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Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip-Regina’s Review, Lesson 55

Review 21. I am determined to see things differently: I do not know how enlightenment sees. It seems to me that if I decide on a belief about what enlightenment sees, I may restrict myself to my belief. I do not want to be restricted by my imagination of truth. I want the genuine experience of truth. Therefore, my strategy for ‘seeing’ is this:

I will continually increase my focus on God, while simultaneously letting go of everything in me that I recognize as not God. As I take care of myself in this way, I trust seeing will take care of itself.

Review 22. What I see is a form of vengeance: What I see has changed, because my mind—my attention—has changed. My seeing is more joyous and more reverent than before.

I spontaneously notice the majestic power of a bird’s flapping wings as it passes overhead, and it takes my breath away. I hear silence amidst the sounds of this world and feel its peace in my heart. I see ‘problems’ as temporary and life as unending.

Where is there room for improvement?

I see life as busy. I see humans creating their own busyness unnecessarily. I realize I am caught in this cycle. Busyness needs to be questioned, because it keeps us centered in the world instead of in God.

What I see is a form of busyness. ~ha ha~ Okay, this tells me what I need to work on, and so I will.

Review 23. I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts: I want to put more focus on God. I can feel this in the core of my being.

I recently had a dream that showed I want to take the solitary trek to God, but I am allowing myself to be pulled back into the world by ‘others.’

Do I want to take the solitary trek that is calling me?

Am I willing to give up what I think others want in order to do this?

Review 24. I do not perceive my own best interests: The ego is willing to hi-jack this calling for aloneness with God. It is eager to plan my escape. I cannot think about how I will take this solitary trek, because ego will be in the thinking. My best guidance is to say ‘yes,’ and then remain present for in-the-moment intuition as it occurs. It knows the way. Thinking does not.

Review 25. I do not know what anything is for. Therefore, I cannot judge. To judge is to invest in ignorance. To be, is to be centered in wisdom.

 

Minutes for Member Board of Trustees Meeting ~ 3/07/22

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Join Us for Sounds of Awakening Sunday, March 13th at 8 pm ET

Join us this Sunday, March 13, 2022, from 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for the next installment of the musical Awakening Together program which will feature Rev. Yolanda and Kenneth Gartman with their amazing music.

Rev. Yolanda’s guest for this program will be 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 shows 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.

 

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 433

Day 433 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 2 Peter 1 (v1, 2) thru (v10,11).

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Awareness-Watching-Awareness audio. Notice you can choose a 60-minute audio with music or a shorter audio without music.
  2. Stay with this focus today:
    (a) Notice when you look outside yourself for happiness, security, love or a sense of worth.
    (b) Recognize you are looking in the wrong direction for abundance.
    (c) Turn attention to yourself, isness-awareness-peace.

Sometime this weekend:

Listen to these teachings from NTI:

  1. 32-minute teaching from NTI 1 Peter
  2. 30-minute teaching from NTI 2 Peter

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #353

Please read quotes 1205-1208 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Deluded experience does not cease until one resorts to the right means of liberation and attains awakening.

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

Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 29 – NTI Mark 1

Today, we begin reading NTI Mark. If you haven’t read NTI before, you may notice a change of tone in NTI Mark. NTI Mark is a story, a fictional story. It is not meant to be the factual correction regarding the life of Jesus. Some people have told me that they think this story “is what really happened.” They are making that up and believing their own imaginations.

This story was written because it provides symbols that are more helpful than some of the confusing symbols in the Bible. Our role as reader is to derive the meaning of symbols that are helpful to us, and then live from the example provided by those symbols. In this way, the Jesus of NTI is our role model.

NTI Mark, Chapter 1 is the beginning of the story. Like any beginning, it lays out the details needed to begin the story. Some of the details regarding our role model, Jesus, are:

    • Jesus has decided on the purpose for his mortal existence. It is truth realization. This purpose is the leading factor in his life.
    • Jesus knows that God is found within, so his focus is within, which includes focus on spontaneous guidance. Jesus lives a surrendered life. He is led. He does not make decisions for himself.
    • Jesus went through a purification process during the 40 days and 40 nights in the desert. This left him with a lot of clarity, inner confidence and a sense of peace, but his journey is not over. In NTI Mark, we will observe Jesus as he walks the path from the initial purification to final awakening.
  • Jesus lives from kindness and love. He is the servant of everyone he meets and the servant of Spirit within. Through service, which is not self-will, Jesus of NTI will follow spontaneous guidance to the end of the sense of self.

