Calibrating Your internal
compass
Background
Discerning Personal Truth
Discerning personal truth
exercise
Reviewing the results of the discerning personal truth exercise
General statements about what
serves and doesn’t serve you
Let feelings be your measure of
personal truth
Measuring truth by feeling
Calibrating the internal compass
Part one: Fullness of life -
fullness of being - feeling most alive
Part two: The desire to
engage life
Part three: (Optional)
Desiring to share
Part four: Sharing the
description of the feelings as you remember them
Part five - Looking for your
life’s purpose
Part six (Optional) - Sharing
Setting the internal compass
Using the internal compass
Finding “the” feelings
Background
(Top)
Every experience you have is the result of a flow of
energy into and out of that experience. In being aware of how and
what we feel, one can learn to sense the flow of energy that is
giving rise to the experience we have or will have. In that
awareness one can learn to decide whether a flow of energy serves or
doesn’t serve their creative efforts.
There are three parts to calibrating the internal compass. One is to
understand you can discern what is true for you and you do so
through feeling. The second part is that you do have an inherent
internal compass that can and will lead you into life giving
activities. The third part is to use this internal compass and align
through your feelings with the flow of energy your intention creates
to manifest what you desire to create.
The most important single action you can take to create what you
desire, and/or to find satisfaction in life, is to calibrate your
internal compass to know what thoughts, words, actions and memories
serve and don’t serve your creative needs. You can learn to “feel”
the flow of energy that gives rise to each thought, word, action and
memory. You can come to know if that thought, word, action or memory
serves you and leads you toward manifesting what you desire.
In many ways learning to “feel” each thought, world, action and
memory is much like using a navigating compass. There is a direction
to which the compass always points and one navigates relative to
that direction. Analogously, there is direction to which the flow of
energy that is sustaining your being always points. It points to
that which gives life and freedom within one’s being. You can learn
to feel the flow. This same energy that sustains your being is what
you use to create whatever you desire. In knowing the feeling
associated with the direction as to where your energy wants to flow
and knowing the feeling of what you desire to create, you can create
a single point focus to move toward what you desire to create based
on the direction inherent to the flow of energy that sustains your
being. If you get distracted by the mundane world and forced to go
in a different direction as a ship would be blown off its course in
a storm, you can always come back to your internal compass and
regain your bearing.
Now a note needs to be made here about direction of the flow of
energy that sustains your being and is the source of your creative
powers. From a creativity perspective, each of us came into this
world to have certain types and kinds of experience. The desire for
these experiences are reflected within our being as an internal
longing to achieve something of deep intrinsic value to the us. When
we are on course we feel a fulness within our being and a
contentment with life. The more we in line with what we came to
experience the greater the feeling of the fulness within our being.
The internal longing arises when one is off their course or moving
in a direction away from the direction that the flow of their
creative life energy is carrying them. The more one moves away from
this direction, the greater and the more intense the longing. The
more one was in alignment with the direction of this flow, the
greater joy and bliss one felt about life regardless of what they
were experiencing externally. Here there is no longing for one is
joy and bliss. They are living it and being it. What needs to be
realized that you are free to create whatever you desire. There are
no judgments on what you desire although there are consequences for
the time and place in which you live. However, the more you move
away from the reason for your incarnation, the greater this internal
feeling and pain that will result. That is not necessarily bad. You
just need to realize where the pain comes from and whether or not
what you are choosing to create that is giving rise to the pain is
worth the price that you are paying. Sometimes it is. Or, sometimes
it isn’t.
Discerning
Personal Truth
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To calibrate and use the internal
compass, one needs to understand how it is possible to discern
personal truth. That is, how it is possible to feel what serves and
doesn’t serve one’s creative needs. The ability to discern personal
truth is very important. To deny a personal truth is to deny one’s
being. A personal truth is not the same as an ultimate truth of
reality. It may be, but does not necessarily have to be. In fact, as
you will come to understand, as you explore your creativity, because
of how we create our experience, to create a particular type and
kind of experience, often a personal truth will not be an ultimate
truth and cannot be an ultimate truth. Most often our personal truth
is a relative truth we hold that is necessary for us to accomplish
what we have chosen to create.
