Archive for Relationships
spirituality and business: no oxymoron
Posted by: | CommentsGood Day Everyone!
Connected with Source Energy
Recently someone asked me to put together a talk for a corporation without using the word spirituality. I was told that was the last word they wanted to hear. Yikes! Just goes to show you how people fear what they don’t know or understand. So I decided to address this in my blog.
Fact: There’s no such thing as a non-spiritual business or organization. Period.
We are all Spiritual beings; humans and every physical form (manifestation) have their roots in nonphysical energy (thought) first. Nothing gets to the planet without being a thought form, first. So, banking or widgets, government or religious group, they are all Spiritual organizations…Yes, even hospitals and the military. Everything. Everyone.
To not recognize that or understand that completely is missing the boat. Every group is a spiritual group. We can create anything we want on earth: absolutely anything. I think some of the misperceptions come into play when you think that a spiritual group is going to look like something other than what you expect. They’re going to be off meditating before the board meeting or kneeling in prayer before battle. Not.
The big misconception is that spirituality=good. Earth is a free will zone. Everything gets to be here. That’s pretty obvious, don’t you agree? So this begs the question, what’s the point? Or what’s the different? Or what exactly are we looking to experience?
MORE Quality. Good. Joy. Humor. Fun. Collaboration. Willingness. Expansion. Exuberance. Innovation. Inspiration. Fullness. Satisfaction. Solutions. Exhilaration…LIFE!
Source Energy, which we all already ARE at our core, is the highest, purest, fastest frequencies. We feel this Quality in every moment: either a lot of it or none of it or every shade (emotion) in between. Just because you’re at work doesn’t mean you’ve left your Internal Guidance System at home. Just because you’re singing in the choir at church doesn’t mean you’re allowing Source Energy to flow through you and you’re feelin’ the Love.
Spirituality Defined:
Spirituality is the measure of someone’s personal, most intimate relationship with Self. It has nothing to do with church or religion nor is it left behind because you don a three piece suit or a military uniform. Your Self is always with you. The question is are you aligned with Self (Source) or not, how much Light are you allowing to flow through your unit right NOW? That is spirituality. How connected are you in any given moment to Source, which is YOU.
The spiritual business already is. The question now is: How much Source Energy is allowed in? The degree to which each individual within the business/organization brings Self to the table, is the degree that prosperity, abundance, creativity, joy, humor, innovation, inspiration, genius is created and experienced in the entity’s services, products, communications, etc. The greater the flow of Source Energy into anything, the more Good is manifested in the final product. Above all, it is the experience of feeling It as Good and Enlivening.
At the core of every successful business if Love. Listen to an excerpt from the online self study course to the book, Well Done – A Story of Applied Spirituality™.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Thanks for reading! Kath
valentine’s day is everyday
Posted by: | CommentsHappy Valentine’s Day to You!
Chelsea Garden, Solana Beach, CA
It was Valentine’s Day 1984. My Restaurant, Chelsea Garden, had just been reviewed by the local rag, The Reader, with rave reviews from Eleanor Widmer who regularly closed a restaurant a week with her acerbic comments. The Review came just in the nick of time. Having been open since December, we were only doing single digit dinners each night. Suddenly, we were famous on Valentine’s Day.
I was out running around trying to prepare for an onslaught of customers. When I returned, my Manager told me that someone had been by to meet me. I couldn’t imagine who or why. She said he wanted to meet the person who had finally won a great review from the Wicked Witch. He was a local restauranteur and club owner who invited us to come be his guests that evening after we closed. I passed it off turning my focus back to the business at hand. We were going to be very busy that evening; and, thank God, we were saved.
That evening after we closed, Manager and I went over to the Restauranteur’s Club as invited. It was very late, perhaps 12:30 am. There was a line at the door to get it. Standing there with a grin from ear to ear was a man whom I’d never seen before. As I approached, he asked me, “Can I help you?” I nodded, “I’m looking for Woody.” He grinned back saying, “You just found him.” In that nanosecond I felt as though I had already met him. I knew him, but of course, I didn’t. We stood staring at each other in the space of infinity both of us trying to fathom this irrefutable Connection. I looked at his face, seeing it for the first time; feeling his Spirit, I knew I’d known him for Eternity.
