Year: 2018

Year 4, Week 13: Thought

I’m looking at paragraph 23 of Lesson 13 this week.

23. Thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore creative, but make no mistake, thought will create nothing unless it is consciously, systematically, and constructively directed; and herein is the difference between idle thinking, which is simply a dissipation of effort, and constructive thinking, which means practically unlimited achievement.

Nothing will be accomplished if we don’t take action, but before we can take action, we must have thought about that action and seen it unfold in our thoughts. But our thought requires structure and direction. I’ve gotten the best results from my Sits when I’ve approached them seeking an answer to something I’ve needed to do.

Year 4, Week 12: Law of Relaxation

I’m thankful for the 7 Laws review this week. The Law of Relaxation caught my attention:

Mental effort defeats itself ~ exactly the opposite of physical effort. A relaxed, calm state of mind, is the only doorway to progress mentally. Relaxation of thought is the only access to Infinite Intelligence.

I’ve been practicing that this week. For me, I have gotten better at this, but I have far to go before I will have confidence I’ve nailed this law. I have gotten very good at implementing the techniques that accompany this process to get to sleep quickly at night. I feel lacking in other applications though. More practice, I guess.

Year 4, Week 11: Sacred Hours

We’ve been hearing this for weeks, but are we doing it? Are we keeping the last hour sacred? Are we using that last hour of each day to input only what we want to manifest into our minds? Are we eradicating the junk, stripping off the day’s cement, and polishing our personal Golden Budha? If not, we’re doing ourselves a disservice.

Sure this requires a little planning, but when we finish the day right, we set ourselves up to begin the next day right, and we perpetuate the cycle and manifest our desired life.

Review our calendars for tomorrow. Layout our wardrobe. Prepare what we need for tomorrow and have it ready to grab and take with us. Clear our minds. Perform our readings and recitations. Lay down to sleep refreshed and in a positive state of mind.

Week 10: Most of All, I Love Myself

“I love myself.” This truly is the key. As we’re chipping off the cement and rewriting our blueprint, the key is to love ourselves. If we don’t yet know how to do that, we use this process to learn.

When we love ourselves, we know we’re worth taking care of. We willingly monitor what enters our body through our eyes, mouths, noses, and ears. We attend to our souls and our hearts. We embrace the Mental Diet and keep the negative thoughts at bay. In fact, we eradicate them.

What we think about grows, so we focus on what we want to grow in our lives and starve what we do not want with neglect.

Year 4, Week 9: Visualization

This week one of our homework assignments was to meditate on 9.15.

15. Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. Visualization is a very different process from seeing; seeing is physical, and is therefore related to the objective world, the “world without,” but Visualization is a product of the imagination, and is therefore a product of the subjective mind, the “world within.” It therefore possesses vitality; it will grow. The thing visualized will manifest itself in form. The mechanism is perfect; it was created by the Master Architect who “doeth all things well,” but unfortunately sometimes the operator is inexperienced or inefficient, but practice and determination will overcome this defect.

Every step we’ve been taking so far in the course brings us to this point (and further). Visualizing our new reality is the significant key to making it real. If we don’t visualize it, it won’t happen. This is powerful.

Year 4, Week 8: Mental Habits

Mental habits are so significant. That’s what we’re working on here, and four years later, I have made progress in this area but have far to go.

“You may freely choose what you think, but the result of your thought is governed by an immutable law. Any line of thought persisted in cannot fail to produce its result in the character, health, and circumstances of the individual.”

I’m making a huge personal push to dive into mindset and being more conscientious of my thoughts and their impact on life. I’m thankful for several opportunities that have presented themselves in recent weeks to help me focus my studies.

Year 4, Week 7: Blue Rectangles

Blue rectangles represent True Health for me. When I’m at Panera in San Antonio, the wall next to where I usually sit is a blue rectangle.  The pens I write with is (if you consider it carefully) a blue rectangle. The cloth I clean my computer screen with is a blue rectangle. The part near my blue Lightning cable end is a blue rectangle.  I have plenty of reminders for my True Health journey.

What are you seeing for your colors and shapes to remind you of what you need to know?

Year 4, Week 6: Love in My Heart

Each year, Scroll II gets easier for me. I struggled the first year. I think I struggled so much I ignored this scroll in my blog posts the first year.

The second year, my mastermind partner helped me with some suggestions. Truly, my mastermind partner is one of the best things I got from this course. There are so many good things, but she has been a tremendous blessing. She always has insight right when I need it.

Last year, I embraced this scroll, and this year, I didn’t even flinch when I opened to it. For those of you in your first time through the course, I offer this reflection to help you see that sticking with the course, even in a most rudimentary way, can do great things for your long-term personal development. You are worth it. Your life is worth it. Hang in there. It seems chaotic, overwhelming, and a tad frustrating now, but it truly does become easier with time. I had trouble seeing that my first year, and I know some of you are, too. Have faith, my friends. Stay the course.

 

Year 4, Week 5: Oops!

Okay. That was a bad one. Ask to get put on the blogroll, disappear, and sure enough, people are watching me goof up. What can I say? I screwed up. It’s in the past. I’m back from driving my husband on his three-week vacation (all part of the DMP), and I’m getting settled in at home again. Whew!

Thanks to those of you for sticking with me. For those I’m supposed to be visiting, I apologize, and I’ll be dropping in to see what’s happening on your journey.

I do have an awesome new DMP, and I love reading it.

Year 4, Week 2: The Law of Forgiveness

I thought I’d taken care of the forgiveness things years ago, yet in recent studies I’ve been doing, I’ve come to believe I still have some issues. In my OOLA Planner, it discusses OOLA Blockers, and one of those is Anger, and the emotion of Anger can indicate a need for forgiveness. I’ve been experiencing some Anger-related issues lately, so I’ll be looking to release some things during my sits — or at least be looking for more positive ways of dealing with them.