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		<title>Happiness On The Inside &#8211;  Fixes For Mind, Emotion, Soul &amp; Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. My name is Alex Webley and this website is about YOU &#8211; not me. Why is my site about you? A big, important question with a big answer &#8211; and one which I have simplified: YOU are the most important person in YOUR life. YOU have a series [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2011/03/27/happiness-on-the-inside-fixes-for-mind-emotion-soul-%c2%a0spirit/">Happiness On The Inside &#8211;  Fixes For Mind, Emotion, Soul &#038; Spirit</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for taking the time to visit my website.</p>
<p>My name is Alex Webley and <strong>this website is about YOU &#8211; not me.</strong></p>
<p>Why is my site about you?</p>
<p>A big, important question with a big answer &#8211; and one which I have simplified:</p>
<p>YOU are the most important person in YOUR life.</p>
<p>YOU have a series of issues which need improvement.</p>
<p>The issues might be <strong>personal</strong>, or perhaps <strong>business</strong> or <strong>work related</strong>.</p>
<p>YOU want to know how I can help you. I will explain.</p>
<p>My focus is upon helping YOU.</p>
<p>My reasons for my focus include my understanding of how people work and how the world really works.</p>
<p>Because I am YOU focused it gives me greater ability to help you.</p>
<p>The title of this website states:</p>
<p><strong>Feel Happy On The Inside &#8211; Fixes For Mind, Emotion, Soul And Spirit</strong></p>
<p>A big claim, I know.</p>
<p>I will summarise simply and briefly:</p>
<p><strong>1) I know how to help you achieve deep &amp; permanent change in thinking, feelings, emotions and actions.</strong></p>
<p>A very big claim!</p>
<p>Yes, indeed.</p>
<p>I know how to work on the deep emotional parts as well as the logical.</p>
<p>Just trying to fix the logical level is not sufficient.</p>
<p>How do I know this?</p>
<p>Because <strong>I have been there and done it myself.</strong></p>
<p>Yes I am well read, having completed extensive study, however that is not the main source of my knowledge and experience.</p>
<p>Remember, I said I would keep it simple and brief&#8230;.</p>
<p>I had a very bad start in life &#8211; poor parenting which included psychological, emotional and physical abuse (not sexual). Coupled with a sensitive psyche, deafness and undiagnosed asthma I became a very dysfunctional and emotionally retarded youth suffering from mental illness.</p>
<p>Not surprisng huh?</p>
<p>Today I have deep peace and joy. I do not have to &#8216;work&#8217; at being happy. I did it all without drugs &#8211; not even anti depressants. <strong>I found out what REALLY works and LASTS.</strong></p>
<p>These days I help all kinds of people &#8211; both men and women &#8211; from all walks of life&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8230;.with life coaching, executive coaching, counselling, mind healing and more&#8230;..</p>
<p>Business people, managers, wealthy people, employees, people in stressful occupations, professionals, lawyers, accountants, doctors, architects, military people, housewives or house husbands, self employed and more.</p>
<p>A &#8216;feather in my cap&#8217; is that I was once asked by a well connected friend for advice on whether he should take his new girlfriend to a private dinner with the Prime Minister (I won&#8217;t say which country for privacy &amp; security reasons).</p>
<p>I have come a long way since my youth. Fancy a chap like me consulting on the Prime Minister&#8217;s guest list!</p>
<p>Most people with my type of start in life don&#8217;t make it back, let alone achieve deep peace and happiness.</p>
<p>For more: <a class="vt-p" href="http://joywizard.com/2010/12/02/when-a-psychologist-or-psychiatrist-or-counsellor-is-not-an-expert/" target="_blank">When A Psychologist Or Psychiatrist Or Counsellor Is Not An Expert</a></p>
<p><strong>2) I am good at thinking and at solving problems.</strong></p>
<p>Lateral thinking and Philosophy are second nature to me.</p>
<p>I have an in depth grasp, experience and understanding of core life <strong>wisdom</strong>. Much is actually very simple.</p>
<p>There is a beauty about simplicity.</p>
<p>I have a key focus on finding truth and am not interested in my own opinion for its own sake.</p>
<p>A humble mindset is a key to power and wisdom.</p>
<p>Results are key. Results are a must. And as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>After all, how much of the rest of YOUR life do you want to waste?</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong>My Promise<br />
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<em>I will personally show you how to achieve deep and permanent change in your life.</em></p>
<p><em>You will be able to use the knowledge on your own for the rest of your life whenever you want.</em></p>
<p><em>My methods are simple, safe, easy to use and powerful.</em></p>
<p><em>When you have experienced them, you will not be able to forget them.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Alex Webley</span></em></p>
<p><strong>Life Coach &#8211; Counsellor - Executive Coach &#8211; Shaman</strong></p>
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<p><em>&#8220;The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.&#8221;</em> &#8211; Alvin Toffler</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one&#8217;s life.&#8221;</em> &#8211; Dalai Lama<img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-a.png" alt="" /></p>
