Joel Dennis Anastasi, Spiritual Journalist and Author
Jeff Fasano, Trance Channel Photographer and author of Journey of the Awakened Heart
LESSON TWO
RELEASE
ATTACHMENTS THAT DO NOT SERVE YOUR HIGHEST GOOD
INTRODUCTION
You are here to learn to tap into
the power within, the power of creation.
Creation is about creating the new—that which has never been.
You are experiencing a master shift. You are opening your heart to navigate that passageway into your inner truth—to be able to love, feel, express, and embody the depth of your truth.
This program allows the transmutation of old patterns—whereby you examine your old patterns and, if you choose, change them in a positive way.
You are looking to move from a place of limitation to a place of power.
You are looking to free yourself from attachments outside yourself that have limited you and to harness your power of self-expression to bring your gifts and talents into the world.
I. IDENTIFY
YOUR ATTACHMENTS
It is important to identify your attachments outside of yourself, which may offer some level of gratification or comfort but are keeping you in lack and limitation.
Notice how you use your
attachments to look outside of yourself for validation
and permission to express your truth.
EXERCISE ONE
Look outside of yourself to see the mirrors (people and circumstances) that will show you your attachments.
1.
Ask and write down:
. What am I attached to outside of myself (people, places, things)?
.
What do the attachments outside of myself represent to me?
. What do my
attachments allow me to do or not do?
. How do my attachments
bring me validation and gratification?
. Are any of my attachments really addictions?
.
How do my attachments help or hinder my ability
to be me?
. Which attachments stifle my voice? (Usually relates to family.)
2. What do I need to change?
.
Whether or not I decide to change, what issues will I still be avoiding?
3. Decide what you need to change.
Your ability to release
and let go will reveal your power
to fully individuate.
When you begin to look at and understand
your specific attachments, strong feelings
may come up as you recall specific situations in which you have not stated your needs, expressed your truth,
or set your boundaries.
Identify these situations
and have the feelings.
This may be a time of letting go and cutting cords, including
relationships with some wonderful
people who no longer serve your highest good.
Ultimately, this is about your highest good, which will translate
into the highest good for all.
II. BEING ALONE
You may be tested with deep feelings, including
the fear of being alone.
Many of you have never been alone.
Many do not understand what truly being alone is.
Being truly alone involves life
mastery—fully standing alone, fully making
that choice, fully letting go of the
attachments to what is outside of
you.
The
willingness to completely stand alone
is an important step in fully taking
responsibility for your own life.
Identifying
and seeing your attachments will reveal to you how you resist being alone and may trigger core feelings and wounds.
EXERCISE TWO
1. Spontaneously, from your
heart, write down your definition of
alone.
(To connect with the authentic you and create a new path for your life, you must be
willing to stand alone, individuated, honoring and valuing who you are.)
Your definition may surprise you.
2. Ask yourself:
. What does being alone mean
to me?
. Can I be alone?
. Do I enjoy being alone?
. Am I giving what I need to myself?
. Am I looking outside myself to get what I think I lack?
. Can I stand alone, loving, honoring, and giving
to myself?
3.
During this next week, be alone with you as much as you can. You will begin to
find out what it is like to be truly alone. Many of you have negative connotations about being alone:
. “I have been fighting the feeling of
being alone all my life.
. “Alone is bad.”
. “Alone means I am not liked or loved.”
Be with the feelings that come up for
you and write them down.
4. The experience of being alone will help you begin to
assess your relationship with yourself
and how that affects your relationships with
others. Record in your journal your
experience of being alone and your answers to these questions:
. Am I giving what I need to myself?
Or am I looking outside myself to get what I think is not within me?
. What could I give to myself that would allow me to
stand alone, loving, honoring, and giving to myself?
SUMMARY
This lesson
challenges you to identify where drama pervades your life with attachments that
do not serve your highest good—how
putting situations and people on pedestals
challenges your sense of equality and compromises your ability to identify,
develop, and use your unique gifts and talents. Ask yourself:
. Do I see myself as equal, or do I look to
others to determine my truth?
. Am I ready to move
to a place of equality and power and to exercise that power for my
full self-expression?
Picture a staircase.
You are at the bottom of this staircase. Each lesson in this program as you
complete the exercises (which help you look at your life) is another step up that staircase.
You are ascending into
life mastery. You are ascending to your
place in the world and integrating yourself into your new life.
You are
beginning to tap into the power within,
the power of creation.
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