Hello,
I have gone through a lot during the past three years. I´m spiritual, but I have doubts about almost everything now (God, the spirit world, life being fair or unfair, love, etc). I know there is something missing in my life. In the past I experienced being clairvoyance and clairaudience for a while, and today I can´t tap into it again. I have been told that I need to look deep into myself, love myself more, etc and It will come back to me again.

Do you guys know any literature to read to help me believe, love myself, find a meaning to this life, etc?

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Hi Rachel, perhaps you don't need those things as you travel through life, perhaps what you need is to be and feel human. After all, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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Its ok to have doubts, however be true to yourself despite what you place your faith in. If you feel that everything doesn't make sense (again that's perfectly normal HUMAN thing to experience once in a while), go back to basics.

Trust in yourself and your sense of right and wrong and just live your life as true as can be, the rest will follow in time. The things that will happen to you further along yoru path will only happen when you are ready and in a postion to deal with them. For now, be happy you are aware of yourself as many people in this world are not, so you already have one up on them! Suppose you could consider yourself more evolved on that basis alone!

Peace

A

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I'm with Jon on this. There's little to be gained (and a lot to be lost!) by making yourself anxious. Don't strive, and start to thrive.

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Thank you guys,

I'm going to follow your words, I'm going to basics and I'm going to try to enjoy life as it is offered to me. It is time to stop being so hard searching for answers.


Thanks

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Hi Raquel,

I hope things are going well for you. You are on the right path by focusing on loving yourself. Probably the doubts and difficulties you are having have served the purpose of helping you to focus on that path.

I also agree with the three other posts that it is a good idea to let go of needing literature and 'answers'. That stuff can be useful at certain times for certain things, but when you focus on loving yourself, the right information will come at the right time. Sometimes finding the answers can distract you from the practice of loving yourself and lead to frustration when you find that not many people have the answers you are looking for.

On the way of loving yourself (which is the best thing you can do for yourself in all areas of your life, from just feeling good going through life to manifesting all the things you want), the thing which gets in the way is judgements about yourself. Aspects about yourself which you consider 'bad' or 'unworthy'. Loving yourself is your natural state when you remove these judgements.

So keep noticing where in your life you have these judgements about yourself (and other people). When you notice these judgements, you can heal them and love and appreciation takes over the place where the judgement was. Eventually love and appreciation take over as your dominant state. Don't judge yourself for having those judgements, just notice them and be aware and accept them until your mind decides not to hold on to them anymore and they just fall away.

The cool thing happens when you let go of more and more of these judgements, is that as well as feeling really good, your mind goes a lot quieter. I have heard that this is what happens to people when they are meditating towards enlightenment, so that is pretty cool that that happens.

I hope that helps. As far as the clairvoyance, it is difficult for me to know exactly what is going on without talking to you about it, but the most common thing I have seen which stops people from being clairvoyant when they once were is that they see something which frightens them or shocks them, or they judge themselves as being weird or having childish imaginations. I'm not sure if that is going on with you, but you are on the right path to just focus on loving yourself and let it come back when you are ready.

Dave.

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Hi Raquel,
I would say the opposite to the others who have posted here, if you know something is missing in your life, surrender to the fact that you will find it when the time is right, relax into that knowing with complete ease and then let it go. That missing link may not be being able to see or hear from the beyond, so don't go searching for that, just relax into the knowing that all answers are within.

Regards,

Mona

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Hi! There are some interesting points on this thread already but thought I would add a little about my own experience as that is the only one which I can speak of with any true knowledge.

I struggled to make sense of things that happened to me in my life for a long time. There seemed to be no sense to it. It all seemed so unfair and unprovoked. I understand things better now, following some deep soul searching, meditation and by embracing the spiritual aspect of myself. I have written an article which I hope may shed some light on your quest for answers. When I stopped looking, the floodgates opened and things started to make sense on a much deeper level.
I can know use my experiences to understand and help others, which in turn brings its own rewards.

L&L
Lisa

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Hi Raquel, how are you today. I saw your message a bit late I suppose but yet chose to reply. Has your situation changed to a better one? Myself and I am sure most of us here on forum, have been going through similar things every now and again in life. But by going through these, we are builidng up our spiritual experience. And this is what really counts!

