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There are three specific things that can block someone from realizing their soul’s purpose.

The first thing is negativity. As humans, we hold on to negative energy until we have an awareness around what this energy is so that we can let it go. Learning how to release it through the body is the key. We have core negative emotions, some of which include jealousy, insecurity, guilt, resentment, fear and anger. All these emotions, when held on to, are stored in the subconscious body. These negative emotions, if not let go of correctly, can slow you down, weigh you down, and eventually it can begin to feel like you are standing in quicksand.

This energy blocks the flow from your higher self, the part of you that is your magnificence, your beauty, your wisdom! When you are in alignment with your higher self you feel inspired, connected, loved and protected.

By holding on to these negative emotions, we stay separated from our issues pretending like they don’t exist, when they really do exist. No matter how much we may engage in behaviors trying to mask or cover up these emotions, wherever we go, they go with us. Negative energy will recreate energy of its like either in our physical body or in some aspect of our physical life. Because all energy is in a constant state of motion… no one can stop it from moving. In other words, we cannot escape from our negativity. The truth is… we can only learn from this energy and let it go.

Resistance and/or avoidance of our negative emotions can be very tiring. It takes a lot of energy to resist and most are probably not even aware that they are resisting. Those who are in resistance and avoidance end up putting a lot of effort into their doing and usually have a behavioral pattern of pushing. This is what ends up burning them out, all because they are pushing to get projects done or pushing on others to get them to be the way they want them to be. Once we let go of resisting the negative and learn how to correctly work with this energy, we start to make contact with the positive energy that lies underneath. Wherever there is negative energy that is blocked, behind it is positive energy that is also blocked.

Instead of denying or suppressing our own negativity, we are to be learning how to release this energy from our subconscious. In fact, go within and check and see if this is a part of your soul’s purpose to clear out this negative energy from your subconscious. It’s the urging of one’s soul or higher self that causes all growth. Life really begins once the soul gets its own way with us. What would it be like to no longer be at affect by what others are doing or saying? Through engaging in good quality inner work and turning the spiritual discipline of conscious releasing into a lifestyle, we can master these emotions. Emotional mastery means you are no longer at affect by what anybody else does. You are emotionally clear and emotionally stable. You are now the embodiment of your higher self.

The second thing that blocks our soul’s purpose is judgment. Have you noticed how some are so quick to judge and so slow to change their own ways? Some act as if they were given a license to be judge and jury. The truth is they weren’t. I like what Dr. Wayne Dyer has to say about this, “Judging someone as stupid, doesn’t mean they’re stupid. It means… you are defining them as stupid!” .Those who run judgment are the ones who end up paying the price. When somebody is judging, they really have some part of themselves in judgment and probably aren’t even conscious of it. When someone is free from their own judgment, they will no longer judge others, they will naturally allow everyone in their world to be exactly as they need to be.

When someone is judging they are preventing their higher self from moving through them. Someone can be on hit and miss basis with their higher self at best. Judgment creates a separation or division which keeps them out of alignment with their higher self. What’s interesting is that the universe does not judge us. Judgment is something we as people have created. Once we are in judgment we are no longer in the flow of life.

If we are really on the planet to be humanitarians, how does it help to continue down this path of holding someone or anyone for that matter in judgment? What most people don’t realize is that when we are in judgment, the very thing we are judging we lock into place and strengthen. How many of us have made statements like, “I’ll never do what they do.” or “I’ll never become like them.” Then at some later point in life we realize that we are becoming the very person we said we would never become like. That’s because, those statements were coming from our own judgment we had that person in when we were making those statements.

The opposite of judgment is a state of total and complete acceptance. Love will transcend and melt judgment. Wherever there is judgment there can be no love. Wherever there is unconditional love, judgment cannot exist for any length of time. This is exactly what we are to be learning, how to love more and judge less. There is a beautiful yet simple Sioux Indian prayer we can use, “Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.”

The third thing is imbalance. Within us we have masculine and feminine energy, or yin/yang energy. When these two energies are not in harmony with each other an imbalance occurs. This simply means that there has been a split between these two significant parts of ourselves. One part is getting more energy than the other part and one part feels judged causing this imbalance. The latter part is living in this energy of judgment which means it’s locked in this dark place and it’s not allowed to come into the light and be acknowledged.

Most men and women today are leading their lives more with their masculine energy and suppressing their feminine energy which can create a lot of pain. Because the feminine energy is the receiving side of us, this can also create an experiential effect in our lives which can manifest into the lack of money, lack of time and/or lack of love. In 2008, I will be introducing a new seminar entitled “Harmony” that will help to balance the masculine and feminine energies within us all.

