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11-10-21 ~ Life as Love ~ “Letting Go of Emotions”

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 about 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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Anne Blanchard ~Unfiltered~ “The Path of Unconditional Happiness” 11/10/21

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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Introducing this Month’s Movie: “As Good as It Gets”

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Rev. George Maddox on Sunday, November 28 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT. Our movie for this month is As Good as It Gets.

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks, who co-wrote it with Mark Andrus. Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson is a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer who finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, played by Helen Hunt, is the only waitress who will tolerate him must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast. We watch the storyline unfold as these characters interact and develop relationships that help to crumble the previous structured world of Melvin, a grumpy author with OCD. And eventually, the unraveling leads to an opening into love.

Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making As Good as It Gets the most recent film to win both of the lead acting awards and the first since 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs. It was also nominated for Best Picture. It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine’s “The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time” list.

You can find this movie on Netflix with a subscription. It’s also available on Amazon Prime, Vudu, and iTunes.

 

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 312

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 312 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 2 Corinthians 8 (v1-7).

Tomorrow:

  1. Practice open eye meditation. If you would like to, use this video in your practice: Cozy Cabin Porch
  2. Pay attention to your mind and to your experience today.
    (a) Realize that your mind and your experience are intricately connected. What you think, you perceive and experience.
    (b) Notice this connection over and over again throughout the day.
  3. Play Leo’s letting go game. Find three things to let go of during the day.

(The meditation video was specifically selected for the open eye meditation.
However, if the link to the previous video is broken, please select another video from this playlist.)

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #234

Please read and contemplate quotes #765-768 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

For one who rests in his own Self and rejoices in the Self, in whom cravings have ceased and ego-sense is absent, life becomes non-volitional and there is perfect purity. One in millions, however, is able to reach this unconditioned state of pure being.

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

Tip for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 254 – 1st Peter 3

Thoughts of Awakening # 254

With hand or fingers
placed on the Heart,
wherever in the chest
or belly or throat
you perceive it to be…

With hand or fingers
placed on the Heart,
repeat in love,
“Only this.
Only this.
I want and need
only this.”

~From our Holy Spirit

Paul Hedderman ~ Traveling Lighter 11-9-21

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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Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show~11/9/21

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.

 

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Mighty Companions ~ 11-7-2021

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: www.themightycompanions.com

 

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

 

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 311

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 311 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI 2 Corinthians 7 in full.

Tomorrow:

  1. Practice open eye meditation. If you would like to, use this video in your practice: Zen Meditation
  2. Focus on staying aware of beingness/awareness. Notice it throughout the day.
    (a) When you slip into mind’s stories, contrast those stories with beingness/awareness.
    (b) Look right then to see which one (beingness/awareness or mind’s story) is definitely real and which one is most likely (or certainly) illusion.
  3. Play Leo’s letting go game. Find three things to let go of during the day.

(The meditation video was specifically selected for the open eye meditation.
However, if the link to the previous video is broken, please select another video from this playlist.)

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