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Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 202

September 11, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. You might use that time to review the original lesson in the Course, to review the original tip, to write in your journal or to move into awareness-watching-awareness meditation using the idea for the day as your ‘anchor thought,’ a thought that helps you transition from attention on thinking to attention on awareness.To keep your mind focused on today’s idea and to help absorb the idea fully, repeat it to yourself at least once hourly.In addition, use today’s idea as much as is needed as a transition from ego thinking to spiritual intuition. For example, you can say, “This thought I do not want. I choose instead ______. And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.” Next, ask spiritual intuition for guidance that suits the moment. (Click here to review Inner Ramana’s instructions about surrender.)

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I will be still an instant and go home.

Workbook Lesson 182 said, “When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice. So poignantly He calls to you that you will not resist Him longer. In that instant He will take you to His home, and you will stay with Him in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that you are at home. Rest with Him frequently today.”

Let’s remember today what we really want. When we consider how we might spend our time, where we would place our focus today, let’s ask ourselves, does this activity serve me in terms of what I really want? Imagine you had fallen in love and the only way you could contact your new love was telepathically, by getting very quiet and listening for his voice within. Let’s bring this passion to our practice today. Let’s be still an instant and go home. The original tip for this idea and a song to inspire you in your passionate pursuit follow.

Link to the original tip for this idea.

Something Genuine: “My Stroke of Insight” 09-08-19

September 11, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

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This Ted talk was called ” My Stroke of Insight”. Rev. Jacquelyn led us in this group discussion.

Jacquelyn Eckert – As It Is, “Deeper into Glimpse Practices” ~ 9/11/19

September 11, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-around of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.

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Anne Blanchard ~Unfiltered~ “Trusting the Process Through It All” – 9/11/19

September 11, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity.

Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.

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Attention All AT Ministers- Please Report Service on Forum

September 10, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

If you are an Awakening Together Minister it is important for you to keep your service updated and current. The Forum is now an easy and streamlined way of keeping an account of your service. Please know that it is extremely helpful to us at Awakening Together to know what service you have completed or need to complete.

Here are two very helpful training videos on how to get started on Awakening Together’s Forum:

Training Video 1: Create an Account

Training Video 2: Log Your Service

Here’s a link to the Forum: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/forum/

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #217

September 10, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quote #703-706 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The individual is nothing more than the personalized mind. Individuality ceases when that mind ceases.

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

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 201

September 10, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

The last twenty lessons have been foundational. Because of that, we will spend a full twenty days reviewing those twenty lessons. We want to absorb those lessons to the point that they become our automatic response to the world, the thinking mind, and negative emotional experiences.That’s why the review instructions say, “Besides the time you give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances you make throughout the day, use the idea as often as you can between them.”In fact, referring to the importance of these twenty lessons, the review instructions go on to say, “Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly. … Each contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day. One is enough. But from that one, there must be no exceptions made.” However, we will use them all and “let them blend as one, as each contributes to the whole we learn.”

In addition to the structured instructions given in the first paragraph of the review instructions (and repeated in the second paragraph above), you are asked to use the day’s idea whenever you are tempted to speak, act or think from ego. The review instructions say, “Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have. Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.”

For example, you can say, “This thought I do not want. I choose instead ______. And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.”

This thoughtful remembrance of the day’s idea is not the end of your response to temptation. After gently shifting with the heart from the ego-based thought to the review lesson, you will experience at least an instant of relative quiet. We are asked to use that moment of quiet to ask spiritual intuition for guidance that suits the moment.

In fact, the review instructions say, “To Him I offer this review for you. I place you in His charge, and let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him.”

This is a good time to review Inner Ramana’s instructions about surrender.

As we go through this review period, I will begin each tip with a summary of these review instructions. I will also provide a summary review of the idea for the day along with a link to the original tip for that idea. Beyond that, you will be left to inner guidance, “allowing Him to teach us how to go, and trusting Him completely for the way each practice period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.”

Today’s review idea is:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

When most of us read the word “brothers,” we immediately think of the body-minds of others. The body-mind is not what our brothers are. This is also why we do not need to replace the word “brothers” with “brothers and sisters.” When we contemplate this lesson, we are not looking at a body-mind; we are looking at sexless awareness-life-presence. “Brothers” in this idea is a symbol for that which is beyond changing form, for that which is constant.

As you contemplate the idea for today, contemplate awareness-life-presence, which is what our brothers are and what we are.

Link to the original tip for this idea

Gentle Healing Year 3 With Regina-Week 138- 9/10/19

September 10, 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.

*Rev. Shawna Summers led this class.

Audio & Homework~Week 31~Gentle Healing Year 1 with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole

September 10, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole

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Homework for next week:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 201-207 including the tips. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness or Loving Consciousness meditation for 15-20 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Read ‘The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss,’ Chapter 7, sentences 10 – 52 and all of Chapter 8. You will find them at this link: http://albigen.com/uarelove/most_rapid/contents.htm

Audio & Homework – Week 84 Gentle Healing Group Year 2 with Anne, 9/10/19

September 10, 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.