Tips Self Improvement

Below are 20 self-improvement tips and self-help book recommendations for those who are truly ready for a major shift in consciousness on their personal journal of spiritual growth. We offer these recommendations as a gift to you for they have helped us tremendously on our own path.

#1 – Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh

This self-help book is a great beginner’s book for the spiritual seeker. It is essentially a transcript of a conversation between Neale Donald Walsh (the author) and the energy of God who uses Neale as a spiritual channel to explain why we as souls exist, what our purpose is on Earth, and how to begin the path of becoming a spiritual master as Jesus and other masters have done. It is a fun book to read and the answers delivered by God are no less than genius.

#2 – A New Light on Ascension by Diana Cooper

This self-improvement book for the spiritual seeker is very easy to read and understand. It explains many of the concepts of spiritual ascension, which is essentially the progression of a soul in consciousness towards a higher state of consciousness and self-mastery. It explains what is happening on Earth at this time in relation to the New Age and the ascension of the planet Earth and it provides many tools and techniques to help you connect with Angels and Ascended Masters for purification of your soul and mind.

#3 – Your Divine Soul Plan

This is a 40 page document that details your soul’s specific fears and psychological and karmic imbalances you have brought into this lifetime from your past lifetimes that you have chosen to balance and work through. It is an extremely accurate document and only requires your full birth name and date of birth to be decoded. Your time of birth is not required. The understanding of your fears and karmic and psychological imbalances will help you tremendously on your path of personal and spiritual growth.

#4 – Vipassana Meditation

This is a 10 day silent retreat held regularly in almost every major city of the world. It is a meditation that works with all belief systems and therefore does not preach. It is the same meditation Gautama the Buddha used to become enlightened and the technique involves carefully meditating on physical pain in your body to release fear. It is common for those on this retreat to re-experience old emotional pain for release from the mind as this meditation technique is akin to surgery on the mind to remove and release fears. This 10 day retreat is donation based.

#5 – Lower Self Ego Meditation

This simple meditation works by focusing on your fears to dissolve them. Simply close your eyes, sitting upright, focus on a fear in your body and a past, present or future image it relates to, and observe the physical sensation of the fear in your body. At first it will feel very uncomfortable. Simply meditate on the fear and associated emotional pain for 30-45 minutes. During this meditation the fear will initially become more pronounced; then it will begin to gradually dissolve and disappear, having been released. Use this meditation daily to face your many thousands of subconscious and unconscious fears to begin the process of purifying your mind of all fears.

#6 – Tibetan Sound Healing

This is a very simple self-help technique for transforming negative emotions such as anger, hate, fear, grief, emotional pain, into love. There are free You Tube videos to learn this simple technique at howtofindyourself.org/tibetan-sound-healing.html. There are five sound mantras you sing out loud, one at a time, and over a 15 minute period the negative emotion is neutralized firstly and then turns into love when holding the pain/fear-related image in your mind.

#7 – Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom by Kim Michaels

This spiritual self-help book is the teachings of Ascended Master Maitreya, who was Jesus own spiritual teacher, and who is now the World Teacher for all souls on Earth. This books provides the “macro understanding” of why souls exist, who and what is God, what is our purpose as souls on Earth, what types of beings exist on Earth, and what we can do to ascend from the Earth plane. The book was spiritually channeled by Kim Michaels who transcribed Maitreya’s teachings.

#8 – Master Keys to the Abundant Life by Kim Michaels

This spiritual self-help book is the teachings of Ascended Master Mother Mary who provides the “micro understanding” of transcending the ego and its fears to achieve spiritual ascension from the Earth. This book was spiritually channeled by Kim Michaels who transcribed Mother Mary’s teachings.

#9 – Master Keys to Personal Christhood by Kim Michaels

This spiritual self-help book is a 2 year course by Ascended Master Jesus Christ on how to attain personal Christhood and achieve spiritual ascension. It truly is an emotional roller-coaster ride as the course involves you invoking the Ascended Masters and the Archangels of Light to access your soul to bring up fears you need to release in order to raise the vibration of your soul. It is an understatement to say that this is a life-transforming course.

