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Inner Power!
A Simple Path to Personal Mastery
Robert Morgen
ii Awaken Your Inner Power
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Dedication
For Anya, for standing by me when it didn’t make any sense.
For Jake for being so much fun.
For my sister Karen, for all the years of wondering what was
wrong with me. ☺
For Andy for being so cool.
For Glenn Morris for making things make sense, even when it
hurt (a lot ☺).
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to help you make gradual, incremental changes to your life rather than a
shocking spiritual awakening that completely changes who you think you
are.
The Universe functions, in many ways, like a vast computer.
Like any computer it gives you what you ask for, or what you’ve
programmed it for, rather than what you want. Many of the principles in
this book will help you take control of that programming. Like many
programs, yours can run automatically once you know how the system
works and what you want to accomplish.
The Human Energy System is a fascinating piece of bio-
technology and we’re fortunate to live in a time when science and
spirituality are becoming sister sciences. Scientists have now proven
beyond a doubt that everything in the universe is connected and we as
observers/participators have much more control over our lives than we
ever believed possible.
The concepts in the first part of the book will help you get your
head around what this means to you on a personal level. After that we
move into meditation and energy work. This section will help you
develop and increase your energy levels, primarily by showing you how
to get out of your own way.
The meditation exercises will help you learn to see and feel
energy as well as move it around in your body and even in other people.
The goal with meditation is to help you reduce the internal and external
resistance to your energy by reducing stress and toxicity. The less
resistance you have the more energy you can use. Take your time with
the meditation exercises. Some of these took me years to learn on my
own and I’ve included links to some free Guided Meditation MP3’s of
some of these exercises that you can download and share with friends.
The Chakra chapter introduces some of the energy vortexes on
your body. Chakra, an ancient Sanskrit word for wheel, refers to an
interface for aspects of your energy, personality and emotions. When
working with the chakras we can take much more control over our lives
while healing deep mental and emotional trauma and even wounds from
past lives. I’ve included enough about chakras to get you started, but this
chapter isn’t meant to be a comprehensive training course. I’ve included
references to some good books for further study.
The Healing chapter that follows will help you balance your
energy and clear more energy blocks. I’ve included instructions for Reiki
and contrary to popular belief you DO NOT need to be ‘attuned’ to Reiki
in order to use it. I’ve proven this repeatedly with my own students and
in classes and seminars. The attunements give you a jump start but if you
use it consistently your body will attune itself. The Reiki exercises here
will help you cleanse and balance your body and energy fields.
The latter part of the book includes more concepts and lessons
I’ve learned the hard way. We’re all a collection of thoughts, feelings
and emotions that may have piled up for years without any cleansing or
direction. Learning to take control of those thoughts, feelings and
especially emotions can give you much more control over your life.
Much of the bio-technology in this book is based in Eastern
sources because that’s what survived the religious purges of the Dark
Ages. I’ve tried to minimize the Eastern terminology as much as possible
but in some cases there are no Western words for the concepts.
While much of what I cover in this book could be called
‘spiritual’ in the sense of ‘dealing with the spirit’ I want to make a point
that this is a bio-technology. This means it’s a technology that’s available
to everyone with a biology, regardless of religion or spiritual path. The
concepts and exercises here can be used by anyone who wants to develop
a better mind/body/spirit connection and done properly will enhance any
spiritual path.
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Chapter 1
What is Inner Power?
our energy leaving us drained and powerless. There are many paths to
increasing your Inner Power and the methods and tools in this book are
by no means the only way.
I’ve used what I’ve learned from studying the Eastern
methodologies primarily because those methodologies survived the
religious persecution suffered by Western energy workers over the last
couple of thousand years. I’ve tried as much as possible to replace the
Eastern terminology, but in some cases there is no good Western
counterpart.
Take your time with the concepts and exercises that follow. I’ve
laid them out in a progression that would have helped me greatly in my
own studies in the hopes that it can trim some years or trials off your
journey.
concepts and exercises in this book will help you take control of that
programming.
Doubt – You can ask for anything you want, but if you doubt
your ability to get it then you block the manifestation of it. This is both a
pain in the butt and a safety. How often, through bad programming, do
we ask for things that are bad for us? Once you decide what you want,
decide that it’s good for you and that you should have it, all you have to
do is know that it’s on the way and allow it to come. The feeling of
doubt is also the feeling of NOT having what you want.
I’ll cover these keys in more detail later on in the book. For now
just keep them in mind.
hate the gym then an hour of dancing will do more for you than 2 hours
in the gym. Exercise, to be effective, has to be a part of your lifestyle,
which is why so many people buy gym memberships that never get used.
Exercise you love can relieve stress, get your lymph moving and
increase the amount of energy you have available. Yoga and Qi Qong are
forms of exercise which help energize and cleanse your meridians
slowly. Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Reiki can do wonders for helping
to cleanse them more rapidly as part of an overall health plan.
Exercise can also do wonders to help your body eliminate
toxins, both organic and environmental. In the modern world it’s
impossible to avoid the toxins in our food and environment and a
healthy, active body will more efficiently eliminate them from your
system.
Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles - Just as energy
can block up in your meridians, it can be blocked by tight muscles.
Stretching and flexibility are about more than being able to kick high.
When a muscle is tight it can’t move and you have to relax it
before you can do anything with it. The more loose and relaxed you can
be the faster and more easily you’ll be able to move.
There’s 2 ways to have more energy, make more or use less –
For now think of your energy levels as you would a bank account. If you
have $100 worth of energy budgeted throughout your day then the more
efficient you can be the more you’ll have left over at the end of the day.
If you start off by spending part of your energy thinking about
the past, and then blow some more thinking about what you don’t want,
and then spend another chunk daydreaming about the future or your
fantasy world then how much is left for the present?
Don’t misunderstand me and think that it’s never ok to
remember the past, think about the future or indulge your imagination.
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Energy is all around you and a part of everything you do. The
more you learn about it and how to use it the more you’ll be able to relax
and allow your will to direct the course of your life. That’s Inner Power.
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Chapter 2
In a Perfect World
If you’re like a lot of people, you have a list of things that you’d
change about your life, if you only had the ability. Well, you do have the
ability right now to take charge of your life and turn every moment of
every day into a miraculous journey beyond anything you've ever
dreamed of, all you need is a shift in perspective. It's ok if you don't
believe me. Come along and prove it for yourself.
Here's the key. Reality as you
know it is the result of everything
you've done up until now. Your Your reality is the
reality is the sum of every moment of sum of every
your life, so if you want to change the
moment of your
reality of your life then you have to
life, so if you want
take control of those moments.
to change the
"Holy Crap!" you might
reality of your life
think. "You mean that I have to be
then you have to
constantly aware of every single thing
take control of
that happens all the time?"
those moments.
Fortunately it's easier than
that. You can put this process on
autopilot just by integrating a few simple principles.
How often have you heard someone say “In a perfect world I’d
be ______.”? Insert whatever you want; rich, smart, male, female, etc ad
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infinitum.
One of my big realizations is that we do live in a Perfect World
in this moment. Whenever I bring that up I get a plethora of
imperfections that people are currently experiencing. War, rape,
violence, taxes, planned obsolescence, Blues Traveler, HMO’s and so on.
We see what we look for. Those who look for strife and conflict
will find it, as will those who look for love and beauty. For those seeking
love and beauty and who have an open mind and heart, I have some
exercises and meditations that can help you along.
Recognizing Perfection
The universe, right now in this moment, is absolutely perfect. It
existed in perfection for billions of years before our earliest ancestor
crawled out of the primordial ooze.
It will exist, in perfection, for untold eons after our last
descendant fades into memory. I’m sure there are those who’d clean up
the Asteroid Belt or get rid of that red spot on Jupiter. I’m sure there are
a couple of galaxies hanging crookedly in the cosmic distance and folks
who would straighten them the way you’d adjust a picture on the wall.
Here’s a curve ball for you;
If the Universe is perfect then everything in it is also perfect. If
everything in the universe is perfect then YOU at this moment, are
absolutely perfect!
Everything about YOU, every pimple or blob of fat or unwanted
hair, is exactly as it’s meant to be in this exact moment! You are a living
example of the perfection of the Universe. All you have to do is accept
that as fact and it will be so.
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judgment or classification.
When you judge, you’re restricting your perceptions of the
event. Mars for example, isn't good or bad. It's only big or small when
we compare it to something else, like Jupiter or your left foot. Take away
the judgment and you'll see that Mars simply IS.
With a little training and a lot of practice anyone can learn to
live in a perfect moment, a moment that simply IS. Once you’ve
experienced that perfect moment then you can start to string those
moments together to create your perfect life.
You’re free to treat others badly, but be aware that the Law of
Reciprocity comes into play and the Universe returns exactly what you
send out.
You’re free to live your life with a negative attitude, but be
aware that the Law of Attraction comes into play and you’ll attract
exactly what you think and feel.
So the idea of BALANCE becomes important. You have a great
degree of Freedom, but also a responsibility to yourself and those around
you. With the above Universal Laws in mind the question becomes
"When I exercise my freedoms am I creating more freedom for myself
and others, or more restriction?" How you answer that question
determines how the people around see you, but not how you see yourself.
My suggestion is that you spend some time looking at the events in your
life from the perspective of freedom or restriction, love or fear.
To experience true growth always requires one to get out of ‘the
comfort zone’, but discomfort isn’t the same as pain and suffering. Your
ability to accept your situation exactly as it is, in this moment, can be the
deciding factor between growth and misery.
Learning to integrate these concepts into your life on a moment
to moment basis can help you put much of what you want to create on
autopilot. This is about changing your programming for how you feel
about everything that happens to you. When you can feel better about all
of your experiences you have the ability to prevent the manifestation of
the ‘bad’ energy that many people feel all the time. Learning to feel
Perfection on a moment to moment basis allows you to make that
Perfection part of your reality. You won’t have to think about it, you can
just DO it.
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Chapter 3
Creating Your World
I believe each of us has the ability to create the world we live in and
change it as we see fit. I base that belief on my personal experience as
well as a growing volume of modern scientific evidence.
I believe we create our world for 2 simple reasons;
Reason #2, more than anything else, is why I subscribe to this belief.
If I’m creating my world then I have the ultimate responsibility for it and
I can change it and adapt it as I wish.
No matter how you feel about responsibility, in order to create your
world you are going to have to accept 100% of the responsibility for
everything you create. There go all your excuses! You can't blame the
system, the dog, the car, the judge or the weather. Who cares if the sun
was in your eyes?
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Until you can accept 100% responsibility for everything that you do
then you are always, always, always going to be giving away your
power to anyone else who wants to take that responsibility away from
you!
you'll probably be able to do it. Most people can learn it in just a few
minutes.
Another scientific fact is that you and the Universe are made of
exactly the same energy. The only differences are perceptual. You
perceive your Self to be separate from the Universe, so therefore you are.
As you begin working with your ego and taking more control over your
life you'll find there is a radical shift in perception in which the blocks
and separations between you and the Universe begin to disappear.
For a long time much of this process has been kept in the realms
of the esoteric and mystical. Teachers have doled out the information
piecemeal over a long period of time partly as a safety measure for their
students. We're fortunate that we live in a time when pretty much all of
this information is available. All you have to do is find a source you like
and start to use the information, with the caveat that the less you know
about what you’re getting into the more drastic the changes you’ll
experience may be.
So with that thought; you have $100 in your energetic bank
account from Chapter 2 and you are doing just fine as you get ready to go
to work and head out the driveway. You get out on the street and
someone cuts you off and you get mad and BANG! There goes $10 out
of your bank.
You just sent part of your energy to that person! If you stay mad
at them you are sending a constant stream of energy and the energy in
your account just keeps draining.
How much time do you spend thinking about events in your
childhood that angered or frightened you? How much time do you spend
mentally arguing with or telling off someone at work? How much time
do you spend worrying about other aspects of your life; that court date or
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those bills? What you think about and feel about is what you create
simply because you are sending the energy for it to manifest!
You've heard that you can't
create something out of nothing. When
you send energy to something you are You already have
in fact, creating it! You are providing all the power you
the building blocks for the need, and no one
manifestation of that which you think can ever take it
about. away from you!
If you send all your energy to
the things that make you angry, or into your past or into your worries,
what do you have left over to use to create CHANGE?
There are other people, and you may be one of them, who are
trying to break out of that restrictive paradigm. I spent the best part of a
decade struggling with this after I realized there were other ways and
other paths I could take.
One of the advantages to connecting to the Universe and
creating your life is that you get feedback. You'll know fairly quickly
whether what you are doing is working and then you can continue
developing your Self in the ways that work best.
When you start giving yourself permission to delete and remove
old vows one of the first things that pops up is the thought 'If I do this is
God going to be angry with me? Am I going to get punished or
blackballed or struck by lightning?'
Sin
If we're going to talk about punishment we have to get into the
subject of sin, otherwise what are we getting punished for? It's a bit like
the Income Tax in the US. There is no Law (let me repeat that!) there is
no Law that says you have to pay income tax. This is relatively easy to
prove and a slight bit of research on your part will turn up a ton of
information on the 16th Amendment and the creation of the Federal
Reserve. However, if you don't pay your taxes the IRS will take
everything you own and put you in prison (welcome to the Land of the
Free).
The concept of sin is a bit like that; except you create your own
prison and you judge and convict yourself.
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You can find the word 'sin' used in various contexts going back
nearly 10,000 years. My early research on sin was experiential, but a bit
of academic research turns up the word in Hinduism where sin or pāpa is
used to describe actions that create
negative karma.
Most forms of the word have You get what you
to do with guilt. The word translated focus on so if
from Greek versions of the Christian
you’re going to
Bible to mean 'sin' means 'to miss the
focus on a sin
mark or target'.
make sure it’s one
If you sin you are without the
you enjoy!
grace of God, or you've missed your
goal of not sinning. Various religions have interesting lists of sins in
order to free their converts from having to think too much about this.
The Universe brings what you focus on and it doesn’t
understand words, so when you think of sin and you have a feeling either
good or bad, the result of that feeling is what you get. That’s why it’s
impossible to stamp out sin, abortion, guns, politicians or anything else
you focus on. You get what you focus on so if you’re going to focus on a
sin make sure it’s one you enjoy!
