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The Book of Awakening

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     According to Mark Nepo, “More than anything, fear blinds, and only by stepping without hesitation into the next inch of the unknown can we build confidence in the life we are about to live.”
     Had I listened to my fears I wouldn’t have ventured walking around our condo without a cane a month after my mild stroke.
     At first I hesitated; I calculated. I rehearsed which pieces of furniture to hold on to. I even counted the steps from the bedroom to the bathroom. I pictured in my mind how a normal person would walk. Was it heel, toe first? Or was it toes and then heels?
     When I finally dared I forgot completely about the counting and the style of steppings. It was a liberation, not to think at all.

Entrainment

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According to Martha Beck, “You can increase your ability to connect with other people ( in ways that you can call quantum-mechanical or mystical…) This is made possible through “entangled particles”: bits of matter that have been in close contact with one another. These bits of matter purportedly communicate over any distance, faster than the speed of light.

According to the remote-connection experiments, the linkage that occurs is determined by the brain which has the most coherent wave patterns. The brain associated with calm, relaxation and peace is believed to “pull” the less coherent brains into synchrony with it. The process is called “entrainment”.

Along with the processes of wordlessness and oneness explained by Beck, I experienced a kind of entrainment with a misplaced book. The occurrence was assisted by Ho’oponopono which I have been practicing for at least one month now. Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian healing system popularized by Joe Vitale in his book “Zero Limits”

After my initial fixation towards retrieving my book “Real Energy” I consciously decided to surrender. I felt as though the book had fallen from the horizon into another realm. I calmly accepted the loss; then I drifted into a dreamlike statw where I visualized myself as magnetizing the book back into my world. Of course I repeated the Ho’oponopono litany many times daily.

After two days, while sitting at the edge of the bed of my husband who was dozing off his afternoon nap, I sensed the abnormal position of several dissertation proposals on one of his many open shelves. I suspected there was a book caught in the heap. Even before I completely pulled out the book, I already knew it was my missing book.

I rejoiced because I had broken my obsessive pattern to use logical reasoning coupled with laborious manual labor to put order in the study room of my husband. Using metaphysical solutions does not only make mundane tasks easier it honors our spark of divinity.

Please note I have a special, personal relationship with my books. I know my books and my books know me!

Answered Prayers

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I have fond memories of answered prayers through the Tuesday devotion to St Anne during my years in Assumption, Iloilo both as a teacher and as a student.I used to be a devotee of the Infant Jesus of Prague. For a short while I depended on Our Lady of Remedies for my share of miracles Eventually I simply got tired of formula prayers and resorted to personal prayers from the heart.

     In the 1990s I read Dr Mann’s “Sacred Healing where he wrote:
“The spiritually wise and awakened being knows that subtle spiritual forces control and direct all of creation. Thought, when conceived in a spiritually conscious state, emanates subtle energy that draws experience into manifestation.”
     Ironically by the time one becomes spiritually wise and awakened his manifestation won’t be centered on worldly goods for their own sake.
     Thought conceived in a spiritually conscious state is what is manifested. This, I believe is what is lacking in the exercises popularized by “The Secret”. This is not to say that “The Secret” is useless. It is a stepping stone to spiritual wisdom and awakening.

Explanatory Systems

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     Matthew Budd wrote in “You Are What You Say”: Obviously, you and I are more than the sum of our parts. We have unique cares, intentions, commitments, feelings etc. We have preferences…
And we suffer over things and people we want or have lost. None of this can be explained by examining our parts. We exist as whole and unique organisms. We are part of nature and nature is seamless, a connected whole. Only in our explanatory systems is it separated.
     That is why when I had a voice problem for years in the 1990s my doctors could not explain what ailed me. Eventually I suggested Myasthenia Gravis and most of my doctors greed although a female neurologist vehemently refused to confirm this.
     I was often in turmoil. I had a crisis of Faith. I had too many issues with my in-laws. I had so many questions about our finances. I was definitely unhappy.
     Luckily a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Lourdes etc. gave me a new worldview. Slowly I integrated my mind and my body. Eventually my explanatory system changed for the better.

The Old Worldview

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    The old worldview was characterized by struggle and conflict. I choose the Buddhist discipline of acceptance rather than struggle. This is not martyrdom; this is a voluntary decision to flow with circumstances. While doing everything in one’s power to better the situation, one does not focus on escape strategies. Eventually with lots of practice one enters into the difficulties with a relaxed attitude, a quaint oneness with the situation and one comes out definitely wiser than before.
     I used to agonize because with management principles learned in school along with the many five-year development plans I have in one way or the other been involved with I got into the fix-it state of mind.
     “Any suffering is caused by misdirected energy which we must learn to use more positively.” This is the teaching of Seth as quoted by Gill Edwards. “True spirituality is a sense of joy that makes all creativity probable”