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A Course In Miracles (training and discussions)

The Course is a system of mind training is what it really is. Its main objective is to reduce fearful thinking and guilt and to promote forgiveness, kindness, healing and inner peace. It is easy going.  Students typically share with me that the course opens them to joyfully experiencing and practicing loving kindness. You might begin with this video introduction, <‘What It Says’>.

Friends may join weekly ACIM Zoom sessions.

Any level student will be welcome. All of the study materials are free. There is no charge.

From A Course In Miracles, let’s examine the opening statements:

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course in Miracles makes a distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception. Divine “Knowledge” is truth, under one law, the law of Love. “Truth” is unalterable, eternal and unambiguous. Truth might be unrecognized, but it will not be changed. Truth applies to everything that God created, and only what God created is real and true. This is beyond learning because it is beyond time and beyond the limited awareness of processing thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

Truth has no opposite; no beginning and no end. Truth is real, unchanging and it is the serene peace of faithfulness.

“It is particularly helpful to remember applying it when we read in the news about such fearful things as terrorist attacks. If there is anything that seems frightening to us, we can remember this opening statement and it can remind us again that we need not make illusions of attack and death real in our mind. We can return to the Truth. It is our choice. We need not make the sharp edged children’s toys of belief in separation real in our mind. We can ask the Holy Spirit for a different way to see what seems to be in front of us. The Holy Spirit reminds us that there is only Love or a call for Love. And no matter which it is, the appropriate response is Love.”¹

 

Program Description
Introduction and Principles of Miracles from A Course in Miracles

Fear originates from fractured ego mind-like-experiences. An experience of fear is an experience that reinforces belief in separation. Fear is a sharply occurring illusion. Every fearful experience is useful only to remind us that the peace of God is real truth. So, with practice, fear becomes a signal that a fractured ego mind-like-experience is really a call for help and a need for healing, peaceful faith.

The ego cannot understand the difference between real and unreal. With practice, peaceful faith will remove the habits of fear and fearful thoughts. So, if we practice using the opening statement we’ll understand and remember that only Love is real, no matter what sensations or images appear. Consciously return to the serene peacefulness of faith. Practice reinforces our enthusiasm and motivation for continuing training and studying the Course.
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1 “A Course in Miracles” Foundation for A Course in Miracles. Web. 06 May 2016. <facim.org/what-is-acim.aspx>
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Any level student / teacher will be welcome. The training sessions cover all 31 chapters, the Song Of Payer, and the Manual for Teachers. Students will have the reading assignments and online resources before each session. There are no fees or expectations. My main objective is to extend joy and to promote discovering serenity, honesty, openness and comfortable willingness to advance in spiritual growth.

I’m On Facebook 
( >  Inner Cosmos Public Group  < )
Is there a science of consciousness?

Thanks for visiting with me.

  Eric

See also:

• morning Meditation
• Happiness: Self-acceptance
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
• Looking at yourself honestly – Gratitude
• Spiritual Laws of Success
• Mindfulness – it is improving us
• we exchange energy – always
• listen with compassion
• your eMotion matters

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A Course In Miracles (training and discussions)

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A Course In Miracles, ACIM Zoom

A Course In Miracles (discussions)

The Course is a system of mind training is what it really is. Its main objective is to reduce fearful thinking and guilt and to promote forgiveness, kindness, healing and inner peace. It is easy going.  Students typically share with me that the course opens them to joyfully experiencing and practicing loving kindness. You might begin with this video introduction, <‘What It Says’>.

Anyone may join weekly meetings.
7-8:15 pm (USA Eastern times) Saturdays… My email, eric.samsung.email@gmail.com

Any level student will be welcome. There is no charge. From A Course In Miracles, let’s examine the opening statements:

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course in Miracles makes a distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception. Divine “Knowledge” is truth, under one law, the law of Love. “Truth” is unalterable, eternal and unambiguous. Truth might be unrecognized, but it will not be changed. Truth applies to everything that God created, and only what God created is real and true. This is beyond learning because it is beyond time and beyond the limited awareness of processing thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

Truth has no opposite; no beginning and no end. Truth is real, unchanging and it is the serene peace of faithfulness.

“It is particularly helpful to remember applying it when we read in the news about such fearful things as terrorist attacks. If there is anything that seems frightening to us, we can remember this opening statement and it can remind us again that we need not make illusions of attack and death real in our mind. We can return to the Truth. It is our choice. We need not make the sharp edged children’s toys of belief in separation real in our mind. We can ask the Holy Spirit for a different way to see what seems to be in front of us. The Holy Spirit reminds us that there is only Love or a call for Love. And no matter which it is, the appropriate response is Love.”

Fear originates from fractured ego mind-like-experiences. An experience of fear is an experience that reinforces belief in separation. Fear is a sharply occurring illusion. Every fearful experience is useful only to remind us that the peace of God is real truth. So, with practice, fear becomes a signal that a fractured ego mind-like-experience is really a call for help and a need for healing, peaceful faith.

