Go Ahead and do it–Zero Negative Karma Gained from These 7 Disreputable Acts


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As you journey through your unique spiritual path, it may be helpful to know which sort of behavior won’t come back to haunt you in a future life. Do you want to avoid some of the problems you’ve experienced in this life? Then you need to always be mindful of your actions.

Through over 25 years of empirical research, our findings regarding negative and positive karma may surprise you. What you may have thought is a negative karma-incurring act actually isn’t.

Below we list 7 things that you can do all you want and not gain a shred of harsh karma.

1. Cussing like a sailor. Although it’s not recommended around kids, of course, they’re just words. Swearing repeatedly, such as while emotionally venting frustration, doesn’t make you incur bad karma.

However, directing negative energy at another person as you swear will create negative karma. Intending harm to someone, even if you don’t lay a hand on that person, is a spiritual crime. Thoughts really are things, and just as it’s possible to feel uplifted by someone sending you love and appreciation, the opposite is true too.

2. Telling a white lie to protect someone. As long as you’re not hurting anyone else, including that person you’re telling the white life for, zero bad karma is incurred.

3. Unintentionally hurting someone in any way. Although the associated guilt makes it tricky; it’s very difficult to avoid negative karma if you can’t forgive yourself and let go of the guilt (including subconscious guilt).

4. Drinking alcohol to the point of moderate drunkenness. If you’re not bothering anyone around you, neglecting your responsibilities, or putting yourself or others in danger, then you’re not incurring negative karma. However, if you drink to excess regularly, you’re harming your health and you’ll have to balance it in future lives.

Our findings indicate that you carry with you into future lives the health you maintain and nurture in this life.

For example, we both have recurring past life themes of drinking too much. That excess and overall neglect of health, whether it was in a monastery as monks through self-deprivation, sailing the seas with few provisions, or as mercenary soldiers in times of famine, negative health karma has caught up to us.

We’re paying the price now with hyper-sensitive digestive tracts and we are forced to take better care of our physical health and maintain a fairly strict diet. If we don’t, we feel, sleep, and look terrible. It’s no fun at times, but our good health practices in this life are balancing out the previous lifetimes of carelessness.

Treat your body right or pay the price in a future incarnation.

5) Killing a mosquito, fly, wasp, roach, ant, rat, or other living organism, unless you do it in a cruel way to intentionally make it suffer. Likewise, killing the negative bacteria and parasites in your body won’t incur negative karma in the least. On the other hand, if you intentionally kill your neighbor’s pet, you’ll incur negative karma.

6) Exceeding the speed limit, running a red light, or otherwise violating traffic laws. Breaking the law in such a way, by itself won’t incur negative karma, but if you put yourself or others at risk, then things could turn disastrous, so it’s best to avoid reckless behavior.

7) Killing or hurting someone in self-defense. Look, if someone broke into either of our homes and our lives were at risk, we’d be happy to greet them with a bullet.

This, by itself does not incur negative karma. However, the associated (false) guilt, if you don’t let go of it, might bind you to that person for another encounter far in the future.

Trying to always do the right thing can be stressful. Go easy on yourself and accept that you won’t indenture yourself to a future lifetime of servitude if you do any of the above things.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Money and Karma: You Won’t Gain Negative Karma With These 7 Things

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Money and spirituality are commonly viewed as incompatible. However, since financial resources are necessary to survive and money by itself takes nothing away from your spirituality, it’s reasonable and wise to simultaneously strive for a healthy spiritual foundation and relationship with money.

Along your spiritual path in life, you may wonder about the karmic implications of assorted financial situations.

Of course, it’s no surprise that negative karma is gained through bullying, manipulating, making false promises, or otherwise abusing your financial power. But there are other situations related to money that are commonly misinterpreted as “not spiritual,” perhaps partially stemming from subconscious past life memories, for example, of vows of poverty.

The conclusions we have drawn from over 25 years of empirical research involving karma and predestination show that no negative karma is picked up from the following seven financial related circumstances.