A key concept in many religions is salvation. You need the
priests/middle men in order to be saved and without them you’ll burn in
eternal damnation. This was a big controversy in the early days of
Christianity. Documents from Jesus’ time (as opposed to the modern
Bible which was created hundreds of years later) show He taught “The
Kingdom of Heaven is within you” and you are responsible for your own
salvation.
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When you take responsibility for creating your world you may
think you have to give up the ability to go to the outside sources when
times get hard. When times get bad you realize YOU have created the
trials you’re going through. It would be so nice at that point to stop and
pray to some outside authority for help.
So many people stick with religion because it answers all the
questions and gives firm guidelines. In hard times you can wrap religion
around you like a warm blanket on a winter night and be comforted.
Everything in the Universe IS you. When we say it’s ALL you
we mean it exactly that way. The Universe is filled with unlimited energy
and you can allow that energy to flow into your physical self simply by
willing it to be so.
If you’re having a tough time remember that all the energy
you’ll ever need is available and you can just ask for it. Our physical
form gives us limits we have to overcome and can make us feel cut off
from the larger energy of the Universe. It may sound contradictory after
some of my rants on religion, but there is a form of higher energy you
can connect with. The route is inside you rather than ‘out there’.
"I don't care if you're a good person or a bad person. If you fall off a
building, you're gonna hit the ground."
There are other Laws you may be familiar with that you haven't
seen put into this same perspective. I can assure you that these Laws are
even more influential on your life than gravity.
The Law of Attraction – The short version is that what you think about,
and more importantly, what you feel, is what you are going to get. You
have the ability to attract anything that you want if you take conscious
control of the process and develop the ability to control what you are
thinking and feeling.
Unfortunately most people spend a lot of time thinking about
what they don't want and feeling things that they don't want to feel, and
then wondering why they keep getting more of that.
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In the 2006 movie 'The Secret' Bob Proctor says it this way; "I
don't care if you're thinking 'get out of debt' or 'get into debt', if you're
thinking about debt that's what you're going to get".
I’ve been shocked by the way people hate this movie, although
I’ve only seen the version with Esther Hicks and I realize that some of
that hatred may be political. Some of the controversy also comes from
some of the people from the movie selling their programs giving you ‘the
missing parts’ of The Secret.
Remember that the Universe is you! You are creating this as you
go and you can open up to unlimited streams of wellbeing if you have a
few simple rules. Jack Canfield points out that the Universe is like a lock
and all you need is the right combination.
Here are the parts of The Law of Attraction. You can complicate
this as much as you want beyond this;
1. Know what you want – contrast exists to show you the
difference between what you want and what you don’t.
2. Ask for what you want, be specific but also leave room to
get more than you asked for – You can say “I want more
money” and the Universe will bring it to you; you’ll find a
penny on the sidewalk. If you want $10,000 then ask for it,
but leave yourself open to get more.
3. Believe you can have it! – This may be the most important
part of the combination. How often do we ask for things we
know we can’t get only to say “This stuff doesn’t work!”?
You have to take the time to build up your belief patterns.
Start small and take little victories on a consistent basis.
4. Be open to receiving – I see so many people who give all the
time but can’t allow themselves to receive. We’ve been cut
off from using this part of the combination by beliefs like
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Belief
Belief plays a huge part in manifestation. You cannot manifest
something that you don’t believe you should have; your subconscious
won’t let it happen. For example, if you hate rich people, your
subconscious will never let you win the lottery or have a lot of money.
You simply cannot become that which you despise at a soul level.
You have to believe in what you ask for and believe that you can
have it and deserve it. There is a safety built into at this level also. Many
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times we ask for the right thing at the wrong time and we know this
subconsciously, hence the non-manifesting.
God-Consciousness
Each of us has a spark of Divinity within. It's that spark that we
are trying to fan into a larger flame and eventually into a bonfire, or at
least a burning bush. There are a lot of names for that spark including
God, the Goddess, Holy Guardian Angel and the Great Spirit.
At the universal level it's all the same thing! It's that little bit of
Divine Energy that propels us through the myriad lifetimes that we spend
trying to learn why we came here when all the time the answers are right
there within us, just waiting for us to knock on the door and ask.
Most of us have been influenced in one way or another by the
Big 3 religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) all of which share a
common root and all of which have been perverted to teach people to
look externally for their answers. I'm not against these religions, or any
others for that matter, but those of us who were heavily indoctrinated into
them usually have to spend quite some time just cleaning that stuff out in
order to get on with finding the real divinity that exists within us rather
than worshipping the power structures that have been created externally.
The route to your Divinity can only be internal. Looking
externally for your Divinity is like going to your next door neighbor and
asking if they’ve seen your liver lying around anywhere. There are a lot
of routes to your specific Divinity and all of them will teach you
something so take time and explore.
At a spiritual level this book is about helping people learn to
connect to that internal Divinity, the God-Force that we all have within
that we simply need to learn to listen to.
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Chapter 4
Closer to Bliss
bliss (bl s)
n.
1. Extreme happiness; ecstasy.
2. The ecstasy of salvation; spiritual joy.
Phrasal Verb:
bliss out Slang
To go into a state of ecstasy.
[Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss, from bl ths, from bl the,
joyful; see blithe.]
”The ability to live each moment with a sense of gratitude and tranquility
and enter into a state in which you’re always happy and bad things
never, ever happen to you.”
Does that sound silly and improbable? I don’t think so. With just
a few subtle shifts in our consciousness it becomes easily attainable. If I
haven’t lost you by this point the come along and I’ll see if I can explain
it in a way that makes sense.
Often the events that happen to us are much less extreme. How
many times have you gotten stuck behind an annoyingly slow driver only
to discover the Highway Patrol speed trap up ahead?
Events are simply events. It’s the way we respond to them that
make them good or bad, positive or
negative. Learning to look for the good
side effect or positive lesson in The good side of
everything that happens is a major step this moment's
to developing a sense of tranquility. events may not be
The good side of this immediately
moment's events may not be obvious.
immediately obvious. Sometimes it's
Sometimes it's
only years later that events make sense
only years later
and we're able to see them in
that events make
perspective. Once again I have to
sense and we're
mention the concept of Faith. Living a
able to see them
period of tragedy is hard no matter who
in perspective.
you are or how well trained and
experienced in these mystery schools.
The ability to step outside of your judgment of the situation is a very
important skill and it doesn't come easy for most people.
thought “I’d change if I just had a sign”, while the signs for change were
all around them and they just didn’t understand?
It can be really difficult to be thankful and express gratitude
when life deals you pain and heartache, but learning to look beyond the
judgmental reactions and find the positive lessons will allow you to smile
(or at least grimace) through the pain and see that the events had a
different meaning.
Our lives aren’t made up of days or years, but rather a collection
of individual moments. It’s how we approach each moment that
determines whether we can, at the end, judge our lives as having been
‘good’ or ‘bad’. In the meantime, smile and be happy. In this moment.
Keeping a Journal
In Path Notes of an American Ninja Master, Dr. Glenn Morris states
that you’re going to be making extreme changes to your life and
therefore should keep a journal. Two decades later, as I look back on all
that's happened and the places I’ve been, I realize that as usual, he’s
exactly right. I didn’t keep a journal however, so when I urge you to
begin keeping one right now it’s through my own bad example. Someday
when you try to write a book to explain how you got to be the way you
are (or at least the way you’ll be then), you’ll wish you had. You’ll see
many instances where I learned the hard way rather than just following
the advice of someone who’s already been where I’m trying to go.
Another reason to keep a journal is because our thoughts are
energy! When someone ticks us off we tend to walk around with that
energy for awhile before it finally clears. Depending upon the strength of
the emotions you've experienced, that energy will build up in your
muscles as well as your brain.
Journaling can be a good way to release stress. Just because you
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journal something doesn't mean that you can't immediately shred it, by
the way.
Journaling can also open up your creative process and help
develop a flow of information. When I work with writers I advise them
to journal for exactly this reason. When we write we are opening up to a
flow of energy and often we'll have an idea that floats around in our
heads for awhile before we write it down. Once it's written down the
mind can release the thought and let new stuff flow in.
Write about what you want, what you love and what you'd like
to see happen. Writing something down is an act of creation that goes
beyond merely thinking it. Thinking about something creates it at a small
level, writing it down adds more energy and creates it at a larger level.
Acting on it adds even more energy and helps to ensure that it manifests
in your life.
What makes teaching subtle energy difficult (and so easy for the
charlatan) is that the energies are
subtle. Often it takes a long time to
feel your connection to the energy If you have an
and understand that connection. I
did the Microcosmic Orbit for over awareness of
2 years before I felt the connection
karma what you
and began to figure it out. I can tell
you what something feels like for really have is a
me, but I can’t tell you what it
form of balance.
should feel like for you.
That’s why I repeatedly It's a tool to help
stress keeping a positive attitude
you with your
and playing rather than working,
with this stuff. It’s the only way to moment to
discover what it feels like.
You have been surrounded
moment
by amazing and miraculous awareness of how
energies your entire life, but may
not have recognized the energy for you're treating
what it was because you had
yourself and
nothing to compare it to. I'll be
writing extensively later on about others.
feeling and seeing energy and you'll
have a lot of exercises that will help you build up your catalog.
This is something that you will be doing for the rest of your life
and you'll be amazed at how much attention you'll be able to give a pine
cone or a flower or to your mate while making love. Once you begin to
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develop your inner catalog then you'll never be bored again as there is
always something new to discover or experience.
Karma
We hear a lot about Karma. This is good karma, you have bad
karma. People think karma is the result of your last life coming back to
bite you in this one. I only partially agree. I also think we make our own
karma as we go and have to deal with it during this life.
Karma is simply the result of our actions. If you frequently use
anger as a tool you have to expect to be put in positions where anger is
necessary. You create that circle and then perpetuate it. In part it goes
back to the Laws of Reciprocity and Attraction and in part it has to do
with our subconscious.
Awakening your Inner Power breaks the wheel of karma in that
it forces you to examine yourself in such detail that you’ll have to clean
up your messes, even those carried over from past lives. I don’t see Inner
Power as some karmic ‘get out of hell free’ card. Rather it’s like a huge
mirror that doesn’t lie to you and won’t let you lie to yourself.
As you cleanse and balance your chakras you’ll have the
opportunity to look at yourself and your life very closely. Make the time
to do this on your on and begin the process yourself rather than having it
dumped on you all at once. It’s part of the self-awareness training that
you’ll be doing for the rest of your life.
As you develop the level of self-awareness that allows you be in
constant control of your actions you’ll be able to move your karma in
positive directions. To use the earlier example of anger, by showing more
compassion to angry people you’ll be given more compassion on those
occasions you slip off the wagon and become angry yourself.
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Have Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remember that what you send out is what you are going to get. What
you think about and feel is what you are going to attract. Take the time
right now to develop these skills and put them into practice in your life.
Many people have grown up with the attitude that they have to
work hard and suffer for every lesson life gives them. If you have this
attitude then you can change it! You have the ability right now to start
redirecting your life so it flows smoothly, just by changing your attitudes
about the things that go on around you.
You don't have to agree with or like everything that you see, but
awakening is about your perceptions of everything that happens to you.
If you can perceive an event as positive you can learn a lesson from it
and integrate it into your life.
Inner Power begins with the process of learning exactly who you are,
with all your warts, wonders and blemishes. Once you’ve done that and
become completely at ease with your self-acceptance you can promptly
just forget all of it and disappear into the ether. Literally.
Your self is like a blanket you cover up with or a jacket you put on.
Spend some time becoming comfortable with yourself and you’ll begin
to see that you can put it on and take it off at will. It’s just an external
way to identify which self is yours. Once you get beyond that and see
that you don’t really exist, then you can really start having fun with this
stuff.
Developing your self-awareness is a multi-faceted exercise that
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encompasses all parts of your being. No matter how good you become at
it there will always be new layers to uncover and new things to learn.
At the elementary levels of this book we’ll look at your physical self,
your mental self and your spiritual self and see how you can integrate
them into your total being.
Building Energy
There are 2 ways to have more energy. You can make more, or
you can use less.
literally the only one that matters. It's what you do right now in
the space of this breath that makes the difference.
here. I’m always amazed by the people who insist on having a nice house
or a big, fancy car, yet ignore the one vehicle they can’t live without.
I always advise people to get into a good yoga practice for several
reasons.
1. Our bodies store memories, feelings and stresses within our muscles
and organs. Yoga helps release those in a relaxed, gradual manner,
rather than all at once through a chakra-ic cleansing.
2. When you breathe properly during the yoga positions (asanas) you’re
massaging your internal organs as well as stretching your muscles.
This provides an immediate health benefit as well as helping to
release stored toxins and feelings.
3. Yoga lubricates and relaxes the spine, allows you to move more easily
and freely and adds a much better quality of life. A relaxed healthy
spine is also a better conduit for chi.
4. “Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles” (you’ll hear that over and
over again). The relaxing effects of a good yoga practice help
prevent muscle tightness that can impede your energy flow.
Some forms of the martial arts such as Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Tai Jutsu and
Hoshinjutsu help build remarkable energy awareness and strength. They
also help you become more confident and comfortable in your
surroundings. In my Hoshin classes we used the martial arts as a test to
see how your energy work is progressing, rather than as a violent sport.
A regular physical fitness regimen will help your heart, lungs
and muscles work more efficiently. You'll feel better intellectually and
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Using Affirmations
One of the most powerful tools in the universe is one you can
begin using immediately! Affirmations are simple, you can do them
anywhere and they don’t cost anything.
When you use an affirmation you are literally making something
firm or real for yourself. The subconscious mind (the Id) can’t discern
between what’s real and what isn’t, so when you make a positive
affirmation like “I deserve LOVE” the subconscious is there in the
background going “Yeah, we do, so where the hell is it. Let’s make that
happen right now.”
The simple way to use affirmations is to identify some part of
your life where you feel a lack, and create the affirmation to convert that
lack to abundance.
I’m not going to bother giving you a list of affirmations as you
know yourself much better than I do. Instead I’m going to leave a blank
place here and as one of your first exercises you can identify 10 areas of
your life that you’d like to improve and create your own affirmation for
each. Go ahead and write in the book. It’s ok.
Several times a day you should take a few moments and repeat these
affirmations to yourself until you’ve
created your abundance in these areas.
