to develop their abilities; without doubt the largest hurdle is not their natural ability - it’s suspending disbelief. Some of the most natural psychics I’ve met have the problem that for a long time they don’t believe it. The classic scenario is someone going through a development session and being asked to read a person, most usually I ask students to read someone I know well but whom they haven’t ever met. And even after they’ve described that person, their personality, situation, relationships, work, emotions and even foreseen events in their lives I often watch the face as they say ”yeah but I could be wrong” or “are you sure I’ve described them properly?” It’s that suspension of disbelief that sometimes takes years to overcome. And the more intelligent and more practical the person training the harder it usually is.. Back again to that 3 dimensional “proof”…And here we touch briefly on an even more interesting point of what is reality.. To illustrate that point, let’s say we’re in a development training session and we read a subject who the reader has never met. During the session we both feel that the subject is unhappy and not having a good time in their life. Then suppose that subject turned up and we asked them if they felt miserable and life wasn’t too good. Ok so how many people would admit that they really weren’t happy… The point here is that we couldn’t even necessarily trust the subjects own account of his/her situation because of ego, that brain again, wanting to give an impression that “I’m fine” or “no not me I’m so damn happy”… So which is the reality ? Well here’s the punch line and it’s an important one in the context of talking about psychic abilities. There is only one reality. Probably one look at this subjects face as they walked into the room would tell us they weren’t happy even if they denied it as a form of defense mechanism. But the reality is something else. And we tuned into that reality…. So the cosmic reality is one reality, it’s not subjective, it’s not open to different interpretations, it just is This is a vitally important point about psychic reading and it goes a lot deeper into the way the universe works but for now we’ve illustrated the point… In psychic reading, we are generally looking for answers, reasons, explanations and forecast for people. When we can tune into the person , their energy, connections, friends, worries fear etc we are sensing the true reality of what they are experiencing. but they may either not like to admit it, or be in some way confused or even delusional about what’s happening. In that case they may not accept the answers we give them too willingly. Remember earlier in the article I commented that becoming spiritually developed – more psychically aware isn’t an add-on to an existing reality, it’s about a new reality and seeing and knowing things in a different way. The above example is typical of how often we can know a truth yet people around us may not want to accept that truth or even want us to know it. Yet it’s being totally true to what we are receiving from spirit even when the tangible evidence seems to point the opposite way, that assures our psychic development.. The actual process of psychic reading is a natural one, the real key issues to address using that ability successfully are the one’s we’ve talked about here…. Summing up, what we’re saying here is that to access one’s own psychic ability it’s necessary to take several vitally important steps to … 1. Accept that we are all linked via cosmic energy and suspend disbelief while you explore your abilities. 2. Don’t think; - sense and feel for the answers. Learning to meditate is an essential to help quiet the brain in order to tune-in. 3. Understand that there is only one truth to any situation. Stick to that truth and don’t waver even if others disagree or people don’t like the answer. 4. Know. True psychic ability gives us an inner knowing about things, a total surety without the need for any other evidence. It’s never doubting this knowing and encouraging it at all times that keeps us close to the cosmic truths….. These things are the hardest part of the path.. Reading itself comes naturally although it is necessary to learn techniques to hone our skills and to understand how to interpret messages and to protect against negative energy. The secrets of the universe are all there staring us in the face. It’s just that we are never going to fully understand them just by thinking…we have to access them using all of our senses and intuition, and once we can we see the real truth, the real magic behind things and it changes our understanding forever…. ]]> 57 2009-11-29 18:46:48 2009-11-30 00:46:48 open open unlock-the-psychic-within publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558860 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=59 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:49:05 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=59 As an experience it can, and most often will, be profound and disturbing with little or no feeling of control and most often no idea what’s actually happening. What are the symptoms ? Please note – these symptoms are not to be used for diagnosis of any kind. Some can be associated with medical or psychological conditions – always consult a medical professional. Any or all of the following symptoms can happen; A form of disconnection from the usual reality – feeling a different sense of ‘self’ Feeling of being in another place or time Suddenly feeling connected to the universe and other people A sense that this is an almost ‘out-of-this-world’ experience Psychic senses working overtime You can tune into other peoples feelings Sleep patterns change considerably Random surges of emotions Energy levels vary considerably Often wake up very tired Warm palms of hands or feet Tingling hands and or feet Heart palpitations Shivers down the back Unusual synchronicities Sometimes paranormal events such as lights flashing or objects moving If you read enough articles on symptoms of spiritual awakening on the web you'll end up with a list of symptoms a mile long as so much is written on these subjects.. I feel as if I've lost something - a part of myself - and someone has suggested a using Shamanic practices to retrieve it ? I'm not here to comment or make judgment on Shamanic soul retrieval but this feeling having lost "part of self" is a natural part of awakening so my suggestion would be to get someone to help you manage the awakening process and to see it through before resorting to other practices. What are the causes of awakening? The most common causes are a deep personal experience at the soul level. Usually a profound loss, deep soul connection or near death experience or even a combination of these. What do we mean by the term spiritual ? The ‘spiritual’ part refers to the soul – that which is traditionally considered to be indefinable or intangible but which is actually very clearly defined as the seven energy centers or’ chakra’ that are the souls’ presence in the physical body. These are; Crown – crown of the head Third Eye – center of the forehead Throat – center of the throat Heart – center of the chest alongside the physical heart Solar Plexus – center of the chest Sacral – behind the belly button Base – just forward of the base of the spine Each chakra is like a transmitter and receiver of energy, each works at a different frequency and each with a different task. Everyone is of course aware of the heart chakra, it’s the one our brain is most aware of as our emotional center, and most people will be very aware of how their heart chakra feels at any one time. Love and pain, happiness and sadness are the heart chakra energies everyone’s used to. The sacral or tummy chakra is probably the other one we are aware of as some of its functions are deeper emotions and expression of deeper desires. This we often see refereed to as “gut feel”, or we describe actions as “gutsy” and deep emotions affect our tummy. However being consciously aware of each of the other chakras is another matter unless we have learned how to – because we usually are each individually familiar with how we feel inside, as a sort of overall integrated awareness – the what we are like, and how we react to situations. This integrated awareness is probably best described as the feeling of “being me” An awakening will totally change that feeling of "being me" What does a spiritual awakening do ? A spiritual wakening changes the levels of energy within all of the chakras. Therefore all emotions, sensations and awareness transcends to a higher more intense state... You psychic-intuitive sense will also open to new levels during this process.. So why a sudden transition to a higher level ? Like everything in nature there are seasons and so it is with the soul, seasons of progression. A spiritual awakening is a time when the soul, the seven chakras, are meant to rapidly transcend from one state of being, awareness, level and power – to another. This is why its such an amazingly powerful and often confusing experience, because that feeling we described earlier of “being me” changes.. This change rocks our world as we struggle to understand why we suddenly feel like we’re someone else or try to reconnect with how we used to feel. These big changes come for a reason and are linked to a time when the soul enters a new phase of purpose. Are all awakenings the same ? No. Some come in several smaller stages usually separated by years. What we’re really talking about here is the very considerable ones that come ‘all at once’ and represent the largest challenge as the transition is so huge. Can I make myself awaken ? No. This is something that’s a part of your souls’ progress at defined times in its journey. You can choose to develop your energies for better flow, to feel more at peace and be better in tune generally - but cannot consciously choose to transcend to another level. Can I stop an awakening ? Unfortunately not – however you can choose to not to develop some of the psychic – intuitive abilities or to use them. Can the process be managed ? Yes and it needs to be managed, you will need to be taught what’s going on and have someone else assist with grounding and leveling out your energies – as well as learn so rudimentary energy meditations. Make sure whoever you work with has experience with awakenings as the well intentioned energy worker can cause as much damage as good if they don’t have specific experience of awakenings. Beyond that, you may well choose to develop your new found abilities. How long does the process last ? There are several stages and they usually don’t have a defined timing, it depends on how you manage the process. Working with someone to manage the process makes the transition easier, quicker and less traumatic ]]> 59 2009-11-29 18:49:05 2009-11-30 00:49:05 open open spiritual-awakening-faq publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558852 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=61 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:50:24 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=61 The key signs of an old soul · Giving and caring often putting others first · Had a difficult romantic life often with much pain and disappointment · More than likely had a soulmate relationship · Things just seem to happen to you and around you, often becoming very dramatic through the seemingly extreme reactions of others · Events repeat themselves · Have trouble connecting with your family · Somehow know you're different · Have some psychic intuition and 'just knowing' things · Find that you have deeper emotions and passions than most people · People have extreme reactions to you - some just adore you and some seem to really dislike you yet you behave the same to everyone · Have an inner creative passion · Suffer lots of jealousy from others · Often perceived wrongly · Feel your don't have much free will, like your life is being controlled by some outside force · Often feel 'stuck' like events just keep on happening to you time after time All of us can relate to some of these characteristics and events at some time in our lives however the 'old souls' amongst us will shout "Yes that's me !" and immediately understand and relate. In contrast, we have all met the 'young souls' the ones who profess to be giving and caring and often seem to seek us out, but who never really give, just take, and who then commit the most insensitive and often cruel acts but seem to have no understanding of what they've done or any sign of remorse whatsoever. In fact they can often go to such extremes to get very aggressive when we point out their actions and the effect that they've had on us.. Soul Age The terms 'old soul' and 'young soul' aren't just descriptions of personality types but do give us a meaningful clue to why we find ourselves in this life cycle… The journey of the soul through many lives is one of growth and learning from the earliest manifestation of that soul in human form - where it's focused on material things, power, ego and the "now", eventually through to the higher levels of compassion, truth, destiny, caring and fairness in later lives as old souls. The soul is required to visit human form many times in order to learn these lessons. It is through interaction with others on the three dimensional plane that the soul accrues karma, the results of its actions on others and paying the price of those actions ( first rule of karma "what goes around comes around" - or what I often refer to as the 'karmic boomerang') that develops, hones, and tunes the spirit into the higher levels, eventually becoming attuned to the highest level of as 'old soul' in later lives. Part of that developing process is to become infinitely more empathic, attuned to the universe and destiny, and for our intuition to develop more towards psychic powers. At this stage we sense that destiny plays a greater part in our lives that we could previously have imagined as we 'peek behind the scenes' of the universal mechanisms through our developing intuition. This itself is also a challenge as we watch those less enlightened who are still contained in the "I know best" mode, mess up their lives going wandering down the wrong path. Typical of this is the soulmate where we are tasked to watch them wander off knowing somehow that the tests they will face will ultimately bring them back around, older, wiser and more spiritually aware. It's important to understand that each time our soul revisits the earthly plane, that we play 'catch-up', developing through our earthly actions and learning experiences quickly to regain that level of spiritual awareness we attained when leaving the previous life. In other words, in entering this life we are initially unconscious of the fact that we are required to have a very testing life to 'fast track' us to the spiritual level we are meant to be at in this one. So the older the soul, the harder and more testing the early events in order to make us reach inside and spiritually open to regain previously achieved levels of spirituality and to further develop.. 'Soul age' with Soulmates I've already mentioned that we have all had to deal with the 'young souls', the ones who seem sent to test us and can often leave us feeling dazed and confused and hurt. At this point I have to highlight something that's particularly important and relevant to soulmates. Your soulmate is unlikely to be a young soul even though their actions to-date may fit what we've described as a young soul. We get terribly confused when we sense they are loving and caring and deep and spiritually enlightened yet they frequently behave in the totally opposite way The important difference between a soulmate and a young soul is that the universe does not connect young souls with old souls in soulmate connections. What your soulmate is most likely going through is the life tests on that "fast track" , i.e learning fast and developing to their real soul age through meeting all the tough tests and making all the mistakes, acting in that earthly controlled, ego based, "I know best" way. Hence the duality of their existence and the confusion they cause within our lives. What you are sensing is that destiny. It's the butterfly sensing another butterfly but seeing a caterpillar…. This is the main reason soulmates have to part, in order that the less developed one catches up with their earthly experiences in order to fully awaken spiritually and be ready to reconnect with their real soul age from the past life and to reconnect with you to continue the journey at the same spiritual level… Energy Vampires and Attack Old souls will also be no strangers to people who try to cling to, or take or attack our energy. Often the more we give to people the more abuse we take. It's an extreme example of the "no good deed goes unpunished" rule. Energy vampires are those who somehow spiritually sense our power and energy to come into our lives to using us as a crutch, often draining us through their need to explain their problems and us be the solution. Frequently they will use our caring, giving nature to assist them with their lives, often becoming too close and draining and we don't seem to be able to find a way to tell them that this is something we aren't comfortable with and so we allow it to continue to an abusive level. Most times the person clinging to us won't be aware of why they are doing this they just sense, feel that we have something they need that causes them to be drawn closer and closer. This is because their spirit, their energy senses a more powerful energy. It's not on an ego awareness plane, we're not talking 'mind' stuff here we're talking spiritual energy which all of us sense even if we aren't realizing it. It's on the "there's something about him/her" level. Some will migrate to that energy for healing and comfort, the 'karmic vampire', others will fall for the energy in a romantic way and become instantly attached, with others seeking us out as a focus for blame and negative attention ( karmic dumping ). When confronted with their actions, even in the most caring and compassionate of ways, aggression and blame are often the responses they visit upon us as they lash out... Jealous bosses or co-workers, unwanted sexual attention, being 'picked out', blamed, the focus of attention when we don't want to be - all of these are classic symptoms.. Yes anyone will experience some of this in their daily lives but what we are talking here is something that happens to the old soul again and again at a frequency and intensity far above anything that can statistically be considered average.. Now you may think the word attack is rather strong and negativity and conflict are a common phenomenon of everyday human interaction, however any old soul will point out the frequency and veracity of their experiences- often amazing others when they hear the stories. At this point I remember lots of incidents in my own life but the most profound moment was when I was confronted by someone who spat anger and bile at me proclaiming I'd done this and that and the other with dark motives. The total shock was something I won't forget. Actually I hadn't done any of these things in fact I wasn't even in the country when they happened. However that didn't mean anything to this man - he set himself up as judge, jury and executioner and that utterly stunned me. It was only one of lots of incidences but is typical of an 'attack'. On an energy level, this guy, to my definite first hand knowledge, cheated on his wife, was unfair in business, had a huge ego and had controlled and manipulated several people to his own ends. Nevertheless I had never taken it as my task to judge any of this, I just treated him like I treated anyone else. That was what caused the utter disbelief the astonishment that his 'reality' was 180 degrees from actual events. Attacks from young souls who misinterpret our actions based upon their own narrow understandings are commonplace. In the example above, this guy had judged me based not upon his perception of me, my morals and motives - but from his own. He projected people's actions as having the same intent as his own and not realizing what he had done, had given me an insight into his own dark world by the veracity and ferociousness of his attack. He could not perceive any of my actions as being honest, decent and caring and putting others first because he wasn't capable of acting from that place within himself. In addition, whatever anger, frustration and emotions this caused necessitated him exaggerating these false claims to a level so ludicrous that it lost all connection with reality. In the end a quick chat with his lawyer resolved the problem because the lawyer simply told me the case was so ludicrous he couldn't take it seriously. However it was still very painful for me and really illustrates that in addition to giving love and light and understanding, we need to be prepared to defend ourselves against attach from a darker or afflicted soul - 'karmic dumping' as I call it. This again is one of the spiritual karmic tests that every old soul has to face. I always say that an old soul can walk into a room full of people and without even saying a word, three others will adore them and three hate them instantaneously. All of the above cannot be avoided and are not as a result of our actions but of who we are on a spiritual level. The importance of power. As we grow and learn, parents' teachers, mentors, the media, religious teachings and other influences in our lives all teach us that being giving and kind and caring and turning the other cheek are vital to being a good human being. True of course.. So why do we more caring, more giving, more compassionate old souls often feel walked over by life ?? As in all things there is a duality. Look at nature - there's no cold without hot, no up without down, no dark without light. The yin and the yang, the interplay of opposing forces seeking balance. Although conventional teaching is to keep pouring love and light and openness and giving into situations there is a point where we become depleted. There is a point where our love and compassion can cause us to give more than is healthy, to accept more than is our lot, and when we run out of cheeks to turn. Herein lies one of the most important karmic lessons in that, we must seek balance. We must maintain our own personal power and not allow love, compassion and "thinking the best of people" to become voluntary abuse when that person or persons repays us with negativity. Allowing this to happen encourages lowering self-esteem, feelings of abandonment, and a sense that destiny has left us behind when people are responding to us in a very negative way. For many of us this is a lesson that takes many years to learn. Most of use will have experienced abuse of our energy in different situations from work, family and relatives, within friendships and especially in personal relationships. We often give too much because we are giving people, and through that action diminish our personal power. Give love and light YES, pray for people YES, BUT I believe that it is essential for all of us to sometimes have to fight to protect the incredible value of our energy to realize it is a rare thing and to value it even when others don't. In achieving balance we understand that giving love and light and having compassion and caring and understanding of people, especially those that are afflicted and confused by negativity is essential but is only one half of that balance. Love and light won't get your elephant off the tracks so sometimes we need to use our power in an assertive way. The old soul experience comes with many such tests. This is not about giving less or giving to receive, it is to balance our giving and loving and caring with a total respect for the gold that is our own energy…In all things balance… "To thine own self be true", William Shakespeare Steve Gunn - 6/17/2006 http://stevegunn.net ]]> 61 2009-11-29 18:50:24 2009-11-30 00:50:24 open open the-old-soul-test publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558843 