EMPOWERING THE SPIRIT

Judith Corvin-Blackburn

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one,

I hope some day you’ll join us, and the world will live As One.

John Lennon

INTRODUCTION

I have been birthing this book for so long, I have lost count of the years. It has soothed and inspired me; scared and frustrated me. But it has never stopped demanding that I complete it. On one level, it is a compilation of all I have learned about the human experience and the process of emotional and spiritual development, both from my 35 years as a transpersonal psychotherapist and teacher, and from my personal journey to live a conscious, Spirit-directed. life. On another level, it is infused with Higher Guidance, with Divine inspiration which sneaks up on the page and startles me, but which resonates so clearly in my soul as truth, that I ultimately cannot question its wisdom.

This book, for me, is a sacred contract. Part of me longs to let it go, to move into a comfortable retirement full of family, friends and travel where I pursue my own spiritual development and help the world in quiet ways. But I know in my heart that times are too dire. The old world is dying and those of us who know how to midwife the new, are being called to speak out as loudly as we are able.

We have the capacity to be wondrous beings, powerful beyond imagination. We have the power to heal ourselves and activate healing in others. We have the power to heal our Earth, to cure our diseases, to right our social wrongs. As we open our hearts and express our highest spiritual potential, we collectively create the conditions that will propagate this new world. To carry this out, we need to surrender to our intuitive guidance, living our lives aligned with this guidance, thus enabling our Spirit to lead the way.

The more our Spirit leads, the more we become fully ourselves, embodying the vibrational frequency of our souls. As we do this, each of us becomes free to make our contribution. Yet, like me, you are likely to find inner resistance to stepping fully into this power and the role it will bring you. This book sets out to help you identify and break through this resistance, while directing you toward creating a spiritually awakened life and ultimately, a spiritually awakened world.

The process I present in this book is to help you empower your own Spirit to direct your life rather than be led by the desires and fears of your ego. It is full of techniques that have worked for me as well as the many others I have shared them with. Living in this manner has provided me with innumerable joys and I believe it will do the same for you. These techniques will teach you ways to continually face your ego’s fears and then act from Spirit anyway. They will also teach you how to take full responsibility for the creation of anything that is occurring in your life while continuing to be loving and supportive of yourself. As you understand fully that you are energy and that you are continually interacting with everyone and everything in your environment on an energy level, and as you take full ownership of this energy, you will make what I believe to be the evolutionary leap.

Throughout the pages of this book, are a multitude of exercises, examples and suggestions to help you personalize a strategy to put your Spirit more fully in charge. Chapter One both outlines the book’s premise as well as helps you assess how active you are allowing Spirit to be in your life. I help you to identify the blockages that keep you from being led by your heart and to define them more clearly in order to break through them. I also present ways to help you observe yourself more consistently.

In Chapter Two, we explore our collective issues around power, as well as our

roadblocks to empowerment. A lengthy self-assessment give you a stronger understanding

of your particular challenges as well as suggestions for mastering these challenges.

Chapter Three explains how essential it is to be equally well-developed on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels in order to be ready to step into our full spiritual power. We look at each chakra from this perspective, both to determine what needs our attention and to create healing in the areas which call. In Chapter Four, we look deeply at the collective and individual beliefs that interfere in our progress, with suggestions and exercises for transforming these beliefs. I present a new cultural belief system which needs to be operational in order for us to shift into the new paradigm. Exercises for helping you step into full empowerment and to create the next chapter of your life are presented as well.

To fully empower our Spirits and become who we have come here to be, we need to understand why our soul chose the circumstances of our birth and our childhoods, resolve any unfinished emotional pain, and ultimately embrace all our experiences from the perspective of how they have helped and can continue to help us carry out our pre-birth agreements. This allows us to clearly define and carry out our purpose on the numerous levels we have contracted to do so. Chapter Five provides you with insights and tools needed to do this.

The next stop on our journey is to understand ourselves in terms of our multi-dimensional nature. Chapter Six provides you with perspective and methods to heal your soul’s issues from other lifetimes and welcome all aspects of your being so that you can experience the joy of wholeness.

In the second part of this book, we look at how to expand what we have learned as individuals into healthy, spiritually based relationships, families and communities. Spirit knows that we are interconnected on all levels. While clearing our individual energy fields has a positive impact on our world, the more skilled we become at expressing and combining our co-creative energies, the more wonderful a world we will create.

Throughout the book is always the message that every time you clear the emotional blockages and dysfunctional beliefs that interfere with you following the dictates of your Spirit, not only do you enrich your own life and the lives of those dear to you, but you help us all. We need you.

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