Day 50 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Read NTI Matthew 21 (v1-5) thru (v10-11).
2. Make a list of the people who are in your life. This list can include family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc.
3. Next to each name, write down something you expect from that person.
4. Next to each name, write down how you would feel if that person didn’t meet the expectation you have of them.
5. Look at each name and expectation on the list and say to yourself, “I am willing to let go of my expectations, so I will not be tempted to judge.” (Say this once for each person on your list.)

Tomorrow:

1. At a time that is convenient for you, set a timer for 6 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation.
2. When you notice your mind judging someone, pause and look to discover the expectation you are judging them against. When you see that expectation, say to yourself, “I am willing to let go of my expectations, so I will not be tempted to judge.”

Day 49 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Read NTI Matthew 20 (v20-23) through the end.
2. Make a list of the people who are special to you (that is, favored by you).
3. Make a list of people who do not hold a favored place in your heart.
4. Look at each name on each list, and say to yourself, “The Spirit of God is one.” Say this once for each person on each list.

Tomorrow:

Look for opportunities to serve others today. Some examples of service include listening to them without being distracted, doing things their way instead of your way, spending time with someone who may be lonely (either in person or by phone), being kind to people you usually do not notice, giving money or other goods, performing a task for someone, etc. As you serve others, remember they are the Self.

Day 48 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: insecure
   Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
2. Read NTI Matthew 20 (v1-16) thru (v17-19).

Tomorrow:

Notice whenever you judge anything (a person, a situation, etc). Notice what judgment feels like in your body, and then relax your body and practice being the superconductor. As you practice being the superconductor, say to yourself, “The Spirit of God is one.”

Sometime this weekend:

Once or twice this weekend, when it is convenient for you, practice this 30-minute audio meditation.

Day 47 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: nervous
   Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
2. Read NTI Matthew 19 in full.

Tomorrow:

1. Set a timer for 6 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation without the audio.
2. Notice whenever you judge anything (a person, a situation, etc). Notice what judgment feels like in your body, and then relax your body and practice being the superconductor. As you practice being the superconductor, say to yourself, “This practice is love.”

Day 46 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: embarrassed
   Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
2. Read NTI Matthew 18 (v12-14) through the end.

Tomorrow:

1. Set a timer for 6 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation without the audio.
2. Notice whenever you judge someone. Notice what the judgment feels like in your body, and then relax your body and practice being the superconductor.

Day 45 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: disappointment
   Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
2. Read NTI Matthew 18 (v1-4) thru (v10, 11).

Tomorrow:

1. Set a timer for 6 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation without the audio.
2. Notice whenever you judge someone. The person you judge could be present or it could be someone you are thinking about. Notice what the judgment feels like in your body, and then relax your body and practice being the superconductor.

Day 44 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Watch the following 32-minute video.

Tomorrow:

1. Set a timer for 5 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation.
2. Pick an exercise from the previous week to do again.

Day 43 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: guilt
   Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
2. Read NTI Matthew 17 in full.

Tomorrow:

1. Set a timer for 5 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation without the audio.
2. Consider this sentence at least 6 times during the day:
   My faith is small, because I put more faith in the world than in God, but I am willing to put faith in God over the world.

Day 42 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Matthew 16 (v25) through the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

Reminder: On Day 11 you wrote your guiding spiritual purpose. On Day 14 you wrote a prayer inspired by that guiding purpose.

1. 1. Review your guiding purpose at least 5 times during the day.
   2. Pray your prayer at least twice during the day. (Or you may write a new prayer.)
      Pick times to pray when you can slow down and pray with the heart, not when you are rushed.

Day 41 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: betrayed
   Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
2. Read NTI Matthew 16 (v19) thru (v24).

Tomorrow:

Consider this sentence at least 6 times during the day:
The Spirit of God is one, and the Spirit of God is Heaven, so I must be one with Heaven.

Sometime this weekend:

Twice this weekend, at times convenient for you, set a timer for 18 minutes and practice meditating with this guided meditation audio. (You can meditate longer, but 18 minutes is enough.)