This is to be read as a guided meditation to bring you to a past life experience.
Now we begin...
Find yourself in a quiet, comfortable place, away from distractions and disruptions which affect your concentration to your now. Now being this state of consciousness you are now in where you can feel the sensations and stimulations on a physical level, if you permit that, for all reality's perceptions are based on permissions. You must give yourself permission to relax. Find your attention on these words as they flow across your mind. Give your blessing as you feel yourself slowly relax into your now, there may be some slight discomfort, so as you notice discomfort, breath in and out slowly and feel it soften and become easier, just notice the sensations and feelings in your body now.
Bring your awareness to your toes and feel it begin to slowly fill you up like a ripple begins at your toes and echoes into your feet relaxing and making smooth and easy all the little muscles in your feet as it gently spreads through your ankles and up your calves, with a wave of peace it flows around your knees, unraveling the muscles there as it flows up your thighs into your waist and hips releasing held tension and tightness in these areas, relaxing you more and more.
Now slowly your lower abdomen fills with this liquid ripple of relaxation, flowing through your stomach, unraveling all the muscles around your spine as it moves up your back and into your chest and shoulders, feeling them loosen and begin to melt away tension with each breath that you take moving you further into stillness. This ripple begins through your throat and up your neck into your jaw. You feel your jaw gently release as this flow goes up around your eyes letting all the little muscles around your eyes reading this to get just a little more relaxed and gently focused on the words.
And now follow your imagination as you go down a staircase of ten steps, each step bringing your body and mind into deeper and deeper stillness, ten times deeper with each step that you go down, through the first step to the second. Now feeling the depths of thirty times deeper as you take the third step and on to the fourth. Letting all of the worries and fears clouding your experience to just fade out as you take the fifth and sixth steps. Feeling yourself in that open detached state of peace as you take the seventh and then eighth steps. As you take the last two steps you feel yourself in this deep rhythmic flow of relaxation, one hundred times more relaxed.
At the base of the steps you find yourself in a room with a door at the opposite end of it. This place feels familiar and safe to you as you cross the room and come to the door. There is a sign on the door. It has the words, "Door of Time," written on it. You open the door and see a swirling mist floating out beyond the doorway, almost like you are looking off a ledge out into a deep space of clouds.
Now before you step out into the mist, I want you to ask your subconscious mind to bring up a current issue you are working on in your life, something you would like help with resolving, and I want you to hold this vision of this situation in your mind. Now envision that issue flying out of your mind and into the open doorway. This will set up your experience to place you in a former existence where you handled or dealt with a similar issue or problem so that you may learn how it was resolved.
Standing at the doorway now you step out into the mist and feel yourself with the sensation of flying through clouds. You feel the cool mist flowing through and around you and there is a chill in the air of the swirling air moving around you. As you are floating there safely you feel the winds move faster and you feel yourself drifting through your timeline back through your past, before your birth, bringing you to another lifetime, another experience of living. You feel yourself begin to descend back towards the world coming down from the clouds moving into the body of another life that you have lived.
You find yourself a reflection and see what you looked like, smelling the smells of the place, checking in with how this entity feels about their situation and what they are doing. Noticing your clothing and the decorations of the place you can have an idea of the time period. You know what this person's job or work is, you can feel their family connections and perhaps see similar ones to your own current life. You can now feel the connection to this entity's life situation and how it corresponds to the life issues you are working on.
Connecting inside this entity's life record by focusing inside of their body, you ask it to bring you to the point of resolution to the issue or problem so that you may learn and make the connection to your now. You feel yourself shift through this being's life, flowing into their future which has already happened. You then find yourself at another point and time in the entity's life where the resolution was brought to a close and you can feel the joy of moving forward in this entity's experience. You connect with how this will help your current situation understanding how and why things played out the way they did.
You feel the closure in this being's life and thank it immensely for sharing their experience and learning with you now. You feel the completion and disconnect as you begin to float up out the body up into the sky and back to the flowing field of clouds. You feel the coolness and dampness from the clouds move through you clearing attachments to that previous life and you look out through the clouds and notice the doorway still there in the sky out in the distance. You begin to float towards it and you feel yourself shift forward in time to your present timeline.