1. Having more money than God. As long as you earn or otherwise acquire your money through honest means, it’s acceptable, no matter if you’re a millionaire, billionaire, trillionaire, or gazillionaire.

While it’s true that there are individuals in this world who have gained their money dishonestly, it’s wise to avoid grouping everyone of means in that nefarious category. As the saying goes, you can’t become (wealthy) what you resent.

By the way, even though those who inherit wealth are often vilified, we’ve found time and again that they’ve earned every penny through their past life actions. Gaining positive karma now through good deeds is how you positively direct your (future-life) destiny, despite your the core of your current life destiny (fate) being unchangeable.

2. Not giving your wealth to an official charity. Of course, you gain a lot of good karma if you give to those in need, but isn’t everyone in need? Whether you choose to help others through your words, advice, or time rather than donations, or if you elect to give money directly to specific individuals, instead of to an official charity with a bloated budget-It’s your money and no one’s business but your own what you do with it.

3. Gambling. Considering you’re not speculating on credit or avoiding your financial responsibilities, it’s your money and you can do what you want with it. Addiction, which can involve anything, causes neglect and ruin. Gambling itself does not.

4. Spending a lot of money on alcohol or lavish, gourmet meals. While it’s true abusing alcohol or food can make you pick up some nasty karma, in our view, having a few drinks or an expensive meal with friends once in a while won’t break the karma bank. As long as you’re not putting anyone at risk, you’re fine.

5. Blowing all your disposable income on your music collection, art, jewelry, or other non-essential items instead of helping the disadvantaged. Although you’ll always gain good karma by helping others financially, aside from legal or parental obligations, or verbal agreements, the financial needs of others are not your responsibility. However, keep in mind that if you feel guilty about refusing to help someone, that guilt could manifest as negative karma, even if it’s only false guilt.

6. Refusing to give in to pressure and donate your hard-earned money to a political or other cause. Don’t let anyone guilt you into donating. Turning down a request to donate your money won’t incur negative karma.

7. No matter how much in need the person may seem to be, even if he or she gives you a nasty look when you fail to offer your spare change as you pass by, you won’t pick up any negative karma by refusing to give to panhandlers. Their financial situation is not your obligation. Just because you earn more than someone doesn’t mean you owe them. Assist the less fortunate when you are compelled to, not when pressured.

The honest acquisition of and use of financial abundance toward positive means won’t make you incur any negative karma as long as you are not harming yourself or anyone else. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Zero Negative Karma Gained With These Sex and Relationship Oriented Matters

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There may have been a lot of things you got away with as a kid. But now you know better, we hope. If you’re like most people, you live your life aligned with the expectations of society, but is everything you abide by really for your own good?

Laws, regulations, rules, and more rules. But are they all legitimate from the standpoint of karma, freedom, and personal responsibility?

In your spiritual quest, maybe you’ve asked yourself, “What is acceptable behavior in a karmic sense? What won’t make me gain negative karma?”

Our findings through over 25 years of empirical research on the issue tell us that it’s mostly a matter of making sure you don’t intentionally hurt anyone, or yourself.

Morality is frequently subjective; be wary of conventional wisdom involving “right and wrong.” We believe you won’t ever be punished in the afterlife for many behaviors that are deemed iniquitous in today’s world.

Below we list seven things that are frowned upon in many societies, yet won’t make you incur any negative karma.

1. Breaking up with someone: in other words, dumping him or her. As long as you’re not trying to harm them in the process, you’re in the clear. If it’s over for you, the best thing you can do is leave peacefully. By the way, staying when it’s over for you and not freeing them so they can find someone more compatible could incur negative karma.

2. The act of divorce. Yes, you vowed to be with him or her forever, but feelings change, as do people. An ex who drags their feet and makes it very difficult, out of spite, for the one who wants to leave, however, will incur negative karma.

