There is a Zen saying, “To understand nothing takes time.”

When in body we have available to us the beautiful gift of time. Time is a wonderful tool but it is a tool we often repel – either we have too much of it, or more often, not enough of it. In a society of instant gratification many have difficulty accepting and using time the right way for their growth and transformation.

Due to time there are things we can do in body that are simply not possible when not in physicality. Due to time we have process. A spiritual path is a process. It is through the process of healing that growth and transformation occur. It is through the process of cleaning, clearing, and healing the human tonal (a Toltec term) or personality that we reclaim our personal power.

It is possible to compress time. This is one of the secrets of a spiritual path. A master gets much done with little effort. He or she does this by compressing time.

How do you compress time? You do it through expanding awareness. The more awareness you have in any given moment, the more time is compressed, and the “quicker” your transformation, the more you will ‘get done’ in a short amount of time. Awareness is like a muscle. The more we use it the stronger and more expansive it becomes.

What most people do is to grasp and repel. They repel the healing, maturing and growth they need to do, due to their fear of pain. And, they grasp at the life they want. The problem with this is that by grasping and repelling they are increasing the time required. In other words they prolong their suffering. By grasping and repelling they stop the possibility of process. Without process no growth and transformation can occur. All they have is motion, like a dog chasing its tail – lots of motion but little movement.

Repelling is a form of avoidance. Avoidance is a shutting down of awareness. When we shut down awareness all growth and transformation stops, we end up living the same painful cycles over and over again.

When we embrace time and process, each moment becomes fuller and more alive. Life literally expands in each moment. Each moment becomes a transformative process.

A practical exercise we can do is to slow down. A spiritual master moves slowly. This is the opposite of what most people do. Many people rush around driving themselves into a tizzy and actually getting little done. When you find yourself in a rush to get things done, slow down and you will get more done. But more importantly, when you slow down and engage your awareness, your growth and transformation actually speed up.

Savor each moment. There is another Zen saying, “Chop wood, carry water.” In other words by fully existing in simple daily activities we enter the state where time becomes our ally and not our enemy.

Love and Light,

Kristopher

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“When the persona (personality self) is disconnected from the bigger Self you are, it loses its compass. It is like a ship adrift at sea without a sail. It has no direction. Choose for Self and you will reconnect with Self. Take your power back and you… will connect to Who you are, which is a powerful being of light. Life looks very different in this light.” Kristopher Raphael

So many people try so hard to make life work, simply because they have forgotten one simple thing. They try to create the life of their dreams over and over again, but their dreams always seem to be out of their reach. They become frustrated and disillusioned. They keep pushing and pushing but a part of them feels like giving up.

Are you one of these people?

It doesn’t need to be like this. In fact, life was never meant to be this way.

So what is missing? What have you forgotten?

Did you know that there is a bigger part of you that is, at least from the personality’s standpoint, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-abundant? This part of you is so much bigger, wiser, and more powerful than you the personality. But, what is most important is that this part of you is here to serve you. It is here to serve you because it is you.

This bigger part of you goes by many names – Higher Self, True Self, Core Self, Soul, Source Energy…the Toltecs call it your Dreamer. It is Who you are before, during, and after you come into body. It contains your Life Purpose and all the tools you need in this lifetime to fulfill it.
You the personality self are a piece of this bigger Self (with a capital S). You the personality self are necessary for your bigger Self to function and experience physicality. You are a piece of It and It is you.

The bigger Self that you are has the power to create in ways the personality self can hardly imagine. If we were to put a ratio to it, you could say that 80% of the power to manifest lies in your bigger Self. The personality self has only 20%. Most people, unaware or having forgot Who they are, only use the 20%. This is why life is so challenging and often frustrating for them.

To exacerbate this even more, most people only use a small percentage of the 20%. You have probably heard that people only use a small part of the potential their ‘mind’ has. This is true. But what is even more impactful than this is that their ‘mind’ is the 20%. Their ‘mind’ is only a small percentage of their total Self, their total potential. If you use only 5% of your 20%, you are really only using 1% (100% x 20% x 5% = 1%) of your total potential, of the bigger Self that you are.

Just think, if you could tap into your 100% potential, you could create in one year what normally takes you 100 years to create (1% x 100years = 1 year).