As you step back into the room with the stairs, you can feel the understanding of the visit to a previous lifetime echo through your mind. You feel a deep sense of gratitude for yourself on your healing journey and know that this experience was there to show you how to clarify your experiences in the present world. You gently make your way back to the steps knowing that you are coming back into the regular world with new insight and focus.
As you come up each of the ten steps you begin to feel yourself fully engage with the room or space you are in as you read this, feeling supported and safe, refreshed and relaxed. Bringing your attention back to your fingers and toes, your arms and legs, flowing into your body and head, finding yourself behind your eyes as you are alert and refocused, wide awake and wonderful.
Now reflect on what you have gained from this experience.
Please leave some comments or some of your experiences below as you experiment with reading through this past life regression reading meditation and getting different results. Each time you do it, you will connect with what you are seeking answers to.
Safe travels as we explore the endless boundaries of our consciousness together!
Find your light.
Just be.
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Deep in the depths of the shallows of the mind we find our perceptions awry with visions and misconceptions of the past, taking that one last gasping breath before heading into the mire of the pile, the masses of misunderstanding and fog of unforgiveness, those false notions, or memories distorted, shown through one's filters processing out that which you are not ready for... Ready yet? So just tilt the filter to the side for just a brief instant and come with me... Feel the pulsation of the vibrations of energetic light flow through the veins of the space between the cracks of the veil as the way is made clear for an instant you can now be self reflective, you can now see those patterns of painful perceptions you cloud your perspective with... The puzzle of your psyche laid out before you in such as you can actually be objective, just for the moment anyway... Don't look away, this part is important. That template of reality you have been playing your movie through is still a bit smudged and needs a good smudging to release those held attachments to those moments of agony, and those moments of joy need a good polish to rediscover the gratitude of each second, the graciousness with which we revere the infinite as we perceive those cracks in the maya of this illusive world. Did you look away? I hope not. If you did, just go back through it It's always there, as it was before. The cycle never ends. It can evolve, but only if you are ready... Can you find the joy in agony's pocket, or the blessings among the curses? This redemption you seek is locked within your own mind, the key to your past and future is always within reach and sight, just beyond the edges of your view...
it is always there waiting for you to open your eye and embrace the now... Take a deep breath, and release into it...
That layer beyond the past and future, where all is possible and can manifest,
a fifth dimensional soup of possibilities, not clouded by held remorse or anxieties, the field where all is able to be, now... Just be.
The tattoo parlor of the unconscious and subconscious mind is an interesting place to pick up some new ink...
This lair of our mind holds all of those important events, whether positive or negative...
It leaves its scars as tattoos on the psyche, shaping, altering and traumatizing our experience of the world. We hold our "tattoos" of trauma closely at the core of our perceptual filter for our lives. The scars sit closely to those triggers which call us into patterns of accepted behaviors we have conditioned our lives to be. Sometimes those scars become our comfort, they become our safe place when we need something to fall back on.
So what are these "trauma tattoos" that so many of our minds are covered in? Events which create extreme stress and anxiety tend to imprint deeply in our persona. These may be echoes of events from early on in life, or of events we experienced just yesterday. The effect of these moments creates that anxiety and stress that permeates every aspect of our being. With one little catalyst we can spiral into our behaviors and coping mechanisms as though we are right back there with the event, as though we never left it. For soldiers, this is a common occurrence when they are engaged in battle. This has been called "shell shock,"combat stress reaction, battle fatigue, and now its most commonly referred to as post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. These scars have trouble being released because they were not fully embraced, however difficult that may sound... Letting go, while it seems like it should be easy, can be a very arduous task and this is especially true in cases of trauma. Think of it like a sink filled with dirty dishes. Usually, you would just rinse off the dirty dishes and put them in the dishwasher, letting go of their filth and releasing the attachment to the dirt that they have built up. The person with PTSD or with traumatic dramas has a damaged faucet and dishwasher. Their faucet won't wash off the dishes and now the gunk on the plates is caked all over the sides of the sink! This gunk just builds up and up sealing the unaltered sink. This sink is like your mind, with the grime being those painful scarring memories of your past. You just can't seem to wash the pain or difficult memories away. What we need here is something to get the painful memories to release, to let go of their hold on our psychological well-being.