3. Prostitution between two consenting adults. What about a sex worker (or non sex worker) who has sex with 100s, even 1000s of people? Isn’t that an ethical offense? No, only if you’re under the mistaken impression that sex is wrong or dirty, and in terms of karma, it isn’t.

Sleeping with more than one person will result in zero negative karma being picked up, as long as you’re not ripping off or hurting anyone. In fact, due to the healing benefits of sex, you may even gain positive karma, especially if you’re good in bed. Sex between two consenting adults, no matter if one (or both) is getting paid, just as with matrimonial prostitution, is nobody’s business but theirs.

Conspicuous sanctimoniousness, arising from warped morality and corrupt religiosity, is the root source of many laws today relating to sex and intimate relationships. Interestingly, those who force their personal, subjective morality onto others, through laws that rob personal freedoms, incur negative karma.

4. Living together before marriage. Another religiously based forbidden act, yet zero negative karma related to it.

5. Having children out of wedlock. Absolutely no bad karma acquired here, as long as you don’t neglect your responsibilities.

6. Having an open relationship or marriage. Yes, even if you have 100 lovers at the same time, as long as you are honest about it and you haven’t made any false promises or intentionally hurt anyone, you are in the clear. Just act responsibly, including having safe sex.

7. Homosexuality. Interpret ancient religious texts as you choose, but consensual sex between two people of the same gender won’t incur negative karma, at all.

It’s best to avoid illegal conduct, yet you’ll spare yourself the guilt if you live your life in accordance with an understanding of the law of karma instead of the restrictive code of conduct forced on you by the morality squad.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Old Soul Quiz: Are You Passing Your Tests?

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Are you an old soul? The term is commonly used to describe someone mature beyond their years, or spiritually defined as someone who has lived many, many lives.

However, our many years of past life regression research has shown us that there are younger souls who are just as or more spiritually aware as the so-called older souls; being an older soul could be, in many cases, that it’s taken them a lot longer to learn their lessons. Just because you’ve gone through the motions of attending class and enduring exams doesn’t mean you’ve done well in school.

For the purpose of this article, we’ll refer to an older soul as someone who is wiser than average. Their wisdom and spiritual awareness is the result of mastering many challenges in difficult past lives.

Note: Just as a senior in high school is not guaranteed to be smarter than a freshman simply because of the age difference, being an old soul doesn’t make you superior to someone who hasn’t progressed as far along. While past lives are important because they can greatly affect your current life, what matters most are your actions now, in this life. Besides, how far along a soul is on the path to completing the karmic circle is less important when you realize we’re all in this together.

We have found that it’s fairly easy to spot an older or younger soul by their actions (not their words). Choose your first response (Agree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Disagree) to the following to consider your spiritual progress.

1) You think only of yourself and do what’s best for you when dealing with others, no matter what their needs or the consequences.

2) You tend to be a follower, even in situations where “doing the right thing” would require you to lead.

3) You don’t question potentially harmful social norms, customs, and traditions and prefer to just comply to societal standards.

4) You don’t strive to be honest with yourself and others 100% of the time.

5) You are more likely to take the easy way out instead of paying your dues now so you can be rewarded later.

6) You don’t do the “right thing” when you can get away with it and doing otherwise benefits you.

7) In an argument or debate, you are less likely to rely on facts or what’s best (ultimately, not immediately) for all involved, and more likely to let your emotions rule and focus on how you or your group have been wronged in the past.

8) It’s difficult for you to put yourself in another person’s position and understand their viewpoint.

9) You feel no guilt when you hurt someone, especially if they don’t find out.

10) If someone wrongs you, you are likely to retaliate to even the score.

11) You fully attribute your insights to mental faculty and believe that the idea of intuition or psychic ability is foolish.

12) You accept and strictly follow a traditional religion, and shun those who aren’t of your faith.

13) You identify 100% with your gender and believe those who don’t need psychiatric help.

14) You don’t think it’s possible to be born gay or bi.

15) You believe you are your body and mind and the soul is not significant, or is non-existent.

16) You don’t think that past lives matter and you don’t believe in karma.

