The Top 10 Steps to Shift From Being Clueless to Being Aware.

Experiences,
Photo by Zest-pkby Thomas J. leonard
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1. Get that there IS something called Awareness and that it takes time to get in touch with.

2. Starting reading spiritual books; but be careful of some of the self-help/pop psychology books.
Read the Celestine Prophecy, Mutant Message Down Under, The Book of Life, Ishmael; forget books by Tony Robbins, Laura Schlesinger, Beverly D’Angelo. John Gray and Terry Cole-Whittaker are optional. Careful of the guru/follower approach.

3. Get to know as MANY people as you can who ARE aware and have made the transition.

4. Get a coach (or teacher) who’s been there and is now very aware and has a life/lifestyle to match.

5. Simplify your life significantly. You can’t sense more things/become aware if you’re under pressure/busy.

6. Eliminate all excess stimulation. Drugs, stress, overeating, television, nicotine.

7. Get that, perhaps, you ARE clueless!

8. Start associating with others who seems to have this “awareness thing” and learn from them. They’ll teach you.

9. Begin to notice EVERYTHING — you, people around you, their reactions to you, life, ebb and flow. Everything.

10. Once you begin to notice, then begin to notice how YOU are affected by your environment/stimuli. This is key.

Thomas J. Leonard, often known as the father of coaching, passed away suddenly on February 11th, 2003. His seemingly endless ideas included the creation ofCoachVille, and the International Coach Federation, as well as numerous books, teleclasses, programs, and workshops on coaching. One of Thomas’ signature creative structures were these top ten lists, a way of organizing his thoughts in an easy to read format. Visit Best of Thomas to learn more about the many different works of Thomas Leonard

Watchfulness

Experiences, ,

Meditations are deeper. Oftentimes I am in a place which is so still that my next breath can snap me right back out. I meditate an hour each morning. Sometimes it will go slow and sometimes it will go fast. Then there are the times when there was NO sense of time. It did not go fast, it was just over. Those are profound experiences for me because it gives me a sense of just being or the experience of isness.

Witnessing is a little more evident. It seems to come in parts or segments. When I look at my arms they don’t seem to be mine but are operating independently of who I think I am. I can also be walking down the street and wonder who is doing the driving because I feel like I am a passenger. Actualy there is no I, there is just the experience of moving.

All of these experiences bring with them a sense of joy. Unfortunately, when I notice joy it goes away, probably because the I is back. I am hoping that as time goes on these experiences will continue and they will be accompanied by a sense of joy that does not go away. Only time will tell.

Obsession

Experiences

I don’t know what is happening but most of the time now I think about awakening or enlightment or getting the understanding. I do have more knowledge though, feeling as if I understand what is supposed to happen. My experience has been that it far surpasses what I think it will be. I then get very frustrated in that I know where I am going now but it is at a snail’s pace.

I’ve taken up watching videos of people who have awakened. The best of the lot is Buddha at the Gas Pump. It is run by Rick Archer who I use to work for a long time ago. The second website is called Never Not Here. It is a little more intellectual, sometimes discussing the finer aspects of the mind but still worth the price (free). The third site I am about to start watching is called the Urban Guru Cafe. Rick recommended it and that’s good enough for me.

Watching these videos is awesome in the fact that these people are not saints or gurus, they are just like me. It gives me hope that I too will reach the goal. After reaching their goal they explain that their experience continues to expand and deepen, which sounds like a journey I want to take. I will continue to talk about these sites as I go forward because for right now it is where I get my inspiration.

The Recession from a different point of view

Change is coming,

Here is a quote from Kryon, an entity chanelled by Lee Carroll?

Do you have the courage to celebrate the recession? Dear Human Being, in this country called America, congratulations for what you just did! Never in the history of humanity has any citizenship tackled the greed issue in a major force like this major economy – one of the largest on Earth, the most significant on Earth and the most powerful on Earth. But you have chosen to clean it up.

Witnessing trouble

Experiences,

I have found this to be my experience sometimes…

Awakening to the Dream (Paperback)

by Leo Hartong

“Witnessing is not something we progress to. It is not about self-improvement or mental states. It is about recognizing that which is already fully present; this presence observes both the ‘I’ and its states while, at the same time, it remains unaffected. If we see this witnessing as a new way to make us feel good, we are back at square one. Instead of identifying with the conceptual ego, we have now identified with the conceptual witness – still an independent, identified entity, merely in different garb. From this more cushioned perspective, it’s easy to get trapped again in the same old illusion. As soon as the witness has become an object or concept, it becomes part of the witnessed. The real witness will never be an object of experience, but always remains that which is aware of the experience. Objectified, it becomes the ‘new ego’; non-objectified, it merges with Pure awareness – that which we so intimately are that we cannot get at it; like an arrow, able to point in all directions, but not at itself.”

Who Am I?

Spiritual Aids,

This one paragraph from Sri Ramana Maharishi really turned my head around.

What is the means for constantly holding on to the thought ‘Who am I?’

When other thoughts arise, one should not pursue them, but should inquire: ‘To whom do they arise?’ It does not matter how many thoughts arise. As each thought arises, one should inquire with diligence, “To whom has this thought arisen?”. The answer that would emerge would be “To me”. Thereupon if one inquires “Who am I?”, the mind will go back to its source; and the thought that arose will become quiescent. With repeated practice in this manner, the mind will develop the skill to stay in its source. When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear. Not letting the mind go out, but retaining it in the Heart is what is called “inwardness” (antar-mukha). Letting the mind go out of the Heart is known as “externalisation” (bahir-mukha). Thus, when the mind stays in the Heart, the ‘I’ which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self which ever exists will shine. Whatever one does, one should do without the egoity “I”. If one acts in that way, all will appear as of the nature of Siva (God).

At first it was nuclear

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I’ve been thinking about the economic meltdown the world is going through. It seems interesting that it is affecting everyone either personally or someone within their immediate circle. This seems to be a way to get everyone on the planet aware of the change that is happening to us.

Starting back in the late sixties and early seventies there were psychics who saw a nuclear war with Russia as the means to make everyone question what their reality was. The war never happened but the sixties did bring in a huge change in terms of people’s expanded awareness. Then we had massive earth upheavals being predicted with the reasoning being that if you can’t even count on the ground that you stand on what can you count on. That also didn’t happen but we did get more violent weather and our attention turned to taking care of the planet that we live on.

Finally we have a crumbling of our worldwide economic base. This touches people where they live. It’s not a disaster that happened on some coast. It’s not a huge bomb that targeted a major city. It is a threat to our very way of living. People have usually been able to make a life for themselves depending on how hard they worked. Now it doesn’t matter what they do. We have massive layoffs that seem to be never-ending. We have people losing their homes. We have tent cities in America! 

This was never predicted. Whoever or whatever thought to take away our base of reality to make us question it, without huge losses of life, was brilliant. What would happen if government could no longer take care of us? What would happen if we could no longer find food for our families. We would probably split into some people choosing anarchy and others choosing to create a new support system, and that has been predicted. I have long read and heard about small groups of people forming like-minded communities based on spiritual principles and that it would be in this way that we would raise the consciouness of the planet to a new level. We are spiritualizing our planet. I just never expected it to be this way.