Ok, so here's the hard part, but it can be accomplished in a softer way...
We have to revisit those traumatic events in order to fully free ourselves of their grasp. Did just the mention of this idea send a shudder through you. Don't worry, we are going to do this as gently as possible, it will be tough though.
Just as a good doctor will tell you to let the fever run its course, so it is with our mental disruptions as well. We rob ourselves of the fullness of an experience when we recoil, or shut down, or become unconscious to what is transpiring. This compounds in our subconscious, creating a feeling of anxiety and distress when we remember the experience because we never let the difficulty and pain run its course in our emotional body. Our body is naturally cathartic and will initiate its own fail safe as we process really hard events, but only if we can be aware of all of the emotions that arise. This attention to the pain and discomfort lets it run its course just as a fever needs to.
So this can be really upsetting depending on what your stressor was... What are some ways to diffuse or release the gunk that has clogged up our perception?
First things first, reliving and really acknowledging and embracing those difficult feelings will be hard to do, but it is truly vital. Once they have been fully expressed they can be seen as what they are, emotions and feelings and nothing more. They lose their power when the light of awareness comes upon them. This awareness can be fostered using some Sedona Method work by asking yourself if you are able to let go of the held emotion or held attachments to the traumas. Then you ask if you would be able to let go, thereby empowering your self confidence. Lastly you would simply ask when you will be able to let this go. What this does is diffuse the emotional energy bomb attached to the trauma and makes it so that it can be released over time in a safe way.
Another way, still requiring some revisiting, but in a more muted way, involves going back to the event or events from a distance and keeping awareness on the event while you do EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as tapping. This will send a vibration accompanied by intention statements and reframing statements to help shift the blockages caused by the held or trapped emotions.
Still another very powerful method involves hypnotherapy work where we go in and replay the trauma from a safe distance. We gently break through to become fully present and aware of it in order to diffuse the power we have given it to control our lives with fear, shame, guilt, or any of the other lower energetic emotions. This still brings us back to it, but in a more distant way depending on the hypnotherapist or program they are working with.
These tattoos of our life experiences are just as permanent as our external ones.
Taking the power out of their control over our emotional lives is how we can stop letting them control our perception of the world. This will free our experience so we can grow and transform into our highest selves in this lifetime.
The memories may never fade, but the power we let them have over our lives is something you have the power to change...
What are you waiting for?
Light for your path... Just be.
Written by Rev. Brien Egan CHt, CRM, CKRM. Brien is an author, certified hypnotherapist, a reiki master, karuna reiki master, pranic energy worker, crystal bowl sound healer, EFT practitioner, quantum touch practitioner, sedona method practitioner, chakra cleansing teacher, qi gong teacher, an ordained minister from the Essene New Life Church and has his B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Special Education. He has been practicing and teaching spirituality for over 14 years. He has done a lot of work with children, families and individuals by leading workshops, classes and through individual or group sessions. He also designed and ran a kids spirituality summer camp for 8 years which taught children many quantum physics and spiritual concepts, meditation and mindfulness practices. Brien's e-mail: nowherebe8@gmail.com
Feel the pulse of the flow as it courses through your veins…
Do you even know your own silence? Do you appreciate your faults?
Do you want to see how the darkness illuminates the
light?
There is no now without here,
just as there is no dark without light,
this pulsation of truth eminates from the night
just as the light of the stars brings out the depths of the
infinite vast void of space
as the galaxies swirl into existence around the destruction
of the endlessly swirling black holes we fall into
as we expect an outcome from no effort
or a change without a preceding event to push it into being,
but being of what?
How do we become the nothing contained within the everything
giving form to the formless, giving structure to the ethereal?
How do we embrace the moment of uncertainty with total
awareness without giving all of our vulnerability and trust to that which is
fleeting, to that which has no shape?
How can we know that this is it? Do you?
Now.