The ego cannot understand the difference between real and unreal. With practice, peaceful faith will remove the habits of fear and fearful thoughts. So, if we practice using the opening statement we’ll understand and remember that only Love is real, no matter what sensations or images appear. Consciously return to the serene peacefulness of faith. Practice reinforces our enthusiasm and motivation for continuing training and studying the Course.
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“A Course in Miracles” Foundation for A Course in Miracles. <facim.org/what-is-acim.aspx>
.My main objective is to extend joy and to promote discovering serenity, honesty, openness and comfortable willingness to advance in spiritual growth.

I’m On Facebook (every day)
( >  Inner Cosmos Public Group  < )
Is there a science of consciousness?

Thanks for visiting with me.

  Eric

See also:

• Empath Support
• morning Meditation
• Happiness: Self-acceptance
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
• Looking at yourself honestly – Gratitude
• Spiritual Laws of Success
• Mindfulness – it is improving us
• we exchange energy – always
• listen with compassion
• your eMotion matters

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Awareness

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awareness, Rupert Spira

Practice recalling that love knows being loving.

What is Awareness:
Being the presence of that which is aware.

 

How Awareness Sees:
Experience comes to us, in one awareness.

 

The Absolute Certainty Of Awareness
The suggestion that Awareness does not know itself is an expression of ignorance.

 

Awareness Cannot Know Fear:
If we want to live without fear we have to learn that awareness cannot know resistance.

 

Love Turns Attention Towards Home:
Awareness is serene. . . is the still loving, knowing space.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 Eric 

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Imagination creates reality

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Eternal States, Imagination creates reality, Neville Goddard, Rita Cragwall

Reblog: Experiences Using The Law, Rita Cragwall

“One night I put my head down on the table where the computer sat and I cried; I just want to know what creates reality. How did I do this to myself? I accidentally hit the enter key and there it was, a quote from Neville Goddard; “Imagination creates reality” and I burst into tears of relief. I knew instantly that was true. My life passed by and I saw all the things I had called to me. I knew it was true.”

>more< Experiences Using The Law >more<

I recently decided to retire from the hustle and bustle life. I have a comfortable enough life and I am happy, especially, on the inside. I have a mission. I want to share my joys and experiences, to extend joy, and to increase happiness and abundance in joy.

I came upon Neville Goddard a few years ago, similar to how Rita (above) describes her discovery. Now, I have time to listen to Neville’s lectures and read about his life and his accomplishmens. He was a teacher, as am I. He discovered a personal importance of imagination and spirituality, as do I.

I’d come upon his work, probably 10 years ago. I listened to some of the lectures and I liked his message. He was addressing some of my doubts about the ‘law of attraction’ teachings that were popular at the time. Neville was clearly saying that our imagination and our genuine abilities are activated when we connect with our divine nature.

I’ll have more to say about him in the future. Meantime, here is a brief introduction.

Neville Goddard

Neville Lancelot Goddard (1905-1972) was a prophet, profoundly influential teacher, and author. He did not associate himself as a metaphysician, with any ‘ism’ or ‘New Thought’ teaching as commonly advertised by these collective groups. Goddard was sent to illustrate the teachings of psychological truth intended in the Biblical teachings, and restore awareness of meaning to what the ancients intended to tell the world.

Neville Goddard : Eternal States (transcript)

Program description
This is a reading of a 09-09-1968 lecture by Neville . There is only a TEXT version of this lecture by Neville’s students. We now offer a read audio version of this lecture to you.

Related: Neville Goddard Wiki

I’ve been wanting to get back here again, posting blog updates, articles, and recommendations for self-improvement. So, I’ll look forward to connecting more often again with my WordPress friends.

I’m On Facebook (every day)
( >  Inner Cosmos Public Group  < )
Is there a science of consciousness?

Thanks for visiting with me.

  Eric

See also:

• Empath Support
• morning Meditation
• Happiness: Self-acceptance
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
• Looking at yourself honestly – Gratitude
• Spiritual Laws of Success
• Mindfulness – it is improving us
• we exchange energy – always
• listen with compassion
• your eMotion matters

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Empath Support

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emotional support, Empath, empathy, The Empath Haven

Empathy is the ability to see the world as another person, to share and understand another person’s feelings, needs, concerns and/or emotional state… understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another… not trying to solve the problems of another, the goal being to share the experiences of feelings; to let them know you’re there and that how they feel matters to you.

Being an empath is much more than being highly sensitive and it’s not just limited to emotions. Sometimes life is unconsciously influenced by others’ desires, wishes, thoughts, and moods.

