Michael Casteel
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Michael Casteel Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Emotional Mastery, Transformation, Soul-based Solutions for Creating a Happier Life Transformation
- Career Focus
- Helping people discover the ONE TRUE GIFT they were born to live and give
What Michael is more passionate about than just about anything is helping people discover the ONE TRUE GIFT they were born to live and give and then deliver this gift to the world in the most uniquely authentic, impacting and meaningful way, becoming he calls A Modern Urban Hero.
"In my role as Transformational Life Coach, I think of myself as a sculptor of sorts. You may have heard the famous line by Michael Angelo when asked how he created the magnificent statue of David out of a simple block of stone, he responded: "He was in there waiting. All I did was the excavating. I just chipped away all that did not belong." So, with my clients, I play the role of being a soul sculptor; partnering with them to chip away what does not belong - all the fear, doubt and limiting beliefs blocking them from realizing and revealing the magnificence of who they already are, in their Essence." -Michael
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Presence and Healing the Pain Body
The past is only the past when we become present to it.
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The Virgin Birth: Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
The Christmas season that we are on the other side of holds a special place in my heart because my father was a part time Baptist preacher. I have fond memories of his moving sermons at this time of year about the beauty and purity of God's gift to us in Jesus through the virgin birth. Christmas, to me, was far more than presents under a tree. It was a time of spiritual truth so innocent, even a small boy could understand. Whether or not you believe the Christmas story of the virgin birth with a literal interpretation or as mythological symbolism, the message is powerful.
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First Principle for Awakening to Wholeness -JUST FEEL IT!
The first principle to Awakening to Wholeness is JUST FEEL IT! Feel it all, as fully and as deeply as you are able. WHAT? Does this sound off to you, counter-intuitive, maybe even a little scary? In the past, it most certainly would have seemed so to me. My strategy was more like "If it's uncomfortable, deny it, stuff it, shake it off or reframe it but I'm certainly not going to subject myself to the discomfort of feeling it, NO WAY!" Sound like anyone you know? Today I know that unfelt feelings do not go away.
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Awakening to Wholeness-Michael's Personal Stary
Awakening to Wholeness: My Personal Storyr The Limits of Positive Thinking and the Four Principles of Awakening to, and Living in Wholeness. I recently received an email inquiry from my SOULutions website that stated; “Can you help me think more positively about myself and feel more optimistic about my life? Can you help me stop my chronic critical self talk?” My immediate thought was, “Yes!
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Let It Begin from Within in 2010!
Let It Begin from Within in 2010. It's a cute jingle but what does it really mean anyway? How can this be helpful to you in your real life? The intention of this article is to provide you with something that is both inspirational to feel and practical to do to begin from within in 2010. We human beings occupy a unique place in the world. We're said to have both an animal nature and divine nature. Think about it, like animals, we certainly have survival needs, desire to experience pleasure and want to be powerful. Don't you?
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Bill Maher, Religious Fundamentalist?
Bill Maher may be a gifted comedian, talk show host and the creator of the recent movie “Religulous” yet most would agree that he is about as far from being a fundamentalist you can get. Or Is he? Maher and I agree that it is ridiculous to steadfastly hold on to the belief that the universe was created in six literal twenty four hour days as told in Genesis’s story of creation. And, as religious fundamentalist believe, evolution is just a man made theory with no validity.
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The Meaning of the Sound of AUM
AUM. You've heard it, chanted it or meditated to it. Yet, do you know what the sound really means? The oldest known spiritual text, the Upanishads from ancient India, says that AUM is the sound of God. That's a pretty bold statement, isn't it? The ancient text goes on to explain that it also represents the three types of consciousness that we experience each day: waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep. These states correlate with the birth, life and death cycle as well as our body, emotions and soul.
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Are You A Modern Urban Hero?
Are you a Modern Urban Hero?” Only you can answer this, yet the fact that you’re reading this, is an indicator.
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Real Secrets for Manifesting Your Greatest Life
Here are real secrets to manifesting your greatest life. They are powerful, practical and achievable. Pretty bold claim I know, yet I’m sticking by it! These secrets are not just concepts to me, they have both saved my life and are at the foundation of the emotional healing and life transforming work I get to do with people today and have proven to be effective for so many.
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Real Secrets for Manifesting Your Greatest Life
Here are real secrets to manifesting your greatest life. They are powerful, practical and achievable. Pretty bold claim I know, yet I’m sticking by it! These secrets are not just concepts to me, they have both saved my life and are at the foundation of the emotional healing and life transforming work I get to do with people today and have proven to be effective for so many.
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Gaining Emotional Mastery with the Just FEEL It Process
This article outlines a process for gaining emotional mastery, really! I know this well because it has been the essence of my own path both personally and professionally. Learning to not resist contracting emotional states has been the most difficult AND most valuable thing I’ve learned on my path from whole-mess to wholeness. Fill free to read it, use it, download it, copy it and send it along to everyone you know who would like to gain a little more emotional mastery. Face it, Embrace it, Express it, Listen for the message
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What is Radical Wholeness?