This light that bursts forth from the deepest recesses of
your soul
brings you back to this ever present moment,
this instant where all things are interconnected,
where the past falls away and the future doesn’t matter,
to the time where you simply are, and that is always enough,
Be in your moment,
it is always fleeting,
yet always there.
Know that you are the infinity in that grain of sand, and
that eternity in an hour and
revel in the chance to embrace the gratitude of all that is.
'Tis the season! Don't wait! Do this now. Let's begin... Now follow along and visualize this to yourself, picture it in your mind, as you read along with me. First take a deep, full breath in, all the way down to your belly and let it out slowly now, and spend a few moments just focusing on your breath as it comes in and out slowly and calmly. Now picture the sky up above you with the bright sun high up overhead. Feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you continue to take deep full centering breaths calming and relaxing you now as you bask in the light of the sun. Just be still in this moment. Now as you are quiet and still notice as thoughts about your day, worries about deadlines or any of life's difficulties just spill out into your stillness, almost as though you are holding back a levee of thoughts and its slowly seeping out. Now see in your mind these repetitive thoughts, some negative, some not, these thoughts you have about who you are and what you are, how you feel and what you think of your surroundings. You know those thoughts that play like a tape recording throughout your day. Watch now as the thoughts transform in your mind into clouds as they fill up the sky and block the warmth from the sun. So now picture yourself safely rising up into the sky through those clouds of busy and negatively patterned thoughts. Seeing them separate from oneself now you know in this moment, you are more than your thoughts...
Realize that as you are coming out of the cloud cover up back into the brilliance and warmth of the sun that you are moving beyond these limiting thoughts back to the you that is eternal. You are transcending to the witness, that infinite part of you that is not attached to any emotions or preconceived notions of what the world is like. It is being in that childlike innocence. This is where you are now. See the clouds below you now as they drift past and feel the powerful connection from the warmth of the sun revitalizing your true self. Feel the textures of the clouds, realizing again that you are more than these senses. You are the still small scribe to this infinite sea of experiences. Know that you are beyond your emotions. You are connected to your source, aware, alert. Now slowly bring yourself back into this space, the room you are in, feeling comfortable and relaxed in your body, knowing in a deep place that you are better for this, and it is so...
Are you presently present now?
If not, take a second to remember who you are, where you are and why you are...
Do you have goals?
What is it you truly want?
What is keeping you from being there now?
Will you save yourself in time?
There is only one lifetime we are currently aware of so we must capitalize on our experience of the present in order to harness the full potentiality in every instant of our perception...
Presence can be experienced in a great number of ways from some deep breaths to simply being in your body.
Create a mantra consisting of a few things you are working to create for oneself...
Here's how you do it:
Simplify whatever your goal is into a few words and just keep the saying or phrase that you can run in the background noise of your mind, repeating on autopilot while you are mentally focused on the outside world, being aware of one's own body as such is a difficult undertaking...
Create now in this new year whatever it is you can envision with all of your senses. See yourself presently in perfect awareness of your consciousness, being in the flow.
"I can change. I
can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my
limitless potential instead of my limiting past."
- Stephen Covey
Yes, this is
referring to a Korn song, but the message interpreted is for us to let the ties
that bind us to negativity and to our egos go so we can know our own self worth
and work towards actualizing it. If we can let these weights holding us back
fall away then we can learn to get the best life this time around, no matter
how far into our lives we may have come thus far. Through determination,
discipline and method, anyone can pick themselves up from a personal fall to
regain their intended direction and/or destination in life. We all begin this
lifetime with hopes, dreams and aspirations as children, but some of us have it
stripped away early. Others have it beaten out of them over years of struggle,
strife, and defeats.This leads to our
“acomodador,” as Paulo Coelho describes in his book, The Zahir.
In The Zahir, Coelho quotes from a book
called Magical Practices in Northern
Mexico which describes the concept:
“The
acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is
responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat,
a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can
make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of
increasing his hidden up powers, the shaman must first free himself from that
giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where
it occurred.”