It is here you can find the key to understanding the statement made
by mystics that “mind is an illusion.” It is an illusion in the
sense one must be able to hold untruths to create an experience of
Creation. If you experienced Creation as it truly is, and experience
the depth and breadth of your creative ability as it truly is, you
would not live your life the way you do. You create the experiences
you do by the relative and personal truths you hold. The truth of
this statement is not necessarily something you can agree to with
your mind. Rather, it is something you will have to experience to
know its truth. So, go ahead and disagree. When you experience the
truth of what is said here, then and only then, will you understand.
As you will come to see if you work with your creative ability, we
create what we experience by denying certain absolute truths and
then hold those denials as true. That, in turn, creates the
experience we desire to have. Consider a simple example. To have an
experience of being righteous, you have to find something that you
believe is not righteous for you to have your experience of being
righteous. That is, you need to create the duality of this right or
wrong to have the basis to experience righteousness. However, the
fact you believe something is not righteous is not necessarily
correct and your belief does not make that something not righteous.
It is only your belief relative to what you think righteousness is.
In any case, the issue is not “what is truth or true.” Rather, the
question one needs to be able to address is, “How do I know when
something is personally true for me and how do I know what type and
kind of feeling should arise when something serves or doesn’t serve
my being and/or my creative needs?” At this point in time, all you
need of which to be aware is “What is true for me and how do I
know?”
The easiest way to see how to discern personal truth and to learn to
know what is personally true for you is to do an exercise on
personal truth and become consciously aware of what you feel.
Discerning personal truth
exercise
(Top)
This exercise
is best done if someone narrates the text of this exercise. Trying
to read this exercise rather than just being able to listen and do
what is directed will break your concentration. If you are reading
this material alone, it is recommended you go find someone to slowly
read this exercise to you. Or, record the exercise on a tape and
then listen to it.
To get the most out of this exercise, give yourself permission to
feel. Tell yourself that you are free to feel whatever it is you
need to feel in this exercise and that you are perfectly safe.
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Close your eyes and calm yourself
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Focus on your breathing
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Allow your awareness to follow the rise and fall of your chest
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Imagine a stone dropping into a large pool of water
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Every time you breathe in, see a stone drop into the pool and a
ripple formed
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Every
time you breathe out, the ripples expand outward and dissipates
creating a perfectly calm pool of water
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Continue to watch a stone drop and watch the ripple expand
outward dissipating again and again with each breath
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Each
time a new ripple forms and dissipates, know you move to a
deeper calmness
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[To
the narrator: Give some time for the individual to be with
their breathing before continuing the exercise
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After
watching the stones and ripples for a time, think of some object
or thing, a personal experience, a person, an activity or
whatever you choose that has great and unparalleled beauty and
joy for you. You are free to choose whatever you wish. You can
be at any time or place and at any age. The place can be real or
imaginary. Just think of some object, thing or personal
experience that gives you unparalleled beauty and joy
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[To the narrator: give some time for the individual(s) to find
their object of focus]
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Every time you breathe in, experience this object of unparalleled
beauty and joy
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Every time you breathe out, allow yourself to savior and feel the
experience of this object of focus throughout your entire body
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Continue breathing in the experience and breathing out allowing
yourself to full feel and savor the experience
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[To the narrator: allow some time to feel the experience]
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As
you experience this object of focus that gives you this great
beauty and joy, notice the feelings you have
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Allow
yourself to be with what you feel and allow the feeling to
permeate all of your being
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Pay particular attention as to how you would describe what you
feel and/or recognize what you feel at some future time
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Feel the beauty and joy of this experience
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Tell
yourself you will always remember what these feelings of great
beauty and joy feel like and you will recognize them in the
future
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Allow
yourself to feel the beauty and joy this object of your focus
gives you
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Allow yourself to be present to this beauty
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Now,
tell yourself all that you have just felt and experienced is a
lie and totally untrue because you hate whatever it is that you
said gives you bliss and joy
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Tell yourself you hate the object of focus
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Tell
yourself all that you just experienced is a fabrication, a lie
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Tell yourself you have been deceived and that beauty and joy is
not found in the object of your focus
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Allow yourself some time to feel the lie
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[To the narrator: allow for a few moments to be with the feelings]
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Now
notice how you respond to this revelation about what you cherish
and how and what you feel
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Pay particular attention to how the feelings have changed
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bserver and record the feelings you had both when you were with
the object of focus that gave great beauty and what you felt when
you told yourself a lie
Reviewing the results of the discerning personal truth exercise
(Top)
There are several things one needs to understand from this exercise.