What creates the imbalance? Negative energy that is being held onto very tightly in the subconscious body, which again is resistance. Resistance is really futile and depending how positional we are with our resistance can also be very painful.

How do we become balanced? Well first, we must learn how to become aware of when we are resisting so we can let go of whoever or whatever we’re resisting. Then we truly can, should we choose to, purge and let go little by little of all this negative material that’s been trapped within the subconscious body once and for all.

We will all eventually discover this truth, that regardless of how challenging our lives can be, our saving grace will be found in the real cellular healing of our subconscious body. It sets us free from all our negativity, it sets us free from all our judgment, and it brings us back into balance. If one can do it… everyone can do it. Realize your true potential and purpose, not through the process of trying to figure it out in your head, but by releasing the negativity that you have been holding on to in your subconscious body. The way to your higher self and soul purpose is through your lower self, the subconscious self!

© 2007 Dale Halaway – Seminars That Inspire, LLC – www.SeminarsThatInspire.com

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Power of Feeling.
It is important to recognize that we are feeling beings by nature. To be in denial of or to keep ourselves separated or disconnected from what it is we are really feeling is not only nonproductive but in most cases counterproductive and in some cases destructive. Through the Law of Attraction, you get results in your outer world that reflect what you are feeling inside, so if you aren’t willing to deal with your feelings consciously and responsibly or even become positional in hanging on to your negative feelings, the Law of Attraction responds by attracting to you the experiences that can only reflect what it is you are holding in your consciousness.

The Law of Attraction responds not purely to what you think, but how you feel about whatever you are thinking. If you have a pocket of negative energy and you know it’s inside of you and you aren’t dealing with it in a way that’s helping it move through you or pass through you for the purpose of resolution, then you are in the process of resisting. And as you probably already know, what you resist persists. We are not releasing our negative feelings by resisting them, we are strengthening them, therefore strengthening the effects of the Law of Attraction. We end up recreating the same experience over and over again, whether it be in our relationships, finances, career or health.

Feelings and thoughts ARE energy and if the way you deal with your negative feelings and thoughts is to bury them… you are burying them alive which means at some future point it will attract it’s like to itself. “That which is like unto itself is drawn.”

Just as this is so with negative energy, so it is with positive energy. When you are able to maintain a positive feeling this now becomes your point of attraction.

To consciously attract something into your life means that you are masterful enough to pull up a positive feeling, envelop or bathe your body with that positive feeling while at the same time imagining a positive outcome of something you would like to experience or manifest in your life. As a result of this positive focus, it can and will bring up negative feelings and thoughts which now becomes the opportunity where you can clear out these layers of old suppressed energy from your subconscious body. To release these layers of negative thoughts and feelings is a process… this process is a life skill that when practiced consistently can change the way you experience your life in ways you may have only dreamed of until now.

Power of Action.
When it comes to the power of action, most people don’t have an issue with action, it’s in identifying the type of action that is productive for them that can become the challenge. There is a big difference between being busy and being productive. There is a principle that says “do less and accomplish more.” When it comes to the power of action, action without intention is meaningless.

Many people experience their life in a hurry. It seems they are always running here and running there or constantly working endless hours.They confuse all this movement in their life as moving forward, but in reality the movement in their life has become nothing more than circular. A feeling often associated with being on a wheel from which they feel they can’t escape.

When you come into alignment with the action that is right for you, everything that you do will be the right thing to do. It’s stepping into the right action that produces a positive result. You now are moving forward and growing in your life. You now experience victories and achieve your goals that you established through your intentions. Your actions are now in alignment with your higher self and your intentions. At the end of the day you feel rejuvenated, even if you are tired, it is a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment versus feeling exhausted and depleted.

Power of Focus.
There is another principle that says, “Whatever you focus on expands”. Focus is a choice, you are either orienting your focus on the positive or the negative. So ask yourself, are you focused on who you are or who you’re not. Are you focused on what you have or what you don’t have. Are you focused on what’s right or what’s wrong? Do you go to the perfection or the imperfection. It’s simply a choice.

As we move forward on our transformational journey we need to examine what we are focused on. How much focus is on your victories and gains versus what you haven’t become yet or what you haven’t accomplished. When focusing on victories you make amazing discoveries about yourself and wonderfully you experience even more victories because that is what is now expanding.

By understanding the importance of these 3 inner powers, you now can work with the Law of Attraction in ways that are so powerful and so life-changing that you perceive anything to be possible. You now live from an unlimited state of being and enjoy the happiness, freedom and abundance you truly deserve.
 