If sensitivity is a deficiency and a burden, we become weary, needy and very vulnerable… retracting joy into fears and upsets… and self-destructive harm. At this layer of development, the adolescent or adult empath will model co-dependent behaviors… children that are not growing up in an openly accepting loving home may begin modeling co-dependent behaviors before even two years old.

All of us need strong, healthy community supports, shared language at these, and empaths may need to have opportunities to unload the burden of fatigue and emotional upset. With belonging, progress to cultivate personal preferences and learned practices that increase healthy social interaction within the support community. This will strengthen mind, body, extend calm and help remaining grounded.

Empaths need not resign themselves to belief founded on anxiety or past emotional upsets that they must suffer the consequences of a tel-empathic interaction. With guidance from adepts, you may even begin to alter the mood and emotion of others… adjusting them into your calm. Insecurity and immaturity, lack of awareness, inappropriate co-dependent behaviors, use of manipulation, psychosocial drams, etc. can be addressed.

A happy empath extends joy. The ability to perform so, to extend joy always reduces any vulnerabilities.

<Empath support (The Empath Haven) on Facebook>

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Related:

 

• morning Meditation
• Happiness: Self-acceptance
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
• Looking at yourself honestly – Gratitude
• Spiritual Laws of Success
• Mindfulness – it is improving us
• we exchange energy – always
• listen with compassion
• your eMotion matters

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The World is Only Reflecting Back to You What You Are

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Inspirational, Nikki Sapp, postive thinking

What if (I ask this seriously) our minds are the surroundings? Happiness is a wondrous achievement that seeks us. Striving instead for pleasure is the greatest sin against one’s self. How shall I perceive this world? It’s my choice, isn’t it.”

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The Awakening of the Self

The awakening of the self is to a new and more active plane of being; new and more personal relationships with reality; new and more work which it will accomplish. It is the transcendent in the physical plane; the shifting of consciousness from lower to higher levels. This awakening places a person in a higher order of reality, past the instincts of self-preservation. Larger consciousness impresses the individual consciousness and alters the attitude regarding the world and reality. It is a momentous change of tastes regarding life itself.

“You can quite literally measure how well you are doing in your spiritual journey or personal development by focusing on your perception of the world and of others. When our light within grows we stop resonating with the “shadow” parts of the world and actually don’t see things from this perspective any longer.” 

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Aligned, Inspired and Rich with Love

Have you ever noticed that happy, peaceful people seem to see a world that is becoming more loving, accepting and open minded? And people who seem to be negative or are always complaining about things seem to be convinced that this world is “going to hell in a handbasket.” Why do you think that is? What many do not realize is that the world is only a reflection of our inner world. The more shadow we have in our emotional and mental body the more shadow we see in the world. You can quite literally measure how well you are doing in your spiritual journey or personal development by focusing on your perception of the world and of others. When our light within grows we stop resonating with the “shadow” parts of the world and actually don’t see things from this perspective any longer. While some may say this is…

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Living Happily

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10 Principles for Success and Inner Peace, B4Peace, Don't die with your music still in you, embrace silence, forgive, Forgiveness, free mindfulness exercises, Give Up Your Personal History, Have a Mind That Is Open to Everything and Attached to Nothing, life is beautiful, Love without resentment, Principles for Success, success, Treasure Your Divinity, Treat Yourself As If You Already Were What You'd Like to Become, Wayne Dyer, Wisdom Is Avoiding All Thoughts Which Weaken You, You Can't Solve a Problem with the Same Mind That Created It, You can’t give away what you don’t have

“Authentic wisdom is the ability to monitor yourself at all times to determine your relative state of weakness or strength, and to shift out of those thoughts that weaken you.” Wayne Dyer, 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

I was reflecting on authenticity and that as I am out and about or busy with my work that the love that I seek is not really Love… but that it is a state of consciousness in my mind and that it really is based on body sensations and notions, however subtle,  that are not true and wholesome like the ideal of love. True love does not come and go and it cannot be found in the world and as I stayed with this, with the stillness, I knew love cannot be found one moment and then lost in another. This presence with Love is timeless, without objects and it might be characterized, although there are no properties in the stillness, I’m saying it is a Self-knowing, Self-recognizing peaceful and serene consciousness of I know this awareness.. a consciousness I recall the experience of as like I’d been in a deep sleep and it is refreshing like a deep object-less sleep.

Wayne Dyer – Excuses Be Gone:

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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we are holographic

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Cellular.Eric, Gregg Braden, Karpman Drama Triangle, seven mirror patterns, Victim Rescuer Persecutor

Inner Work 

Mirror Work

Inner Work 

“we are holographic”  

John Wheeler demonstrated “the universe is a self-referential ‘strange loop’ in which physics gives rise to observers, then rise to information, which in turn gives rise to physics.” What we find here is something quite similar. We’ll discover that mirror relationships create a strange loop as well. An observation changes the perceiving when we focus upon the lessons, changes the information, changes the relationship, changes the information, changes the evolution, changes the observers, changes the physics. 