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=64 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:52:22 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=64 What reminded me is that a couple of people ( in different situations ) saw me become assertive and enforce a boundary and they misunderstood and criticized me for( they assumed ) losing my cool when wasnt i supposed to be hyper calm due to my meditation and energy work. Well yeah i do use energy work and other disciplines to stay calm and release negative emotions and one of the important disciplines to protecting my peace is to have good boundaries, enforced in a non emotional way BEFORE it gets so bad I'm a screaming headcase..not that i somehow suck up more junk than is healthy from having some misguided sense of that being a right or healthy thing to do.... I was suprised that my actions had been misinterpreted as coming from emotion as there really wasnt much emotion associated with it, however a little later the lesson became clear - that maybe this person could only enforce boundaries when they'd been pushed too far and at that point it was out of frustration or lack of control, and they has assumed the same was true with me... We all know that one, we've all been there, where we've sucked it up for long enough and then we explode... However this wasnt the case because i'd ( very fortunately ) learned a long time ago a better way. I'm not saying I dont get frustrated, I do and sometimes a lot, but I don't let boundaries be driven by emotions... i use boundaries to protect my peace and thus my emotions....which is after all what boundaries are for. Like many, in past years I had flexi-boudaries, in other words partners, family or loved ones could tread further over them than others, and the boundary, if there was one, was relevant to the other person and their 'position' in my life.... As part of the ego death process i began to see the ludicrous nature of this approach, as boundaries are meant to protect us and its more likely we will have issues with those closest to us than complete strangers, so the ones i let in further were the ones i needed to be especially wary of..... Working on Ego Death, Zen and other disciplines over the years showed me that boundaries are relevant to me and not the other person. In other words my boundaries should be that everyone whoever they are is expected to fulfil certain very basic concepts of human interaction or for me to interact with that person could be detrimental to my peace.. These baseline boundary aspects are usually things like honesty, mutuality, reliability etcetera.... Anyone whos worked with me knows my all too cheesy analogies and this one i usually say something like "I don't care if it's your soul connection, the President, Sant Claus or the Pope, that behavior wouldnt be allowed if your boundaries were in place". I think what this person got confused about was that yes i had some frustration with what had happened however the boundary was implemented not as some "sulk" or "tantrum" but simply as a boundary... It struck me that this interpretation has been placed on the same actions before and usually by people who enforce their boundaries when things have gone way too far and the boundary comes more as a last ditch attempt associated with some raw emotion... I'm not trying to criticize anyone even though i would fall over in pure shock if at least one person didn't take it like that ( put it down to experience rather than psychic prediction ) ,however it really is worthwhile to remember that we as humans can easily project reasoning onto actions, often to our own detriment as we then base our findings on the wrong information.... Likewise important to take away the lesson that boundaries are relevant to YOU not the status of the other person or people.. then you are likely never to get to the stage where your so upset or so angry you enforce it too late...at which point the boundary is already worthless.. Peace ! Steve ]]> 64 2009-11-29 18:52:22 2009-11-30 00:52:22 open open boundaries-what-boundaries publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558628 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=66 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:53:39 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=66 Well this is the ultimate paradox, that is, until we ourselves have tried the practises, worked the disciplines, and found that place, we can't imagine it. Many times I've seen the statement that every human is trapped permanently within their personal opinion and experience, and often heard this from people with considerable knowledge of the human state, particularly those people trained in psychology. When people trained in many of the classical techniques do achieve the objective state - there's often considerable conflict because the model they've been taught is that they couldnt have achieved an impersonal objective viewpoint ...and yet they have it, a view outside of what they used to consider "self'.. Ego death doesn't mean we suddenly lose the subjective processes of opinion or viewpoint, it simply means we detach from, see outside of it, and clearly see how we tended to personalize things, and how we react from personalization of certain emotions and triggers. The ego-death part is that we gain a view and see these things as they are, the opinions, judgments, reactions and perceptions that are from individual subjective and emotional / experiential response and we detach from them.. I don't suppose there's a human being who wouldnt like to lose some of the pains of taking things personally, being hurt, rejection and other things that come from the ego state. Often i hear people say "ah but i don't want to stop feeling". The truth is you don't stop feeling at all, you just feel whats real not emotionally react to triggers from old wounds, personal percetions and learned responses... To anyone wondering about it all I would say is try it, its the foundation of so much of the real deep spiritual practises and even the act of learning some of the disciplines can be very empowering. Like most worthwhile things it does take discipline, and a lot of it - this is not learning a new way of thinking its some hard core work but i would respectfully suggest something thats worth giving a try for the benefit of your personal peace and calm. Once attaining the state theres a calm and peace and objectivity thats so peaceful you wont ever want to go back. Things that once confused often don;t and thats not always because we suddenly have the answer but often because we realized that we were asking th wrong question or that we couldn't actually find an answer at that point but the subjective mind coulnd;t accept tha tand so it produced latyer after layer of constructs or "what if", all which served to stress us out. Achieving the 'ego death' state doesn't mean that people will suddenly say "Oh look s/he is being objective", in fact far from it, they will be guaranteed to say "ah that's just your opinion" and test your detachment even more..but heck ya can't have everything huh... Or maybe that's just my opinion huh... Steve ]]> 66 2009-11-29 18:53:39 2009-11-30 00:53:39 open open ego-death-and-objectivity publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558612 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=68 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:55:14 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=68 One of the main lessons is unconditional love, the biggie, the hardest of all lessons. Thats the one that teaches us love without need. In fact need and love have no relationship until you fit love into a human.... We, humans, are taught to satiate, to need.. Taught that fulfilment is the satiation of desire, the job, the partner, the ideal weight, the money etc. Romance idealizes the 'other half'", telling us by definition that theres something missing, something unfulfilled. We are taught to NEED, and that need justified by concepts like romantic ideals and other 'rights' to external things to make us happy..... However happiness never comes from external things, thats satiation. Happiness comes from within a sense of purpose, a sense of being connected...oneness. And that oneness comes from a journey through want and need and pain to acceptance and unconditional love. Not to be confused with unconditional giving which is at the oppoosite end of the scale and guaranteed to destroy self esteem. Not to say we can't have love and sucess, just that most often the spiritual lessons are that to need any of it is of the nature of satiation not pure and accepting.. Hard lessons but in learning the purity of true love we must be able to experience its purest form, that without need... Always there are other residuals we are meant to learn about. Be it rejection, acceptance, whatever issues we have from the expriences of life, our soul connection will be the one to press the buttons... Although these things are rarely something we can joke about, i talk about the soul connection being the perfect presser of our buttons to make sure we deal with residual issues, so if you have a fear of heights, don't like snakes and can't handle being rejected, look out for a soul connection who's a skydiving snake wrangler with fear of commitment headed your way.... So when "the answer" turns up in our lives, just to rapidly become "the problem", welcome to the world of soul connections....BUT it is part of a very purposeful universal mechanism thats been here since lo ng before man. It has reason and purpose, and that is known, its just not believed or liked or widely understood and certainly not that popular, however it does involve mechanisms that force us to clear up our "stuff" and progress towards fulfillment and happiness. ]]> 68 2009-11-29 18:55:14 2009-11-30 00:55:14 open open soul-connection-karma publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559037 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=70 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:57:07 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=70 Q. What will it help me achieve ? A. Releasing old emotional wounds, freedom from being controlled by old triggers....bringing more emotional independance.. Q. Does that mean I won't feel things emotionally like i used to ? A. No it means you will more clearly feel real emotions but not become "trigged" by old wounds and unreleased emotions that aren't relevant to present situations, i.e. the feelings that just come up and bite causing problems with issues like rejection, validation etc Q. Is it a meditation practise or is it like other energy mapping methods ? It's a complete system that incorporates many different levels and layers of disciplines and techniques, all of which work together to achieve the desired results. The term energy mapping is a generic term for many different disciplines..not unlike the term "meditation" covers many different practises.. Ptsen Nuh energy mapping is a distinct set of disciplines you won't find anywhere else .. Q. Where did the system come from ? A. Results Like many modern interpretations of ancient knowledge, much has crept in that has colored and distorted the original work. Exactly how the energy system works with the mental processes and how the chakras interact are a knowledge that became somewhat hidden, if not lost, within many modern interpretations. By referencing original work, ( going back to basics ) and testing this knowledge in real circumstances we see the emergenace of some awesomely powerful techniques that have proven results.. Q. Who does the work do you work on my energy ? A. Nobody works on your energy except you. For this you dont need special training because you ARE your energy and so there is nobody more powerful to work on it than you. No psychology, no interpretation, no intervention its all teaching simple but powerful disciplines that you can use .... Even if you only do the foundational course to learn the tools, you have them for life and don't need anyone or anything else to work them except for a desire to change and some discipline.... Q. Can anyone do this ? A. Yes. PN is an advanced set of disciplines and techniques. You don't learn how it works, that would take years as its based upon some very complex and detailed study - you simply learn how to apply the disciplines... Like any advanced disipline its not something thats part of pop-spirituality or a 'quick fix' solution - it requires commitment and discipline.... you have to be ready to do it. Not unlike a diet or exercise routine, you must have had enough of the "old you" in order to work the process.. People often struggle with doing something they really dont understand in depth and that can sometimes be an issue with PN however once they benefit from the results that fades fast...and the results are permanent.. The site feedback on the PN site http://healmyenergy.com is from people who have worked the process and more is in the pipleline, I'm trying to encourage some of them to write articles about their experiences, not to "sell" the process becauee not everyone is ready for something thats this hard-core spiritual discipline, but to demonstrate that its real and will give you the results if your ready to work it... Thanks again for the questions, keep them coming.... There's more customer samples of feedback on the Ptsen-Nuh site front page http://healmyenergy.com or on the feedback page http://healmyenergy.com/feedback.html If you hjave any questions about the system email steve@healmyenergy.com ]]> 70 2009-11-29 18:57:07 2009-11-30 00:57:07 open open ptsen-nuh-faq publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559346 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=72 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:58:43 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=72 The transcendental type of meditation or meditations where you attempting to connect to 'source' or guides or other such types of meditations are quite different from specific energy meditations, the later of which are designed to manipulate our energies or energy around us.. An energy meditation for example, is to the spiritual practitioner the energy equivalent of showering, cleaning the teeth and taking vitamins - a vital daily routine.... Meditation is at its core, detachment from external stimulus like sound, visuals and mental constructs ( visualization is a mental construct ) and yet things like Chakra clearing CD's and tapes that would be an example of an an intention to be an energy meditation use external stimulus... Unless you are Super advanced in meditation techniques its more hypnosis and mental focus than meditation...it may feel relaxing and indeed it can have some residual effect on the energies but most times the more you listen to something or visualize something the less you're meditating.... To learn a good simple energy meditation will probably be the best thing and can be 1/10th of the effort for 1/100th of the benefit.. There's so much stuff out there it's a minefield for anyone however the core principles and practises dont change. Like anything it takes commitment and practise however the benefits can be profound... Like swimming or driving you cant learn this stuff from a book or a board - you have to learn it first hand. Yes i would say that wouldnt i but its depressing to see how much money people are spending and how much time theyre commiting to things that have little or no chance of giving them the benefits....and they arent centered aren't relaxed and arent benefitting. After all thats the only reason we practise this stuff, to get the results..... How will you know when you've achieved a great energy meditation ? You'll feel very different and say WOW - its that profound... There are several places and disciplines that can teach good meditation practises and yes i teach it a lot but this isnt just a sales pitch - great meditations are at the core of yoga and other traditional disciplines and its well worth even one session to get something you can use forever afterwards.... Steve ]]> 72 2009-11-29 18:58:43 2009-11-30 00:58:43 open open meditation-or-meditation-or-meditation publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558598 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=74 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:00:15 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=74 The premise is this..There are two types of learning 1. The intellectual learning of "grasping" something or in other words creating a mental construct of it 2. Experiential Learning, for example swiming, dancing, riding a bike or indeed meditating.. It is well established that with the second type of learning its learning a DISCIPLINE not a CONCEPT and if we try to conceptualize it, we begin to limit our ability to experience it.. For example, reading lots of books on a subject, say swimming or riding a bike or meditating, will create a concept ( in PN we call them Ego Constructs ) that actually INHIBITS us being open to the experiential learning ..This is not down to the individual anywhere near as much as it's down to how people work between the construct/experience modes... Against someone who has done the "book learning", the person who is open doesnt have to fight ego constructs and is generally much more open to assimilate the experience..and will usually achieve it faster This is well established in many of the more advanced disciplines such as those used in PN, its also refelcted in zen and other works and yet that demon ego, the control freak we're all fitted with makes us want to go get the book se we can "decide". In answer to the question "If i read more and more do i continue to hamper my ability to achieve the goal" the answer with regard to the energy disciplines is definitely yes. As much work is required in the ego detachment department as the actual manipulation-of-energy department in any of these disciplines and all that further "book learning" does it push the pendulum further the other way.. Of course the demon ego tells us "I know how I work i need to really understand something before i can try it" and other constructs but these are exactly the ego constructs we have to defeat in order to teach the discipline...( which is why they're called disciplines ) And thus we continue to challenge ourselves to learn.. Hope that answers the questions..thanks again for the emails.. ]]> 74 2009-11-29 19:00:15 2009-11-30 01:00:15 open open meditation-or-mental-tation publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558590 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=76 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:02:12 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=76 Boundaries defining what's ok for the individual must be in place at all times not just before or after. They're their to protect you and to allow or disallow certain behaviors. It is common decency to respect other peoples boundaries but don't expect thats going to be common because it isnt. Most commonly when we want something or someone we can be tempted to drop those boudaries and then be open to pain when the person or situation doesn't happen as we want. We can also endanger trashing other peoples boudnaries in trying to get what we want One of the great lessons is that the only place where love=relationships=need=pain=everything is the human mind, where everything coexists mixed in like some integrated grey soup that we constantly question or reshape trying to fine THE ONE answer - which doesnt exist. This leads to flexi-boundaries When we allow ourselves to live on the multiple levels of the universe in which we really live, then love, boundaries, emotions, relationships, judgment, need and choices are parallel things. All of the big spiritual teachings involve this transition from singluarity of the ego world to the multiplicity of the real world. For example one of the most misunderstood statements is "It's all about love". We know the universe isn't all about one thing, its all about many things in HARMONY. For instance we can't say weather is all about Sun... We must work from a place of altruism and objectivity and compassion ( "love" ) but without empowerment, boundaries, and objectivity - on this planet, your self esteem will end up in the toilet... If your self "love" is wasted then so is your love for others, so these situations trigger many of these big spiritual lessons...most of which shoot holes in many commonly held conceptions..traditions and ways of thinking the world works One of my favorite sayings is that "It's as much about the unlearning than the learning". All of us at some point have come from a place of "how do i learn more" when actually we eventually find out its not more its "how do i unlearn what i thought and how do i learn it differently".. Thats not an easy concept for anyone until we're ready to learn these big spiritual lessons. Many times we find it conflicting because it somehow means we have to accept something we didn't know or didn't see or didnt realize and for the good old human ego thats not something very easy to take. However we later realize that all of us tread the same path its not a heirarchical thing its not a "how much we know" thing its a natural progression on the spiritual pathway. We don't kick ourselves for falling off the bike when we tried to learn, it was falling off that taught us... Same is true here in that pain is a teacher...and we all come to accept that its necessary universal mechanism to self awareness and universal awareness. ]]> 76 2009-11-29 19:02:12 2009-11-30 01:02:12 open open boudaries-what-boundaries-ii publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558404 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=78 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:03:53 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=78 I still do a large amount of work one-to-one with people with soul connections and continue to welcome them as clients, as I always will, I've just published as much as i can think of on the subject, for now at least.. As far as i see the universal laws haven't changed in that time, and the results, the flow of people going through conections, and where and how they resolve them proves the comic laws again and again and again. There is a lot of interest in a stream of information that is of a nature of reassurance; but as anyone who's worked with me knows, I see reassurance as an important element in the experience but also witness so much reassurance causing people to extend their pain rather than journey through it, that i just can't be a 'pusher'. Once fully understood, the truth is so much cooler than any reasurance, the only difference is that it defines happiness coming from a place within, not a place without.. Just before i get slammed for being cold and uncaring again, I have to hastily add that this ISN'T anything anti-romantic, its just the first of the universal laws, which defines that happiness and completeness must come primarily from within, from our connection with the universe...before it can come from anywhere else.. Doesn't mean we cant have the relationship stuff but it says we can't in any way polute the true and beautiful nature of love with the human aspect of need. Love comes in one flavor and thats unconditional. We often romaticize the relationship to justify the need but ( sorry folks ) love cannot bring pain... the pain comes from the need to satiate the feelings through having a physical relationship with the object of our love..... Unfortunately as humans we're programmed to need, programmed to consider happiness and fulfilment as being from external sources... In soul connections all sorts of names and titles and "coming together to do our work" stuff is used to support the thesis that somehow its the relationship thats the conclusion and purpose....yet it isn't..... And so, through this process the number of people slowly walking the path of ever increasing pain continues as all the external satiates we so badly want stay