<p><em>&#8220;The significant problems we face can never be solved at the level of thinking of the problem.&#8221; </em>- Albert Einstein</p>
<p><em>&#8220;There are in the world 2 powers, the sword &amp; the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword&#8221;</em>. &#8211; Napoléon Bonaparte</p>
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<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2009/11/18/are-you-having-a-bad-day-week-month-year/' title='Are You Having A Bad Day, Week, Month, Year?'>Are You Having A Bad Day, Week, Month, Year?</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2009/11/18/how-and-why-i-became-a-personal-development-blogger/' title='How and why I became a personal development blogger.'>How and why I became a personal development blogger.</a></li>
<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2011/03/24/alligators-nipping-at-your-ass-how-to-hang-in-there-enjoy-the-ride/' title='Alligators nipping at your ass? How to hang in there &amp; enjoy the ride.'>Alligators nipping at your ass? How to hang in there &#038; enjoy the ride.</a></li>
<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2011/01/23/a-christian-with-no-inner-peace-of-mind/' title='A Christian with no inner peace of mind?'>A Christian with no inner peace of mind?</a></li>
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		<title>Why Joy Wizard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joy! Joy can be so elusive. Joy can be confusing. You may not even know what a real joy is really like. Some people think that joy equates to getting everything that they want. (Selfishness). There are many different definitions and opinions about joy. Then there is the issue of how deeply joy is felt [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2010/09/05/why-joy-wizard-2/">Why Joy Wizard?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4716" title="Joy1" src="http://joywizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Joy1-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /><a class="vt-p" href="http://www.answers.com/joy" target="_blank">Joy</a>!</p>
<p>Joy can be so elusive.</p>
<p>Joy can be confusing.</p>
<p>You may not even know what a real joy is really like.</p>
<p>Some people think that joy equates to getting everything that they want. (Selfishness).</p>
<p>There are many different definitions and opinions about joy.</p>
<p>Then there is the issue of how deeply joy is felt known and experienced.</p>
<p>Is joy a &#8216;head concept&#8217; for you perhaps? Something which just exists in your mind without a deep inner knowing which permeates every part of your being.</p>
<p>Others have some kind of religious conceptualization of joy.</p>
<p>Seeking joy and happiness are key goals of many. Unfortunately most get lost somewhere along the way and fail to find the real secrets to experiencing true joy. (This is one reason selfishness is so appealing).</p>
<p>Recently I decided to focus on helping people in the areas which I have greatest expertise. One of these is joy and happiness. It is my &#8216;niche&#8217;. I have world class expertise and experience.</p>
<p>This is not some kind of idle boast (<a class="vt-p" href="http://joywizard.com/2009/02/03/humility-is-someting-to-be-cherished/" target="_blank">I cherish humility anyway</a>) &#8211; I have been through mental fires that few survive. I know what it is to move from being a person who wished that he was dead with so much gusto that I felt &#8216;pickled&#8217; in it (I was too scared to kill myself) to one which knows a deep joy beyond the comprehension of most.</p>
<p>As it happens, helping others to experience real joy is a deep passion of mine. Some reasons include my awareness that when we fix the joy quotient (JQ) in our lives, many other things start going right also.</p>
<p>So, I chose the name <strong>Joy Wizard<span style="font-weight: normal;">&#8230;.</span></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Joy Wizard&#8221; sums me, and the help I provide, up very neatly.</p>
<p><a class="vt-p" href="http://www.answers.com/wizard" target="_blank">Wizard is a word which many can relate to</a> and at times it can also mean a Shaman. Whilst I am indeed a <a class="vt-p" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman" target="_blank">Shaman</a>, <strong>the help I provide works regardless of a person&#8217;s religious or spiritual perspective</strong>. This is partly because it is based on principles which transcend religious beliefs and instead is rooted in fundamental life &#8216;code&#8217; and psychology.</p>
<p>I <strong>know</strong> stuff which <strong>works</strong>!</p>
<p><a class="vt-p" href="http://joywizard.com/" target="_blank">Click here to go to the Joy Wizard website.</a><br />
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		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, and a warm welcome to my website/blog to both new and old readers. I am a Life Coach, Executive Coach, Counsellor and Shaman. This website/blog is primarily about how YOU can: Feel Happy On The Inside. Experience Real Joy Despite Your Circumstances. I know how to help you achieve: deep and permanent change in [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2010/07/31/joy-wizard-feel-happy-on-the-inside/">Joy Wizard &#8211; Feel Happy On The Inside</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-84" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Radiant_smile" src="http://joywizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Radiant_smile.jpg" alt="Radiant Smile" width="163" height="163" />Hello, and a warm welcome to my website/blog to both new and old readers.</p>
