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Greetings!
'The Dark Night of The Soul' is an essential part to any person or society's spiritual journey, it is the point we get to where we have to stop and take stock of where we are heading, because we have no other option.
I believe that if we are on the wrong path, the Universe will conspire to get us back on track. The Universe is predominantly a benevolent one and is likely to give us a few taps on the shoulder encouraging us to change before summoning the 'Dark Night', if we don't pay heed. So listen up and change now before it is all too late.
The 'Dark Night' can be experienced from an individual or a collective perspective. There can be no doubt surely that something is happening out there at the moment which is beginning to make us all think, as there seems to be no end of people suffering from broken legs, heart palpitations, serious dis-ease, business failures, fires, deaths, riots, financial meltdown, increases in food and fuel prices, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and drought to name but a few.
Our current way of living is out of balance with nature. I believe we are suffering the beginnings of systemic failure from our growth model and we need to totally change the way in which we are operating, business as usual is simply not an option. We can't solve the problems with the same kind of thinking that created them - Einstein. You can't solve rioting protesters with rioting police officers. It needs compassion and understanding as to the real reasons behind these violent outbursts, the answer to which is likely to exist in the aforesaid reasoning and realigning to nature.
Today's movie is all about getting our life back on track via The Adjustment Bureau a great film that illustrates the case in point that the Universe will get us back on track if we are off line. For more on my own 'Dark Night of the Soul' moment and the lesson it is providing me please read on.
Have a great weekend.
Kind regards
Simon
Set Your Spirit Free
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The Dark Night Of The Soul
A Personal Account Of My Own Spiritual Journey
Six years ago I encountered what might be classed as my first 'Dark Night of The Soul' moment, this past month has neared on another.
Prior to September 18th 2005 I was living a predominantly unfulfilled life, I was working as a graphic designer getting little appreciation for the work I was doing. For 2 years prior to this date I had been getting subtle hints that I needed to change the way I did things. I received counseling, I almost lost my job, I moved house, I started my own business but still I wasn't really paying attention to what I truly needed to do in order to change my life around.... and then it hit me... The Universe that is!
It hit me via a Silver, Blue Peugeot 306 going in excess of 50mph along a country lane, I was stationary at the time. The impact instantly wrote my car off and I was left with whiplash which would take well over two years to heal. At the point of contact, the two air bags in the front of my car exploded, the cockpit went black with dense smoke, as if my previous life was spontaneously combusting. I waited for what seemed an eternity, expecting the front of the oncoming vehicle to smash through my windscreen at any moment to end it all. Fortunately that didn't happen.
The experience however changed my life, I suddenly started to appreciate everything more, nature for one, life itself and people. I started to think how best I could be of service to it all. I joined environmental and transition town movements, started to find my own authenticity and retrained to become a life coach. Within it all I began to write. Today's newsletter being a direct result of that first 'Dark Night Of The Soul' moment.
For the past 18 months since returning from Greece as a sailing instructor, I have been getting subtle hints too that all was not well, trying to get my coaching into businesses and continuing to life coach people, just wasn't working out, despite getting any number of proposals into companies and doing free sessions of life coaching. I still wasn't getting the commitment from people for my services. This time I decided to change before the Dark Night arrived. Deciding I had to do something different to secure the success I desired, to be sustainable. I returned to writing.
In the months after my car crash I started writing a book on how I believed the world needed to change for the greater good, encompassing all what I had learned from others and my own investigations. However towards the end of 2006 the book ran out of steam as I lost faith in my abilities.
Prior to Christmas when attending a meeting of the A38 Club, I met Julian Summerhayes. I told him my business was struggling and he asked me whether I had considered writing a business book to increase my credibility. I told him I had started writing a book some 5 years ago but it hadn't got any further than that. He suggested I contact Sonja Jefferson of Valuable Content as she was an expert in producing business books.
On hearing my story and the content of my book she in turn recommended Karen Swinden of The Hot Hive, thinking my work was more suitable to that organization. The book being more geared towards self development and our individual and collective spiritual journey. I sent a couple of chapters off to Karen and was amazed by the response. She believes that I am a writer of rare talent that offers something somewhat different to the norm, I am now starting to believe this myself :-), and hope the book goes someway to proving this in the near future.
6 months later, I stand on the edge of securing a publishing deal which all being well will see the publication of my first book, 'Becoming A Butterfly' - One Man's Journey towards Personal and Planetary Transformation, coming to fruition in early 2012.
Perhaps then more people will want to hear about my story, buy my book and invest in my services. I do hope so, as we have so much to change as a species in order to prevent the ultimate 'Dark Night Of The Soul' from occurring. We need a complete behavioural change and fast, something that starts with you and I here and now, within our families, peer groups, business and communities, from this day forward, being the change we want to see in the world.
For more information on my forthcoming book please contact me now.
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About Set Your Spirit Free
Set Your Spirit Free is a Life, Business and Leadership Coaching company that aims to inspire all of us towards a more authentic and sustainable way of living and working, that is more true to our nature, both inner and outer. Helping us all to find our life's purpose and then come together with others to form common purposes within more inspiring organisations. Enhancing our community, ensuring our environment and enlivening our spirits in the process. I believe we are entering unprecedented times where the combination of various economic, environmental and social crisis are forcing us to think very differently about how we exist more authentically and sustainably. The solutions to these problems lie with more and more of us being aware of how we can uniquely contribute through our own life's purpose. I wish to help as many people as I can through all of my skills, who are already attempting to embrace this new way of living and working, or would like to, and wish to discover how their own unique products and services can help. To find out more about my work, research my website here or to see how I might be able to help you in particular contact me now.
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Inspirational Video
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The Adjustment Bureau is all about the dark night of the soul, and how events transpire to affect our future path. Have a look at the clip but more importantly watch the film!
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