An Inspired Self Help Guide That Reveals Spiritual Understanding!

In this inspired self help guide, I’ll touch on several ideas that I’ve found helpful while inquiring into spiritual understanding. The ideas outlined on this page will aid you in beginning your journey of re-discovering what life is truly about and what having a life experience really is.

Whether you're looking for a personal self help guide that can point you in the right spiritual direction or a book or set of instructions to help you discover more of yourself; these inspired insights and shortcuts will assist you on your path towards greater spiritual awareness and understanding.

The ideas covered on this page will serve as an introduction to spiritual understanding and you can visit the links on this page to inquire deeper. Chosen carefully, a self help guide will help you to remember who you really are, while steering you towards greater spiritual awareness.

'Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood,
it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.'
David Steindl-Rast – www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid

I suggest choosing guidance that's free of any spiritual authority and I recommend that you explore the words on this inspired shortcuts page closely, before choosing a self help guide, book or product etcetera.

Anyone who’s genuinely serving others in the fields of self help, personal growth or self-improvement knows that keeping an open mind is necessary when inquiring into the following subjects:

• Spiritual Reality or What Is

• True Self Help or Self Knowledge

• Physical Mind and Ego-Self

• Higher Mind or Higher Self

• Religion and Spiritual Beliefs

• All Forms of Authority

• Systems of Meditation

• Spiritual Enlightenment

• Birth and Death

• Awareness and Consciousness

Inspired Self Help Guide to Spiritual Reality or What Is

We are on the leading edge of spiritual existence, the outermost regions. An easy way of looking at this is saying that our spiritual being, our true self, is on the inside and is projecting a piece of its consciousness outside, which is us and our physical reality.

Of course, inside and outside are true from our 3D/4D human perspective of living in and viewing reality in terms of duality, but really the spiritual world just comprises, contains and Is all of All That Is.

Another way to look at it is, the totality of our self is comprised of mind body spirit, and spiritually we're all part of everything That Is and we're all connected in spirit, so we're not really separate from All That Is. Other than knowing about this, there’s nothing to do, it just is What Is.

There's nothing that exists that's not spiritual in nature, which obviously includes our total being. In essence, who we really are is spirit or love or pure consciousness. We're currently enjoying a physical life experience and the purpose of this experience is for fun, creation, expansion, pure joy, bliss or ecstasy and more fun

Inspired Self Help Guide to True Self Help

Following on from this understanding, wherever our consciousness is presently focused its still part of What Is. It’s not too hard to see that if we're focused on something that we feel can help us, then life, the larger part of us, our spiritual being or higher self is bringing help to us.

For instance: due to the contrast we just experienced, we automatically requested help with something, and a self help guide or teacher may be just what we need right now. In other words, self help can be understood as self helping self or simply as self help self; it's all self.

Inspired Self Help Guide to Mind and Ego

Waking in this reality of reason and logic, the physical mind reasoned itself to be king. Through schooling, nationalism and religion etcetera, it was conditioned to believe in duality and separation and thus, separation became its experience; while pain and suffering became part of its normal existential reality.

And together with not feeling connected to the oneness of all life, the ego-self or the personality construct of the physical mind constantly lives in negativity and fear. Because the ego-self believes it is disconnected from other selves as well as from creator or spirit; its knowledge, which is always exclusively from the past, is always limited.

Once one’s ego-self understands that it cannot possibly know more than the totality of that, which is both itself as well as all of All That Is or spirit; it willingly relegates itself to the position of an adviser to the total self and no longer tries to control everything.

Inspired Self Help Guide to Higher Mind and Higher Self

Only then will the ego-self personality begin to grasp and accept the idea of a higher self and thus then, will it begin to reap the knowledge and the rewards gained from understanding and listening to the higher self. And finally the ego-self will remember that the higher self is the ultimate self help guide

The negative ego-self, by its very nature, is self serving in an exclusive way while the higher self is self serving in an inclusive way. Expressed differently, the negative ego-self serves the little me while the higher self serves the big me. This psychological self help page goes into much more detail concerning the ego-self.

'It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.' Oprah Winfrey - www.oprah.com

Inspired Self Help Guide to Religion and Spiritual Beliefs

I believe that all religions and spiritual beliefs are based on spiritual truth. Remember that religions are normally based on the teachings of very wise individuals, such as Jesus or Moses, but those spiritual teachers didn’t invent the various religions associated with their teachings; in the same way that the Buddha didn’t invent Buddhism, which is a spiritual belief.

