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Joel Dennis Anastasi, Spiritual Journalist and Author
Jeff Fasano, Trance Channel, Photographer and author of Journey of the Awakened Heart
LESSON THREE
SHIFT
YOUR FOCUS TO THE INNER SELF AS THE CREATOR
INTRODUCTION
You are
moving into self-realization as you
are guided to the opening of your soul’s divine plan.
The mirrors of life are being shown to you
so you may see where you are, what
your commitments are, and what reality
you are choosing for yourself.
As you look at
the mirrors, you are realizing that you have not accepted your feelings.
In fact, you have been committed to avoiding
them through the choices you have made (playing it safe, avoiding rejection or
anger of others, risk of failure, ignoring feelings of dissatisfaction, etc.)
This has allowed you to remain in
lack and limitation and comfort zones that do not support your highest good.
Consequently you have felt dissatisfied
and unfulfilled—signs of the unrealized self.
So we ask, has your life been shaped primarily by:
. Factors outside of yourself (pressures and judgments of parents, authority figures, culture, etc.)?
Or
. Priorities of
your heart (your inner self)?
EXERCISE ONE
1.
Over the next week, continue to examine your habits, patterns, and attachments,
and notice which stand out.
2. To which of the following do your
habits, patterns, and attachments apply:
. Are you committed to avoiding your feelings and staying in
your comfort zones and in lack and limitation? For example, are you avoiding what you resonate with because it may appear impractical, you lack
experience, you’re not good enough, you fear rejection, etc.?
Or
. Are you
committed to moving toward what you say you want,
what resonates in your heart, the path toward life mastery?
Many
feelings may come up that you have always tried to avoid: fear, sadness, anger, etc. Accept your feelings with
compassion.
3.
Write down:
. Which habits, patterns, and attachments
need to be changed?
. The choices you have before you. See how you
can simplify and how you can change what needs to be changed.
Notice
that most, if not all, of your habits patterns and attachments (including your
fears) cause you to
focus on things outside
of yourself.
It is time now to take that
attention from outside and move it within so that you may begin to take responsibility for you and make choices that reflect your truth.
Let go of blaming outside factors for your
feelings or the conditions of your
life. They just reflect your choices.
EXERCISE TWO
You are
learning there is a power brewing inside you—the desire for self-expression. There is power in your voice and your word, and you want to express all
of you.
You have
something to say, something to offer, and you are strong enough to stop
focusing your attention “out there” and to change
your patterns and attachments that keep you in lack and limitation.
It is time
to explore the unrealized self.
1. Ask and
write down:
. What is important to me?
. What have I not expressed within myself that I would like to express now?
. What gifts and talents do I have that can help me express my unrealized self?
Accept
your feelings and have compassion for what is revealed to you so you can understand that you have choices.
By taking responsibility
for yourself, you are tapping into your power, the power of one, the power of
the I AM. I AM in charge. I AM the creator. I AM the source.
2. Over the next week, focus on the inner self as the creator. Acknowledge what
has been revealed to you, and share your revelations and feelings with your group.
You are now
fully acknowledging the commitment
you are making to you.
SUMMARY
As you do these exercises, you
are beginning to realize that what you have made so important is not so important. Your old behaviors were simply holding you in
a place of lack and limitation where attachments, habits,
and patterns are concerned.
You are beginning
to understand that they reflect the attention you place outside of yourself.
They are not as important as moving toward
life mastery, which involves looking inside
yourself to bring your gifts and talents
out into the world in ways that brings you joy and fulfillment.
Like it or not,
by making this commitment to you during this program, all the
feelings you have been trying to avoid
are coming to the surface for you now.
Many of you are
beginning to feel feelings you have never
felt before because these were the feelings you feared enough to resist or avoid.
That is a sign that you are shifting your attention and commitment
from things that helped you avoid your feelings to the unrealized self in the depth of your heart.
Accept and assimilate your
feelings and have compassion for
yourself.
You are fine-tuning and
simplifying the ways in which you are moving toward life mastery.
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