Spiritual Superstar Blog...by: Carrie McCully

Building Your Inner Foundation

Building the bridge from who you are now to the authentic you is a process that begins deep inside. Therefore the foundation work you lay has to be solid.

The most important aspect to laying a solid personal foundation is to know who you really are, to be connected to your true essence. I call it working from the inside-out.

In order for true change to come about in our lives we have to go deep within and ask ourselves some very honest and specific questions. As I learned from Deepak Chopra Years ago, I ask myself everyday, Who am I? What do I want? How can I serve?

By asking myself these three simple questions each morning and writing them in a journal. I can start my day knowing what my purpose is. As I clearly define who I am, I know more about what I want and by living true to myself it becomes an given that I am being of service to others.
For me to teach and inspire others to live to their highest potential is how I can best serve.
For others it maybe assisting the health of the sick in a hospital, teaching at schools or working at a store helping someone find the perfect shoes for a special occasion.

Another way to lay a solid foundation is to read and apply the works of people who match your ideas of a solid spiritual life. Application is the key word here. Nothing happens until you take action.

My practice is to do these things everyday. I solidify my intentions for personal growth with daily meditation at the end of journaling and reading. This allows my mind to quiet and the intentions from reading and journaling to connect to my essential self.

As this becomes a regular practice in your life, who you are and what you want begin to change. You become stronger, it’s like you’ve been laying new bricks for your inner foundation.
You will also begin to see new things manifest in your life. Such as: more abundance, better relationships, Health and intuition.

I encourage you to give this a try. I call it my Life- Power Hour and that it is what it is. Now each new day brings out the powerful qualities inside me to live at my highest potential.

Love, Carrie

Building Your Inner Foundation is also available as a podcast on Itunes.

Forty Days to Intense Spiritual Sobriety

Last night, I was writing out lengthy notes to myself at the local pizzeria and not fully listening to my family, my step mother commented that I think too much, or rather that I never stop thinking.

I have always been intense; in fact according to that blue book about birthdays, I was born on the “Day of Intensity”. It would have been much cooler to have been born on the “day of anything happy, fun and successful” but, I am what I am. Thanking God for my innate sense of spirit and my ability easily connect spiritually via meditation, I have been saved from a life that would have probably been a female version of Robert Downey Jr. before sobriety.

The passion I feel for God is so strong, the different dimensions I see of reality are so clear, I can’t really get it when people don’t hunger and thirst for miracles in their own lives. Anyone who has had a long term relationship with me will tell you I am not easy. I will never just let something go or fade away. I think within the box, outside of the box, on the side of the box and without the box. The reason I bring this up is that I have been using myself as a spiritual experiment for the last few years and with quantum results the last year and a half. The out come is a new intensive program I will be introducing soon as “Forty Days to Spiritual Sobriety”.

I’ve done all of the thinking, meditating and pacing for everyone in the last two years and have developed a program that I know will jump- start you into a life full of Health, Wealth, Wisdom, Clarity and Happiness. Forty is a significant number in every religion and culture; Jesus wandered the desert for 40 days, Buddha sat under the Bhodi tree for 40 days, In Islam all components of your creation are gathered in your mothers’ womb at 40 days. So we too begin to find our true transformation and power at 40 days.

Love and Peace, Carrie

Commencement Excercise....

Yesterday my son graduated from high school. It was beautiful and we were all so happy for him.
It reminded me that high school is the end of the line for some students; while others go on to college to earn one or multiple degrees.

The same is true for a spiritual education. You can take it as far as you like. It is a step-by-step movement that leads to true transformation. I’m not personally sure why some people find it unnecessary to live without knowing answers. I think that the meaning of life and knowing my purpose is far more important than anything else in this world.
I can have all of the accoutrements that success has to offer but, I really don’t care if your hair looks good or if your house is in the “right “location. Actually, the shallowness of people’s intentions annoys me. I heard someone criticizing our schools keynote speaker yesterday and thought why don’t you do something instead of picking on the person who is actually out in Africa, helping people to live, keeping kids alive?

It is like the people I know who buy books to help themselves and then watch them collect dust. What a waste.

I guess the reason I am so pissed off today is that we all have so many choices and chances to learn and to grow and most people, which are older than their middle age, choose to do nothing but whine and repeat habits that hurt perfectly innocent or unassuming people.