We all share this
common history of falls, but what distinguishes the simple to the great are not
only the way we internalize it, but the way we rise after a fall. Do we let our
defeats master us or do we seek to master our defeats? As I stated in the first
chapter, falling is an art, but only if it is used in such a way as to grow and
learn. Adversity helps us to blossom if we can see it in that way. Everyone
acknowledges Edison as a genius because he found the tungsten to use for the
light bulb filament, yet not all realize how many thousands of falls he
suffered to find it. All of the greatest inventors and explorers were willing
to suffer complete and utter failure to reach their dream and this can be the
same for you.It can start right now if
you are ready to take the steps to see that pile of horse manure you just
stepped in as fuel for your renewable engine to make the best our of
difficulties in your life. We must all work hard to overcome our past, whether
we walked into an inheritance of outrageous proportions or complete
destitution.
To truly fall
away from ourselves we must first identify how far we have fallen from our
initial life mission. How far have we distanced ourselves from that which we
value as our deepest goal in life? Have we even ever identified such a goal?
This would be a great place to start. Remember your childhood and those
innocent moments, the very few some of us even get, and return yourself to that
first spark of who you aspired to be. Call into memory this first feeling of
wonder, the intrigue of what it would be life to be in your dream job or life
experience or situation. I recall wanting to be a fireman, then a
paleontologist, then an artist, a teacher, and later, as a teen, a writer. What
or who inspired you to that position or experience as being your ideal? What
made you want to live your life around that profession or belief? Is it still
in your psyche as a life accomplishment to be worked for? When you think of
those former goals do you still feel that fervor of passion you first felt?
So what happened?
Can you recall your own “acomodador?” What was it? Is there any spark of hope
to regain it? Did you reframe your goals and aspirations, and if so, are you
whole-heartedly content with them now? These are questions we must all review
deep down before we start removing the blocks to the path. An arrow without a
target will always miss. Can you identify a large life goal to strive to free
yourself up to achieve? Draw something into your mind and let’s continue. If
not a major life goal, what about a smaller one to start with, for those
endless life journeys all start with a simple step. If you have one, good, if
not, continue anyway and one may arise as the more blockages we let fall away
from ourselves create space in our spirit to rediscover itself.
What is the ego
and why can it be such a terribly limiting obstacle in our lives? From my
learning and life experience, the ego is our mask we put on to handle our
day-to-day interactions with the larger world. It’s the façade we hide behind
when things get difficult and we really want to cry or when we are
over-emphasizing our perceived “greatness” whether warranted or not. It is the
part of us that stares our fears in the face with a plastic smile, while our
true self cowers behind it. As children, some of us develop it earlier than
others depending on our life circumstances, but we all make one. It protects us
from further psychological damage, almost becoming an “acomodador” of sorts as
it is our giving-up point to preserve our delicate emotional and spiritual
well-being. But the bigger reality here is that it is robbing us of an ability
to fully experience our emotions and feelings, releasing us from hurt. Like a
shield keeps us safe, the ego is our wall.
Sounds like a
good thing until we rationalize not only why we need a wall from the world but
also what affect this has on us. These coping methods for life damage many
relationships, not only with others, but with ourselves. It makes us suppress
and depreciate our emotions, wants and needs in order to push a false agenda to
keep up our appearance of being in control of our surroundings. Often this
encourages a fall as hubris almost always does. Pride isn’t always negative
though, as it can actualize our self esteem, but it can destroy us if we lose
sight of any esteem we might have had before it. When it becomes our only
method of handling stressors and the outside world, a hollow shell of our true
being permeates. This deep unquenchable feeling of empty that we fill with
material objects is a lack of connection with our ego-free self. We attempt to
fill this hole in our being with distractions and instant gratification to
avoid the pain of experiencing these spiritual and emotional states we are
unprepared for from all of our social programming from family all the way up
through the media in society at large.
Covey describes
this concept when talking about leadership development and how all things are
created twice in 7 habits by stating,
“We reactively
live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people’s agendas,
the pressures and circumstances- scripts from our earlier years, from our
training, our conditioning.
These scripts come from people, not principles. And they rise out of our
deep vulnerabilities, our deep dependency on others and our needs for
acceptance and love, for belonging, for a sense of importance and worth, for a
feeling that we matter.