These religions and spiritual belief systems were made up or invented by people, who didn’t necessarily understand the fundamentals of the teachings mentioned. Truth can still be found in religion and spiritual belief systems, as long as one uses common sense and discernment when identifying those truths.

Obviously, any religion or spiritual
belief that pits man against man, thus
causing division within humankind is
no true indicator of spirituality!

That being said, any religion or spiritual belief system that’s serving you in your life somehow and feels good to you, is good. Personally, I take what sounds right and feels good to me from any and all religions and spiritual belief systems. And while I love the teachings of both Buddha and Jesus, I’m neither a Christian nor a Buddhist.

The Heart Chakra holds the energy of love and compassion.

Inspired Self Help Guide to Spiritual Authority

Do you believe that you need a self help guide or a self help guru to help you to more fully understand yourself? If so, that's perfectly OK, just as long as those self help gurus do not state something similar to:

• My way is the only way

• All other ways are false

• There is only one path to freedom

• You’ll never understand unless you follow me

When I hear teachers or self help guides talking this way, I think ego and know it’s time to quickly change the channel. If someone has mastered something it seems right to call them a master and they may indeed be qualified to assist and help you.

While I readily accept the authority of the local electricity generating company or of the architect who designed the building. When it comes to human thought and spiritual understanding, I listen to ideas and opinions, but I accept no outside authority whatsoever!

'All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that
man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.'
Jiddu Krishnamurti – 1895 - 1986

Inspired Self Help Guide to Meditation

I began practicing meditation in order to slow down the internal dialogue or constant self chatter going on in my head so I’d be able to inquire within more easily. You see, if one’s mind chatters incessantly to itself about endless subjects throughout each and every day, there's no space for anything new to come into its awareness.

An unfortunate negative side effect
of this constant noise is a kind of
premature wearing out of one’s brain,
the instrument of one’s mind.

Once my mind is quiet, inspiration on a number of subjects that I’d been contemplating comes through, just like clockwork. It takes some time and effort in the beginning, but with practice the benefits are immense

Because there are no rules, there are no rules
regarding how, when and where one can meditate.

Having said that, if you feel pulled towards a particular self help guide's system of meditation that recommends a particular physical setting or time of day, then that advice may be most suitable for you at this time. Check out this self help meditation page for examples of meditation and suggestions on how to meditate.

On a deeper level it’s understood that living life in the eternal moment of now is meditation, as indicated on this self help topics page. Or for more information, check out this mindfulness-meditation-techniques website for someone else's views on meditation.

Inspired Self Help Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

OK, I’ve taken my brave pills so let’s look at enlightenment. I don’t see enlightenment as some far off fixed state that we’ll someday reach or achieve by living a totally good or pious life. No. I see it simply as greater understanding and a continual moving towards more light.

Having transcended many of my
fears I don’t take life as seriously as
before and so I apply a lighter touch.
In other words I’ve lightened up.

Whereas previously I was in the dark about certain subjects, I didn’t know about them or understand them. Now, as a result of continual inquiring within and studying self help and spiritual ideas, I do know and understand them. I now have more light on those subjects or simply, I let more light in so have become more en-light-ened.

'The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is
simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.'
Eckhart Tolle - www.eckharttolle.com

Inspired Self Help Guide to Birth and Death

Part of enlightenment is transcending one’s fears, including the fear of death. All spiritual self help guides have realized and will inform you that we’re all eternal beings and hence, there’s no real need to fear death. The idea of death as something negative is just that, an idea or a belief; it’s not truth per se.

We can just as easily hold a belief which states that death represents an ending as well as a new beginning. Life being eternal has no opposite, thus the opposite of death is birth. Birth and death are like two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other. It’s worth checking out what some self help authors teach about death.

Inspired Self Help Guide to Awareness and Consciousness

On a deeper level we’re all part of consciousness at large. Consciousness or What Is already is all of All That Is, already is fully enlightened so nothing can be added to that state! Choose a self help guide who’s aware of this and who’s aware of all of the self-imposed limitations we apply to our life and to living.

It’s worth bearing in mind that, at least from my experience, the more we understand spiritually the more questions naturally arise, so our work in this area is never finished. It’s a long, long ride through eternity and infinity, so why not make it one of everlasting fun, peace, love and joy?

Thankfully, finding a self help guide that feels right to you will help you to achieve greater spiritual awareness and will help you to become more consciously aware and thus spiritually enlightened.

Enjoy the ride - it's only a ride

REMEMBER - YOU GOTTA BELIEVE IT!