Spiritual Development: 20 Ways to Achieve Spiritual Growth Vol. 1

By Elsabe Smit

In this wise and enlightening book, internationally renowned psychic, coach and author Elsabe Smit breaks down many of the key concepts of spiritual development into short, highly accessible articles, and presents the reader with ways in which they can achieve spiritual growth.
Inspired by a lifetime of facing life’s sometimes seemingly insurmountable challenges, including the drug and alcohol addiction of people close to her, an abusive marriage and periods of unemployment, Elsabe examines the subtle differences that influence people’s lives, and explores these age-old, and as yet unanswered questions: Why are we born? What is the purpose of our lives and is there life after death?
Drawing on elements of quantum physics, plus works by some of the world’s most prominent researchers and gurus in the fields of health, business and relationships, Elsabe will help you to understand the ancient mysteries of love and existence.
She will encourage you to regain control of your life and, using spiritual concepts, make sense of life’s daily challenges.
All life’s experiences, whether you want to label them as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, are simply steppingstones on a journey towards finding true self-acceptance and self-compassion.
In this highly practical guide to modern day spirituality, Elsabe shares her life experiences and wealth of knowledge gained over many years both on this plane and in psychic work.
Elsabe will show you how to discover your true self and to love and appreciate the life you have been given.
In "Spiritual Development: 20 Ways to achieve spiritual Growth" you will learn:
•What is solace and where do I find solace?
•How can I improve my karma?
•Why do we experience the dark night of the soul and how can we get through it?
•Why it is that we sometimes have high expectations and then get disappointed, while other times we have no expectations and end up having a lovely time?
•What is the true meaning of time and numbers? Can numerology really predict your future?
•Does faith require trust and belief?
•Why do we take risks? How do the risks strengthen our faith?
•How do you celebrate your beliefs?
•Did you know that desperately clinging on to the wrong idea can affect your physical health?
•Why is it important to live every day, not just Sundays and so-called celebration days, as part of your faith?
•How can the Law of Attraction give you the exact opposite if you don’t control your thoughts?
•How do you have to explore your Awareness and find your spiritual teacher?
•How do you deal with tough decisions about injustice to others?
•How can you practice detachment and improve your own judgement?
•How can you find the gain from dealing with grief and death?
•How can you identify your self-imposed labels and get rid of the boundaries you set for yourself?
•Why should elderly people be respected?
•Who is your true neighbour and how should you love your neighbour?
•How can you use facts to remove prejudice?
•Why does organized religion discriminate against gay people and females who are also God’s creatures?
The book is written as a series of short articles with useful prompts throughout that encourage you to pause and reflect, make notes, answer questions and complete exercises. #
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsabe Smit
• Release date: Jul 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463263396

Elsabe Smit

Elsabe Smit is a well-known international coach, facilitator, author, and public speaker that uses her clairvoyant and intuitive skills in her daily life to assist all of those that she comes into contact with, in her professional life.She has an MBA (Master Business Administration), a MA in Industrial Psychology, and extensive experience as a Business Analyst. Using all her knowledge, skills and competencies, Elsabe helps people to understand the mysteries of life and Love, so that they can regain control of their lives.Elsabe Smit was born and raised in South Africa and has lived in Ireland, South Africa and the UK since 2000.After years of facing numerous personal challenges, involving her relationship with her drug- and alcohol-addicted mother, living with and getting divorced from an abusive husband, being a single mother, being a mistress for a period of time, and then facing unemployment, she one day realized that she had been given the amazing gift of intuition and clairvoyance.Using her newly discovered gifts, she then rediscovered herself. She learned that all her past experiences, "good" and "bad", were only steppingstones on her life's blueprint towards loving and accepting herself.Having always having had a keen interest in human behavior, this discovery took her on a different path, adding the study of life, death and spirituality to her interests. During that journey she explored NLP and embraced Quantum Physics. Elsabe studied some of the world's best acknowledged researchers and gurus in the fields of relationships, health and business.During her professional life Elsabe's career included lecturing at a South African University, being a Human Resources Manager various companies and being a freelance business analyst.In between the various permanent positions and contracts, she developed her reputation as a sought-after author, speaker, facilitator, coach and mentor.As an author, some of her books are today still in use as prescribed textbooks for university and college students in South Africa. Other books have been published and are available on your favorite e-book site, and some books have been published as e-books which she shares as free gifts.As a speaker, facilitator and trainer she has presented numerous programmes to groups ranging from a dozen to hundreds of people. The subject matter has been as varied and interesting as her life.As a mentor, she coached and mentored small business owners, blue-chip executives and employees covering a myriad of professions, employment levels and industries.Don't forget her contribution to the world of psychics. She's been on various radio and TV shows with international audiences. In addition, Elsabe has done thousands of personal psychic readings for people from all walks of life located in various countries - including one for a death row inmate in a US prison.Throughout her life Elsabe has been passionately focused on identifying the nuances that make a difference in people lives, the why's of birth, life and death - and now it's your turn to tap into the vast wealth of knowledge and experiences that she has gained during her lifetime, so that like Elsabe ...YOU can also Discover yourself and Love YOUR Life.