Within, consciousness is fractal-holographic to the exact same awareness and health and state of mind in our every fiber as the mind is aligned. It is as though the past is healed when we heal an emotional wound in the present. THIS IS TRUE: When a pattern occurs in the present and it is healed, the pattern is healed throughout the past… everywhere.

David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics, overall worldview, and Special Relativity use what he referred to as the holomovement. Holomovement is “undivided wholeness” in process of becoming by “universal flux” not static oneness. By dynamic wholeness-in-motion, everything moves with an interconnectedness as though separared in space and time and yet is always every thing connected with everything else. Bohm expanded his ideas in his book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980. He included this in Special Relativity afterwards in 1981.

In this note (post), I include a course for you in holo-mirror, holo-movement. This is VERY POWERFUL work as this video demonstrates:

At 13:41 Gregg presents a graphic with a list of the seven mirrors:

1. Mirror of the Moment

2. Mirror of that which is Judged

3. Mirror of that which is Lost/Given Away/Taken Away

4. Mirror of Most Forgotten Love

5. Mirror of Father/Mother

6. Mirror of Your Quest into Darkness

7. Mirror of Self Perception

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— everyone is a mirror —

every important person is an important mirror

— this always applies —

every important person is an important mirror

— everyone is a mirror —

seven mirror patterns

The First Mirror is my presence in the now moment… what we reflect by others in the present… what we radiate in the moment.

The Second Mirror is only very subtlety different but it reflects back to us that which we judge. It is what we have been wounded by and have an emotional charge on. It can be something we have done in the past that we have not forgiven. It is good to discern however that when we condemn another with an emotional charge we are most likely judging ourselves. This mirror is more difficult to understand as most people find it difficult to see the deeply wounded emotions within. We often think we have forgiven people and situations, when in fact they weaved subtlety into the very fabric of our being.

The Third Mirror reflects back to us something we have lost, given away or had taken away. When we see something we love in another it is often something we have lost, given away or that has been stolen within our personal lives. Every relationship is a relationship with the self and often we try to reclaim what we lost, gave away or had taken away as a child. All of which can be reclaimed within self. When we give away our power to another person, we suffer a form of soul loss, without realizing we send out a subtle frequency that others can feel, if they are experiencing the same energy loss, you will attract the same pattern of behavior back to you.

The Fourth Mirror reflects back to us our most forgotten love. This could be a way of life, or a lost or unfinished relationship. Often it is a past life where a wrong conclusion from a prior experience was made. These will recreate themselves over and over and over again until the conclusion is registered in the soul as wisdom. This is the most difficult to come to terms with as we all have made these sort of choices in our life, to leave someone, a place or much loved home, the pain of such a decision will imprint upon the soul or body hologram, once the lesson has been recognized you no longer attract these circumstances to you.

The Fifth Mirror reflects back Father/Mother. It is frequently stated that we marry our father or mother. We may display both healthy and unhealthy patterns we learned as a child. Our father and mother are often like Gods to us and so we will often reflect aspects of our relationship with them onto our partners. We often choose our partners based on our relationship with our parents.

The Sixth Mirror reflects back to us the Quest for Darkness or what is often referred to as a dark night of the soul. This is where we meet our greatest challenges, our greatest fears, and have been gathering the tools from life to confront and deal with. The most important thing to remember is that our soul is giving us the opportunity to grow and evolve, this will help us remove the vibration of victim. If we see these as opportunities for spiritual growth and from a perspective of soul advancement, they do not have to be feared; it is just passing through our life, asking us to seek answers from within rather than relying on others for answers.

The Seventh Mirror reflects back to us our self-perception. Others will perceive and treat us according to how we perceive and treat ourselves. If we are under a low self-esteem and do not accept our wisdom and beauty, others will not acknowledge them. If we are angry, bitter and unloving to others, they in turn will often react in the same way towards us. If we find another perception of ourselves, we alter the world. Maybe it is time to be kind, loving and compassionate with ourselves and others.

Combine mirror work with asking yourself… “Am I playing a role?” If you can recognize that you or the other is playing a role as Victim, Rescuer, or Persecutor, you will be able to accomplish far easier use of the mirror lessons.

If you have time, visit me on Facebook:

The Enlightened Victim, June 5, 2015

Self-mastery skills in 5 minutes for a life changer overhaul
of Victim, Rescuer, Persecutor – Karpman Drama Triangle

This Essene work is tremendously powerful but very subtle.

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Pay close attention to the training.

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The ancient Essene had a very sophisticated understanding of interpersonal human relationships and the role of emotion in those relationships. It’s the role of emotion that we have carefully sifted out of our Western experience up until very recently. Now, as we go back into these texts, we see that it is emotion that proves the power and, when coupled with logic, true magic and miracles occur.

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Qualities that we see in the people around us are directly related to our own traits that attract the mirroring others.

