Creating a Life Worth Living: Volume 2 Understanding Your Calling - Softcover

Goldberg, Debbie N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504359445 ISBN 13: 9781504359443

Publisher: BalboaPress, 2016

Synopsis

Thank you for sharing your spiritual journey with me. In volume 1 you learned to master your internal world, how to connect to Spirit, and that many of us live unconsciously, guided by our ego. You now understand that you have the ability to create a fulfilling and purposeful life.

In Volume 2, we go deeper into our conversation with Spirit to clarify our life’s purpose and understand the steps we need to take to bring us to our true calling. We strengthen our resolve and remain steadfast on our journey.

Did you know that you are the creator of your life? You are, and this book will help you understand what you have been creating and why? In order to create a life worth living we need to understand the different parts of us that are preventing us from moving into a life of love, peace, purpose, joy and creativity.

The love that comes from Spirit is “transformational love.” It is a love that encircles you and allows you to grow, heal and evolve. In order to enhance your life and your relationships you need to understand the art of loving yourself. Your transformation changes everything around you, “ Creating A Life Worth Living.”

Transformational love is not a love that you encounter on an earthly plane nor can it be found there. This love baths you in truth and light showing you the blessing and miracle you truly are.

Everything you need for your life’s journey is within you. Allow me to help you find this love within and awaken to a new world.

Creating A Life Worth Living is a series of books that build upon each other and should be read in sequence to get the most out of them.

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About the Author

Debbie N. Goldberg has been providing mental health and substance abuse counseling for 18 years to individuals, groups and couples in State College, Pennsylvania. She now resides in Islamorada, Florida, and brings the spiritual knowledge of her own awakening into her work with others to inspire healing, love, joy, purpose and creativity through their own spiritual journey. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania and a Provisionally Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida. She is an Internationally Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor.

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Creating A Life Worth Living

Volume 2 Understanding You Calling

By Debbie N. Goldberg

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2016 Debbie N. Goldberg
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-5944-3

Contents

Dedications, Acknowledgements, Preface & Background, xi, 
Artist's Biography, xiii, 
About the Author, xv, 
Chapter 1. Everything you need is within, 1, 
Chapter 2. Separation From the Ego, 10, 
Chapter 3. The End Goal, 19, 
Chapter 4. Revisiting Old Wounds, 31, 
Chapter 5. The Illusion of Life, 36, 
Chapter 6. Feel the Power, 44, 
Chapter 7. Let It Be, 51, 
Chapter 8. Let It Go, 57, 
Chapter 9. Forgive, Forgive, Forgive, 63, 
Chapter 10. Projecting Positive Energy for the Planet, 74, 
Chapter 11. How Do You Find the Dream in Your Heart?, 81, 
Chapter 12. Putting God/Spirit First, 89, 
Chapter 13. Why Do We Call God, God?, 98, 
Chapter 14. You are Holy (sacred), God/Spirit is Holy, You are God, God is you, 104, 
Chapter 15. Where Should I Be?, 112, 

CHAPTER 1

Everything you need is within

* * * A gift is something you receive, unwrap & enjoy You are the gift explore yourself, finayour essence and celebrate who you truly are

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Reaching inside of you to find all the support you need is a quest. There is more loving spiritual support available to help you evolve your soul than you could ever imagine. Look at it as having your own coaching staff with each coach focusing on teaching you a different lesson and providing you with a different type of support. Most of us don't realize that we have access to this realm, but as I stated in the first book, God's kingdom is within us, and always has been.

You will expand your ability to access this kingdom as you grow spiritually and become ready to attain the next level of consciousness. It would be too much for you to handle if everything were accessible to you all at once. It takes time to practice and integrate the knowledge and wisdom you have started to acquire.

It can be very overwhelming at first, like you are a sponge absorbing all of this new information that is completely opposite of how you have previously understood life or yourself. It will take quite a while just to integrate it all; in fact it will take a lifetime. You have to give yourself some time each day to be quiet and reflect on the wisdom you are receiving. If you don't, it will be more difficult to solidify that wisdom in your heart and put it into practice.