Basicaly, what I want to suggest, is that answers to all possible questions lay inside of you only, and nowhere else. Even if you find some 'answer' in external world, so to say, you will have to 'make' it yours, by analizing and consciously agreeing to it.
If the answer doesn't comply with your own spiritual and intellectual intuition, it has no legitimate grounds to claim truthfulness, no matter where it has come from. There are no autorities, no powers in spiritual or physical worldm, which have a right to impose onto you their "truth", however "bright and shiny" it may look.

This is mostly the cause of our suffering, - when we disregard our own spiritual intuition and chose to blindly follow some rule, advice, technique, creed or method.
For the first step I would advise you to put aside ALL that you have heard and learnt and begin concentrating on yourself, enquiring deep inside your own mind, your thinking. Answers to ALL questions are hidden within you. The reason for that is that our separate individual minds constitute the whole Universal Mind realm. We can say that "Thinking Realm", or Universal Mind (others call it Dao, Emptiness, God, etc, but you know what I mean), is One and the same for everyone.

Each of us is able to retreive a small portion of this common unified Universal knowledge from this Cosmic Mind-continum, and apply it for our particular case. This is why it is so crucial to fine-tune yourself on Your Own wave of the Thought Space and begin looking deep into it. There you will see true answers. They will be true because they are going to be true for yourself and your particual case only.

Try it. You will see how it works. Get rid of clishes. Stop "loving yourself" - this is stupid and grossly artificial invention of restricted and unfree minds. For a truly free person there is no need to try to 'love' himself or herself, because they already live IN love and are love. Dualistic world view creates chaos, suffering and doubts.

That we are One with the whole world comes from unprejudiced experience of enquiring into the core of our own thinking. Because our ability to think is the ONLY thing that is not and can not be conditioned or guided by anything else outside of it. By this I mean our natural ability to think and honest unbiased enquiry, not accumulating the ready-made patterns from someone else.

Write back if you want to discuss this. What I am telling you, doesn't bear too much of the badge of my own personality - it is a knowledge derived from common universal source - and I just want you also to tap into it, since it belongs to you too.

Stay cool,
George

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Hey George,

Nice letter, thank you. I have experimented some of the things you mention.

When I wrote my previous message, I was trying to implant in myself other people's versions of how l should feel spiritually, and nothing was working for me. The moment I gave up trying to feel what I suppose to feel according to others, and the moment I started letting myself flow in my own thoughts and intuitions, and I started listening to my inside and creating my own truth, I started feeling better, and not so anxious about finding answers.

Today I truly understand that I needed to reach inside of me, that all the answers were inside, that the ability to be happy, unhappy, understand myself, feel in peace or troubled, etc, was in my hands; and today I understand as well that I needed to connect my interior feelings with my exterior world, part of my anxiety was because my inside was not connecting with my outside. It was a matter of listen and apply what my heart was telling me to my outside world, I was on caos because I was not synchronizing my inside with my outside. Ones I started doing my thoughts with my living, I started feeling better as well.

I'm not saying that I dont have doubts anymore, I feel that now I understand more that the truth lies in me, and some truths come to us with time, in the right moment. This way of thinking and living makes me happy and keeps me satisfied.

I appreciate your letter very much. And as you can see, your words explain part of what I have experienced as well. I love the fact that I received your letter today, the timing is perfect because I have been able to enjoy every word you wrote, and it was a wonderful feeling to be able to understand you as well.

All those cliché words like “love youself” were not enough for me to feel better either. And yes, our ability to think definitely plays a major role in our life, to think is the key to reach and understand so many thing around us!.

Please feel free to write me some lines again.

(I hope you understand my writing, English is my second language)

Peace!

Raquel

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I so admire how you express your feelings. I'm not too good at that.

HI Raquel, I would so concur with what George is saying: If a teaching doesn't fit with you - throw it out. But remember, don't hold on to what you have taken on - use it for now but be prepared to move again. Everything is levels.

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I would strongly suggest to connect with yourself through spending some time alone in nature. You can tune into your own guidance because out in the world we can be constantly bombarded with information and different advise. Connect with yourself each morning and evening for half an hour in silence. When you connect with yourself more deeply, the book you need will manifest!

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