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Spiritual Development – 20 Ways to Achieve Spiritual Growth Vol. 1

Elsabe Smit

Published By Elsabe Smit

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Table of Contents

1 In Search of Solace

2 You Can Run, but You Cannot Hide

3 There IS a Light at the End of the Tunnel!

4 Expectations and Disappointment

5 The Link between Time and Numbers

6 Your Oxygen Mask IS Working

7 The Light is Worth the Candle

8 We Wish You …Happy Holidays!

9 Pointing to the Moon

10 Earth Hour, Lent and Other Red Herrings

11 How to Use the Law of Attraction

12 How to Explore Your Awareness

13 Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

14 Life Is a Stage

15 Death Does Not Equal Loss

16 How Do You Define Yourself?

17 The Gift of Wisdom from the Elderly

18 Xenophobia – Or Love Your Neighbour Like Yourself

19 Muslims May Own Dogs

20 Does God Love Gay and Woman Bishops?

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1 In Search of Solace

Life is a rollercoaster at the best of times. When times are good, we feel the elation and fun of being here, and we want to share our joy with the world. When times are bad, either we do not want to face anyone, or nobody wants to face our misery.

Where do we find our solace and peace during the bad times? And why do we only seek solace during the bad times?

I grew up in a culture where I was taught that during the worst of times, I can find solace in the church. When I hit my first adult crisis, I went to the church and found an empty, cold building. I went to the people of the church, but they chose to avoid me. I became an outcast because I was getting a divorce. I then went to the church minister for the solace that I so desperately needed, but the reception – and the judgment - was cold and hostile.

That was not solace. I kept searching.

How would you define solace for yourself?

I became a psychologist and memorized every theory about changing behaviour and thoughts. I applied these theories and they worked as long as people really wanted to buy into the constraints of the theories and shared a particular reality.

But then a company that I worked for experienced a low in the economic cycle and could no longer afford my expertise. I had to find another job. This is not a big deal in itself, but it took me seven months to find another job. In my culture being unemployed was a definite sign of failure, and as a result I could not share the path with anyone else. None of the psychological theories worked for me. I needed solace.

What false source of solace have you experienced?

At the same time a friend looked at me for help in dealing with a very personal crisis. None of the theories worked for his situation either and I had to pretend to be strong while I desperately needed solace. I could not get anything from the church, from knowledge of psychological theories, from family, from friends – none of them could provide any solace for me.

That is when my search for solace started in earnest. In desperation I did a thing that was regarded as a grave sin – I went to see a psychic. She gave me the hope and courage that I was looking for. She told me about the job that I would get, and everything turned out as she had predicted. I was impressed. I wanted to know more.

I had a moment of solace, but the new job and the friend who challenged every paradigm that I grew up with took that away again. I discovered that it is much easier to lose inner peace than to find it.

When did you experience a moment of solace, only to be hit by life again?

It also did not feel quite right for me that I had to pay another person to look into my future and provide solace to me. What if that person was not available the next time I was in need? What if I went to another psychic and that person gave me a different version of my future? What peace would that leave me with? And where did they get the information from anyway? I wanted to bypass the ‘middlemen’ and go straight to the source.

But