Your spiritual guidance and soul/spirit are always there to help you reflect on the wisdom you are learning and to help answer your questions. Ask your spiritual guidance or soul/spirit to help you find the answers that are already there inside you. It is perfectly normal to have questions and need help, since we are coming from a place controlled by our ego programing that has no awareness or insight about truth, light or love.

There will be a period of time when you will seek answers outside of yourself, and that's okay. That is why you are reading this book. We look for reassurances that we are on the right path. We find other seekers on their own journey, and it helps us feel better that we are not the only one working through this difficult process. In fact, the universe is set up to send us these reassurances and they show up at exactly the right time when needed. There are a number of fabulous programs offered around the world that can aid in raising our consciousness or spiritual journey, but not everyone has the financial resources or time to participate.

This is another reason I am writing this series of books. They can serve as a kind of self-help guide to which you can always refer whenever you might need them. Over time, you will come to realize that you never have to look outside yourself for answers since all the wisdom you'll ever need about you, your life, and purpose is already within you and readily available to you every moment of the day.

Until you become comfortable and trust the process, you will keep looking outside of you to others. At times we also resist going inside or we forget and try to do everything on our own. Remember, this is normal. Have patience with your self. There is no date by which your goal must be achieved; it is a journey.

The need to look beyond our selves for answers is all part of an important lesson ... we all want immediate gratification from the outside world and we all lack trust in our selves. It is a lot to contemplate. From day one we learn to rely on others for everything. We become dependent on others for our wellbeing ... emotionally, spiritually, physically, and financially. Accepting the idea that our wellbeing can be created by us and comes from within us is an extremely important shift in thinking. It can be a challenge, but it is extremely empowering.

Part of the resistance to accepting this truth is that given our ego's programing, it simply 'does not compute.' Our mind cannot grasp the deep truth of this concept. We spend so much of our time resisting things that we don't understand. We ask: "How can I stick this square peg into that round hole?" "You tell me I can do this, but I don't see how; I need to see it to believe it." Our ego programing contains a lot of black or white thinking.

We can't change our ego; it is what it is. But this leads us to the concept of faith, the fundamental, unshakable belief that there are things in the universe that cannot be proven, things so much bigger than ourselves that we cannot see or understand, and yet they do exist.

In order to feel safe, our ego mind wants control over what we think, what we believe, and how we see the world. It does this by putting everything into a context that it understands. We have all had experiences where we thought we understood something, but then discovered that we did not understand it at all. Many of us have had experiences for which there is seemingly no earthly explanation. Accepting that it doesn't know everything is a huge task for our ego. As a result our ego will resist truths if it is unable to see 'how things work.'

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Journal Entry 1/17/2016 With Angel Simon

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Me: There are so many things that don't make sense. Simon: I know. It will get easier with time. The more time you spend with us the more your knowledge will grow. It is not easy being human ... so many tragedies, so much drama, pain/happiness, birth, death. It is very complicated. It is important to remember not to rely on your thinking or understanding. If you consider life through a spiritual perspective it will be easier to look at everything as a planned lesson to evolve your soul. It takes lifetimes and then some. Even past prophets succumbed to the ego. It is nothing new. You do expect so very much of yourself and it continues to pressure you. Me: I see that I keep falling into the same trap of my patterns. Simon: Yes, it will stop someday soon. Me: I hope so, I will continue to work on staying present and connected. Simon: You cannot fix anyone else either Deb. They have their own process to go through. Keep focusing on yourself. Blessings are coming, miles and miles of blessings. Me: Thank you. Who am I talking to? Simon: My name is Simon. I am one of your angels. Me: You seem very sweet. Simon: Thank you. Me: I never heard of an angel Simon before. Simon: I know. There are many of us here trying to help you and everyone else. Me: Thank you Simon. It is interesting how Spirits take turns. I spend a lot of time with one and then someone else shows up and takes over, sort of a tag team! Simon: Yes. I see that is how you look at it. We all have different lessons for you so it depends on where you are at the moment, what you need and what you are ready for. Me: What is our time together about? Simon: Reflection, my love, and that can be in many ways. Like the reflection of the bible story of being human, seeing your reflection in another person and in God. Me: Yes, I see. What is it that you want to help me know or learn? Simon: It appears that you are seeing different reflections within yourself. You see your positive attributes, how capable and responsible you are, how loved you truly are and the affect you have on others. It is beautiful how loving and caring you are. You also see all of your negatives, your faults, neediness, disregarding, insecure, etc. These are reflections of your ego, your wounded selves. They have nothing to do with your soul. Only the positive attributes reflect your soul. We need to start seeing the correct perspective and not the skewed one. Me: How do I do this? Simon: By remembering who you really are. Remind yourself of how strong you are and how others see you as a positive influence. Me: I just had a flashback of not being that way at times. Simon: Remember, you are also here to teach others lessons that they need to learn also. As an example, if you lose control of your emotions and others who are struggling with this same issue see that, then you become a reflection of what they need to heal inside. This does not define you or another person. This is part of the drama of the mind, the storyline that people react to that affects them and others. So stick to reality, the truth of who you really are.