<p>I am a <strong>Life Coach</strong>, <strong>Executive Coach</strong>, <strong>Counsellor</strong> and <strong>Shaman</strong>.</p>
<p>This website/blog is primarily about how <strong>YOU</strong> can:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Feel Happy On The Inside</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Experience Real <a class="vt-p" href="http://www.answers.com/joy" target="_blank">Joy</a> Despite Your Circumstances</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>I <strong>know</strong> how to help you achieve:</p>
<ul>
<li>deep and permanent change</li>
</ul>
<p>in your:</p>
<ul>
<li>thinking,</li>
<li>feelings,</li>
<li>emotions,</li>
<li>and actions.</li>
</ul>
<p>How do I know this?</p>
<p><strong>Because I have lived it myself.<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Get help for your:</p>
<ul>
<li>Anxiety</li>
<li>Depression</li>
<li>Unhappiness</li>
<li>Lack of joy</li>
<li>Boredom</li>
</ul>
<p><a class="vt-p" href="http://joywizard.com/2010/12/02/when-a-psychologist-or-psychiatrist-or-counsellor-is-not-an-expert/" target="_blank">When A Psychologist Or Psychiatrist Or Counsellor Is Not An Expert</a></p>
<p><a class="vt-p" href="http://joywizard.com/2009/11/19/be-careful-which-counselorcounsellor-you-choose/" target="_blank">Be careful which counselor/counsellor you choose</a></p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”</em> ~Pericles</p></blockquote>
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<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2009/11/24/unsure-what-to-do-in-life/' title='Unsure what to do in life?'>Unsure what to do in life?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2009/11/22/what-is-your-direction/' title='What is your direction?'>What is your direction?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://joywizard.com/2009/11/18/did-your-parents-rob-you/' title='Did your parents rob you?'>Did your parents rob you?</a></li>
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		<title>Is personal development hard work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is personal development hard work? Some people claim that it is. Some should know better. I am very wary of such statements for a number of reasons, some of which will be covered in this article. Before I start please let me fill you in on a brief background. I had an extremely bad emotional, [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2009/11/17/is-personal-development-hard-work/">Is personal development hard work?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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<p>Is <strong>personal development</strong> hard work?</p>
<p>Some people claim that it is. Some should know better.</p>
<p>I am very wary of such statements for a number of reasons, some of which will be covered in this article.</p>
<p>Before I start please let me fill you in on a brief background. I had an extremely bad emotional, psychological and mental start in life due to very bad parenting. Today I experience joy and calmness which has been a lasting feature for many years now. In fact it is actually increasing. And all without drugs, alcohol or other &#8216;crutches&#8217;.</p>
<p>Some of what I have achieved could possibly be described by some as being the results of &#8220;hard work&#8221;.</p>
<p>One of the problems with claiming that personal development is hard work is that it can be a key hindrance to the very people that need help the most. One of the reasons for this is that many people associate the words &#8220;hard work&#8221; with unpleasant feelings and thoughts, both on the conscious and subconscious levels. Personal development does take effort, but whether this is seen as hard work depends partly on one&#8217;s viewpoint and how the term is conceptualised. You see, in many ways, personal development and growth is actually easy work &#8211; in fact this is one of the secrets that large numbers of people are unaware of because of societal conditioning, poor advice and other factors.</p>
<p>So how can I say that personal development is actually easy work?</p>
<p>Let me give you a simple example which will help to illustrate the concept. It is not difficult.</p>
<p>We as people are usually concerned about ourselves and running our own &#8220;business&#8221; called &#8220;Me Inc&#8221;.</p>
<p>When we start to see that by employing certain personal development techniques and thinking structures our life improves &#8211; (the benefits) &#8211; doing what is necessary can become a lot easier. As the fruit of what we are sowing starts to manifest as a result of what we are changing, then life becomes easier and further positive fuel is added to the fire. Obviously, it is a much better character trait to do things the right way for the right reasons, as opposed to just to get benefit; however, especially in the early stages of personal growth, doing things to gain a benefit is the more likely outcome. As time passes and the individual becomes more alive and connected internally to the right things then the character is able to change in a more positive way also.</p>