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

I’m on Facebook. If you are using Facebook, check out my
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2015 – resolutions

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Advice, Chuang Tzu, Exploring the Essence of Love, Gratitude, Krishnamurti, mentoring, New Year’s Resolution, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

New Year’s Resolutions
Being LOVE sending LOVE as best we are able…

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I always make a set of resolutions for a new year and I always keep them… I am quite sensitive to being sure that I can keep my resolutions by making progress, not by perfection. One part of my resolutions this year is to make better use of social media. I want to continue my personal growth and use what I discovered in these past years as a blogger as good experience for my own personal growth. I’ve learned a lot about myself through blogging. I use what is best for me and I move on in growth to process what you guys say I can do to improve me. I post what I discover and it may therefore be helpful to you. We need each other. [Note: I use Facebook more so also now because I am making faster progress there.]

In past years, going back to the first time I used social media to help me at making a resolution, I set out for a year to eliminate regrets; well, more specifically, to rid myself of discontented futile regrets… having no regrets seemed far too difficult. So, I set myself out to dismantle the regrets of my past. I hope to write about eliminating futile regrets in the future. It was quite a useful and positive resolution for me.

This morning, I read advice posted via Doug Christman. The blog post included a quotation that I loved.

“The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves.”

~ Chuang Tzu

The blog post is linked below.
I like the advice in this post as well. The advice relates to using social media and to self-discovery. I want to add some commentary. My hope is that I will complete my own making of yet another perfect resolution (for me) in time for 2015. I’m getting closer.
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Here is some of what I think that the article may do for improving upon a solution. The post makes reference to social media as though using social media is a problem. Possibly it is a symptom of suffering. However, I think using social media is for me a tremendous blessing. Also, the post addresses suffering from relating with others – what I call ‘over relating’ with others.

First, problems themselves are not the source of suffering from over relating with others. Lack of a cohesive spiritual evolve-ment is the problem of mental suffering – over relating with others is a symptom. Using social media as an escape for interpersonal relating in the real world certainly is not solution. The suffering in the real world continues or changes but continues and it is likely to somehow also inject its pain into our social media use.

We tend to want to control others rather than our own reactions – however, relating requires giving of consideration and being understanding. Listing a set of prescriptive resolutions that are reactive isn’t a solution. We’d end up with New Year resolutions that crumble and fail in the first hours of 2015 if there isn’t a spiritual solution in the lessons. I’ll stick for this post to the advice as was listed in the blog post.

1. Spend less time on social media and get back to real life.
This is probably not a solution for anyone that is feeling a lack of self-esteem and general good feeling about themselves. Instead, use daily interactions to improve relationships. The situations that cause upsets or low energy are symptoms of suffering that may be going unnoticed if we’d not have a reason for using our time more wisely. Perhaps use social media less. However, making use of social media to accomplish goals and to connect with experts and to learn about self-awareness is a better use of social media.

2. Stop worrying about how other people view you.
Good advice! People that cook up dramatic representations – of their victim stories – of pain and suffering – of what (they say) is being done to them – believe they have a need to vent or get justice or to change the other guys. Meantime it may go unnoticed internally… they are the source of their own discontent… of their own irritability… and of their own restless complaining. They need help; and yet, they don’t know how to seek and receive the help that they desperately need. Getting in a mentoring program and recovery from processing themselves as the abused victim is a step into personal freedom from worrying about how others may be understood. Seek to understand more so than to be understood… find mentors that understand how this works.

3. Stop listening to other people’s views and advice on what you ought to be doing. I like the advice: “Just listen to your own inner voice and intuition.” However, we are not the masters of the universe. The advice included, as well, “Use your own divine “Global Positioning System (GPS)” for where you need to be and what you need to be doing. You will find that you will feel so much more connected and you will embrace your life with a positive and optimistic perspective.” I’ll add that if advice is a source for suffering, then perhaps the suffering really is internally generated by rebelliousness and instincts that are over working and undermining the relationships. 

I like the fourth one, as is.
In fact, it really may be the key point of blog posted list.

4. Focus on your own goals, desires and wishes. Consider what you’re doing or what you should be doing, and then do that. Don’t worry about what other people are doing. Mind your own business. You need to stay focused and always know what is worth keeping in your mental toolbox and what would be worth pitching. Ask your Higher Self for guidance. Spend your time thinking and doing things that are helping you be happy, healthy and in harmony with your true authentic self.

Do you make New Year resolutions? Are they helpful and doable? What might you add to this topic on resolutions?

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Here is another source that I looked at;
helping me as I set out this year-end
to make a New Year’s resolution:

This Saturday morning (1/3/2015), I will be joining a mentoring the mentor group. It was my desire to form one this year and I was unable to do so. However, last week, a mentor asked me to mentor him and I felt inspired to ask him if we could do our work together with another mentor associate of our mutual acquaintance. He agreed and so did the other man… and so, it got set into motion. I am very happy about this development. I know we will all reap benefits from this work with each other.

