Recognizing Spiritual Negativity

"Walkin' Dolphins" ©Leo Jean (Original painting 4' x 5'; acrylic on mahogany board)What does it feel like to be hit by spiritual negativity?  It’s likely that you already know, but have never been able to clearly identify the sensation.  You can acquire the skill to recognize spiritual negativity through the daily examination of physical sensations such as pain, intense emotions and energy draining.   

By developing a heightened awareness of the impact of your surroundings, thoughts and emotions, you’ll increase your ability to identify the source of a spiritual ‘hit’ more quickly.  The key to counteracting its effect is to refuse negativity completely by returning it all to its source with the Light* as soon as possible.

The notion of returning the negativity from a spiritual ‘hit’ is more powerful when you know its source.  Usually you’ll be able to discern who’s sending the negativity as a result of your physical location or thoughts you’re having about someone.  It’s not always possible to pinpoint the source of the negativity, though, because it could be coming through someone else or from a higher-level source. If you don’t refuse and return it, then you’re accepting the flow of negative energy and its influence.

One interesting experience comes to mind when someone asks what a spiritual hit feels like.   Upon my last visit to a zoo about fifteen years ago, Leo Jean, a friend and I were visiting the gorilla exhibit.  We were standing there, watching the gorillas looking back at us through the viewing glass when I met eyes with a female that was looking at me with the saddest expression.  I thought of how horrible it must be for such creatures to be held in captivity with scores of people ogling them every day.

A few seconds later, I noticed an intense pain in my head.  Since I never get headaches, I recognized it as a spiritual hit.  I started to refuse it immediately and to return it to its source.  Apparently, I wasn’t strong enough yet, because the pain just kept increasing until it was excruciating.  My attention turned to the female gorilla, as I then sensed that it was she that was sending me the negative energy associated with her anger and frustration.  I kept refusing and returned it to its source but, after a few minutes of intense pain, I had to ask Leo for help, because my efforts weren’t strong enough.

As we left the gorilla exhibit and walked outside, Leo helped me to return the hit directly to the source (i.e. the female gorilla and the spirits that were helping her) with the Light.  I felt the pain subside immediately.  I then realized quite sheepishly that I had accepted negativity from the gorilla, because I was sympathetic to her physical circumstances.  Upon accepting her emotional outcry, I had allowed her spirit to send me the negativity that she had generated at the physical level.  It was a painful learning experience, but one that evoked a greater commitment in me to gain more strength and positive knowledge, so that I would be able to overcome such spiritual hits in the future.

On the lighter side, my last zoo experience was highlighted by the antics of some very savvy elephants.  Leo amused me and many other zoo visitors when he coaxed two Indian elephants to dance rhythmically back and forth with trunks swinging in unison to a silent beat.  It took Leo several minutes to convince a somewhat reluctant but amazing African elephant to join in on the celebratory dance with its companions.  It was a delightfully happy experience for all!

Since animals are very spiritually oriented, they conduct their spiritual activities in a very similar way as humans.  It’s a great way to demonstrate how thought and emotional energy can be directed and received in a positive or negative way, depending on the sender’s intention.  So, the next time you’re around someone who is ill, angry, complaining, anxious, sad, etc., it’s your responsibility to refuse them properly. As you defend yourself by minimizing your physical exposure and returning all the hits to their source with the Light, you’ll be doing them a favor, since the Light is purely positive energy.

In order to progress in your spiritual development, it will help you to train yourself to recognize spiritual negativity, so that you can react effectively to counteract its impact.

 

Find out how to start working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

Spiritual Analysis

Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculpture atop a layered crystal baseLeo Jean created “spiritual analysis” as a standard means by which to obtain spiritual information about a person’s spiritual condition in order to determine what course of action should be taken to enhance their positive spiritual experience.

When someone asks us for help with their spiritual development, to perform a healing or to solve problems emanating from their spiritual self, we first determine where they stand spiritually at that point in time.  During this process we do not interfere in any way with the person, since we fully respect free will.  It’s simply a starting point from which to move forward with a uniquely positive approach to the acquisition of spiritual knowledge derived from the Light*.