Let’s be like our kids and choose to learn and to graduate to a new level. Let’s grow up too. How about commencing a new attitude and a new perspective?

Love, Carrie

Once In A Blue Moon...

This Thursday we will have the second full moon of the month. The phenomenon of this is usually referred to as A Blue Moon; this morning I am heading up to the Boston area for what in our family is a “once in a blue Moon” experience. In the last three days all three of my children will have graduated from one level of school to another. This morning my oldest, my son is graduating from High school.

At thirty-nine it is a little weird to have an eighteen year old. We have really sort of grown up together. One of the magical things about growing up and learning from your mistakes is that it allows for healing to occur in what was previously in our family a war zone. Today eight of my son’s closest family members will gather on the lawn of a centuries old Massachusetts boarding school to commence his right of passage to adulthood.

The war zone that would have previously prevented all of us gathering together has become a joint effort for peace within our family’s hearts. I prayed and meditated for years that someday we would all be at a new place in life where this sort of thing could happen. By faith I new it could but, on a regular basis it almost seemed impossible.

Today is a special day not just for our family, but also for America. It is Memorial Day.
Let’s take the day to appreciate all of those who have served our country and take the time to appreciate any of us who have made it out of our own war zones.

It may only truly occur “once in a blue moon”, but peace is an option. Choose it.

Love, Carrie

Home Is Where The Heart IS....

Just a couple of mornings ago I was meditating on the banks of Lake Como, Italy. It was sunrise, the weather was calm after a storm from the night before and I felt tremendous peace. It always seems like there are new possibilities for change when we step out of our usual environment, connect with nature and enjoy different cultures. I have been to this location several times it isn’t foreign to me. What was different was that I realized that it didn’t matter were I was I felt at home with my self.

Later that day I was in Lake Lugano, Switzerland for a family event. During this rush of travel, I never felt jet lag or any stress. I simply felt at ease with each present moment. I made a decision before I left for the trip to pay special attention to all who came across my path and to be fair and kind, to appreciate each moment.

I have friends I barely recognize anymore. I can’t put my finger on each persons issues, but I do know they aren’t at peace with themselves. It is hard. I still lose my temper and get emotional when ones I have trusted treat me disrespectfully, but the distance from emotional anger to inner peace is getting shorter.

Just last night we had a family dinner in London that wouldn’t have occurred just a couple of years ago. We all had such a laugh and reminisced about when the kids where young, while the family parrot was yelling in his British accent “ I’ll have you stuffed”.

If home is where the heart is, then I am at home anywhere in the world. My heart is big, happy and alive in me. I wish you all the same.

Love, Carrie

Wild Fire Burning Within...

As wild fires are burning in New Jersey and California today, I have one burning within.
I am however, not going to try to prevent it, contain it or put it out. It is my source for clearing out the old rubbish so that new growth can occur.

This Morning during my Life–Power Hour I decided to feel the signals my body was sending my brain. If my cells can work perfectly in harmony without my thoughts attached to them, I want to know their genius, so I’m listening to my body.

I started to feel every twinge, release of stress, how my thoughts made my stomach feel a certain way, etc. During meditation I had these feelings come up and they had specific physical characteristics. I saw my self, breathing in and receiving life from God and then breathing out and releasing the past or toxins, I was giving up the old. I started to cry and it wasn’t a conscious cry out of needing anything. It was a cry of release. I saw myself replacing my old mechanics with new life and creative healing.

By choosing awareness and appreciating the most perfectly and effortlessly operating part of my life, my body. I connected to my deeper self almost immediately. Watching my breath I could feel the spiritual fire within begin to grow in intensity. French studies have shown that wild fires burn at the front line in the shape of a pear, sounds like my own bodies front line. We are not our past and we do not have to keep old dead debris in our lives. Let it go. Let the wild fire of spirit burn within you to clear a path to awareness, passion, love and health.

I’m keeping my home fires burning,
Love,
Carrie

The Dance Of Energy...

When you begin to change your awareness there is usually a mess to clean up from your previous “lack of attention”. After letting go of the chaos and paying attention to the present, you begin to see the rise and fall of energy around you. The universe also breathes in a rhythm.