<p>The simple equation then, is that when we understand the correlation between the personal development technique and the benefit, the whole process appears much easier and more inviting. We are no longer telling ourselves that what we&#8217;re trying to do is hard work, which could be especially bothersome if we have always failed at &#8220;hard work&#8221; before.</p>
<p>Clearly, I could go into a lot more detail about this concept however that is not the purpose of this article and I&#8217;m sure that most readers will understand the point.</p>
<p>Another reason why I dislike calling personal development hard work has to do with the end &#8211; the goal &#8211; the incredible state of joy, calmness and peace that is available, and a certainty, if one follows the right path. Again, without going into a lot of detail, a key focus for people should be on the vision and knowledge of what their reality could and should be. And will be.</p>
<p>There are many more reasons why I dislike calling personal development hard work however I will close this article with one more. This one is a deeper aspect, however it is actually very simple. I will not cover it in detail here, choosing rather to focus on a very brief outline. In time, I will write in-depth material on this subject.</p>
<p>Over many years of personal experience both in my own life, and in counseling others, I have discovered the power of the visual to change lives in extremely marked ways, often in a very short space of time, with minimal effort. Using the power of the visual for personal development in the correct way is incredibly powerful and frankly, to call it hard work, is an insult and demonstrates a lack of understanding of an essential element of personal growth. The visual can often incorporate the spiritual too &#8211; I ask you to consider the question: if one receives help from Spirit; how can that be hard work?</p>
<p>On a personal note, I do feel a great responsibility to help as many people as I can to understand what really works. I will be writing more on this subject in due course, and in much more detail.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading. And for those of you that are really desperate, there really is hope. Even if you&#8217;ve tried personal development techniques before. And even if you&#8217;ve been to see the &#8220;Gurus&#8221; and it hasn&#8217;t worked.</p>
<p><strong>If you are in a hurry, or even desperate, for some of the most powerful techniques for personal growth and inner healing, look into Shamanic Journeying. </strong>I will be writing a lot more about this down the track, however this will give you a head start.<br />
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		<title>Translate Pages Into Your Preferred Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 02:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to translate pages on this blog  into your preferred language&#8230; Over to the right, in the sidebar, is a simple translation tool, which looks like this: Here are the steps to translate a page: Go to the page you want to translate. Select your choice of language. The page will be automatically translated! Easy! [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2009/05/17/translate-pages-into-your-preferred-language/">Translate Pages Into Your Preferred Language</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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<p>How to translate pages on this blog  into your preferred language&#8230;</p>
<p>Over to the right, in the sidebar, is a simple translation tool, which looks like this:</p>
<p><script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&amp;up_source_language=en&amp;w=160&amp;h=60&amp;title=&amp;border=&amp;output=js"></script></p>
<p>Here are the steps to      translate a page:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the page you want to     translate.</li>
<li>Select your choice of language.</li>
<li>The page will be automatically translated!</li>
<li>Easy!</li>
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<p>At the top of the translated page you will find a link which will take you back to the original English page if you wish. You can also mouse over the translated text to view original language.</p>
<p>Perhaps you know someone whom you think would read and benefit from this blog, if only they could read it in their language? Well, now they can.</p>
<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2010/03/11/translate-web-pages-easily-with-google-chrome-browser" target="_blank">Translate web pages easily with Google Chrome browser</a><br />
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		<title>My vision and purpose.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My vision and purpose is to help as many people as I can in as short a time as possible. Reasons include: I understand suffering at a depth few can comprehend, and how to overcome the negative aspects of it. Gratitude for the wonderful peace I enjoy today. Spirit inspires me. So many are in [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2009/03/12/my-vision-and-purpose/">My vision and purpose.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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<p>My vision and purpose is to help as many people as I can in as short a time as possible.</p>
<p>Reasons include:</p>
<ul>
<li>I understand suffering at a depth few can comprehend, and how to overcome the negative aspects of it.</li>