17) You identify 100% with your race and don’t accept that you’ve been other races in past lives or that your body, including skin color, is just a temporary home for your soul, who you really are.

18) It’s difficult for you to imagine what it’s like to be of a different race.

19) You hate spending time alone.

20) You believe that there is a lot of injustice in the world.

21) You have a difficult time taking responsibility for your actions.

22) You believe that the world owes you.

As you probably figured out, the higher you scored, the more likely it is, generally, that you are a wiser soul. We base our theories on the findings of our long-term empirical research. Again, how “old” you are is much less important than doing the “right thing,” even when no one is looking.

By the way, you may be wondering why we didn’t cover status, money or appearance. We believe it’s a myth that if someone is an old soul they naturally don’t care about such things; how one treats others when they have prominence, wealth, or beauty is much more revealing about a soul’s progress.

Copyright © 2011 Stephen Petullo, Scott Petullo

Exposing the Dangerous “Delete Your Karma” Myth


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We’ve seen it countless times. An inspirational speaker develops a huge following by spouting mantras such as, “You can achieve anything, just work hard and believe you can do it!” They offer enchanting magic wand solutions intended to tug at your heart strings, backed by sophisticated public relations machines.These types usually ridicule the concept of predestination (and commonly unsubscribe from our mailing list after a column like this) and immutable personal adversity, claiming to be able to teach you how to “erase” it.

They say the concepts of karma and fate are “too limiting” and “fatalistic.”

However, what’s really limiting is the outright rejection of the theory of predestination, most certainly without objectively exploring it.

It’s absolutely patronizing to ignore the intricacy of an individual’s unique personal adversity, glibly attribute a person’s inability to create success and financial abundance to “not working smart or hard enough,” and proclaim, “I’ve made lots of money and enjoyed enormous success, and you can too (just buy my products and services)…”

Is it even possible to exceed that level of conceit? Do they have no humility?

The “erase your karma and create the life of your dreams with a wave of your magic wand” myth has existed forever.

People want quick fixes and too readily believe the impossible because they want it to be so.

The myth continues to be perpetuated because it sells, big time. Myths wrapped in inspiration, cheer-leading, and poetry fulfill a demand for escapism, which is accepted as “spirituality.”

Meanwhile, our metaphysical views are labeled “cold” and “fatalistic.” But we’d rather tell you the truth than promote a primrose path of illusion that leads to eventual disappointment just to make a buck.

Our premise, brought into being through over 25 years of empirical research, is that at least 75% of the key life circumstances and events in your life are predetermined.

Does this mean you should abandon your hopes and dreams? No, of course not. Even the most seemingly outlandish dreams may have merit, since life is really more about the journey, not the destination. But it’s advisable to know yourself well enough to formulate realistic goals.

The Core of Your Future is Fixed

While we believe it’s entirely true that within the boundaries of your karmic path you have free will to create as you like, our findings clearly show that the core structure of your future is absolutely fixed.

The foundation of your future isn’t “…constantly changing based on your focus, thoughts, and decisions.” We’ve found that you’re only permitted within spiritual law to create that which corresponds with your personal fate. Otherwise, you wouldn’t experience the lessons (both rewarding and challenging) for which you incarnated.

Finally overcoming the problem of having to occasionally deal with noisy neighbors, for example, isn’t exactly earth-shattering “karma elimination.”

Anyone boasting of “deleting all karma,” if they are being forthright, must first correctly identify their karma. Comprehensive astrology and numerology are very helpful in this regard, as is past life regression work.

What You Must Ask The Magic Wand Crowd

Ask those who claim to have eradicated all their karma with a mere snap of their fingers the following question: Which type of karma are you referring to? How did you know it was karma in the first place–how did you quantify it?

If it’s love life karma they are talking about, if they were single and desired a rewarding love relationship, did they suddenly have multiple, mutually compatible and beneficial romantic options that were not built on illusion or manipulation? Did any of those options naturally endure?

