Welcome to “Healing From Within” I am your host Sheryl Glick Reiki Master Teacher and author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love and welcome Debra Landwehr Engle author of Be The Light that You Are which shares an approach to moving from bitterness and divisiveness to peace during these highly charged political and emotional issues facing the nation and world and a way inspired by A Course in Miracles to tap into your own alignment to higher consciousness and to live with kindness decency and authenticity in troubled times.As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware my guests and I share personal intimate stories and insights as we seek to understand our dual nature as spiritual beings having a physical life and how we may become attuned to our inner sense of intuition and guidance from Spirit so we may know that the physical world and all its challenges provide opportunities for self-growth and to master our emotions leading to health and happiness.In today’s episode Debra Landwehr Engle, a longtime teacher of A Course in Miracles and the author of The Only Little Prayer You Need and Let Your Spirit Guides Speak, will share 10 simple ways to live with the light energy force and love that is your true nature and offer ways we may all change the world.When I asked Debra to think back to her childhood and remember a person place event or a challenge that might have shown her or others the values and interests she would pursue in her adult life for I believe we are born with a soul destiny and life plan and it just unfolds as we begin to remember who we are and where we come from. Debra told me she was in a family who was very interested in metaphysical subjects and was always aware that life was so much more than we were able to see.Debra writes, “When I was a little girl, I knew there was something more than this world of houses to live in and Monopoly games to play and bicycles to ride. On some level even though it wasn’t conscious, I knew that we each had a soul, spirit. Our dog Pepper and her puppies had souls. The sycamore tree I climbed in the front yard had a soul. The fireflies we caught in Mason jars with holes punched in the lids had souls. The word soul means different things to different people, but I mean it as a spark of light, a mysterious but animating energy that brought us to life and gave us the ability to feel care and experience. I knew this light came from a source beyond me and that we all embodied it…..Our gruff old neighbor across the street had it. So did my teachers—the ones I liked and the ones I didn’t like. So did Billy, the boy in my class who talked with a lisp and was the target of other kid’s jokes.Sheryl asks Debra why on the back description of the book it says “Life is hard” for Sheryl likes to think that many people may think this but she prefers to think of life as riddled with mysteries and unsolved ways to bring out all our talents and remembrances of our heart or soul so we can see the beauty of nature the world and Spirit and learn to accept everything as necessary for our soul development and evolution. It is not exactly hard as much as it is what it is, a physical world where change is constant so we must find ways to make it easier for ourselves and for others. Debra immediately says those are not her words, but the words of the publisher as they try to capture the fear which resides in the ego mind reality and not at the heart of the matter as Sheryl and Debra further discuss.Some of the ways we can stay true to our higher values and spiritual principles and understand life as a vehicle for our best interests moving beyond thinking it is hard and is thinking of it as necessary events for our growth. Here are some of the ways to stay true to our spiritual principles:Claiming your unique gifts and blessings Fostering self-love Meeting others without judgment Asking for help Rising above the battlefield Taking the path of forgivenessAlthough some of t...