<li>Gratitude for the wonderful peace I enjoy today.</li>
<li>Spirit inspires me.</li>
<li>So many are in need of understanding, wisdom and release from mental and spiritual bondage.</li>
</ul>
<p>My expertise, knowledge and experience lies in the <strong>mental</strong>, <strong>emotional</strong>, <strong>psychic, and spiritual </strong>realms.</p>
<p>I had a particularly bad start in life in these areas (you can read a bit more <a href="http://www.joywizard.net/" target="_blank">here</a> &#8211; scroll to about the middle) and had to fix myself.</p>
<p>Because my problems were so severe, and coupled with an over active, sensitive and intelligent mind, I could find very few people who could help me. Seasoned professionals were unable to help and at times, in my mentally weakened state I found it very disheartening to discern that I was considered beyond help. A few told me so, most covered it up; some I think out of misplaced &#8216;concern&#8217; for me and others because they did not want to admit that they could not help me.</p>
<p>Simply speaking; I am aware of many wonderful things and want to share them with as much of humanity as possible. We live in a broken and shallow world. It is as we heal, that the world and things in it will heal.</p>
<p>As you continue to read the articles I have posted, and will post, on this blog you will learn much.</p>
<p>I cannot reach everyone myself and one of my aims is to create spiritual wild fire; which spreads of its own accord.</p>
<p>So, who am I to say these things?</p>
<p>No one really.</p>
<p>Why do I say this?</p>
<p>Think on this carefully&#8230;..</p>
<p>I am a highly intelligent man, very logical and empirical; yet that is not my secret. Brains, ego and so on will not save you when the going gets really tough.</p>
<p>My &#8216;secret&#8217; is that I was once in a terrible mental state.</p>
<p>So bad that it is impossible to describe other than say that it was like being on the edge of an abyss of no return.</p>
<p>I was on my own. I knew that there was no one I knew, or whom I could contact, who genuinely cared about me (they that did were deceased).</p>
<p>It was a place of death and I nearly did not come back. It happened in the October of 1987.</p>
<p>I did not realize it at the time, however it was a &#8216;place&#8217; of Shamanic initiation.</p>
<p>It was the start of a long journey to not only a sound mind, but one filled with peace. I died out there. It was the end of the old me. It was not all plain sailing after that and I still had much growth to go through. Many more spiritual and other battles to fight (these started in 1985), though I did not realize what they truly were until later.</p>
<p>I paid a huge price and went the shortest hardest way up the &#8216;mountain&#8217; as fast as I could. I knew where I was going.</p>
<p>As the years passed my character developed too. I found myself caring for people, animals and things in ways which were foreign to me. It was a pleasant surprise.</p>
<p>You see; some of the essence of it all can be summed up like this:</p>
<p>I realized that:</p>
<ul>
<li>I was a rotten despicable person with incredibly selfish motives.</li>
<li>I had no strength or wisdom of my own.</li>
<li>Spirit loves me intensely &#8211; deep down in my being.</li>
<li>Spirit is where true wisdom comes from.</li>
<li>Spirit is where true character comes from.</li>
<li>I am very grateful to Spirit and honor Spirit.</li>
<li>The more I acknowledged the truths of Spirit, the happier I became, the more my character developed and the more my psychic awareness/knowledge increased.</li>
</ul>
<p>Frankly it is all very simple; and after all, Spirit would not be loving if it excluded people on the basis of intelligence or cognition.</p>
<p><strong>The more that you humble yourself, the more real spiritual knowledge, awareness and power you get.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This is because you become a channel for Spirit to move in this earthly dimension.</strong></p>
<p><strong>So, real &#8216;cleverness&#8217; is humility and acceptance of true spirit. Not some religious dogma, but raw spiritual power. When you experience it you will never be the same again.</strong></p>
<p>In conclusion then, I have an incredibly deep awareness that I am loved by Spirit. Whilst I love people, I do not love them because I need them. I don&#8217;t need anyone. I learnt out there in the fire of spiritual battle that all I needed was Spirit. Humans will fail you, true Spirit will not. I love people today because of what Spirit has done in my life; not because I am anyone special. Left to my own devices I was just another selfish git.<br />
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		<title>Key life fix.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for the way to fix your life? The way to achieve real and lasting change? Something that not only works, but which does so on a very significant scale? Well, here is the basic, simple &#8216;formula&#8217;. I will explain the formula in the guise of a story. Peter did not know how [...]<p><a href="http://joywizard.com/2009/02/02/key-life-fix/">Key life fix.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://joywizard.com">Joy Wizard Blog</a></p>
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<p><strong>Are you looking for the way to fix your life?</strong></p>