away, eventually forcing our fingers from the rail until we let go and take that inner journey to acceptance and submission to universal will... I am a survivor of something that saw me so so close to not being here on this earth anymore than I'm not talking purely from the study and reasearch I've done over the years but also first hand experience..Not bringing my experiences into the work becaue that must remain objective at all times, but i know what it feels like to go through one of these connections... Again it doesnt mean there can't or wont be a relationship element, however there is no succesfully concluded connection that didn't neccessiate this bigger, destined process of transition first.... Anwyay the point of this post is to comment on how little i see about the aspects of soul connections that talk about the ENERGY or the KARMA, those awesome forces that drive us insane..and that are the very things that drive the purpose and the mechanisms of the soul connection. Anyone who's had a connection knows what a ripping / tearing / mind blowing experience it is..Any and all of us at one time will have only considered the other person and their freewill as the driver and decider and outcome to the whole thing.. However at some point we all come to realize there's a heck of a lot more going on that that and the readings on "when will s/he return" just aren't cutting it..despite Madam Whatshername at just $2.99 a minute guaranteeing he'll come back on Wednesday.. Eventually after usually a lot of Wednesdays we really start to learn that we're going through something much bigger, and that all these crazy energies aren't just coming from the other person. In fact most times they're being pulled and tugged about by the whole thing too which is why they freaked out...they're being forced through the same process but reacting differently, usually by running away It's when we realize there's a THIRD PARTNER partner in these things and that's THE UNIVERSE and her amazing mind blowing energies she's sent us; that we start to make progress.. YET so little seems to be around talking about this stuff. It's a fact that more people embark on journeys to become readers, healers, metaphysicists etc from awakenings triggered by soul connections than anything else. All of these disciplines work with energy... ( except maybe Madam Whatsehername who works with Wednesdays )... When we can understand what the lessons are in a connection, what the energies are doing, why and how to deal with them, we can not only learn some simple techniques and feel a whole lot better, but embark on our journey even if its not to be a reader or practitioner, but our spiritual journey to understand much more about the mechansisms and purpose that will take us towards greater awareness, peace, connectedness and knowledge of why we are here and what we are meant to be doing. That journey is a journey into self, into energy.. I hear people talk about the REAL world but the real world is more energy than matter. Energies are sensations and feelings, intuition and drives, passions and loves. They are also the tools of destiny itself.... If we took an atom and made it the size of a cathedral the particles of hard matter would be the size of a few grains of sand. If we made the nucleus of an atom the size of a marble the electrons would orbit 2 MILES AWAY...So we are anything BUT predominantly physical in nature..its just that the brain is a physical organ confied to 3 dimensions and thus thinks from that place.. We are made predominantly of energy and it is us, we just are programmed to think on the physical dimension... If you doubt energy then just go back to thinking about that soul connection and how it felt and you won't doubt it for long.. Tools like psychic reading, spiritual counselling, learning meditation and many other things will help you and can make a huge difference and there are some really effective ways to level out the energy so you don't have to feel all that pain all the time. It's SAD that so many think the only tools in the "spiritual realms" are the predictive readings of what is s/he thinking and when will they come back... and yet these are just a surface tabloid stereotype of what is a deep and profound set of ancient knowledges and disciplines... These disciplines include reading but not just the usual reading you expect from "a psychic" but deeper, into reading the karma the lessons the energies, the life path and the past life.. This along with learning many things that can be used to make life so much easier - such as energy work and or meditation on many many levels...all are tools in the metaphysicians toolbox Theres so much can be learned, experienced, and achieved by chosing to work on that element with the 3rd entity in the connection - where the energy-you meets the energy-universe.... and yet often so little made available other than predictive reading, which is somewhat sad because people are suffering when they don't need to.. email me if you want to know more or leave to the blog to go to my site and read about the different things that can be done even if you don't choose to do them with me, but don't just accept the pain. The pain isn't a reminder of the love, love cannot create pain only need can..The pain is the prompt not the lesson... Do the work, use the tools, lose the pain, enjoy the love....No need to keep suffering Peace love and chocolate... ]]> 78 2009-11-29 19:03:53 2009-11-30 01:03:53 open open energy-dynamics-of-soul-connections publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259556513 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=80 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:15:19 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=80 If you have a soul connection, for instance, you are already being forced to go through at least some of this process Now I'm sure there will be those out there who've had more than enough of this topic but please excuse the indulgence as I offer something to that person whomever it is.. I know this is a subject thats dismissed in a global "we need our ego" way by many and promoted frequently by people like me and, so it can be very confusing... However it was, is and remains, the single most important element to spiritual progression and the one gateway we must all navigate... If you doubt that then simply study some of the more advanced spiritual development methods, techniques or religions and see how it underpins so much; where in order to find real self we must lose conceptualized self When we refer to the ego in this context we don't mean the whole thing, we simply mean that part of self knowledge that is predictive, judgmental and intrinsically defaults to negative and defeatest. One of the great secrets we learn from working the techniques on our spiritual journey is that this "ego self" isnt US its HOW we have become not WHO we are.. Every ego in every person has this same capability, its not a judgment of the person its a consequence, an aspect of being human, and until its disempowered has the nature to want to gain increasing control Where "ego death" comes from is from the observation that ego ( the part of it i described earlier ) causes problems because we give it power. Nobody is questioning the human rights to have likes and dislikes, choices and freedom, thats not the issue here. BUT what we do is we give it even more power than that - we give it a power greater than the universe when we allow it to judge our self worth - overiding a decision that is a clear and definite act of divine creation. Much of the work I offer has seeds in ancient practises and techniques that link to martial arts, healing disciplines and even dealing with things like addiction where we often describe this phenomenon using the word "insanity" to observe how we can become so programmed to self defeat the 'self' through our judgment of self. When i say ego-death, i mean the ending of the "God in the brain" that is so powerful it can have the audacity to not only judge your own self, but your future and everything associated with it - so much it can make your life unhappy at best, miserable at worst.... People who've been through ego death don't stop thinking, they simply make clearer more objective choices.. People who've been through ego death don't stop feeling they start feeling, but real feelings not old triggers, theyre no longer walking the tightrope of "what if". People who've been through ego death haven't been taught to believe or think anything, they've been taught to be who they are with every cell of their being and to be in touch with it entirely. For example, in soul connections, the pain comes mainly from this tearing between ego-self and energy self. No accident, as the universe tries to teach us the divine state of acceptance of love and of absence of need, the stuff of ego satiation. It's from this lack of satiation comes the pain, not from the love. So my answer to the person who asked the question is make your choice - but its the loss of that infernal mechanism that always tends towards the negative, makes every event personal, every event important, and loves to make significant links between unrelated things; will set you free to be who you are.. If you want to know what thats like, its like when you were 2 or 3 years old, laughed when happy and cried when sad, but the next day or even the next hour everything was ok again and you were open free and fascinated with the world. A quick note for all those fans of the symbolism in the movie "The Matrix" yes it really is talking about ego death ]]> 80 2009-11-29 19:15:19 2009-11-30 01:15:19 open open the-power-to-choose publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559016 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=82 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:16:48 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=82 Generally speaking there's this idea that destiny defines place, person, time and outcome of events and that it's possible for readers to read all four, the only variable being the readers' ability.. Well we know that's not the case because universal law proves that destiny doesn't ever define all four elements in any situation, she will define a minimum of one and a maximum of three. This is how freewill works in collaboration with destiny, in that, in every situation there is a minimum of one, maximum of three elements that WE are allowed to decide with our freewill. So in any given event there are both freewill and destiny elements, it's absolutely fundamental to how the universal mechansisms work to force us to learn and experience certain things at certain times. The universal law of duality pertaining to test and reward for instance, HAS to have a freewill element or we wouldn't be allowed to make the wrong move and thus learn from our mistakes.. Many people brush over the issue of how destiny and freewill interact because its not something thats widely understood unless you embark on a journey into the complexities of the universal laws and mechanisms. In the situation that I'm mostly asked about ( not by my clients but i tend to get general mail on these subjects ), the timing of return of a soul connection is the BIGGIE. ..Typically "how come s/he reader could see this and that and the other but not get the timing right" As for the universal laws that drive times of karmic lessons, the timing is the element of freewill more often than not. In some cases ( and I've had these as well, where the timing is defined years ahead ) they're really easy to read and the prediction was right on. Timing isn't difficult to read it just doesn't always exist - and its rare ( but not unheard of ) in karmic tests like soul connections. And so we see the evidence time after time, year after year, even decade after decade, that the vast majority of these predictions on the timing of a return don't come true because freewill elements can not be read in advance. There are other quite complex reasons why this is so in soul connections but thats down to learning faith, not patience, and is part of this whole karmic lesson thing. The freewill element can't be read by anyone because it doesnt exist until the decision has been made - prior to that time it's a guess and could come out either way. To the people who are now very badly off financially and have written looking for help, I really understand and feel for the pain that's been suffered on the guaranteed timing thing, and i thank you for now approaching me and asking for my advise which i give with pleasure. But please also talk to those who you spent all the money with and make them aware so that they understand the pain suffered and can make their future choices and decisions in the light of real feedback......Where we are looking for "when", we often have to ask ourselves is this in order to feel better ?..and in many cases it will be... we've all experienced that need at some time.. BUT I will add once again that if we learn what the universe wants us to and accept the lesson then the outcomes are usually infinitely better and cooler than we could have imagined, just maybe not what we had planned or when we had it planned.... Psychic reading is a powerful and acurate tool that produces reliable results and insight into all manner of aspects IF we understand how it really works and take the advise of our element of input to the future... However, to use continued readings to feel better, is nowhere near as affective as , for example, a really good energy ritual, which learned over a few days, will take so much of that pain away that you aren't driven to have so many readings and can learn to experience the energy phenomenon in a connections without so much agony.. Also very financially beneficial not needing all those readings..... I wish i could tell you how many times the answer is "when am I going to do something" rather than "when are THEY going to do something"...which finally clicks that switch to move things....Talk to the people who've been through it they are a valuable and usually very willing resource to be called upon and I'm sure they would wish to share their stories. Someone from the old board chukkles at how i've become "branded" since I wrote the book on soul connections some 6 or 7 years ago and I constantly remind her that it's not about knowing about soul connections or relationships, in fact that couldn't be more off the mark, it's about working with universal law and energies that apply to EVERYTHING. It's only when we can get that context for reading and working that we aren't as endagered being led astray by the many negative forces that challenge us in these fields - only then can everything work together, all disciplines comes into focus and reveal one big plan that links to past lives, karma, destiny, freewill, lifepath, tests, and actually makes sense in a persons life overall not just with soul connections.....We can then learn how to jive with the energies of destiny and change not get crushed under them.. ]]> 82 2009-11-29 19:16:48 2009-11-30 01:16:48 open open time-and-again-and-again-and-again publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558580 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=84 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:18:21 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=84 She was somewhat suprised at her 'celebrity' status as it was a number of years since we'd first met and I'd worked with her through her separation trauama... We discussed all that's happened in the years since the book and noted how the phenomenon of soul connections hasn't changed, and that we all walk the same path to peace and enlightenment in the end... The new energy techniques are more powerful than the ones i taught her then but still use the same principles of dealing with the connection on the plane where the 'relationship' exists, ie the energy plane... They use the same principles they're just faster and easier to learn with the benefit of 6 or 7 years more to have worked on developing them. Fionas story is still classic, it still demonstrates many of the universal laws and still you see people coming through year after year, some in the same way, some in similar ways, but all connections still work to the same rules. I asked if she'd make an appearance on the board which was still around at the time as this was a couple of months back when we spoke, and she agreed, but then that was pre the board-nonsense and so there's no board now, however I may ask her to write something...... It's so cool to see that after all these years people are still coming along the same path as the other did so long ago, coming through pain to enlightenment and growth, even tho connections seem to be mostly labeled something else now....I even get people emailing to say "hey your not describing a soul connection your describing a twin" which is i guess expected..... however even though the labels are now changeable it seems, that's only a cultural issue.. Its too much a well worn path by many many people and all who finish it find it was the most amazing journey they ever took, irrespective of the decisions re any relationships at the end... I am very fortunate to have shared many of those journeys with people from all over the world and to have had the luxury to have studied soul connections full time for several years before writing the book, and they remain one of the most amazing phenomenon..just like when Fiona came to see me some number of years ago..... Steve ]]> 84 2009-11-29 19:18:21 2009-11-30 01:18:21 open open soul-shock-fiona-and-robert-update publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259557995 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=86 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:19:37 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=86 One thing that's not so commonly talked about; but that i was reminded to write about, is the subject of stimulants. Carbs, sugars and alcohol intolerance can increase masively post-awaking The actual issue is the increased level of fire-chi in the base chakra tha gets fuelled by the "fire" foods and drink and will guarantee to pogo your energy as well and most likely make you suffer more extreme after-effects than before. As for smoking or drugs, they don't have a relevance in spiritual practises, only messing with health.. Steve ]]> 86 2009-11-29 19:19:37 2009-11-30 01:19:37 open open post-awakening-substance-intolerance publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558396 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=88 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:21:58 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=88 something strange and interesting happened… I was driving home Friday night when the "beast" tried to attack again and but I quickly shut it down and as I did, it felt as if "it" had scurried down a borrow and coward there by itself, ashamed, defeated…… as this happened I felt I was witnessing something I've never "seen" before… that this "beast" is just "nothingness"! …that it's so miniscule , insignificant and powerless, I could not comprehend how have I been taunted and bullied and tormented for my entire "conscious" life by this "thing", this worthless, powerless, piece of nothing!... how could that had happened?? It was bewildering… but it felt right… GK, Hollywood CA THANK YOU for sharing that and allowing it to be published.. ]]> 88 2009-11-29 19:21:58 2009-11-30 01:21:58 open open winessing-ego-death publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558983 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=92 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:24:42 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=92 "Sometimes it's a hard choice to make between spiritual discussion forums or Jerry Springer - both are compulsive human drama but at least on Jerry Springer the fightings' fair" - Greg W "Don't wait for an Angel, be someone elses" - Jenny Q "It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 muscles to smile...but only half a dozen or so to slap...! " - pointy-hat-lady "Pain is rendered pointless when you disallow its purpose.",Black Crow "Sadly, all too often we seem to want to believe we have free will about some issues. But for any issues that we think will make us happy, we want it to be predestined." - pointy-hat-lady ]]> 92 2009-11-29 19:24:42 2009-11-30 01:24:42 open open quote-from-the-front-lines publish 0 0 post _edit_last 1 _edit_lock 1259563818 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=94 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:25:56 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=94 Even these articles on my little blog here are simply a small taster, a brief idea of some of the things that can be achieved if you commit to doing the work...learning some of the practises.. BUT there's an inescapable law that what is first read then becomes harder to learn, and especially in this field.. For this reason i, and some others deliberately don't publish techniques and here's just one simple example why.... I really do wish I had $1 for everyone who said "My mind is too busy to meditate" and who was meditating very effectively 10 minutes later.. If i published those techniques they wouldnt work because as soon as you read them they would become disempowered as they form an ego construct an "idea" within the same machine that says to you "I know i cant meditate"....and of course that machine is not capable of knowing the reality because it works in simplistic constructs... And lets not forget the "well it's different for me", or "I need something different because I'm a visual person" or "no technique works for everyone" and all the other barriers to experiencing the magic of working with your energy... Put simply, working with spiritual energy, the stuff the universe is full of, and that which our soul is made of, is like rain.... in rain everyone gets wet, the tall the short the fat the thin the old the young the good and the not so good - the same is true for all when working with energy...as soon as we can get past the subjective reasoning of what "me" is capable of.. I explain this bewildering idea that we somehow need to 'get it' on an intellectual level through the following analogy..... Two kids intend to learn to ride bikes. One we give no advance information, the other we tutor in the concepts of balance, physical dynamics, wind resistance and anything else we can think of about bike riding... Yet its the one who has no mental concepts, no constructs up front who is always likely to be able to ride the bike sooner because the learning is happening down within the experiential learning ability where they are open, not up in the head...where the other guy is struggling to apply concepts because he's working from up in the head.. What I'm describing here isnt about intelligence, nor is it openly believing anything one is offered without healthy boundaries...its simply about the subjective reasoning that the mind uses to 'grasp' or 'reason' things by making ideas or constructs..is fine for math but gets totally in the way when learning so many of the spiritual disciplines, ( same as with riding the bike ) its the great editor that can keep us from these experiences for a long time.. One well practised technique is worth a million articles, books or board discussions..and always comes the "WOW I didn't know I could do that I wish I'd tried it years ago". And thats simply because the person either needed a belief system that it could be achieved, or simply didn't believe it could be achieved and so years went by without it happening.... And as for blind reassurance ? ......that often inhibits the work because its creating yet another idea, construct to which we can emotionally attach something.... Worse than that, often boards or other support mechanisms kept the person so wrapped up in the concepts and constructs, or became the balm, that the individual was kept from the journey through their pain and into healing for far too long.... Anything other than