Initially I thought to myself that this was too easy. Life isn’t black and white, good and evil. It is far more complicated. I also watch the HBO series True Blood and the complexity is a part of what seems real to me- there is someone threatening everyone in the series, so you can’t clearly label an antagonist, evil character or type. Vampire, fairy or werewolf, they are all good and evil — even the plain human characters.

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Following is a brief message from The Oracle:

We beckoned a group to Bali, the journey that Kris & Kalyn just took. We did this because we wanted people to connect with the essence of Bali, thus allowing them to tap into and experience a flow of well-being, nourishing them and we wanted them to connect with their Essential Selves. Your Essential Self is the aspect of you that resides between energy & form and navigates both in a harmonic Golden Flow.

If you have opportunity to go somewhere or do something that will tap you into such well-being that you feel content, pleased and fulfilled for days on end, we urge you to do so. This will help you connect with Who you truly are and with your Essential Self.

It is important to do so, especially as this is what you are here to do in this time, this time of alignment and connection to your Source Energy. It is here that you will live a life of heaven on earth, as you are meant to.

“Love comes from within, from your heart. That is what is true and real, what is within. Live this and you will live in full joy.” The Oracle

We want you to seek balance in your life. We know that these days may be difficult for you due to economic and earth changes. We understand that this can make your lives more worrisome. We understand the resulting stress, disappointment or frustrations that are not uncommon.

However, if you seek balance, you will find yourself in a much greater flow. We want you to reach for some sort of faith, hope or light that will counterbalance any difficulty you may be experiencing. When you reach for something beyond you, you will no longer feel that you are alone. This is a key need of yours. You are social human-divinities and you need to feel and believe that you are not alone, that someone seeks to help, support and co-create what is best for you. And, we do.

Find time in your day and in your week to relax and enjoy your life. Engage in your favorite activities which lead you to your beneficial feelings. When you do so, you will be allowing love and the energy of your Source into you life; you will be allowing magic to touch and illuminate your life, brining you balance and an improved life experience.

by Kalyn

To make a long story short,” I began, “we sawThe Town, ( movie) which was about a bank robber trapped in his own life. He wants to change, but he is being blackmailed into the next robbery. In the end, his three friends and partners are killed in a robbery and he loses his girlfriend because he has to flee from the FBI. He leaves his girlfriend a note saying that ‘even thought we may change our lives, we still have to pay for our mistakes.”

My girlfriend listened intently because she is also a client of mine and knew this was going to relate to her.

“My point is, you are like him, you are going to have to pay for your robberies; only with you it is about the mistakes you have made with your family, your friends and your money. Like Doug in the movie, you have to own your life now that it is catching up with you. He is ready to accept the consequences of his actions; he is embracing what has happened and you need to do the same.”

“I understand. I really have made some mistakes,” she responded solemnly to me. “But I’m scared of the consequences.”

“Why would you be scared of the consequences?” I asked.

“Because I’m afraid I’ll be punished.” She says, nodding her head.

“By who?”

“By God.” She answered, laughing a bit because she knew what I was about to respond.

“God doesn’t punish. Being with your consequences and embracing them will change your life. It will also empower you.”

“I can see that. If I am with my consequences, I’ll be with myself and that is empowering.”

I liked the movie The Town because Ben Affleck’s character, Doug, is empowered and he does accept the choices he has made in his life, choices which cost him dearly. It was a great reminder of the importance of owning our lives, even when we feel trapped, like Doug.

The movie did a great job of capturing that sense that we just don’t have a choice in life when we see Doug being blackmailed into the next job and the next; or when it shows that his family and his hole neighborhood know of no other way to live life. Even his efforts to get out and change his life are pointless until almost everyone around him is dead.

Dramatic? Yes, but this is how we all feel at one time or another. Our circumstances may be far less severe but the feeling that we are trapped and that life is offering nothing else is very real and very common.

Actually, this is why my girlfriend is tangled in her current circumstances. She perpetually felt that she had to take what she wanted in life and make things happen. By pushing the river out of a fear that life (or people in her life) would not provide for her, she has brusquely forced things to happen, often at the cost of those around her.

Now that things have caught up with her, like Doug in the movie, it is time for her to realize that she does have choice or alternatives in life. She is beginning to see that there is abundance in life and for her, when she allows it.

What does she need to do now to correct this? She simply needs to acknowledge the choices she has made and the way it has affected her, her life and the people she cares about. By doing this she will be embracing her past. This will enable her to deeply see her life differently so that she can begin to perceive life as giving to her, (as opposed to her current view that it will punish her or take things away from her). When she embraces this too then she will begin to feel differently about life and about herself; she will automatically make more love-based choices (instead of her old fear-based choices) and she will enter into a flow of harmony where her dreams will come true, without her forcing them. Like Doug, she will find freedom in a new way of living.

