Conscious Evolution through Spiritual Partnering

Spiritual Partnering: Refers to a conscious path of relating in which two (or more) individuals hold an intention for their relationship to serve a higher purpose.

Top Ten Elements of Spiritual Partnering

1. Spiritual partners know that the solitary spiritual path is no longer the optimal choice for conscious evolution and that interpersonal relationships provide us with the greatest laboratory in which we can come face-to-face with the edges of our comfort zones. They recognize that insights experienced through journaling and mediation are of little value unless they can be brought into the everyday world of activity and interaction. For this reason, so many on the path are hungry for a deeper form of relationship with true alchemical power.

2. Spiritual partners hold the awareness that they are connecting, simultaneously, on the level of personality and soul. In this way they commit to "walking between the worlds" in every area of their relationship.

3. Spiritual partners know that at every moment we have the choice to participate in the unfolding of our lives unconsciously (as a victim of seemingly random circumstances) or consciously (as an active, co-creative participant.) Spiritual partners choose the latter. From this perspective, life is a process of creation and evolution and the individual's experience is indeed a heroic journey.

4. Spiritual partners choose to believe that our higher selves (in partnership with God/ the Universe) are deliberately attracting people, circumstances and events to us so that we may have ample opportunities to grow into our best selves. Whether an event seems positive or negative at face value, spiritual partners acknowledge that our "individually calibrated Divine curriculum" is always leading us to perfectly orchestrated opportunities for the highest good of all concerned.

5. Spiritual partners strive to create a positive energy environment. By committing to truth, trust, equality and to seeing the light in one another, spiritual partners create a safe container in which transformation can take place.

6. Spiritual partners understand that our greatest power to shape our future lies within our intentions. In every interaction, spiritual partners must leave their ego-agendas at the door and invoke a higher path. "God please use this relationship for the highest purposes for all concerned," is a powerful, growth-enhancing intention.

7. Spiritual partners savor the opportunities to face and heal ineffective patterns affecting careers, relationships, finances and lack of self-love. When one acts in a manner that is less than his/her highest, compassion and a commitment to healing becomes the focus of both partners.

8. Spiritual partners use the enhanced sense of unconditional love that is modeled for them by their partners as a touchstone while they learn to find and hold their own connection to source energy, freedom, expansion and full expression.

9. Spiritual partners recognize that the personal and spiritual growth that they enjoy as a result of their connection benefits the individual, the other partner(s) and countless others whose lives are touched, directly or indirectly. In a grand domino effect, spiritual partnering has the power to heal the world.

10. For spiritual partners, the ultimate destination is: wholeness, authentic power, the replacement of reactivity with choice and the freedom and flexibility to become a conscious chooser even in the most challenging of circumstances.

In other words, spiritual partnership accelerates evolution...