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Points to Ponder

• What are the feelings you have when hearing that you have access to a spiritual kingdom within you?

• Have you read Volume 1 to understand how you can access your spiritual guide or hear your soul speak to you?

• How is your ego reacting to this information?

CHAPTER 2

Separation From the Ego

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When man undoes all that has been given to him Then shad he want nothing else

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All Souls Are To Be Set Free From The Bondage Of The Ego

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The need to be able to make sense of our reality is why it is important to have a visual for your guidance if you can (I discussed in Volume 1, how we can achieve this). Having a visual experience with your guidance gives us something to hang onto. We experience it fully, visually, hearing it or knowing it in our heart. We now have a visual reference although we are not quite sure how it works, how this happens, but still, we are experiencing it.

A visual guidance helps us to begin to separate from our ego. However small that separation might be, it's a great start. Even though your ego does not want you to go inside, part of you knows that this is were you need to be and that you'll experience great love, joy, peace and contentment there. The wedge between you and your ego is now in place, which will allow you to continue to separate from your ego over time and find your soul/spirit.

Your ego will continue to try to make sense of this experience by going outside seeking information from everywhere and everything. It doesn't want to accept the truth of what part of you already knows. God/Spirit is already aware that we will do this searching. Remember, we planned our life path with God/Spirit before we were born (please see Volume 1).

The universe is set up to give us the reassurances needed to help us feel that we are on the correct path to continue our journey toward spiritual consciousness. Look at it as a treasure hunt and there are clues everywhere as to where to look or go to get closer to the treasure. That's what the reassurances are ... to keep you moving forward on your journey of enlightenment.

As you do this and keep digging inward, you start to question everything you know. You start to understand that everything is an illusion and you begin to look at life differently. You ask yourself "Why didn't I see these things before?" It almost feels like magic, synchronicity, when you receive reassurances (it is all loving) and notice the small miracles happening in your life on a daily basis.

You begin to see truth in yourself and others. The truth you now see won't be the same truth you experienced before. You start to see and feel love everywhere. It's almost like falling in love with life and everyone and yourself. People smile at you that you never noticed before. Favor comes your way from everywhere, even if it is very small, little things that normally you would have not noticed. You start to shift and feel gratitude for what you are witnessing.

The only thing that has changed is you! You are waking up and because of the spiritual growth you are experiencing, it's starting to subtly change you and open your heart. It's you that is different, whether you realize it or not. As a result, you will begin to see all of the positive things happening in your life and you will affect everything around you in a more positive manner. It is an awakening, an amazing, beautiful feeling and awareness.

You will start to see that things are not just as they appear to be. You start to feel like you have some power to make things happen even though you don't understand it. It feels magical, and the magic continues to grow as you go to higher levels of consciousness. It is important to embrace all that is happening, for you are starting to see your own divinity. It is as though a window were opened just a crack, just enough to let in a small sliver of the full awakening that could possibly be in store for you.

It will take time for that window to be fully opened. Nevertheless, the glimpse you get from the opening you do see is spectacular. It fuels your passion to see and learn more, to keep digging deeper. You want to use your open heart to keep stripping away the illusion of the life that you knew and recognize that life now has a new meaning.

