Awareness Challenge Day 14

Week Two – Awareness of our Seat of the Soul/Self and the voice in our head

Our Lord opened my spiritual eye and showed me my soul in the middle of my heart, and I saw the soul as wide as if it were an infinite world, and as if it were a blessed kingdom. ~ Julian of Norwich

Meditate for fifteen minutes. You might think of the day as a meditation, so that you go through the day as the observer does in meditation and let the thoughts go by and then bring your attention back to center.

Directing the Voice: Thought Shift and Lean Back
In his book, The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle writes of the mind as a superb instrument, if used righty.  “Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.  To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly – you usually don’t use it at all.  It uses you.  This is the disease.  You believe that you are your mind.  This is the delusion.  The instrument has taken you over.”

Journal about what you have been aware of in meditation and during the day.  Where in your body do you experience the sense of calm, your Soul/Self? What has the voice been saying? Do you see patterns?  Were you able to Thought Shift?  Did leaning back work for you?

Additional Questions: What has it felt like this week to be the user (at least at times) of your mind instead of it using you?  Do you have a sense of being the one that can be in control?  That you can live mindfully?

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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…learn to seize your joy,
for joy is always near.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can only be said to be alive in
those moments when our hearts are
conscious of our treasures.
~ Thornton Wilder

Fire your inner critic and reinstate your inner fan club.
~ Alan Cohn