Short Answer:
* Free of the limitations and limiting beliefs from the past
* Authentically and joyfully engaged in the present
* Passionately connected to a core purpose that provides
meaning now and compelling future.
Longer Answer:
Radical Wholeness is a liberated state of emotional and spiritual well-being that goes beyond the ego. It's an undivided life filled with peace, passion, purpose, power and presence. It’s a fully integrated way of living with mind, heart, will and soul all working in concert with Spirit for a higher purpose that serves life. It’s an inner state of being where no part of you is in conflict with any other part of you or the world. It's an inner union of Spirit and soul, masculine and feminine, and individual uniqueness with Universal Oneness. It is a way of living where you are fully alive and present to the real world.
Radical Wholeness is about moving beyond the ego's need to either suppress or impress and towards the soul (or essence) simple desire to connect and express. It's an experience and awareness, deep in your bones, that you are both deeply at peace and radically alive. You have both an expanded and intimate relationship with the Universe as well as a deep and sensual relationship with Life. You are fulfilling your unique purpose in life while knowing that their is nothing that you are required to do in order to be Whole. You have a felt sense of both depth (soul or essence) and expansion (spirit or authentic expression) You notice an ever deepening connection with your soul and expansion of your spirit - the BLISS of your own BEING.
Each of us possesses a CORE WOUND that is calling to be healed and a CORE PURPOSE that is calling to be fulfilled. Living a life of Radical Wholeness begins with healing the past and learning to express our authentic gifts for a unique purpose in the present.
My personal experience of beginning to live this life of Radical Wholeness is more peace, passion, purpose, power and presence accompanied by moments of extreme bliss with along with a slightly broken heart from all the suffering and separation in the world.
Six Main Principles of Radical Wholeness
1. Feel it all as deeply and fully as you are able.
When we can feel our feelings of sadness without the sadness overwhelming us, our heart opens to a greater, deeper and more expanded joy. When we can fully experience our fear without the fear overtaking us, we connect with a greater, deeper and more expanded since of peace. When we can learn to acknowledge and consciously express our anger without the anger being destructive or overtaking us we experience a greater, deeper and more expanded since of our authentic power.
2. Question everything with a sincere heart through the lens of strength and love, particularly the beliefs that you've accepted about yourself, others and the world until you get to love.
Our thoughts are not a reliable source for interpreting what is true - about ourselves, others or reality. However, our ability to question everything, all the way to love, is our minds most valuable resource on your path towards Radical Wholeness.
3. Resist nothing.
“What ever we resist persists. Yet whatever we have the courage to fully face, feel and embrace becomes grace!
When we can find a way to stop resisting and fully accept even the most unacceptable parts of ourselves, our "inner critic" and mind chatter becomes dramatically quieter. We then begin to find ourselves miraculously able to not only accept ourselves and others more fully but to see, sense and feel the Divinity in ourselves, others and even what we once perceived as the most unacceptable aspects of life. This is the essence of the Radical Wholeness Process.
4. Embrace the reality of uncertainty.
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated “there is nothing permanent but change.” Whenever we argue with reality, reality always wins. Reality is our ultimate Guru. When we able to honestly observe and accept the reality that there is nothing permanent but change, we can begin to accept the impermanence of all life and be creatively and fully alive in the present.
When we fully embrace the reality of uncertainty from the depth of our being, our attention naturally turns toward the preciousness of all of life. Our heart is set on fire to express our unique individual gifts in the world for a purpose that we feel is a mighty one and is in service to life and the conscious evolution of our planet. In living this way, there are no ordinary moments!
5. Move beyond the limits of your ego to know the limitlessness of your Essence.
Know that in our true nature-our deepest self we are more than our separate ego. In our Essence, we each are a uniquely authentic part of the whole-the whole of existence, not separate from but connected to every part and particle that has ever existed and ever will.
6. Express your gifts in an authentic way for a unique purpose that contributes to the healing and conscious evolution of our planet.
Life has entrusted each of us with a unique set of strengths and gifts. It is our soul purpose to be good stewards of the gifts that we've been given. How? By combing these gifts with our life circumstances, including all our victories and defeats, pain and challenges overcome to discover a unique life story with contribution to make and purpose to fulfill. If we don't discover it and express it in this lifetime, the world will never have it.
Living Radically Whole provides a deep since of freedom and fulfillment that naturally gives rise to a life defined by peace, passion, purpose, power, and presence, what we call the 5P's.
Contacting Michael Casteel
You can contact Michael at by email @ michael@michaelcasteel.com or by phone @ 404. 246. 1036
Visit his website at www.AwakeningtoWholeness.com
Follow his blog @ www.michaelcasteel.com
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