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or
not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the
second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of
other people’s agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.”
Now that we have
an idea what the ego is, let’s see how we can dismantle it.Or rather, let’s see how we can dismantle its
hold on our waking state consciousness that it has. By identifying the aspects
of ourselves which damage our feelings and those of others we can draw upon
those features we need to dispel. To quote Bill W. from A.A., we need to “make
a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Creating lists of
deficits, defects and damaging qualities can help see where we are unleashing
the defenses of our walls on others. This list should identify where we exclude
others as well as where we are blind to others feelings or neglect to
acknowledge and own our own emotions.
If you are unsure of whether a behavior
qualifies as an egoic attribute or not, make a pro and con list for it. Does
anyone get offended, put out or emotionally hurt, whether intentional or not as
a result of expressing this quality? If yes, then it definitely is one. Even if
you feel that the people seem upset unjustly or that you feel that they are
misinterpreting your message, it qualifies.Think about it, how we are interpreted is vital in our intended meaning
or ideas and if the person we are speaking to becomes hurt or offended, then
there is an emotion being received that very well may not be something we can
even detect.
Gerald Jampolsky
really hits this idea home in Love is
Letting Go of Fear when he talks about it like this…
“Our true self
does not create pain or strife. It has no need to judge or belittle. It is not
afraid to show concern, express fears, or to show the full extent of its
emotions. It loves unconditionally. Does this seem completely attainable? Yogis
and mystics describe the ego-less state as being enlightened, which is the
highest state of being. Now they say few people may reach this pure
unencumbered state every generation, but we can work to achieve as close of a
state as possible. Any way we can release parts of the ego state, the more
clear and joyful our life will be. Life is a constant process of growth and we
are changing and adapting to all of the events of our lives, good or bad, so
working to free ourselves of the negative armor will only free our spirit and
open our possibilities so we can pursue the goals of what we truly aspire to
be.”
“Do not look back in anger, or
forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
-James Thurber
Once we get a
decent handle on our own personal walls to the world, we can begin our personal
awareness of how they play out and control our interactions. The first and most
important piece of this change is awareness, which simply means being conscious
of ourselves to identify when we are displaying these negative behaviors. This
can only work if we are able to discipline ourselves to check in before
reacting to life’s difficulties and answering these basic questions:
Am
I speaking from a place of love?
How
will this statement/action affect others involved?
Are
the emotions I am expressing my real feelings or am I withholding some?
Are
my statements/actions to control or manipulate someone?
These questions
will help you regain awareness of who is speaking, you or your ego. They will
draw you back to being present with your motives and true feelings. This is not
to say that you can’t be upset or angry. Anger is a valid emotion and it is
understandable to feel angry. The emotion of anger or feeling hurt are still
coming from a place of love no matter how painful they are. It is merely the
fear of a loss of love which causes this imbalance in our emotional state. It
is what we do when we are embroiled in those feelings that matters. Do we go into
our ego-controlled, pre-conditioned methods of reacting thereby causing even
more damage and hurt or do we become cognizant of whomever or whatever we are
reacting to and earnestly show love to them? This can be explaining our hurt
and anger without blame or judgement, which may first require some space from a
situation so that we can first reflect on it in a slightly objective way.
Something as difficult as this will take practice to be able to do and a
determination to stay with it and to stay conscious when communicating.
Developing this
practice into habit will take some time as they say it takes twenty one days of
continuously practicing something to make it into a regular part of our
patterns of activity. This begins with our willingness to achieve a change and
doesn’t stop because we use our strength of perserverance because we know that
we are important and that our goals are worth fighting for. Take a second to
think of some bad habits you might have for they can be learned from. Did they
take large efforts and determination to establish? No, of course not. These
ones came in because we didn’t know better or have the diligence we are
striving for now. So let us use those cues to attach this new self monitoring
habit to ourselves. Try and make it fun. Create a game with yourself about it.