So the question is, how do you tap into your Source Energy, your Higher Self, Who you truly are?

And I will speak to that in my next article.

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Living Your Dreams

There is a question that if you sincerely ask, and honestly answer yourself, will propel you onto to personal growth and spiritual faster than you can imagine. It will also powerfully activate The Law of Attraction. It is a question you should ask yourself every day. It is a question you should ask whenever you have a life challenge. Ask it and you will find that you already have the solution to any of life’s problems. Best of all, you will empower yourself to create the life of your dreams.

Before I give you the question, let me ask you a couple of other questions. When you dream at night, who is dreaming? Who creates your dreams? The answer is, of course, you do. You, or an aspect of the bigger self that you are creates your dreams, and you dream them.

Along the same lines, who creates your life? Who lives your life? The answer is the same. You do. You create your life and you are the person living it, no one else. When you are ready and willing to accept this truth, your entire life dramatically changes.

This first thing that changes is that suddenly you are empowered. If you are creating your life, life no longer happens to you. You make it happen. Perhaps you are not happy with everything in your life now. Knowing you are creating even those things you are not happy with, gives you the power to change what you create, and create something you will be happy with. After all, if life just happens to you, how can you change it? You can only change it if you create it. And, you do.

The second thing that happens when you realize that, just as you create your dreams you create your life, is you take responsibility for what you are creating. So often, people blame their life on other people, on circumstances out of their control. As soon as you do this, you have just given away your power to create the life you desire.

Blame is always self-destructive as is the anger that comes out of blame. In its extreme form, blame turns to rebellion which always harms self. Many people have more or less ruined their lives by blaming their parents and going into rebellion. They then project the blame onto bigger authorities such as society and/or government and ultimately end up dropping out of life and dis-empowering themselves.

This does not mean that you should not strive to improve the world you live in. You should. And, the best way to do this is to honor self and take responsibility for the world you are creating.

The third thing that happens is, because you are taking responsibility for the life you are creating, and because you are empowering yourself to more powerfully create that life, you begin to create the life of your dreams – a life full of love, abundance, well-being, with your deepest desires fulfilled.

So what is the most important question you must ask yourself every day? It is this. Ask yourself “Why am I creating this?” If you ask yourself this question, and honestly look at self, you will know. You will not only know why you are creating the situation or attracting the person or that kind of relationship, you will know what it is you need to shift in self to attract something better. You will have just empowered yourself to create the life of your dreams.

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If you push someone what happens? Chances are they will push back. If you grab someone’s hand and pull them, what happens? They pull away from you. If someone is needy and is grasping at you for your love and attention, what do you do? Most people pull away. Grasping at something you want can actually stop you from having it. Repelling something you don’t want, can make it push at you even harder.

People grasp and repel in many arenas in life. They grasp at things they want. They grasp at receiving pleasure. They repel people and things they don’t like. What they don’t realize is that the constant grasping and repelling, not only creates the outcome they don’t want, but puts them in a lot of stress and drains their energy.

In personal development, grasping and repelling will stop you in your tracks. You can’ heal something you avoid looking at. If you avoid and deny that you have an alcohol problem, for example, the problem will persist, or get worse. It is only through shining the transformative light of awareness on something that it can heal and be integrated.

If you wish to manifest your hopes, dreams and desires and activate the Law of Attraction, the best state to do this in is being in the flow of life. You must allow what you desire to be, not grasp at it. Grasping at something implies that you don’t have it. If you don’t energetically have it first, you won’t have it in form.

When you allow both the good and the bad without grasping and repelling, you enter into the the powerful flow of the now moment that flows through self and all of life. You naturally move into a state of well being that is more aligned with your desires manifest, activating the Law of Attraction.

There is a powerful Japanese martial art form called Aikido. Ai means harmony. Ki means spirit. Do means ‘the way of’ or ‘the road to’. In other words, Aikido means ‘the way of harmonized spirit’. The key difference between Aikido and other martial arts is that you don’t repel or block a person attacking you, you flow with punch or kick, using the energy of their momentum for yourself.

Do this in your life and you will have more energy to manifest what you wish to manifest. Instead of resisting things you don’t like and pushing them away, simply allow them to flow through you and dissapate. This puts you in the universal flow of life as you move into living in the now moment.