My blogging here on WordPress is much less since August. In 2015, I probably will post here only 3-7 times each month and additionally, I will continue to also reblog posts that I love. My contact page is the best source for getting in touch with me if we haven’t already created a way that works for doing this..

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

 

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A Virus Called Fear

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AWARE acronym, awareness, Fear and anxiety, serenity

Awareness:
Turning off
A Virus Called Fear

Fear and anxiety thrive when we imagine the worst.
Breathing is the short circuit for anxiety.
Focus on inner peace and stillness.

Seek becoming greater aware.

AWARE
an acronym:

A: Accept the anxiety. Don’t try to fight it.

W: Watch the anxiety. Just watch it like it is being projected onto a screen, and when you notice it, scale your level of fear and start to breathe longer on the out-breath.

A: Act normally. Carry on talking or behaving as if nothing is different. This sends a powerful signal to your unconscious mind that its over-dramatic response is actually not needed because nothing that unusual is going on. 

R: Repeat the above steps in your mind if necessary. Repeat until the fear is not stressful and until you feel relaxed about whatever you choose to do next.

E: Expect the best. One of the greatest feelings in life is the realization that you can control fear much more than you thought possible.

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Most people are often in a state being preoccupied… forgetful of inner peace (true self); not really present at least during some of their time. Is your mind caught-up sometimes by worries, fears, by regrets, anger, by obsession? That is the state of “being forgetfulness” — here but, not here…. Caught-up by being preoccupied.

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Thanks for visiting.

 

 Eric

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The sky is not the limit (reblog)

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Inese Poga gallery

painting fun

Awareness dawns in the matrix

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A guide to personal freedom, B4Peace, Bruce McGill, Dawn of the Heart, Disengaging from the matrix, Harold W. Becker, Lynn Collins, Michael Ealy, Sylvia Boorstein, Teal Swan, Unconditional Love

“Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.”
~ Lao Tzu

A guide to personal freedom …
disengaging from the matrix.

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Awareness

Step 1
Awakening free will and personal freedom

I’ll borrow from Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. If you have time to ponder this, you may agree: “For non-conformity, the world whips you with its displeasure.” It may seem as “clapped into jail by his own consciousness.” Personal fulfillment requires disengaging from society and embracing physical and intellectual solitude … “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members,” Emerson argues. Let us not cease making progress. There is a way to accept what is and be free.

Step 2
Being Loving Kindness

Loving-kindness meditation practice is mindfully practicing kindness for positive growth; practicing systematically developing qualities of loving-acceptance. Loving-kindness acts as a form of self-psychotherapy, a way of healing the troubled mind to free it from its pain and confusion. Loving-kindness has the immediate benefit of sweetening patterns of mind.

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Step 3
Unconditional Love

Now, join Harold W. Becker as he hosts this hour long powerful presentation of inspiration and insight on how to become aware of, embrace and experience unconditional love throughout your life.

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Through this easy to follow, practical and simple guide, Harold builds a foundation of understanding with the Fundamentals of Life, Unconditional Love, and Dawn of the Heart. His unique definition of unconditional love as “an unlimited way of being” allows you to find new levels of personal freedom. Learn the basics of who you are, how you think and feel, and why love is the transformative element for positive change. The program includes a beautiful guided visualization and concludes with an uplifting vision for the future of this planet. Written and created by Harold and produced as a national PBS television special in 1997 with WLRN-Miami. This video has been digitally re-mastered and also made available as a DVD. For more information on this program by Harold W. Becker, please visit: www.internalinsights.com or www.thelovefoundation.com ©1997, 2007, Harold W. Becker.

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Elevating Spiritual Intelligence

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Experiences – perceiving … cells and intelligence … spiritual progress …

Marianne Williamson dives into some of the world’s greatest challenges and the concept of how our global society is experiencing a global mutation. The points she makes will motivate you to think of what we can do—and think—as a collective unit, to overcome society’s challenges, heal our spiritual malignancies, and thrive through this global shift.

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Believe and Transform Your Own Biology

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Epigenetics is a foundational Frontier Science for Positive Human Evolution.

The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology. Theories of evolution and genetics have long taught that genetic mutation is entirely beyond our control. However, genetics has been gradually discovering that we may establish that some self-directed biological transformations occur.

Scientific evidence clearly is demonstrating that emotions effect health, job performance, relationships and much more. You are what you feel and think.

Author Dr. Bruce H. Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and those of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the mechanisms by which cells receive and process information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic feeling messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Liptons’s profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough, showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.

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Program Description
Through the research of Dr Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species. This paperback edition of The Biology of Belief fully updates and revises the material from the bestselling original edition, and adds material in the light of the seismic effect the book has had.