It was a love affair that has lasted for lifetimes. Woody passed away in 1997; but since then I’ve learned the absolute Eternality of Love. Love never dies and neither do we. At the time of Woody’s physical death, I was dismayed. Why did something so wonderful need to end? Yet over the years I have come to know that in Truth, Love never dies. It is a living breathing Entity that is Eternal leaving you free to Love over and over and over because you are so full. It is the unconditional Wind Beneath My Wings.
I wish this experience for everyone. Valentine’s Day is everyday.
Thanks for reading
Kath
self esteem: the measure of love and respect for yourself
Posted by: | CommentsGood Morning Everyone!
We are told to “Love yourself!” I know when I first heard this I was kind of confused. Didn’t everyone just automatically love oneself? Evidently not. Seems we carry the baggage of others’ opinions around…often unknowingly. The only way we know this is when the confidence that is required to do something just isn’t there. Being “shy” is one manifestation. Other examples might be someone who is overly boastful using a false bravado to compensate for a lack of confidence. And there’s more, of course. You don’t want to get into your bathing suit and play at the beach; or you won’t stand up for yourself when required; or there’s a voice in the back of your mind constantly saying, “you’re not enough…smart enough, pretty enough, educated enough, rich enough, etc.
When we don’t appreciate who we are, value our worth or appreciate our uniqueness, the tragedy is a life unfulfilled and a world that goes without our unique gifts and talents, because we don’t have the ability to bring them to the world. We live small. We hide. We never seem to get what we want.
Having the requisite love and appreciation for oneself results in a fulfilled life. We don’t “take” from others, we stand in who we are radiating our beautiful Self out to the world, and by Law of Attraction we are matched with the lovely things we deserve. It’s not aggression; it’s magnetism like a Light House standing firm and steady on the shore so that all the boats can easily and clearly find it. The ability to shine clearly is self esteem.
We are so much more than we think we are! At the core, we are Source Energy having a physical experience. In human terms we are gorgeous just as we are, despite what your human mind has to say on the subject. Each of us is a chip off the same Old Block, and have the same core of Source Energy, Well Being.
This is the time in the course of human history when we are awakening to Who We Really Are. Isn’t it time you stopped resisting and let go of the false ideas your human mind would have you believe about you? What’s stopping you? Do you think the process has to be painful or scary? It doesn’t. Do you think this is going to take a long time and divert you from your “real life”. It doesn’t have to. Do you feel lost and don’t know where to begin? Well, start here. It’s a fun journey and when guided by someone who’s been there, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. It’s a natural process of … letting go.
Join us in a workshop this evening, February 9, 2011 and then a 4 week seminar in Falling in Love with Yourself: You are Enough. You can only benefit, there is absolutely no downside to this; and the benefits are infinite.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
leadership hallmark: thinking for yourself
Posted by: | CommentsGood Day Everyone!
I ran across an item on the internet this morning that tells of a website that proposes the existence of a tree octopus.
Dr. Donald J Leu of the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut has pointed to this site as evidence that our children are not being taught the critical thinking they need to discern fact from fiction in this world. Truth be told, our children are not being taught to be leaders, but to be one of the pack receiving praise for following the rules, standing in line quietly, and regurgitating facts. In short they are taught that being a follower wins praise and that standing out from the herd merits censure.
Leadership, however, is the ability to think for yourself and follow your own Internal Guidance on any subject in any circumstance. People encouraged at a young age to follow their individualistic thinking and weigh how it feels to them are the ones who develop new companies, find solutions to the gordian knot, and develop innovative ideas that propel society forward. Thinking for oneself is the hallmark of leadership.
Listen to an excerpt from the online self study course from Well Done – A Story of Applied Spirituality™
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
When individuals are allowed and encouraged to express a new and original thought and then meet up with praise for having the courage to do so, they don’t end up acting out in negative ways later on. All those little bright and shining faces in our schools are future leaders if seen through new eyes. They are not our clay to mold; they are unique individual light beings ready willing and able to bring Light into the world. Sometimes it’s exuberant and noisy, but always exciting.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
well done online course excerpt #1: you matter to the whole
Posted by: | CommentsGood Morning World!
Make no mistake; you matter to us all a great deal!!! Yes, you. It is right and appropriate that your life matters to you; because no one else has your unique view or gifts to bring to the world. That we are all selfishly oriented is a Good thing. When you finally reach a place in your adventure where you want to be happy and fulfilled personally, at that point the Whole benefits, because your joy is our blessing. Please enjoy an excerpt from Well Done – A Story of Applied Spirituality. You deserve to be fulfilled; but only you can make that happen. Go for it! This life, your life, is not a dress rehearsal.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Thanks for reading! Kath
i have a dream
Posted by: | CommentsHello Everyone,
Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King - his life, his success, his contribution to America because of his idealism. We are all better because he lived in pursuit of his dream: brotherly Love, Divine Love lived on Earth. If you’ve never heard his speech, I offer it to you here. Let it speak to your heart where Divine Love lives in each of us.