Be aware of where you are grasping at things in life. Imagine having your desires manifest. Grow the sensation of your desires manifest in your inner world. Do this without grasping at them and you allow them to move from being to having. Grasping prevents the having. For example, if you wish more abundance in your life, imagine yourself being abundant. Imagine what you will buy, what you will do, and most importantly how good you will feel with your abundance. If you are grasping at it, it means you don’t yet have it. Let the grasping go and have it in your inner world (your thoughts, feelings and imagination). As you do this you open the door to having it in your outer world as well.

Living in the Flow has other advantages. One obvious one is that when you are not repelling or grasping at things in life, you have more energy, and less stress. You are more relaxed and because of this are able to get more done in less time. One can only surmise that living a relaxed, stress free life with more energy would be better for your health and longevity.

Want to increase your well-being and more powerfully activate the Law of Attraction in your life? Be aware of where you grasp and repel in your life. Consciously let the grasping and repelling go. Allow whatever is to be. As you do so, you begin to live in the Flow where all good things reside.

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The life you desire resides just on the other side of your comfort zone. If you resist your uncomfortableness, guess what happens. What you resist persists and the discomfort only grows bigger. By resisting your uncomfortableness, that which you desire stays perpetually out of your reach.

I talk a lot about living life in The Flow, that wonderful state of being where you feel fully supported by life, stress free, cherishing every now moment. It is a magnificant way to live. It takes no effort to move into The Flow. You only need to allow it to be.

If it is such a wonderful way to be and live, why are so many people not living in The Flow? One reason is that they have a fundamental misperception about it. They believe that if you are in The Flow you won’t have problems, or life challenges. So, they avoid their challenges thinking that by avoiding them they will be in The Flow. Another thing people do, which is related to this avoidance, is they avoid the feeling of being uncomfortable. They believe that if they are feeling uncomfortable they won’t be in The Flow.

The problem with this avoidance is that it negates allowance. The only way to be in The Flow is to allow. More than this, the solution to the problem or life challenge often lies just beyond the resistance. If you avoid feeling uncomfortable, and don’t allow the problem, the solution will have difficulty coming to you. You have heard the saying, ‘What you resist, persists.’ This is true, and often what happens is that when you avoid problems, not only do they persist, they get bigger.

Feeling uncomfortable is a natural part of growing and expanding. If you want to become stronger physically, for example, you may need to exercise to the point of discomfort. If you want to become a public speaker, moving through the uncomfortableness of getting up in front of a group of people will help youbecome a skilled speaker. If you have had an accident and need physical therapy, it may be very painful. But, by moving through the pain you heal.

When you are living in The Flow, it doesn’t mean that you are problem free. It doesn’t mean that there are life circumstances that come that may make you feel uncomfortable. However, when you allow the uncomfortableness to be, you remain in The Flow and it moves through you much more quickly than when you resist it. If you simply allow the problem to be, more times than not you will find the solution magically presents itself. The solution is in The Flow.

As you allow and welcome life challenges, discomfort and move through your resistance, sooner than not you will find yourself stress free in a state of free flowing Joy, the problem will be resolved; and you will have grown, and become more of Who you truly are.

Are You in The Flow?

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There comes a time in one’s life when you cherish every moment you are alive. The beauty of this state is that the more you cherish your life, the fuller it becomes. The more life you receive. Life is a gift and when you realize that fully, all of its beauty, abundance and love opens to you. Life supports you.

I am presently at an amazing chapter in my life. Everything that I could possibly desire on a deep level is here, right now. This morning I was taking a run along the country road that winds through the New Mexican high desert here in Santa Fe. It is June and the temperature is perfect. As I was running I could feel the warm, yet cool desert breeze on my face. Off to my right I was being serenaded by crickets chirping. The somewhat pungent scent of the desert plants was in the air. I felt alive and connected to that bigger part of Who I am.

A memory of a scene earlier in the morning came into my awareness. I had awakened to find a warm little body snuggled up against me. My three year old daughter had crawled inbetween my wife and I. I had my arm stretched across her, my hand holding the hand of my wife. I looked at the two angelic faces next to me as they dreamed. I remember feeling blessed with the love and beauty that surrounded me. It was a moment to cherish, a moment that I now realize set the tone of my day in the most exquisite way. What better way could there be to begin my day?

