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Pa g e 16 Full Spectrum Center for Spiritual Awakening Know that you are love, that love is your essence. Full Spectrum Intensive June 4 & 5, 2011 Join us for this powerful and uplifting two-day intensive, guided by Sandra Barnard, Full Spectrum’s spiritual leader. This potent and transformative weekend consists of inspiring talks, meditation, chanting, and other experiences intended to lead you deep inside. The Full Spectrum Center offers a variety of programs, intensives, courses, retreats, and other events designed to support and nurture turning within and experiencing the bliss of the true Self. Find out more: www.FullSpectrumCtr.org 814.337.8399 · Contact@FullSpectrumCtr.org 310 Chestnut St., Ste 400, Meadville PA 16335 The Full Spectrum Center is a nonprofit organization. Ma y • Ju n e 2011 T h e Jo u r n e y
4 Techniques for a Fruitful Search The search for fulfillment and joy in this life can be tough. It often feels like groping in treacherous darkness. Here are some simple suggestions to help you on your journey. 1 Spend time each day focused on what your ideal relationship with the world would feel like. People tend to think they want specific things. For example, you may think you want a house in the country with cathedral ceilings, a lush garden, and a teacup poodle. I would argue it’s not really these things that you want. It’s the ideal relationship with the world – which those things represent to you – that you want. You want a relationship with the world that’s rich with beauty and opportunities to nurture. A relationship that’s expansive (cathedral ceilings), alive (lush garden), adorable and adoring (teacup poodle). Many teachers of the law of attraction will suggest that you focus on imagining having the specific things that you want. I suggest this, too, but only as an aid to imagining and vividly experiencing the feeling of what it would be like for you to be in your ideal relationship with the world. Because let’s face it: The things would be meaningless without the relationship. There are lots of people who have fabulous houses and gardens and poodles who are rotting with misery. Being T h e Jo u r n e y By Carolyn Elliott surrounded by wondrous things only feels good when those things occur in the context of a rich relationship with life. What would it feel like if every person you encountered knew you as you wish to be known, honored you as you wish to be honored, helped you as you wished to be helped? And what would it feel like if all the unseen forces of the universe were continually showering you with gifts? Focus on this feeling every day; discover it and nurture it. 2Notice what beliefs or selfimages you hold that argue against the possibility of this ideal relationship – and work to release them. The ver y act of imagining yourself within your ideal relationship with the world has the effect of turning on the bright lights within your spirit, so you can see the shadows more starkly. As soon as you begin to focus on the feeling of that relationship, you’ll notice parts of yourself objecting – “that’s impossible,” “that’s not how life works,” “that could never happen for me.” Those objections come from the conditioned beliefs and self-images you hold about yourself. The process of releasing longheld limiting beliefs and self-imag- Ma y • Ju n e 2011 es is ongoing and multi-layered. Great progress can be made immediately on some important layers, and some layers take years to effectively budge. It’s important, though, to accomplish this work, because doing so clears your perception so you can find the way toward your best world relationship. In my experience, the most effective way to work with these doubts and false limitations is through meditative inquiry, which can be done alone or with a tutor. 3Discover what it is in your life that argues against your enjoying an ideal relationship with the world, and make changes accordingly. Imagining what your best possible relationship with the world would feel like not only brings into view your inner doubts and limiting beliefs, it also can have the effect of showing what elements in your current life are out of tune with the harmony you envision. Once you begin focusing on the ideal world relationship, you may clearly realize that your critical friend or your demanding career don’t fit in with your best Pa g e 17
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