{"id":27377,"date":"2018-01-23T01:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=27377"},"modified":"2018-01-22T06:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T13:06:49","slug":"tips-regina-gentle-healing-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-regina-gentle-healing-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ About Gentle Healing, Year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second year of Gentle Healing, we will focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivehq.com\/file\/df.aspx\/publish\/RAkers\/RDAPublicFolder\/AwakeningTogether\/EBooks\/ThoughtsOfAwakening.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thoughts of Awakening: 365 Thoughts for Contemplation<\/a>. Originally these thoughts were called &#8220;Single, Quiet Thoughts.&#8221; These thoughts started coming to me during my morning contemplation while I was scribing NTI. They did not come at the rate of one per day. In fact, these 365 thoughts came to me slowly over about 4 years. I don&#8217;t really know why that is, but my guess is that I had to mature to a specific point spiritually in order to receive higher levels of thought, so there were delays between one group of thoughts and the next group.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 365 thoughts is intended for a full day&#8217;s contemplation. They are to be read and contemplated repeatedly throughout the day. If you read and contemplate each thought deeply for a full day, you&#8217;ll experience shifts towards true perception this year.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to devote yourself to each thought is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Read the thought in the morning, and spend time contemplating it.<\/li>\n<li>Write as you contemplate the thought. (During tonight&#8217;s Gentle Healing meeting, I will demonstrate some ways to contemplate and write with these thoughts.)<\/li>\n<li>Keep the day&#8217;s thought with you and review it multiple times throughout the day. The more you review it, the better. The goal is to absorb it as deeply as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Also review whatever you wrote as you contemplated the day&#8217;s thought that morning. If what you wrote is long, you might not to be able to review it as often as you review that day&#8217;s thought, but review your writing enough to put it into practice. Practicing the guidance that came to you through your writing is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the most important part of this process<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition to contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening, we will read a short amount of supporting material each day this year. We will read the three books that I was focused on during the time when the Thoughts of Awakening were received. Those books are NTI, <em>The Teachings of Inner Ramana<\/em> and <em>The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss<\/em>. We will begin with NTI. We will read NTI at the rate of about 2 pages per day.<\/p>\n<p>During Year 2, I will not assign extra videos or audios. We will focus solely on the Thoughts of Awakening and the reading material just mentioned. I would rather spend more time with the inner teacher this year and less time with outer teachers.<\/p>\n<p>As the facilitator for Gentle Healing, I would like to hear more about your process this year. During the first year, 45 minutes of our 2-hour weekly meeting was devoted to your sharing. In the second year, I will increase that to at least 1 hour per meeting, and if there is a lot of sharing, we may go longer. You are also invited to use that time to ask me questions. I always prefer that you ask your inner teacher before asking me, but if there is a question you don&#8217;t receive an answer to or if you have some doubts about the answer you received, you can ask me at the Gentle Healing meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to write tips in our second year of Gentle Healing. I won&#8217;t write tips about each day&#8217;s thought for contemplation; I want you to write with your inner guidance without being influenced by me. My tips will focus on the reading material. You might find it helpful to read my tip <em>before<\/em> you read that day&#8217;s material. My tips will help focus attention for the reading.<\/p>\n<p>Ken will post each day&#8217;s thought from Thoughts of Awakening as the <a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/inspiration\/daily-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Contemplation<\/a> on the Awakening Together website. It will come out each day on the <a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/join-us\/subscribe-to-all-blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Update email<\/a>. Also, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivehq.com\/file\/df.aspx\/publish\/RAkers\/RDAPublicFolder\/AwakeningTogether\/EBooks\/ThoughtsOfAwakening.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the Thoughts of Awakening ebook<\/a>. I have saved the ebook to the Kindle on my iPhone for easy repeated access.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday through Saturday, Karen Worth will post a 30-minute guided meditation based on the current day&#8217;s Thought of Awakening. Those meditation audios will come out on the <a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/join-us\/subscribe-to-all-blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Update email<\/a>. You can also access them by going to the Awakening Together website. They will be posted under Audios &amp; Videos, <a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/inspiration\/meditation-audios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meditation Audios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Karen will lead a meditation in the Sanctuary at 9:30am ET, just before our Weekly Gathering. The meditation will be based on the current day&#8217;s Thought of Awakening. The Sunday morning meditation will be replayed in the Sanctuary on Sunday evenings at 10pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second year of Gentle Healing, we will focus on Thoughts of Awakening: 365 Thoughts for Contemplation. Originally these thoughts were called &#8220;Single, Quiet Thoughts.&#8221; These thoughts started coming to me during my morning contemplation while I was scribing NTI. They did not come at the rate of one per day. 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