>/center>
Thanks for reading!
Kath
the flow of life
Posted by: | CommentsHello Everyone,
I recently came across this video of young Johnathan conducting the 4th movement to Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. Study him. Johnathan is the picture of allowing Life to flow through you with no resistance. Obviously we cannot know how he feels in this state, but by watching him you can infer that he is ALIVE, ALLOWING, EXUBERANT, EAGER, ENTHUSIASTIC AND HAVING FUN. This blurs the line between the physical and the nonphysical, as he is allowing his 96% nonphysical Godself to flow unimpeded through him in pure bliss and joy.
Imagine living your day feeling like this…you can.
Spend some time imagining how it feels to be in Johnathan’s state of being right now. Carry that with you into your day and reproduce it.
Thanks for reading,
Kath
a new year gift for you
Posted by: | CommentsHappy New Year Everyone!
God in Everything in the World; yourSelf in Everything in your life
I’m thinking that by now we’re all pretty sick of pessimism, the recession, media hype, and fear…yes? I know that we can all do better in our daily endeavors if we feel Good, positive, optimistic. Everything goes better when we have the basic belief that we are supported in some larger Well Being and can tap into it at will.
To this end, I am offering everyone and anyone a Month of Sundays with Conversations with Kath: Living the Consciousness of Well Being Everyday. Your free gift begins on Sunday Evening, January 1, 2011 at 6pm EST. All you need is a phone with long distance capabilities and the willingness to listen, let go of limiting ideas, expand your thinking and allow for infinite possibilities.
You can expect some teaching, some coaching, some techniques to practically apply in your daily life. You will also find a community of supportive people all in the same place – a desire for more and better for yourself and for the world.
I love this nation, this world, this Universe; and I know we can all be better, live well and enjoy this Life we have.
Please take me up on this offer and join us for Month of Sundays. Sunday, January 2, 2011 6pm EST. You must register so I have enough lines on the call. See you Sunday!
Thanks for reading!
Kath
choose You, first: your gift to the world
Posted by: | CommentsHello Everyone,
Selfishness has gotten a bad rap. However are you going to give anything to anyone if your basket is empty? How are you going to give the world, your family, your job, your kids your Best Self if you haven’t nourished it?
The idea that giving is more blessed than receiving is maybe true; buy only if you think in terms of giving the gift of You to the world. I see so many people stretched beyond their limits, running like the Mad Hatter from job to soccer to home to scouts to home to job to meetings without ever taking a moment to see if their Tank is full or empty. Judging from the rise in healthcare all across America, I am persuaded to believe that most are going through each day with their Energy Tank on Empty.
There’s an Easy Way and a Hard Way to go through life. The hard way is the way most Americans do it; we approach Life through our human mind which is telling us there’s not enough time, money or energy. So we better run harded, work harded, move faster to get it all done, measuring ourselves by what we accomplished throughout the day without taking a Quality reading, ease reading, or love reading.
The Easy Way to go through Life is to open your hose to your Godself allowing in the full flow of Source Energy into every Now Moment, funding each transaction on Earth with Life, Enthusiasm, Energy, Creativity, Joy, and E.A.S.E. You can go through Well or you can go through hard, the choice is entirely up to you. The wonder of doing it the Easy Way is that time bends and expands as you leverage the Power of the Universe. You have Time, You have Energy; You have Efficiency and Effectiveness and Ease, Joy, Love, Abundance. Yes, you can have it all.
How to go through Life in Ease, connected to Source is what Transformational Life Coaching is all about. The reason to participate in Transformational Life Coaching is purely selfish. When you get yourself connected to Source and feel Good, then and only then can you enjoy the life you’re in; and what’s more then and only then can you deliver your Best Self to the world. So to be a blessing on the world, the only sane thing to do is tend to your Connection with Source. Then it really is more blessed to give than receive. This is what Applied Spirituality is, mastery of your Connection with Source. Won’t you join us for Sunday Evening Life Coaching and choose You, first?
Thanks for reading!
Kath