© 2007 Dale Halaway – Seminars That Inspire, LLC – www.SeminarsThatInspire.com

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At a time when our country is facing war and questioning our country’s leadership, is when we should be reflecting upon our own leadership styles. It isn’t through trying to change those already in leadership roles that can affect real change in our country, but through the changing of how we lead ourselves and others in our lives that makes the significant difference in our day-to-day realities.

Whether you are a business leader, parent, or simply “leading” your own life, there are two types of leadership styles, Inspiring and Controlling. There are 10 main characteristics that help define the difference between these two types of leaders. We put them in juxtaposition, not to make one bad and/or good, but to simply bring awareness to your own leadership style so you can make a different choice if you find yourself falling into any one of the characteristics of the Controlling Leader.

An Inspiring Leader is authentic, operates from higher ground principles and makes their decisions coming from a place of love, whereas a Controlling Leader upholds a facade, operates from lower ground principles and is coming from a place of fear. In our world today, there is a shift that is happening among individuals as well as in the business world, from being ego-driven to soul-driven in our personal and business missions.

Following are the top 10 characteristics that define these leadership styles:

1.) An Inspiring Leader is open to change and is always looking for better and easier ways of doing things. Their decisions are based on the greater good of all and not solely on one individual. There is an ease about them because they live in divine flow trusting in a higher process. A Controlling Leader fights and resists change. They live in the past and because they have a need to control, often are working with hidden agendas to maintain this perceived control. They always seem stressed and are constantly pushing themselves and pushing others.

2.) An Inspiring Leader lives from their Soul and Spirit. Their family or business becomes the vehicle in which they assist others in changing and growing. They know who they are and why they are here and operate their life from a clear set of core values. A Controlling Leader lives from their ego and personality. They think they know it all and have a deep-seated need to be right. They use their family or business for self-recognition. They resist soul searching or searching for a deeper meaning in life.

3.) An Inspiring Leader is flexible, responsive and adaptable. They are connected to a bigger vision with “big picture thinking” and the awareness that we are all in this together! They are not threatened or intimidated by people with status or money. They accept 100% responsibility for their leadership style and not only admit but apologize when they are wrong. A Controlling Leader is inflexible, reactive and positional. They are disconnected from the bigger picture focusing on “what’s in it for me.” They are threatened or intimidated by people with more money or a higher position or status. They do not take responsibility for their leadership style, but place fault on others and will ignore the situation when an apology is in order.

4.) An Inspiring Leader acknowledges their strengths and weaknesses. They surround themselves with people that complement their weaknesses and capitalize on their own strengths. A Controlling Leader denies their strengths and tries to cover up their weaknesses. They surround themselves with people who are less talented than themselves to make themselves look good.

5.) An Inspiring Leader will be solution-oriented, helping others to identify and solve their problems. A Controlling Leader will be problem-oriented focusing on the negative and what’s wrong or who’s wrong and stay stuck in the problem.

6.) An Inspiring Leader is always giving the credit away to others where a Controlling Leader will not only take the credit, but will do so even if it isn’t theirs to take! As Lee Iacoca said, “One can accomplish great things when they no longer care who gets the credit.”

7.) An Inspiring Leader builds people up, empowers them to really go for it and spawns other authentic leaders. They provide direction and guidance and encourage others to believe in themselves. A Controlling Leader keeps people down below their “level” wanting them to stay dependent and small. They provide very little direction and act as if they know it all.

8.) An Inspiring Leader unites the people in their family or organization. They pass on positive feedback that creates respect and unity among others where a Controlling Leader will pass on gossip and negative feedback creating division.

9.) An Inspiring Leader creates an open forum for ideas to flow freely from everyone and encourages others to express their ideas. A Controlling Leader creates a forum for their own ideas and has a deep-seated need for it to be their idea and their way, becoming defensive or reactive to others feedback.

10.) An Inspiring Leader is emotionally connected to what’s going on within the organization or family. They understand that quality time is not planned but is spontaneous and comes with quantity time. They feel the energy of those around them. They remember where they’ve come from and maintain compassion for others. A Controlling Leader “leads from the desk”, and is out of touch with what’s really going on within the dynamics and energy of the organization. They forget where they’ve come from and end up making decisions that can hurt people.

This list of characteristics helps to raise our awareness as to whether we are coming from a controlling or inspiring place in our lives. Awareness is the starting point to change. The next step is learning how to uncover the issue and/or suppressed energy within us that was causing us to control in the first place. Once the issue has been correctly identified, now we can release it, should we choose to. These are the keys to becoming an Inspiring Leader on a more consistent basis.

