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Regina’s Newest Book, Out of the Stillness, Is Available on Amazon

July 7, 2022

Have you ever wanted to see inside someone else’s mind and heart as they journeyed toward spiritual awakening? Have you ever wondered what obstacles they faced, what inquiries they used, or what insights they experienced?

Out of the Stillness is an opportunity to peer inside another person’s spiritual journey. Regina Dawn Akers wrote this collection of spiritual contemplations as a personal journal over 8½ years as she contemplated quotes by spiritual masters and excerpts from spiritual classics. The quotes and excerpts she contemplated were collected by Michael Langford and published in The Seven Steps to Awakening. Some of you may know this collection of writings as “Regina’s Seven Steps Journal.”

The quotes and excerpts in The Seven Steps to Awakening are numbered from 1 to 1574. Regina used the same numbering in Out of the Stillness, so her writings correspond to the original quotes and excerpts. We recommend reading Regina’s contemplative writings slowly as you contemplate what she wrote. As she inquires, you can inquire too. As she motivates herself, you can motivate yourself. As she reaches new insight, you can reach new insight. You may want to pair Out of the Stillness with The Seven Steps to Awakening, and you may want to keep your own contemplative journal. That way, you can write what comes to you from out of the stillness too.

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Celebrate Regina with a “Kudoboard” Greeting

July 6, 2022

A friendly reminder. Please post a sentiment, photos or videos to Regina’s Kudoboard for her retirement.

Regina Dawn Akers, is retiring from Awakening Together on December 31, 2022. To commemorate this special occasion we have created a special “living card” so that anyone who feels called can share well wishes, gratitude, pictures and videos with Regina.

If you would like to share sentiments please use the link below to the Kudoboard. If you have questions about what to do when you get to the board, go to the bottom of the page as shown in this screenshot and click on support.

KUDOBOARD

Anne Blanchard ~Unfiltered~ “The Belief in Being Trapped” 7/6/22

July 6, 2022

Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface. She continues to share deeply from various non-dual teachings and teachers.

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7-6-22 ~Helen Avery ~Life as Love~ “What is purity?”

July 6, 2022

Rev. Helen Avery is an Awakening Together Ordained Minister. She shares weekly in our Sanctuary with a half-hour of heart-felt deep-diving into truth, love, and awareness. This candid sharing is a time when Helen explores different modalities and teachings with various non-dual teachers and how the real-life application of those particular teachings is currently showing up in her life. She shares experiences from her path of awakening including the demonstration of how to utilize these helpful processes and spiritual tools. In her most recent Awakening journey, she discusses radical truth and wisdom from teachers such as Mooji and Helen Hamilton.

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In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton 7-6-22

July 6, 2022

This program is Awakening Together’s In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton which airs on the first Wednesday monthly from 3-4 pm ET. Helen’s core message is that the Realization of the True Self is possible for everyone, no matter what background you may have as long as you want it more than anything else. After all, we are only returning to our natural state, to what we already are. We are only coming to live as that Truth consciously.

Having reached a place of total peace, love, and joy, Helen has dedicated her life to helping others wake up too. The Truth is here and now and accessible to all. Helen will offer her teachings in this monthly Satsang to help you Realize and BE the Self you already are.

For more information about Helen and to access her teachings, visit her website: www.HelenHamilton.org.

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Regina’s Awakening Games ~ Game #16: Here There

July 6, 2022

Regina Dawn Akers shares the games she played as part of her awakening process. The games she played came to her as insight as she read and contemplated spiritual teachings.

We recommend you practice each game for one week. After practicing the game for one full week, move on to the next Awakening Game.

Click play on the following YouTube video to learn about this week’s game.

And don’t forget to have fun!

Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show~7/5/22

July 5, 2022

During our time together, we will explore what it takes to live from an open, undefended heart. Naturally, any true exploration of living from the heart necessarily entails taking a deep and sustained look at what prevents us from keeping our hearts open. Grounded in the knowledge that the essence of us, our true nature, is the very lovingness within us all, we will explore how to recognize and release egoic energies by cultivating open-hearted awareness practices which support us in directly experiencing our true Self. By leaning into willingness, steeped in self-honesty, and with a consistent dash of courage, we endeavor to open to whatever life brings, as it brings it, that is, on life’s terms. In so doing, we trust that everything – absolutely everything – is here for us to use for healing, for purification, and for learning to live from the heart. We look forward to supporting each other in our individual explorations of how we truly embrace the entirety of this show we call life.

To deepen further into the teachings from Heart Exploration here’s a link to the Being Aware of Awareness meditation podcast. In these meditations, the reading from Heart Explorations is contemplated.

Being Aware of Awareness Meditation Podcast Link

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Qigong : “The Movement of Now” with Ian McArthur~ 7-3-22

July 5, 2022

In this program, Ian teaches about the traditional Mind, Body, and Spirit practice of Qigong (Chi Kung). Qi means life energy, referring to the energy circulating through the body, and Gong means cultivation or work. The two words are combined to describe a practice to cultivate and balance life energy. By following movements (forms) and a simple breathing technique, we encourage more Qi to flow which in turn allows us to feel more peaceful and at One with ourselves.

Live in the Sanctuary Sundays at 2:30-3:30 pm ET/12:30-1:30 pm MT on the 1st Sunday* of the Month.

Something Genuine: “Do We See Reality As It Is” 7/3/22

July 4, 2022

In this program, we watched and discussed a selected TEDtalk. A TEDtalk follows a unique format. Speakers at TED events have a maximum of 18 minutes to share their messages, which are delivered in highly polished, succinct speeches. A TEDtalk is delivered by people from all walks of life on a multitude of subjects. A great many of these talks are about the insights gained by ordinary people–insights gained through extraordinary experiences or based on their contemplation of the ordinary events of their lives. Either way, their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma, but through experience.

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This TEDTalk “Do We See Reality As It Is” was given by David Hoffman.

This group was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.

Sunday Morning Meditation with Michael DeForbes ~ 7/3/22

July 3, 2022

Michael DeForbes led our Sunday morning meditation. His guided meditations are based on the direct path, which is an integral part of our teachings here at Awakening Together.

Enjoy this powerful, deep meditation into ever-present peace and the now of the Noumenon which had the theme of embracing all aspects of the self.

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