If it’s money they are talking about, are they suddenly free of debt and flush with abundance? Does that state of abundance persevere? If so, have they considered that it was fated to happen that way anyway?

Just as you can’t sober up right away after downing 5 drinks, you can’t sidestep the karma you’ve incarnated to experience (both good and bad). Taking full responsibility for everything in your life and healing negative patterns of thinking is a step in the right direction, but it won’t deliver you to never-ending spiritual nirvana.

Those who claim to have “risen above” a certain karmic condition are either not realizing that it wasn’t karmic in the first place, or that it had run its course and was destined to end when it did. They didn’t expunge the circumstance, they finally balanced it through having to endure and experience it directly.

In the extremely remote prospect that they’ve actually balanced all of their karma and advanced to avatar status, like Buddha, they’ll have to show the rest of us how to walk on water and levitate.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Avoid the “I’m Above All Karma” Trap


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The belief that you can escape karmic retribution from this and prior lives is a trap to be avoided at all costs. This erroneous way of thinking can lull you into a disastrous false sense of security.Consequently, your world can be turned upside-down when your guard is down and unexpected, karmic calamity strikes.Worse, lofty or inappropriate aspirations evaporate and you’re left passionless and in need of completely redefining your path in life due to falsely believing you can manifest anything, beyond the fated path you did your best to avoid investigating.

As the saying goes, you announce your plans and God laughs. This is the way it’s always been and unless your plans are part of your fated path, no amount of creative visualization will allow you to side-step your unique, predestined framework. This includes the life circumstances and events you were born to experience. You can’t just skip them, no matter how much forgiveness you express or inspiration you generate.

We applaud you for striving for your goals and dreams to make the most of your life.

However, believing that you’re above cosmic law with the help of “conscious creation training,” for example, only sets you up for disappointment.

How to Escape This Trap

Your first step in avoiding this trap is to acknowledge that unavoidable personal adversity exists.

Yes, you have free will to make the most of undesirable circumstances, but you can’t just hit the delete button and make them go away. Everyone endures varying degrees of unique life afflictions.

Examples typically include the following: early life abuse leading to serious subconscious and oppressive fears; hard to break habits or even addiction related to over-indulgence greatly hindering your progress in life; being financially trapped in a marriage from which you can’t escape; limited resources with burdensome responsibilities and little extra time to learn other skills; lack of intelligence or wherewithal to remove one’s self from a restrictive environment; physical handicaps prohibiting upward mobility; serious illness draining resources and blocking the ability to apply one’s self toward success; or heavy family obligations such as one or more problem children or an ailing parent who demands your constant attention and support.

Some of these things are commonly referred to as “accidents of birth,” and the others are circumstances in which one may become unavoidably ensnared. No amount of trying to “make the right choice” seems to change anything.

By the way, embracing the literal meaning of the term “accidents of birth,” in our opinion, is a point of view that denies the eternity of the soul, reincarnation, karma, and predestination. It’s a victim mentality (or mere resentment of those born under more favorable life circumstances) and a refusal to acknowledge personal accountability beyond what you can see, feel, and touch in this lifetime. In our view, there are no real accidents of birth and there is no chance. Everything is the way it’s fated to be, and it’s up to you to make the most of it.

Next Step in Escaping This Trap

The next thing you must do is to know yourself, through and through. Coming to know your strengths, challenges, hidden fears and defenses, and your spiritual lineage (past lives, even if you only view them metaphorically, the insight is still very helpful) allows you to know who you are, where you’ve been, where you’re going, and with what you will likely be faced.

Thorough self-understanding allows you to formulate realistic goals that coincide with what you want and who you really are, within the framework of your unique karma and fate.

Follow the above advice and you’ll never get caught in this spiritual trap again.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Is Your Bias Creating Negative Karma?

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John Edwards, the famous medium, was recently asked in an interview if there are heated arguments about politics and other issues on the “other side.” He said he doesn’t believe there are, and that on the other side, it’s all about unconditional love and respect.