© 2006 Dale Halaway – Seminars That Inspire, LLC – www.SeminarsThatInspire.com

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While we all engage in many forms of relationships on a daily basis, most people are operating within them with a very low level of awareness. The problem is they think this is the highest level of awareness that exists. To better understand this concept we first need to look at choice and how it relates to our current circumstances. When it comes to our choices, there is one thing you can go to the bank on and that is this: every time we make a choice, that choice must be followed by a consequence that can only reflect the quality and depth of the choice that was made prior to the experience of the consequence.

Most people are not aware that the reason why their life is the way it is today and everyday is because of them! It’s not because of their ex-mate or ex-business partner, even though there are some that have convinced themselves that “he did it to me” or “she did it to me” or “they did it to me” and they are going to pay! But the reality is the only person who is going to pay is you! This person who so-called “did it to you” could be off in Hawaii having a great time and could even be transforming their own lives into something better. Meanwhile, you’re back here saying, “Oh, they’re going to pay!” and the one who’s really paying is you. Why? Because you are the one who’s holding the negative energy! It was your choice! You chose at some point in your life to not only hold others in negative energy but to start accumulating more of its like! Why? Because you’re going to be right, because you know it all, because you’re smart and you have everything under control. Meanwhile, your life is reflecting back to you, you weren’t as smart as you thought you were. Your life is reflecting back to you that something is way out of balance.

In our country we have more wealth that is available to us than any other country in the world and yet we have more people who are struggling financially, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck and don’t even have $5,000 in their bank account. These are people that have been working for 30 or 40 years, eight to five, five days a week like robots. They are doing the same thing everyday from early in the morning to late at night. They are on automatic, but they don’t know they are on automatic! They are working the so-called dream by doing their eight or ten hours a day, five maybe six days a week and according to the statistics the average person at the age of 65 will end up dead broke! Why is that? Now some people might answer that question with “That’s just the way life is, life has to be a struggle!” Yet, “life has to be a struggle” is nothing more than a thought form that they’ve turned into their own personal law. It’s them believing that life has to be a struggle and because they are believing it within their heart of hearts, because they are believing it within their cellular structure of the way they think about themselves and the way they feel about themselves, that is what now manifests in their life. What better way for this to show up in someone’s life than that of their finances.

It’s time to start making better choices and one of the highest choices you can make for yourself is to take responsibility for your own life. Start choosing to let go of all this negative energy you have been holding on to because the truth is, the more negative energy you have inside you, the more of a prison you will feel like you are in. There is no freedom in negativity. The more negativity you hold on to, the more you will feel like your life is stuck or you’re living out the same old story over and over again.

So many people come across good opportunities but can’t access them because the moment they start to go toward it, their fears are activated that haven’t been cleared from with inside themselves and they end up making a choice to not go there. Or if they do choose to go there, they end up sabotaging it which becomes another choice. Perhaps their belief system or program is “I’m not good enough” or “others make me wrong”. If this is a program that they have been running for a good portion of their life, then it’s just a matter of time and someone will come into their life and do exactly what they have been believing deep inside and end up making them wrong or making them feel not good enough.

If this has happened to you, and if you haven’t been paying attention, you’re going to think that they really “did it to you”. If you aren’t willing to let that go, it’s just a matter of time and you get to go for round number twelve. Someone else will come in and do the very same thing that the last person just did, only every time somebody comes in and does the same thing, the energy or the experience becomes louder. The next experience or person may look different than the last but after the honeymoon is over and the negative experience reemerges, you realize, “Oh my gosh, I’ve just been sucked in again!” The reason you got sucked in again is because you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on within you for the purpose of clearing that energy out from within your subconscious body.

Since you are always at choice, you can make it all about them one more time, or you can come to a point where you say, “I’ve had enough. I thought I knew what I was doing but it’s pretty obvious I really don’t. I’m tired of the pain, the confusion, the conflict, feeling like I’m constipated, not just physically, but financially and emotionally. I just can’t imagine that this is what life is really all about. I need to start making some serious changes.” Although this doesn’t feel like a good place to be, it actually is the best place you could be, because now you are ready to really start making choices that will truly empower your life.

There is a higher ground saying that goes, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. The truth is, when you are ready to go there, when you are ready to cleanse yourself for real, when you are ready to really evolve and mature and move toward the life that you really deserve and are willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, then all of a sudden the right teacher materializes just for you! This will be the kind of teacher that can truthfully help you accomplish what you’ve now set yourself out to accomplish because you now chose it. Once you choose it and you are willing to back it up with a strong genuine commitment, now the magic can begin!

