LISTENING FOR JOY
Listening is a simple action that opens us up to feeling. What are we listening for? To celebrate change and overcome hate, believing that nothing
Richard J. Marks
Author, Producer, Speaker
ICF Certified Personal Development Professional
Richard J. Marks guides individuals and groups to next level living.
Working with a guide is pathfinding. Pathfinding casts light on what is ready to come out of hiding.
Whereas therapy is about the past (going from negative to neutral), coaching is about the future (neutral to positive).
“Next level living” is being able to give more of ourselves— to embody beauty, elegance, and excellence in business and career, self-expression and relationships. This all contributes to planetary healing — especially in a society thirsting for more joy.
Inclusive of race, gender, sexuality, and ability at any age.
Spiritual integrity involves continually turning towards the discovery that we are conduits of hope, freedom and joy. It involves trusting and listening to what is divine in ourselves. Developing spiritual integrity involves growing beyond feelings of distance and separation. Being sure not to project our understanding of right and wrong onto everyone else’s experience is actually a statement of humility and faith.
Self-healing rejects what is low and hurtful; reverses what is not joy. It exchanges denial and hatred for hope and love; it means abandoning our deep distrust, and listening for joy.
Experiencing… feeling … trusting … allowing … and receiving… all these produce higher-centered feelings. When you can feel in the moment, it leads to real love of self and others.
This is freedom: seeing how to transition from a life with dwindling hope to a world in which freedom connects with both empathy and power. When they connect, we have hope.
Getting joy moving in our bodies, we gain the powers to experience everything as more beautiful. Joy is in us at all times. The first quality of joy is serenity, the peace that comes from listening. The second quality of joy is a vital action: transfiguration. This metamorphosis happens when something changes form into a more beautiful state.
It means seeing things as more beautiful. But there is something more: it is a promise of what is to come. Our goal is to directly experience it. The spiritual work of transfiguration is metamorphosis, which in humans is essentially the start of change.
Spirit is sentience, the accessibility of emotion and intellect, and our own unique ability to be self-aware.
Artwork courtesy of Margaret d’Arsinoë
Listening is a simple action that opens us up to feeling. What are we listening for? To celebrate change and overcome hate, believing that nothing
There comes a day when it is time to start watching our thoughts and seeing what is in the heart. Ultimately, how we travel inwardly
To foster the role of strong ethical principles in the development of spiritual leaders and communities, the ASI’s Honor Code of Ethics and Good Practices aims to be an evolving force for greater integrity and professionalism within the modern spiritual landscape.
To foster the role of strong ethical principles in the development of spiritual leaders and communities, the ASI’s Honor Code of Ethics and Good Practices aims to be an evolving force for greater integrity and professionalism within the modern spiritual landscape.
A word of caution: As important as self-care, coaching, and self-healing are, they never replace any circumstance where there is urgent need for medical attention, professional therapy, or trained mental care workers.
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