We would like to add to his response that, based on our experience and research, since souls on the other side are free of earthly personalities, they are also not biased.

Why Souls Are Different From Personalities

Souls do not need to justify away any negative behavior or rhetoric because it’s absent from their existence, due to the fact that there is no ego. After leaving their bodies and returning to the other side, souls see things as they really are instead of through the emotional filter of a lifetime (and past lives) of scars, pain, and fears.

For example, if souls on the other side were watching a debate, they would not pick sides based on what is in it for them, as many people do. How often have you watched someone get very emotional within a debate or argument, unable to be objective, because of their ingrained and immutable bias and heavy feelings about the issue?

Instead, dis-incarnate souls would hope that the truth on both sides would come out and that the “right thing” would prevail. The “right thing” isn’t always “morally correct,” or “good.” It’s what is meant to happen, what each individual is destined to experience based on their own karma, which is based on their actions in the (usually) distant past.

In a political debate about income taxes, for example, one group wants those who make more to pay a much greater percentage than those who make less. The other group believes that it’s not fair that the “rich” are penalized for making more money, or that the top income earners pay 90% of the income taxes.

Souls on the other side, who no longer have a connection to either side of the debate, would hope that the needy and those who are unable to help themselves are taken care of (as most, if not all people on both sides of the debate do), but at the same time, they understand personal responsibility and karma; it’s not the responsibility of those who make more to take care of everyone who makes less, and both sides have earned their aptitudes, abilities, life circumstances and conditions based on their (mostly past life) actions.

There’s no need to implement “social justice,” taking from those who have more and giving to those who have less, since we live in a perfectly fair world when you look at the big picture through past lives, predestination, and karma. Focus on your own charitable contributions, not other people’s.

Let’s consider the common case of a man leaving his wife for another woman. Most men may side with the man, and most woman may want the wife to “take him to the cleaners.”

However, souls would see the spiritual side; the couple was no longer a good match, their union had expired years before, and the wife did the same thing to him in a previous incarnation.

Since most people who live on Earth view life through their personal, yet frequently mentally and, or emotionally tainted perspective, biased viewpoints abound.

Which hot topics or groups are you biased about? Income taxes? Abortion? Gay marriage? Liberals or conservatives? Religious or agnostics? Rich or poor? White, black, Hispanic, or Asian? Americans, Europeans or Indian? Old or young? Married or single?

It’s okay to feel passionate about an issue or to be cautious with a group with which you’ve had negative experiences. But if you unfairly judge or act against someone because of your bias, you will need to balance it in future lifetimes.

Do you really want to incarnate as a disadvantaged person of the group you despise, or as the harshly negative image you project onto another? You don’t need to agree with a different viewpoint, but instead of judging, try to be fair and objective and understand their perspective.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Everyone is a Prostitute


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Disclaimer: The following article about prostitution is in no way meant to promote any kind of illegal activity and we recommend always living within the laws of society. This article is simply meant to encourage thought about the issues of sex, money, programming, judgment, unquestioned yet questionable traditions, sexual shame, self-esteem, and resolving personal fears and issues.

It’s said that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. In our past life regression work, we’ve found that many people have had hundreds of lifetimes. If you perceive enough of your past lives, our findings suggest that eventually you’ll likely find at least one where you were on one side or the other, believe it or not, of a sex-for-money transaction.

Your hidden, subconscious, past life memories will influence how you feel about prostitution in this life. In addition, there is also sexual shame and societal programming that drives home the belief that sex outside of marriage is “bad.”

Condemnation of those who exchange money for sex is rampant.

You would think sex workers all have side jobs as executioners or thieves considering how much hatred and intolerance is directed at them.

Side note: In this article we are referring to adult prostitutes who choose to do this type of work. We in no way support pimps or anyone who forces another human-being to do something against their will. Exploitation of another isn’t what we’re referring to and we agree that the exploiters should be persecuted.