Sometimes we don’t realize just how much of our hopes, dreams and desires are actually right here in our lives. Too the degree you look at your life and cherish the things you have, life responds and supports you.

My wife Kalyn and I are living the life of our dreams. We have a loving relationship that deepens each day we are together. We are expanding our conscious business, doing what we love. We travel several times a year abroad, taking groups of wonderful people to explore the many incredible magical places there are. We teach, write in alignment with our Intent to help people grow, evolve and live a life full of love, abundance and connection. We are surrounded by no only our biological family but our ‘ohana (the Hawaian word for family), a loving surrogate family supporting each other in being all we can be. We are guided and supported in so many ways, both my seen and unseen friends.

You Can Have It All

Why am I telling you this? I want you to know that you too can have it all. Don’t let the illusion of mass consciousness tell you otherwise. It didn’t always appear this way in my life. There were times when I thought life was unfair, full of pain suffering, and just too much hard work with little reward. There were times when I was ready to throw in the towel and give up. Don’t do it. Begin by taking a walk, going on a run, or even a drive in the country, and find what you are thankful for in your life. Let the gratitude grow and thank your physical body, your emotional body and your mental body for all they have done to try to make life work for you. Be aware that you are not alone. You are never alone. There is so much help waiting for you if you were only to give consent and invite it in. Know that you are loved and always will be. There is nothing you can do in this lifetime to change that.

As you do so, you will come to know Who you are, that authentic part of you. Connect to it. Invite it in. Live your life from that place.As you do so you will see your hopes, dreams and desires take form in your life.

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What is happening now is creating a powerful opportunity to truly create the life you desire and to grow and evolve self in ways not possible before. Those who play the stock market know that when the market collapses, buying opportunties abound. In fact, some of the wealthiest people in the stock market became wealthy by taking advantage of the times the market collapsed.

Now, the world is collapsing giving you the rare opportunities for growth, evolution and co-creation of your dreams in ways never possible before. What took years of disciplined work on self, can now be accomplished in months. However, you must take take advantage of the energies that are here. Just as if you don’t buy the stock when the market is down, if you sit on the sidelines of your life complaining that it is falling apart and don’t set your itent to take advantage of the opportunity that is now here, you will miss the timing.

For those aware of the energies here, what is happening now is no surprise. It has been predicted and prophetised for thousands of years. Mass consciousness has misperceived the messages as apocalypse, the end of the world. While it may be the end of the world as we know it, it is actually the precious beginning of a new world, a wonderful world based on heart and authenticity.

What does this mean for you personally? Much like what is happening in the world on a bigger scale, you may find aspects of your life falling away. While on the surface this may look like a loss, and may not be pleasant, if you are able to look deeper you wil find that it is really a blessing in disguise. It is a blessing because it opens the way to a new, better, more authentic life where your deepest hopes, dreams and desires can be realized in ways never before possible.

The ego and those things built on ego must fall away for the authentic to be born. By ego I mean anything that is not authentic, anything that is not Who you truly are. Perhaps it is a job that has no meaning for you, a relationship that is not healthy, the new energies that are here now are clearing the way for a much higher energy…an energy more aligned to your authenticity.

Look a little deeper at what is happening in the world and your life now. Shift your perception and you will see what an amazing time this is. You will then see how you personally can take advantage of the energies present and use them as they are meant to be used – to catapult you to the next level of your evolution, and to create the life of your dreams.  There is tremendous help available to you know if you open to and allow it.

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What is the Ego

The ego is one of those words that is thrown around in many different ways, and can have a different meaning depending on the context. Psychology speaks about the Ego and the Superego for example. In everyday conversation, we talk about ego as being equivalent to over inflated self-importance. However, in a spiritual growth context the meaning is specific and through understanding what the ego is and how it is formed we are better able to deal with it. We need to deal with it because ego prevents us from realizing our Unlimited Potential.

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Everywhere you go, your Source Energy, the Universe is there supporting you and guiding you in the most fantastic ways, and often in the most unexpected places.

This is a power sign I received as I was disembarking off my plane in Albuquerque airport. I looked up and there was the message I needed at that moment.

Messages like this occur frequently if you only just allow it. When you are in the Golden Flow of Allowance, open and accepting, your Source Energy is able to guide and support you in each moment of your life.

It is a wonderful feeling to know that you are supported in The Flow.

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