Have you ever had a hawk fly right over your head?  What about two times in one day?

Or what about this – have you ever had a hawk looking in at you through a window?  What about twice for that too?  Two different windows, two different hawks.

Mere coincidences?

Weird occurrences?

Hardly.

In my world these mean my Hawk Animal Totem (aka Spirit Guide, Jarquir) has a message for me.

The Hawk is one who “soars with ease” and whenever I have an encounter with a hawk, I pay attention to the message.

I just love how I view the world now that I’m awake to the magic and miracles of the invisible realm.  I thank my lucky stars for the life path that led me to this way of being in the world.

One day I was driving down the road thinking about my Love Yourself and SOAR program (this was before I had launched it) and a hawk swooped right by windshield.  I smiled and felt that Jarquir was telling me “go for it – it’s easy.”

I smiled inside and sent him a loving vibration and then I noticed that the car in front of me had a vanity license plate with one simple word on it…MOLLY.  Another thumbs up.  Gotta love those messages.

The invisible world is leaving us clues and sending us messages all the time.  And the veil is getting thinner and thinner.  It used to be that only a select few had figured out how to tune into angelic beings.  Not any more.  I love it!

If you’ve been drawn to working with your own Spiritual Guidance Team, make sure to listen to the interview that I’m doing on this topic as part of the H.E.A.L. Series coming up.  I’ll be speaking on September 28.

And if you haven’t already downloaded my f.r.e.e. report on this topic, you can do that by clicking this link…http://mollyluffy.com/blog/connecting-with-your-guides-f-r-e-e-report/

So pay attention – the invisible spirits are all around you – and sending you messages.  Are you listening?

If you’re like most people you have heard of the concept of Spirit Guides or Angels and you’re wondering if you have any of your own. The answer is an enthusiastic “YES!” We all have Spirit Guides and Angels and even Animal Guides. Each person has a whole group of loving, devoted non-physical Guides who are committed to helping them while on Earth.

They are there helping you even if you don’t acknowledge them. You’re never alone, believe it or not. And isn’t it wonderful to consider that you have a group of Guides devoted to you? Well sink into that notion, because it’s true – you do! You probably just haven’t had a significant enough of an experience to overcome your Ego’s doubts.

It’s time for all of that to change because learning about your Team of Spirit Guides (I call them my Cosmic Team), who they are, what their names are, what unique talents and special skills they bring to the table is not only fascinating and exciting, but it helps you feel more loved and supported than you ever have been in your whole life. Really feeling this in your heart, mind and soul shifts something inside of you that is extremely profound and healing.

And then when you learn the beautiful art of two-way communication with them – watch out, baby! The floodgates open! Ideas, inspiration, messages, energetic attunements, healings, vibrational adjustments, guidance, fully formed projects and plans come in to your awareness and make your life soooooooooo much more fun and so much easier!

But before we go into the ways that you can start to work with your own Team, I’d like to tell you the story about how I met the members of my own, how I developed my ability to communicate and consult with them anytime and anyplace and the positive impact this has all had on my life.

The Art of Communicating with Your Own Cosmic Team
First of all, if you’re reading this, you’re pretty intrigued with the idea of Spirit Guides. Good for you. I hope that you’ll let go of any Ego-based stories about it not being real, or being weird for you to feel this way.

Because it is not weird at all. In fact, it’s extremely smart. The advantages that you will experience in working with your own Team are very real and I consider them to be extremely practical. So let go of any fears or doubts, and just follow your heart and trust your intuitive guidance.

Important Points for Communication with Your Team
I’m going to start this section with some very key elements you need to remember when developing your communication skills.

First of all, and most importantly, you must learn to trust. This is the key ingredient. You have to trust that the messages you are receiving are from your Team and not made up by you. You can do this as you learn the skill, but I would recommend that you start off by making a decision to trust.

Trust in yourself and your ability to actually communicate. And trust in your Team and the fact that they are not only there but communicating with you and supporting you all of the time. The biggest thing that I’ve seen get in the way of communication is people’s lack of Trust and Ego getting in the way.

Why not choose to start this process from a place of trust, versus skepticism? If you are highly skeptical about their existence or your ability to communicate with them, it will affect your experience. Skepticism energy is not really a match with open communication.

And you have to be a vibrational match to hear their messages and feel their support. You need to stay in a good energy, high vibration place so that you can easily tap into the messages that they are giving to you. When you are vibrating in fear or doubt, it’s very hard to hear their messages. Focus on feeling good, experiencing gratitude, love and peacefulness. Not only will you have a nicer earthly experience, you’ll also be able to tap into the messages from your guides with much greater ease!

For a more detailed, 10 page Special Report on this topic, click here:
http://mollyluffy.com/blog/connecting-with-your-guides-f-r-e-e-report/

So many people yearn to create a life filled with meaning.  And now, perhaps more than ever before in our history, people are waking up to their spiritual nature.  They get that they are non-physical souls having a physical experience.  They understand the Laws of the Universe and believe that they can create a life filled with purpose and passion. And many of these people have discovered the most spiritual walk of all; the journey to return to wholeness and peace; the journey to love themselves completely.

