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3-16-22 ~Helen Avery ~Life as Love~ “Looking at Fear: Dr. David Hawkins”

March 16, 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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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 438

March 15, 2022

Day 438 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Listen to this 33-minute teaching from NTI 2 Peter.

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Awareness-Watching-Awareness audio.
Stay with this inquiry today:
(a) Pay attention to yourself as isness-awareness-peace while considering this inquiry: Is there a sense of unaffected freedom in being isness-awareness-peace?
(b) When you notice that attention is caught up in emotion, look to see if you find a sense of unaffected freedom in emotion.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #358

March 15, 2022

Please read quotes 1225-1228 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The wise man should always strive for the cessation of thought.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip-Regina’s Review, Lesson 59

March 15, 2022

Review 41. God goes with me wherever I go. The ego does too. This is because both are in my mind. One is my true Self. The other is an imposter, a habit. Am I ready to break this entrenched habit? What do I want for myself?

Review 42. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. The ego’s resistance feels strong, but it is not my strength. If I give into the pull of habit, I am weakened. The ego confuses weakness for strength. However, I know the strength of God, so I am not confused. Let me choose the quiet strength of God over the noisy weakness of ego.

Review 43. God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. I am at home in my heart. I am myself as God’s quiet strength. Let me rest deeply within myself frequently, so that I become familiar and the ego feels strange and out-of-place.

Review 44. God is the light in which I see. The ego confuses thinking with seeing, but thinking is not seeing. Thinking is attention on the box. The box is blindness. Seeing comes through openness, through open awareness. Only openness can see. Decided is blind, and all thinking is full of ‘decided’.

Review 45. God is the Mind with which I think. My real thoughts are a way of being. My real thoughts are all-is-well (peace), open-embracing-acceptance (love), freedom—a sense of soaring from within (joy), intimacy with everything (oneness), and compassion for anyone who suffers from ignorance. I am the heart of God. Thinking is being my Self.

Paul Hedderman ~ Traveling Lighter 3-15-22

March 15, 2022

In this program, Paul through the vehicle of Satsang and repetition will be helping us to let go of misidentification and recognize Being Consciousness as our Truth.

Paul suggests repetition through Satsangs is helpful. It is an example of how the dreamING repurposes another programming element, repetition. What was used to (mis)identify, becomes instead a helpful undoing within the dreaming of that identification. The helpfulness of the Message is recognized in what Paul calls “traveling lighter.” In the surrender of an assumed need to escape/improve, the ever-present reality of consciousness already now/here becomes where our interest stays. Being consciousness in contact (in/as/through sensory experiencING), we appreciate being “successful” – already, as that Reality.

You can also learn more about Paul on his website www.zenbitchslap.com or his YouTube channel under the same title (Zen Bitchslap).

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Mighty Companions ~ 3-13-2022

March 15, 2022

Revs. Glen Ganaway and Yolanda Mapes, who are interfaith ministers, share a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM. You can find out more about the Mighty Companions on their website: themightycompanions.com

Live in the Sanctuary Sundays at 5 pm ET/3 pm MT.

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Sounds of Awakening ~ 3-13-2022

March 15, 2022

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Rev. Yolanda’s guest for this program was Kenneth Gartman. Kenneth is a vocal coach, music director, singer, and pianist based in New York, NY. Classically trained, Kenneth began his professional singing career with the Ft. Worth Opera Company and Texas Gilbert & Sullivan Company. He has worked at various regional theatres throughout the country and toured the USA. Kenneth has appeared as a soloist in several of the country’s finest concert halls including Carnegie Hall.

Kenneth was also the musical director for Rev. Yolanda’s 2 MAC Award-winning show in NYC and will direct and sing in Yolanda’s upcoming online cabaret show “Simply Me and My Friends”, on March 18. For more information on Kenneth and his offerings, visit his website: www.KennethGartman.com

The ongoing host of this musical program is Rev. Yolanda Mapes. Rev. Yolanda: www.Yolanda.net/simply is a singer-songwriter performance artist, interfaith minister, and a member of Awakening-Together. It is her great joy to share art, music, and wonderful inspirational artists with this loving community.

Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show~3/15/22

March 15, 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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Playsheet for This Month’s Movie, “McFarland USA”

March 14, 2022

McFarland USA Playsheet

Laura Joy Bedford made the playsheet for this month’s movie. Using the playsheet as a guide is a great way to watch the movie to really help the focus be on using the movie as yet another way that Inner Wisdom can help us to awaken.

Plan to join us for a discussion of this month’s movie, “McFarland USA,” on Sunday, March 27 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT. Laura Joy Bedford will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion.

Inspired by the 1987 true story, McFarland, USA follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California’s farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner), a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. Coach White and the McFarland students have a lot to learn about each other but when White starts to realize the boys’ exceptional running ability, things begin to change. Soon something beyond their physical gifts becomes apparent—the power of family relationships, their unwavering commitment to one another, and their incredible work ethic. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring legacy as well. Along the way, Coach White realizes that his family finally found a place to call home and both he and his team achieve their own kind of American dream.

The movie is available on Amazon, Vudu, YouTube, and Itunes.

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 437

March 14, 2022

Day 437 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 2 Peter 2 (v11,12) to the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Awareness-Watching-Awareness audio.
Stay with this inquiry today:
(a) Pay attention to yourself as isness-awareness-peace while considering this inquiry: Is there a sense of unaffected freedom in being isness-awareness-peace?
(b) When you notice that attention is caught up in thought, look to see if you find a sense of unaffected freedom in thought.