© 2006 Dale Halaway – Seminars That Inspire, LLC – www.SeminarsThatInspire.com

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When we consciously use these higher ground principles in our life, we can transform and accomplish anything (as long as we are not imposing our will upon others.) For these are the laws that govern our personal and professional success or failure, depending on how we choose to use them.

We live in a Universe of Law and Order. These are definite laws that apply to every activity in life… the unseen forces that make or break every individual and or company. An individual is positive or negative, happy or miserable, rich or poor, depending on how effectively they work with the laws of their own nature. These timeless laws are completely impersonal… Universal Law is here for us to use as we choose. The word “Universal” implies they are for everyone… applying to any and every situation in life.

These laws are immutable. Whether we are aware of them or not, they operate 100% of the time – all the time – every time. The Law of Cause and Effect is just as real as the Law of Gravity. They include such laws as the Law of Discovery, Law of Manifestation, Law of Transformation, Law of Mental Equivalency, and the Law of Attraction. To better understand what causes success in our life, we will explore two principles in this article: The Law of Cause and Effect & The Law of Reflection.

One of the multitude of ways in which the Law of Cause and Effect operates is that the energy we send out through our thoughts, words and deeds (known as cause), eventually returns to us in our everyday life experiences (known as effect). The Law of Reflection teaches us that our outer world (known as effect) is a direct reflection of our inner world (known as cause). We never see the cause; we only see the effect, which loudly affirms the nature of its cause.

If our tendency has been to deal with the effects in our personal or professional life instead of seeking out and correcting the cause… then, the effect will simply repeat itself. It must… it’s Universal Law. Whether our experience is one of reoccurring headaches or a repetitive pattern of high turnover in our business there is a cause – a reason as to why it is happening or it wouldn’t be happening. Every effect has its cause and every cause has its effect.

In the case of healing a physical ailment like reoccurring headaches we need to acknowledge that the aching feeling felt in the head is an effect – not a cause. If you want the headaches to go away once and for all, you must identify and deal directly with the cause. Some have come to my seminars with a headache… I will help them to release the thoughts and feelings that were causing their head to hurt and the headache goes away.

Our attitude is a reflection of what’s going on within. A business that’s loaded with difficulties and hard times could be the effect of one’s negative thoughts, emotional imbalances, insecurities, lack of direction and goals, or negative control dynamics that are motivated by some inner fear (the cause). These effects are great teachers… for when we operate our lives on higher ground, we recognize pain and dysfunction as a signal that is telling us something isn’t working. Life is our greatest teacher and it teaches us, by cause and effect. Our life consistently mirrors back to us what is going on inside of us… be it positive or negative, this is the Law of Reflection.

If we’re working in an organization and we’ve been silently thinking of and resenting the fact we are underpaid — that we are not appreciated — that we deserve more money – greater recognition – we are subconsciously severing our ties with that organization. The individual has set this law in motion and one day will experience the effects, which loudly affirms the nature of its cause and the operating manager/leader eventually says to this individual… “we have to let you go.” Actually, the individual let themselves go by their own repetitive pattern of self-sabotaging thoughts and negative feelings. It’s our dominant thoughts and feelings that influence the quality of our words and actions. This is what Ralph Waldo Emerson meant when he said, “The origin of every action is a thought.”

Every so often, we pretend that we were the victim, we had nothing to do with it… it just happened. Success does not happen by accident and neither does failure. Things do not happen, as many people in the past have thought, they come to pass and are a result of conscious or unconscious beliefs, intentions, motivations, choices and habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and speaking. The energy we send out returns to us in the form of our own life experiences. In other words, whatever we habitually think, feel, say or do will eventually return to us in like manner. It’s the Boomerang Principle, “what goes around, does come around.”

Wisdom is knowing in advance what the effect will be of a cause. Your thought patterns and feelings live in the inner world of cause and are the seeds for future deeds. The only thing that will move you to a higher place in life is the quality of your thoughts and feelings. Raise the quality and vibration of your thoughts and feelings today and you’ll change your life for the better tomorrow.

When we consciously choose words and deeds that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma becomes happiness and success. Discipline yourself to think kind thoughts when thinking of others. Thinking kind and positive thoughts causes you to feel better about you and your world. Remember, you are creating your future experiences with your most repetitive “NOW” thoughts. Learning how to release those thoughts you don’t want to have manifest in your day to day reality is the key.

© 2005 Dale Halaway – Seminars That Inspire, LLC – www.SeminarsThatInspire.com

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to Dale Halaway and a link to www.seminarsthatinspire.com.