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Journal Articles (PDF downloads)

1. Effects of an 8-Week Meditation Program on Mood and Anxiety in Patients With Memory Loss
2. The Neuroscientific Study of Religious and Spiritual Phenomena
3. A Preliminary Study of the Acute Effects of Religious Ritual on Anxiety
4. Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Associated With Different Meditation Practices and Perceived Depth of Meditation
5. Cerebral Blood Flow During Meditative Prayer
6. Putting the Mystical Mind Together
7. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies in Mood Disorders

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Look beyond fear

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Children Of Light

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Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world’s leading spiritual teachers, is a man at great peace even as he predicts the possible collapse of civilisation within 100 years as a result of runaway climate change.

The 86-year-old Vietnamese monk, who has hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, believes the reason most people are not responding to the threat of global warming, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, is that they are unable to save themselves from their own personal suffering, never mind worry about the plight of Mother Earth.

Thay, as he is known, says it is possible to be at peace if you pierce through our false reality, which is based on the idea of life and death, to touch the ultimate dimension in Buddhist thinking, in which energy cannot be created or destroyed.

By recognising the inter-connectedness of all life, we can move beyond the…

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Free Learning

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Top Notch Education
ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATIONS

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Open Yale Courses (English) – Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet.

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students – These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work.

MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies – The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies gives students the opportunity to learn the techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry, science writing, scientific and technical communication and digital media.

Merriam-Webster Online – In this digital age, your ability to communicate with written English is paramount skill. And M-W.com is the perfect resource to improve your English now.

National Novel Writing Month – Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

Lifewriting – A complete text of the 9-week writing class a professor taught for years at UCLA.

Guide to Grammar and Writing – Grammar and writing techniques, lessons and quizzes.

Purdue Online Writing Lab – Over 200 free resources including lessons on: writing, research, grammar, and style guides.

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What is Self? part one

What is Self? part two

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What is Self? part two

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awareness, B4Peace, Global Consciousness, God, Humanity Healing, Living Consciously, Living Purposefully, Love your neighbor as yourself, Nathaniel Branden, Personal Integrity, Ripples of Loving-Kindness, Ripples of Peace, Self-acceptance, Self-Assertiveness, Self-Responsibility, Spiritual Laws of Success, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Part Two on Self-Esteem

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The practice of living consciously is the first pillar of self-esteem. 

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Look at the area where your life is working least satisfactorily. Self-esteem may increase in direct correlation to professionalism.  That is, your ability to represent yourself appropriately, perform on the job and be a person with whom others can relate, is an indication of success in whatever you choose to do.

Upon honest self-examination, notice that you tend to be more conscious in some areas of our life than in others. According to Nathaniel Brandon, author of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, “What determines the level of self-esteem is what the individual does.”

Branden continues by saying: “A ‘practice’ implies a discipline of acting in a certain way over and over again—consistently. It is not action by fits and starts, or even an appropriate response to a crisis. Rather, it is a way of operating day by day, in big issues and small, a way of behaving that is also a way of being.”

For improving self, try using a sentence stem like “Living consciously to me means…” and create 6-10 completions of that sentence. 

The most widely accepted definition is that of Nathaniel Branden, who defines healthy self-esteem as “the disposition to experience oneself as competent to cope with life’s challenges and being worthy of happiness.” (1994) This definition implies not only being worthy of respect, but also as having the basic skills and competencies required to be successful in life. Studies show that people with low self-esteem have more poorly defined self-concepts (Baumeister, 1993). Also, we must like, respect, and love ourselves before we can maintain loving kindness for others or respect for property.

Related PDF articles available: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeisterticelab/pdfmail.php

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Part One on Self-Esteem

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
by Nathaniel Branden

1. The Practice of Living Consciously
2. The Practice of Self-Acceptance
3. The Practice of Self-Responsibility
4. The Practice of Self-Assertiveness
5. The Practice of Living Purposefully
6. The Practice of Personal Integrity

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“Acceptance and self-love fit together like a hand into a glove… without acceptance of what is there is a rebelliousness of mind and self-love being thereby impossible, a person is without the deepest appreciation there is and thus helpless and powerless over a life that is tipping toward out of control.”

“What’s the point in your life ? Maybe you want to be rich, popular, socially powerful, … And if this is the wrong way… And finally the only thing you need is to know who you really are deep inside.”

“Self-acceptance could be the key to a happier life, yet it’s the happy habit many people practice the least.”

“It can be difficult when we’re faced with ideas that challenge our own and, though we may wish to be open-minded, we may struggle with the act of it from time to time.”

“We devise and cling on to fairy tales of supposed happiness. We hold on also to futile regrets. Its time to let go and to focus instead on what is actually happening; without judgment.”