One is what you felt in thinking about what gave you great beauty
and joy contains the elements of what truth feels like to you. It
contains all the elements of what truth feels like to you at this
point in time and/or is the “direction” of truth in your life. That
is, (1) the feeling you had is the type and kind of feeling you will
feel when you experience something that is personally true for you
and (2) as your belief structure changes and you gain more
experience in life, you may find what is true for you changes. .
The comment as to the “direction” of the feeling means that,
although what you feel in the future may not be exactly like what
you feel now, what you feel now is the type and kind of feelings you
will have. The feelings in the future may be different because you
may be in a different environment. For example, the feelings you
have in laying down and resting have an element in common whether
you lay down on a nice soft bed or a slab of stone. The feelings of
truth at different points and times in our life will have elements
in common. If you follow the common feelings, you will always be
moving in the same direction in your life. You can learn to discern
these common elements of the feeling and use them to measure how
true something is for you.
Realize that what gives you great beauty and joy is unique to you.
It is your truth. The feelings of great beauty and joy you feel also
contain the feelings you have when you embrace what is true for you
and/or a truth about what you desire to create. What is true for you
serves you and who and what you are. What is true for you does not
cause you to deny the essence of your being. It allows you to grow
and expand into the awareness of who and what you are. If you are
open to your feelings, you may literally feel yourself expanding. It
is said what you felt contains the elements of what truth feels like
because you can, and will, feel what is true for you whether or not
something is pleasurable.
Two things do need to be noted about one’s personal truth. One is
that as you gain experience in life it may, and most probably, will
change. However, the second point is, the feeling that makes you
feel alive and full of life does not change. That feeling is
immutable. As you move into life and into those activities that give
you life you will have a greater fullness and/or passion within your
being. This is the essence of the internal compass and is reflective
of why you incarnated and the experiences you incarnated to have.
What you felt in telling yourself that what gives you great bliss
and joy is a lie contains the elements of what you feel at this
point in time when something does not serve you or the “direction”
you are going does not serve you. That is, if you continue to do
things that give you such feelings (the feeling of this lie) you
will be going in a direction in life that does not ultimately serve
you or your best interests. What you felt is a combination of what you
feel when you know you are lying to yourself and what you feel when
you experience an untruth for a lie is an untruth you tell yourself.
What needs to be understood is what is untrue for you does not
ultimately serve you and who and what you are and you can feel that when
you are not being served. What does not serve you causes you to deny
the essence of your being in some way. What is untrue for you does
not allow you to grow and expand in awareness. Rather, in some way,
you have to deny what is to live or act in accordance with that
untruth.
To live or act in some way that is not true for you is the same as
telling a lie to yourself and, if you are aware, you will feel it.
To continue to tell the lie and/or live in the lie and not feel pain
or discomfort you will have to numb what you feel. This in turn lays
the seed for addictions and/or desensitizing yourself to what you
feel. As a minimum you can become aware of how an untruth seems to
steal or drain your energy to be enthusiastic in what you do. You
may even see and feel your self shrinking and collapsing much like a
balloon whose air is being released. Or, you may simply find
yourself going to sleep at whatever level of your being that is not
being severed by what you are doing. The more you lie to yourself
the more and more you move into unawareness about yourself. In doing
so, you become more and more insensitive to what you feel. The more
you lie to yourself and/or live a lie, the less passion, energy
and enthusiasm you will have to live life and/or for life.
General statements about what serves and doesn’t
serve you
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There are some
general statements that can be made about what severs or doesn’t
serve you.
Typically, activities that serve you cause you experience one or
more of the following: you feel an expansion within your being;
experience a lightness of being; experience a feeling of bliss and
joy within your being independent of what is happening externally;
and/or a calmness in your being as you are actively engaged in
whatever it is you do. The more you feel what you would describe or
interpret as a feeling of bliss and joy in what you do or one of
these other feelings, the more that what you do and experience is
probably in alignment with your personal truth.
The more you feel what you felt in telling a lie, the more your
experience is in alignment with a lie relative to your personal
truth. What needs to be understood is that you can feel truth. You
can feel what is true for you and the essence of your being and what
is a lie where you in someway deny your essence. You only need to be
aware of what truth and a lie feels like. In essence, this exercise
was an initial calibration of your ability to feel and use feeling
as your measure of personal truth and realize you have an internal
compass. The next task is then to calibrate that internal compass.