Then come up with some new ones
Slow words such
and start all over again.
as "I can't afford
it" insure that you
Avoiding negativity
are right and that
you really can't
"Is it possible to have knowledge
afford it.
and yet learn to be free from fear?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fast words such
as "How can I
Just as positive affirmations afford it?" open
can bring you abundance, negative you up to the
affirmations can take it away. Once unlimited
again the subconscious mind will abundance of the
create whatever you tell it. When you Universe and
say things like “I can’t do this, it’s too help you to find a
hard, I’m not good enough”, or some way to manifest
other wussification the subconscious is what you want.
right there in the background going
“Yeah you loser, what were you thinking to even try?” It’s just as
important to break your old negative habits as it is to replace them with
new positive habits.
Once again we see the Law of Attraction at work. What you
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The Siddhis
“Those who dance are often thought insane by those who can’t hear
the music” - George Carlin
don’t and of course, that's true. The usual response is to give you mind
altering drugs and electro-shock therapy to make you ‘normal’ again.
Having said that, most of us tend to talk about it anyway.
Usually, by the time you know enough about it to really talk about it then
you have such a strange energy and probably dress weirdly enough that
most of the ‘normal’ people don’t really see you.
One of the amazing things about the internet is the ability to
form online communities, and this has been a major boon for meditation
practitioners. From 1992 until 2002 I never talked to another human
who’d experienced the things I was going through. Now, thanks to the
internet, it’s possible to get onto a discussion group and ask questions
and talk about experiences and just lurk and learn. I’ve listed several
good groups (including mine) in the Resource Section at the end of the
book.
Take some time and play with the siddhis, but don't be distracted
by them. A simple way I explain my view of these little magics is that
each of them has its own frequency and you'll be able to tune in to some
more easily than others.
You may be able to see energy and interact with it visually, in
which case I'd recommend some good books on Symbology and an
extremely open mind. A lot of things have meanings other than what
we've come to commonly accept and you definitely want to know what
you are playing with.
You may be able to feel energy and interact with it that way.
Spend a LOT of time just playing with it and seeing how different things
feel. Go for walks and get into a meditative state while walking and pay
attention to the different energies all around you. I like walking around
the mall because there are so many colors and feelings and different
types of energy. The mall can be a bit overwhelming at first and if it is
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then start in your backyard and just open up your awareness and see what
you feel.
You may be able to occasionally tell what others are thinking or
feeling. You may be able to channel wisdom from the Universe. You
may develop abilities with divination, telepathy or any number of other
things most people won't believe. If this world is an illusion then
EVERYTHING is equally unreal. It just becomes a question of opening
up to that particular frequency.
Remember what I said about distractions. The siddhis can be fun
toys, great tools or an ego trip that can totally derail your development.
Have fun with this and don't be afraid of it. Stay positive and humble.
learn to channel that energy in positive ways. That’s why I say “nothing
bad should ever happen to you” once you learn to walk this path. Events
are simply events and it’s the external value that we place on those
events that causes us to see them as “good” or “bad”. Those external
values also create the stress that goes with the event.
3. Conserving your energy
Whenever someone gives you a sob story and you say “Oh you
poor thing!” you’ve just given away part of your energy. It’s important at
this point to look at the difference between ‘Compassion’ and ‘Enabling
behavior’ as these two often get confused.
Compassion is the art of being Empathetic (NOT Sympathetic!)
for the plight of another. It doesn’t mean you should do whatever it takes
to make that person feel better, but rather you should do whatever is in
that persons best interest, which may not make them feel better at all in
the short term.
Enabling behavior is what happens when someone whines a
little and you say “Oh you poor thing!”, which gives them positive
reinforcement to continue whining. Your energy is a tool and you should
make a point of using it on behalf of others (go back and see the Law of
Reciprocity), but you also have to be aware of those who’d just drain it in
order to continue on with their “Poor Me” attitudes.
The same goes for anger. Whenever you are angry you are
sending that person part of your daily allotment of energy. To say one
should never get angry is unrealistic, but to say that one should never let
anger take control is not.
word ‘Love’ has both an Energy and an Emotion. It’s commonly referred
to by the emotion. It’s just like the difference between orgasm and
ejaculation for men. (Side note: Hey guys, did you know that you CAN
have an orgasm without ejaculation? Read Mantak Chia’s “The Multi-
Orgasmic Man” for some interesting and really fun experiments with
this.)
You don’t have to love someone emotionally to send them the
energy of love just like a man can have an orgasm without an ejaculation.
Most people don’t realize it because without some deep thought or some
real training they just never know to try to separate the two.
The energy of Love has been referred to for thousands of years
as chi, ki and prana. It’s the primal energy that connects everything we
do, see, feel, hear, taste or think of. It’s why such sayings as “thoughts
have energy” and “Energy follows thought” are true and taught in so
many different cultures.
Sensing Intention
A mystical aspect of the martial arts is the ability to feel another
person’s intention. Sensing intention allows you to be in instant control
of a potentially violent encounter, and it's one of the ways we use the
martial arts to test our energy work and meditation skills in my classes.
I’m including it in this book because sensing intention is all
about awareness and being in the moment. It’s easy to learn and can
bring new depth to the non-violence of your life as it can make you safer
and more confident.
a variety of these subtle vibrations constantly. Have you ever come home
to an angry spouse and felt the entire house vibrate with the angry
energy? This is exactly the same.
When a person tries to hit you they put off a vibration you can
feel, even with your eyes closed. With training a person can distinguish
between the intent to strike and the strike itself as there are subtle
differences in the feel of the energy vibrations emanating from the
attacker.
In Hoshinjutsu we have a student stand with their eyes closed
and then, very slowly, send a punch towards their face with the full
intention to make contact. Almost invariably the student will feel the
difference in the subtle energies that surround them and their body,
seemingly of its own accord, will dodge out of the way. It's fun to see the
look of shock on someone's face when they realize what happened and
what they felt.
Another exercise is to have a student stand with his back to you,
then you walk slowly (and silently) toward them. The student is to raise a
hand when they feel you coming up behind them. You can vary this by
thinking angry thoughts and happy thoughts and watch the distance at
which you become noticed by the student.
The purpose of teaching a student to feel intention is to empower
them in situations most people find daunting. When you know another
person has ill intentions towards you, you are in control. Depending on
the situation you can leave, you can seek a diplomatic solution or you
can wait till the future attackers back is turned and hit him with a chair.
While some of these solutions are better than others (Chair Fu
should always be the absolute last resort) what's important here is that
because of your heightened awareness you weren't taken by surprise
when someone attacked you.
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Chapter 5
Introduction to Meditation
Meditation is how you learn to connect to your Inner Divinity. In
the beginning you may have to really focus and concentrate to be able to
hear the Divine Voice within you. As you continue to meditate and
cleanse and balance you'll find the voice gets louder (and more insistent)
and much easier to follow.
This section is all about doing your meditations. The meditations
here range from very basic to
relatively advanced. You may feel
you’ve progressed beyond some of
You may feel
this, but my advice is to take some
you’ve progressed
time and go back through the
beyond some of
basics. One of the benefits of
this, but my advice
teaching meditation is that I’m
is to take some time
constantly running through these
and go back
basic exercises as I teach them to
others, and I can’t tell you how
through the basics.
helpful that can be. I remember the
time before I began teaching when I hardly ever sat through a Brain
Scrub session, but when I began teaching it and sitting through the
sessions with my students I found going back to the basics allowed me to
get even deeper into the more advanced exercises.
We have some great tools to help with these including some free
audio and video lessons. See my website at www.Inner-Power.net for
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more details.
Getting Started
Set aside a corner in one of your rooms. You can stock it with
whatever accoutrement you wish. Have cushions, candles, incense and a
small CD player for music or guided meditation CD’s. Use whatever
tools and accessories you want, as there’s no right or wrong at this point.
Once you’ve created your sacred space all you have to do is use
it. Set aside a few minutes each day and begin working through the
meditation exercises. Don’t worry about how long you meditate, just get
into the habit of doing it. The effects of meditation are cumulative, so 5
minutes a day everyday is better than 35 minutes once a week.
Eventually you won’t need any accessories and you can clear
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your mind and meditate anywhere, at any time, but for now don’t worry
about that, just create a pleasant, sacred atmosphere and get started.
On Expectation
When we begin meditation we often feel that we should be able
to do certain things within a certain time frame. We expect to be able to
clear our minds and access our deeper abilities. We expect to be able to
sit for an hour and meditate, or to see auras, or feel other people’s chi. If
it doesn’t happen quickly we become disappointed and confused. I can’t
tell you how important it is to break free of these expectations.
When we let go of expectations and learn to relax in the moment
and just BE, we are making progress of the most important kind. In the
West we tend to be goal oriented and need to see quick results, but
frequently the cumulative effects of meditation aren’t noticeable until
much later. Meditation is about this moment, about BEing totally in this
moment, rather than about who you’ll be when you’ve become a good
meditator.
The important thing with a regular practice is to just do it. The
effects are cumulative and one day you’ll look back and see that all those
short meditation sessions really added up.
Meditation Positions
There are several ways to meditate and depending on your goals
you may sit in various positions, stand in various positions or even move
and walk around.
Seated Meditation
Sit on a cushion, zafu or a pillow with your spine straight. Don’t
worry about specific positions such as the full lotus or half lotus, just
cross your legs comfortably and let your knees relax.
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Sitting in a Chair
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a human pretzel
to meditate. Grab a straight-backed chair and sit toward the front of it
with your genitals out over the front edge. Keep your feet comfortably
flat on the floor, your hips tucked and your spine straight. Let your hands
rest in your lap. Touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close your
eyes and look up towards your third eye.
Seiza
Seiza is the kneeling position used in many of the Zen temples.
You can use this position if you wish, but most people find it extremely
uncomfortable for more than a few minutes.
Standing Stake
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Moving
As you become more adept at meditation you’ll be able to do it
while moving. In fact, you’ll get to a point where you’re in a constant
state of light meditation once you learn to access the energy and open up
to it. You may already be practicing some of the more formalized forms
of moving meditation such as Chi Kung, Tai Chi or yoga.
Anything can be a form of moving meditation, including martial
arts, dancing or just playing. What makes it a meditation is your state of
mindfulness and your awareness of the moment.
Breathing
Breathe in through your nose and draw your breath down into
the area just below your navel, allowing your stomach to expand as you
breathe (Baby Breath) and filling your lungs entirely with each breath
before exhaling through your nose.
Take a moment and feel your breath. Pay attention to the air as it
flows in through your nostrils and down into your lungs. Don’t think
about anything or do anything other than just breathe.
1. Are you taking a relatively shallow breath and just filling the upper
lobes of your lungs?
2. Does your stomach move out as you breathe?
3. Do you feel the bones of your ribcage expanding and opening with
each breath?
For most people the answer to 1 is YES and the answers to 2 and
3 are NO so let's expand the exercise.
Draw your breath down to a point about 2 inches below your
navel (the body’s center of gravity). When you do you’ll feel your
stomach expand and push out in front of you. Most westerners keep their
stomach pulled in and their chest out, so if you do you’ll have to relax
your abdomen. Just take a moment and be aware of your breath as it
flows down into your center.
As you inhale and draw your breath down, let your ribcage
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expand. You’ll feel your floating ribs at the bottom of your ribcage
spread and move, and you may get a few pops out of your spine also. Just
take a few moments and breathe this way. Don’t think or let your mind
wander, just breathe.
If you’ve never meditated before then congratulations, you just
did! It’s exactly that simple.
There are many benefits to proper breathing. The extra oxygen
in your system means your heart doesn’t have to beat as fast, which
lowers your pulse and your blood pressure. Drawing the breath down
into your center also helps to massage your internal organs, providing
more oxygen to them as well as helping to release the accumulated stress
and toxins that build up there. The long term health benefits have been
proven for thousands of years.
Breathing is by far the most important meditation exercise,
although it sounds so simple. Paying attention to the breath is the
beginning of opening up your awareness, so take some time to practice
this, as it’s the foundation for everything that comes next. If you have to
dedicate your meditation time to breathwork for awhile then that’s good,
as we all proceed at our own pace.
I once read a translation of some of Jesus’ teachings from the
original Aramaic (the language he spoke, although he apparently wasn’t
literate) and it was very interesting to me that in Aramaic they used the
same word for wind, breath and spirit. Those with a Chi Kung
background might find it interesting to take another look at the New
Testament and insert the word breath every time you see the word spirit.
everything that is, was and will be. It doesn’t matter whether a person
believes in it or can feel it; they still have the ability to affect it. How
many times have you seen a person with a negative attitude who
continually draws more negative reactions to himself? He’s broadcasting
his intentions through his attitudes with the result that he becomes a
human crap magnet, drawing in all the negative feelings and emotions
and experiences.
The other side of this is the continually positive person who
always approaches everything from a positive attitude. This doesn’t
mean everything always goes the way he wants it, but if you watch you’ll
see that even the bad times provide fuel for his growth and he tries to
take every bad experience as a lesson to help improve himself.
Just as our thoughts can influence Chi subconsciously, so can
they move it around in our body's. Energy follows thought, so when you
think about moving energy then it will go where you send it. The
important thing here is to stay out of its way. Energy moves in a spiral
and at its own speed, so don’t try to micro-manage it, just let it flow.
Do the Full Body Awareness exercise again, and this time feel
the energy go where you send it. You can also play with this a bit. Send
it down to your feet, now bring it back to your center and this time just
send it down to your left foot, now your right. Now send it up to your
head, and down to your left elbow.
The next time you’re stuck in traffic, or impatiently waiting in
line at the Motor Vehicles Office, just relax and start to play with this.
Isn’t this a neat toy?
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Chapter 6
Basic Exercises
Now that you’ve begun to develop the ability to move energy
around in your body there are some
things you can do with it. The
following exercises range from pretty Eventually you'll
simple to pretty complicated, but as be able to
you develop your abilities you’ll
remember how to
eventually find you can do them all at
do these
once and effortlessly. It can take
exercises by
anywhere from a few weeks to a few
memory, and after
years to develop this ability, so
that you’ll get to
remember what I said about
the point where
expectations.
you just do them
Eventually you'll be able to
without having to
remember how to do these exercises
think about them.
by memory, and after that you’ll get to
the point where you just do them
without having to think about them. In the beginning it may be helpful to
have a partner read the exercises to you or you can order the MP3 Instant
Meditation Course that goes with this book at www.Inner-Power.net
Grounding
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Progressive Relaxation
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Drawing Energy
During various exercises we’ll be drawing in energy through our
chakras, into our organs and even through the entire area of our skin.