something that is educating, demonstrating and empowering can too easily be a "feed the need" drug for the subjective reasoning" . Many would see that and say "thats not spiritual" but what they mean is "thats not buying into my pain and reassuring me". In the real work it is empowering through tough love not disempowering through enabling the pain, much of which doesn't need to be there anyway.. You could for example learn a good meditation in an hour that will save months or years of pain and mental confusion..THATS the spiritual way, rather than months or years of sympathy... No we dont mean lack of compassion, we mean sufficient compassion to care enough to not empower that which traps you, but to give you the keys to become untrapped Don't waste the opportunity for progress through needing to 'get' the concepts, there is no mental aspect to the deeper inner journey.. Its this world of concepts and abstracts that the journey is trying to free you from... Much of what can be achieved suprises or even shocks people on a regular basis.... even with the simplest methods.... The good thing about your energy is it doesnt care if you believe in it, like it, want it, or anything else. It remains beautifully detached from all of that and because it's removed from subjective ego its enormous potential remains ready to be tapped into, unsullied by your opinions, beliefs or conditioning... And as for the "it's ok for you your strong enough to do it and I'm not" or "you believe and I don't", most of us have got here because we walked the path and were trapped in those same illusions for far, far too long... As soon as we can escape the concepts, we can tap this amazing potential but only though the work, the practises, the disciplines..never through "I get it now", which is just another mental construct or concept that resides in the same mechansism that can say things like "it wont work for me" We live in an energy universe capable of inifite possibility and can begin to access it through simply being open to some good technique Whilst anything remains words and thoughts, however much we think we "get" it, it remains the same as drawing the changes on the map then wondering why the landscape stayed the same.... ]]> 94 2009-11-29 19:25:56 2009-11-30 01:25:56 open open advanced-spiritual-practises publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558966 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=96 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:27:23 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=96 http://psychicguidance.net Why we need the code The term 'psychic reading' can conjure up different things for different people, however most often the term is used to associate with fortune telling - the sort of thing where there's a belief that the future is fixed and everything and anything can be predicted it’s simply down to the talent of a reader how much of this they can see… these expectations often extending even to when someone will pick up the phone to call you..or worse still that the reader will remove a curse or bring your lover back... That association isn't the real story, nor are many of the ludicrous claims that go with it - and all it serves to do is make people confuse the 'medicine show mysticism' with the real work and disciplines.... Unfortunately due to the proliferation of these sort of claims, especially on the web, the field of real psychic reading within grounded and real metaphysical / spiritual disciplines and knowledge; often suffers from being confused with this poor-relation because people don't realize the difference... The real truth however is that psychic reading skills are in fact used in some of the most ancient, ethical and reliable spiritual disciplines ...but they are a part of a bigger picture. Real psychic Guidance has been one of a set of very well respected and proven metaphysical practices for many hundreds of years...reading all of the energies within a context of understanding and knowledge of universal law, in a similar way to say astrology.. For example recognizing that future is a series of options that are a combination of destined events and freewill choices, each of which represent tests and rewards, making a matrix or path that we must navigate through.. Proper reading looks at these and informs you you how the events interact with energy to bring your lessons and plot your path of progression or regression. Psychic Guidance Consultation explains why you have these events in your life, what it is you are meant to learn from them, and how best to navigate the path towards your destiny... Yes psychic guidance readings do predict the future, and for real, not some random hit and miss, but always that will involve explaining the part you have to play to make it happen.. This helps you define the future not just wait for it from a fortune telling… The Psychic Guidance Code of Practice has been established for caring ethical professionals to delineate their work as adhering to these standards.. The Psychic Guidance Code.. 1. Psychic Guidance Consultations are objective ethical guidance using only proven metaphysical disciplines and techniques in which the consultant is accomplished and has a track record. No consultant is qualified to offer, medical, psychological, legal or financial advise.. No consultation is to be used as an alternative to consulting a licensed professional in their field.. 2. No techniques are used purely on the basis of a belief (for example using only spirit guides for readings). Unlike other types of reader, expect a psychic guidance consultant to work in several disciplines and to make the choice which ones are best to use in each case. 3. Psychic Guidance Consultations respect that giving the client the truth behind the driving forces, events and situations through using the best possible techniques, is the highest form of professionalism and respect – irrespective of anyone’s opinion or judgment. A successful consultation is not defined by (a.) how much better or worse you feel afterwards (b.) only wanting to know things you didn't already know, (c.) agreeing with your or other people's ideas, or (d.) how much detail is delivered in any particular aspect.. 4. Psychic Guidance Consultations are compassionate and respectful but cannot make your decisions for you nor offer emotional support. You take full responsibility for any actions you take on the basis of any consultation. 5. Psychic Guidance Consultations will always respect the Universal Laws that future events are based upon a combination of factors that are not all fixed, that you and other have some input, and that the energy universe works in sequences of events not timing as related to earthly time. 6. Unlike other readers, expect Psychic Guidance Consultants’ websites and material to focus on their work, not the person themselves. They will explain what they can offer you, their services and what others say about them rather than what they say about themselves.. 7. A Psychic Guidance Consultation requires that you are honest and open with your consultant and ready to work with them. Using trick questions or tests will simply make a proper consultation impossible to conduct. 8. Psychic Guidance Consultations may not be used to confirm or verify the work of others, each consultation is independent.. You will not be told you are cursed, nor offered spells or to reunite lovers... nor will your consultation be required to agree to any popular beliefs at that time : for example that we can manifest what we want or that you can attract a twin soul or other such phenomenon of popular spirituality. 9. Psychic Guidance consultations are not affiliated to any religion, they simply respects that there is an ultimate force of divine creation. 10. Psychic Guidance consultations are mutually confidential. That means if you require the consultant to respect the confidentiality of your consultation so must you, and that means you may not publish direct quotes from the contents of your consultation in part or in whole, and that includes in online forums.. .This is not a restriction of freedom of speech it is simply mutuality of confidentiality covering specifics of publishing your consultation ( not your opinion or feedback ) .. this includes the Internet.. ]]> 96 2009-11-29 19:27:23 2009-11-30 01:27:23 open open psychic-guidance-code-of-practise publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558959 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=98 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:29:06 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=98 http://jeangreen.net so pop bye and say hi... ]]> 98 2009-11-29 19:29:06 2009-11-30 01:29:06 open open jean-green publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558953 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=100 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:31:33 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=100 I dont feature stories here, personal experiences are for the discussion forums - whereas this blog is to introduce spiritual metaphysical principles and techniques...however I asked Genevieve to share hers here because it really demonstrates the first law of the cosmos very clearly.... That law is that however much we care for someone, we must overcome our own need first in order to find peace and fulfilment from self.. Nobody but us can complete us, after which we are free to love many and all.. Thanks Gen.. GENEVIEVE'S STORY Soul connections are tough; they are meant to teach us important lessons and force us to grow into the people we are meant to be. It can be hard to see how to make it through the process or how to have the breakthroughs that get you to the end. I’m writing this to share a few of my key breakthroughs in hopes that it will help some move through the process a little quicker. My breakthroughs came in stages – more like multiple breakthroughs that finally led me to the last breakthrough and the end of the soul connection process. I realized that reassurance was only hindering me in progressing through the soul connection, changed my focus from the relationship to my growth and the lessons I needed to learn, and made a conscious decision to no longer wait for my soul connection to come back around. One of my first breakthroughs was to realize that I needed to forget reassurance- no matter how many times someone tells you your soul connection IS going to leave the relationship they’re in or come back to you - being told this is not going to make them do it. This is the problem with reassurance. The SITUATION, the reality I was living WASN’T changing. No matter how many times a psychic or friend reassured me he loved me and that we would be so happy together it wasn’t moving us forward - he wasn’t breaking up with his girlfriend, we weren’t building the kind of relationship I wanted to build. When I turned my back on reassurance my progress through the process moved along faster and I was able to change my focus from the relationship and needing my guy to come back; to working on my own issues and more importantly working on my relationship with myself. This was another one of my breakthroughs. I realized that one cannot be in a great relationship until you have a great relationship with yourself. I had to accept loving myself the most, the best and all the time. I had to also work through my issues, face my fears and insecurities. Soul connections seem to be mainly about the relationship, yet it’s often more about your individual journey, growth and your relationship with YOURSELF. It mirrors the things you need to work on and it mirrors where your relationship with yourself is lacking. As I focused on myself and my work, I progressed to the point where I was ready to move into a place where I didn’t care if he ever came back. Of course, the pull was still there, but I knew I was ready to take the next step no matter how hard it was and no matter how long it took. So everyday I focused on recovering my energy and myself. I studied and practiced some techniques that helped me find more peace, and be less pulled around by the soul connection. This is what got me through the really tough days - it helped me make more sense of the madness and the more I did it, over a few months, the better and better I felt. It’s not an overnight fix and requires work but it gives you a tool belt that can help you get through the soul connection with so much more peace and understanding. As I thought over the entire journey of this connection I realized that one of the major points of the soul connection was to get to where I am today. There was no longer an intense necessity to be with him at the cost of myself. The energy had completely mellowed down. This was a sudden breakthrough, but also the culmination of all the hard work I had done and other breakthroughs I had gone through. Having that understanding and better relationship with myself was worth so much more than any romantic relationship. There is happiness and peace at the end of the journey. And the catch is.....it doesn’t matter what the other half of the soul connection does. It doesn’t matter whether they call you or not, whether they dump the girlfriend/boyfriend or not, whether they can be a healthy partner in a relationship with you or not. If you are reading this and feeling hopeless. Feeling like this could never be you - you could never fathom being able to be in this place of happiness, peace and understanding; fear not - I was once exactly where you stand now. And I can tell you, you too will make it to the other side; surprisingly faster than you think. To help you get there faster may I recommend letting go of reassurance, focusing on yourself and continuing to work hard. I’m here telling my story in hopes that it will help even one person get through this process one day faster because the other side is such an absolutely AMAZING place. Genevieve Genevieve's Resources http://healmyenergy.com http://priyakale.com ]]> 100 2009-11-29 19:31:33 2009-11-30 01:31:33 open open case-study-genevieves-story publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559814 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=102 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:34:59 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=102 I stopped self publishing the book in ebook format a few years ago when Publish America took up the rights to publish in paperback - which came out in 2007.. Although most online bookstores have stocked it ( Amazon / Barnes & Noble etc ) sometimes the best prices are direct from Publish America themselves http://www.publishamerica.com/ Their site doesn't have a direct link for me to post so you'll have to use the link then do a site search on their site using the search box on the right hand side of the screen... Thank you for the emails, heres a page with links to a few sellers http://stevegunn.net/wtscindex.html ]]> 102 2009-11-29 19:34:59 2009-11-30 01:34:59 open open when-two-souls-connect-where-to-get-it publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259556479 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=104 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:37:09 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=104

Quote from The Matrix 1999 - Agent Smith talking to Morpheus

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. ... It is within the nature of the human to be a consumer.. Not just in terms of food and resources but of time and attention of others... As we gradually develop in childhood away from playing and interacting with the world as it really is while being emotionally open to all things...we gradually transition towards this learned idea of something called "me" in our imagination, this identity model...the thing we're taughtin todays world as the 'real' me but which increasingly removes our ability to interact with the world naturally as we did when we were young and open and just being.. Its in this mode that we are taught we are supposed to function, not as who we are but who we and others think we are; that we gradually confuse this abstract identity model with the reality of who we have been created to be.. This ego model is the consumer, as all of its measures of success and achievment are external. Its validation comes from others. It needs applause, success, attention ( often confused with love ) ownership of objects and even people, and acceptance into groups... ( Its often even confused with being your intelligence and ability to discriminate which it is not.. ) Unlike before it was developed, a time when the child would simply be emotionally open and freely express pain and pleasure, the ego model "me" doesnt do that... It clings to pleasure and tries to ignore pain... As the unreleased pain gradually stores , it eventally becomes a mountain who's peak constantly pokes through into our daily consciousness... So we have our mountain and our inability to deal with pain except through delusional ego constructs like "its HIS loss", "its not your fault", "things will be fine"... Did we ever think any of this stuff would release pain? no it doesn't its what i call 'constructive denial' wrapped up as emotional support... The truth is that the pain mountain just got added to not subracted from... Eventually we become more and more addicted to the "feel good" stuff because of our every growing pain mountain... And yes most people have some level of addiction... The most dangerous, common and addictive drug of all ? Reassurance... Reassurance is a mental construct that something, usually something or some time passing - all outside of ourselves, is the answer to our happiness.. It is not in the moment and it is not generally empowering... I hear the screams of "thats not spiritual"... but think of this... Anything that tells anyone that happines comes from something outside of self is furthering this journey away from spiritual oneness... Empowerment is a gzillion times more powerful than sympathy.. When what we should be offering is acceptance and release....but how many do, or even know how to offer or achieve that ? In the world where ego is king its more usual to use ego constructs auch as reassurance and tell ourselves its the right thing to do.... Yet anything that journeys us into and through the pain and into real self, the self that the universe created, is helping you become who you are made to be.... and assuring your happiness.. And so often the thing we become addicted to can be in the guise of something "spiritual"... yet maybe its quite the opposite..... its reassurance furthering attachment to the person, the job, the future... All of us have been in the place where we want and need, often at levels that suprise us... All of us can see that need and would often like to be without it, yet we justify it as "well dont i deserve a __________ "( insert word of choice here ), relationship, kids, promotion etc etc etc.. For instance I watch with wonder at the proliferation of the law of attraction stuff as some people cling to it as God's Happiness ATM... It will indeed be one of the great phenomenon of spiritual growth in the 21st century... but not through its ability to allow people to manifest what they want, simply through showing some that trying to find fulfillment or alleviate emptiness through manifesting outside of self isnt the work of something spiritual or positive...in fact quite the opposite. In others it will purposely allow people to manifest what they want, to show them the price they will pay for that.... Either way many more will end up on the path of quickly realizing that the answers to fulfillmnt are inside not outside...and thus more will find their path.. For those "spiritual" people who encourage satiation under the name of spirituality shame on you.. For anyone who understands the reality of the laws of interaction of energy, they realize that this phenomenon is nothing new but that it comes not from need but from acceptance and inner processing and a lot of hard work..and has a duality of giving and receiving... Theres not even a lack of books and material on how to take the inner journey nowadays but there are more techniques every day and even those make you need something, be it a CD, a belief, a gong, God knows i always joke that somewhere some is gonna make one that needs you to wear a cabbage on the head while meditating... The truth however is simple and beautiful and yet at the same time becoming more and more ellusive as the cult of satiation grows stronger... That truth, is that the power you hold within you as a creation of the universe is awesome.. The energy system can and does tear people from this learned way we call the ego state or sometimes "the need feed".... As more popular spiritual practises validate need and satiation, its not the wisdom that we can be happy that is a commodity, it never has been. For example MR Tolle's work is good, as was The Celestine Phrophecy, as will the next work most of which are based upon the same principles that Buddhismhas been expounding for centuries... BUT does this awaken more people to their potential.. conceptually yes, nearly everyone "gets it" ( the ego construct of mentally absorbing the concept ) but in actuality very few can actually achieve it..... Whats been missing in this picture and is becoming more valuable every day is training training in techniques to achieve this ripping away from how we are, to go back to who we are..to find happiness from what we have and have always had by virtue of being creation of the universe.... Yet miracles happen every day. Every day someone "crosses the bridge" as i refer to it.. every day someone becomes free.... Rarely is this work newsworthy but its always rewarding. What never fails to amaze is the human capacity for destruction and at the same time the human capacity for transformation.. What wins every time is that you were born with everything you need except maybe some training in how it works, how it got knotted up, and how it can put itself back where it belongs... ]]> 104 2009-11-29 19:37:09 2009-11-30 01:37:09 open open dont-worry-itlll-all-be-ok-or-maybe-not publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559091 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=107 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:39:14 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=107 Extract from the article at http://angiemedia.com/?p=3685 What happens to people who are victims of BPD distortion campaigns? Here are some of the examples of the results: They are alienated from their family and friends. They lose contact with their children for months or even years. They lose their jobs. They spend tens of thousands of dollars or more fighting false accusations of the BP attacking them. They have restraining orders placed upon them based upon false accusations. They end up in jail or prison due to false accusations. They develop severe mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety disorders, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and others. Some commit suicide. Distortion campaigns can destroy people’s lives, even becoming lethal. This is particularly the case when the people around the BP’s victim do not understand how Borderline Personality Disorder works. The victims of distortion campaigns need extensive support from others in order to survive such an experience without life-altering damage. Although an estimated 2% or more of the US population suffers from BPD, most people do not end up being targeted with a BPD distortion campaign. As a result, they have trouble understanding how severe, damaging, unrelenting, and widespread these campaigns can be. And many of the victims of distortion campaigns consequently are left without effective support systems and suffer far worse damage than might have been the case if their friends and family understood they are being victimized by a Borderline. End of extract ]]> 107 2009-11-29 19:39:14 2009-11-30 01:39:14 open open stop-the-abuse-distortion-campaigns publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558354 