This is exhilarating! You now can see and understand exactly how much that God/Spirit cares for you. It brings great peace to your heart. It also begins to rock the foundation of your ego. Ego is starting to lose its power. You recognize there is something so much greater than you. You are graced with people showing up in your life, just at the right moment, spirit angels sent to help you move to the next step. Sometimes these angels are people, new acquaintances, and sometimes they are people who you now see in a completely different light who have been near you the whole time. Powerful forces are at work within the universe to lead you to your purpose. Everything is divinely planned.

* * * Journal Entry 2/27/2016 With Jesus

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This conversation came about after my reading 'A Course in Miracles' (ACIM) and assuming from the readings that the end goal is to reach a state where we let go of all human reactions or emotions other than love or joy.

Me: So Jesus something about the Course in Miracles is bothering me; maybe I'm understanding it wrong. I know that in ACIM we are not supposed to be sad when someone dies because there is really no such thing as death. When someone losses someone dear to them how can we not be compassionate, how can we be so detached emotionally, after all we're still human? It feels callous to me not to have emotions, please help me understand this more. Jesus: Debbie this is a great question and I am glad you are coming inside with these questions. You are right, as a human being this would be very callous and uncompassionate to take an approach of 'Oh well, there is no such thing as death', or to say something like 'they are needed more as their spirit', or it is just their time to leave earth, or some such thing. I never meant that book to have someone be callous and forget that others are human and so are they. Me: I feel like we should not have any emotions at all unless it is love or joy is this wrong? Jesus: This is difficult to understand. As a spirit there are no emotions, just joy, well, for the most part anyway. Because you are human you are going to experience other emotions, however, the job is to detach from all of the ego emotions coming from your old programing. It does not mean that nothing will ever upset you again. Me: For example, say someone or my child gets hurt, it is so strange to think, 'well, that is their reality and their soul's path that is organized and planned therefore, they are not really hurt so I am not going to have any feelings about it.' Jesus: I understand what you are saying and you are correct, the humanness in you should have feelings, it is part of your humility of being human. To transcend all emotion other than joy and peace you would not be human anymore, that would be difficult to achieve. That is not what my expectations are for you or anyone else. That is why we are writing a simple book.

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* A Course In Miracles is a book that was written by Helen Schucman in 1976. It was channeled through Jesus as a self-study curriculum for spiritual transformation. There are study groups all over the world.

Points to ponder

• Have you been practicing the guided imagery to find your guidance ('Do I have to Give Up Me to be Loved by God' by Margaret Paul, pg. 177)?

• If you have found your guidance are you having conversations with them? Can you hear your soul speaking to you?

• Are you looking for reassurances on the outside?

What reassurance are you looking for and from where?

• Have you experienced any miracles that are sent to you daily? If so, what are they?

CHAPTER 3

The End Goal

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If you invite God to work in your heart He will weave your soul like a fine tapestry taking all the imperfect threads to create a beautiful Piece of Art

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The end goal is to align your will with God's will and to understand that you are one with God and your mutual purpose for your life. There are many starts, stops, and reversions back to old habits along this road. They are all learning lessons that will help you reach this ultimate goal.

When you begin to recognize all of the miracles in your life, it gives you a taste of what is to come. You don't mind hobbling down this spiritual road even if it is painful at times ... and it is. You have to weed out all of the old programing, painful events and feelings you've experienced. You have to examine and acknowledge each one, feel the pain of them and then let them go. This means taking responsibility for all of your feelings, both negative and positive. It means that you stop blaming others, and that you forgive yourself and others. It means letting go of all of it, including attachments.

We are attached to many things that we think give us self worth. In reality, we are simply giving away our power to things or people that we think will give us self worth. Or, we are using our resentments, pain and anger to justify our behaviors. When we are able to shift our thinking from 'I need' (comfort, status, self worth) to 'I love', then we have begun to honor and appreciate our self, other people, and everything around us.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: BalboaPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1504359445
• ISBN 13: 9781504359443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142