Drawing energy into yourself is fairly easy to do and simply requires a
heightened sense of self-awareness to feel.
To begin drawing energy take a moment and focus on your
breathing. Feel your breath as it flows in through your nostrils and down
to your Dan Tien, the area two finger-widths below your belly button.
Feel the chi as it flows in with your breath down to your Dan Tien. Take
a few breaths and let the energy build up and spread through your body.
Now, as silly as it sounds, imagine a nose or an opening that
covers your heart chakra, just over your sternum. Remember what it feels
like when you draw the chi in through your nostrils? As you inhale let
the ‘nose’ over your heart chakra ‘inhale’ chi directly into your heart. It
may take awhile to really feel this, so don’t be worried if it doesn’t seem
to come easily. As you exhale let any stress or unhappiness in your heart
chakra flow down through your legs and deep into the earth.
Practice ‘inhaling’ energy this way. As you get comfortable
with it you’ll be able to draw chi into yourself in many different ways.
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Below are some sample exercises that you can experiment with. You’ll
probably come up with some others on your own as the possibilities here
are literally endless.
Chakra Breathing– We’ll get deeper into this in the Chakra Chapters, but
you can draw energy into any of your chakras at any time just like we did
for the heart chakra.
Energizing your organs– This can be a lot of fun and really help
strengthen your immune system and improve your overall health. It’s
also an exercise in using intention to send energy where you want it to
go.
Take a moment and relax as we did above. On your inhale draw
chi into your Liver. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly where your
liver is, you don’t have to. Just intend for relaxing, healing energy to
flow into your liver as you inhale, and then draw it in. On your exhale let
the stresses and built up energies flow out of your liver and down into the
earth. Can you feel the lightness and relaxation? The next time you find
yourself becoming angry do this exercise.
You can run chi into any of your organs exactly the same way.
The infusion of energy will help cleanse your organs and release bound
stresses and memories. You may find yourself having some unexpected
emotional releases as that energy has to go somewhere once it’s released.
Relaxing Stress Knots out of your muscles– Whenever you feel a stress
knot building up in your muscles just draw energy directly into the knot
on the inhale and let the stress flow down into the earth on your exhale.
As an exercise in awareness you can take some time and just choose a
body part at random and draw energy into it.
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Drawing energy from trees, rocks and plants– Sit with your back to a
tree or better yet face it and wrap your arms around it. Relax and spend a
few moments practicing feeling your own energy. Expand your
awareness to the tree. Can you feel the rough bark against your skin and
hear the rustle of wind in the leaves and branches. Can you smell it? Can
you feel the energy from it? Create a circuit with the tree. As you inhale
feel the energy from the tree flow into you. As you exhale let your
energy flow into the tree. Let your friends who haven’t experienced this
laugh at you for being a ‘tree hugger’. Experiment with this with other
plants as well as rocks and crystals. Do they all feel the same? Can you
tell the difference between tree species based on the feel of their energy?
Can you differentiate between different crystals based on their energy?
You could keep yourself occupied indefinitely in the backyard with this
exercise.
Drawing energy is something that you can do at any time, any
place. As you get better at it and more comfortable with it you’ll also be
able to develop more control over your emotions and your physical
responses by using variations on the exercises above. Don’t be afraid to
play with this and experiment with the healing energies as this is all
about building up your personal catalog of feelings and experiences.
mouth, swallow it down and feel it drop down through your body
charging it with the good feeling it as it goes. Let it mix with the first.
Think about a time when you laughed, a good deep belly laugh
that you couldn’t control or stop. Now take out the reason for the
laughter, but keep the feeling of it. Take that laughing feeling down to
your toes and on your inhales pull that laughter up across your feet, then
up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it rise up across your
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Draw the feeling up
your spine and up over your head and down to the point where your
tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix
the happy, laughing feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it
down and feel it drop down through your body feeling your body
laughing it as it goes. Let it mix with the others.
Think about a time when you were in love, truly, completely,
100%, head over heels, swept off your feet in love. Take out the person
or people. Take that feeling down to your toes and on your inhales pull it
up across your feet, then up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it
rise up across your knees, then over your thighs and across your hips.
Draw the feeling up your spine and up over your head and down to the
point where your tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your
front teeth. Mix the loving feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow
it down and feel it drop down through your body charging it with
complete, unconditional love. Let it mix with the others.
Think about the best orgasm you ever had. Take out the person
or people and just keep the feeling of the orgasm. Take that feeling down
to your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling up across your feet, then
up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it rise up across your
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Draw the feeling up
your spine and up over your head and down to the point where your
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tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix
the feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it down and feel it
drop down through your body charging it with the good feeling it as it
goes. Let it mix with the others.
Feel the combination of the energies now and feel the combined
energies swirling around down at your feet. Take the feelings down to
your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling up across your feet, then
up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it rise up across your
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Feel the happy,
relaxed, loving, competent, sexual energy as it flows up your spine and
up over your head and down to the point where your tongue touches the
roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix the combined
feelings with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it down and feel it drop
down through your body and then let it flow up again to the top of your
head, and then drop down to your feet.
Play with this awhile, run it as often as you can. This is how you
should feel all the time, relaxed, happy, loved and sexy. As you get better
at this you’ll be able to run it continuously.
energy up from the perineum up the spine to the top of the head and then
letting it fall back down the front of our body to the perineum again. Be
sure to keep your tongue up to connect the meridians.
Basic Practice
Sitting in a chair or on a cushion, go through the grounding and
the Secret Smile. As you inhale clench the PC muscle in your perineum
(kegels) and let the energy flow up your spine to the top of your head.
Let it flow over the top of your head and drop down the front of your
body to your perineum on the exhale.
As you inhale contract your PC muscles and your sphincter and
feel the rush of energy up your spine. This part can take a bit of practice.
Begin by only doing a few contractions at a time and then building up the
number of contractions as you practice.
At the most basic level that’s all there is to it. As you begin to
play with this and experiment then you can try running the orbit between
various chakras also.
If you feel like you’re building up too much heat in your head
(headaches, drowsiness, hot forehead) then you can reverse the flow and
just run the orbit backwards.
Get into the habit of running the orbit all the time. This gets
easier as you become more comfortable, learn to stay out of the way of
the energy and just let it flow.
Intermediate Practice
The next stage is called the Macrocosmic Orbit and it includes
your arms and legs. You should be to the point where you can run the
basic orbit at any time, even while at work and during the day as you go
about your life. Going from the Microcosmic Orbit to the Macrocosmic
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Orbit is simple because by now you’ve figured out the hard parts and just
need to expand your orbit.
Draw earth energy up the front of your legs as far as the first
chakra, then up your spine on the inhale while doing your sphincter
contractions. After you pull the energy over the top of your head let it
drop back down the front of your body to the perineum and down the
back of your legs into the earth. Seen from the side this looks like a
figure 8 with an open bottom.
As you draw up the front of your legs also pull energy up the
back of your arms to the midpoint of your back between your shoulder
blades. At this point it combines with the energy coming up your spine
and then rises up over your head. It can take some practice to coordinate
your breathing with drawing the energy up your arms and legs. It’s
perfectly fine if you practice these separately and just draw up your legs
for awhile before adding in your arms.
On the exhale let your energy drop down the front of your body.
When it reaches your heart chakra let it split and let the energy run down
the front of your arms as well as the front of your body. Let it flow out
your fingers and down to the earth. Let the energy flowing down the
front of your body go through the perineum and then down the back of
your legs, into the earth.
It may take awhile to build your coordination so don’t get
discouraged. This is a good exercise for clearing stagnant energy out of
your arms and legs and energizing your entire body. Keep at it til you can
get out of the way of the process and just let it flow all the time. You’ll
reach a point where you can stop trying to do it and just let it happen.
Skin Breathing
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MERIDIAN EXERCISES:
There are 12 major meridians for the circulation of Qi on each
side of the body in the “traditional meridian system.” These 12 meridians
are grouped into 6 Yin/Yang pairs in relation to basic life functions.
In addition to the 12 major meridians, in traditional Chinese
Medicine, there are 8 extra meridians which are special pathways for the
Qi travel. The Conception Vessel and the Governor Vessel are
exceptional among the extra meridians in that they also have independent
functions and points which are located on the center line in the front and
along the back of the body’s centerline (independent points are
acupuncture points which belong to one meridian. All the regular
meridians have independent points, but most of the extra meridians do
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least two breath cycles. This serves for the extension of the meridians as
well as the acceleration of energy flow, resulting in the release of
stagnation and disorders along the meridians and muscles.
1. Lung/Large Intestine “A” (bend over, look to the heels, push hands
over head and up)
2. Stomach / Spleen “B” (Lean back from Seiza)
3. Heart / Small Intestine “C” (Pull forehead towards the floor and try
to touch Toes while holding them with the hands and opening the “Gau”
groin, feet and heels pressing together)
4. Bladder / Kidney “D” (Legs stretched out heels touching, bend
forward and reach)
5. Heart Constrictor (Governor) / Triple Heater Meridians “E” (Sit
in ¼ or ½ Lotus position and cross arms one over the other so hands are
cupping over opposite knees, bend over and touch forehead to center at
crease of arm)
6. Gallbladder / Liver “F” (Both Legs are stretched/extended out to
either side. Spread out as far as comfortable. Keep knees straight so that
backs of legs touch the floor. Reach up and then out to either side and
lean to one side and then the other).
Important Points:
The real purpose of these Six Basic Meridian Exercises is not to
attain the flexibility of a gymnast or ballerina. The most important goal is
to find the best position in which you can feel the resistance or a tingling
sensation coming from the line of tension forming along the meridians.
The main objective here is to get a feeling for what it really is
like to relax by releasing Qi and allowing tension to dissipate. Start out
doing only two reps for each exercise and one or two complete breath
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cycles while in each posture. Increase the reps and breath cycles over
time. Use slow and deliberate breath patterns. Always keep your
attention on your breathing and be sensitive to how your body is
responding to each exercise.
Just relax after completion. Relax for a while on your back with
your eyes closed in an “X” position (the kind of position we got into
when lying in the snow to make snow angels, also called the “Corpse”
position in Yoga. Keep the eyes closed and feel for any bodily
sensations. Become entirely detached from the external world. When you
do this, your mind will begin to tune in to any internal events of your
body. You may begin feeling various sensations like tingling or buzzing
in the ears, eyes or along the course of the meridians which can be
regarded as “Energy Flow.” These sensations, instead of issuing from
conscious awareness, have their origins in the inner workings of your
body.
These meridian exercises should not be viewed merely as a way
of stretching and limbering muscles and joints. Stretching in this context
does not refer just o lengthening or pulling something apart, but is rather
an act of extending or expanding which liberates the energy lying latent
within you. These exercises would serve as a form of physical expression
to release, through the act of stretching, those things which you have
been holding inside. These exercises are an opportunity to get in touch
with your body and give expression to your inner being through
movement.
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The Book of Do In
By Michio Kushi
Chapter 7
Feeling and Seeing Energy
If you’ve been doing the exercises I’ve described by now you’ve
probably had some interesting experiences with feeling your own internal
energy and drawing energy into your body. Now we’re going to work
with feeling external energy. As you progress you’ll not only be able to
feel your own energy, but the energy of the people and things around
you.
The following exercises will help you feel your aura, the external
energy field that surrounds everything. Everything on the planet is made
up of various particles held together by energy, and you can feel and
even manipulate that energy with practice.
Play with this exercise a bit. See how big you can make the energy
ball. Is one hand more sensitive than the other? Can you turn your hands
over and do it with the backs of your hands?
Have your partner stand about 12-15 feet away. Walk slowly
towards them. Can you sense their aura as you walk up to them? Can
they feel you? As you get deeper into this you’ll be able to play with
intention and emotions also, but for now just concentrate on feeling the
aura.
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Have your partner stand upright but relaxed. Stand with both your
hands held above their head. Slowly bring your hands down until you can
feel the thickness or pressure of their crown chakra. This can vary on
everyone. How far above their head did you feel it?
Move your hands down to their 3rd eye with one hand in front of
their forehead and one hand behind their head. Move your hands out and
slowly back towards them until you can sense the energy of their chakra.
Did you feel a difference between the front and back? Did you sense the
front and back at different distances, was one of them noticeably further
out than the other? Did it feel like your hands were pushed out away
from the chakra?
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Do this again at the Throat Chakra, then at the Heart Chakra, Solar
Plexus, and Dan Tien. Don’t touch them physically; just feel the energy
of their chakras.
For the Root Chakra let your hands go down to just above your
partners knees and feel the energy over that entire area.
This exercise can be a lot of fun, especially as you learn more about
the Chakra system and what it means when you can feel the energy. It’s
extremely easy to do and anyone with a basic level of awareness can do
it fairly quickly as it’s just feeling energy.
With practice you can build up the sensitivity to be able to sense
another person's chakras without going through the whole diagnosis.
When you build up the sensitivity you may even be able to use your own
chakras as antennae to feel other people’s chakras. It sounds weird, but it
can be extremely amusing to sit in public (bookstores are good for this)
and feel the people that walk by.
When you learn about the chakras what you sense can be extremely
useful for learning about who you’re dealing with and give you insights
into their personalities and their possible actions/reactions. This can be
somewhat akin to magic as these abilities are not only misunderstood,
but scoffed at and disbelieved by most of western society.
Just as you can feel energy, a lot of people can also see it. Seeing the
aura doesn’t seem to be something everyone can do and those who do
seem to have wildly varying abilities. I’ve known healers who could look
at you and say things like “Oh you’re blocking some energy here” just
because of what they see in your aura while others can just barely see it.
Personally I’m more of an empath and while I can feel energy from
across the room I don’t see it that well. This is something that you can
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play with and if you can do it then it’s just another cool tool in the
toolbox.
Seeing the aura is a matter of taking your eyes slightly out of focus.
If you’ve ever been able to see those holographic picture-in-a-picture
things you shouldn’t have any trouble seeing auras as you do exactly the
same thing with your eyes. The first time I was at a seminar and this
topic came up I had no luck whatsoever with seeing the auras of the
others in the seminar. That night I went over to the bookstore and
grabbed a bunch of the holograph picture books and sat there til I could
relax my eyes and see them. The next day when I went back for the rest
of the seminar I didn’t have any trouble at all seeing the auras of the
other attendees.