Here’s what a spiritual analysis reveals:

1. If your spiritual self is working with or against you;

2. If there are any other spirits acting against you that should be removed;

3. If your spiritual openings are damaged or jammed open;

4. Which spiritual openings require healing; and

5. What steps need to be taken to put you on a positive spiritual footing.

The attainment of spiritual knowledge requires a sound footing upon which to effectively build and integrate the higher–level aspects into one’s life.

Once someone knows where their spiritual problems lie, it’s much easier to make decisions on how to proceed to work with their spirit, to accept a healing or to solve problems originating at the spiritual level. 

 

Find out how to start working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

Believe in the Power of Your Selves (Part 3)

Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculpture atop a crystal trumpetWorking with Your Spiritual Self
(…continued from Part 2)

My spiritual self is the most powerful amplifier of all my efforts to work with my composite selves.  The natural process of working daily with my spirit allows me to experience the cumulative knowledge of the universal Light*.  

From what my partner, Leo Jean, and I have learned over the past 27 years while working with people from all over the world, all the spirits within all the beings on our planet have adapted differently in their existence.  While a limited number of spirits might have created their bodies to pursue positive knowledge, most spirits are either inherently negative or conditioned to be so.  Although many spirits strive to be positive, most are caught up in the negativity that is promoted at the higher levels of existence.  The refusal and removal of negative spiritual activity is paramount if you choose to be positive and bring your spirit into the Light.

Here are a few illustrations of what it means to work with your spiritual self:

1. Karmic debt  Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculpture atop a crystal mandolin

Your spirit can bring negative encumbrances it has accumulated over time into your physical form. The way that a karmic debt is placed upon a spirit is through the summoning of a group of spirits that will remain with that spirit throughout its existence.  These problems are passed on to you at the spiritual level, so you bear the memory.  Just as your higher self has all the knowledge of your physical existence from conception, your spirit carries all of the knowledge of its existence from its origin.

In order to rid yourself of the groups of spirits, you begin by refusing all of the negativity at its source.  When you refuse in this way, you’re refusing the original spirits that enacted the karmic debt and I can remove them.   Note that curses are very similar to karmic debt, but are placed in the current lifetime.

2. Spiritual apertures

Since you control your spiritual openings at the physical level, telling yourself to keep your chakras permanently closed is the ideal course of action.  It makes sense that each person is supposed to have only one spirit, so your own spirit doesn’t have to ask permission to access your form.  However, people with one or more open chakras have allowed other spirits to enter them through their unattended spiritual openings.  Sometimes a powerful spirit can cause a chakra to jam open, so that the person loses control over its opening and closing.  If a spiritual opening has been damaged, then a healing is necessary to repair and its function and to restore equilibrium to the body.

Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculpture atop a crystal guitar3. Using the Light

Although it’s your responsibility at the physical level to bring in and direct the use of the Light, it’s your spirit that uses the Light to counteract negative energies and influences.  Note that the knowledge of the Light is cumulative and requires dedication to acquire proficiency.

Sometimes a person’s spirit is negatively oriented and it will be reluctant or unwilling to accept the Light. Once a person addresses the negative conditions that interferes with them, they can begin to work with a Light-committed spirit.  It isn’t long before I can see their spirit flash with increasing brightness as it progresses toward the Light.  A spirit that is committed to the Light is eager, robust and dauntless in its acceptance of its commitment to work with its physical form.

Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculpture atop crystal behind Swarovski crystal piano

Once your spiritual self is comfortable with your commitment to work with it, there will be a distinct difference in how your spiritual efforts are felt at the physical level.  Here are some ways that you can ask your spirit to help you:

Bring the Light into your body to remove negativity
Send negativity back to the sender with the Light
Detect the presence of negative influences and encumbrances

As you direct the interaction of all aspects of your selves to adapt positive knowledge, your life will be filled with more meaning and harmony as you tune into the positive frequency of the Light.