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=109 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:42:25 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=109 Soul Connection Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing or rightdoing is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn't make any sense. Rumi Most of us have, from time to time, played with or even done experiments with magnets. If you lay several of them on the table, they will lie still as the inanimate objects that they are, but sometimes there will be two (perhaps more) that will without human intervention gravitate towards one another until they snap together. If you play with them and reverse their polarity, separating them, they will flail about in a graceless dance. They, like an overturned bug, will struggle until they are righted and can reconnect or are moved so far apart that they seem to rest. This is how I would describe a soul connection. As an artist I have always been aware of the visual repetitions of nature and because of this see how we, humans, are another demonstration of the laws of creation. In other words, we, too, are held to and subject to the laws of energy and magnetism. I have had tribulations, intense, intense times in my life but nothing prepared me for the journey and experience of making a soul connection. I didn't chose this path but I do celebrate who I became as a result of this journey. The man, with whom I shared this connection, and I became friends under unusual circumstances and in a situation where we saw each other unavoidably and regularly. Looking back, I can now see that there was an powerful connection and recognition all along. From the very first time we met and began to talk, it was as if no one else was there. That connection seem to drown out everyone else's presence including my husband's. It was probably four years before we candidly acknowledged this affinity but we were clueless about what was happening or the power of it. We had both been married for 20 or so years and while his marriage had been very tumultuous, my marriage wasn't. It wasn't filled with drama and anger, it was just not right. I didn't know, until being with this man just how unhappy I had been or how lost I had really become. Despite all of that, I never intended to step outside of my marriage, be connected to another man or love someone else. I held a great deal of ego pride around doing the right thing and being very committed to being committed. Because neither of us understood what was happening and the connection was so compelling we did have a brief physical affair. We painfully ended this pretty quickly but we were not so adroit in being able to separate emotionally. I am not sure that I will ever be able to command accurately enough words to explain the wonderful depth of connection, the overwhelming fear, and the devastation that seemed all rolled together. I was breaking my own laws, I was in love with a man that I wasn't supposed to love, and I knew, on a very deep level my life would never again be the same. The first time I stood in front of him and kissed him there was an electrical surge between us, energy bouncing back and forth. This surge was so profound that I gasped and asked him if he felt that? It took my breath away. I remember saying to him, “I don't know why I am here, what I am doing here but it feels as though every door has closed and this is the only place that holds any truth or answers for me.” It was completely undeniable. It wasn't raging hormones or an out of control sex drive. It was not what I would have imagined a sexual liaison to be. The physicality of the attraction was very real but most significantly it was as if I was coming home. That kind of mutual recognition is an awesome thing and carries such a level of intensity to it that becoming overwhelmed was easy. I was scared, but I was awake and alive and although this was mutual, he became terrified. I can't explain what it was like to find this person, to feel like I had come home, to see all of this mirrored in him and yet also watch him start falling apart out of fear. He told me later that he felt that if he let go he would be falling off of a cliff and he would never get back. He was right. He just wasn't quite able to understand that he had already fallen and most importantly what had fallen away from wasn't something we would want back. He desperately needed and still needs to hold the illusion of having control over himself, of what happened and what will happen. After spending such a brief period of time in this homecoming, this happiest of places, it rapidly begin to erode. Like watching a sand castle on the beach I could do nothing as I watched the tide come in and it washed away. We spent the last two years in the separating and flailing phase of this soul connection phenomena. Because of our life circumstances we have always been in a position of seeing each other regularly and it became torturous. We have struggled mightily to figure out what to do. If it had been up to me I would have run full speed towards him and into a relationship but fear, mostly his fear, held a stronger grip on him than anything else. I was heartbroken because by all outward appearances, it had meant the world to me and it, for a long time, seemed so insignificant to him. I was awash in feelings that I could not understand. Some of these, I later I realized, were not even my own feelings but his. Because of this powerful connection, we became more empathic to the other's feelings. Through learning the difference, I've also learned how much he too was struggling. While I had no wish for him to struggle, the idea that I wasn't alone in all of this and that I could trust what I was experiencing was of some comfort. I have grown and I have changed and seen so many ways in which I was so outside of my purpose. I have learned so very much about myself. This connection was the catalyst for that but until I went through the Ptsen-Nuh energy work, I was so devastated that I was simply suicidal. I went to therapists, and psychics, and church and ashrams. I cried more in those two years than I knew anyone could cry. I was shocked by the unceasing quality of it. Every time I thought I was doing better I would wake up the next day curled into a heap, like a catatonic tarbaby. The feelings, the connection, would just not go away and I felt so powerless. I had bizarre experiences with other people talking to me about him, animals visiting me that I knew he had a special affinity for, I had never met anyone with his name and then suddenly everyone had his name, every book I read the male counterpart had the same name and I was haunted in my dreams. Early in the “coming together” phase of the connection we laughed about the fact that we would wake at the same time every morning, I still did this and I knew the difference. I could feel him. I slept little and my overall existence was akin to that of a dishrag. It took everything I had to hold up my basic responsibilities. I was a human zombie. Despite the fact that he was usually the one to claim his need to break it off, he was incapable of letting go and truthfully I didn't want him to. The problem was that his way of holding on involved selfish and unkind games that I played so that I could hold the illusion of him still being in my life. If we couldn't show one another that we cared by loving each other we showed it in a series of painful passive-aggressive and codependent dramas that only eroded our sense of respect for ourselves and each other. When I wasn't crying, all I did was write and search and search and search, there had to be an answer. Everywhere I went only left me feeling horrible and feeling as though I was operating out of some emotional deficiency. While it is true my childhood was hard and intense, I just couldn't completely buy into this being about what a dysfunctional loser I was. The fact that we were both approaching our mid-forties and we had both been married 20 years had us perfectly suited for a mid-life crisis diagnosis. But I read about this and I had read about affairs, I read any thing and everything I could get a hold of. Nothing fit, it just didn't jive and was incomplete. This is not to say that I didn't glean some insight from this feedback but I could find absolutely no peace. Our myths, our societal frame of reference doesn't offer much more than the judgment of crossing the proverbial Rubicon and every reference that I had for what happened made it so easy to judge myself and very harshly at that. I just felt worse and worse. I told myself to get a grip, get over it, as my father used to always say, “water off a duck's back.” I couldn't even shame myself out of it. Finally my searching paid off and I found a process called Ptsen-Nuh developed by Steve Gunn. This is an intense process of self (true self) awareness and how our energy and societal programming affects our bodies and minds. What allowed the initial breakthrough was recognizing how my subjective ego had held me hostage. All the lies and stories that I held onto to define me were actually poison. I also came, through this work to recognize, what had happened and that it was real, not a mental frailty. It was hard work, shedding all of those layers, meeting myself anew as well as the people in my life and the world . Although it was hard, it is the singularly most liberating experience of my life. I also attribute this work with giving me the fortitude to be able to make my way through what would come next. Just as I was really starting to integrate my work with Steve, my husband confronted me. It hadn't been so very long before that I had not known what had happened, how to explain it, how to move past the societal rules, how to not fall into heaps of guilt. I had never meant to hurt him or break the “rules”. If it had not been for the energy work I was doing, I would have fallen prostrate into shame and guilt. Instead I was able to hold onto my own experience. I knew that if I had been willing to play the role of the “betrayer”, he would have happily accepted the role of “victim” but because I wouldn't he had to look deeper. I was willing to walk away from my marriage rather than play out that drama. This in turn provided a real wake up call for him. It has shifted his own way of viewing his life and the world. My experience wasn't changing only me, it was domino effect. Whatever happens between us we were seeing the world so very differently. It was an amazing thing to observe. I thought that when I got to this point the connection itself would severe it hasn't; I know now that it never will. But I know that the man I journeyed with is on his own, he has to go this alone, just as we all do. I never wanted that for him but his correction is still incomplete. I often still wake up and know that he has just woken, or I feel his despair. However, I no longer hold any belief that there is anything I am responsible for to make it different for him. I am, with daily discipline, no longer trying to dance a dance whose steps I don't know. I am aware that for so long I found myself looking at people, looking for this man, this soul mate, somehow thinking I would see him, the man I knew, not the man who was pushing me away. I looked at doors as if he would walk through them at any minute. I felt, and sometimes still do, that he would just show up and tell me that the trial was past and that I could come home again. I felt about this the way one feels when someone says there will be sunrise at the beginning of everyday. Being separated from him physically has never, and still doesn't feel right, despite knowing that to be with him, how he is now, would be painful at best. The peace that I have found about this, through my work, is that I now know that I am at home; home is wherever I go. If someone had said that to me two years ago when I felt so very hollow, I would have collapsed into tears of despair. But through discipline it shifts and upon claiming my own happiness, my own connection to myself and my own power I don't feel hollow anymore. I learned the difference between loving someone's soul, seeing their soul, and the need to walk away from painful behavior. The more clear I became, the more I could claim my own power, freely say that I loved him no matter what and that I wanted him to have to the life he wanted, with whomever he wanted, the more distant and rejecting he became. I know he feels like I left him behind. On the other hand, I know that he needs someone to blame, something to push against as he struggles to hold onto the illusions he has created and I don't want to be that person. I have read, and I don't know the merit of it, that it is not death that a soul finds painful but a birth. I can say that it was a birth, a birth to an awakened me. As painful as it was, I am grateful to have made it through this and hope that he will some day make his way. Whether we will ever be reunited, reconnect, whether there is relationship to be had is anyone's guess. For now I choose enjoy each day, my existence and the company of those I chose to share that with. I understand how rare a connection like that is and even though there wasn't some romance novel ending, I actually now count that experience as a great blessing and feel fortunate. I am convinced that there will be, for everyone, a call to awaken to our own life, our own power and purpose. I can look back and see how Lady Destiny, karma, had called before, sweetly knocking on the door that I didn't answer until finally she broke the door down. I believe that our ability and willingness to answer this call is in direct proportion to the pain, the required energy, that it takes for us to change our course. Soul connections are at the very least a course correction, a demand to correct our trajectory and I am grateful. If this is resonant to your experience too, please take heart, have compassion for yourself. You aren't making it up, you aren't alone, you are going to be ok. Better than that you will find, in yourself, a deeper more abiding faith and love than you have ever known. Peace be with you. Sue - August 2009 ]]> 109 2009-11-29 19:42:25 2009-11-30 01:42:25 open open case-study-sues-story-spiritual-transformation publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559801 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=111 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:43:59 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=111 In the field which i work, that of metaphysics - the study of the universe beyond the physical, we also have many pyramids... Both in the area of general spirituality ( psychics or mystics etc ) and metaphysical practitioners - we both use tools like psychic reading, energy work and often many others... so theres commonality there... in fact the term "psychic" itself is often used to describe both fields. However whats radcially different between them is that with general spirituality it is often based upon personal belief as a context, as opposed to that of metaphysics where it's research and study of cosmic laws above any personal belief that is the context.. Hence we find difference in how the two fields see certain things and probably the biggest of the metaphysical "pyramids" is that of relationships.... Our relationship pyramid is that it's interactions that are destined, not the relationship ... ( OMG did he really say that ! ) Dont worry this isnt some romatic heresay so no need to light the fires just yet- fact it all comes out very good in the end AND there's relationships !!!!! How destiny works is much cooler and quite a lot more complex than we often think.. Consider it this way....lets look at this in terms of where an interaction is destined , for example some sort of soul connection [ a tie that neccesitates the life path of two people has to cross to redress karma and trigger spiritual learning and transformation ], Destiny gets her way and the two people meet... However we see time after time after time after time in soul connections that one or other partner isnt ready or able to reconcile the energies theyre experiencing and thus can't take the energetic events into something consistant on the practical level e.g. a relationship... This is usual because its an imbalance of energies, the karma that forces the learning... We do not see destiny holding a gun to the heads of both parties to dive into the relationship and stay, far from it, often one or both aren't ready ( often despite what they may think ) and someone runs for the hills.. The 'popular spirituality' approach to that sits somewhere between an issue of timing or that the persons freewill overcame destiny, the answer usually dependant on the belief systems of the person your consulting.. So destiny was powerful enough to make you meet but not powerful enough to keep you there ? ..hmmmm no. And of course the human ego totally buys into the idea that the other person can somehow overcome the forces of destiny better than you, me, I can .... That self defeating programming loves chances to sabotage... So here's our pyramid... The person didn't somehow overcome the forces of destiny and nor was freewill and destiny a roll of the dice to see who could win like some random act.. What destiny wanted was the interaction, the earthly connection of energies to trigger learning through energetic interaction that includes ( but not only ) love and pain sufficient to create a quantum shift of inner, soul consciousness - tranformation..to take us further from the ego state and deeper into oness... Ok so what about the relationship I hear you cry ? .. well remember that destiny delivered the person, you recognized the connection then WHAM, the choice you wanted, the choice of having a relationship was taken away... well guess whats returned. NOT the relationship but the choice... THATS how destiny and freewill interact.. Now with this return I'm specifically talking about connections with a particular type of tie and karma ( all connections - all of life has karma, theres no karmic and non karmic ) but not any and all connection require any reconnect on the physical plane Often i read people talking about reconnection and they mean relationship but what it really means is a revisit to see if they people have transformed, if those energies are more balanced...and if they are, to deliver what was taken.. Sometimes this takes many recoonections... If both have done thier work if the energies are now balanced, this is then a situation where you can be given the choice... And thus what was taken away is returned..CHOICE the wheel of karma turned a full circle.. Just as the universe didnt hold a gun to the head of the runner to not run - she wont hold a gun to your head to have the relationship..... she already got her way with two people transforming... The cycle of test and reward has been fulfilled and at no point did destiny overule freewill or frewill overule destiny.. Many many choose to have the relationship but a considerable number don't. The love is still as strong, the connection still as powerful but they are at peace in their love, it is complete anyway... And all is as it should be, two people transformed, choice was restored and freewill comes into the life once again... And as one person put it "I used to want to believe with my whole being that we were destined to be together, but now years down the road i see him as he is, i love him at a profound level and I am happy that i was finally given the chance to be with him but i see that relationship is just not the way forward - I am relieved its how it is, this way the love can stay more perfect than the people - a relationship would test that too much and probably destroy what we share" Where's the pyramid ? Time after time, years and decades of situations echoing the cosmic law. If you give it a chance the universe is much cooler than we often imagine and yet never as simplictic as some of the more ludicrous predictions would have us believe or that we often want to believe. ]]> 111 2009-11-29 19:43:59 2009-11-30 01:43:59 open open the-problem-with-reality publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558537 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=113 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:45:13 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=113 Please note that both techniques make predictions... Please note that both techniques will sometimes give timing sometimes not the core differences are that fortune telling works on a premise of many or all future events being pre-destined hence anything can be predicted...in that case you have no freewill your here as a passenger..or that you can change what's predestined by using freewill, ( which means it wasn't destined anyway ) or that your freewill can be predicted in advance ( which means it wasn't ever freewill anyway.).. This often gets confused when a fortune teller in their effort to only be limited by your questions or to try to enhance their reputation, will predict absolutely everything - and even if they are psychically reading the destined parts right, they're making a judgment call or guess on the parts that are freewill...rather than explaining that those are options with different outcomes.. Sometimes that guess will hit right - thus it appears that they predicted 100% but sometimes their guess will miss terribly hence the reading was seen as 50% or less.... This is where reading gets its reputation of "variability" Often in online services you'll see glowing 5 star ratings followed by 1 star ones then back to 5 star..thats one example of this phenomenon at work.. However for those who stick with ethical practices of what can really be predicted then their readings often aren't as glamorous but infinitely more reliable.. No 1 star then 5 star then 1 star stuff usually...but also usually not referred to in terms as glowing as some deity.. One of the hard truths is that the future isn't always glamorous, and doesn't come destined in the way we want and thats not a hugely sellable commodity... Hence the best readers aren't usually in the spotlight but quietly plugging away in the middle ground or the background and have very consistent feedback and consistent results.. People who are in emotionally vulnerable places will usually go for the glowingly detailed shiny version as they are trying to find more and more understanding in order to work with their pain.....but unfortunately they can also be more and more exploited, become more and more addicted and more and more distressed when it doesn't come to pass.. Fortunately people's awareness of the difference is gradually growing and the field splitting into more visibly delineated areas... however there's probably a long way to go and in the meantime it will be a strange day in paradise before people stop making incorrect assumptions .. but ya can't have everything can you... The psychic guidance code of practice ( below and at http://psychicguidance.net ) was designed to have 10 simple but very clear guidelines to address these issues and show people what they're getting with their reader or consultant. A list of people who subscribe to the code is growing and slowly but surely we hope it will aid people in making choices that are informed and safe for them Extract from the Psychic guidance Code of Practice" Why we need the code The term 'psychic reading' can conjure up different things for different people, however most often the term is used to associate with fortune telling - the sort of thing where there's a belief that the future is fixed and everything and anything can be predicted it’s simply down to the talent of a reader how much of this they can see… these expectations often extending even to when someone will pick up the phone to call you..or worse still that the reader will remove a curse or bring your lover back... That association isn't the real story, nor are many of the ludicrous claims that go with it - and all it serves to do is make people confuse the 'medicine show mysticism' with the real work and disciplines.... Unfortunately due to the proliferation of these sort of claims, especially on the web, the field of real psychic reading within grounded and real metaphysical / spiritual disciplines and knowledge; often suffers from being confused with this poor-relation because people don't realize the difference... The real truth however is that psychic reading skills are in fact used in some of the most ancient, ethical and reliable spiritual disciplines ...but they are a part of a bigger picture. Real psychic Guidance has been one of a set of very well respected and proven metaphysical practices for many hundreds of years...reading all of the energies within a context of understanding and knowledge of universal law, in a similar way to say astrology.. For example recognizing that future is a series of options that are a combination of destined events and freewill choices, each of which represent tests and rewards, making a matrix or path that we must navigate through.. Proper reading looks at these and informs you you how the events interact with energy to bring your lessons and plot your path of progression or regression. Psychic Guidance Consultation explains why you have these events in your life, what it is you are meant to learn from them, and how best to navigate the path towards your destiny... Yes psychic guidance readings do predict the future, and for real, not some random hit and miss, but always that will involve explaining the part you have to play to make it happen.. This helps you define the future not just wait for it from a fortune telling… The Psychic Guidance Code of Practice has been established for caring ethical professionals to delineate their work as adhering to these standards.. The Psychic Guidance Code.. 1. Psychic Guidance Consultations are objective ethical guidance using only proven metaphysical disciplines and techniques in which the consultant is accomplished and has a track record. No consultant is qualified to offer, medical, psychological, legal or financial advise.. No consultation is to be used as an alternative to consulting a licensed professional in their field.. 