“Every lesson is a widening and deepening of consciousness. …It is a bringing of unconscious material into consciousness, a healing of past wounds, and a discovery of new faith and trust.” — Paul Ferrini

• What triggers your moods and emotions?
• What makes you react the way you do in specific situations?
• Why do some things keep repeating themselves in your life?

To answer these questions, we need to explore the unconscious – to uncover our invisible subconscious beliefs, repressed emotions and unexpressed potentials.

We are creatures of habit. Roughly 95% of what we think, say and do is controlled by our subconscious minds. Beliefs we adopted when young – many of them faulty – still control our adult thinking and behaviour.

To take control of our lives, we need to become conscious of the programs now running in our subconscious minds. Awareness is vital for change. Awareness gives us the power to choose something new and better for ourselves.

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How to approach negative issues differently than seeing them as problems or some type of possible defeat could include the following conscious choices. Perhaps the first thing to acknowledge is that accidents do not occur. There are no causeless situations or meaningless realities except in one’s own mind. Therefore there is cause and purpose in all experiences. Here are some suggested approaches to take to step into the meaning and purpose, and thereby transforming the negative.

1. When something negative occurs, see it as an opportunity to demonstrate your competence.

2. Take the issue as an opportunity to show your self confidence.

3. See the occasion as a chance to express some soul quality such as courage, creativity, perseverance, understanding, patience, love or support.

4. Learn something from the situation.

5. Accept the issue as a challenge to demonstrate that you are in charge of your life and can handle whatever comes along.

6. Recognize that the challenge is always a gift for your growth and a necessary means of manifesting part or all of your purpose in life.

7. Know that you, in your inner wisdom, have either created this opportunity or have at least attracted it so that you could develop and express what you have needed to develop or express as part of your unfolding life purpose.

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Once you know yourself at deeper and deeper levels and take the need to make time for self exploration and growth apply this simple 3-step formula that summarizes how to do life.

Applying these three steps can spur continuous growth, whether we start from a point of pain or distress, boredom or even high motivation and empowerment. Here are the 3 steps for doing life:

1.      Experience

2.      Expand

3.      Express

Experience – How are you experiencing life right now? From a positive or negative perspective? With acceptance or judgment? From your point of view or others’? With an intention to get love or to give love?

Tune into your experience in this moment. What are you feeling? What thoughts are giving rise to these feelings? Is your experience heavy or light, contracted or expansive? Don’t judge yourself here – just get an objective reading of your experience. This is the research step.

Expand – Once we consciously perceive and experience something, we hold the power to improve our experience by expanding our outlook. How can I expand my perspective to feel better, to gain more clarity or inspiration or appreciation …?

Sense life with open, new eyes. We want to see beyond what we believe to be ‘the facts’ and perceptions arising from the bias and distortion of our unconscious filters. Be willing to meet each event, thing, person, idea … with a fresh, unbiased mind.

Tune into your hunches, callings, intuition, insights and ideals. What qualities, values and feelings do you aspire to bring to your experience?

Try exploring, elevating, embracing, enhancing, exaggerating, evolving or empowering the essence of your experience. Go to a new level where the little stuff in life starts to make more sense.

Express – After doing our inner work of expanding our perspective, it is time to take action. Do something different or do the same thing but in a different way to live from this new, expanded viewpoint. Action grounds our new realization or goal and places us on a new path forward.

Remember ‘RAP’ to anchor your new insights: Repetition, Authority and Peace of mind. In a peaceful, meditative state, with emotion and will power, repeat your new goal, affirmation, visualization or choice.

Play with other ways to help the new concepts, images and ideas move into action. Risk breaking out of your comfort zone. Write them down. Draw them. Sing them. Discuss them.

To create significant change, we must integrate our new expansive viewpoint into our being. When we focus on it, internalize it and own it, we make it part of our subconscious. We overlay old engrained programs that are not serving us with new and empowering habits and thinking patterns.

Remember the 3 word formula for doing life now!

Experience, Expand, Express!

“Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. And you can change your life anytime you aren’t enjoying the dream.” ~ don Miguel Ruiz ~

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We are living in a time unprecedented in human history. The powerful energies of a new millennium, century and soul cycle are supporting the spiritual awakening of humanity.

These powerful forces urge us to make radical changes to speed us along the evolutionary journey to enlightenment. And if we understand the energies of the Divine Plan, we can better align with them.

Change through choice or crisis

The soul consciousness of humanity is beginning to emerge. The light of the soul is leading us into a completely new experience and state of wholeness.

If we are sufficiently soul centered, we manage our lives through choice based on knowledge. Or if the soul is not yet awakened, we do it through crisis.

This is a time to deal karmically with the past and re-orient our thinking so we can live in new and more harmonious ways in the future. This is a time to take responsibility, as humanity, for how we live on this planet and how we relate to one another.

Why understand the bigger picture of life?

When we know where we are going, we can make adequate preparations for our journey.

