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Who Is Your Spiritual Authority?

August 27, 2014 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Who decides what you believe?
Who decides what you believe?

Going through life we learn from parents, teachers, lecturers, educators, coaches, trainers, workshop leaders, religious leaders, partners, and children. Spiritual seekers often learn from gurus. But who is your spiritual authority? Who tells you what’s right and what’s wrong? What to believe and from whom? When to apply what you have learnt and why?

The good, the bad and the useless

As a child, we learn and believe our parents. As pupils, we learn from our teachers. Sadly, not all the teaching we receive is beneficial. When the teaching is received in the formative years of a child, it is often taken on before they gain the ability to decipher between good and bad. As we grow older, we hopefully become more and more equipped to differentiate between what of the learning and beliefs we want to believe and what we need to throw over board. [Tweet “Who decides what you believe?”]

Experience and perception

If you were to ask me what I believe after all that I’ve been through, [Read more…] about Who Is Your Spiritual Authority?

Filed Under: emotions/feelings, ezinearticle, self development/motivation, spirituality Tagged With: beliefs, learning, religious dogma, spiritual authority

5 Tips of Christmas – How To Survive The Celebrations

December 22, 2013 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Happy Holidays - Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays – Merry Christmas

The fact that Christmas originally really had nothing to do with family, love and being together in harmony might shock you. In fact, I was quite surprised to read that it apparently originated in what the Roman pagans first introduced as a weeklong period of lawlessness, the holiday of Saturnalia. In the week from 17 until 25 December Roman courts were closed and no one could be punished for injuring people or damaging property. Imagine that![Tweet “… how to ‘survive’ Christmas?!”]

According to the ancient Greek writer, poet and historian Lucian the festival included intoxication, going from house to house singing naked, sexual frivolities and even human sacrifice. He also mentioned the consummation of human-shaped biscuits.

Nowadays, most people in the Western world will deal with eating and drinking too much, keeping their family tradition loving and harmonious and unpacking presents bought in the pre-Christmas frenzy but luckily we do not have to fear being sacrificed. In the light of today’s challenges, let’s have a look at how to ‘survive’ Christmas: [Read more…] about 5 Tips of Christmas – How To Survive The Celebrations

Filed Under: spirituality Tagged With: celebration, christmas tradition, merry christmas

Self Knowledge – Differentiating Intuition From Conditioning

August 10, 2011 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Part of anyone’s personal development will be getting to know yourself and learning to tap into your intuition. At the beginning of that endeavor this can be a not so easy challenge to sort out “what really is intuition and what is all the other ‘crap'”?

Intuition versus Conditioning

Conditioning

To shed a bit more light on what’s driving you we need to understand conditioning. The way you are today, the way you think and behave is the result of your conditioning, your upbringing and your education. The sentences you heard from you parents, all well meant and intended, will have left a mark on your unconscious mind. Some of those statements have become guiding principles, like the policies of a company that are stored somewhere in the archive cupboard.

Years later, in present time, you are still running your ship with guiding principles and policies that might have been useful at an earlier time, but are outdated now. The crux of the situation is that they don’t update themselves, they quietly influence your everyday thinking, emoting and behaving. It’s time to clear out that archive cupboard and throw out those not really useful beliefs!

How to find limiting beliefs or guiding principles? [Read more…] about Self Knowledge – Differentiating Intuition From Conditioning

Filed Under: inspiration/humour, self development/motivation, spirituality Tagged With: conditioning, education, parenting, upbringing, value

Your Spiritual Journey

August 1, 2011 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Overcoming our limitations

The Spiritual Journey (the path of self discovery, self knowledge and self improvement) is a marathon, not a sprint, and there will be big challenges on the journey. The challenges will not all be ones that we are capable of meeting on the first occasion. If we cannot rise to the challenge, then we will regress in our ability, and may need to start again.

Do you have the courage to start again and again?

Filed Under: inspiration/humour, self development/motivation, spirituality Tagged With: development, spiritual, spiritual development

Self Knowledge

July 27, 2011 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

The great thing about self-knowledge is that once you have it, you have it.

So what do you already know?

Filed Under: inspiration/humour, self development/motivation, spirituality Tagged With: self development, self knowledge

Celebration “Puja” of the Heart ~ a Sacred Devotional Circle

November 19, 2010 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Please join us for this FREE evening gathering that will offer an opportunity for the renewal of body, mind, and spirit.

Come celebrate the Divine Presence that is in all of us in a gentle, interactive, fun and safe environment.
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Throughout the evening’s sacred and playful interactions, you will learn how to bring Tantric love, joy and awakening into your everyday life.

We all deserve to feel fully alive, loved and connected with ourselves and others. By opening our hearts (even a little bit), we invite unconditional love to be present.

This is a not a fast paced activity, but an event that allows you to slow down and sink in. You will be guided the whole time.

Open to singles and couples please, no children under 14

Date: Monday 22nd November

Time: 7pm – 9:30pm ~ Because of the nature of the Puja doors will close at 7:20pm and no one will be allowed admittance after that.

Venue: Delmar Parade, Dee Why

Bring: Your friends along, wear comfy clothes, come with an open heart and willingness to enjoy the evening with people who savor life.

Presenters: Sharon & Kenneth Mauldin

Filed Under: love/relationship/marriage, self development/motivation, spirituality Tagged With: puja

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