 

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

Believe in the Power of Your Selves (Part 2)

Leo Jean's Starlike© tiny paper sculptures at base of crystal harp.Working Physically with Your Higher & InterD Selves
(…continued from Part 1)

If you want to progress with your spirit to become positive and achieve harmony in your life, it’s your responsibility to take action at the physical level to be the conductor of the higher-level aspects of your being.

Physical form

As the vehicle in which my spirit travels, I must work at the physical level to ensure that my activities at all levels do not interfere with my spirit’s progress.  I’ve learned to respond to communications from my higher self and spirit, so that we are all working in unison.  I’ve learned to fine tune my response to negative interference by becoming more sensitive and aware of it, so that I can refuse and deal with it as soon as possible.  As I become better at working with my higher levels of being, I progress alongside my spirit.

Higher Self

When I direct any physical activity related to other dimensions or planes of existence, I ask my higher self to help me.  My higher self can also help me to make decisions based on my inherent intuitive skills.

Here are some ways to direct your higher self:

  1. During self-healing ask your higher self to help you bring the Light*’s healing energy into your body.
  2. When refusing negativity, ask your higher self to help you to remove the negativity from your form that originates from higher-level sources.
  3. Ask your higher self to help you to make a decision, solve a problem or to help in a creative process.  Then leave it alone and the answer will come to you without effort some time later.  Leo Jean describes this response process as similar to the fleeting glimpse of a butterfly as it flitters by.Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculpture atop a crystal saxophone

Your higher self is your liaison with your spirit; you send communication to your spirit through your higher self and your spirit’s response is sent through your higher self.

Inter-dimensional Self

The tendency to travel into a higher dimensional state as a response to a traumatic event or when summoned to leave by someone at the higher level is a common way to accept negativity and get into trouble spiritually.

If you don’t know how to keep your interD self in the positive realm, it’s an open welcome to attract negative entities that are looking for ways to enter or control a form.  If you accept calls into the inter-dimensional plane, you’re accepting everything that this activity draws to you, which could include accepting a large negative influence that adheres you to commitments at the higher level. It’s important to know how to protect yourself inter-dimensionally by learning how to stay in body and to refuse summons.

Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculture atop crystal French horn.As an example of how refusing at the higher level works, when I first made a commitment to work with my spirit and the Light I was approached at the higher level to accept a negative commitment.  I was invited to enter a circle in a dream.  As I had just become aware of the trickery that can be used to entice someone to accept negativity at the higher level, I was aware of my peculiar circumstances in the dream.  Someone in the circle passed a document to me for my signature.  I looked at it without reading anything, and said “No!”  As I refused to accept whatever negative commitment had been presented in that symbolic document, I was refusing at the inter-dimensional level.

Since that early experience, I’ve trained over many years to use my inter-dimensional skills across any distance to perceive and remove the negative interference that influences people.  At the same time I protect myself by remaining in body while working inter-dimensionally, so that I am not susceptible to any negative interference during the process.

Once you’re able to better adapt the activities of your physical, higher and inter-dimensional selves to the positive realm, you’ll be able to help your spirit to progress into the positive perfection of the Light.

(…Part 3)

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

Believe in the Power of Your Selves (Part 1)

Leo Jean's Starlike© paper sculptures atop enameled butterfly in resin base Distinguishing your component ‘selves’

Acknowledgement of your component selves and awareness of their roles in your existence will allow you to work in harmony with them to improve your well-being.

 I’ve learned that there are different aspects of my ‘selves’ that can work with me or against me at any given time, depending on the manner in which I direct them.  In order to create a platform from which your spirit can work, you have to know how each self works.

 ‘I’ (Physical form)

The one that maintains my physical body and houses the other parts of me.  ‘I’ ask the other levels of my self to assist me in my daily life when I make decisions or commitments to improve my well-being.  I have to direct my selves by accepting or rejecting all influences.