2. No techniques are used purely on the basis of a belief (for example using only spirit guides for readings). Unlike other types of reader, expect a psychic guidance consultant to work in several disciplines and to make the choice which ones are best to use in each case. 3. Psychic Guidance Consultations respect that giving the client the truth behind the driving forces, events and situations through using the best possible techniques, is the highest form of professionalism and respect – irrespective of anyone’s opinion or judgment. A successful consultation is not defined by (a.) how much better or worse you feel afterwards (b.) only wanting to know things you didn't already know, (c.) agreeing with your or other people's ideas, or (d.) how much detail is delivered in any particular aspect.. 4. Psychic Guidance Consultations are compassionate and respectful but cannot make your decisions for you nor offer emotional support. You take full responsibility for any actions you take on the basis of any consultation. 5. Psychic Guidance Consultations will always respect the Universal Laws that future events are based upon a combination of factors that are not all fixed, that you and other have some input, and that the energy universe works in sequences of events not timing as related to earthly time. 6. Unlike other readers, expect Psychic Guidance Consultants’ websites and material to focus on their work, not the person themselves. They will explain what they can offer you, their services and what others say about them rather than what they say about themselves.. 7. A Psychic Guidance Consultation requires that you are honest and open with your consultant and ready to work with them. Using trick questions or tests will simply make a proper consultation impossible to conduct. 8. Psychic Guidance Consultations may not be used to confirm or verify the work of others, each consultation is independent.. You will not be told you are cursed, nor offered spells or to reunite lovers... nor will your consultation be required to agree to any popular beliefs at that time : for example that we can manifest what we want or that you can attract a twin soul or other such phenomenon of popular spirituality. 9. Psychic Guidance consultations are not affiliated to any religion, they simply respects that there is an ultimate force of divine creation. 10. Psychic Guidance consultations are mutually confidential. That means if you require the consultant to respect the confidentiality of your consultation so must you, and that means you may not publish direct quotes from the contents of your consultation in part or in whole, and that includes in online forums.. .This is not a restriction of freedom of speech it is simply mutuality of confidentiality covering specifics of publishing your consultation ( not your opinion or feedback ) .. this includes the Internet. ]]> 113 2009-11-29 19:45:13 2009-11-30 01:45:13 open open psychic-reading-or-fortune-telling publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559074 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=115 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:46:49 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=115 As we go through life in a society geared to not who we are but how others perceive us, we absorb the knocks and scrapes, gradually integrating pain and disappointment into mental and emotional memory.. And dont those memories just LOVE to remember the bad things huh...much better than they do the good ones... In training for life we're taught to speak the language, calculate the change from our groceries, drive cars, to cook wash clean and support ourselves in the world. We're even taught some aspects of what medicine calls psychology to try to understand ourselves and others at a thought or behavioral level... However what we aren't taught about is the one thing that drives all human action more powerfully than anything else...and thats emotions.. Strange isn't it that the things that cause so much human happiness and so much human tragedy are left as somewhat mysterious...or consigned to be analyzed at a thought or behavior level.. The problem here is that emotions don't exist on the physical level, there's no emotional gadget we can attach to you to see whats happening because emotions are energies on the energy plane ( often referred to as the spiritual plane ). (If anyone doubts that - we do know this is the case because we can change emotions very easily using energy work and it has a long and illustrious history of repeated results and so the evidence is very well founded...) Medicine can see chemical changes in the brain and rest of the body as we react to emotions but as of yet theres no physical heart chakra monitor can sense your energy..only another living being can do that... We know we cant change emotions with thought, and we cant drug them or cut them out and throw them away.. So all in all the mechanisms of emotion aren't really generally understood and so instead we ( society ) contain them within over simplistic mental constructs ( for example ) a whole bunch of emotions like need, compassion, like, want, passion and so many other things are labelled singly ( and incorrectly ) as "love".. So how are we taught to process emotions ? by thinking about them... Friends won't say "come on sit with it and cry it out", they'll use mental constructs like "it's his loss" or "move on" or other thought constructs all guaranteed to stop full release of the emotional effects of a situation... And thus we stored another one we really didn't want or need to... Dogs bark, cows moo and humans store pain.... Often we THINK we reconciled emotions using thought processes ( the ego tells us this is reasoning ) as we decide to detach from awareness of an emotion, or to create attachments to constructs, ideas, people or things to whom we attach a different emotion.. And its exactly through these processes that we store more residual unreleased pain and increase our attachment to people, situations and things to which we find an opposite emotion, albeit it often a very temporary one. Everything from spending too much in the stores, eating too much. all the way through alcohol or cigarettes to drugs.. And it doesn't stop at just chemicals, Reassurance, emotional co-dependence and other structures often go from being the prop to becoming the addiction.. The person, relationship, the job, tomorrow, "when it all comes good", all constructs of the future or something outside of self becoming the pain-healing elixir..... Once we realize that its the nature of being human, particularly a modern human living in high tech modern society that allows ( ensures ) this process to happen, and that it happens to all humans at some time ( Dogs bark, cows moo and humans store pain ... ) then we can realize its not who we are but how we become as part of conditioning and training... And guess where those things can become especially so much of a problem....and thats under the banner of spirituality... The BIG question in following any spiritual path is .... when does the support become the drug....? Reassurance, compassion and understanding must be implicit in every spiritual practices but are we needing them to be explicit ? Are we needing the reassurance more than we're wanting to go in and exorcise the parts that make us need the reassurance ? Everyone needs some reassurance at some time. However the nature of that reasurance can be super healing or super damaging. For instance is that reassurance telling you that you can heal your wounds and be happy... or that someone or some future event will do it for you ? The first is healing the second is co dependence... Call that co-dependence love, call it what you will, as the ego struggles to validate need .. However unlike acceptance and honest personal review, co-dependance is ugly and damaging to ourselves and others however we seek to validate it..BUT we've all been there and its no loss of face or judgment to be human...it just needs to be seen for what it is in order to heal and move forward Dogs bark, cows moo and humans store pain... But to respect oneself is to admit that yes maybe we do need this more than we'd like to..Its often why we humans seek help far to late because we don't want to admit we have a problem. All too often this makes the healing come later than we would like... But here's the issue, if we can recognize its no judgment of self to realize the restrictions of the species and the programming we suffer, then we can transcend the problems and rise above them. Its not the totality of who we are because we are spirit we are energy with almost infinite capacity. But that its contained in a human form that has tendencies we must become aware of so that we embrace and enhance them not suffer from them anymore..... And so the spiritual journey isn't to find a source of endless reassurance nor to dislike the physical human aspects of life and to see spirituality as some escape to a "better state" like some idealized nirvana... But to recognize how the systems work both the physical and the energetic, and to work them as they are meant to , in harmony and balance... Far too many times you see the "I only work from the upper chakras" stuff out there as some idealized thinking that we cant integrate all element of being.. Or that the world of spirit or energy is a better place..Or to run scared of powerful human feelings you just cant control, seeing demons around every corner or blaming it onto others. In order to find peace and progression we must have a process of realization of the limits of these states, admit that we can easily become addicted, and seek to harmonize being through full awareness of how each element works and how they're meant to come together in one whole entity to work as they are meant to... Thats the entity sitting reading this...not some "higher" self thats all good or "lower" self thats all lesser, thats polarized thinking.. All chakras are meant to work in the body within which they sit as an integrated balanced union of body and soul, God didn't make a mistake in the packaging department.. If your hooked on readings, don't really believe you can be happy, or are now addicted to sharing when it used to help but it's become just another drug or means to validation, then you aren't bad or broke just human..It happens.. But it can also be fixed... Recognize where your attachments to spirituality are healthy and where they aren't. Stand back and see whats the solution and whats the problem..whats helping freedom and acceptance and what's keeping you still. If you know something is keeping you trapped in a place but you like it then admit it to yourself. It isn't a judgment of you because...... Dogs bark, cows moo and humans store pain...it goes with the species.. http://metaphysicality.net - http://healmyenergy.com ]]> 115 2009-11-29 19:46:49 2009-11-30 01:46:49 open open dogs-bark-cows-moo-humans-store-pain publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558531 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=117 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:48:39 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=117 It could be said that this issue isn't metaphysical or spiritual but let me assure you that this subject just like soul connections is something that hits people like a cement truck and tears people apart at the very core - testing them to incredible levels...And so I would argue that they are very pertinent to metaphysics and the spiritual journey as one of the greatest tests a human can endure... They are however often little heard of and even less understood.... Professionally I have worked with people with BPD and with victims of distortion campaigns alike, in teaching them meditation and energy techniques geared at helping their self healing. Nobody is saying that all people with BPD commit these distortion campaigns, far from it, and all posts are committed to raising awareness and the potential for healing for everyone - thats the motivation ... As i am not a psychiatrist or psychologist i cant talk professionally about the actual campaigns, only from personal experience and the experience of helping others and my observations ... Distortion Campaign Many who went through the experience ended up like me, in a terrible state, physically sick and mentally tortured because of the totally untrue, unfair and utterly destructive nature of them.. There are some key issues i wish to point out in the articles from other sites ( see links at top of post ) as I've personally experienced them and seen them in the cases of people I've helped.. 1. projection - most often the person is projecting exactly their issues onto you - the good old 180 degree rule...this seems a very reliable aspect from what i can see and a real indicator of the persons intentions towards you because it's exactly what they're accusing you of. 2. they are holding you responsible for things you often wont understand or they don't tell you or they make no sense because they're not grounded in reality....... Or They are taking one thing and making something else out of it... that you either didn't know about or accept or choose, and your being bulldozed into agreeing with it or being blamed for it... Often you won't know the true depth of this until later because the person wont confront you with it - ... Don't dismiss the odd weird comments as so ludicrous nobody will believe them because ..... > 3. Behind your back recruitment of friends and co workers, people who they know know you, they start dropping pieces of "information" to try to gradually convince these people that their delusion has some basis in fact and to illicit support from these people to maintain that delusion.. Sometimes sympathy, often just to discuss it because it makes it seem real by doing so.. Most of the time you'll have little or no knowledge of this... I do believe that because of this needing to "recruit" that somewhere inside the person with the illness realizes what they're doing isn't valid or real, and its because of that it drives this need to get others to "buy in" in order to perpetuate the myth... I also believe thats why the victim of the campaign is rarely confronted with the whole depth of the persons delusion for exactly the same reason - because you'd shoot a hole in their theory and somewhere inside that person knows that you would be right - but that they actively choose the delusion. Most of the actions of these campaigns ( from my experience ) seem to be used to discredit you with others rather than to your face at least until enough people are believing the "there's no smoke without fire" because they've been hearing about it for so long..and of course you didn't know because the people were sworn to secrecy or misdirected... However.. when you do find out...I wouldn't just sit back and take it like many do - Its very easy to say "nobody would believe that" well thats not true... you would be surprised what people would believe...especially when they've been "fed" information over time..information that you didnt know about and quite possibly isn't true but has gradually "recruited" them... This is where the victims suffer greatly because what often happens is that they're either hounded by the person...or one day everything fine and them suddenly a whole pack of things they didn't do get thrown at them in a way designed to hurt and cause damage.. And the recruitees join in... I recommend that when you do find out you drag it out into the open, make it clear to everyone whats gone on and take very tough action. Most of this stuff seems to live in the rumor and gossip and hints and "behind the scenes". make it public make sure everyone knows... If needs be contact people to inform them of whats been going on because otherwise you may not know who's been told what.. thats my suggestion.. Lets make this clear i have every sympathy for sufferers of BPD and other issues and have done everything i can in my work to understand and offer help - thats something quite different.. But these distortion campaigns they are nasty and they are meant to at least remove someones freewill and at worst delude, discredit and damage and I don't for one moment see or believe that however deep a delusion that someone can ever justify or even fully convince themselves they're right in doing it.. Its really easy to prove its all false but if you read the other articles thats not the issue, the damage is being done behind the back of the victim most of the time, sometimes for years.. Metaphysically speaking what seems to be going on in the energies is back to this mis-perceived energy situation where the person is feeling something very strong, and isnt happy about it but is associating the other person with the reason or "fault" for the emotion - making them responsible for an emotion... and then trying to prove that's valid by arranging surrounding circumstances to be the sets, lighting and actors so its seems to others to be real so that they can then validate their blame... Often, as per the BPD articles, if you've hit an abandonment trigger in them either directly or inadvertently, then thats often the final trigger for the tirade.. One poor guy tells of living in fear because his girlfriend tells every new guy he beat her and so he never knows where the next threat is coming from...thats terrible but nothing like as bad as it can get..as the persons emotions rage and they try to find proportionate actions.. I have the greatest sympathy for anyone else who's suffered this and likewise the sufferers of BPD - but distortion campaigns need to be known about so that innocent people ( potential recruitees ) don't get "suckered in" to be unwilling participants in damaging others... The more such issues are realized the more help there can be and the less people can get damaged...thats the hope... Although the more common term BPD is used in this article, Metaphysically speaking we would tend to look at things like BPD more as emotional than pure mental, where the persons energy system has suffered usually some traumatic shock which has then stored strong emotions in the sacral chakra which the mental system can't resolve or integrate nor detach from, thus causing mental trauma as they struggle to try to resolve it... and its this inability to resolve that drives the acting-in or acting-out as they're often called... Often we see people using metaphysical reasoning for such phenomenon as people incorrectly perceiving that others are sending them energy or are taking their energy or have done something to their energy as their conclusion.... From that all the way to the extremes of the polarizing of people as extremes of good or bad, energetic attachment or possession, the polarization or "Angels and Demons" phenomenon where metaphysics becomes mysticism in the more extreme attempts to find a story that fits the emotion, however extreme and ungrounded in fact.... All because of a deep spiritual or emotional process that just won't integrate into the thinking... Of course sometimes these these things can really happen, the world of energy is extremely powerful and complex and can do incredible things.. however in this context - what we're talking about in the cases here, is where the person is projecting these things and using metaphysics ( or more usually mysticism - metaphysics without rules ) as reasoning for what they feel - which is most often old inner emotions and energies being triggered by current events.. So on one level they may be right, the emotions are real and feel real, its just they're not associated with, from, caused by, or relevant to the present focus, thats the good old grey matter doing that part in its attempt to control, remedy, associate and act... In another post I do want to address the complex but fascinating subject of soul connections with people with emotional issues or what psychology tends to refer to more as mental illness, as it has some very interesting complexities, and in the research for the book its something that came out a lot in the hundreds of case studies..thats for another post... ]]> 117 2009-11-29 19:48:39 2009-11-30 01:48:39 open open stop-the-abuse-distortion-campaigns-ii publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558330 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=119 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:51:18 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=119 "Why do you specialize in soul connections or relationships" Answer.... I don't.. I do however focus on anything that has to to with people destiny, life and learning like loss , addiction pain, soul connections, spiritual awakening, spiritual phenomenon, karmic cycles, lost souls - all the really tough stuff because its where the multi disciplinary approach of metaphysics can really make difference as opposed to just psychic reading, or just spiritual counselling, or just energy work alone... It is only from that context that things like profound loss, soul connections, tragedy and many of the other major life tests can be understood and actually even make sense.. And if theres any general mis perception of focus on one field its simply from the publicity that one aspect has got through the success of this multi-disciplinary "top down" approach. From the context of what we believe or want to believe the world is about, ( the common perceptions ) not much of it does make sense. And so these events force learning of that bigger picture, the tearing away of the illusions, its part of why these events exist, to show you your universe at work in a way you possibly never knew. Often the awakening is so profound that we look back and couldn't understand how we couldn't see it before...but we were so conditioned to think in certain ways that it needed some huge event to push us through to lift the veils from our eyes it's been my pleasure over the years to do a lot of work with addicts, people who have lost loved ones, the terminally ill, people who have lost everything and others in severe crisis.. and its the most challenging yet rewarding thing I could have imagined. I have to admit its not something i chose but fortunately the universe knew better.. "So your not psychically reading my situation your just quoting what we all know about runners".