But let’s look at this more closely. A prostitute is normally an adult who provides a service in exchange for money to another consenting adult. There is no victim here, even when the prostitute is an addict or is in some other way damaging themselves (which can happen in any job), unless the client is being scammed (which can also happen in any financial transaction).

They’re both upfront about what they have to offer and they both get what they want. Some of them, especially the higher-level escorts, appear to love the trade and the money, but most of them seem to do it just for the money.

So here’s a question for you: How many times have you done something just for the money?

Did you ever keep a job you didn’t like just for the paycheck?

Have you ever refrained from telling a not-so-nice boss what you really thought and sacrificed your self-esteem in the process?

Did you ever not fire an impossible client because you wanted the money?

Have you ever used or been nice to someone just for what you received in return?

Have you done something that wasn’t “right” or proper in the eyes of society because there was a financial benefit for you?

Have you ever done something you didn’t want to do for the money?

Did you marry someone in part or mostly because they would give you financial security and, or food, lodging, services, etc., in exchange for sex and companionship?

Have you stayed in an unhappy marriage for the financial security?

Did you ever not stand up for what is right because it would have meant less money for you?

Have you ever not spoken your mind to a friend because of what that friend, aside from friendship, provides for you?

Most prostitutes make their living honestly by supplying a demand. They’re direct about how much they charge and what they provide. How many providers of legal goods and services have you encountered who were not honest about exactly what you would get or not get for the price?

Did you answer no to all of the questions above? Congratulations! You’re a saint among sinners. For the rest of us, almost everyone has prostituted themselves at one time or another.

The next time you find yourself judging someone for directly exchanging money for sex and, or looking “like a prostitute,” look in the mirror and ask yourself why it bothers you so much. Perhaps there’s something deeper about yourself, or your past lives, that you could finally embrace that would help you in your spiritual and emotional growth.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

6 Tips for Couples to Avoid Getting Swept Away by Romantic Illusion


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Most people strive to be part of a happy couple. Unfortunately, the result is often the opposite. Humans learn great lessons, often through difficult times, from love relationships. But if you take a spiritual approach and remember the following tips, you’ll be able to create more happiness and be better equipped to handle rough seas.

When you’re involved with someone, periodically take inventory of your relationship by asking yourself the following questions:

1) Are you allowing this person to be who they are instead of expecting them to be who you want? Do you have many rules for them? Step back and consider which of your expectations are realistic, and which are motivated by a need to control. For example, requiring them to pick up after themselves or be on time is fair. Not allowing them to hang out with whom they want is not. You’re their partner, not their mother or father, and you should want for them what makes them happy (within reason), even if it doesn’t always please you.

2) When was the last time you appreciated this person and felt gratitude for them being in your life? If it’s been awhile, meditate on all the reasons you found this person special in the first place. This can be an exercise of renewal, or of realizing that the bond may have been built on illusion. If the latter, don’t feel bad as it’s very common due to how our society approaches love and relationships. Now you know better.

3) Now may be a good time to reassess your connection and if necessary, take your relationship in a new direction. This is especially true if you and your partner became involved at a young age or have been together for more than a few years. While only the traditional relationship model gains our society’s stamp of approval there are many other forms that may work better for you, your partner, where you both are in life, and where you want to go.

As extreme as it may sound, some people, who already have a solid bond, find that an open relationship can actually improve and enhance their connection. Of course, responsible (safe-sex and honest) non-monogamy, as an alternative to the wildly popular lying, cheating, and unsafe sex approach, is only for those who are mature enough and have moved beyond the old fashioned partnership “ownership” mindset.

It’s important to note that you must both agree upon and want such an arrangement for it to be successful.

4) Have you let yourself go? If so, it’s time to change your diet, exercise regularly, and make the most of your appearance, no matter what your age. If you don’t, is it realistic and fair to expect them to remain physically attracted to only you? Self-improvement subliminal audios can help light a fire under your butt. Yes, you can still be sexy with the excess weight, but it’s bad for your health.