#10 – Giving the Lower Self Ego a Voice to Release Fear

Your Lower Self ego is the fear-based energy within your soul. It has become split or fragmented from your mind as a separate energy and has thousands of fears and rejects love because it feels unworthy of love. The task of every soul is to work with this split part of their mind – the ego – to help it face its fears, have the energy around these fears expressed and released, and then bring in the Presence of God / the Holy Spirit / your Higher Self, to re-educate the ego that its fears are unfounded and provide new information. There are 12 parts of the Lower Self ego at theego.org

#11 – Higher Self Meditation

Your consciousness that resides in your soul is a part of your Higher Self’s consciousness that exists in the Spiritual Heavens. When you fully ascend you will merge back into oneness with your Higher Self. You are always connected to your Higher Self via an invisible silver cord and you can merge your mind with your Higher Self’s mind through a simple meditation to receive inspirational thoughts and to feel its eternal peace. Simply close your eyes, sitting upright, focus your attention on your third-eye chakra, and repeat the words slowly over and over in your mind (not out loud) – I AM MY HIGHER SELF, I AM MY HIGHER SELF… Even doing this for 5-10 minutes daily will help you to anchor yourself more firmly with your Higher Self and bring greater peace into your life.

#12 – The Disappearance of The Universe by Gary R Renard

This spiritual self-help book is the transcript of a conversation between Gary R Renard and two Ascended Masters who made themselves visible to Gary and talked with him in detail on the importance of practicing perpetual and constant forgiveness in order to heal the soul and achieve spiritual ascension. The two masters talk extensively about the true meaning of A Course In Miracles. This a fun and comical book to read and the masters, mirroring back Gary’s own consciousness at the time, tease him and joke with him in order to communicate their message of love.

#13 – A Course In Miracles

This self-help book for spiritual growth is more for the advanced spiritual seeker. It is the teachings of Ascended Masters of the collective Christ Mind including Jesus Christ. The first 100 pages of the 700 page text is written in language that causes the reader to have to really think about the meaning of the words. This puts many readers off who don’t what to have to think but would rather just read. This said, this 1 year course to achieve spiritual ascension is perfectly clear and once you have understood the true meaning of the words Atonement and Miracle and Miracle Worker, the rest of the course becomes much easier to understand and digest.

#14 – EFT (The Emotional Freedom Techniques) by Gary Craig

This self-improvement technique is used by many millions around the world to permanently release and remove emotional pain, including anger, hate, grief, guilt, etc, that is connected to past, present and future pain/fear-related mental images. EFT involves tapping with your fingers on approximately 8 meridian energy points on your face and upper body, repeating phrases that evoke meaning and emotional wounds. It is quite common to permanently free yourself of a negative emotion that is connected to a past memory in as little as 30 minutes.

#15 – The Christ Consciousness and its true meaning

This spiritual self-improvement tip is to give you a greater understanding of the term Christ that has been misused and misunderstood by many billions of people on Earth. The overwhelming vast majority of Christians believe Christ equals Jesus. This is true to a point, but not the whole truth. Christ is a state of consciousness. The Son of God is the Christ Mind and all souls, being creations of the Creator, belong to the Christ Mind, the Sonship. The Christ Consciousness is a state of “unity consciousness” that enables souls to remain in a state of “oneness” with each other while maintaining their own uniqueness. Jesus attained the Christ Consciousness while on Earth and he served as a role model and forerunner to demonstrate that we too can, as it states in the Bible, “let this mind be in us that was also in Christ Jesus”. The anti-christ consciousness is simply the “separation consciousness” where souls believe in separation, division, inequality, superiority, and inferiority.

#16 – The Buddha Consciousness and its true meaning

This spiritual self-improvement tip is to give you a greater understanding of the term Buddha. The Buddha consciousness, just like the Christ consciousness, is one of four states of consciousness that govern all souls. The Buddha consciousness is the “reality consciousness” that enables souls to live solely in the moment of NOW, free of all expectation and thus suffering. You can only enter God’s reality if your mind is in the reality of NOW. Nearly all souls on Earth are anchored in the anti-buddha consciousness of expectation, fantasy, worry, fear. You only fear something if your mind is projected into the future, which has not happened, and therefore is “unreality”. Freeing your mind of all expectations is the first step in purifying your mind of all fears.

#17 – Running Towards Pain instead of Running Away From It

Even if you tune your mind into the reality of NOW and remove all expectation from your mind, you will still be left with the unexpressed pain of your pain body in your soul. Most people mask their pain with addictions or keep themselves busy with work or helping others to avoid having to face their own inner pain they have suppressed. ALL pain that is in your soul, that has accumulated in your conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds MUST be faced, expressed and released in order for you to spiritually ascend. This work cannot be done for you. This is why the spiritual path is a difficult and uncomfortable path. It takes on average 10-15 years for a soul to purify its mind of most of its fears / emotional pain if it is doing something daily to actively face this hidden pain and fear.

