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Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 354 – GH Year 2 Review: s/Self-Inquiry

Please read s/Self-Inquiry fromThe Teachings of Inner Ramana  and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.

If prompted, review the tip from Day 312.

For the remainder of Year 2, use each day’s Thought of Awakening as a prayer that you return to throughout the day in order to remain in a state of devotion.

~354~

Today is a day of stillness,
focused stillness,
on the Heart.

~A thought of awakening

Homework for this week

  • Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
  • Practice the “Loving All” Method.
  • Thoughts of Awakening, 351-357

*If you don’t already have it, order The Seven Steps to Awakening. That will be our text for Year 3.

Being Aware of Awareness Meditation 02-26-2021

In this program Anne Blanchard facilitates one of the core practices of the Awakening Together community. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Anne Blanchard facilitates this program on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 am ET/5:30-6:30 am MT by leading participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness meditation.

All are warmly welcome.

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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 55

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 55 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

  1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: withdrawn
    Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
  2. Read NTI Matthew 22 (v15-22) thru (v23-33).

Tomorrow:

Briefly consider the following statement at least 6 times throughout the day:
“My life and my spiritual path are one. I want to remember my spiritual purpose in all circumstances.” And then review your spiritual purpose.

Sometime this weekend:

Once or twice this weekend, when it is convenient for you, practice this 31-minute audio meditation.

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip For Lesson 47

Tips from Regina – Lesson 47, God is the strength in which I trust

We are spending two days with Lesson 47, because it represents an important shift. It represents a shift from trusting in ‘me’ to trusting in a mystery that the mind cannot begin to fathom.

Last week I wrote about some of the aspects of reality: life, awareness, intelligence, and love (unconditional-allowance). Another important aspect of reality is mystery; reality can never be fully understood.

There’s a story in the Bible about a rich man who wanted the kingdom of heaven, but was not willing to give up his riches for it. After Jesus’ encounter with the rich man, Jesus told the disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

The disciples became very concerned, because this particular rich man was known to be very pious. They asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Jesus responded, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”

The rich man’s perception of money as security can be likened to us trusting our own strength, individual knowledge, values, etc. We must be willing to leave these ‘riches’ behind and shift our trust from them to mystery. It is mystery that guides us to awakening. It is mystery that makes all things possible.

Last night one friend said she doesn’t understand awareness-watching-awareness meditation. I asked her to have the intention to realize awareness-watching-awareness and continue to try each day. One day the awareness of awareness will come on its own. This is an example of trusting mystery, trusting that the awareness of awareness will come. Our part is the willingness, and practice is the action-quality of willingness. The results come through mystery.

Homework for this week

 

  1. Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 47-52. Practice lesson 47 for 2 days in a row.
  2. Homework Assignment B: Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 47-52. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own.
  3. Homework Assignment C: Read NTI James, pgs 419-426.

Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 353 – GH Year 2 Review: How to Awaken from the Dream, Part Two

Please read How to Awaken from the Dream, Part Two from The Teachings of Inner Ramana  and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.

If prompted, review the tip from Day 311.

For the remainder of Year 2, use each day’s Thought of Awakening as a prayer that you return to throughout the day in order to remain in a state of devotion.

~353~

I turn inward;
I listen to wisdom beyond words.

~A thought of awakening

Homework for this week

  • Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
  • Practice the “Loving All” Method.
  • Thoughts of Awakening, 351-357

*If you don’t already have it, order The Seven Steps to Awakening. That will be our text for Year 3.

Audio & Homework – Week 8 Gentle Healing Group Year 1 with Rev. Dawn 02/25/21

Rev. Dawn Fernandez 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 for the week:

  1. Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 47-52. Practice lesson 47 for 2 days in a row.
  2. Homework Assignment B: Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 47-52. 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/
  3. Homework Assignment C: Read NTI James, pgs 419-426.

Keys to the Kingdom: Freedom from the Ego Online Retreat ~ Weekends April 10 & 11, 17 & 18, 24 &25

Keys to the Kingdom: Freedom from the Ego
An Online Retreat

A six-day retreat held over three weekends:
Saturdays and Sundays, April 10 &11, 17 & 18 and 24 & 25
with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

To the degree that you are unaware of ego, you are a slave to ego. It speaks in your mind as you, and you think it is you, so you talk, feel and act based on its deception. The way to become free of ego is, first and foremost, to become aware of its messages.

At this retreat,we will learn how to access and live from an enlightened part of the unconscious mind instead of being driven by unevaluated egoic programs that are stored in the subconscious.