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What is Self? part one

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Part One on Self-Esteem

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
by Nathaniel Branden

1. The Practice of Living Consciously
2. The Practice of Self-Acceptance
3. The Practice of Self-Responsibility
4. The Practice of Self-Assertiveness
5. The Practice of Living Purposefully
6. The Practice of Personal Integrity

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Branden introduces the six pillars — six action-based practices for daily living — providing a foundation for self-esteem and explores the central importance of self-esteem in the five areas of the workplace, parenting, education, psychotherapy, and the culture at large.

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No one may be successful if bypassing their basic needs for self-esteem. The ego is not a thing to fight against. It is not even available for debate. The ego is a sense of needs that we may mistakenly believe is the self. However, by opening to greater self-awareness, we come to understand that the ego is just a function of temporary needs messages. I hope that this program and the related links are helpful. I know I attain growth by reviewing of these basic life skills.

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“Acceptance and self-love fit together like a hand into a glove… without acceptance of what is there is a rebelliousness of mind and self-love being thereby impossible, a person is without the deepest appreciation there is and thus helpless and powerless over a life that is tipping toward out of control.”

“What’s the point in your life ? Maybe you want to be rich, popular, socially powerful, … And if this is the wrong way… And finally the only thing you need is to know who you really are deep inside.”

“Self-acceptance could be the key to a happier life, yet it’s the happy habit many people practice the least.”

“It can be difficult when we’re faced with ideas that challenge our own and, though we may wish to be open-minded, we may struggle with the act of it from time to time.”

“We devise and cling on to fairy tales of supposed happiness. We hold on also to futile regrets. Its time to let go and to focus instead on what is actually happening; without judgment.”

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Meditation and Energy; Power up your Brain

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This time, I want to share a video that delves into what people are saying about their progress of evolving by meditations – it ought probably give us a sense that meditation is a system, sure; beneficial too, yes; but also that meditating is very personally experienced.

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Meditation and the Power of the Mind – YouTube
Published on May 2, 2012 A documentary that explores the practice of meditation and it’s effect on the mind and body.

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Meditation Changes Brains!

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Living to be 100

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Dan Buettner How to live to be 100+

To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

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For the the last five years, I’ve been taking teams of scientists to five pockets around the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives. We call these places the Blue Zones. We found a Bronze-age mountain culture in Sardinia, Italy, that has 20 times as many 100-year-olds as the U.S. does, proportionally. In Okinawa, Japan, we found people with the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world. In the Blue Zones (Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda, Calif.; and the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica), people live 10 years longer, experience a sixth the rate of cardiovascular disease and a fifth the rate of major cancers.

How do they do it? Forget fad diets, crazy workouts and syrupy self help cliches. The world’s longevity all-stars practice simple, common-sense habits as a natural part of their daily routine. We think of these habits as the Power-9:

1) Move naturally — be active without thinking about it. Identify activities you enjoy and make them a part of your day.

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
• Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
• Walk! Nearly all the centenarians we’ve talked to take a walk every day.

2) Cut calories by 20 percent. Practice “Hara hachi bi,” the Okinawan reminder to stop eating once their stomachs are 80 percent full.

• Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
• Use smaller plates, plates, bowls, and glasses.
• Sit and eat not in the car or standing in front of the fridge.

3) Plant-based diet. No, you don’t need to become a vegetarian, but do bump up your intake of fruits and veggies.

• Use beans, rice or tofu as the anchor to your meals.
• Eat nuts! Have a 2-ounce handful of nuts daily (it’ll stop you from digging in the chip bag).

4) Drink red wine (in moderation)

• Keep a bottle of red wine near your dinner table.
• Keep the daily intake to two servings or less.

5) Plan de Vida: determine your life purpose. Why do you get up in the morning?

• Write your own personal mission statement.
• Take up a new challenge learn a language or an instrument.

6) Down shift — take time to relieve stress. You may have to literally schedule it into your day, but relaxation is key.

• Don’t rush – plan on being 15 minutes early.
• Cut out the noise – limit time spent with the television, computer, or radio on.

7) Belong / participate in a spiritual community.

• Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
• Seek out a new spiritual or religious tradition.

8) Put loved ones first / make family a priority.

• Establish family rituals (game night, family walks, Sunday dinners).
• Show it off: create a place for family pictures and souvenirs that shows how you’re all connected.
• Get closer: consider downsizing to a smaller home to promote togetherness.

9) Pick the right tribe — the people surrounding you influence your health more than almost any other factor. Be surrounded by those who share Blue Zone values

• Identify your inner circle. Reconsider ties to people who bring you down.
• Be likable!

Sound too simple? Remember, simple doesn’t mean easy; I don’t recommend trying to change all these behaviors at once. Pick two or three of the Power-9 to work on at a time. Research has shown that if you can sustain a behavioral change for six weeks, you should be able to sustain it for the rest of your life. Which, as the world’s centenarians have shown us, should be a long, long time.

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 Eric

Need help or want to collaborate with me? Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

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