You can even make an “ego jar” which would in essence be similar to a “swear
jar.” Whenever you catch yourself reverting back to reacting or acting from the
ego, put a dollar in it. This way you could keep a tally of yourself being in a
state of awareness. It would also play out to be a good reward when we get to
what we consider the end of the journey and we can reap the reward of all of
the “ego money” we have saved up and do something fun with it. The more often and
the closer we pay attention to the task, the easier and more rote it will
become and then a self-checking habit will be formed which can last a lifetime.
Living your truth
would top off stepping away from our ego trips to forge our journeys to our
true selves. Now that we are engaging in the process of letting our egos fall
away from our minds, we can reaffirm our truth which we gave a quick glimpse at
in the beginning of the chapter. Those visions of who we truly want to be can
help us unlock questions that can lead us to claim who we truly are. Being able
to view your situation without the throws of the ego, fears, worries, walls,
you will be able to see the why’s to your aspirations more clearly and it
should help to reclaim who you know yourself to be deep within regardless of
what the ego mind thinks it knows. It will help you develop more steadfast self
confidence because you know this is for and from your highest good and that
will most assuredly ease the consciousness.
This will also
build self esteem which works in tandem with confidence, helping you to know
your real worth you may have been afraid to claim or acknowledge. With these
foundations building you will have renewed strength to rise above your
weaknesses and work towards you big life goals. The best part about this simple
method is that you can choose to live it anytime and start from wherever you
are in this relentless freefall of life to regain your power and direct the
winds in your parachute to take you anywhere you want to go. It is that
unstoppable determination and effort born of this newly claimed self
assuredness and confidence which will take you everywhere your journey leads.
“Character cannot
be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success
achieved.”
-Helen
Keller
What Helen was
saying here is that through our falls in this life we see the true goals we
strive for and find the ambition and power to reach out and grab a hold of
those stars which sparkle and scintillate before our very eyes. Don’t be afraid
to find your stars!
Summary and Reflection
How can you fall away from yourself?
·By working to let go of your ego- our
subconscious programming
·Finding your truth so we can start living it
oYour
beliefs
oYour
desires and goals
oSelf
esteem/personal strength
Steps to releasing your ego:
·Identifying it
·Accepting it
·Strengths and weaknesses/pro’s and con’s
·Practices to let go with
oDiscipline-
21 days to form a new habit
oDetermination-
How much do you want it?
oMethod-
“ego jar,” constantly updating your moral inventory
Living your truth:
·Finding and knowing your worth
·Remaining steadfast- being sure enough to stick
by yourself
·Be relentless, with a no surrender attitude in
your effort
Practice on these things and see where it goes. Remember, you are good
enough and you are worth it. Never forget,
“You are your own best friend.”
–Richard Lauria
Visualization
Take a deep, full
breath in, all the way down to the bottom of your lungs. Notice your breath,
now take another deep full breath, feel your lungs stretch out with the quiet
path of your breath. Each breath that you take now is releasing more and more
of your tension and tightness, relaxation is flowing in with the in-breath. Tension
is released with the out-breath. Picture a shimmering light come in to the top
of your head and with each breath it will slowly go down your body relaxing you
as it moves into your neck and chest, down your arms, going down further now
with the out-breath into your hips and legs going into your calves and out your
feet. Now imagine that you are surrounded by an enormous wall on all sides.
This is your wall from your relationships, your work, your best life. Now as you
begin to feel the sense of hopelessness from being stuck, you realize that you
have a pick axe in your hand. Suddenly you begin to start hacking at the wall
and with each stroke of the pick you see an egoic moment trapping you behind
your mask from the world. You start to chop away at the wall and larger chunks
of it now fall away. As it does you see the parts of yourself you have been
suppressing feel that rush of release and freedom of openness. As the final pieces
of the wall disintegrate with your strikes you begin to feel yourself in your
personal power with the drive and determination to achieve any goal you can
imagine. You know that you are worth it, and that you can do anything you set
your mind to. Now see yourself reborn and living your perfect life. Envision
yourself living your dream, your truest and clearest self. You are surrounded
now with white light emanating from you with yellow shining flecks sparkling
around you. This is your highest self. When you are ready be back here in the
room, at peace, knowing that you are on your way to wholeness...
