Title: You Are Never Alone Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 682 Category: Spirituality, Spiritual Growth

YOU ARE NEVER ALONE By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

What if you knew that you were never alone - that you were always being guided by a personal source of spiritual guidance? If you knew and experienced this, you would undoubtedly feel safe and peaceful.

This guidance is here for each of us and all individuals can learn to access it. Learning to do this is quite simple, yet I’m not going to tell you that it’s always easy.

I was trained in psychology and practiced as a traditional psychotherapist for 17 years. I discovered in those years that I was not happy with results of traditional psychotherapy. At some point in those years I realized that healing could not happen without a spiritual connection. In these last 18 years, I’ve been facilitating healing through helping people discover their personal spiritual guidance. This makes all difference in world regarding depth and progress of their inner work.

Our guidance is here to support us in our highest good. The way to access this guidance is simple; when our deepest intention is to support our own highest good - when our deepest desire in any given moment is to know what is truly loving to ourselves and we are willing to take loving action in our own behalf, Spirit will show us way.

As I already stated, this is simple but not easy. While we may consciously think our intention is to love ourselves and support our highest good, our unconscious intention in any given moment may be very different, and it is this deeper intention that actually governs whether or not we connect with our guidance. If your deeper, unconscious intention in connecting with Spirit is to:

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