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Audio & FunPlay – Week 36 Gentle Healing Group Year 1 with Saina, 9/9/21

September 9, 2021

Rev. Saina Fernanez guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Thursdays at 6-8 pm ET and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 236-242 including the tips Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 236-242. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness, Loving Consciousness or Abandon Release Method meditation for 20-30 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Listen to Awakening at Home, Part 2 of 6. It can be found at awakening-together.org, Audios & Videos, Featured Speakers, Guest Mini-Series. Here is a direct link:: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/common-ground-mini-series-awakening-at-home-rev-regina-dawn-akers-11-20-16-part-2-of-6/

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 250

September 8, 2021

Day 250 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Acts 21 in full.

Tomorrow:

Close your eyes and meditate by being aware. See how deep your awareness can go in the length of time that you’ve decided to meditate.
When you are about to do something or say something today, pause first:
(a) Discern for yourself: Is the current thinking ego-reasoning or right-reasoning?
(b) Ask: What do I want to live by? Ego-reasoning or right-reasoning?
(c) If you want to live by right-reasoning and the current thinking is egoic, let go of your thinking & ask intuition for guidance.
(d) If you want to live by right-reasoning and the current thinking is right-reasoning, trust it and follow its guidance.
(e) If you want to live by ego-reasoning, observe the result of your decision. Did it cause happiness or some type of upset/suffering?

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #184

September 8, 2021

Please read and contemplate quotes #610-613 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The dissolution of personality is followed always by a sense of great relief, as if a heavy burden has fallen off.

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

Tips for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 206 – Commentary on Obedience

September 8, 2021

Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Obedience~

I have asked for obedience, and this frightens you, but obedience is nothing to fear. In fact, if you look at this rationally you will see that you are always being obedient. It is just that you are being obedient to one voice or the other, but the choice not to be obedient is an illusion. In that, it is a choice in itself. It is a choice to believe illusion.

Obedience, which you cannot avoid, is sharing. It is the sharing of thought. And therefore, it is the creation of experience.

By being obedient to the thought that seems to be independent thought (or thinking), you create the illusion of independence. Yet because this idea is shared, it is an illusion. In the creation of this illusion, you also find the creation of all pain.

By being obedient to the Voice of true authority, you choose to listen to your own Voice of Love, which knows it is sharing and unbroken, and so it communicates the truer aspects of the flow.

I say that to listen is to love, because to listen is to know your own Heart. In knowing your own Heart, you know love, and so you are love, because your knowing isn’t hidden by illusion.

Obedience is a temporary measure, because the purpose of obedience is to retrain the mind to listen. Once listening becomes your natural joy…your pleasure…there will no longer be a need for the thought of obedience.

However, be wary of the idea that says you are independent and therefore no longer in need of obedience. Any thought that says you are independent is not the love of listening…the joy of connection…and so it isn’t the Voice of your Love.

~From our Holy Spirit

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 206

To want to lead
is to want to remain independent.
This is also to choose conflict,
which is pain.

To willingly surrender into following
is to choose love
and harmony
and oneness.

This choice is peace.

~From our Holy Spirit

The Midnight Library Book Club – 9/8/21

September 8, 2021

Revs. Helen Avery and Doreen Bonnet hosted a book club for the book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.

The book tells the story of Nora Seed who finds herself in the Midnight Library – a library between life and death with an infinite number of books, each one providing a chance to try another life she could have lived.

Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

The book touches on themes such as regret, grief, and acceptance and is full of inspiring quotes.

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Anne Blanchard ~Unfiltered~ “The Transformative Desire for Truth Alone” 9/8/21

September 8, 2021

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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In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton 9-8-21

September 8, 2021

This bi-monthly program is Awakening Together’s In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton that airs on the second and fourth 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 bi-weekly 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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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 249

September 7, 2021

Day 249 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Acts 20 in full.

Tomorrow:

Close your eyes and meditate by being aware. See how deep your awareness can go in the length of time that you’ve decided to meditate.
At different times throughout the day, pause, look at your current thinking, and:
(a) Discern for yourself: Is the current thinking ego-reasoning or right-reasoning?
(b) Ask: What do I want to live by? Ego-reasoning or right-reasoning?
(c) If you want to live by right-reasoning and the current thinking is egoic, let go of your thinking & ask intuition for guidance.
(d) If you want to live by right-reasoning and the current thinking is right-reasoning, trust it and follow its guidance.
(e) If you want to live by ego-reasoning, observe the result of your decision. Did it cause happiness or some type of upset/suffering?

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #183

September 7, 2021

Please read and contemplate quotes #607-609 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The reward of Self-knowledge is freedom from the personal self.

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

Tips for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 205 NTI Philippians 4

September 7, 2021

Today’s reading is brief, but it is filled with wisdom that inspires us to make a firm commitment to the motive we have chosen. A firm commitment to our motive is a firm commitment to truth. It is a firm commitment to Self. It is a firm commitment to peace and to joy.

I recommend reading today’s reading slowly and contemplatively, preferably multiple times throughout the day. It’s a short reading, so it isn’t difficult to read it more than once. You could also write down some of your favorite sentences from today’s reading, carry them with you, and review them throughout the day.

Today is also a good day to review Chapter 15 from The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer.

Immerse yourself in today’s message in whatever way feels most guided for you.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 205

Be still.
Be silent.
Listen without thought.

Creation is of mind,
so it matters where the mind dwells.

The mind may dwell with thinking,
which teaches one lesson,
or it may dwell with listening,
which teaches another.

Obedience is not to be feared.
It is to be embraced,
because obedience is merely
the retraining of the mind
to listen.

To listen is to love.

The creation of experience
comes from choices
made in the mind.

~From our Holy Spirit