5) How is the energy connection between you two? Has it changed over time? Guilt, resentment, and other fears can dramatically impact a relationship. A forgiveness MP3 audio can help smooth the rough spots.

6) Has the passion between you two become a bit tepid? Good sex is one of the most important parts of a healthy relationship. Turn up the volume with a sex meditation MP3 audio.

Let’s face it. Usually, when it’s over, it’s over. But if your relationship still has life in it, and you both have the desire, you may be surprised how a (seemingly) radical approach can revive and energize your connection.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

5 Tips for Singles to Avoid Getting Swept Away by Romantic Illusion


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Whether you are single, involved, or somewhere in-between, your love life has no doubt caused you to experience a whole gamut of emotions. It’s part of the human experience and one of the most important vehicles by which you learn your lessons. With a spiritual approach, you will be able to rise above the sorrow and make the most of your love life.

When single and dating, instead of allowing your hopes and dreams to rule, step back, take a breath, relax, and consider the following:

1) Pay attention to where you are at the moment. Are you feeling lonely or content? Needy or strong? Scattered or centered? When you feel complete on your own, you can more easily see and accept dating situations as they really are rather than what you expect or as others tell you they should be.

2) Notice where he or she is at the moment. Why do they want you in their life? What will you being in their life do for them? What are they really looking for? What is their agenda and is it good for both of you or just them? For example, if your potential love interest is very persistent about commitment or seems to be in a hurry to develop a relationship, this is usually (but not always) a bad sign; they are likely too focused on their interests. Read between the lines, find out more about their life before deciding if you want them in yours, and go by actions, not words.

3) Investigate the spiritual and unseen dynamics between you and this new person. We recommend using one or more of the following tools: comprehensive astrology and numerology, handwriting analysis, past life regression, tarot, and others. Remember though, whether you are seeking on your own or using the services of a professional, a surface approach with any of these practices will lead to incomplete, therefore misleading, results.

Even a short meditation, during which you ask for insight from God and, or your spiritual guides of the Light about the situation and person, can yield a simple yet telling clue.

Also, notice how you feel, your gut feeling, in their presence. Are you calm, peaceful, and uplifted, or fearful, guarded, and down? Trust your intuition and you’ll realize whether or not he or she is a good addition to your life, or someone who could drain you emotionally, spiritually, and, or financially. Don’t be afraid to walk away and remain single if it doesn’t feel right and, or if there are obvious red flags.

4) Remember that the fleeting bliss of romance can be different than the realities of the connection. Romance is wonderful, but too much emphasis on relationship traditions and romantic fairy-tales will cloud your perception and eventually lead to disappointment.

5) Ignore the New Age authors who claim you can find your “soul mate” if you buy their book. They’re pros at getting publicity, and their way of selling more books is to make wild promises and back them up with nothing but “I’ve done it, you can too” stories along with poetic prose and affected compassion. If it sounds too good to be true, be wary.

Our findings show us, clearly, that everyone has many soul mates, and that most soul mate relationships are not meant to be “forever.”

The all-p.r.-and-profit-who-cares-about-truths-while-showering-you-with-affected- empathy-and-cheer-leading crowd almost always fails to understand and, or mention that, due to predestination and karma, you can only meet a satisfying, mutually compatible, longer-term soul mate with whom you share mutual chemistry during select times in your life, and no amount of wishful thinking, spells, rituals, or the law of attraction will change that.

You can’t plant your garden in the dead of winter, and you won’t find a rewarding match during the winter of your love life, whenever that may be in your case (as outlined by comprehensive charting). To claim otherwise is irresponsible and often motivated by greed. You want natural love, not a contrived, commercial “soul mate.”

As harsh as it may sound, we’re merely relaying our findings from over 25 years of empirical research on the subject. This dose of reality about dating and love relationships may sound like a downer, but we’d rather have you be aware of the realities than have your head in the clouds and risk heartache or worse. If you’re careful with your love life and use your head and spiritual awareness instead of leading with only your heart, even with all it’s obstacles, you’ll come out on top.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo