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Audio & Homework~Week 7~Gentle Healing Year 1 with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert and Connie Poole

March 26, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole.

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Homework for next week:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 43-46. Practice lesson 44 for 3 days in a row; practice lesson 45 for 2 days in a row. These are not intended as ‘breaks’ from the workbook lessons. Practice the lesson fully each day that it is assigned.
Homework Assignment B: Read Jacquelyn & Connie’s Tips for Lessons 43-46. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. The tips can be found at awakening-together.org, Gentle Healing, Gentle Healing Tips, Jacquelyn & Connie’s Tips – Year 1. Here is a direct link: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gentle-healing-group/jacquelynandconnie-tips-year-1/
Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Acts, Chapters 5-7, p 222-228.
Homework Assignment D: Read ACIM, Chapter 9.VII, The Two Evaluations
Optional: 5 minutes of Awareness watching Awareness daily. You may also watch the Gary Weber video again from last week if you found it helpful.

Gentle Healing Year 3 With Regina-Week 114-3/26/19

March 26, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

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Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.

Audio & Homework – Week 60 Gentle Healing Group Year 2 with Anne, 3/26/19

March 26, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

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Anne Blanchard guides a group of committed students through year 2 of Gentle Healing who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

Everyone who has completed year 1 Gentle Healing and is willing to make a commitment to deepening even further into healing/awakening is invited to join this group.

Due to a Cancellation ~ There is a Room Available in the Ladies’ Dorm for the Self-Inquiry Dyad Retreat, April 15-19

March 25, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Previously, we announced that lodging at the Retreat House was full for the upcoming Self-Inquiry Dyad Retreat in La Veta, Colorado. However, due to a cancellation, we now have room for one woman to stay in the Ladies’ Dorm.

The Ladies’ Dorm is a sweet space with three uniquely decorated partitioned rooms. Each room has one extra-long twin bed, a dresser, chair, mirror, reading lamp, clothes rack and humidifier.

If the Self-Inquiry Dyad Retreat interests you, but you hesitated because you want to lodge at the Retreat House, this is your opportunity! The Self-Inquiry Dyad Retreat will be held April 15-19, and it is facilitated by Anne Blanchard and Jacquelyn Eckert with an introduction by Regina Dawn Akers.

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Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #48

March 25, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes 165-168 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Bhagiratha asked: I know that the Self alone is real and the body, etc. are not real. But how is it that it is not perfectly clear to me?

Tritala answered: Such intellectual knowledge is not knowledge!

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Tip for Lesson 42

March 25, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 42. God is my Strength. Vision is His gift.

Jesus is teaching by means of a cause and effect relationship: “Vision must be possible. God gives truly.” And here is another cause and effect teaching from today’s lesson: “God’s gifts to me must be mine, because He gave them to me”

My thoughts after making up a few of these causal ideas on my own was, what a wonderful way to express. Wonder if I could share Galatians through the cause and effect relationship?

Here is NTI Galatians 1:

God is the simplicity of Love, I am blessed.

God is my truth. I’m no longer willing to resist

God is in in depths of my heart. I’m no longer tempted by doubt thoughts.

God is the truth. I release all beliefs that aren’t true.

NTI Galatians 2:

God is without ambiguity. I am no longer confused.

God is without judgement. I release my beliefs in separation.

God is the Light by which I see. I surrender my judgements.

NTI Galatians 3;

God is the Light. Willingness lights my way to Him.

God is the Light. He is our joy and our focus.

God freed me. I no longer need to judge.

God knows my willingness. I am healed and free.

God knows of my willingness. The darkness of confusion is lifted.

NTI Galatians 4

God has a message. God’s message is love and freedom.

God can’t judge. He knows not of separation.

I have no false idols. Only one true God.

God’s Love rules. The world is an illusion.

God knows my faith. The world is shown for what it is, unreal.

NTI Galatians 5

God is in my mind. I am free.

God is in my thoughts. He is my belief and my present experience.

God is my truth. My experiences are of love and absolute freedom.

I am coming to know God. I am opening to the possibility that the truth may be true.

God is my Light. He is the willingness in my mind.

God is the call I hear. I am eager to reunite with awareness.

God is my Calling. The call is the spark of Light that links us.

God transforms my mind. My perceptions of myself as an individual becomes less dense.

I am God focused. I feel more and see more.

I am God focused. The Light expands in my mind.

Through God you are everything. Everything is Love.

God knows I love my brother as myself. God recognizes me in my brother.

God is in me. God is in my brother.

God beckons me to repent because I remember what I truly want.

NTI Galatians 6:

God reminds me forgiveness is extension of love in the world. Return your mind to truth.

God is my truth. God is my Source.

I am returned to God. I am returned to my willingness.

God is my purpose. Awareness is the means to know that.

God is my willingness. God heals all wounds.

ACIM Lessons 42:

God is my Strength. Vision is His gift.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #47

March 24, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes 161-164 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

An imaginary object is imaginatively described by someone; and one understands in one’s own imagination and imagines that he understands it.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Tip for Lesson 41

March 24, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Tip for Lesson 41, God goes with me where ever I go.

In this workbook lesson, Jesus begins to teach awareness-watching-awareness meditation (beyond thought). He also says that we will go into more detail about this kind of practice as we go along, and we will. At our next Gentle Healing group, we will read very specific (very helpful) instructions for this type of practice. Next week, we will spend 3 days with Lesson 44 and two days with Lesson 45 in order to slow down and put extra emphasis on brief periods of awareness-watching-awareness practice.

However, you don’t have to wait.

In addition to the 5 minute practice for Lesson 41, which is awareness-watching-awareness practice, you will say the lesson with eyes closed as often as you remember throughout the day, hopefully several times an hour. Jesus asks you to contemplate what “God goes with me where ever I go” means. One way to do that is to close your eyes, say the lesson to yourself, and then spend 3-5 seconds noticing present awareness.

This is great practice!!!!!

If you aren’t sure what awareness is, try this week’s Gary Weber meditation again. He starts by having us watch the breath, which calms and quiets the mind, and then he asks us to look to see what is watching the breath. That is awareness. Awareness is aware of the breath.

Awareness is different than the mind. The mind can think about the breath, but awareness is aware of it.

Being aware of awareness is a primary (direct) path of awakening, so it will be emphasized as part of our practice as we move forward. With Lesson 41, you can begin to experiment with noticing awareness for brief periods of time (3-5 seconds) throughout the day.

The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, #73 ~ Awareness Exercises

March 24, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

The Heart is the Self, Part 4

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3/24/19 ~ Movie Watchers Discussion Group: The Sea of Trees

March 24, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

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Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert led this group discussion with this month’s movie, The Sea of Trees, starring Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey), an American professor, who travels to Japan in the midst of a personal crisis. As he wanders through a mysterious forest with a dark past, he experiences flashbacks of his fraught but loving relationship with his wife, Joan (Naomi Watts), and meets an enigmatic stranger, Takumi (Ken Watanabe), who is lost and injured. Arthur devotes himself to saving Takumi and returning him home to safety, and the two embark on a spiritual, life-changing journey of friendship, discovery, and healing.