Metamorphosis Podcast
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Metamorphosis is the weekly magazine produced by Tools for Transformation, the website that presents the very best information and methods for your personal growth and spiritual transformation. Each week we have a selection of articles from top writers in this field, presented to you by Peter Shepherd, the owner of Tools for Transformation. Peter has many years experience as a psychotherapist and personal development coach. His book, Transforming the Mind, is available freely on the main site trans4mind.com along with a wide range of informative publications (many free) and in-depth home-study courses.
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Cultivate Life! #155
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Sep 1, 2008
One of the most important things we can do in life is appreciate the beauty and perfection that is present in our lives right now, rather than lamenting the passing of life.
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Cultivate Life! #154
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Adapt to what life gives you. Harmonize with it, don't fight it. Realistically appraise what is going on and make the changes necessary to allow you to continue living your life in a comfortable manner.
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Cultivate Life! #153
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Aug 18, 2008
Although we seem to be separate individuals, in reality we are all expressions of one primal imagination. We assume we are many, but in fact we are one. And what we do to each other we do to ourselves.
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Cultivate Life! #152
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Aug 10, 2008
The human race today represents approximately seven billion different viewpoints of the one Source. According to the rules of the human adventure, we were born with spiritual amnesia. We have forgotten our inner connection.
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Cultivate Life! #151
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Aug 03, 2008
Over the years we've been told that emotions are childish, dangerous, and unnecessary. But emotions are much more powerful than just the display of sentiments - they are the core creative force in all that we do.
Emotions are the Core Creative Force in all that we do.
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Cultivate Life! #150
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sat, Jul 26, 2008
In order to manifest any desire, you must understand that you are already one with it. But, even if you can grasp the concept of oneness, living from that place is an entirely different ball game. It requires a deeper understanding...
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Cultivate Life! #149
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jul 20, 2008
Listening is a strange, magnetic, and creative force. Give meaningful conversations your full attention and you will catapult your career to the top with the friends you make and the information you gain just through the silence of listening.
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Cultivate Life! #148
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jul 13, 2008
I can look back on numerous events I felt played a major role in determining the course of my life. In hindsight I see the course of my life was determined by ME, and not the events that were seemingly forced upon me.
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Cultivate Life! #147
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jul 06, 2008
Once people start to focus on the things they truly want to be and do deep inside, money is suddenly not an issue anymore. It's just there, as a means. No need to pursue it anymore as the main focus and end goal in life.
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Cultivate Life! #146
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jun 29, 2008
Research indicates that the heart affects our consciousness to such an extent that, in order truly to understand anything, we need to have our hearts open while we are thinking.
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Cultivate Life! #145
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jun 22, 2008
It is time to stop looking for others to guide us to inner peace. It is time to look in the mirror and see our teacher. It is us; it has always been us.
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Cultivate Life! #144
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jun 15, 2008
When you know that what you're looking for is what you already are -- and not what you may become -- you stand on the threshold of the limitless life.
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Cultivate Life! #143
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jun 8, 2008
When you know that what you're looking for is what you already are -- and not what you may become -- you stand on the threshold of the limitless life.
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Cultivate Life! #142
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jun 1, 2008
When we awaken in the morning we do so without effort - it just happens. We awaken because of noise, or simply because we have slept long enough. This is a wonderful metaphor for spiritual awakening.
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Cultivate Life! #141
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, May 25, 2008
The key is to step back and let your Higher Self speak to you in the language that you can understand. What is this language? Your feelings.
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Cultivate Life! #140
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, May 5, 2008
Spiritual Intelligence is the power behind your creativity. This power is continuously creating your reality whether you are aware of it or not. You have to learn to align with your power if you are to create a reality you want.
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Cultivate Life! #139
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sat, Apr 26, 2008
What every newborn child knows in this bliss-state of being is the reality of love; what he is taught by life is to fear. By acting from love - no matter what - we create a more loving world, free of the limitations we have known.
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Cultivate Life! #138
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Apr 21, 2008
We set up barriers behind which we hide our true selves in order to feel safe. However the boundaries we create through setting up barriers like this serve to keep us in as much as they keep others out.
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Cultivate Life! #137
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Apr 13, 2008
A spiritually intelligent perspective understands that the shadow is the facilitator of our growth. Its very existence is a sign that there is a purpose to our being here, that we have a job to do.
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Cultivate Life! #136
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Apr 7, 2008
While there are certain routines and habits we would like to change, like smoking and eating too much, there are others which drive us to grow and improve.
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Cultivate Life! #135
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Mar 31, 2008
By the act of sacrificing that which you had, you will actually gain more than you had before. Such is the paradox of love in action.
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Cultivate Life! #134
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Mar 24, 2008
The person who knows in the deepest recesses of his psyche that all is perfect detaches from the outcome of his attempts to control his outer world and continually accepts 'what is' moment by moment. He realizes the futility of attachment.
