How Can I Bring More Friends Into My Family’s Life?
This post answers questions for The Council from an anonymous reader who asks: Can The Council advise me on bringing more friends into my family’s life? I’m not lonely, but I’d love a stronger community and other families to share experiences and friendship with. Is manifesting a matter of meditation, or visualization?
Council: Manifesting first begins when you can raise your vibration. The easiest way to do this is to think of things you have and enjoy, or things you’ve experienced that you’re grateful for. And the more you’re grateful, the lighter your energy becomes. Your energy becomes a magnet for what you wish to attract. Manifesting first begins in happiness, gratitude, and joy, and then just focusing on what makes you feel this way.
We can tell you to go out and join groups and you’ll meet a lot of people, and that does work. But before you run anywhere, start doing the work in your mind. Meditate on it. See it. See yourself happy and with new friends. Create in your mind what you want to experience in your physical reality. Your physical reality must follow your thoughts. Focus on bringing in more friends for yourself and it will happen.
Anonymous: Can I manifest friends for my husband and children, or is that not allowing them to be on their own path?
Council: You can’t create for anyone else. You can hope they get to a place where they’ll create it. All you can really do is send them lots of love so they can take that love in and then create something they wish to create. Maybe they don’t want more friends, or maybe they do. You can support them just by sending them love, and then concentrate on what you want for yourself.
We wish you all love, and light, and happiness, and gratitude on your path, and to be supportive of one another, and to love yourself as well as others in your life. Remember every single day, you are all spirits in a physical body, and you’ll create everything you focus on. Even if you focus on something negative, you will create that.
Have positive thoughts, laugh as much as you can, have fun, remember the wonderful and happy memories, and stay in the positive.
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Spiritual Rituals, and Friendship
This post is inspired by questions from a reader named, Vacha, who’s asked The Council several questions in the past. Her current questions are about rituals that her spiritual leader in India recommends, and about her past lives and pre-birth plan for her and two close friends.
Spiritual Rituals
Vacha says they have a spiritual leader, or Guruji, they go to for guidance, mostly related to family issues and gaining spiritual knowledge. She says sometimes their Guruji recommends spiritual rituals that often have the intended effect and other times the ritual’s effects seem temporary.
Vacha questions the authenticity of these rituals in light of what she’s read about spirituality and The Council’s guidance in our posts. She questions whether these rituals work because she believes they’ll work, and they don’t work when she believes they won’t.
Vacha mentions The Council says we need to learn lessons for our soul to grow, and in spirit we often choose Earthly experiences that turn out to be difficult for us to handle. Her question is a little unclear on the following point: She says when we’re born and feel what we’ve chosen in spirit is too difficult, we resort to performing spiritual rituals and she asks if these rituals have any effect, or can they postpone learning the lessons we’ve chosen.
The Council asks if it’s occurred to Vacha that questioning rituals will change how things appear in her life. Everything you experience in your reality is how you look at it, they say. By doubting these rituals The Council says Vacha is unable to create what she wants.
The Council says you will learn what you have planned in spirit to learn. There is nothing that can stop this, but your thoughts can slow this down to the point where it may take more than one lifetime to learn what’s planned. And they repeat that everything you create in your life will or will not happen based on the way you think and what you believe about it.
Past Lives and Pre-Birth Plan with Two Friends
On another subject, Vacha says she feels a past life connection with two close friends who support her when she’s going through difficulties, and she asks The Council about these past lives and her pre-birth plan with these friends.
The Council says there are many past lives, and they are here now to help Vacha through her lessons and offer support when the challenges become difficult. But The Council mentions that Vacha pre-planned she would also be there for her friends and they ask her what she does for these friends that shows love. How does Vacha return her friends’ love? What was planned was a circle of love between the three of them. The Council asks Vacha not to only receive love from her friends, but to be aware of how she returns the love.
Vacha mentions she particularly loves her friend, Pragna, who’s in the USA while Vacha is in India. Vacha asks if The Council sees her and Pragna getting together again and The Council says this can happen if Vacha follows through and does the inner work of returning the love that The Council suggests.
The Council suggests Vacha meditate on the information they’ve provided in this and other posts and work it into her life. As she does this she’ll see the changes she desires in her life. The say just receiving an answer doesn’t heal the situation.
Listen to our entire 12-minute session with The Council to hear all their guidance for Vacha and the rest of us, and let us know what you think.
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Did I Know My Friend in Other Lifetimes?
This post is inspired by an anonymous reader who met someone they became friendly with and although the relationship was short-lived, this person made an impression in Anonymous’s life. They ask The Council to confirm their suspicion that they knew each other in other lives and if this is true, what was their relationship in these lives. Anonymous is also interested in whether they will reconnect with this person in this lifetime.
On a separate note Anonymous asks whether they were ever interested in herbs and healing in other lifetimes because they are drawn to this in their current lifetime and it feels familiar.
The Council says in the current lifetime it is the remembering of shared other lives that has brought you together for a short time like ships passing in the night.
The Council says in other lives you’ve been sisters, mother and child, a married couple, and peers who worked together, and they say to enjoy this familiar feeling you’ve identified with.
The Council says there’s a possibility you will reconnect with this person in the remainder of this lifetime as long as your life choices bring you in this direction.
The Council say Anonymous has dealt with herbs, oils, and mostly crystals in other lifetimes and they suggest Anonymous familiarize themselves with this. The Council also suggests Anonymous begin to meditate if they don’t already. This will connect them to a peacefulness and help them with the direction they want this lifetime to go in.