When we sense what will be needed in the future, we can be pro-active in setting a course of action and events that will be supported by the universe.

If we don’t know what lies beyond today, we can only react to what comes along, thereby giving up our ability to co-create a better world. Reacting is avoiding responsibility. And without responsibility we are operating without soul.

If we work with the energies at hand, there is nothing we cannot have which we need. There’s nothing we cannot do which needs to be done. There’s nothing we cannot know which needs to be known. And there’s nothing we cannot love which needs to be loved.

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There are many different levels of awareness.

• You can be aware of your senses and sensations, body, physical pain and vulnerabilities.
• You can be aware of your emotions and feelings like blame, guilt, fears, anxiety, peace and joy.
• You can be aware of your thoughts, ideas, beliefs and attitudes.
• You can be aware of inner guidance, insights, intuition, higher calling and life purpose.
• And there is one ultimate level — that of highest awareness!

Today more and more people are touching this ultimate level of pure consciousness. More training programs are now available to facilitate this. We are evolving and increasingly open to experiencing states of expanded consciousness.

We can get a conceptual glimpse of this highest state from teachings from the Masters. We’re told we can experience a state of no time, no space, no wanting, no separation — the infinite Oneness. In this state where there is no beginning or end and no relativity, there is pure potential and pure freedom. There is only ‘I AM’.

Obviously, experiencing pure awareness is no easy feat. We must move beyond collective and cultural conditioning, insecurities and mental structures that restrict and filter our perceptions. The move to higher consciousness requires us to completely relinquish our personal identity, to let go of our everyday mind and totally surrender our understanding of life as we know it. It takes deep, deep trust to allow ourselves to open to experience the oneness, allness, beingness — the womb of creation.

As we experience the infinite, we tend to commit more deeply to each of life’s moment with purpose. We can begin by creating greater contexts of being for ourselves. We can be more willing to be in silence and stillness. Next time you meditate, set an intention to open to new dimensions of your being. Set an intention to open more fully to higher truths.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear – as it is, infinite.”
~ William Blake ~

“Enlightenment is a journey of no distance, to a destination you never left.”
~ Source Unknown ~

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We know we are living more soulfully when we find our attention focused on others more than on ourselves. When our ego begins to understand that there is safety and merit in surrendering to a higher force, its energies align more harmoniously with the soul’s direction, and our power increases. Life begins to flow and expand.

We can set the stage for this experience by intentionally looking for the bigger picture. How do I impact others? How can I contribute? As an integral part of the whole, as a piece of the hologram that contains the whole within it, we have immense powers to raise the level of consciousness of the world around us. But this requires high levels of awareness to ensure we’re not foisting our ego’s baggage on others.

“Try constantly to out-serve yourself and watch the butterfly inside you break from his or her cocoon and gain high flight. Like the butterfly, your transformation will take on a form you,
now, cannot fully conceive of in beauty, elegance and completeness. Your love affair with work will make it effortless-effort.” — Mark Victor Hansen

Be clear about where you stand in the bigger picture. Explore and use the 3 levels of consciousness effectively, reflect on your experience within the context of the bigger picture. Wherever you are, accept your situation without judgment, and then choose a new perspective that brings more meaning and peace.

Andrew Schneider helps us understand our human experience of being soul. He says, “Soul consciousness arises when we stand facing in opposite directions at the same time – toward eternity and toward time, toward infinity and toward space, toward unity and toward complexity. We stand in that dualism without being dualistic, for in consciousness we can accommodate the opposites. We do this by identifying with both. This identification results in the experience of being an individual while at the same time being the whole, and finding no contradiction in this experience.”

“Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole — such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life — the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation.” — M. P. Follett

Trust that these breadths of consciousness from 30 different perspectives will definitely open your mind and let miracles into your life where you never expected them.

Here is one perspective on levels of consciousness and some descriptive words to help us identify the differences:

Not conscious – instinctual, follower
Subconscious – habitual, robotic, reactive
Conscious – aware, intelligent, conceptual, reflective
Superconscious – intuitive, guiding, truthful, loving, universal

Reflect on how you typically move through your day. As we use our minds more consciously, we open up to the superconsciousness.

“Utilizing your conscious mind to direct the subconscious mind to enter into communication and harmony with the universal mind is the secret of personal power.” — Delfin Knowledge System

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Have you taken ownership of your life?

When we own our lives, we accept what we’ve inherited and the experiences we hold in our memories. We also lay claim to our right to create new conditions if we’re not happy with what’s come before. We assume responsibility for changing what does not suit us. We acknowledge our own special talents and skills, and truly comprehend our right to enjoy the journey. In short, we embrace the meaning and purpose, the mystery and the beauty of our lives.

“Recognize that life is what you get when you’re born … living is what you do with it.” — Jim Allen

“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.” — Diane Ackerman

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Where do you need to think for yourself?

When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs and actions. Don’t get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” — Alan Keightley

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