Over the years, we have been fortunate to have explored and developed some transformational approaches to spiritual growth and healing. We tend to use Spiritual Kinesiology and EFT as basic intervention tools. But to what do we apply these powerful, transformative tools? 

The answer comes out of soul centering, the essence of our work. Over the years, we regularly sit down and connect with our soul for guidance and healing.  Everything else has followed. Although challenges have come our way, we use soul centering to understand them and transform any interference.

What has resulted for us and those who have followed this straightforward, elegant path could be summed up by the subtitle of our newest book: As our book Manifesting Your Dreams with EFT, SK and More: How to Have a Fabulously Joyful Life.  details, the direction comes from following your soul’s guidance. This guidance provides the answers from within and the resources you need. 

Taking time to soul center, which directs you to heal and clear what’s in your way, we have found to be essential for spiritual progress.

Everyone has a soul and spiritual awareness. We denote those on the spiritual path as those who are seeking deeper fulfillment than just 3-D material, external things (although there isn’t anything “wrong” with that). Those on the spiritual path have taken conscious steps to examine what’s within them — their deeper desires, spiritual longings, and life purpose. This inner evaluation leads to taking outer action.

AN ESSENTIAL MISSING PIECE

As visionary philosopher Ken Wilber has noted, meditation can boost spiritual growth but it doesn’t cover an essential aspect: addressing the shadow. Your shadow is the good and bad stuff you have stuffed inside yourself. It is unresolved matters that hide in the unconscious. All the terrible things you might be and all the wonderful things you might be.

So a limiting belief then influences our behavior, often in unconscious ways. Beliefs like “men are selfish” or “women are manipulative” or “feelings are bad” or “this group [name a race or group] is wrong” or “it's hard to succeed” may never be released, no matter how great a meditator you become or how great your peak meditative experience was.

WHAT WORKS

Tai chi, diksha, yoga and meditating can be wonderful, elevating practices. They can open you up spiritually and increase your well-being. Yet they may not deal with unconscious judgments of self and others and limiting beliefs, along with the negative feelings all that generates.

That’s why adding soul centering to your life is so transformative. It directly gets at underlying issues that hold you back. It’s easy, illuminating, and can provide just about anything you need for the next step on your spiritual path. It also complements any other spiritual practices you have.

SOUL CENTERING

We realize there are different ways to have direct contact with your soul, and you may have ways that work for you. In our private consultations, classes, books, CDs, and DVDs, we feature a way of soul centering as a centerpiece for healing and transformation. It’s the springboard to continually finding the truth within.

One of the primary ways we soul center is simply to visualize or sense an energy (your soul) connecting with your heart. Then connect above your head to your higher self (which unites more directly with the Source) and bring down that higher vibration into your body and energy field for healing and guidance.

We have several easy visualizations to do this; one can be found at  http://www.gettingthru.org/sn0599.htm. Or see our Getting Thru to Your Soul book, CD or DVD 1, or Manifesting Your Dreams with EFT, SK and More.

STAYING ON COURSE

Without this regular heart and soul connection, it’s like a ship without a rudder. It’s easy to get lost. Without inner guidance, we easily turn to outside authorities, whose advice may or may not fit our individual situation. The idea is to use others as a resource under the direction of our soul’s guidance. Outside “experts” or others' advice shouldn’t be a substitute for our soul’s input.

For the many people we’ve taught this soul centering approach, the results for those who use it regularly have been as miraculous as we have found in our own lives.

Please let us know your results with soul centering. It will inspire us and others

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SHARING

The genuine and permanent solution to the complex problems we face as a society and as a planet lies in shifting our consciousness and focusing on unconditional love and unity instead of hatred and separation. To assist in reaching this goal, we invite you to share this newsletter with your friends. We welcome all who want to join us in a life focused on joy, love and freedom. Surely, this will put the end to famine, war, devastation of the environment, hatred, and violence of all kinds as humanity unites in a common goal.

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ABOUT THE CREATORS OF SOUL NEWS

Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose, the creators of this newsletter and the gettingthru.org website, are Ministers of Holistic Healing ordained by AIWP, the Association for Integration of the Whole Person. The Mountroses co-direct the Awakenings Institute for Holistic Studies, a congregation of AIWP that is devoted to helping individuals to open to the full expression of their true divine selves in all aspects of their lives. Their holistic approach is the way of the future, integrating the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. 

Through Awakenings, the Mountroses conduct presentations, classes, certification courses, and seminars. They also offer individual counseling, in person or by phone, with individuals throughout the United States and in some foreign countries. Holistic Communications, the publishing branch of Awakenings, extends their reach worldwide with books, audio tapes, and video tapes, along with these newsletters. 

Awakenings is non-denominational and welcomes participation from all interested individuals with joy, love, and blessings. For more information about Awakenings' offerings, you can download the Awakenings E-catalog at www.gettingthru.org/acatalog.pdf.

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NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES

If you missed any of the previous issues of this newsletter, they are all available on our Web site at
http://www.gettingthru.org/sarchive.htm.

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YOUR INPUT

We hope that you find this newsletter of value on your spiritual journey. We want to provide a forum for the expression of those who are focusing on soul awareness and unconditional love, so we are interested in having questions, as well as short inspirational poems, stories, articles and thoughts to share with our readers. We would also appreciate your comments and suggestions on the newsletter and the information we provide. Please send any of the above to soul@gettingthru.org, with your name, city and state, and phone number.

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Copyright 2005, Phillip and Jane Mountrose
joy@gettingthru.org