NTI Mark, Chapter 1 opens with this statement:

“Before truth can dawn, there is work that must be done. This work must be done in faith and out of a desire for truth.”

That opening statement is our guidance as we begin reading the story of Jesus of NTI. Jesus of NTI is our role model. Watch him, and you will know what to do. Model yourself after him, and you are doing the “work that must be done.”

Note: You will also learn from the apostles and other characters in the story.

Thoughts of Awakening # 29

Deny what is false because it is false.

This is the condition of reality.

For to accept the false as true

is to accept illusion as true and that, in its effects, is to deny what is true by accepting it as false.

Only the truth is true.

Everything else is illusion.

~From our Holy Spirit

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip – Regina’s Review, Lesson 54

Review 16. I have no neutral thoughts. It is time for maturity. Maturity begins by realizing who I am, what is true and what is false. This is wisdom. Maturity lives from wisdom.

What I am is living-intelligent-open-awareness.
What is true is what I am, life-intelligence-love-presence.
What is false is form. Form is the manifestation of story, changing story.

To live with maturity is to stay in touch with what is true. Allow the false to be. Allow it to be as incidental, while abiding lovingly with the true.

Review 17. I see no neutral things. Everything perceived with the senses is the manifestation of thought. There is no difference between the thoughts in one’s brain and the form sensed with the body. Maturity does not see a difference between these things.

To live with maturity is to stay in touch with what is true. Allow the false to be. Allow it to be without undue emphasis. Interact with it appropriately. Interact with it while abiding lovingly with the true.

Review 18. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. Abide lovingly with the true, and radiate truth. Forget the truth, and radiate confusion. To radiate is natural and uninterruptable, so it is always occurring. Maturity is aware of this fact, so it lovingly abides with the true in order to communicate consistently the compassionate message of truth.

Review 19. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. To wander from my realization of truth is to spread confusion. At this stage, spreading confusion is still a possibility for me. I can get lazy, go back to sleep and forget what I know, but I don’t have to. I don’t have to, and I don’t want to. I am fully capable of remaining awake and aware now. It is time for maturity, and I am ready to be responsibly and lovingly mature. There’s nothing else that I need. My stage of awakening to wisdom is complete.

Review 20. I am determined to see. Seeing is nothing more than a present choice to abide with truth. I can do this now, and so I will.

 

Embodied Contemplation of Jesus: A New Covenant Debuts this Sunday on March 13th at 2:30 pm ET

We would like to invite you to join us for the debut of the new program with Laura Joy Bedford, Embodied Contemplation of Jesus: A New Covenant. This program debuts on Sunday, March 13, 2022, from 2:30-3:30 pm ET/12:30-1:30 MT.

During this ongoing weekly program, we will be exploring a deeply peaceful, gently powerful way to release the inner light that we continue to invest in deeply hidden egoic beliefs and surprising desires that keep us experiencing feelings of fear, guilt, judgment, separation, and suffering as if they are a natural part of Life. These unhealed, subconscious beliefs and desires are relished, and hence, limit the realization of our True Nature as Divine Being…our True Self as Pure, Aware, Unbounded Love that is overflowing with intense love, joy, and peaceful Being.

Through contemplation of Jesus: A New Covenant (JANC), we join with Jesus as our guide, to increase our ability to locate our naturally whole, perfect Divine Being. Here’s a link to the website where you can download a free pdf of the book: Click Here

 

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 432

Day 432 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 1 Peter 5 in full.

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Loving Consciousness audio.
  2. Trust yourself in this way today:
    (a) Trust that you lead yourself spiritually through your spiritual aspiration and through intuition.
    (b) Remember your spiritual aspiration and follow intuition.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #352

Please read quotes 1201-1204 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Wonderful is this supreme peace. What is to be gained has been gained. The perception of the objects has been abandoned. True enlightenment has dawned and it shall never set again.

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

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