Let feelings be your measure of personal truth(Top)
In realizing you can feel any event in your life, you
can learn to feel what thought, word, action or memory allows you to
feel as though you are being served and those that allow you to feel
you are experiencing a lie. Hopefully, you have learned from the
experiences you can feel as true and you can let feeling be your
measure of personal truth. Now what is important here is we are
talking about your personal truth. That is, that which is in accordance
with your being and who and what you are and what you desire to
create. We are not talking about absolute truth of the universe or
social truth of the society you inhabit. Your personal truth may or
may not be in accordance with the ultimate truth of the physical plane
as it exists and/or the social truth of your society. Rather, it is
what is in alignment with who and what you are and what you choose
to experience.
Exactly how and why this works and why your personal truth may not
be in alignment with the ultimate truth of the physical plane and/or the
social truth is, as you can come to experience for yourself, because
there is an intention that is governing your life that may or may
not be in alignment with ultimate truth of the physical plane and/or
the social truth. Your purpose for being here may be to change what
physical creation looks like. Hence in some way your truth will be
opposed to physical Creation as it currently exists.
For example, to carry the dream of flying or going to the moon
several hundred years ago went against what it meant to be human as
humanity existed in Physical Creation at that time and in that
place. Acting on that dream and going to the moon has caused
Physical Creation to become different. You may ask, “How has
Physical Creation become different?” It is the same understanding
(the physics and chemistry) that has allowed humanity to go to the
moon that has allowed humanity to tap and release the energy within
fossil fuels. However, as a result of humanity choosing to burn
fossil fuels, the evidence suggests humanity is increasing the
concentration of greenhouse gases. These gases, in turn, contribute
to Global warming. In the end, Physical Creation, as represented by
the earth, is being changed by humanity. It is changed by humanity
by what we collectively think and choose and not choose to do. The
collective in turn is only the subtotal of all our individual
desires. Ultimately, it all starts with the choices you choose to
make and I choose to make.
You will have to give yourself permission to do your own experiments
and explore your own truth to see what is true for you. The
recommendation made here is to get out of the judgments and thinking
of your mind and let feelings be the measure of your personal truth.
To open yourself to what you feel is one of the more powerful
actions you can take to access and release your unlimited creativity
and/or to come to know who you are. It is a powerful gift that you
give yourself because it is what you feel that allows you to better
see and understand how to allow your intuitive guidance to lead you
in your creative endeavors.
If you don’t feel or can’t feel the truth about something, then say
to yourself “I don’t know if it is true for me or not.” That does
not mean whatever it is you experience is true or untrue. Rather, 1)
it is just not “your” truth or, 2) you have not raised your
awareness to know if it is true for you or, 3) you may have shut
down your feelings relative to that subject area so you don’t really
know what is true. It needs to be realized that you may accept
something as true but it is not your truth. If you use feelings as a
measure of truth what you will come to find is that on a scale of
one to ten, most of what we know or think as true is not our truth.
You will find you are probably somewhere around a two or three on a
scale of ten as to what you feel and know is true for you as opposed
to all that you think you know is true and/or have been told is true
and have only accepted as true without looking..
Now if you do this “truth check” on what you believe is true and
find you have little feeling for, or against, most of what you
believe, you need not be frightened. Or, if in doing this “truth
check” you find some of your most deeply held truths are not true
for you, you again, need not panic. Rather, you only need in a non
judgmental fashion accept that this is where you are and simply ask,
“What is my truth and how do I go about establishing my truth?” Your
intuitive guidance will lead you to what you need to do and/or
experience. Measuring
truth by feeling (Top) So how
does one measure truth by feelings? To measure truth by feeling, one
needs to “get out of mind.” That is, outside the thinking and
judging mind. Then they need to listen to what they hear, be aware
of what they see, and become aware of what they feel. Then in that
state of feeling, see if what is felt causes one to expand the
fullness of their being and the feeling of life or whether it
collapses them and causes them to shrink and move away from life.
Those experiences that allow for an expansion are those that need to
be further explored and experienced and are the experiences that
will probably serve you in life. Those experiences which cause one
to shrink and collapse, one should avoid as much as possible. They
will not serve you and ultimately harm you. The recommendation and
goal provided by the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material is
to feel the fullness of being, the fullness of life and what gives
you life and the desire to engage life and that fullness can only be
felt.
It needs to be noted here that mind will provide an interpretation
to what is felt but it does not feel. Your being determines what is
felt. Look at your body and brain as a metaphor for your being and
your mind. There is a symbolic and literal relationship between your
body and the brain and your being and your mind. One needs to
realize the brain is part of your body, and has no nerve sensors. It
does not feel. The sensors that give rise to feeling lie in the body
and the body is what feels. Similarly, your mind does not feel but
your being does. Your mind is part of your being as your brain is
part of your body and it is your being that feels, not the mind.
Mind is only a collection of the experiences we had.
What needs to be understood is that, whatever is felt will be
characterized by mind and whatever is characterized by mind will
have a feeling. But, rather become aware of what we feel, we believe
mind’s interpretation of what we feel. We don’t go back to see
exactly what is felt that gives rise to what mind projects to see if
mind’s characterization is correct. We fail to realize is that
unless one has the minimum set of experiences to properly
characterize what is felt, something is lost every time mind
attempts to characterize what we feel and experience. Unless we have
learned to feel we will be missing important information. How much
we lose and how important it is obviously depends on the situation
at hand. In any case, the characterization of mind - thoughts,
words, images or the like that give you a feeling of expansion are
the ones to embrace. The characterization may be inaccurate but it
provides the correct direction. In the ancient recommendation that
one should have good thoughts, good words and good deeds, there is
an interpretation which needs to be added to this sage advice. Have
thoughts that give a feeling of fullness of being, have words that
give the feeling of a fullness of being and have deeds that have a
feeling of fullness of being. On this note, what gives you a
fullness of being will not necessarily give me a fullness of being. So
what is good for you will not necessarily be good for me. In any
case, to feel the fullness of being, you must be open to feeling.
Calibrating the internal compass
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Collecting the information to calibrate the internal
compass (calibrating): This exercise has three parts. The first two
parts are what you need to create whatever you desire. The third
part will carry you into the purpose of your incarnation and most
probably ultimately shatter your ego. So it is recommended you skip
the third part unless you have some desire to either (1) transcend
your ego as you currently know and understand it and/or (2) wish to
explore the reason for your incarnation.
In the following exercises, you will be asked to remember
experiences in your life that made you feel a certain way. It
doesn't matter if you were doing something acceptable or
unacceptable in the eyes of your society or even when viewed by
the eyes of your own mind. You just need to remember the feelings
you had in the experience you were having. The focus should be on
remembering the feelings and exactly what feelings you felt.
The focus should not be on any judgments of your mind or the mind of
others and/or what the implications of the experience you had. At
this point in time, just remember the feelings and exactly what you
felt to the best of your memory. If you have difficulty remembering
and/or finding the types and kinds of experiences requested here, there
are some recommendations provided at the end of this section to
address such an issue.
Part one: Fullness of life - fullness of being - feeling most
alive (Top)
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Recall at least five experiences in your life when you felt the
most fully alive, where you had an enthusiasm and/or a passion for
life and for living. That is, you were full of life and the
abundance of what you felt caused you to want to experience more of
life
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These experiences should be experiences where you felt a passion
or you were so full of enthusiasm, energy and/or awareness that you
thought you would explode. They should give you a feeling that
everything inside of you wants to burst forth, to come out like a
flower blossoming, or an orgasm about to happen. You can call such
an experience a peak experience in your life
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The feeling may have felt so
wonderful such that it was almost as though you could sit for
eternity in the feeling
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The emphasis here is that you
want to be in the experience and just be with the experience as
opposed to doing anything with it
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You may feel as though you
wanted to experience to never end
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The experience could be: with
a person, a place, a thing, a sensation, an experience of some
type, a discovery
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It doesn't matter what it was, just record at least five
experiences that made you feel most alive, full of life and/or gave
you a passion for life and for living
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Another way to view this
passion and enthusiasm is feeling that if you cannot do what
gives rise to this passion or you are unable to feel this
passion, a part of you would die or atrophy in some way
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If you have no memories of
such overwhelming experiences, then look to see what experiences
you have had that come close, or lie in the direction, of the
description described above
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This is not about listing pleasurable experiences. You may find
you had a level of pain and/or fear in the experience--like climbing
the face of a mountain--but it nevertheless gave you a passion and a
desire to live and/or engage life and be in the experience. For a
woman, these types of feelings could be the simultaneous
pain/pleasure associated with childbirth. For a man, they could be
the simultaneous fear/thrill in the experience of combat or a fierce
competition that gives rise to these feelings. Some may call these
an experience an adrenalin rush. It doesn't matter. The question is
"What experiences made you feel most alive and full of life?." "What
were you doing in these experiences?" And, "Who were you with?"
