Helpful Tips for Furthering Enlightenment

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Here are some help­ful tips for ground­ing and fur­ther­ing your progress towards peace:

1. Start your day with a delib­er­ate focus on align­ing with Source.
a. Read some­thing inspi­ra­tional to set the tone, and go, as if to a secret meet­ing w/ your beloved, to a pri­vate space set up some­where in your home just for this pur­pose. Light a can­dle, play music that soothes and invites you to breathe and relax.

b. Find your best stand­ing body align­ment, root through your feet and begin to breathe deeply, full body breaths, and then start w/ gen­tle, slow, stretching.

c. Set your con­scious inten­tion to con­nect w/ Source through your body ener­get­i­cally and use visu­al­iza­tion to see the energy of Source sur­round­ing you and flow­ing into your body, stream­ing along the merid­i­ans and energy path­ways, reach­ing every organ, every cell in your body.

2. Sign up for some kind of gen­tle yoga (yin yoga. restora­tive yoga, vinyasa (flow), or basic Iyen­gar are all good places to start), or a qigong/tai chi/akido/reiki class to learn ways to work in, and with, the body ener­get­i­cally I can­not empha­size enough the body’s role in free­ing us from vic­tim con­scious­ness. It facil­i­tates pow­er­ful healing.

3. Buy my book, Guid­ing Prin­ci­ples for Life Beyond Vic­tim Con­scious­ness to learn more about the spir­i­tual prin­ci­ples or laws of Real­ity and how to apply them directly to your life, includ­ing the ben­e­fits of and tools for learn­ing how to develop a daily practice.

4. Buy Byron Katie’s book “Lov­ing What Is,” or find her online at www.thework.com and mem­o­rize her four questions:

a. Is it true?
b. Do you know it absolutely?
c. Who are you when you believe that thought?
d. What would be dif­fer­ent w/out that thought?

And use her Turn Arounds too, by tak­ing the orig­i­nal thought that you are ques­tion­ing and turn it around to its oppo­site and look for evi­dence to sup­port that perspective.

5. Work with those four ques­tions as you move through your day. They will help you tap into observer con­scious­ness so that you are less reac­tive and resis­tant to life. Look for any lit­tle unhappy thought and prac­tice turn­ing it into its oppo­site to find a more peace­ful way of seeing.

6. Learn and med­i­tate on the basic guid­ing prin­ci­ples. Prac­tice see­ing the world through them. For instance, when you hear your­self think­ing that some­thing should, or shouldn’t, be the way it is, remind your­self of the prin­ci­ple that teaches us there are no mis­takes; things are the way they are for a rea­son and that rea­son is for our ben­e­fit; focus on seek­ing that growth enhanc­ing rea­son, rather than rail­ing against the way things are. Observer con­scious­ness is based on see­ing life through uni­ver­sal guid­ing prin­ci­ples of life.

7. Pay atten­tion to your feel­ings, espe­cially to the ones that prompt you to react neg­a­tively, for they are like fin­gers point­ing to the trou­ble­some thought inside your mind, the real cause of your distress.

8. Sus­pect your way of see­ing things any­time your per­cep­tion of a sit­u­a­tion gen­er­ates unhap­pi­ness. Explore your mind­set care­fully and ques­tion the neg­a­tive beliefs, one at a time, that sur­face in your mind — don’t quit until you’ve adjusted your way of see­ing things to align with real­ity, rec­og­niz­able by its high fre­quency. You know you have returned to real­ity when you feel grounded and cen­tered, serene and con­nected — at peace. Real­ity is the here and now peace of this moment. Use this work to anchor you in reality.

I trust that any of the above men­tioned sug­ges­tions you choose to fol­low will bring pos­i­tive results — your pace and progress is a per­sonal thing. Trust your rhythm.

Bless­ings,

Lynne