You see, the subconscious mind is filled with programs that were formed in the past and are reused in the present. Some of these programs are helpful, like the ones that enable us to walk, talk or read without having to think about how  to walk, talk or read. However, the vast majority of subconscious programs are not helpful. In fact, it’s fair to say they are damaging.

At the same time, the subconscious isn’t the only “unconscious” part of the mind. The super conscious is also part of the unconscious, but the super conscious is very different from the subconscious. Whereas the vast majority of the subconscious is harmful, the super conscious is pure and not pre-programmed, which means it isn’t stuck in the past. It is intuitive present moment wisdom, which has direct access to absolute (divine) knowledge.

 

At this retreat you will learn how to undo the egoic subconscious & access the unparalleled intelligence of the superconscious!

This retreat will be led by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert and will emphasize skills that help you transcend ego and recognize inner wisdom as the Voice that makes you happy.

Retreat Schedule

This six-day retreat will be held over three consecutive weekends: April 10 & 11, April 17 & 18, and April 24 & 25. The retreat will begin at 10am ET (8am MT) and end at 5pm ET (3pm MT) each day. A 2-hour lunch period will be provided beginning at about 1pm ET (11am MT).

Registration closes April 7.

Retreat Fee: $240.
$50 non-refundable deposit.
Register

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 54

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 54 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

  1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: greed
    Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
  2. Read NTI Matthew 22 (v1-10) thru (v11-14).

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for 7 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation.
  2. Notice whenever you judge yourself. Notice what that feels like in your body, and then relax your body and practice being the superconductor.

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip For Lesson 46

Tips from Regina – Lesson 46, God is the Love in which I forgive.

The human idea of love is very different from the love of God. Our ideas about love miss the mark by quite a bit. Since our ideas about love are mistaken, we can also misunderstand a lesson that uses the word ‘love.’ Therefore, let’s take a minute to look at ‘love’ in order to get more clarity about it.

Love is best defined as openness. That’s what all-embracing allowance is: openness.

Other words that help us understand the meaning of love are non-judgment and non-interference.

To illustrate, let’s consider the space the room where you are sitting now (or the space outside, if you are outside now). If you contemplate the space around you, notice it is open, allowing, non-judgmental, and non-interfering. For example, if two lovers decide to make love in the space around you, the space does not try to stop them. Its openness naturally allows that. Likewise, if one person violently murders another person in the space around you, the space does not try to stop that either. Its openness is as open to murder as it is to making love. The openness of space is so naturally open, it can’t be anything but open. Judgment and interference are impossibilities for the space around you.

God (our true nature) is like the space around you. God is completely open. God cannot be anything but completely open. Love is the perfect openness of God.

Consider love as perfect openness as you review these phrases and sentences from today’s lesson:

God does not forgive because He has never condemned.

His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness.

God is the Love in which I forgive myself.

I have already been forgiven.

Optional Practice: If you’d like to add an extra practice today, take some time to notice your natural openness. You won’t find your natural openness in the mind. The mind obviously judges, rejects, condemns, etc., but there is a part of you that is always perfectly open. That is your true nature.

You might start this extra practice by spending a few moments contemplating the space around you. Notice its intrinsic openness. Then, close your eyes, and notice your intrinsic openness. Notice that all of the sounds in your environment are allowed by your openness. Notice that all of the sensations in your body are allowed by your openness. If the mind begins to chatter, notice your openness allows the mind’s chatter too. Your openness is completely natural for you. It’s an openness you cannot close. In that way, you are like the space around you.

If you notice your inherent openness for even a fraction of a second today, you have taken a giant step toward realizing your true nature.

Homework for this week

 

  1. Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 43-46. Practice lesson 44 for 3 days in a row; practice lesson 45 for 2 days in a row. These are not intended as ‘breaks’ from the workbook lessons. Practice the lesson fully each day that it is assigned.
  2. Homework Assignment B: Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 43-46. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own.
  3. Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Acts, Chapters 5-7, p 222-228.
  4. Homework Assignment D: Read ACIM, Chapter 9.VII, The Two Evaluations

Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 352 – GH Year 2 Review: How to Awaken from the Dream

Please read How to Awaken from the Dream from The Teachings of Inner Ramana  and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.

If prompted, review the tip from Day 310.

For the remainder of Year 2, use each day’s Thought of Awakening as a prayer that you return to throughout the day in order to remain in a state of devotion.

~352~

There is a desire to avoid stillness,
and there is the lovely music of stillness too.
Which one do I choose today?

~A thought of awakening

Homework for this week

  • Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
  • Practice the “Loving All” Method.
  • Thoughts of Awakening, 351-357

*If you don’t already have it, order The Seven Steps to Awakening. That will be our text for Year 3.

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