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When you have finished listing
the experiences, prioritize the experiences. List which ones
gave you the greatest fullness of being, the greatest fullness
of life. That is, which experience gave you the greatest feeling
of being alive or a feeling like you were totally full, or so
totally fulfilled in life that you could burst because of the
life that was being contained within your being
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Here again the emphasis is
that you want to be in the experience
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Beginning with one, rank the
experiences that you listed as to their fullness of being. The
number one experience is the experience out of all those you
listed that gave you the greatest feeling of fullness of life.
It was as if you could not fit any more of life into yourself
because you were so full
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Once you have listed and
prioritized the experiences, look and see what the feeling of
the fullness of being looked or felt like
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What are the common feelings of fullness, if any, that ran through
all the experiences?
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The emphasis here in is on how
did the feeling of being most alive and/or full of life look
like to you
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With the expectation that you
will share your results, describe the best you can what this
feeling of wanting to burst forth with life feels like to you.
How would you describe it? How would you recognize it. Pay
attention as to how you would recognize it in the future if
experienced again
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If there are attributes of the experience you cannot explain or
describe, at least become aware of these noncommunicable attributes
within your being. You can have an awareness of things, and know
you have awareness, without being able to describe them.
Part two: The desire to engage life
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Find five experiences that
gave you the greatest enthusiasm for life and for living, and
made you want to engage life more. That is, to move into life,
either wanting to create more of the same type and kind of
experience and/or to change your life because of the experiences
you had to create more of the experience. That is, you wanted to
move into life. Either you wanted to create the same type and
kind of experience and/or to change your life because of the
experiences you had. They can be the same five experiences
previously listed or new experiences
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Here the emphasis is on
wanting to engage life and move into life. The earlier exercise
was about not having any desire to move into life but rather to
just sit in the experience
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Beginning with one, rank the experiences you listed. Let the
number one experience be that one experience out of all those you
listed that gave you the greatest enthusiasm and desire to engage
life and jump into life
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It doesn't matter if the
numbered sequence agrees or disagrees with the previous part of
this exercise
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With the expectation that you
will share your results, describe the best you can as to what
this feeling is of wanting to burst forth and jump into life
feels like to you. Pay attention as to how you would recognize
it in the future if experienced again
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If there are attributes of the experience you cannot explain or
describe, at least become aware of these noncommunicable attributes
within your being. You can have an awareness of things, and know
you have awareness, without being able to describe them
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Once you have listed and prioritized the experiences, look to see
what the enthusiasm and passion to jump into life felt like.
Determine if there are common feelings, if any, that ran through all
the experiences you listed. The emphasis here is on how the
enthusiasm to jump into life felt
Part three: (Optional) Desiring to share
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Identify five experiences that
gave you the greatest desire, passion and/or enthusiasm and the
desire to share what you had experienced with another person.
That is, describe what you were experiencing that was so
wonderful that all you could do was desire to share it with
another person. For example you were in such wonderment and “ah”
that all you could do was share as if you were a little child
trying to share a new discovery about life
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Don’t list experiences were you like to share. Rather, the
experiences here are experience where you were so overwhelmed that
all you could do was share. You may want to look to those
experiences where you were trying to share but were reprimanded in
some way and told to “stop playing around and get to work”
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These experiences can be the
same experiences listed above or different experiences
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Beginning with one, rank the
experiences you listed. Let the number one experience be the
experience out of all those you listed that gave you the
greatest enthusiasm and desire to share what you had
experienced. It doesn't matter if the numbered sequence agrees
or disagrees with the previous part of this exercise
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With the expectation that you
will share your results, describe the best you can what this
feeling of wanting to your experience feels like. Pay attention
as to how you would recognize it in the future if experienced
again
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f there are attributes of the experience you cannot explain or
describe, at least become aware of these noncommunicable attributes
within your being. You can have an awareness of things, and know you
have awareness, without being able to describe them
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After you have listed and prioritized the experiences, look to see
what the enthusiasm and passion to share life and what it feels like
to desire to share life. What are the common feelings, if any that
ran through all the experiences you listed? The emphasis here in is
on what the desire to share felt like
Part four: Sharing the description of the feelings as you
remember them
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Present your list of
experiences to another. Share to the best of your ability (1)