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Written by: Kalyn B Raphael
Kalyn is the Co-Founder of the Golden Flow™ System, is a Coach of Coaches, a Channel, Author, and a Spiritual Life Coach. She dedicates herself to helping others live in the flow of well-being by living their authenticity. Learn more about Kalyn at http://kalynraphael.com or subscribe to her women’s newsletter at http://golden-flow-system.com/joynews

Its October now!

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Taken from Kalyn’s Newsletter Flowing Towards Love & Joy for women. Subscribe at http://bit.ly/joynews

Part III: Express Yourself

In parts I & II of this series we spoke about the first two principals to helping you navigate through these challenging times so that you are empowered and in the most comfortable place possible.

First was the importance of knowing yourself and second of owning yourself and your life. In knowing yourself, you have guidance as to what you want in and from life. In owning your life you place yourself in a position to receive more guidance as to how you are handling life.

With these, you always will know what you are supposed to be doing and why; you also develop your natural, divine guidance systems. At this point, you can’t help but become a more confident and empowered individual.  You know how to hear life’s whispers to you, so you always know what to do, even in difficult situations, like our challenging economic times.

Key #3: Express Yourself

The last key in our series is to express yourself. At this point with the guidance that you have and the knowing of what you need to do, expressing yourself can be a natural flow. Expressing yourself is all about living Who and what you are. You express yourself verbally, through your actions and through your choices. You realize that the way you live your life is sacred and that this is how you know your divinity. You say, think, choose and believe what is in your flow; your expression then takes on intent and direction. This will help you feel confident in what you do, knowing that what you are doing is correct for you, and it will help you shift your energy towards being more affective and beneficial, improving your life experience even more.

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Kalyn Raphael is a spiritual Life Coach & the co-founder of The Toltec Mystery School & The Golden Flow(TM) System.

When you know yourself and you give yourself the time and space to know what you dream about, life becomes enchanted. Whether you are focused on your dreams, on improving your life or on making positive changes, one thing remains constant: you are listening to and empowering one of your guidance systems.

Sure some people are naturally more in touch with their guidance systems than others, but you can be one of the in touch people. The first key is to know yourself, including what you dream about. Once you allow your hopes, dreams, wishes, wants or desires to come forward then you need to allow yourself to live them.

Key #2: Owning Your Life

Part II: Owning Your Life

You are most strongly guided when you own our lives. Every day everyone makes choices and decisions. Our choices may seem small and insignificant most of the time, with only major choices being made occasionally, but they still are choices. When you recognize that you have made these choices and that you are the one, therefore, affecting your life then you empower yourself.

People who own their choices begin to realize that they begin to receive guidance through their choices. In addition to experiencing the results of their choices, they also begin to receive feedback and guidance about which choices are wise, which choices lead to better experiences and which do not.

Knowing yourself means that you know what you want to do with your life and in your life; owning the choices that you then make means that you are placing yourself in the driver’s seat, where you experience a vantage point that lets you see the road, see what is coming and automatically puts you in a far more empowered position.

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Article by Kalyn B Raphael taken from Flowing Into Joy & Love  Newsletter – to read other articles or to subscribe, please go to http://golden-flow-system.com/joynews

Part I: Miracles & Magic

Do you believe in miracles or magic? Should you? Should you not?

I must say that in today’s day and age it can be easy to fall into feeling like you better believe in miracles, because something has to save us from the economy. On the other hand, it is also easy to think you better not, because you must be real and rely on what will be reliable in these challenging times. Especially with 2012 coming our way.

Believing in something more, something beyond our physical realm is a very personal thing. Some people are religious or spiritual, others are agnostic.

Regardless of what you do or do not believe, you can know what is occurring. We all know that we are living though some challenging times. We also know that things are changing, such as the world’s climate. If you take note of world events, there are definitely shifts occurring.

The truth is that there are always shifts occurring: seasons are always changing and there is always something affecting humanity. For example, in the sixties there was a large movement toward breaking away from rigidity. Rebellion became popular and hippies introduced free love and peace.

There truly always is something occurring. So, the question is, what is occurring now and do we need a miracle?

From a Life Coach or a spiritual perspective, there is a shift toward becoming Who we truly are. What this means this year is that, miracles or not, dreams are coming true.

It may seem obvious, but not everyone knows what they dream of or what they would like their lives to be like. Our dreams are actually a key guidance system for us, nudging and prodding us in the direction we are meant to go and in the direction that will bring us fulfillment. Knowing what we prefer, how we would like to be and what we would like to experience is basic to some people, but unknown to others. This is the first key to keeping in the flow of the times:

Key #1: Know Yourself