I am newly starting my spiritual journey and I have to say it has been quite a ride! As I read books and search the net for food to appease my spiritual appetite, I have suddenly become over whelmed with which steps to take rather than jumping all over the place. Right now I’m beginning to meditate (once a day) and working towards twice a day, I’m also very interested in Aura reading, getting in touch with my intuition trusting it and the big one is realizing my soul desire and life purpose…which I have no clue what it is, what I need to do to figure it out and this is my biggest struggle, almost to desperations. I look forward to your insightful direction to a purposeful, beneficial, spiritual fulfilling life….
Answer:

I have a question about how to introduce spirituality to teens. I was a single teenage mom and now I have a teen age boy 17 and girl 15. My son is very charismatic and very “what can I get out of the world”, my daughter is very compassionate, old soul and “what can I give to the world”. With two very different teens how can I introduce spirituality in a way that will appeal to them, especially to my son.

I have been wanting to ask this for a long time but didn’t want to bother you until had exhausted other sources. Anyhow, for the past year and half have been experiencing something that I haven’t been able to find an explanation for.

When sitting in meditation (i was doing healing bowls then, now chakra cleansing).I began experiencing a side-to-side swaying movement in my upper body–like a pendulum–which I couldn’t control without some effort..that lasted 6 months or so (I thought it was a spirit communicating with me 🙂
Also asked stu wilde about it (did a course with him) and he said side-to-side was a good movement because the body was trying to slip out or something ..which I didn’t understand.

Since then it has been like a spinning + spiralling kind of movement. you know sometimes can feel something like a butter-churning stick in centre of me, which is spinning and around it a spiralling energy–sometimes the spiral stays with the lower 2-3 chakras, sometimes goes up and down. And my upper body moves with it.
and now it’s become so weird that I can feel this spiralling movement if I sit motionless for even a few seconds, like right now in front of laptop! or if standing and chatting at a party or something..what I mean is I think the movement is going on all the time but when I am motionless it becomes obvious..i think.
so what is going on and what am I supposed to do with it?
thanks for any help

I saw your appearance on Ellen early in the New Year. You mentioned embracing uncertainty as a focus for this year. Could you speak more about this? More specifically, I have been living abroad for seven years and have been trying to deal with uncertainty since last July when my teaching contract was not renewed. Since then I thought I could work privately. In the fall it seemed as if I was riding a wave of uncertainty and was balancing my way through. I have never surfed before in my life, but it sure felt good at times. After spending the Christmas holiday at home and returning in the New Year I have not been able to get back on that pseudo-surf board to ride those waves once again. I feel rather lost and overwhelmed by the uncertainty that surrounds me. What are somethings I can do to embrace uncertainty and find my purpose again? Sending you a big hug and my best wishes.

Right now I’m reading “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” and I’m having a little trouble understanding a portion that for the most part seems to make a great deal. In the chapter “Law of Intention and Desire” shortly before the applying section, one of the ideas embellished is to “release” one’s intentions and desires in the gap. I think I understand most of what is being inferred, however the “release” wordage has me a little confused on the specifics of what is being requested of me. Could you clear this up? And if this actually reaches Chopra, than thank you so much for your contributions to mankind, from what I’ve read of your work, not a great deal but some, I think what you say is wonderful.