Micha'ele Powell

Medium & Intuitive Coach

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Micha'ele Powell ~ The Intuitive Garden
Sonoma County~The Wine Country
Cotati, CA 94931
United States

ph: 707.695.2952

Michaele@HealingIntuitiveGarden.com

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Spiritual Coaching and Life Readings

 

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WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY

 

Spiritual Counseling/Coaching (Reading) Session

As an Intuitive Medium and Empath I work with my spirit guides and angels, and they work with your spirit guides and angels to assist you in all areas of your life.  Topics of discussion may include love,  your relationships, your career, family, travel, spirituality, and your health. What we work on in this session is completely up to you. With the help of both of our guides and angels, we can pinpoint what areas of your life, both past and present, that may have in the past and are currently creating problems, stress, or grief, anything that you need guidance on. Once we pinpoint the major areas that you want to focus on, we will create a plan to overcome any issues and get you on the right path. 

Session is One to Two Hours long and may required more than one session to achieve desired goal.

Picture from a saved reading from Doreen Virtues

Messages from Your Angels Oracle Deck on IPod touch

What is Spirituality?

SPIRITUALITY DEFINITION (from Wikipedia): 
Spirituality should not to be confused with Spiritualism.

Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or immaterial reality;[1] an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.”[2] Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; such practices often lead to an experience of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.[3] Spirituality is often experienced as a source of inspiration or orientation in life.[4] It can encompass belief in immaterial realities or experiences of the immanent or transcendent nature of the world.

 

Traditionally, religions have regarded spirituality as an integral aspect of religious experience. Many do still equate spirituality with religion, but declining membership of organized religions and the growth of secularism in the western world has given rise to a broader view of spirituality. [5]

Secular spirituality denotes various attempts to recognize aspects of life and human experience which are not captured by a purely materialist or mechanistic view of the world, but without accepting belief in the supernatural. It is for example possible to regard many kinds of spiritual practice such as mindfulness and meditation as beneficial or even necessary for human fulfillment without accepting any supernatural interpretation or explanation. Indeed, there is no necessary connection between spirituality and belief at all. For some, the term simply carries connotations of an individual having a religious outlook which is more personalized, less structured, more open to new ideas/influences, and more pluralistic than that of the doctrinal faiths of organized religions, although whether it is helpful to call this view secular may be doubtful. While atheism tends to lean towards skepticism regarding supernatural claims and the existence of any actual "spirit", some atheists define "spiritual" as nurturing thoughts, emotions, words and actions that are in harmony with a belief that the entire universe is, in some way, connected; even if only by some mysterious flow of cause and effect at every scale.[6]. Some versions of Buddhist spirituality would also be examples of this style of thought since Buddhism, although conventionally involving the supernatural, is not theistic.

In contrast, those of a more 'New-Age' disposition see spirituality as the active connection to some force/power/energy/spirit, facilitating a sense of a deep self.

For some, spirituality includes introspection, and the development of an individual's inner life through practices such as meditation, prayer and contemplation. Some modern religions also see spirituality in everything: see pantheism and neo-Pantheism. In a similar vein, Religious Naturalism has a spiritual attitude towards the awe, majesty and mystery it sees in the natural world.

     

    One's Spritual Path

    Spirituality, in a wide variety of cultural and religious concepts, is itself often seen as incorporating a spiritual path, along which one advances to achieve a given objective, such as a higher state of awareness, outreach wisdom or communion with God or with creation. Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which appears in book VII of The Republic, is a description of such a journey, as are the writings of Teresa of Avila. The spiritual journey is a path that has a dimension primarily subjective and individual. For a spiritual path may be considered a path of short duration, directed at a specific target, or a lifetime. Every event of life is part of this journey, but in particular one can introduce some significant moments or milestones, such as the practice of various spiritual disciplines (including meditation, prayer, fasting), the comparison with a person believed with deep spiritual experience (called a teacher, assistant or spiritual preceptor, guru or otherwise, depending on the cultural context), the personal approach to sacred texts, etc. If the spiritual path is the same in whole or in part, with an initiatory path, there may be tests to overcome. Such tests usually before a social significance, are a "test" for the individual of his reaching a certain level. Spirituality is also described as a process in two phases: the first on inner growth, and the second on the manifestation of this result daily in the world. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

    Notes and references

    1. ^ Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992.
    2. ^ Philip Sheldrake, A Brief History of Spirituality, Wiley-Blackwell 2007 p. 1-2
    3. ^ Margaret A. Burkhardt and Mary Gail Nagai-Jacobson, Spirituality: living our connectedness, Delmar Cengage Learning, p. xiii
    4. ^ Kees Waaijman, Spirituality: forms, foundations,methods Leuven: Peeters, 2002 p. 1
    5. ^ Michael Hogan (2010). The Culture of Our Thinking in Relation to Spirituality. Nova Science Publishers: New York.
    6. ^ http://www.centerforabetterworld.com/SpiritualAtheism/f-about-spiritual-atheism.htm
    7. ^ Azeemi, K.S. (2005). Muraqaba: The Art and Science of Sufi Meditation. Houston: Plato.
    8. ^ Bolman, L.G., and Deal, T. E. (1995). Leading With Soul. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    9. ^ Borysenko, J. (1999). A Woman's Journey to God. New York: Riverhead Books.
    10. ^ Cannon, K.G. (1996). Katie's Canon: Feminism and the Soul of the Black Community. New York: Continuum.
    11. ^ Deloria, V. (1992). God is Red, 2d Ed. Golden, Co: North American Press.
    12. ^ Dillard, C. B.; Abdur-Rashid, D.; and Tyson, C. A. "My Soul is a Witness." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13, No. 5 (September 2000): 447-462.
    13. ^ Dirkx, J.M. (1997). "Nurturing Soul in Adult Learning." Transformative Learning in Action. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 74, edited by P. Cranton, pp. 79-88. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    14. ^ Eck, D. (2001). A New Religious America. San Francisco: Harper.
    15. ^ English, L., and Gillen, M., eds. (2000). Addressing the Spiritual Dimensions of Adult Learning: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 85. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    16. ^ Taisen Deshimaru (1982). The Practice of Concentration. Ubaldini Publishers.
    17. ^ Basho (1992). The Hermitage of Illusory Dwelling. Edizioni Se.
    18. ^ Hoseki Schinichi Hisamatsu (1993). The Fullness of Nothing. Il Melangolo.

     

     What is Spirituality?

    Want to know more, do you want to understand the religion of Spiritualism?

    Ask Micha'ele for more information and be open to knowing more...Life, Love, Spirit, Energy, Source, God, The Divine, The Creator, Co-Creator ~ You are all of those things and more...

    I like to think of spirituality as creativity. We all have within us the gift to create, to create wonderful and purposeful creations.  Within each of us is an artist, an artist who is waiting to express him or herself. 

    Do you write? Do you journal? Do you draw, paint, take photos, scrapbook, cook, play music, an instrument.....we are co-creating each and every day, everything we do is an act of co-creation with the Divine.

    What are you creating in your everyday life?

     

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    Micha'ele Powell ~ The Intuitive Garden
    Sonoma County~The Wine Country
    Cotati, CA 94931
    United States

    ph: 707.695.2952

    Michaele@HealingIntuitiveGarden.com