( many readers hear this ) I can only talk for my consultations on the answer here not the other readers but NO - if your having a consultation with me, what your being given is whats being psychically read from the person and the energies around the situation as we do the session, there are no generalizations. I may explain some universal laws, for example the first law that " happiness must come from within" but thats made clear at the time If the answers you get on your situation fit some generalizations in some areas then so does life...e.g. theres going to be some fear or worry thats obvious or the person wouldn't be staying away , its what that fear or worry is thats the issue, where it came from, why its there and whats behind it resolving... "But i already knew this so your not telling me something new".. Then you know your intuition is working well.. The overall rules to any consultation are to reflect the reality to empower you not give you opinions or perspectives or the male or female view...and its to give you that information whether you knew it or not. That is utterly fundamental to spiritual law..empowerment through objectivity ...not viewpoint [with reference to the psychic guidance code of practise http://psychicguidance.net ] On the issue of what you picked up with your intuition...You have the ability in you to read things psychically that usually shocks people when its demonstrated to them. Not everyone has all psychic abilities ( there are many ) but everyone has some. I often like to demonstrate how amazing each persons ability is and that it's only from being trapped in a state of not believing that stops it happening.. Some day everyone will use theirs all the time and society will move it into the "normal" category and out of the "paranormal" "I only want to know about the other person" Then you wont learn what your connection is about, how each of you are entangled in the energetic interchange, why, what is happening, how its happening, what has to happen, and how to make it change it... Connections and big events in life connect to all things in your life and have far reaching implications.. Be open to learn and be empowered - you are NEVER powerless even thought it may seem that you are.. I can get through this by understanding how soul connections work if only that were true.... There are no rules to soul connections, they are the rules of the universe as applied to soul connections and each is different and so you would need to study for many years to get a real handle on enough to untangle your situation. yet its what everyone of us sets out to do.. its also why we pogo around with titles like karmic, soulmate, twin etc as we struggle to find something that makes sense..to find rules we can apply to our situation to balm that worry of "what if" Ultimately much as it sucks, riding the roller coaster and learning about SELF is the answer. Its the road we all walk eventually although we will all find different ones in the beginning. Some knowledge and wisdom, a lot of acceptance, maybe some good meditation and disciplines but never just an intellectual understanding.. When the peace comes the mind stops... and the peace cant come until the mind has stopped enough to give it a chance.... "You say in your book that love wins in the end, I take that to mean we will be together" There's only one place that love requires a relationship to validate or make it real and thats in the human mind.. Love itself is free and unconditional and will win in the end but if you require it to bring you a relationship for it to win then you don't yet know how to love unconditionally...and none of us did until we passed the tests of a connection so its no personal reflection its a part of the path we will all walk in one life or another...its one of the big tests.. Some people will get a chance at the relationship some won't thats down to the individual situation and some personal choices and each situation is different.. Some will mourn that non chance and some will give prayers of thanks because it wasn't what they thought it was at the time.. Love and relationships are 2 separate issues, love needs nothing, humans need relationships until we can enlighten and find peace from within in which case we no longer NEED them, we like them and we may want them but the lack of the relationship is no longer a destructive force... It was never meant to be that way anyway.. Nobody really wants to hear this part and its not making me too popular but just wait and see... "Why is there so much pain and destruction in these situations" In terms of the universal processes - the path to enlightenment and spiritual progression requires destruction of the old ways, the ways in which we became entrenched.. in order to allow us to see things anew. So much of society steers us in a particular direction. For instance the most powerful motivator of any human is emotions, yet when did you hear of emotional classes ? They're something we consign to somewhere between "getting over it", psychoanalysis or some idea of "it's just how i am"... Likewise we don't even globally accept energy or the soul. Everyone feels pain in the heart chakra yet millions would argue chakras even exist... The fabric of modern ( particularly western ) society is so geared to making metaphysics, the energy universe or spirituality down to personal belief, that even if there is a creator is assigned to individual belief or perception.. And so there comes a time when we must meet the real universe head on, irrespective of these societal constructs... and its at that time that they crack and we see how things really are... Its important to understand context and universal law, very important ..BUT every situation also has many many variables...don't go for the "all runners run because" or "they all come back because"...or "i know its a twin soul because" .. get a good reading one good one that explains your unique situation is worth a hundred different viewpoints..A good reading of all the aspects all the lessons all the karma all the energies in your situation is the most powerful thing you can have.. I'll add to this post as questions come up... ]]> 119 2009-11-29 19:51:18 2009-11-30 01:51:18 open open soul-connection-faq-update-2009 publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259556454 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=121 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:53:01 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=121 In case anyone thinks the few stories posted here or in my book are indicative of the number of people who survive and heal and find happiness - thats not the case. They are a tiny fraction of hundreds and hundreds of stories - they are here simply as representative samples, as case studies to demonstrate what these people achieved and what you can achieve..but written in the person's own words.. Mark's story in his own words... My journey by Mark Yes men go thru this also, and just like women, our friends don’t want to listen either.. So begins the journey of "what the heck is going on here , I have never felt this way about anyone !". The more I tried to make since of it the more confused I got... my thought was, I'm going crazy. How I found my way to psychics is still a mystery but I was looking for an answer. Psychics are a great way to find out what kind of relationship you are dealing with as well as are you going to reconnect with your mate in the future. Make sure you read their feedback that they understand soul mate connections - not all do. It’s no secret that everyday is a challenge- some better than others the emotional roller coaster is at best hard to deal with.. Now add in times like Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays etc - I found days beforehand I would start to panic, thinking things like "am I going to get a call to be invited". The closer the event came the more intense the feelings became... then when there was no call came I was devastated. However I was so tensed up from the panic I found it wasn’t the event that was so special, but if they were they thinking of me and the question in my mind "would this be the time they wanted me back in their life.?" I thought the event would trigger feelings to reconnect - at least I knew that’s what I wanted. So be cautious around special events. Always be on guard this will trigger emotions big time so work on calming the event before it works on you. Things that helped me through the process, well there are the reassurance readings - this gets costly...The things that worked best for me I read the articles Steve Gunn has on his site also Jean Green has some good articles as well.. ( http://jeangreen.net ) You will find a few that really connect and my advise is reread them a thousand times if you have to. The nights you can’t sleep turn your computer on and read, this will help quite your emotions and the panic. Do some energy work Steve does a great job teaching this, it’s really easy and works wonders. Listen.... your'e going to spend money talking to psychics.. I would rather recommend you spend it on tools. That will really help; the best part is you can do it yourself. Take it from me I have already done it save yourself a bunch of money... Read the articles - do the energy work take care of you. I highly recommend Steve’s book” when two souls connect” Here’s another thing find something you enjoy a hobby anything that takes the constant thoughts off your mate. Get back to doing things you were before you met them. Here’s the bottom line... you and your mate were brought together for more reasons than you know. They have things in there life to work on just as you probably do as well or you would not be here now. I finally got to this point myself. Yes I had things to deal with, but it wasn’t until after I was totally exhausted I couldn't go anymore lets say I couldn’t think anymore, then the process worked on me things began to surface. Let me tell you it didn't take long to happen after I gave in. Here’s the good news Yes there’s good news, when you get to the end of your journey you will feel like you have never felt...For me it was my self confidence returning also.. I had felt selfish to focus on me or maybe it was being protective of myself but either way now it feels great. Whatever your results are when you come thru the process you will feel like you never have. I wish you the best ]]> 121 2009-11-29 19:53:01 2009-11-30 01:53:01 open open case-study-it-happens-to-men-also-marks-story publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259557952 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=123 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:54:32 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=123 It's entirely in Sarah's own words and is meant to be inspirational so thanks Sarah really appreciate you taking the time to write to inspire people who are walking a road you've already been down.. Sarah's Story in her own words.... MY SOUL CONNECTION STORY AND HEALING WITH PTSEN-NUH I met my soul connection in July 2006 and it was WHAM from the word go! We got very close very quickly and broke up after only 2 months (he ran) and we were then reunited after another 2 months and this time we were together for another 2 months and he ran again! We were reunited after only 3 weeks that time and he moved in with me immediately and we lived together for almost 18 months and it was wonderful. He is 16 years younger than me but it didn't matter one bit as there was no age gap between us in reality. He's very mature and even looks older than me!! He got scared again and left suddenly one night in May 2008 when he came home from work and just up and left there and then without any explanation (this was one day after we had just spent a wonderful evening at my sister’s place for her daughter’s 3rd birthday and we were all one big happy family and he was having a great time talking to everyone and really making an effort with my family members as he usually did-so it was a complete shock when he left so abruptly when we were the happiest we had ever been). We have had very little contact in the past 18 months since the breakup and I haven't seen him in 11 months. We met up a few times for him to pick up his mail and it was so excruciating each time as we were both in tears and in so much pain. He told me he still loved me and I know it was true, but he didn’t believe we could be together as he wanted kids but not now and by the time he was ready, it could be too late for me to have them. He made a head decision and I had no say in it whatsoever. Looking back, I know he believed that the age gap was the real reason, but the fact is, it was the excuse-the fact that we were happier than ever and it was the first time he had experienced unconditional love from anyone in his life (especially from his family) freaked him out - he couldn’t handle the depth of the emotions - and so he ran. I have struggled so much with the separation, never experienced pain like it before and I was going crazy trying to make sense of it all. I had several psychic readings with different mediums, most of which said that he would return and we would have a lifetime together. I also had numerous kinesiology sessions and massages and reiki treatments. All these things helped, but only for a short time, they were a band-aid fix. None of the treatments or the readings got to the core of the situation and after 16 months of agony and lots of money spent, I came back to Steve Gunn’s website and I was ready to start the Ptsen-Nuh energy work. I wish I had done the work earlier, but I guess I just wasn’t ready to tackle it any sooner. The first couple of sessions were very difficult for me and required a lot of discipline, but the techniques are actually very simple - the difficulty was feeling the full depth of the pain, but it’s so short lived and the release is very fast, so it’s well worth some short term discomfort. I think the main thing that I realised through the process was just how much I have lived in my head. I have long believed that I was a person who lived more from my heart and intuition, but through this process, I realised that the demon ego has actually had dominance, drowning out what I have felt in my heart and gut-I have lived doubting myself and the divine for a very long time. If there is one thing that I am noticing, it is a massive change in my faith in the workings of the universe. I have lived with doubt, fear and anxiety for so long and struggled to believe that my guides really cared. I have felt abandoned by the gods. I now feel calmer and more in tune with my divinity. I am also sleeping much better and not constantly waking up during the night. I also learned about boundaries. I never considered the fact that I really had no boundaries and I let him walk over me, time and time again, each time he came over to pick up his mail in the months after our separation. His mail became quite sporadic in time and when it does occasionally arrive, I now forward it to him by post. As is apparently common, he bounced back halfway during my Ptsen-Nuh treatment making contact to collect some of his things he had left behind. The things he had left behind had been at my place for more than a year and all of sudden he needed them urgently! It was just a good excused to try and see me, but I followed Steve’s advice and set boundaries and told him I would leave his things out the front of the house for him to collect. This was based on the fact that he was still not ready to come back, so seeing him would have set the potential reunion process backwards. Eventhough, it was hard to push him away, setting the boundaries, made me feel empowered for the first time since he ran off. I have felt like a leaf blowing around in a gusty wind since the day he left, but after completing the Ptsen-Nuh work, I now feel calm, carefree and in control of my future and destiny. I am now creating my destiny, not just waiting for it, which is what Steve refers to in his article on psychic readings vs fortune telling. I never understood it clearly until I had completed the Ptsen-Nuh work and actually feel that I have control over my life. I also learned about the true meaning of love, distinguishing it from co-dependency and need. Love does not cause pain, need does, and understanding that basic principle has released me from the bondage of being a slave to the soulmate “pull” which created overwhelming emotions in me based on need. I now feel a peaceful love for him and can live my life fully, whilst he is doing what he needs to do, to deal with his demons which will enable him to return when he’s ready. In summary, there were many ups and downs in the weeks during the Ptsen-Nuh energy work process due to feeling the full depth of the pain and the soul connection “pull” and there were moments when I was totally overwhelmed, but it passed very quickly. I had to feel the full depth of the emotions in order to release them, and what a load off my shoulders it was when I got to the other side of the pain and moved into feeling light and joyful, in just a few short weeks! If it wasn’t for the energy work, I wouldn’t have been able to clearly see the big picture of what this journey has been about (releasing and confronting karmic issues with my soulmate and my own personal and spiritual growth). I’m so glad I did it. If you believe you’re ready, I strongly recommend undertaking this work as the freedom you get from it is amazing! I am writing this article a couple of weeks after my last Ptsen-Nuh session and I am still feeling great. I am back to being my true, happy-go lucky self. I will now continue to maintain the easy disciplines in my life so I don’t slide backwards. On a final note, when the time comes for me to talk to my soul connection partner again (at the right time and for the right reasons), I will be in a much better place to make the right choices for me. Thanks with all my heart Steve! ]]> 123 2009-11-29 19:54:32 2009-11-30 01:54:32 open open case-study-sarahs-story publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559787 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=125 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:56:01 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=125 This seems to come more from different expectations of books on this subject, as popular belief changes and terms change, rather than really about this book itself so..... here's as clear explanation as i can give.. The book is about the phenomenon and experience of soul connections, what its like, and some of the things you'll experience. The research took 3 years full time and was self funded.. It goes into the subjects of energy and karma and spiritual progression - it is a work of a study of these phenomenon based not upon theories but actual cases ( hundreds of cases over years ) against know universal law, and the book is a result of that research, and the research shows clear evidence again and again of the universal laws in action.. The few stories it includes are simply there to illustrate..the book isn't about the stories... One example, the now internationally famous "Robert and Fiona" story, the lead example in the book... So many people see that story as illustrating the aspect of being back together and yes it includes that aspect BUT and this is a BIG BUT - it really illustrates one of the most important aspects that Fiona got herself strong by working through her issues and finding peace within herself...before anything reconciled with Robert... Her reward for the work she did was to have a freewill choice THATS the big issue of that story.. She wasn't 100% sure at the time they reconnected BUT she was ok she was fine and could have stayed fine with either decision... Yes they got back together but they couldn't have if both she and he hadn't worked through their stuff alone and independently. The quicker she worked through it the quicker the situation resolved.... In order to do that she used metaphysical tools and went through her journey of discovery, release and acceptance. Meditation and energy work are the foundation of these disciplines and they remain powerful tools if used properly. If you want a book about peoples stories or you want to see one where everyones back together by the end of the book, or you want to use their stories to compare to yours then then thats something else..you may want to consider a different book.. So please don't email to ask whats happened about this couple or that couple... However if you want to know something very real and tangible about soul connections with real and tangible studies that stand up - validate - prove the work, instead of yet another opinion or theory, then this book may be for you... Yes most people find some reconciliation in their soul connections and many of those get the chance of the relationship - i've posted that so many times ..and yet i still get asked "do most people get through this and get a chance to be together".. Ok there i said it again... but you'd be surprised how many feel good and decide not to take the relationship they would once have killed for ( metaphorically speaking) and thats because they found happiness within themselves - but the choice was theirs to make, the universe does not dictate relationships only the interactions. See that as anti-romantic or whatever - it isn't, its that soul connections are about HAPPINESS.. irrespective of relationship choices...the relationship aspect is important but it isn't the entire story.. the entire story is so much bigger... None of my work is based upon using cases to convince you of that or otherwise, ( Ask yourself how much you've spent on readings trying to convince yourself and where's it got you ? ) its not about being convinced...however much we think we need to be Its about serious work on the subject with real study and real information on the universe on which you live and why she does some of the things she does... I hope you enjoy the book, it won't give you answers on your specific situation, for that you'll need a good in-depth psychic reading of what the elements of that are about from a good knowledgeable source who can read the right energies, not just the other person but the universal energies ruling this connection, however the book will explain context and give you a good frame of reference on soul connections.. And no it won;t ever make as much money as the ones that are full of cases where people just come together..but it is, has been, and will remain...real... Hope you enjoy it and thank you all for the feedback over the years.... ]]> 125 2009-11-29 19:56:01 2009-11-30 01:56:01 open open what-the-robert-and-fiona-story-is-really-about publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259557938 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=127 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:57:02 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=127 Jane's story in her own words.. I am writing this in the hopes that those reading it will find some comfort, peace of mind and inspiration from a person who's already been down the road of a soul connection and came out a better person because of it. My story begins nearly three years ago when I met a man who I will call Shaun. I remember the night perfectly, down to every word that was said to those piercing eyes that seemed to look straight through me. For those hours, time froze. Even though the place was full of people, I only "saw" Shaun. The conversation flowed so easily, we finished each other's sentences, as if we'd known each other for years. Little did I know that after that one night, my life would change forever. The "pull" towards him was intense, but unfortunately, I was with