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Cultivate Life! #133
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Mar 17, 2008
Effective leaders have the ability to discern, understand and be aware of how their thoughts and emotions get expressed in their actions and behaviors. They have the ability to manage their emotions, express them appropriately and help others do the same.
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Cultivate Life! #132
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Mar 10, 2008
Instead of retreating into a cave to find bliss, perhaps we'd do better to follow a call for service.
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Cultivate Life! #131
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Mar 3, 2008
When our mind is closed we are in trance, easily influenced and manipulated, and not at all mindful of our options and choices; indeed we do not perceive change is possible.
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Cultivate Life! #130
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Feb 25, 2008
Perhaps you have a lover or perhaps you do not, but I invite you to consider to take life as your lover. Let it matter less whether or not you have a real person to hold in your arms, and let it matter more that life is holding you in its arms.
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Cultivate Life! #129
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Feb 18, 2008
Far from being apart from each other, spirituality and the world are bonded together like the two wings of a bird - both are needed for humankind to rise up toward enlightenment.
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Cultivate Life! #128
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Feb 11, 2008
Confidence is the state of trust between you and you. A quiet state. It's not about being perfect but about knowing yourself.
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Cultivate Life! #127
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Feb 4, 2008
Peace resides in the human heart. Inner peace creates outer peace in your relationships and in the effect that you have upon the global consciousness.
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Cultivate Life! #126
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jan 27, 2008
To find happiness within allows us you keep it, as it doesn't depend on any outside factors. It is your chosen natural state of being. It is your reactions that determine how you experience life, not the situations you find yourself in.
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Cultivate Life! #125
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Jan 20, 2008
We are happiest when we obtain a state of flow and strike a balance between the difficulty of a task and our ability to perform it... flowing through challenge.
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Cultivate Life! #124
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Jan 14, 2008
You are separate from your thoughts. From this place of detachment, observe your thoughts working. Observe them as if they belonged to someone else. This is meditation.
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Cultivate Life! #123
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Jan 7, 2008
Life is a cycle of experience and its ultimate purpose is to learn how to reconnect with the spiritual joy which radiates from within our inner beings.
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Cultivate Life! #122
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Dec 31, 2007
Stories serve as foundations for our lives. We take the stories our families have handed us, and at an early age we begin to live out those scripts.
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Cultivate Life! #121
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Dec 16, 2007
Gratitude is a portal, a gateway to receiving wisdom. When you express gratitude to the Universe, it sends back to you more and more. You are giving gratitude and as you give you are creating a space within to receive.
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Cultivate Life! #120
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Dec 10, 2007
Successful people, who want to have the power of persuasion, turn their circle of activity and interest outward. They expand their centers to be as conscious of the world around them as they are of themselves. They develop what we call, charisma.
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Cultivate Life! #119
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Dec 3, 2007
Here is an amazing higher instruction that can help you step beyond yourself: Walk away from the mental 'how' into the spiritual Now.
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Cultivate Life! #118
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Nov 26, 2007
You don't have to 'seek enlightenment' or anything like that. It's already knocking on your door. You just need to open it up and let it in. However, what most of us do is like sticking our heads in the ground with our bums up the air...
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Cultivate Life! #117
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sat, Nov 17, 2007
Now is the only time you really have. The truth is, you don't need to wait for any conditions to change in order to be conscious of abundance. Now is the time. Here is the place.
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Cultivate Life! #116
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Nov 12, 2007
Passion is the gas that runs the engine that manifests our goals. Many people set goals and do not believe that they will attain them. This lack of attainment is simply the lack of structure for attainment.
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Cultivate Life! #115
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Nov 4, 2007
The desire to overcome, to compete, to be more powerful, more rich, to have more possessions, is the struggle that brings great stress and unhappiness.
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Cultivate Life! #114
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Oct 29, 2007
If we are to experience all of who we are we need to relate to ourselves and the world in these three ways: as consciousness, as life and as form.
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Cultivate Life! #113
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Oct 22, 2007
Avoiding feelings, being unable to feel feelings and express feelings, and having no way to make them less intense, painful, or attention grabbing can create major havoc in our lives.
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Cultivate Life! #112
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Oct 15, 2007
If you keep putting yourself in victim situations by not letting go of the anger and resentment, you will not be able to have a healthy self-esteem.
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Cultivate Life! #111
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Oct 8, 2007
The more often we choose to be appreciative the easier this choice becomes and the more frequently is our heart open to give and receive love.
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Cultivate Life! #110
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Sep 23, 2007
If you approach life as you would a lover or friend - with respect and love - then life will approach you in the same way.
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Cultivate Life! #109
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Sun, Sep 16, 2007
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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Cultivate Life! #108
Author: Peter Shepherd with Jessica Coffey Mon, Sep 10, 2007
It isn't about the other person. It isn't about what he or she does. It is about how we feel inside. Negative feelings block us from being able to feel unconditional love.
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