Have your training partner stand in front of a light-colored wall in a
dimly lit room. Have your partner hold one finger in front of their face
about 6 inches out from their chin. Now focus your eyes on their finger,
not their face. Have them remove their finger but keep looking at the
same spot, you’ll have to relax your eyes a bit to do this. Using that
same relaxed vision, if you look at them you should be able to see what
looks like a little line that runs all around them a couple of inches out
from their body. The next layer out is even more faint and may have
colors associated with it. The different meanings of the colors vary
widely depending on who you’re talking to. My advice in this area is to
open up your awareness and see for yourself which colors seem to be
associated most often with which types of people and their behaviors.
Play with this a bit. Does their aura change when they think
happy thoughts? Sad thoughts? Angry thoughts?
Some people can see auras instantly and others have to work at
it. Don’t be too put out if it takes awhile.
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Chapter 8
Finding your ‘Inner Gods’
I like the idea of Gods but personally don’t put much effort or work
into worshiping any I’ve heard of so far. I frequently see the word
Namaste tossed around (“the Divine in me recognizes and honors the
Divine in you”) and I really like that
even though I don’t use it much.
Most of the Great Teachers Your mind can
(Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, bring to reality
Krishna, etc.) have been adamant that any thought or
the Divine or Holy Spirit lives within concept, so if you
each of us and that we can all access it want to worship
without the need for priests, popes, Our Lady of the
clerics, pastors, televangelists or other Dirty Laundry
middle men. This goes along with the then by all means
commonly heard “Everything you feel free and
need is already inside you” attitude don’t ever let
I’ve learned to believe in. anyone tell you
Some people feel the need to she isn’t real.
personify their deities and even have
different deities for different actions, causes, days of the week, etc.
Hence the vast pantheons in some of the religions, I think that’s great
also. Your mind can bring reality to any thought or concept, so if you
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want to worship Our Lady of the Dirty Laundry then by all means feel
free and don’t ever let anyone tell you she isn’t real. I personally really
enjoy some of the ‘honoring the sacred feminine’ rituals. I tend to argue
that some of the strictures placed on women in the larger religions go
back to men who are afraid of their feminine energies and represents an
imbalance in their basic dualities.
You should see your inner deities from any viewpoint you wish, in
other words. Feel free to ritualize, sanctify, idolize and worship them in
any way you see fit as it’s extremely important to have FAITH when
you’re on the Meditation road. It doesn’t matter what you choose to have
faith in, just as long as you’re able to relax and listen to the inner voices
and trust that they are taking you in the directions in which you’re
supposed to go.
You should identify with the happy, positive and beautiful aspects of
your inner deities and always strive to remember and honor them in
every moment of your life. Your inner deities are part of the same energy
that everyone else’s inner deities are made of, so by honoring yourself
you should also be honoring them and vice versa.
Going Within
Spirituality, or the study and search for one’s spiritual essence
(my definition), pretty much has to be a solitary pursuit in the beginning.
This doesn’t mean you can’t share beliefs, rituals, chalices or bodily
fluids in the name of a deity or spiritual path. It just means that at the
most basic level you are dealing with your spirit. The only way to do that
is to go within and start getting to know your Self. This can be an
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are on? How many of those things create conflict and confusion? That’s
why learning to look inward and live consciously is so important, and
why it creates such huge perceptual shifts!
Perception = Reality
What exactly, is reality? Is anything real? How can different
people experience exactly the same event and have different reactions
such as pain and pleasure or fear and excitement? You can put two
people in the same seat on a roller coaster and one of them may love
every minute of it and the other might throw up from fear. Why is that?
Didn’t they both just experience the same event? Apparently not!
Our reality is simply our view of the world around us filtered
through our perceptions. Some of this is biological. Our body puts out
certain chemicals that cause certain reactions at a physiological level that
may be beyond our conscious control. That’s just a scientific fact.
However, modern science, as well as very ancient science, has repeatedly
proven we can change our programming for just about any physiological
reaction. It’s just a matter of training our Id and changing our
perceptions.
Chapter 9
Complete Self Acceptance
over well when making advertising sales calls for the videos or books,
and I do in fact, really need a good car.
As usual the question in our
society is ‘how much do we really
need’? The difference here is the In reality we’re
word need versus the word want.
We’re taught we need certain
NEVER finished
things to feel good about as there will
ourselves, and that’s the key issue.
I don’t care if you buy a new hopefully always be
Mercedes 3 times a week if that’s
more to learn and
what you want to do and you can
afford it. new ways to grow.
However, if you feel like you
So when, exactly,
need to buy or do anything in
order to feel good about yourself are we supposed to
that’s an issue that needs to be
feel good about
addressed.
Self Acceptance is about ourselves?
FREEDOM. It’s the freedom to be
happy with who you are and not
be a slave to the needs we’re taught to believe in. It’s the freedom to look
at yourself in the mirror and love and accept the person you see looking
back and the freedom to be happy to be in your own skin.
True self acceptance is one of the transformational moments in our
lives. It doesn’t mean there aren’t things you’d like to change, or have
new directions you’d like to grow. It means you’ve accepted yourself,
with all your warts and ugly spots, and now you can start moving in the
positive directions needed for your life.
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It’s also the key to having the freedom to accept others exactly as
they are. The most important person you can love is yourself. Have you
ever seen someone who gives up their entire lives to help others, yet
destroys their own health and welfare in the process? Everything is
connected and One, which means anything you can see, feel or imagine
is a part of you also, with all the balances that apply.
For instance, a person who only takes care of himself, with no regard
for others, is no less imbalanced than someone who devotes his entire life
to care for others at the expense of himself. The key here, once again, is
the word NEED. It’s all about the motivation that drives them.
Some of those so intent on self-sacrifice are driven by need. They
need to help others to make up for their own inadequacies, or to make up
for the bad things they feel they’ve done, or whatever other reasons drive
them. Yet if they truly accepted themselves then would they feel the need
to sacrifice themselves in order to help others? Wouldn’t they see helping
others as an extension of helping themselves, rather than as a way to
make themselves feel better about who they are?
A balanced person sees helping others as a normal, compassionate
thing to do, rather than as something to do to make up for their own lack
in some area. It’s the Law of Reciprocity again, by helping others we
help ourselves, by encouraging others to grow we also grow in the
process. By accepting ourselves exactly as we are, we can also accept
others exactly as they are, and that’s the beginning of unity.
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Chapter 10
The Chakras
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means ‘wheel’ and it refers to the
spinning energy centers on our body. A chakra isn’t really a physical part
of our body although with practice you can feel them pretty easily.
These energy centers affect the way our body functions on all
planes as well as store memories and feelings. There is some pretty
persuasive evidence that we can even store ‘left-over’ feelings and
memories from former lives. Occasionally these hold-overs can have
adverse effects on our current lives.
When your Inner Power awakens you’ll go through a period of
chakra cleansing and balancing. This period can (as in my case) last for
years, although that obviously varies from person to person. This
cleansing is part of what many Meditation teachers refer to when they
say that the Meditation “breaks the wheel of Karma”.
Many volumes have been written on the study of chakras and
I’m not going to try to recreate that here. Rather than an exhaustive study
I’m going to give you enough to get you started and to begin exploring
your chakra system.
Those of you who wish to get deeper into the study of chakras
(and it’s pretty fundamental) are advised to find a copy of Cyndi Dale’s
excellent book New Chakra Healing.
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balancing and fine tuning them, so get used to working with them and
take the time to learn about them.
1st Chakra
the phosphenes behind your eyes as when you do this they tend to turn
red.
Associated with the large intestine, feet and legs, the 1st Chakra
is your foundation. In this chakra you'll deal with security, stability,
money, housing, and other basic survival needs.
Imbalances in this chakra can result in angry, violent, fear-based
reactions. Often this is the hallmark of those who are insecure and unsure
of their place in the world. The trap for the unaware is the fact that so
much of our pop culture is targeted directly towards this chakra. This is
not a coincidence; insecure people make good consumers and are willing
to pay for solutions.
As with the other chakras, working with the Muladhara is an
incremental process. As you balance this chakra you'll find the other
chakras become more supported and easier to balance. This creates the
'Chakra Shuffle' in which you'll find your energy bouncing back and
forth between your chakras as the fine tuning process begins. Learn to be
aware of where your energy is, chakra-wise, and you'll be able to respond
to and eventually take control of the creation of your life.
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2nd Chakra
The Second or Water Chakra is the center for our feelings and
creativity.
Abstinence
In all seriousness, there are advantages to periods of abstinence
while working through the meditation process. I was single for much of
the process because I had an instinctive realization that I was simply too
screwed up to get involved with anyone I really cared about. Once of my
first questions when I met Dr. Glenn Morris was "How do you handle all
of these changes and all of this energy while maintaining a good
relationship?" His instant answer of "Apparently not very well!" was
only half joking.
These days there is a lot more support and information available
and you really don't have to reinvent the wheel the way Glenn and I did.
Be sure to take advantage of the various forums and discussion groups.
Depending upon your energy practices there are times when
you'll want to recycle that sexual energy and use it for other things.
Those practices go beyond the scope of this book but spend some time
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digging through a list of Dr. Mantak Chia's books and you'll see a
number of extremely good references.
3rd Chakra
4th Chakra
The Heart or Wind Chakra is the melting pot for the divine
energy coming down from the crown and the earth energy coming up
from the root.
5th Chakra
Location Throat
Color Blue
Key Word Expression
Descriptors Etheric elements,
humanity
Source Of Truth
Seat of Wisdom, responsibility
Problems Inability to say ‘no’ or
‘yes’, any disorders
relating to the throat or
mouth
Contains The ability to define
ourselves in the world
Physical Communication Language, sounding,
Style singing, toning
Energy Type Etheric (emotional
energy charged with
spiritual awareness)
themselves; have a fear of speaking and show throat, mouth and thyroid
problems.
Those with too much energy can have a hard time listening and
have hearing problems and talk excessively.
Neck and shoulder stretches are good for this chakra and help to
release the energy blocks.
6th Chakra
Location Forehead
Color Purple
Key Word Vision
Descriptors Spiritualized humans,
saints, spirits, gurus
Source Of Insight
Seat of Visions, visioning
Problems Adolescent issues, eye
problems, glandular
problems, growth or
development issues,
problems planning for the
future
Contains Self image and means of
shaping/correcting ones
view of self and the world
Physical Communication Uses ability to see, draw or
Style project images to
communicate
Energy Type Cerebral (draws energy
from the brain and 7th
chakra)
Let your awareness go to your third eye. As you inhale feel the
energy flow in through your third eye and up through your crown and out
the top of your head. Watch the phosphenes behind your eyes as when
you do this they tend to turn purple.
Intuition, the ability to just 'know' something is an interesting
ability that can be developed as you work with this chakra. The 3rd Eye is
also a channel for projecting energy and as you continue with the
meditation exercises in this book you should be able to begin developing
that ability. I teach this in my martial arts classes and show how one can
project love and compassion and still use it to help you have a balanced
response to an attacker (a side advantage here is that if you are projecting
love then you are NOT responding through fear or anger). It's pretty easy
to learn and I give details later on.
When the 3rd Eye is balanced it's easier to move into a
meditative state and it's easier to ignore distractions. The increased
intuition can save your life, your marriage or both when used properly.
So far it hasn't been very good for Lottery numbers but I never buy a
ticket either, so I have to say that it really hasn't been properly tested.
As you get better at projecting your energy you'll find that it
does aid in manifesting. Just remember to manifest what you want, rather
than what you don't.
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7th Chakra
The Crown or 7th Chakra is the “psychic center” for higher knowing
and it receives the spiritual energies and guidance necessary to activate
our purpose.
In many old paintings of Christ you'll see the halo effect which
denotes a deeper connection to God and the spiritual realms. Once your
Crown Chakra opens you can feel the energy at the top of your head. It
feels a bit like wearing a very light hat. You may also go through a
period of intense itching, tingling or a crawling feeling around the top of
your head as the chakra is opening.
Too much energy in the crown can manifest as being overly
intellectual. I like to combine that with the energy of the 2nd Chakra and
be a 'Sexual Intellectual' (a fucking know-it-all).
Too little energy can manifest as apathy or indifference, spiritual
skepticism and materialism. It's not uncommon to give away all your
stuff when you hit this point as you begin to see that all 'things' are just
impermanent doodads and for awhile personal objects may feel like a lot
to drag around. As Jimmy Buffet says "It might come as quite a shock,
but you can't really own that rock."
I encourage people to go along with the give-away-all-your-stuff
mentality and ride it out. You don't need that crap anyway. Realize,
however, as you begin to see your true place and mission in this life you
may have to buy some of that stuff again. That's ok because if you've
balanced out your chakras you shouldn't have any problem manifesting
exactly what you need to get the job done.
It's important to understand your journey through the chakras is
going to be a continual process for the rest of your life. So what? It's like
breathing, just another thing that's happening in your system. How well
this works for you depends on your ability to surrender to the process and
go where you're supposed to go.
I tend to use the example of a pyramid when I teach about the
chakras. The broader and more solid your base the higher you can build
it. You may find that your energy jumps around seemingly at random
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when your chakras are balancing. The next section of this book outlines a
number of exercises to help cleanse and balance your chakras. I've
included a Reiki Chakra Balance and I encourage everyone to spend
some time on that. I've also included some other energy work to help you
manage your practice and hopefully avoid some of the nastier side effects
that can come from working with your chakras.
Side Effects
Speaking of side effects, most of the side effects that will be
experienced during energy work are based around the chakras. Taking
the time to do the work and balance your chakras will help you avoid
some of these and give you the tools to manage others. Remember what I
said at the beginning of the book; side effects are simply symptoms of
your energy work and they are neither good nor bad. There may be some
side effects that you can use in your life and in your practice and there
may be side effects that exist merely to help get you onto the right path.
Understanding your chakra system will help you identify what
would appear to be random pain and recognize that a new stress knot or
energy block is forming in your system. The more you understand about
your chakras the better you'll be able to identify the things you are doing
right in your practice and the easier it'll be to keep everything balanced
and functioning.
Your physical body is the vehicle that lets your spirit interact
with the world around you. Chakras are the diagnostic tools that help you
maintain the energy balance in your meatsuit and keep it working
properly.
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Other Chakras
Warning!
