Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Mike Arend here, founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.

Just the other day I was thinking of all the blessings that have come into my life and of all the other things, places and events I still want to manifest into my life. When we talk about manifestation, most of us think about a better car, home, or partner. But when you're able to get in touch with the desires of your Soul, your true Self, they will bring you closer to your spiritual aspirations of greater love, joy, inspiration, and spiritual freedom.

Your Soul is always trying to communicate with you, albeit in very subtle ways. It wants to experience all your human emotions and help guide you to becoming your highest divine Self. But how about all those better cars, homes, and partners. Just because we desire those things in our lives, does that make those manifestations any less worthy of our attention? Many religions would have us believe that we can only be close to God when we have no possessions what so ever. So what gives?

Here's my take on it. Our highest true self, our Soul, is God. Therefore we are a piece of the divine as well. We are a piece of God. In fact we are God. There's no other way to say it. We must be like what we came from, right? There is only one. All races, creeds, colours, earthly life forms, alien life forms - everything in all the Universes is all, "Us." When we kill, we kill ourselves. When we love, we love ourselves.

So how could it be so terribly wrong to desire earthly pleasures while here on this planet? It's not! The secret is to desire that which gives you joy, not happiness, but joy. Happiness is fleeting, and comes and goes depending on our outlook to what is currently happening to us. Joy, on the other hand, comes from the Soul. If that better car gives you joy while driving it and in ownership of it, go for it.

As long as you don't harm anyone else or become judgmental of others in the process (remember, we're all one, right), then what stirs your Soul, and allows the joy already inside you to come forth, in my opinion, is a good thing. Remembering of course that all earthly manifestations are only temporary and we will leave them all behind soon enough. We came into this world with "no-things" and we will leave the same way.

While all those earthly possessions we manifest while here may serve us, remember that when we get closer to our divine selves, our Soul, they will start to mean less and less. You'll discover that perhaps that better car, home, or partner really isn't necessary after all. You are God remember, and there's so much more to experience once we leave this world and return home.

You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic, and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
Bye for now!

Hello everyone! Mike Arend here founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book, "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.
Spirituality. It can mean so many things to so many different people. Not all that long ago it just meant being religious, worshiping God or the Spirit meant you were spiritual. Oh, there were those that preached that spirituality was not "worshiping" anything, and that it meant a union with everything around us, but these folks were usually written off as heretics or lunatics.
Flash forward to today, and I believe we have made leaps and bounds in just the last ten years in terms of the general public moving away from the age old definition of being spiritual, and moving toward what many spiritual teachers and wisdom traditions have taught for thousands of years. You can hardly go anywhere, talk to anyone or watch anything without someone remarking, "That's the way the Universe works. I just have to do my part and let the Universe do the rest." It's becoming more and more common place and I hear it a lot from the younger crowd too, which of course is a very good thing.
Yes, times are changing and we're right on schedule to help save humanity from certain destruction. If I were to try to nail down what spirituality means to me, it would sound something like this:
"Living in constant love and gratitude."
Pretty simple, eh? If we could learn to see others and the world with the vision of gratitude and love, so much in the world would shift for the better. I call this "seeing with the Soul," because when your deepest self recognizes itself in another person, it experiences love. When your true self sees itself in another object, it experiences beauty.
When we see with the eyes of the Soul, we find pure Self everywhere.
Your job this weekend, should you decide to accept it, is to look at others as you are out and about and say to yourself, "That's me!" Say that when looking at the beautiful, the not so good looking, the fat, the thin, the weird ones, the downtrodden, and accept the fact that in essence we are all from the same energy source, we are all one, and in fact there is only one.
You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
Bye for now!

Hello everyone! Mike Arend here founder of Infinite Success Academy, author of the soon to be released book, "You're The One - An Adventure Into Truth" and, the Soul Mechanic.

As we move through life and things and events take place, it's natural to wonder "how" this is all happening. Are we actually doing anything, or are we just being done by something we'll never understand?

If you're looking for a scientific answer you'll be looking a long time. Oh, eventually science will come to the same conclusion that you already have. Yup, that's right, you already know the answer. You just need to remember, and you will when you leave the physical realm and "re-member" with the realm of the absolute. Although there's limited space within this blog, I'll try to jog your memory here. Are you ready to re-member? Good.

There is a "process" behind everything (one I will write about in an up-coming book!), and this process is responsible for everything that has been created, is being created, and will ever be created. This is where you fit in because as you know, you are a creator. In fact, you are both the creator and the created.

Like it or not, you are always creating your life. Whether you create it consciously or unconsciously (as many of us do), you are creating it, and that means you are 100% responsible for everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen in your life (there goes all your excuses!). In other words, whether you are causing things and events to happen or sitting back and allowing things and events to happen, you, yup little old you, are creating everything.

You see, we are surrounded by energy (indeed we are this energy), and when we impart our thought, which is energy, upon this energy field, we start to form an image of what we are thinking about. The longer you think about it or imagine it (and the more of us that imagine it), the more physical the energy becomes. Until finally all this increased energy literally bursts into an image of itself onto what we call reality. This is in essence "the process" or the mechanics of the Universe. I like to call it "Soul Mechanics." Catchy huh?

So you can plainly see that even if you are not trying to create or believe that you don't have the power to create, you're doing it all the time with the thoughts you think. Which turn into words, which turn into actions, which turns into the things and events of your life. Thoughts become things, re-member?

So, are we doing anything or are we just being done by some outside force? Actually it's both because we "Are" the energy that is doing all of this. From typing a blog, to creating stars and planets, we "Are" this energy. Which means we are all one.

"Hello brothers and sisters!; have yourself a wonderful day!"

You've been listening to the Soul Mechanic and it's been my absolute pleasure to serve you. Sending you Love, Happiness, and Abundance. Now, and always.
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Bye for now!