#18 – Healing Your Relationship With God / The Creator

Every soul on the Earth has the Lower Self ego that is a split part of your mind that has split off from God’s reality. In essence every soul on Earth was given the opportunity to “do it their own way” and they took it and thus they rejected God and God’s will and created a collective reality on Earth where God seems distant and everyone seems separate. Any anger a soul has is actually anger against God, for creating life on Earth and the possibility for pain and suffering and imperfection to exist. The part of your ego that is filled with anger and hate is really angry with God and it has a lot of unpleasant and toxic things to say to God. This poison of hate is already in your soul and it must be expressed in multiple letters to God to release the energy of anger, fear, and hate from your soul. A relationship can only be healed when the truth is spoken and the people in the relationship start talking and expressing their real issues. Giving your ego a completely uncensored voice to express its hate for God and its reality is crucial in repairing your relationship with God. God wants you to be healed, and he knows already what’s in the mind of your ego, and he wants you to express and release this energy. Doing so will not make it worse, although initially it will feel like the hate is becoming stronger, yet after a dozen letters you should find nearly all the anger and hate is gone.

#19 – Healing Your Relationship With your Split Mind: The Ego

The task of a spiritual student and spiritual master in the making is to make their split mind whole again. You can only do this if you get all the parts of the mind talking together, listening to each other, and bringing in the Truth of God, to overcome all fear. Your pure awareness or consciousness is in the middle, between your Higher Self / Holy Spirit of God, and your Lower Self ego. Your consciousness is an extension of your Higher Self’s consciousness, and your ego is a split part of your own consciousness that is living in fear. You are the parent of your ego, its spiritual teacher and guide. You must begin by listening to its fears, giving it a voice, working with it to face and overcome its fears, not judging it, and always giving it complete and unconditional love and acceptance and above all else, forgiveness.

#20 – Using Forgiveness as a Tool To Heal Within

Forgiveness is the great unifier of God. It is the essence of the Christ Mind, for it makes whole and pure all that appears unwhole and impure. Because in reality there is only one being, the being of God, and every soul is a part of this one being, when you forgive another soul’s mind, you are forgiving your greater collective mind of God. Every time you do this, the Holy Spirit will meet you half way and access your unconscious mind to heal the very same thing in your mind that you are forgiving in another soul’s mind. If you choose to hold onto unforgiveness, which is your free will right to do so, then you are holding unforgiveness towards God and towards yourself, and choosing to keep yourself in bondage. To forgive others is to set yourself free.

Imagine a life where you managed your anger, behaved assertively with others, communicated clearly and effectively, appreciated your life and was grateful for those people you shared it with; a life where you understood the power of positive thinking, loved yourself more than anybody in the whole wide world, and never let fear become your master…

Are you imagining, yet, how great your life would be?

Well I’m a big believer in the power of inspirational quotations to get the message across as quickly and directly as possible. And that’s why I’ve decided to list seven self improvement quotes that cover these key self-help areas of life. And I discuss how you can embrace these inspirational quotes – these self improvement ideas – so that you can make a difference in your life today.

Let’s begin.

==> Self-Improvement Quote #1: Anger

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
– Marcus Aurelius.

What this quotations means, I think, is that there is nothing wrong with getting angry – things are always going to happen that take us unawares, and make us cross. The important issue is HOW we express that anger.

So make sure, starting today, that you take a look at what’s still making you angry years after the event. And let go of this anger, if you can, as this anger is hurting you much more than it’s hurting anyone else.

And try and deal with new angry situations in a way where you express yourself clearly and assertively. Express it and forget it.

==> Self-Improvement Quote #2: Assertiveness

“Assertiveness is not what you do, it’s who you are!”
– Shakti Gawain

When you express yourself clearly, and use words like “I” (rather than “you”) then you are giving life to your true self – whether the other person agrees with you or not.

How much better is it to do this than to squash your thoughts and feelings so as not to ’cause a problem’ to somebody else.

No problem is caused when you are being your true self.

==> Self-Improvement Quote #3: Communication Skills

“When I am at Milan, I do as they do at Milan; but when I go to Rome, I do as Rome does”
– St. Augustine

Of course, ‘tailoring your message to the audience’ will always be of assistance in assertive communication. It will always help the other person understand what you are saying and why you are saying it.

This level of insight into each other’s position will always be of benefit to both parties, no matter whether you agree or disagree. The reason? At least you will both know you have been truly heard.