another man. I saw Shaun a few more times under the same circumstances. I couldn't understand how a guy that I'd just met could be on my mind all the time. After all, my boyfriend and I used to be so happy, but it wasn't enough anymore. A few months after that first meeting, I broke up with my boyfriend in the hopes that a new relationship could then start with Shaun, who kept showing up in my dreams. A few months later we ran into each other again. Shaun asked me to go on a date and I could barely contain myself. The next few weeks were a whirlwind of happiness. I felt like a teenager, walking on clouds again. "This was it", I thought, "the man of my dreams". I had finally got it right and found "The One". Everything seemed so perfect, so magical. Then it happened. Only a few short weeks into the start of something that seemed to come out of a fairy tale, Shaun didn't know what he wanted and I was devastated. This came after he was bound and determined to stand by me no matter what it took. To me, it seemed out of the blue. He vanished into thin air faster than a person could imagine. I analyzed everything trying to figure out what I had done to push him away. Moments and conversations replayed over and over in my head. Morning, noon, night, he was there in my head and my heart. I cried for days, weeks, months. There were times I was so angry with him, then I was angry at myself for caring so much for someone I didn't really know that well. There was a fight between my head and my heart, with my head telling me one thing and my heart feeling something completely different. About three months later, there Shaun was again, confessing how sorry he was for leaving and that he wanted a relationship with me. I thought to myself, "OK, he got scared, that's alright. I was scared too, but he's here now." I was so thrilled he was there in front of me again and wanted another chance. Well, it didn't last long at all and he was gone again, running for the hills faster than I could blink my eyes. I didn't understand. I had no idea what was going on. I was so frustrated, so angry, so confused, but I still felt this undeniable love and forgiveness towards him. I was a mess. I'm pretty sure I hit depression somewhere in there. I could no longer do my job to the best of my ability. I wasn't there for my family and friends anymore, not that they really wanted to spend much time with me at that point. They were tired of hearing about this guy and my analyzing of the whole situation, telling me to move on, he's not worth it. All I wanted to do was sleep because in my dreams he was there, when my eyes were open, he wasn't. I was lost, stuck and hurting terribly. I remember doing anything and everything to try to forget him, to bury the memories, the pain, the need. As soon as I thought I was starting to get on with my life again, just barely getting my feet back on the ground, there he was. The cycle continued over and over. I kept telling myself I was done with Shaun. I couldn't do it any more, it hurt so much when he left. And every time he showed up, I caved. I didn't understand how I could let this keep happening. I've always been able to get over a relationship, especially one that hadn't even gotten off the ground! I was always able to move on after a few short weeks, but not with this one. One day I somehow found myself walking into an energy healer's shop, almost like I was led there. I had never heard of energy healers before and thought how can this "healer" help me? I was unsure and nervous, but knew I had to do SOMETHING. The healer did help, for a short while, but I was still searching for answers. What was going on with me? I thought I was literally going crazy. I spent hours on the internet trying to find out what was happening. How could I have fallen head over heels for someone that acted like he cared and then ran again? I was so confused. My intuition is something that I always followed, it was always dead on. Every ounce of my body said this was right. Why didn't he feel the same? Why did he keep showing up and then leaving again and more importantly, how could my intuition have been so wrong? A little over a year ago his best friend was killed in a tragic accident. I was upset, as the man who lost his life was a friend of mine as well, but I kept thinking I shouldn't have been as upset as I was. The pain was unbearable. That's when it was time for Shaun to come back into my life again - just like clockwork. I tried to be strong and be there for him thinking, "If I'm there for him now, it's going to work." When Shaun was with me, I was like an oak tree, when he wasn't, my heart felt like it was breaking in two. That's when I realized, I wasn't only feeling my emotions, I was feeling his as well. I had never given it much thought before, but it explained the thoughts and feelings that were coming and going that didn't resonate with me. Somehow, after all the searching for answers, I found Steve Gunn's book "When Two Souls Connect." I knew immediately I had to purchase it. After reading it in one sitting I knew I had to get a reading with Steve to help understand MY situation. I never put much stock into psychic readings before, but thought I would give it a try. After all, nothing else was working, no one understood. Steve’s accuracy of the entire situation was amazing. I wasn't going crazy! Someone finally had the answers! I now knew what was going on! The validation didn't last long though. I still kept replaying everything and was still hurting. I kept thinking if Shaun would just stay everything would be fine. I hung on to the words, "After two or three more times, he'll be ready and you can have the relationship." I had it figured out. I was going to see him at this event and then that one and by that time, we'll have hammered this out and he'll be ready. I set up my own timeline. But, as it turns out the Universe never works on your schedule, it works on its own time table. We still have yet to sit down and figure things out those few more times to have the opportunity at a relationship. Finally, I was ready to move to the next level. I was ready to be rid of the hurt, the hoping, the questions and it didn't matter how I was going to get there. I contacted Steve and we set up sessions for his PN energy work. That was the turning point for me. It wasn't easy; in fact it was hard work. The practices he showed me are something I still do daily to stay focused, clear and aligned with my path. Looking back at everything that went on, I can finally honestly say that I'm truly grateful the connection came into my life. It has made me a better person, brought people, understanding, the truth and things into my life that never would've been otherwise. The connection changed my path and still continues changing my path, even with Shaun not here with me. I still feel the "pull", and some days are better than others, but after working with Steve I now know that no matter what happens with the connection in my life, I will be OK. I've finally found more of who I am, became more connected to the Universe and Divinity. I'm more open, tolerant, patient, forgiving and loving. I finally found a place where I can love Shaun unconditionally, without the need, whether he's in my life or not. I found the truth, peace of mind, comfort, happiness and so much more. I wish you all the best of luck in your own journeys. Know that you are not alone, you are not crazy, you are going through a transformation and you will eventually see the light at the end of the tunnel as I have. I recommend Ptsen-Nuh Energy Mapping to anyone who is finally ready to stop going through the cycle. It's not a quick fix, but it is one that works, I am proof of that. If you do the practices, you will find comfort, peace of mind and happiness. Life doesn't have to be a struggle where no one seems to understand. There is a way out. ]]> 127 2009-11-29 19:57:02 2009-11-30 01:57:02 open open case-study-janes-story publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259559772 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=129 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:58:20 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=129 The classic is to talk to someone in pain and see how the person, any person, any human, feels isolated like only they can understand that pain because only they are having their particular experience.. And yet pain is felt every day by millions of people alike, most of who feel judged and isolated by it. And yet when we eventually find other people who we can see have had or are having similar experiences, we find solace - companionship and kinship and we start to understand that we aren’t alone. That’s an important point in the transition from pain to peace, a very important point.. But it can also be a very dangerous point - because we must remember although this gives us some respite, some temporary peace, the journey has to continue onwards to find ultimate reconciliation and peace from within, our peace.. If we stay too long attached to the concept of sharing painful experiences because we have found kindred spirits or a place or group or forum we feel less alone, we run considerable danger of attaching to the problem;. and the fact that we are in pain becomes the remit, the validation, in order to stay attached to those groups, those people or those ideas that make us feel better and less alone; So what was respite and relief, fast becomes remit and purpose; we enable and we feed that which brought us to the place of sharing.. and so the pain lives on.. We, as humans, can do this all too easily we can take on the mantle of the victim or the wounded and it becomes the purpose. Irrespective of who we are, give us a trauma, a wound deep enough, and its something that most humans will experience to some level at some time. Nobody’s better than it, nobody’s above it, it’s an experience that all humans can, and do, have; perhaps just at different times; We can at times often even cling to pain thinking it means love is real when in actuality we are making that pain because we daren’t risk that the love isn’t real…But love cant be destroyed and if we feel love then we feel it.. Its our right to feel love it doesn’t need anyone else to tell us we can or cant… its just that good old programming of “different for me” or “do I trust it”, the world of inner manufactured illusion that will trap us forever if we let it… So what’s the role in spirituality here..?? that’s the crux of this little article. It seems from the evidence that there’s a line, a very definite line, between perpetuating pain versus finding healing; A number of times people write and make assumptions that either I’m talking from personal experience, or that they need to know my personal experience in order to make a judgment about what I’m writing about. And that’s because they themselves can’t work outside of their own personal experience and therefore they perceive that’s the only way.. I was the same when I was trapped in that state and so are most people, until we are able to break free from that, to see above and beyond it and to see it in the less personal ( more objective ) way.. It’s at that point when we see that what were huge ranges of mountains become the small hills they actually always were; I often see people take great offense at what are reasonable choices and boundaries with my work.. Sometimes that's choosing not to undertake some things with them if I feel they are using it for the wrong reasons and will keep themselves in the pain zone longer... and so i exercise my freewill choice to decline... But because they are in pain they see my choices as some personal judgment of them with statements like "its because I myself am "stronger" than they are I am thus judging them as somehow less or wrong, or other such projections.. In other words because they are in pain I can't have freewill.. Unfortunately all too often being in the zone of pain means people will validate actions they would normally recognize as being unreasonable if they were in a more objective state... My personal experiences are not relevant to my work or else it would be me pushing my personal judgment and experience onto you and you sure don’t need that, you need something objective, practiced and disciplined and real not someone else’s junk.. I have however experienced profound loss and pain over many decades and learned a lot and been through many of the experiences others have and suffered many of the problems.. I am no bigger or better, no different, no stronger and nor do I ever consider I am, I simply learned that all of these things are human experiences, not just me or you experiences.. These experiences aren't any foundation of my work ,thats objective and based on good practices however the experiences showed me how utterly damaging too much sympathy can be, how it can keep us in the pain. It showed me how many well-meaning people cause damage by using poor boundaries in their own work and the work they do with us in the readings and healing and help us stay in the wrong place... And it helped me want to commit to real and solid work that can make a difference.. Whatever the experience, whatever the trauma, whatever the circumstances, working with people for many years and seeing and witnessing these experiences show clearly that we all go through many of the same processes, and find many of the same tripwires; And its when we can detach from the super personalization, of the “why does this happen to me” or “this person says that because he;s …( insert assumption )”, or “its different for me” that we can start to hit bottom and start to learn and start to heal. Why do we need to hit bottom first ? because we’re human, because of the thing in our heads telling us “;its different for me”; making us judge people who wont validate our pain and seeing that as somehow unsympathetic, because we know better. And woe betide anyone who doesn’t go along with that and doesn’t show us sympathy because we’re different; because “they are not spiritual are they” or “they do not understand my pain” Or in fact maybe they are very spiritual; and maybe they don’t want to hold you up, don’t want to stop you hitting the rock bottom, and maybe they’re waiting to help you when you have gone through that bottom and the “I know me best” had lost its grip - is smashed and cant hold you in its power anymore, and you can release and start to heal Is it “spiritual” to continue to enable or to feed that process which traps others in pain ? Am I being judgmental and cruel by not offering you the level of reassurance you want as opposed to that which I feel is reflective of reality ? Am i so terrible in refusing you a forum to endlessly talk about the pain rather than the healing....Or perhaps its quite the opposite.. Perhaps I refuse to do the work of the shadow forces, of the forces that have trapped and deluded you to keep you believing in your pain, to keep you in your “its different for me” mode and seek to stop you learning of your amazing capacity to heal;. Perhaps I realize the truth is infinitely more wonderful than the illusion.. I’ve talked in my articles about their being a fine but definite line between support and addiction, between being the crutch and validating the injury, between offering healing and becoming the drug; As a child of the universe we all have the same birthright, the same potential to heal..and its often only when we hit the bottom and all of the dysfunctional thinking of “its different for me” is smashed into pieces that we can really start to open and accept and learn and heal. Every human is capable of that dysfunction; its not who we are it’s a by-product of society, personalization and human traits;. Just like we can all catch a cold we can all fall into these modes. But when we hear someone tell us we are, we think it’s a judgment as opposed to objective or constructive observation because we ourselves are in a judgmental “know best” mode…yet it’s innately human, it goes with the species and with the programming of a modern society that trains you that your opinion creates some sort of reality..especially when it’s to do with yourself… And so the role of REAL spirituality is not to validate but to support, not to reassure but to show that the truth is better that any reassurance. Its to guide that you have this infinite capacity to be happy as your birthright, its to not fuel that which traps you but to understand it and try to steer you and others away from feeding it anymore; Perhaps I’m not going to go along with the shadow forces that tell you wont ever really heal and it really worse for you, and perhaps I’ve been there myself and with hundreds of others and seen them heal and helped them heal and learned that on this path of spirituality there is a very fine but vital line between doing the work of the light and doing the work of the shadow There is more work of the shadow under the name of “spirituality” than in any number of reruns of the Amityville Horror.. It lives in the guise of telling you something outside of yourself is all that will make you happy eventually. never today but maybe one day. And never because of who you are but because of something that will happen outside of your control. and never from what you do but what the universe does for you because you have no control and….”its different for you” That stuff will not find refueling here.. if that seems uncaring and unspiritual, and I know to some because they make sure they tell me via sometimes very veracious accusatory and judgmental emails how I’m not going along with their pain therefore it means I’m not “spiritual”.. What they actually mean is enabling to their “I know best” but I realize they can’t see that at that point.. But whatever they say I cannot and will not work with that shadow energy , to work for “the other side” and so I’m sticking with that every human is born with the infinite capacity to heal and the infinite capacity to be happy. If for one second you think that simply reading things like this is the answer it isn't.. Spiritual progression and enlightenment is not a state of knowing its a state of being. If we need to believe we can heal first then we won't heal because its deep in our belief structures that the "its different for me" lives and rules.. Hence we usually need to run out of road, to be thrown off course, to hit rock bottom before we have no other option than to do the work.. If we feel good from reading something then we read some more because that feeling subsides, or we need to keep reading then it's just another crutch and it wont make any real change just stop us reaching that all too vital "rock bottom" where the REAL learning starts.... No amount of books or articles will get you there...because there’s real work to do ...or as I like to say its 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration ( apologies to whomever’s quote I butchered ) In order to achieve this you must work with the universe and to do that you will need to know and learn certain things.. The metaphysical practitioners toolbag has the psychic reading to look at your karma, your connections, your path, your challenges and to show you exactly how the universe wants to steer you and why and how to stop fighting her and work with her. It will tell you what crossroads are ahead and the results of your freewill choices when you come to them; Meditation and energy disciplines are used to remove pain and emotional wounds and teach you to “ tune in” to the forces of destiny who’s winds are trying to blow you in the right direction once you can know that bigger context and stop fighting them. Spiritual counseling in universal law and how and why these things happen like they do is also vital knowledge that we aren’t taught in schools but which defines every element of our lives; This is what multi disciplinary metaphysical consultation is about and will give you the tools to help you get on your path....to claim what is yours and release what never was but you kept because..."it's different for you" ]]> 129 2009-11-29 19:58:20 2009-11-30 01:58:20 open open its-different-for-me publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259558317 _edit_last 1 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=209 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:53:05 +0000 http://stevegunn.net/wp_blog/?p=209 A soul connection is a spiritual experience with romantic implications not a romantic experience with spiritual implications.. Sometimes whats in your own head, talking in your own voice, is not in your own interests.. Often the most veracious attackers are good people deluded into thinking they're fighting to right a wrong. Manifesting abundance in an already abundant world is simply going for control or ownership Follow up: [About soul connections] In many cases, not getting the relationship you thought you wanted, when you wanted it, is not some cosmic screw up - but God saving your ass .... [About soul connections] It's all about the relationship...until it's not all about the relationship.. Reality is no respecter of viewpoint, if you want to test that, try believing in something and then not believing in it...then see if anything outside of your own self changed.... It's not about believing there's a divine structure and intelligence to the universe, just a window to look out of to see it.... Forgive but still hold people accountable for their actions ,you may just be saving the next guy a lot of pain....and one day you could be the next guy Life isn't personal we just make it seem that way Having opinions and being able to express them is about human rights - inflicting actions on others on the assumption that those opinions reflect reality is often about human wrongs. I had a friend who didn't believe in water....but he drowned When thinking of the "other half" remember you weren't born half of anything - but a small part of everything. Happiness can only come from within, and that's usually when the stuff from without is sufficiently far away as to not constantly challenge that... [With regard to self-help books or books on spirituality] there's some inescapable universal law that you either own none or at least 3.... Be careful that you don't take away peoples pain when it's the very thing they are meant to have to learn their path. In order to understand and transcend pain it must become your friend and you must learn why it exists.. Sometimes reading what i supposedly said and did is so interesting I wish I'd really done it.. I often read that I specialize... in soul connections... or relationships... or energy or this or that or whatever...which is the exact opposite of the truth... Really it's only through relating to the workings of the energy universe on a global level, the human spiritual journey within it, and cosmic law that rule everyhing, that we can then really start to make sense of any specific subject... Destiny never defines future events in terms of person AND place AND issues AND timing.... If at least one of those weren't down to freewill there'd be no way for us to screw it all up and then learn from our mistakes.. Fortune telling is letting you know that you can sit and watch TV and the future will happen anyway.. Psychic consultation is telling you why you can't and what will happen in either eventuality... Happiness is available when we realize it doesn't come with the custom options we want - but how the designer intended it to be for us.. The scariest thing to hear is "it must be real because i feel it" Love doesn't need anything to complete it.. but need is always incomplete.. Often the emotion of the moment isn't from the moment...but recycled from a long time ago... I agree the human mind is an amazing thing. Its about the only mechanism that could inhabit the only life-rich planet within trillions of cubic light years of utterly empty space.... and then still need tranquilizers because it doesn't feel special....]]> 209 2009-11-30 00:53:05 2009-11-30 06:53:05 open open quotes publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1259564005 _edit_last 1