Shakti Gawain (born September 30, 1948) is a New Age and personal development author. Her books have sold over 10 million copies.
The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves. . . . When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important facets of our nature. There is no split between 'good' and 'bad. '
Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong connection with our soul. We heal ourselves on the mental level as we become aware of our core beliefs, release those that limit us, and open to more supportive ideas and greater understanding. Emotional healing takes place as we learn to accept and experience the full range of our feelings. And we heal ourselves on the physical level when we learn to honor and care for our bodies, and for the physical world around us.
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment. Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing. Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want.
A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive. . . and begin to act accordingly.
As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.
That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.
As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force.
Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.
Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.
Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.
Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
Many of us fear that we are not attractive or desirable enough to attract others. We have believed that we are "not enough. " Today let's remind ourselves that we all receive our beauty, energy, and light from the same inexhaustible source. As we acknowledge this and begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channel opens and we have available to us the infinite vitality, beauty, and magnetism of the life force.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.
I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking. ' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.