what the feeling of the fullness of being was like when you felt
most alive and/or what you felt when you had an enthusiasm for
life and/or a passion for life. (2) Share what the fullness of
wanting to engage in life and have more of life feels like to
you. (3) Share what the feelings of desiring to share feels like
to you
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The three responses may, or
may not, be exactly the same type and kind of feeling. You can
expect them to feel different from each other but they can be
the same. Pay particular attention to the differences and
describe those differences
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Pay particular attention to
the differences and similarities, if any, between what you and
others describe
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Pay particular attention to
the fact that you are unique. The experiences you listed may, or
may not, correspond to the experience of others with whom you
share have listed and/or describe
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Do not try and fit your
description or make your description agree or look the same as
another’s. If there is agreement, that is okay. If there is
disagreement, that is okay too. You just need to become very
accurate as to what the feeling looks like for you so that you
can recognize it in the future
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Similarly how you experience feeling most alive, an enthusiasm for
life and/or a passion for life may or may not correspond to
another’s and you need to learn to appreciate and live your truth
Part five - Looking for your life’s purpose
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You have come into physical
incarnation to (1) have a physical experience and (2) to have a
particular type and kind of physical experience
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The feelings of the fullness
of being and the fullness of life will tell you if you are free
to experience being physical. The feelings that cause you to
want to move into life tell you when you are living the purpose
for which you incarnated or are moving toward that purpose
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If you feel pain in what you
are choosing to create and/or have a deep longing, know that you
are trying to create is probably out of alignment with the
purpose of your incarnation. Now, there is nothing wrong with
this. But you need to evaluate if what you desire to create is
worth the cost you are paying. It is much like creating a new
life and giving birth. The pain may be the doorway to something
beyond or greater than you. Then again, you may be only causing
yourself pain in creating something that just does not serve
your reason for being here
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Is there any experience in life that allows you to combine both
the fullness of being and a passion and enthusiasm to engage life
and for living?
Part six (Optional) - Sharing
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The desire to share tells you if you
are close to, or have reached,
the Source of life Itself
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When you access the source of life,
all you want to do is share life and give life. You are so
overwhelmed with life all you can do is find some way to give it
to another and/or to call it forth from within another
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What needs to be understood is
that we all are here for different reasons. Some are here solely
to be physical and be in the physical experience. Some are here
to do something specific. Some are here to share life and create
life at any and all levels of being
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The key to life is to go where
you are lead. However, you have to open yourself to feel and
ensure you have not shutdown your ability to feel because your
freedom to experience life and find your own way in the past was
somehow thwarted
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When you open yourself up to
feeling and looking to feel which thought, word, action and
memory serve you, you will find your way to know what it is you
are here to do even if it is only to have a physical experience
and do nothing in particular
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Is there any experience in life that allows you to combine all
three, the fullness of being, the passion and enthusiasm to engage
life and the desire to share what you have experienced?
Setting the internal compass
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The object of this exercise is to
remember the experiences in life that made you feel most alive
and/or want to live and embrace life. The feeling of wanting to
share is for later reference as you live your life and share your
life. After listing and reviewing the experiences, you should begin
to discern which experience in life gives you, or moves you, toward
a fullness of being and that moves you toward enthusiasm and passion
for life and for living. The emphasis here is to remember the
feelings and what exactly the feelings felt like to you. Discerning
between the feeling of fullness of being and a passion for life and
for living will help you to see both what gives you a satisfaction
in life that lead to being full of life and what propels you forward
wanting to engage in life. Doing what gives you the fullness of
being will help you to create a life you feel is worth living and
can even give you an inner bliss and joy that never run dry. The
feeling of wanting to engage life is where you will find the passion
to create and manifest anything you desire. To find yourself and
truly learn to live life in a way that allows you to have a fullness
of being and a passion and enthusiasm to engage life, you will have
to become a little narcissistic and maybe even withdraw from your
normal life for a while. You will need time to find yourself. You
cannot give what you don't have. You must first find the truth of
your being and then come to know your truth and what it feels like.
Then you then have to develop the strength of will to freely live
your truth fully expressed in the external world. When you have
achieved that, then you can give truth and create the space for
another to find and live their truth. Until then you can only give
captivity to another for that is all you have. The feeling of the
desire to share is what will allow you to create the unconditional
space for another to become free and participate in freedom with you
in your creative endeavors. This feeling is “True North” on your
internal compass. Knowing what gives you freedom and the ability to
expand into the freedom of your own being takes you to the source of
your creative power.
