Seeking Sustainable Spirituality

Anyone who spends even a short amount of time educating themselves in metaphysical practices and living a New Age lifestyle will have heard of the Law of Attraction.

Generally speaking, the Law of Attraction states that whatever you think and desire will manifest in your life. This concept makes many people uncomfortable because in order to accept that the Law of Attraction is possible, we must also accept that all our sufferings and short comings are self-inflicted.

Regardless of how well the Law of Attraction may be accepted, it remains one of the core principles behind the power and practice of magic, prayer and daydreaming.

The common teaching states that there are three basic steps to applying the Law of Attraction:

1. Envision your Intention you want fully formed
2. Feel as if the Intention you want already exists
3. Release the Intention you want in perfect faith

The Law of Attraction is such a fundamental process of reality that one could argue that it sits at the very core of the Human Experience we call life. We use the Law of Attraction continuously, countless times each day, yet because we have forgotten that we are capable of directly influencing reality with our thoughts and emotions, we often unwittingly attract harmful experiences into our lives. It is because of our misuse of the Law of Attraction that we seldom find ourselves truly at peace.

Michael Wolf and Mahalene Louis are two gifted spiritual teachers who have been working towards a common goal, even before they met. Both teachers saw a critical flaw in the commonly accepted interpretation of the Law of Attraction. While the flawed interpretation did not prevent the Law of Attraction from working for individuals, it did however prevent the Law of Attraction from working continuously and optimally.

According to Mahalene and Michael, true spiritual enlightenment is more than something each person can obtain in his or her life, it is actually the intended natural state of our existence.

Michael Wolf, an Austin local and the CEO of emPOwering NOW LLC, grew up in Texas and worked for years in Corporate America for several Fortune 500 companies. He admits to being the ideal 'corporate citizen', as he puts it. Despite his success when measured in material gains, he felt his life was lacking in substance and spirit. During one of his many business trips, he left the hotel and went to the nearby ocean to unwind. While he was swimming, he had what he describes as a 'kundalini experience'. He felt this profound connection with the 'sea of humanity'. The event was so profound that it drove him to begin to seek out further knowledge and over the years he immersed himself into every philosophy, religious and metaphysical teaching he could discover. Eventually he came to feel that all of these teachings failed to reveal how to make enlightenment a sustained experience.

Meanwhile, Mahalene Louis, also an Austin native and the co-founder of emPOwering NOW LLC, had been spending the better part of the last twenty-five years dedicated to self-knowledge and an extensive study of Kabalistic teachings and understanding the teachings of the Torah. Mahalene knew that there was a message of wonder hidden within these ancients works, a message that would only be revealed at exactly the right time in history when its worth would be best received and utilized. It was during these many years of study and her exercise of faith, that she finally received the illuminating breakthrough that led to the Path of XPR.

The story of Mahalene and Michael finding one another is a perfect example of the Law of Attraction in action. Michael had mastered the physical corporate world, but had found his spiritual knowledge was lacking certain key elements. Mahalene had created a spiritual curriculum of unparallelled importance, but had never garnered the contacts necessary to bring her message to the world. In Michael she found a kindred soul who could navigate the economic seas and in Mahelene, Michael found a questing companion who held the final pieces of his spiritual puzzle.

Michael and Mahalene have combined their venerable knowledge to create the emPOwering NOW LLC, a company that offers the unique insights gleaned from a combination of the teachings of the Torah and Kabalistic insights revealed through a unique curriculum of coaching, reading, leadership retreats and workshops.

To get an example of the value of the teachings available through the emPOwering NOW LLC, let us return to the earlier discussion of the inherent flaw within the common interpretation of the Law of Attraction.

While it is true we create our own reality, most of go through our life with a feeling of powerlessness, that we are victims of Fate rather than the conductors. We wonder why plans fall apart, why painful events happen for seeming no reason, why we feel unfulfilled.

To understand the problem according to Michael and Mahalene, one must accept that there is a fourth missing element to the equation. Our inability to sustain spiritual enlightenment is due to the fact that we too often jump ahead of the actual first step. Rather than allowing our minds to create a desired intention which we then feel into being and finally release in faith, stop and listen to your heart first. If we listen closely to what our hearts are whispering to us, we suddenly begin to manifest the experiences that we need rather than want. This crucial difference ensures that whatever we then attract into our lives through the Law of Attraction will be something both beautiful and beneficial to ourselves. As a result, we discover that peace and enlightenment is a natural part of our every living moment.

By integrating this often overlooked fourth step, our Law of Attraction progression would look like so:

1. Listen for the Intention we need
2. Envision the Intention we need fully formed
3. Feel the Intention we need as if it already exists
4. Release the Intention we need in perfect faith

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