It’s imperative that you’ve developed the ability to have a
positive outlook before you start working with the chakras. As you begin
the cleansing process you’re going to experience old, repressed emotions
and memories. If you haven’t learned to remain positive and release the
energy then you can possibly get yourself into a lot of trouble here. This
is where the support groups and internet discussion groups can really
help. You are NOT alone with this stuff, no matter how it feels
sometimes.
You may feel a variety of things with this exercise. You might
feel the spinning of the chakras, or just a light area at the chakra as the
energy flows in and out..
Continue this exercise up through the rest of the chakras. Don't be
distracted or even concerned with the images that come up relating to the
chakras. We'll deal with those later in another exercise. Right now just let
the energy flow and practice drawing it into your chakras and learn what
that feels like.
Variations
You can do this using Earth energy as I just described. You can
also use Universal energy and let it flow downward through your head
until it fills your entire body and spills down your arms.
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For the especially fun-loving you can combine this with the
Yin/Yang meditation shown later in the book and combine both energies
while visualizing the Yin/Yang symbol.
stronger the energy levels of your mate will also begin to increase, just
by the constant contact with you.
What you do to yourself can easily affect those you’re close to,
so don’t be surprised if your mate also begins to experience some clean
outs. This can frequently happen after or during sex as this is all sexual
energy and when you begin to crank it up then it can easily affect others.
Fortunately, I was aware of this fairly early on as I’ve had issues
with several girlfriends who’ve experienced emotional cleanouts while
having sex. If you’re not really well attuned to your own process it can
be really disheartening when the object of your affections bursts into
tears after making love.
As usual communication is the key. You’ll probably also begin
to gravitate more towards sexual partners who are involved in
metaphysics and energy work, or at least open to it. It can take a long
time for a non-energy worker to get used to your energy and intensity.
If you’re fortunate enough to be in a relationship with someone
who can handle your energy the practice of Tantra can open up some fun
new areas of study. “The Big Red Book” can bring you and your partner
hours of practice and exploration.
This is another area where the discussion groups can be
extremely helpful.
Seeking Help
You may stumble across a repressed emotion or memory that
requires some professional help and counseling to cope with. If that
happens take your therapist a copy of this book in the hopes it’ll help
them understand the process that you’re involved with and why you’re
delving into these areas. If you can't afford to take them a copy then
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email me with their name and address and I will send your therapist a
free copy.
It’s important to remember that you are NOT alone with this
process. There are some good resources available today in the form of
support and discussion groups that can really help with your process.
Take advantage of them and don’t be afraid to get on and talk about
what’s going on with your practice. I can’t tell you how many times
someone has made some offhand comment that unlocked doors for me.
I spent a decade completely alone, just stumbling through this. I
see people today that effortlessly flow through things that took me years
to work out, simply because there are so many easily available resources
now.
There are dangers involved with energy work, just as there are
dangers involved in any other facet of life. Training and self awareness
are how to deal with those dangers. The best thing I can tell you here is
that love and compassion are the best armor that you can have. Does that
always work? Of course not, but neither does anything else.
When you start working with the chakras you are directing
energy and intention into some parts of your life you've possibly been
avoiding. It's very possible to have memories, childhood traumas and
even past life or subconscious traumas that are buried so deeply in your
system you may not even know they exist.
When you start cleansing your system you WILL have to face
and deal with these issues. This tends to be the #1 reason why some
people are scared off of energy work. During the cleansing and rewiring
process you are going to have emotions, thoughts, feelings and traumas
boil up out of your system and you are going to have to address them and
then let them go. In my experience this rarely happens when you aren't
open to it, such as when you are at work or out on a date. If you've taken
the time to work on your intention and awareness you should be able to
handle all of this with very little problem.
When I was going through this process I had memories come up
and realized that there were things in my childhood that I was angry
about that I didn't even consciously remember. With very little effort or
reflection I was able to release those old angers and hurts and just let
them go. I had other instances where I had to get a massage, acupuncture
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Part 1
Start in the meditation position of choice and go through the
grounding and Secret Smile exercises. These are available on the CD Set
that I offer and the guided meditations make it much easier to get started.
After the Secret Smile choose one chakra to work on. Don't put a
lot of thought into which one to choose, just let your intuition be your
guide. Relax and feel the energy flowing into the chakra. Don't try to
draw more energy into the chakra or do anything special, just let your
awareness rest in your chakra and see what's there.
Pay attention to the colors and other visions behind your eyelids
but don't try to direct them. Simply be aware of what IS.
This should be very easy if you've been doing the exercises
covered so far. Here is where it gets a little tougher. As you've noticed,
the challenge has been to overcome the 'monkey mind' and learn to
ignore the distracting thoughts that arise whenever you try to clear your
mind. As we go into step 2 of this exercise we're going to allow thoughts
to come through so we can see them. The big challenge here is to be able
to see the thoughts and images, but NOT to be distracted by them and
start thinking about them. This may take a lot of work
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Part 2
After you've had a few minutes to relax into Part 1 and calmed
and cleared your mind it'll be time to start working with the chakra.
Focus on the chakra with which you are working and begin to let more
energy flow into it as you inhale just as we did in the 'Drawing Energy
into Your Chakras' exercise. Don't put a lot of effort into this or beat
yourself up with it. Just open up and 'inhale' the energy into your chakra
as you inhale. As you exhale let all the stress, emotions and pent up
energy flow out of the chakra and down into the earth.
Give yourself permission to cleanse and balance your chakra and
to let go of old, negative energy. Say this to yourself as you begin the
exercise. This is important because it not only defines your intent, it also
removes some subconscious blocks to working with the chakra.
Here is the hard part. As you breathe energy in and stress out
pay attention to the thoughts that are passing through your mind. You'll
have occasional thoughts that are not related to the chakra you are
working on such as 'this is a dumb exercise' or 'my butt hurts from sitting
here'. Ignore those, especially the one about this being a dumb exercise
and try to pay attention to the thoughts that would seem to be related to
the chakra you are working with. In the beginning this can be a little bit
like juggling cats because you are combining several different exercises
into one very powerful and relatively advanced workout.
You may find and identify a variety of different energy blocks
by doing this. Depending on which chakra you are working with you
may have childhood issues or angers that arise. You may find karmic
debts that have to be repaid and apologies that have to be made. You may
have emotional outbursts of laughing or crying as energy releases and
flows out of your system.
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Safety Note
It IS possible to have old, forgotten or even subconscious mental
and emotional traumas arise when working with the chakras. Remember
that you started this exercise and if it gets to be too much to handle then
you can stop it and go back into the Secret Smile.
The Secret Smile is the way for you to regain control of your
system if you start feeling overwhelmed. This is a simple exercise, but
it's very powerful and effective and you can spend some time doing it
and regain control of your emotions and energy.
Cleansing and balancing the chakras is about healing, and
humans have the capacity to store an immense amount of pain within our
bodies. The more relaxed, happy, healthy and comfortable your body is
the easier it is to cleanse and maintain it.
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Chapter 11
Healing
Basic Reiki
This is a very simplified primer on basic Reiki. It’s not a
certification course. It's intended as a basic lesson to help you start
channeling the energy.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese phrase which means “Universal Energy”. Its
history is enshrouded in myth, legend and parable, but the simple fact is,
it works. Reiki is simply the process of channeling Universal Energy
through oneself and into someone (or something) else. The vast range of
uses for Reiki range from healing oneself to opening and balancing the
Chakras and even charging objects and food with the energy.
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Getting Started
Reiki is safe and simple to use. To get started sit or lie down in a
comfortable position. Put on the music of your choice and relax. Place
your hands over your face with your palms over your eyes. Touch your
tongue to the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue just behind
your front teeth.
As you inhale open up and feel the energy flow down through
the top of your head and down to your heart chakra, feel it flow out along
your arms and out through your hands and into your face. At the simplest
level that’s ALL you have to do. The energy will go wherever it’s needed
and do whatever is required of it. You don’t have to send it anywhere in
particular or try to control it.
Getting Deeper
Reiki flows through you simply by your intent. You just have to
intend to open up to it and you’ll find it readily available. You may feel
many different things while giving yourself a Reiki treatment. Your
hands or the part of your body covered by your hands may get hot, cold
or tingly. Some people feel it very easily and others take awhile to open
up to it. The simplest explanation I’ve found is to think of what the
emotion Love feels like, and then just relax and let it flow.
Everyone should study Reiki. I think that Reiki and money
management should be required courses in public school! Any energy
worker, massage therapist, healer, martial artist or metaphysician can
greatly benefit from Reiki, and there are many FREE Reiki classes and
sources of training available, as many of us try to make it as easily
accessible as possible to anyone who wants it.
I hope this simple exercise helps some of you who’ve been
interested in Reiki, but just haven’t made the leap into studying it yet.
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Chakra Balancing
Here’s a simple exercise anyone can do using Reiki. It’s simple and
easy and you can do it even if you haven’t been attuned to Reiki. It
requires a basic knowledge of channeling Reiki energy, the positions of
the 7 primary chakras and a willingness to spend some time making
someone else feel good. Everything else is optional.
Getting Started
Lie down in a comfortable position and put a pillow under your
knees to help take the strain off your lower back.
Place one hand over your crown and the other over your 1st
chakra. Relax and open up to the energy and let it flow down through the
top of your head, through your heart chakra and out through your hands.
Spent several minutes here, or until you feel like it’s time to change.
Next move one hand up to your 2nd Chakra and the other down to your
third eye. Spend as much time as you need here, and then move one hand
down to your Throat Chakra and the other up to your Solar Plexus
Chakra.
Spend as much time as you need here, and then move both hands
to your Heart Chakra. After you finish here just switch your hands
around to your chakras at random (including the Heart Chakra) and
continue tuning them up for as long as you desire.
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Getting Deeper
These exercises can obviously be enhanced by using the Reiki
Symbols and by having the Attunements, but neither is really necessary.
Over time your body will attune itself if you keep running the energy.
These exercises can also be enhanced by regularly practicing
‘The 5 Tibetans’ exercises, as they help tune and rejuvenate your
chakras.
There are so many things that can be done, both with Reiki and
your Chakra System, and the point of this exercise is to help you balance
your energy and feel better. It’s also about building up your own catalog
of experience, as it’s pretty hard for any teacher to tell you what a certain
exercise should feel like when you do it. I can tell you how it feels to me
when I do it, but it may feel different to you when you do it yourself, so
play with it and see how it feels.
This is also about learning to trust yourself and your own feelings and
the only way to do that is play with your energy and have fun with it.
Healing
I've already written about several healing methods in the chakra
section. I'm going to write more about this because some of us take more
healing than others. When I went through the awakening I needed a lot of
work in this area and I remember how damaged I felt during the process.
I think the entire process was a lot harder and longer than it had
to be because I just didn't have very many resources to work with. I'm
also one of those guys who tend to crawl off into the rocks like a
wounded grizzly rather than getting out and looking for help.
Another factor during my process was the fact that I grew up
with a very bad money consciousness and I simply couldn't afford to go
take the seminars and learn from the healers, even if I'd known they
existed. One of the reasons I'm writing books now is because I've learned
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a lot that can be passed on and hopefully help others avoid some of the
mistakes I made.
Making Mistakes
I think it's especially appropriate to put this section under
'Healing'. I tend to be a fairly active guy and mistakes usually hurt. It’s
important to remember however, that making mistakes is one of the ways
that we learn.
Making mistakes also helps us learn to deal more effectively
with our ego. Think about that for a moment. How often do we come up
with wildly interesting excuses, oh sorry, reasons, for the utterly stupid
things we do? I once ran out across the beach and got distracted by a hot
girl in a string bikini and dove into shallow water and broke my neck!
That is Darwinism in Action. We all screw up and we all do stupid
things. So why is it so hard to admit that? Think about it.
We also live in a culture that begins teaching us from an early
age that it’s bad to make mistakes. I’m not saying it’s ok to not pay
attention to what you are doing. If you’re sky diving or ice climbing or
scuba diving you probably only get one mistake, so make it spectacular.
However, it’s very easy to get so caught up in trying to not make a
mistake that we often don’t take action in the first place! Robert Kiyosaki
wrote a great book called “Before You Quit Your Job” in which he gives
some great insights on why it’s important to make mistakes.
The reason that I put this into a chapter on healing is because we
frequently block our access to healing energies by creating inner
conflicts within ourselves over the mistakes or learning opportunities we
make. If your ego won’t allow you to admit to other people that you had
a temporary case of the dumb-ass then you are going to be putting a lot
of energy into making excuses. The Sun Was In My Eyes, It Was Windy,
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Chapter 12
Opening the Chakras
By this point (if you’ve been doing the exercises) you should be
in the process of opening and balancing your chakras in a very gentle and
safe manner. The following exercises should be done one chakra at a
time in the beginning. For the first few weeks do the chakras one per
night. Do the Grounding and Secret
Smile exercises first as you really
want a happy, relaxed body for this. You could go
Give it a few weeks and then faster and get more
practice opening the first four, Root dramatic results,
through Heart. Take your time with but remember
this. everything balances
Doing it this way helps cool between the
the energy as you work up through dualities.
the chakras. You do not want a blast
of hot energy rocketing up your spine into the base of your brain. You
could go faster and get more dramatic results, but remember everything
balances between the dualities. The more dramatic your experience on
one end of the scale the more dramatic the aftershock will be on the other
polarity. The goal is slow steady progress that doesn’t turn your life
upside down rather than a sudden eruption of energy up your spine. The
sudden eruption stories all sound cool when the survivor tells them years
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later at parties, but there’s a long process in between, so take it slow and
easy.
The simple secret to opening the chakras is the lotus flower. It
has a root, a stem and the flower itself. Each Chakra also represents the
flower and each chakra has a certain number of petals which correspond
to the wavelength of the energy.
First Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
fall down to your first chakra. Visualize the first chakra as a red lotus
flower with 4 petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn slowly and
gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the four petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
Second Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
fall down to your second chakra. Visualize the second chakra as an
orange lotus flower with six petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the six petalled lotus and
gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
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Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
Third Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses fall down to your third chakra. Visualize the third chakra as a
yellow lotus flower with ten petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the ten petalled lotus and
gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Fourth Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses go to your fourth chakra. Visualize the fourth chakra as a
green lotus flower with twelve petals. Allow the face of the flower to
turn slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the twelve petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
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Fifth Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses go to your fifth chakra. Visualize the fifth chakra as a blue
lotus flower with sixteen petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the sixteen petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Sixth Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses go to your sixth chakra. Visualize the sixth chakra as an
indigo lotus flower with two petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the double petalled lotus
and up through your crown and out to the universe. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Seventh Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
go to your seventh chakra. Visualize the seventh chakra as a violet lotus
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flower with a thousand petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn slowly
and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the thousand petalled
lotus and up into the universe. Gently squeeze your sphincter and PC
muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
First Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first two chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower growing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, its
orange six petalled face rising towards the sun. See the energy flow up
through the orange lotus and change colors as it flows through the other
chakras and out the crown and into the universe. Be sure to balance your
chakras afterwards.
Second Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first three chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower rowing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, with
a stem holding its yellow ten petalled face, rising towards the sun. See
the energy flow up through the yellow lotus and change colors as it flows
through the other chakras and out the crown and into the universe.
Third Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first four chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower rowing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, with
a stem holding its green twelve petalled face, rising towards the sun. See
the energy flow up through the green lotus and change colors as it flows
through the other chakras and out the crown and into the universe.
Chapter 13
Damo’s Cave
Damo’s Cave is an ancient Shamanic Journey in which the
seeker travels internally. Damo is also known as the Bodhidharma or
Daruma, depending on which version of the tales you read. Damo was
the Hindu monk who traveled to
China and taught the Shaolin Monks
Kung Fu. It’s a fun legend that may
It’s a great
even be true. It’s an interesting and
meditation for
fun exercise that can teach you a lot
learning to visualize
about yourself. It’s a great
and fantasize, both
meditation for learning to visualize
of which are
and fantasize, both of which are
important skills for
important skills for creating the
creating the world
world you want to live in.
This works better as a
you want to live in.
With your eyes closed and looking up into the third eye, see
yourself floating in a calm sea. Try to make this as realistic as possible.
Can you feel the warm water supporting you and smell the salt air?
In the distance is an island. You don’t have to swim for it, all
you have to do is relax and let the island come to you as you ride the
ocean’s currents toward it. As you get to the shore you can see the bright,
sandy beach and a forest of palm trees up the side of a huge volcanic
mountain. A trail leads from the beach up through the trees and up the
side of the mountain.
As you walk across the sand you can feel yourself drawing
energy from the ground up through your feet. You become stronger and
more confident as you begin to walk up the trail through the trees.
Off to the left you can see the abandoned ruins of an old temple
and a graveyard. There are also a couple of pools nearby. You go around
these and continue up the trail. The climb becomes steeper and harder as
you go and you feel yourself getting tired. You lean against the trees and
rocks and discover that you can draw energy in through your hands, and
this revitalizes you and gives you the strength to keep climbing.
Ahead of you the trail forks and you see that one fork leads
around to a large cave. There’s a guardian at the entrance of the cave
who wears a long cloak and a cowl that masks its identity. You get closer
to the cave and the guardian motions for you to enter. You can feel a
strong sense of acceptance and the guardian bows to you, making you
feel a bit like a king or a queen.
Inside the cave is a long, downward spiraling tunnel. The walls
glow with a slight phosphorescence that allows you to see as you
descend. The tunnel opens out into a large cavern with a faint glow of hot
lava far back towards the rear. On your left is a podium upon which rests
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a large leather bound book. On the cover in gold letters is written “All
Knowledge Is Power! Seeking Truth, First Look Ye Here.”
Behind the podium is a room with a huge array of computers and
electronics. There are three very comfortable looking captain’s chairs in
the room and a young man and woman working there. They don’t see
you yet.
To the right is a great stairway with five wide steps of different
colors. At each step is a door.
The first step is red and the door is massive. You can see past it
into a desert with a large stone city in the distance.
The second step is orange and the door is built like double Dutch
doors. Beyond this door you can see a small stream that leads down to a
huge lake or an ocean. In the distance is a ship coming in to the harbor.
The third step is yellow with an intricately carved door. Beyond
is a city that’s both ancient and modern and which shelters a wide variety
of people, including some who look like elves. You can hear the faint
tinkle of glassware and laughter if you listen.
The next step is green and opens out onto a bright blue,
cloudless sky. You can see a bird floating gracefully on the updrafts
outside.
The last step is tilted and spirals off into the distance fading
through shades of violet and white. It seems to penetrate through the rock
of the cave in the far distance.
In the center of the cave are your living quarters. You see a
series of rooms that house your bedroom, bath, a personal dojo and
instructor, stables, laboratory, machine shops, gear lockers, gardens, a
library and a kitchen.
In one room you find a hidden doorway and in another is a
trapdoor under the rug. You don’t explore either at this time as they are
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both dark. In a room towards the back of the cave is an animal that seems
to regard you as its master.
My cave was bare when I first got into it, but it’s gradually taken
on a very Oriental/Native American look as I’ve explored it and begun to
furnish it more to my liking.
This is your space and you can do anything you like with it.
Explore through the doors, interact with the people and animals. Open up
the book and see what’s in it. You’ll find the gear lockers fully stocked
with climbing gear, scuba gear, etc. As I’ve begun to trim down my
possessions and build up my connections to the universal energy I’ve
found I need less gear for my explorations so I’m turning that space into
a hydroponics greenhouse.
Get as real as you possibly can with this exercise. Try to smell
the fragrances and feel the wind on your skin. Get as wild and crazy as
you want to also. This is your space and anything goes.
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Chapter 14
Travels in the Void
When you look up into your third eye and clear your mind
completely you can enter a space that goes beyond the normal mundane
world. The Void is a place
completely outside of space and
time where anything can, and often You are more
does, happen. powerful than
Eventually you’ll run into anything you’ll run
something malignant while into in the Void.
traveling in the void. You can look
at these beings as anything you want. You can see them as spirits,
demons, aliens and representatives of human evil. The important thing to
remember at this point is that, while frightening, they don’t have any
corporeal form.
You are more powerful than anything you’ll run into in the
Void. Some of these critters feed off of fear, so when you give it to them
they like it and they’ll come back for more. You can avoid most of the
beasties in the Void simply by not showing fear. Occasionally one may
decide to test you and when that happens there are a couple of different
strategies you can use.
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Armor of Light
Another defensive tactic is to see yourself armored in strong
bright light. Once again this can be summoned, so you don’t have to go
around feeling like you’re on the defensive.
Just Eat It
If you don’t want to bother with either of those you can just
swallow the beast, literally. It’s only energy so just inhale it and get on
with your trip.
words. There is a lot more to this than originally comes to mind. Think
about it for awhile.
Love
Another tactic that works for me when I run into something that
would ordinarily be considered a nightmare; Love. Just relax and send it
all the unconditional love you can. Remember that some experiences or
beings will show up to test you so keep the Universal Laws in mind and
treat them the way you'd want to be treated.
Chapter 15
Becoming Your True Self
Awakening your Inner Power is a fairly simple process. People
do it all the time without even meaning to, just in the course of their
lives. The hard part of awakening doesn’t have anything to do with
connecting the energy; it’s about living with the person who has
awakened the energy and BE-ing
that person.
Many people experience The hard part of
dramatic changes in their awakening doesn’t
personalities and lifestyles after an have anything to do
awakening. Sometimes this is with connecting the
caused by the changes that come energy; it’s about
from cleansing and balancing the living with the
chakras. As all the accumulated person who has
stresses and memories dissipate
awakened the
and are dealt with the seeker finds
energy and BE-
that things that used to be
ing that person.
earthshakingly important just don’t
matter anymore.
The brain and nervous system go through a rewiring process as
the body becomes used to running higher energies. Frequently the person
in the midst of this rewiring process will experience shudders, called
kriyas, which run through their muscles.
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During this process the seeker often begins to see their life and
their purpose much differently. This, combined with the process of
letting go of attachments and dropping the ego-based masks we’re all
taught to wear can cause some pretty radical changes in a person’s
behavior.
On the other hand some people just hit the awakening like a
speed bump and don’t seem to make the same extreme changes to their
life. Sometimes the answer is simply that they were already living their
intended life and the dramatic changes just weren’t necessary.
I stress the positive attitude and doing exercises like the Secret
Smile because this can be a pretty rough time, especially for those who
tend to be negatively oriented. Don’t be afraid to get onto the discussion
groups and talk about this either. Most likely there will be someone else
on there going through the same thing but doesn’t recognize it.
Many of our issues with duality go back to our very basic nature,
not our good/bad, male/female or light/dark side, but even deeper to the
Id and Super-Ego. It’s extremely easy to see these as the basis for all of
the others with the battle being between the untrained, instinctive Id and
the overly intellectual Super-Ego and the need for balance.
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negativity into the ‘Dark’ category, but having a negative attitude isn’t a
positive dark trait. ☺
Remember that this is all about developing your own personal
mastery. When you give in to negative feelings and emotions then you
are giving away your personal power.
Yin/Yang Exercise
Here’s an exercise I’ve been playing with. I won’t say that I
invented it because when it comes to meditation there really is nothing
new. It’s all been done before. I can say however, I didn’t learn this from
any external source; it’s just something that came to me.
Pick the meditation position you prefer and take a moment to
ground yourself. You do this by letting your energetic roots grow down
into the earth and feel the earth energy flow up into you on the inhale, all
the way up over your head.
As you exhale release all your stress and tension and let it flow
back down into the earth to be recycled. Feel your muscles relax as this
stress bleeds out of your body and feel your connection to the earth
increase as you draw in each breath. Do this as long as necessary to
become relaxed and feel a good connection to the energy.
Now as you inhale, feel the dark earth energy flow up the back
side of your body, while simultaneously opening up and feeling the light
universal energy flow down through the crown of your head and down
the front of your body.
As you exhale see the 2 bands of energy swirl through you and
into a yin/yang symbol that encompasses you. Continue at this level til
you can do that with one breath comfortably.
The next step is to let loose of your perceptions and become the
yin/yang symbol. Feel yourself expand beyond your usual physical
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boundaries with the light and dark energies swirling through you in
perfect balance. If the energy wants to continue spiraling let it.
Now begin to expand yourself, feeling the connectivity to the
light/dark energy in everything around you. It’s all the same energy and
the parts of it that are in you are also the parts of you that are in it. Feel
your energy expand til it fills (feels) the room, now let it expand to fill
your house, your city, your state. Continue expanding out through the
solar system, then the universe.
This is the energy that’s all around us all the time. We’re as
much a part of it as it’s a part of us, and in reality there’s no difference
between it and us. We/it encompass everything and we’re/it’s the basic
building blocks for everything that ever was or is.
It’s the proper balance of the light/dark, masculine/feminine,
good/bad and positive/negative that holds everything together. “For
every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction” is not just a good
idea, it’s the law.
Feel the connections to the universe within and without. Feel the
swirl of the galaxies within you and visualize them as tiny yin/yangs all
swirling together inside a larger yin/yang which is also just another swirl
and realize (make REAL) that the dualities don’t really exist, they are
just perceptions of the same reality.
Choose one of the swirling yin/yangs at random and let yourself
fall into it. This should be easy since (sense?) your connection to
everything also gives you unlimited abilities. As you fall into this
swirling galaxy you can see it’s made up of billions of swirling little
solar systems all made up of little yin/yangs. Choose one at random and
flow into it. See the little yin/yangs rotating around a larger one in the
center. Choose one of these at random and flow down to it. When you
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look more closely at it you can see it's also made up of billions of
swirling, individual yin/yangs. Choose one of these and flow into it.
Feel yourself settling down on the yin/yang and relaxing into a
meditation position. Everything is smooth and safe and relaxed.
Without letting go of your connection to the universe, can you
open your eyes and feel the light/dark energies swirling all around you?
Did you come back down to the same room and body and mindset that
you left? Does it matter?
Play with this as there are infinite possibilities and energies to
explore.
Since most of us are already outside what’s ‘normal’ for our societies I
probably don’t have to spend much time with this.
Some of this programming is useful and it lets us move through
and function within our society. Some of it is useless and exists merely to
keep us in line with whichever religious, economic, political, social order
that happens to dominate at the moment. Some of it is destructive and
designed specifically to prevent you from accessing your subconscious
energies, preventing you from really thinking on your own and
developing your Self in the directions you think it should go.
In contrast the Id (or maybe just my Id) tends to be untrained to
function in society and has very little worry about what’s ‘normal’ or
even polite. It’s like a big, tough 6 year old kid. Just because something
is an instinctive reaction doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct within the
social context. When I see someone abuse an animal or a child my first
response is to do to the abuser exactly whatever they are doing to the
victim. I’m very Old Testament that way sometimes, but is that the
correct response according to the laws we live under? Is it the correct
response according to the laws of compassion and reciprocity?
Sometimes a thoughtful solution can be better for everyone.
Rising above the Id is just as important as overcoming the
Super-ego. Many of us have very unbalanced responses that are based in
the Id rather than the Super-ego. Did you ever meet someone who tended
to be very paranoid and reacted with violence as a first solution? In many
cases the ‘warrior’ mentality is very Id based, as is the ‘nurturer’ and the
‘shaman’.
Ego Triggers
We all have ego triggers.
An ego trigger is any word, phrase, thought or feeling that
causes an unintentional, unthinking response within us. Some easy words
to use for examples are Abortion, Gun Control, Animal Rights, Human
Rights, the Environment, Child Abuse and Summer Camp. If none of
these words elicited a response in you you are probably a rare human
indeed.
I used some politically oriented words, but you can address them
more specifically. How about hypocrite, chauvinist, moron, dipshit, idiot,
fat or slut?
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yourself for any actions, deeds or words you used in conjunction with the
ego trigger.
Allow any emotions that need to come forth as you release your
attachment to the word. You may laugh or cry, scream or shout, jump up
and down or dance or anything else you need to do to get the feelings out
of your system. If you feel you need professional help with counseling,
massage or healing then by all means get it. If you start feeling
overwhelmed remember to use the Secret Smile to pull yourself out of
the stresses.
Once you’ve begun to release the stresses from the ego trigger
you can begin to look at compassionate and loving ways to respond to
that trigger from now on. It’s almost impossible to get rid of every ego
trigger you may have, but you can definitely replace the negative effects
with something more positive.
One of the things that happen with Meditation is that all the
masks are stripped away. Suddenly you’re left with a completely blank
slate and it’s up to you to decide what should be there. It’s one of the
reasons why some people have such radical changes to their personality
after an awakening.