Using the internal compass (Top)
You set your internal compass for a particular
creative endeavor by looking to the feeling of the experience you
desire to create. Ask yourself, “What will it feel like to have what
I desire” and look to see what you feel. The feeling itself can be
used to guide you or the feeling representing the mismatch from
“True North” to guide you. However, some confuse the feeling that
aligns with the flow of energy that arises from the intention you
hold in mind and mind wishes to create as being the flow of energy
arising from the intention for one’s life. But they are different.
In any case, the mismatch will tell you how the removed you are from
the source of your creative power and how well you are being served
by what your mind is choosing to create. What ever feeling you lock
on to, you then need to become aware of every decision you make.
Look to the feel and its alignment to the feeling of what you desire
to create as to whether it serves you to move into the feeling or
severs to move you away from the feeling. What you choose to focus
on is your choice. There are no judgments on what you choose, only
consequences for the time and place in which you live.
It is noted you may find that when you actually get what you desire,
you do not have the feelings that you thought you would have when
you ask, “What does what I desire feel like?” The reason for this is
that mind cannot know the unknown. What you really desired that gave
rise to what you think you wanted was a flow of energy inaccurately
characterized by mind. You can feel the flow of energy accurately.
But your mind will not accurately characterize it unless you have
had the minimum set of experience to characterize it. So when you
get what you thought you wanted, you simply need to realize you got
your mind’s improper characterization of what you wanted. But you
have not made a mistake. You now know what you want is not what you
think so you are free to surrender to the feeling and allow the
feeling to guide you. If this is what you experience, you simply
need to ask yourself, “what is the next step that I need to take -
what does it look like - to create what I desire to feel.” Then
honor the intuitive insight you get. It may take several iterations
but in time you will move toward having experiences that move you
closer and closer to the experiences you desire to feel.
When you combine the fullness of being/fullness of life and the
desire to engage life in what you are doing in life, you are
aligning with, or moving toward, your life purpose. When you want to
sit in the experience and not move into life, you are somehow
disengaging or missing the reason for your incarnation. If you want
to create more of a certain type and kind of experience but you do
not optimize the fullness of being, then what you do is relate to
what you incarnated to do but you are missing it. You will need to
explore what similar things you can do that also give the fullness
of being and allows that fulness to grow and expand. You then simply
need to look for the one that gives the greatest feeling of being.
You may be here to serve people but there are many different ways to
serve. If your real purpose lies with children but you serve the
elderly, you are missing your purpose and you will never be as
effective as you could be and you will never feel the fullness of
your being as it can be experienced. Although you may have great
satisfaction in serving the elderly and contribute greatly to their
well being, what you do will not be as significant as what you do
following the alignment with one’s life purpose. Doing things are
amplified, especially the experience of life itself when you are
aligned and doing what you incarnated to do.
Finding “the” feelings
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One issue some individuals face is finding or being
aware of feelings. Other than outright pain, some individuals are
unaware they can perceive subtle feelings. Yet it is these subtle
feelings which can be used as a compass indicator. If one has
trouble feeling or discerning what they feel, one can always create
a situation that can allow them to learn to discern what they feel.
To assist you in the effort of calibrating your internal compass or
getting a feel for what you wish to create, you can create a real or
symbolic or representative experience, such as a ritual or
theatrical performance.
To calibrate your internal compass, the intention is to feel and
align with the flow of energy that causes you to enter physical
life. To get a feel for this energy you can construct a theatrical
experience of what you think is the intention for your life or what
you desire to create and become aware of the feel of the experience.
Depending on what you feel, you can stop there or do some other
variations of the theatrical experience to see how the feeling does
or does not shift. For example, you may think the purpose for your
life is to work with people. So you could spend an afternoon in an
old age home, an afternoon in a day care center working with small
children, an afternoon working with teenagers, an afternoon working
with healthy adults and an afternoon with sick adults. You can then
compare the experiences and see which experience, if any, made you
feel the most alive. As you set up scenarios, you can refine the
feelings and come to know what makes you feel most alive, feel full
of life and cause you to desire to want to engage life. Then with
the awareness of that feeling, become aware of every decision you
make as to whether it serves you to move into the feeling or serves
to move you away from the feeling.
Similarly you can do the same for what you think you wish to create.
You can create scenarios to play out getting what you desire and see
what it feels like. If what you experience feels like what you would
like to experience or lead in the direction of what you wish to
feel, you can use that feeling to guide your decisions as described
in the paragraph above. In any case, what you choose to focus on to
create is your choice. There are no judgments on what you choose,
only consequences for the time and place in which you live. However,
to do this, you need clarity as to what exactly you desire to
create.
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