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Gina Lake's Articles in General Spiritual

  • Who You Really Are
    We are programmed to think of ourselves as our thoughts and bodies and overlook the true experience of ourselves as consciousness.
  • Who You Really Are
    How we are programmed to think of ourselves as our thoughts and bodies and overlook the true experience of ourselves as consciousness.
  • Who Creates Your Reality?
    The ego and mind are not the only creators of your reality. Essence, the divine self, also has intentions for your life and is also orchestrating and creating your life.
  • The Way of Acceptance
    The ego’s way is to reject life, but the way to happiness and alignment with the deepest Self is acceptance.
  • The Truth
    When spiritual teachers talk about the Truth, they are talking about the truth that you are not this false and limited self but the greater Self that gave birth to this Illusion. This is the Truth that will set you free, the truth about who you really are.
  • The Fullness of the Now
    A meditation on and exploration of the now—the present moment—and how knowing and action come out of the now.
  • The Cause of Suffering
    Explains the true cause of suffering. Suffering only happens in response to a thought.
  • Shifting Your Perspective Through Gratitude
    Explains how you can increase gratitude and use expressions of gratitude to align you with your deepest Self.
  • Noticing as a Doorway into the Now
    Now is where happiness and peace reside, but how do you get there? Noticing is one very simple way. Find out how to use noticing as a doorway into the now.
  • Listening to the Heart
    How the Heart, or the divine self, speaks to you and how to listen to it and follow it, which will lead you to happiness and fulfillment.
  • LIstening as a Spiritual Practice
    How listening can be used as a meditation to align you with your deepest Self.
  • How the Heart Speaks to You
    When you stop allowing your mind and feelings to determine your actions and responses to life, something else steps in and unfolds your life according to its intentions. That is divine essence, which speaks through the Heart.
  • How the Heart Guides You
    How to tell the difference between the Heart’s desires and the ego’s.
  • Forgiveness Can Set You Free
    How a lack of forgiveness interferes with happiness by keeping you tied to negativity and how to forgive.
  • Examining the Reality and Truth of Thoughts
    Thoughts deserve questioning. They aren’t what they seem to be. Many are false and lead you down a path of suffering. Find out how thoughts keep you from happiness and from an experience of your deepest Self.
  • Developing the Connection to Your Heart
    How to develop and improve the connection with your Heart, which is the seat of intuition, so that you can live more in alignment with your true Self.
  • Clearing Negative Self Images
    Self images are just images—ideas—but they can have a powerful impact on our lives and on our happiness. This article explores how self images limit us, and offers tips on how to clear negative self images.
  • Attention Is an Act of Love
    You can increase the love in your life by putting your attention on the now instead of on thoughts.