==> Self-Improvement Quote #4: Gratitude

“Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.”
– Elizabeth Carter

This quote is another way of saying that having gratitude for what’s going on in your life is a sure way of finding happiness. Even if you’re disagreeing with people, or you don’t like the way people do things, it should still be possible to be grateful for that person in your life, for the differences that they reveal.

After all, imagine how dull it would be to take a walk in the woods only to find all of the trees the same, and all of the flowers the same, and all of the bird song to be the same.

Gratitude is simply finding a good reason to appreciate, rather than a good reason to criticise.

==> Self-Improvement Quote #5: Positive Attitude

“Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
– Zig Ziglar

If ever there was an inspirational quote that explained the power of positive thinking in anybody’s life it is this one. Why would anybody want to do something badly when they can do it well instead, simply via adopting a positive thinking attitude.

I know that it’s not always possible to feel good about things, and to not allow ourselves to wallow in our (apparent) repeated short-comings. This is understood. The idea, though, is to remind ourselves of how much more we can do in life by not allowing ourselves to wallow, but by getting back in the game and having another “I can” go…

==> Self-Improvement Quote #6: Self Love

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
–Oscar Wilde

As ever ol’ Oscar Wilde takes a short sentence to sum up a lifelong strategy for a successful, happy and fulfilled life. Self-love is absolutely vital to embrace, if we are to enjoy ourselves and our relationships. And everyone benefits when we do so.

What a fantastic self-improvement idea – to love ourselves more!

==> Self-Improvement Quote #7: Fear

“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
– Florence Nightingale

And when we love ourselves more, guess what we automatically do less of? We fear less. And when we fear less, we do more. And when we do more, we live more? And when live more, we are more.

Understanding how fear has a grip on our lives, and how it’s possible for us to look at this fear and to make it ‘disappear’ is almost as important a self improvement idea as loving ourselves more.

That’s what I say, anyway.

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Okay, there we have it. There you have some self improvement tips and ideas by way of 7 self improvement quotes. The quotes covered anger, assertiveness, fear, communication, appreciation, positive thinking and self-love. And they clearly show you what to start doing to achieve greatness in your life.

Self improvement is never an accident and never occurs that way but it is the consequence of a deliberate action plan undertaken. It is imperative to understand from the onset that the reason most people stop growing is because they make the choice to not to grow and thereby putting their quest for personal growth and self improvement on the back burner so to speak.

Dr. John C. Maxwell said, “Self-development is a higher calling; it is the development of your potential so that you can attain the purpose for which you were created.” Self-improvement therefore, begins with your spirit, your mind, as you consistently acquire new information and discard the ones that are obsolete that no longer serve your purpose.

Self improvement tips are necessary for each person in order for them to recognize the areas in which they need to improve, especially with somebody who likes to do things properly who does not see himself or herself as having any faults or deficiencies. These self improvement tips will become more significant if you take massive action in applying them. Here are 5 Hot Tips for Self Improvement that you can start implementing today.

Identify Areas you intend to improve: The self improvement program you develop for yourself should contain all of the areas you have identified as your weakness to be improved on. This is one of the most important self improvement tips that you must learn is to identify that you are not infallible and that there is always room for improvement. The detailing of this information and the implementation of a program of improvement should allow for a better understanding of these areas in need of improvement

Identify Limiting beliefs: Identifying and getting rid of limiting beliefs is critical to your self improvement and to your overall self development. Most people have sabotage their progress by their negative belief systems. It is also known to have literally affected their self esteem and confidence. Consequently, your self improvement plan must include dismantling these limiting beliefs to improve ones life. These teachings and self improvement tips enable you to make rapid changes in your life simply by changing your negative beliefs system and transforming it into creative opportunities.

Associate with positive people: This is of utmost importance if you will achieve your goals and objectives. There will always be temporary detour in your life and things will not move in the direction you anticipated. It will be very helpful to have positive people around you that will encourage and motivate you to do what you need to do to change your life and move you in the direction of your anticipated goals. These individual have a way of robbing off on you.

Evaluate your life: This self improvement tip is important so that you can ascertain what is working and what is not. There are times when you tend to focus on the things that you have done wrong. But contrary to doing that, you should instead focus on the things you did right so as to enable you focus on doing those things again and that are congruent to your core values and this enhances your self improvement.

Develop the right way of thinking: The right way of thinking is of immense importance in your self improvement plan because a positive mindset will make all the difference in the end. We are sum total of our thoughts, that is you are a product of your thoughts. To change your world, you have to develop the right way of thinking.