A lot of people also hide behind their masks and it can be
extremely frightening when those masks no longer hide them from
themselves. It’s one of the reasons I’m constantly prattling on about
intention and awareness and having a positive attitude.
The good news is that you don’t have to experience an
awakening to begin the process of dropping the masks. As you get deeper
into the self-awareness process you’ll begin to question some of the
things you do and the reasons you do them. As you expand your
awareness you’ll be able to have different views of your own actions as
well.
The simplest way to begin stripping these masks away is to look
at your responses to external/internal stimuli. Do you respond primarily
from the Super-ego (conscious) or the Id (subconscious) parts of your
ego? How’s that working out for you? Are there times when you’d like to
respond more consciously and other times when you feel like your
intellect gets in the way?
As you journey through your own self-awareness you’ll find
that you can begin changing your responses, and therefore changing your
masks.
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and
study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
Epictetus
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find this easier to do. You are a living, breathing sacred space generator
and everyone who comes in contact with you enters your area of sacred
space and therefore should pass out the other side of it feeling better than
when they went in to it.
The challenge with this is to feel that way about everyone, no
matter how they’ve treated you, or how stupid, rude inept or downright
mean they act. We all have the ability to be total jerks. Just as we’ve
accidentally shown our bad sides to others, then others will show their
bad sides to us. It’s entirely possible the one bad moment you witness
from your adversary may be the only bad moment that person has ever
shown. Judging them as a perpetual jerk may be as utterly unfair as the
times when others judged you as a perpetual asshole.
When you bring the jerk into your bubble of sacred space your
goal is to make their day better. Get beyond your own ego and the
attitudes of “How dare they treat ME that way” and see if you can help
break them out of their bad mood. Look at it like a game. Have fun with
it.
Does this always work? Of course not. Sometimes the other
person is still going to be a jerk, and sometimes in the case of a
potentially violent situation this tactic may still not be enough to avoid
the confrontation. As I often point out in my martial arts classes “You
may still find it necessary to bend, fold and spindle an attacker, but at
least this method keeps you from doing it in anger or hatred”.
Another thing to remember about anger is that the usual
response to it is more anger. What’s the first thing you feel when
someone becomes angry with you? If you’re like most of us you also
begin to get angry. It develops into a circle and keeps growing until it
either spills over or sanity prevails.
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Remember with anger that it’s just like love. Someone can give
you all of it that they want to, but it’s up to you to accept it. Like the old
example the monks use; if someone offers you a cup of tea and you
refuse it then whose tea is it? It still belongs to them. If someone offers
you anger and you refuse it then whose anger is it?
The next time you feel yourself becoming angry try this:
Begin your belly breathing drawing your breath deep into your
hara. Let your muscles relax and let any tension flow out and down into
the earth. As you inhale feel the earth energy flow up into you until it
fills your entire body. On your exhales continue to let stress and tension
flow out.
Begin drawing chi in through your liver. Don’t worry if you
don’t know where your liver is, just
open up and intend for the energy
to flow into it and you’ll eventually Of course, you
be able to feel your liver as you do also have to
this. Experiment and play with this. remember to forgive
If your concentration is good if yourself.
nothing else it may take your mind
off whatever you’re angry about.
Remember that the Law of Reciprocity applies here also so if
you send out anger then you’ll receive anger in return.
Forgiveness
Since none of us are perfect it’s important to remember about
forgiveness. When someone ticks you off the first thing to remember
once you cool down is to forgive them for whatever they did to make you
angry. This is extremely important because until you do this you’re still
carrying the seeds of that anger around with you. Take a moment to
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Righteous Anger
Looking at the world today makes you think there are times
when we should be angry. Human Rights abuses, starvation, injustice,
etc. When you start getting mad about those things where do you stop? It
might sound perfectly reasonable if you say “I’m only going to be
righteously angry about the worst injustices and then stamp them out”. If
you’re amazingly effective (more so than anyone has ever been) you’ll
single handedly make the world a better place. However, you’ll reach a
point where you’ve cleaned up the entire planet and you begin to vent
your righteous anger on some guy who spits on the sidewalk because
that’s the worst thing that’s left.
Of course no matter how angry you get you can never stamp out
injustice or abuse. Those things are part of our basic nature and you can’t
be angry about our basic nature, you can only accept it. Once you accept
it you can get beyond it.
Even righteous anger is subject to the Law of Reciprocity. You
may feel justified at being angry at the person who screwed up, but we
all screw up occasionally. Personally I’d prefer to give compassion rather
than anger (and I eventually hope to get good at it). When you react out
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Spiritual Integration
Chapter 16
Living in Abundance
"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have
drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you."
Illusions - Richard Bach
Some of the best and most helpful resources I've found for
balancing wealth and spirituality have come from the Teachings of
Abraham and Esther Hicks. To say I'm a huge fan of these
revolutionary teachings would be a massive understatement.
So many spiritually oriented people have trouble balancing
money and spirituality because we've been indoctrinated into being
poor for a very long time. Depending on the level of indoctrination
you've been subjected to these teachings can require some major
work and attitude shifts.
If you don't control your finances, you do not control your life
in this modern culture. I can't stress this enough. You can choose to
live in Voluntary Simplicity and grow all of your own food and
make all of your own clothes and so on. I really dig that type of
lifestyle and I've got the chickens in the backyard to prove it. But the
fact remains that money is a form of energy and you simply cannot
be One with the Universe while cutting yourself off from the
abundance and wealth that surrounds you.
Money as Energy
I know what you're thinking right now. I don't have to be
psychic. I've been around thousands of spiritual people for a very long
time. I've also been around an equal number of business people and I
know what the attitudes are.
You're thinking "Money is not important and I don't care about
money". You've been TAUGHT to think that way!
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I disagree.
The Paradox;
We must be materially successful (to a certain point at least) in
order to accomplish our goals. But in many people's opinion successful
people (rich, wealthy, affluent, etc.) tend to have bad morals and be
spiritually unhealthy.
This paradox creates a certain push-pull effect on our financial
lives. For many people money still tends to be the deciding factor in
almost every part of their lives. How often do we forego training and
charitable opportunities because we feel we "can't afford" to spend the
money? How often would we like to do more to help with the various
social issues that concern us, but feel we are already at the limit of what
we can afford to give? How many good things are NOT being
accomplished because good people can't muster the resources to bring
them to fruition?
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Chapter 17
Death and Reincarnation
"You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good
training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the
way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced
life forms, and they'll call you crazy."
Illusions - Richard Bach
that require you to put some real effort into sorting out and it could be
caused in part by these past life vows.
I think a lot of the attitudes about money can be attributed to
past life vows of poverty. So many people in the metaphysical circles
have bad attitudes about money and seem to be constantly working
through it.
Many of those who travel in the metaphysical circles today were
probably healers, priests and shamans in past lives and still have the
memories of the tribe taking care of them. Today the average healer or
shaman has to have a day job and do their life’s work after hours, yet
they remember, at a soul level, the times when money and material
possessions weren’t necessary. Sometimes it’s hard to break out of that.
With that in mind it’s no surprise so many of us have problems
in thinking positively about money. We especially seem to have
problems anytime we’re mixing money and spirituality. Often we feel we
shouldn’t be charging money for anything related to our spiritual
teachings and pathways.
At the same time, we no longer live in a world where the ‘tribe’
takes care of us, so it becomes necessary to have a way to defray
expenses, especially when so many of us tend to travel to other cities and
teach seminars and workshops.
Just something to think about.
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Chapter 18
Becoming who We’re Supposed to Be
awareness the colors transform into shapes. Expand your awareness and
little more and the shapes come together as a painting. Expand it a little
more and the painting is hanging on a wall, and the wall is in a museum,
and so on. You can do this as a meditation and keep ‘moving back’ and
expanding your awareness until your awareness isn’t of the painting at
all, but of the entire universe.
Now apply that same exercise to your own life. You can learn to
pull back and expand your awareness of yourself and everything around
you. If you’ve followed the exercises I’ve outlined so far you should be
well on your way to making this happen.
“One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover -
our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as
you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man; and
his compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is
precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its
Creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all the other
tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night
suffocate in your own wastes.”
From the Letter of Chief Seathl (Seattle) to the President of the
United States, Franklin Pierce, 1854
Us and Them
Once you open up your awareness you may begin to develop an
“Us” and “Them” complex. It’s important to remember that they are also
a part of the natural order and they’re even vital to our success.
Every human has the ability to awaken their Inner Power and
become their true selves. It’s funny that those who do are so few and far
between. Even though everyone could do it, most people simply aren’t
meant to at this time. That’s one reason I don’t spend a lot of time trying
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to convince the skeptical about Inner Power. I know it’s real because I’ve
experienced it firsthand. It doesn’t bother me at all if others don’t believe
me. I’d rather put my time into empowering those who are looking for it.
The ‘normal’ people are just being normal and you have to love
them because of that, rather than in spite of it. So many of the issues that
plague our unenlightened society could be solved easily through
meditation and intentional living. Hopefully as the numbers of those who
live intentionally increase, it’ll become easier for ‘them’ to find the path
and get onto it. Even though there are differences in perceptions of the
world and life in general, there’s really no such thing as ‘better’ or
‘worse’.
spend a lot of time with those people or have them as houseguests. Just
take some time and see if you can recognize those same qualities about
yourself that annoy you in others and see if there might be a way to
approach them from a position of love and compassion.
Our culture isn’t helping us with this either. If you don’t put
some thought and intention into your life it’s very easy to be entrapped in
some of the political bickering that goes on. How often have you heard a
liberal say “All conservatives are stupid and unrealistic” or vice versa.
Remember what I said earlier about ego triggers? Glenn Morris used to
talk about the ego and say “You control it or IT controls you”.
Take some time and work through this. Whenever you see
someone who causes a judgmental thought just remember that person is a
catalyst for you. They are a reminder that you are divine and within your
divinity there must be infinite variation and diversity. Everyone we meet
is a guru or a teacher.
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Chapter 19
Setting Boundaries for the Universe
"Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once…and
space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you." — Susan Sontag
When you awaken your Inner Power and start to get balanced
out you're going to discover you have unlimited energy as well as the
ability to tap into the unlimited creativity of the Universe.
It's important to remember that you literally have all the time in
the world to get things done. After
my first book came out it seems like
the floodgates of the Universe You can ask for
opened up and I was deluged with
anything you want,
ideas and concepts. It wasn't
unusual to awaken at 3 am and work so ask for a plan!
until midnight during these periods.
My wife calls them 'the 3 o'clock downloads' and I'd wake up with a
concept and so much energy that I literally couldn't stay in bed. Some of
these concepts were so big and mind blowing that I know they didn't
come from this human brain I'm carrying around; I'm just not that smart.
Therefore I knew it must have been something from the Universe that I
was supposed to be working on.
If you haven't experienced this or something like it then you
probably will. It can be an exciting and rewarding time as well as a strain
on your physicality, family life and career.
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Remember that time is not linear the way most people think of it
and remember that just because you're given an amazing idea doesn't
mean you're supposed to jump on that idea right now. These were lessons
I learned the hard way so pay attention.
During this period I had concepts such as 'The Spiritual
Entrepreneur' that were so big that it was clear I was supposed to pursue
them. However, I was already up to my neck in a publishing business, a
full-time job and a wonderful family life so something had to give. That
something ended up being me, and by extension, everything else.
It's easy to fall into the trap of being too close to what you're
working on, especially when those projects come with a massive blast of
energy. After about 3 years of 20 hour days I had gotten to a point where
I was just burning out physically, however.
Some of my friends and assistants who were with me during this
period have given me some valuable feedback that I'm going to pass on
to you in hopes it helps you avoid the same mistakes.
Tom Lux and Margie D. were both helping me on various
projects. Margie was doing a spectacular job pulling together The
Spiritual Entrepreneur Radio Show and some other jobs. Tom was
helping me set up classes and workshops at local healing clinics. Both of
them ran into the same problem. As Tom puts it; "You were just moving
so fast that we couldn't keep up with you. By the time we realized what
needed to be done you were already two projects ahead and still picking
up speed".
Here are some of the lessons in a nutshell;
• You can ask for anything you want, so ask for a plan!
o I got all of this stuff downloaded at once and it
was like being shown a picture of a house and
being told "Build that, here's everything you
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Chapter 20
1% for Inner Peace
Campaign Goals
The goals are simple:
1. Introduce more people to meditation and the feeling of Inner Peace
A. The 100th Monkey - This is the idea that when a certain
number of people learn how to do something a tipping point will be
reached and everyone else will be able to do it as well. There is a
significant amount of evidence for this.
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Get Involved!
Here are some things you can do to help;
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links intact and write a short introduction to the article.
* Have a contest! – See who can invite the most people to the
event (or make up your own contest that gets people to meditate). I’ll
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Chapter 21
How to Achieve Inner Peace
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma
Gandhi
just about anyone can release their energy blocks and find deeper levels
of Inner Peace.
Releasing energy blocks can be a very gradual process for some
people and fairly explosive for others. This is why I caution people who
are new to meditation or energy
work. Energy blocks are energy,
and energy can’t be created or With a little bit of
destroyed. When you release those training and a lot of
blocks from your system that practice just about
energy has to go somewhere and it anyone can release
may manifest as anger, pain, joy, their energy blocks
happiness or any other emotion. and find deeper
Ask any massage therapist, levels of Inner
acupuncturist or healer and they’ll Peace.
regale you with stories of clients
who had uncontrollable fits of laughter or bouts of inconsolable crying
during healing session. In many cases the client had no idea why they
were having this emotional outburst, simply that the feeling came on so
strongly and they couldn’t resist it.
The release of an energy block can affect every part of your life
and in many cases has provided the catalyst for people to make life
altering steps in jobs, home life, relationships or just about any other part
of life. Fortunately there is a safety mechanism built in to our bodies.
Generally it takes some consistent effort to release these blocks and when
you make that effort through meditation then frequently you’ll have the
guidance to manage the effects of the energy release.
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Chapter 22
Epilogue: The Beginning
“Sattvic knowledge sees the one indestructible Being in all beings,
the unity underlying the multiplicity of creation. Rajaistic knowledge
sees all things and creatures as separate and distinct. Tamasic
knowledge, lacking any sense of perspective, sees one small part and
mistakes it for the whole.”
In the meantime, have fun with your life; it’s the best one you
have at the moment.
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