<p><strong>The way to achieve real and lasting change?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Something that not only works, but which does so on a very significant scale?</strong></p>
<p>Well, here is the basic, simple &#8216;formula&#8217;.</p>
<p>I will explain the formula in the guise of a story.</p>
<p><em>Peter did not know how to fix his life and tried one thing after another. He read about &#8220;The Secret&#8221; and all sorts of other personal development stuff, yet found some aspects hard to implement. Some of it helped and he did experience some personal growth, however progress was slow. Then he discovered Shamanism.</em></p>
<p><em>Over his life he had been a bit sceptical about spiritual stuff and had been badly treated by religious types &#8211; happy clappy people in a large church who shunned him when he failed now and again, or got upset when he was sincere and un-hypocritical.</em></p>
<p><em>One of the last straws for Peter as far as &#8216;popular&#8217; religion was concerned was when he discovered that a high profile Australian Pastor had </em><a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24216087-1246,00.html" target="_blank"><em>conned thousands of people worldwide about having cancer</em></a><em>. Even the church leadership had no idea. Now, if all these people were truly in tune with God then surely they would have known the Pastor was a fraud? (</em><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24232365-5006787,00.html" target="_blank"><em>More on Michael Guglielmucci here</em></a><em>). How could SO many people have been unaware? This realization was shattering to Peter. Peter however was clear headed enough to face up to the truth that there was something severely amiss with a situation where lots of people who claim to hear from God on a daily basis did not &#8216;hear&#8217; the real truth about this Pastor. And this Pastor&#8217;s actions were far from isolated. These type of actions caused so much damage to the message of the church. Research Peter conducted online revealed an enormous range of incidents where church Pastors and other leaders had deceived their gullible flocks, in some cases for years. And this type of thing was happening decades ago too as Peter&#8217;s research on </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart" target="_blank"><em>Jimmy Swaggart</em></a><em> showed. The final nail in the coffin for Peter, as far as the church was concerned, was his discovery that many people in the law enforcement and investigation professions had come across high rates of paedophilia in church communities, a significant portion of which was covered up.</em></p>
<p><em>Peter still felt a deep hunger within for the truth and real spiritual contact. A relationship with the spirit world. He had noticed that this deep inner hunger was a common denominator in most people, though many did not admit it. He smiled when he read that even Atheists tend to pray when the plane is going down.</em></p>
<p><em>Peter&#8217;s key focus was on truth &#8211; what was real and really worked. He started to look into the psychic world because he found out that even Police forces and intelligence agencies believed in it. Surely such factually minded people would have no time for rubbish he thought &#8211; yet here were cases of Police solving old crimes using information that psychics were able to provide. It was clear that the psychics concerned could not possibly have known some of this stuff unless they had access to spiritual knowledge.</em></p>
<p><em>As Peter&#8217;s search continued he came across Shamanism. Refreshingly basic and simple, Shamanism, Peter learned, was ancient &#8211; mankinds&#8217; earliest and oldest spirituality. Peter discovered that he could communicate with the Spirits and other spiritual energies through Shamanic Journeying and meditation &#8211; both simple exercises. He started to have personal experiences where the Spirits revealed things that made perfect sense and helped him overcome his problems. At times, the Shaman he went to see told him stuff that there was no way Peter had revealed. </em></p>
<p><em>Over time Peter&#8217;s life changed for the better, he started to get special knowledge from beyond the five normal physical senses &#8211; he even had guidance on where to find a parking spot! One day he realised that hearing from the spirits had become a habit and his life was so much better for it. Peter also found that he started to become more concerned about others; less selfish &#8211; his character grew. Most importantly of all however, <strong>Peter discovered that he was loved</strong></em><em>. He knew very deep down that he was loved, worthwhile in spite of his faults and that he would never be alone again. This love Peter experienced healed him of all kinds of inner stuff. He felt increasingly calm, happy and joyous. He felt free of some kind of set of rules, and also the sense of being  judged that he got when he went to church or associated with &#8216;believers&#8217;. In fact Peter was shocked to find that as he immersed himself in the spiritual world of Shamanism that he started to prefer and enjoy doing the &#8216;right thing&#8217;. The right thing not in the sense of a rule system, but much bigger &#8211; he found that he liked loving people, animals and the world &#8211; it was coming up from within naturally. </em><em><strong>Peter realized that he had come home.</strong></em><br />
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