When I first began my spiritual practice as a practice, I noticed that tension would release and I could go from bliss to sadness, introversion to extroversion and so on…

There is an ebb and flow to every relationship, including your spiritual relationship.

Often the changes begin to show themselves emotionally. (I wish someone had told me this.)  It is simply the conception of a new realty trying to grow and birth it’s self in you.

In Christianity it is called being in travail. You are literally birthing a new you, a new idea, relationship, concept, an awareness.

It is very often disconcerting and would make you think that it is too hard to continue to change. Stay with it, it passes. You need to stay present and work through it. This process is the only way to grow from the inside out. Remember what it was like to move from adolescence to adulthood. Same confusion and pain, but you did it you became an adult.

Energy may rise and fall but you will find your own rhythm and begin the dance of a real authentic life.

Love, Carrie

Mina Plugged In Update....

Someone told me yesterday that they were seeking a more spiritual life, not just self-help. It is a choice you have to really want, you have to have a hunger for it. It isn't easy choosing to go within and to face the truths that surface. It is also very freeing and expansive to your awareness when you make this choice to let the spirit within grow. Life becomes a revelation.

I started the Mina Project one and a half years ago. I was living with a good deal of spiritual commitment and knowledge but, I hadn't been personally honest about some things and hadn't let go of my attachments to circumstances. I had secrets and secrets will kill you, secrets are essentially lies we tell ourselves. I never wanted to reveal my secrets because I was afraid. I found out that old adage is true, we have nothing to fear but, fear it's self.

The project has been a sort of a personal spiritual experiment. I was taking a fairly undisciplined person (myself) and committing to a ritual of waking up to each new day with a greeting of gratitude to my higher power and to lessons of reading, writing and meditation. I call it my Life Power-Hour.

I had several stubborn issues that had been lingering and my hypothesis was that if I applied my spiritual tools in a devoted way, I would be able to resolve and move forward to a new place of awareness and connectedness. The results have been astounding. I have seen my relationships with my parents healed, I've quit drinking, I've lost weight, work is more productive, my children are well and my relationship with God is more real everyday. There have been more wins and very few lose's to count.

I have now begun another "spiritual experiment" one that I hope to share in a book for all of you to use to transform your own spiritual experience and to live to your highest potential. I still don't know when one has reached full enlightenment, but it is possible to be enlightened in todays society. It takes a great amount of determination and letting go. It is a process that doesn't seem to show results over night, yet it happens. Some things clear up faster than others, some things are easier to let go of. My results are based on my desire to allow things to change and to confront my self honestly. Today I have a new clarity and sense of self.

Mina is Me Now and I like her.

Love, Carrie

A Mothers Day Gift From My Daughter...

Mommy,

The stars in the sky,

The diamonds in your eyes,

The sweetness in your thoughts,

The happiness in my heart,

The madness in the world,

The kindness in your soul,

You make make my world a special place,

You always will,

That is why I love you Mom.

C.Z. McCully, age 7, 2000

Happy Mother's Day to you all,

Love, Carrie

Love Makes The world Go Around.....

My life today is different from yesterday and will no doubt be different tomorrow. I have a commitment to my life to reach the highest state of Oneness as possible with God. The place were this comes from in me, is a place deep in my heart. It is hard to learn to love yourself, so you can love others. But, it is essential to my practice to live with love, even when it isn't returned. If everyone could receive our love openly, then it wouldn't be difficult. Most people don't know how to give love, therefore they can't receive it. Too much modern baggage.

The learning curve on this is that it isn't always returned back to us the way we would expect it. It is still necessary for us to know love, give love and accept that we have done our part in contributing to another's well being.

What I have been finding is that coming from the heart is still the safest way to joy and happiness. So when someone seemingly " breaks your heart" it shouldn't take away the joy of knowing that you are able to give. It is a growth potential for us and a maybe a trigger or a lose, for the person who didn't receive it to learn from.

Never give up the intention to love all who come into your path. It maybe hard to not feel rejection if the love isn't reciprocated, but it is valuable to our growth to do our part. After all God never gave up loving you, even when you've rejected him.

The universe will bring it back to you in seemingly odd or different ways, but it does come back to you. love makes the world go around.

Keep loving,

Carrie