My ‘higher self’

The one that knows everything about my life and is prepared to assist me whenever I ask.  My higher self is the memory bank of my entire life from the instant of conception right up to this very moment.  It’s aware of every thought, emotion and action in my life.  I can ask my higher self to help me with memory, problem solving and decisionmaking.  I interact with my higher self and my spirit when I conduct a self-healing.  My higher self is also the liaison between my physical self, my interdimensional self and my spiritual self.

My ‘inter-dimensional self’

That part of me that exists in higher dimensional states.  It has the ability to travel outside my body and sometimes allows me to remember those journeys.  However, my inter-dimensional self is susceptible to receiving calls from others and, if permitted, it would respond to those summons by leaving my body to interact at the inter-dimensional level.  I refuse to respond to such calls, since it would make my physical form vulnerable to negative interference.  Many people are conditioned to interact inter-dimensionally in a negative sense, and the result of such interactions can have lasting effects.

My ‘spiritual self’

The highest level of my being.  My spirit, a sentient being that exists entirely in a spiritual plane of existence, is the most powerful part of me. My spirit utilizes the Light to remove negativity at all levels and has a crucial role in helping me to stay on a positive track.

If you’re looking for meaning and purpose in life, you can optimize the inner power at all levels of your being to effect the outcome you desire.

(…continued Part 2)

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

Believe in Yourself

When you believe in yourself, your spirit will respond to help you.

From my perspective, loving myself goes hand in hand with believing in myself.  While self-love is somewhat static within me, believing in myself is the dynamic force that combines with it to allow me to move forward in a positive direction in my life.  Both rely on my efforts to work with my spirit to remove the negativity that interferes with our progress toward a positive existence.

When I began to love myself for who I am, I accepted all my faults and attributes simultaneously.  I am comprised of all that I am, and I fully accept ‘me’.  In order to integrate this self-love into my life, I then accepted that I also must believe in myself to realize my full potential.

When a child believes in his/herself, they move toward their goals by simply pursuing their interests in life.  It should be no different for us as adults, but many have been submerged in thoughts of self-doubt, memories of past failure and fear of the unknown. Many focus on their weaknesses instead of on their strengths.  In other words, many stop believing in themselves and depend on others.  Such insecurity is an acceptance of negativity at the higher level, and your spirit will not be able to assist you until you resist this negative tendency.

When you act in self-love and believe in yourself, your spirit will readily help you at the spiritual level to achieve your goals.   As you work with your spirit to refuse negativity and absorb the energy of the Light*, this positive approach will filter down and benefit you at the physical level.This Starlike© paper sculpture by Leo Jean is reminiscent of stepping out of the rut of insecurity into a new world of believing in oneself.

No one can give you self-love or make you believe in yourself.  You have to want it for yourself and work at it every day to create your future as only you believe it should be!

Believing in yourself is the key to moving forward in confidence towards the positive existence that you desire.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

Self-Love

This is one of my favorite Starlike© paper art sculptures by Leo Jean.  It represents self-love, as shown by the 3 stars on the heart: my spirit, my higher self and my body.  The square is covered on 5 sides by stacked paper stars of various colors, the dimensions of my being into which I extend my self-love. In order to connect with your spirit, self-love is essential.

Living in self-love allows you to improve your well-being at both the physical and spiritual levels.

A positively oriented spirit cannot easily engage with a body that is harboring a lot of negativity but, once you begin to love yourself, it can help you to remove that negativity.

Self-love begins with self-acceptance.  You can start by looking at the things that you already like about yourself.  Bring the Light* directly into those parts of you.

Then look at the things about you that you don’t really like or that you’re not particularly fond of.  Begin to love each aspect of yourself and start bringing the Light into those areas.

The Light will flow freely to the areas that you love but will skirt around the areas that you don’t like so much, because the positive white Light will not remain in a negative energy zone.  Keep loving each part of you until you feel the Light linger.

As you get used to bringing in the Light, you can help your spirit to actually remove the negativity that has been preventing you from loving yourself.  Your spirit will effect this removal at the higher level as you continue to work with it and the Light.

Now imagine yourself as you truly are, with all the positive traits that you possess.  As you bring this vision of ‘the positive you’ into focus, bring the Light in and allow it to fill you with its positive energy.