Listen to this brief 3-minute session with The Council on these questions to hear all of their guidance for Anonymous and the rest of us, and let us know what you think.
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How Can I Overcome the Shame of Being Bullied?
This post is inspired by a question from Megan, who asks The Council how she can overcome the shame of being bullied in high school.
The Council recognizes the pain Megan experiences from being bullied and they say it’s her choice whether to continue replaying these memories, which will create more of this pain, or she chooses to change the focus of her thoughts to love. The challenge here is for Megan to recognize who she is as a loving spirit and go deep within herself to feel the love, without approval from others, no matter what’s going on in her life.
The Council says it’s good for Megan to read books about past lives and books about people who’ve come to know through mediums how they create difficult lessons in their lives with the understanding it was all pre-planned so they could learn from turning their life around. They say as Megan becomes more aware of how and why she created the bullying, the pain will become less and it won’t be necessary for her to experience these feelings.
Listen to the recording of our entire session with The Council on Megan’s question to experience the full impact of their guidance for her and the rest of us, and let us know what you think.
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2010-12-22
A huge play date.
Meeting old friends, co-creating, and seeing what you can stir up.
Welcome to your physical experience.
—The Council
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Welcome
Bob & Cynthia
Welcome to Ask The Council, a blog where you can ask a group of loving and wise spirit guides a question and get an answer, for free. You can also contact us for a paid private phone session with The Council, and you can read the questions other readers have asked and the answers they’ve received. Other posts contain quotations from The Council that we hope you find inspiring, uplifting, and educational.
Ask The Council a Question
If there’s a question you’ve been thinking about and you’re curious how The Council might answer it, we encourage you to either use the blog’s Comments feature to ask your question, or contact us for a private phone session. You can click here to go to the ‘Let us know what you think about this post, or ask The Council a question’ section of this Welcome post and type your question there or you can type your question in the same section at the bottom of any post that inspires you to ask a question or leave a comment.
Since the blog is currently a project we do in our spare time it can take a while for us to do a session with The Council on a question and then publish a post on the session. Depending on the question and the session it can sometimes take weeks after a question is asked to publish a post with The Council’s answer. Please be patient.
The Council
Cynthia is able to communicate with a group of five non-physical spirit guides in a manner similar to the way Esther Hicks communicates with and speaks for the spirit guides, Abraham, and Jane Roberts communicated and spoke for the spirit guide, Seth. I (Bob) basically interview The Council as they speak through Cynthia during what we refer to as a session. Sessions generally last 5-15 minutes and are usually audio recorded. During the session Cynthia is aware of what The Council is saying and she also receives visual impressions and other types of telepathic communication from them.
The Council’s Basic Guidance
Since we began these sessions with The Council around 2009 they consistently emphasize a few basic ideas that we attempt to summarize here:
1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.
You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.
Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.
Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.
2) You are the creator of all that you experience.
As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.
If you’re used to thinking of yourself in a more limited sense, the idea that you are the creator of your experience may be difficult to understand. Our post, What About This Idea That We Create Whatever We Desire, offers insights into this idea.
3) You are here to expand the love you are into physical reality.
You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.
Finding Your Way Around the Blog
Home Page
The left-hand column on the Home page contain a long chronological series of posts with the most recent on top. Each post begins with a title. Clicking on a post title will take you to a blog page dedicated to that particular post. Following each post is a Like button where you can indicate to us and other readers if you like the post.
The footer section of each post identifies the date the post was published, the Categories the post has been assigned to, the keyword/keyphrase Tags assigned to the post, and a Comment link. If readers comments on a post, the Comments link will indicate the number of comments. If a post has no comments yet, the Comment link text appears as “Leave a Comment”.
Clicking on the Comments link takes you to a Comment text box on a post page dedicated to that post. Here you can type a comment in the text box and click the Post Comment button to have your comment displayed just below the text box. If you are replying to someone else’s comment, your comment will appear indented underneath the comment you are replying to.
At the bottom of the left column on the Home page is a ‘Previous Entries’ link that will take you to a page with a list of earlier posts.
Blog Features
The right-hand column of most blog pages contains this Welcome message. Below the Welcome message in the right-hand column are some useful features:
Email Subscription: Use this to subscribe to blog posts. You will receive an email notification with a link back to the blog each time a new post is published.
Search: Type a keyword or phrase and click the Search button to get a list of posts in the left column that contain the keyword or phrase.
Archives: The Archives list indicates the number of posts for each month listed. Clicking on the link for a month will display in the left column of the page a list of the posts published that month.
Categories: This is a list of keywords used to categorize posts. Posts can be included in more than one category, if applicable. Clicking on a category link will display in the left column a list of posts assigned to the category you selected.
Navigation Bar
The Navigation Bar at the top of each page contains a link to the blog Home page and links to the following additional pages:
Welcome: A link that displays this Welcome message in the left column (and the right column). At the bottom of the Welcome message is a Comment box where you can post a general comment about the blog or ask The Council a question.
Questions & Answers: Use this link to display a list of introductions to our longer posts, most of which are responses to reader questions. This is an easy way to check out these more in-depth posts. They are listed in chronological order with the most recent post on top. Clicking on the post title will take you to the page where you can read the complete post.
Contact Us: The Contact Us page contains a contact form similar to the Comment form mentioned above. The difference between the Contact Us form and the Comment forms is that the Contact Us form is a private message to us (Cynthia and Bob). It is not posted on the blog. Comments appear on the post page where the comment is posted. The Contact Us form can be used for communicating with us about private sessions or other private matters you think aren’t appropriate for posting in a public Comment.
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