Recently a new client came to me and spoke the words I’ve heard so many times before.  “Molly, I really want to love myself, but I don’t know how.”  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this statement.  Starting with me.  Many years ago I woke up to the fact that my spiritual journey and search for answers led me right back to me.  And when I realized that the real journey I needed to take was one of loving myself for who I was, I felt a little scared too.  But this feeling was overpowered by an incredibly strong sense of purpose and desire to take this journey.  I felt driven, like I never had before, to figure out what it was going to take for me to love myself.

This journey started a number of years ago for me.  I didn’t have a handbook or a roadmap, but I was determined and kept working on it over time.  I searched for strategies and ideas from spiritual teachings that resonated with me.  I was brave and looked at my feelings and beliefs and things I was ashamed of.  Eventually I became skilled in working with energy and I was able to let all of my shame and guilt go.

And boy am I glad that I did because life now looks completely different for me.  Instead of beating myself up, my inner voice now has a dialogue that is supportive and loving in nature.  When I find myself struggling with something and I notice that I’m getting frustrated, I soothe myself with kind and loving words.  I know who I am now.  Not as a wife or daughter or any of the other roles I play, but who I am at the core.  And it feels really, really good.  I am finally comfortable in my own skin!

My life has changed for the better in countless ways.  And now I am lucky enough to support others in their own journey to loving themselves.  So if you are one of those people who is ready to take this journey, I’d like to support you with some questions and strategies to help you get started.

1.    Commit to the process.  Consider loving yourself and actively work on it as you would any other important goal.

2.    Get in touch with your “Inner Critic.”  All of us having a running dialogue going on within our own minds.  Oftentimes this voice delivers damaging and hurtful messages.  In order to retrain your brain, focus your attention on what’s going on inside of your mind.  Create an inventory of beliefs, feelings and fears you’d like to release.

3.    Release your shame and negative beliefs.  Before you can effectively fill yourself with empowering thoughts and beliefs, you need to bulldoze those that aren’t serving you.  Learn how to work with energy – and then clear yourself of your Inner Critic Inventory.

4.    Tame Your Inner Critic.  Once you’ve started to rid yourself of the damaging thoughts, you can start to empower yourself with new uplifting beliefs.  When you catch your Inner Critic doing its old negative song and dance – catch it – and say some uplifting words and retrain your Inner Critic to be your Inner Cheerleader!

When one owns up to the fact that they don’t love themselves, it can feel scary and lonely.  But facing it is the first step and the loneliness and scared feeling can be replaced by a sense of excitement and empowerment.  Because loving yourself is spiritual gold.  It’s the key to the kingdom, the way to create a life that you love.  Magic and miracles await you, if you’re brave enough to walk this path.

When I was a little girl I loved going to Methodist church with my family. The people there were so nice. I felt safe and loved. I even liked going to the Youth group meetings on Sunday nights. It never seemed to me that there was too much pressure about God or the Bible. Thankfully, this particular church did not preach with a heavy emphasis on eternal damnation or unworthiness. I’m not sure how long I would have stuck around had that been the case.

But my lovely little church kept me engaged through my Sophomore year in High School. Not bad considering neither of my parents went to church with me. But in my Sophomore year, something happened. I was really going through a huge change in my life and I just stopped going. I took a break from my spiritual life for a few years, never really thinking much about it until I took a World Religions class in college. What an eye opener. About that same time my boss gave me a book that stirred something inside of me in a very profound way. It was Be Here Now by Ram Dass. Suddenly, spirituality seemed so much more real and more interesting than it ever had before. And suddenly I had a deep resonance with the idea of reincarnation. Something inside of me said, “Of course this is how it works.”

The answers I had searched for as a young, young child started to come together. As a young child I can remember lying in bed at night asking, “Who am I? What is this?” I struggled with this question for years, never feeling like the answers I received at church made sense for me. And now, having been introduced to reincarnation, things started to fall into place for me. But I was nervous. I knew that reincarnation was not taught in Christianity and that I would be diverting from my family’s belief system. So I kept quiet. I didn’t tell my family about this for years.

These days I’m happily engaged in a spiritual community that focuses on ideas and teachings that resonate with me. And what a gift this has been. I have returned to that safe, loving place of a “church” family, only this time I’m more engaged and spiritually nourished there.

Are you spiritually nourished and engaged? Have you taken the time to evaluate if the church system you were brought up in is really a fit for you now as an adult? When my niece left for college, I encouraged her to question everything she had been taught. I told her that as an adult it was her responsibility and right to look at what she believed about the world and formulate her own opinions and values. And I’ll encourage you with this same sentiment now.

I meet so many people who are suffering in life with feelings of unworthiness and shame. Most of these people have an internal struggle within themselves, partially because they don’t know who they are – or what they believe in. What a shame! Where did we go wrong in our society by encouraging people to do what they are told, and believe as their family believes. What happened? Even though we won’t be able to answer this monumental question, we can answer our own questions – about who we are, what makes us tick, what we really like, what we believe in – about life, the world around us and what we’re willing to make a stand for in this world. And most especially what we do believe about Source Energy/God/Universal Spirit.

Socrates said it best with his famous proclamation, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” So now as we enter the holiday season, won’t you take the time, if you haven’t already, to discover what you believe about Source and your own role in the spiritual expansion you are experiencing as a human on Earth? Discovering these things helps contribute to a solid foundation for your life; helping you stand solidly in this world, knowing who you are and what you believe in. And boy is it a good feeling.

Molly Luffy asks Conscious Entrepreneurs to look at how they are beating themselves up and offers encouraging words for stopping this abusive cycle.