Once you get used to loving yourself completely, you’ll be able to connect properly with your spirit.

 

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Interactive Spirit

The morning sun reflects on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 134th revolution of the Earth on Oct. 20, 1968. Image Credit: NASADid you know that you can actually interact with your spirit (soul) to improve your well-being?

When you work with your spirit, you’re connecting with the highest part of you.

Once you recognize that you can interact with your spirit, you can begin to fill it with love and Light.*

As you feel the love and Light grow within, you’ll begin to love yourself more and more.

Once you learn how to love yourself, you can then more easily love and be loved.

You’ll become more aware of how negativity affects your well-being, and your spirit will be help you to fight against it.

Interacting with your spirit takes a commitment and daily effort.  No one can do it for you and no one can take it from you.

As you make that unique connection and get to know your spirit, you’ll begin to really know yourself! 

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

 

I Forgive Myself!

fbheartstarlike1The importance of self-forgiveness for survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Someone commented the other day that the hardest thing for her to do was to forgive herself.  For those of us that were sexually abused as children, we bear the detrimental memories of those incomprehensible moments into adulthood.  The negative memories and emotions build inside until they begin to manifest in ways that cause emotional, mental and physical illness.  When I learned how to stop the momentum of the shame and guilt caused by early abuse events, I eventually emerged as the healthy balanced person I am today.

When I was really young, I really didn’t even understand what was happening to me, or that it was anything unusual, because I believe that I had been conditioned from a very early age to accept sexual abuse as a normal occurrence. After trying to report to my mother what had happened to me on one occasion and wasn’t believed, then being threatened into silence another time, I quickly learned that I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone.  I continued to keep all of it a secret.

By the time I reached puberty, I was being molested by people close to me.  I was so shy that I had trouble expressing any romantic interests with boys my own age, so I never had any meaningful relationships.  When I had what I thought was my first sexual encounter at age 16, I was humiliated when the 21-year-old man practically laughed out loud because I had told him that I was a virgin.  After that incident I was accosted and raped by several older teenagers.  What I never realized throughout any of this was that all this was happening because I had been abused as a young child.  It just never connected.  I never knew how to fight back to stop the abuse and was still afraid to tell others, for fear of not being believed or being ostracized for being a victim.

Soon after these events, I moved away to try and start a new life.  Within me was the inkling of knowledge that I would one day find harmony in my life.  But there seemed to be no way to stop the pattern of abuse that I had accepted.  By my mid-20’s I had become a battered woman as my life kept spiraling downward.  When I reached a crisis point, I finally looked for and found help from someone who made me look at myself in a whole new perspective.

At that point I was in a similar position as the lady that prompted me to post this today.  Years ago, when it was suggested that I should forgive myself, it seemed almost impossible.  My approach was to review the different aspects of how the abuse had affected me.  I realized that I felt great shame, loss of dignity and very little self-esteem.  My shyness and lack of confidence had prevented me from having meaningful relationships.  Somehow, I even felt guilty because I had allowed the abuse to continue until it was life threatening.   I had to reconcile with myself in order to remove those destructive emotional memories from my being.

In order to begin to forgive myself, I had to acknowledge that I was unique, that I had purpose and that I was worthy of happiness.  And I had to believe it.  Then I could forgive myself for having accepted the abuse, even though I really couldn’t have prevented it as a very young child.  The best way for me to fight back against that breach of my free will was to believe that I could become the person that I truly am inside, and to eliminate the fear, guilt and other negative emotions that lingered from the abuse events and their aftermath.

Once I was able to accept myself as I was at that moment, it began a ripple effect.  I was then able to forgive myself, and that enabled me to start loving myself.  That’s when I accepted that I could interact with my spirit (soul) and started to work with it.  I have regained my dignity and, when I look in the mirror, I see my inner beauty reflected back.

I still continue to forgive myself whenever I think, react or behave in ways that trouble me, in order to create a fresh starting point that allows me to once again move forward in a positive direction.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment! 

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe