Inner Wisdom Challenge

Week One – Emotions As Guidance

Day 2 Centering Thought:

I can deliberately choose to feel better now.

The Art of Allowing is the art of no longer resisting the Well-Being that you deserve; the Well-Being that is natural; the Well-Being that is your legacy, your Source, and your very Being.     ~ Abraham

Our thoughts affect our emotions.  We will feel exactly the way we think.     ~ Pastor Joel Osteen

 Week One Processes:

• Meditation: This is an opportunity to quiet the Voice and experience our Inner Being, the silent witness within. Set the intention to just be that observer and focus on your breath.
• Check in: Several times throughout the day pause to become aware of how you are feeling.
  • Applaud the awareness. If the feelings are pleasant, savor them. If they are unpleasant, appreciate the guidance and clarity of what you do want and begin to bring your thoughts to more general statements about the subject.
• Journal: How aware are you of your emotions?
  • Have you gained awareness that your emotions do change with a shift in thoughts?
  • Does it make sense that if you want clear alignment between your two perspectives, (which means to feel good) that your emotions are vital guidance?

If there is a persistent thought pattern evoking unpleasant feelings, do the Expansion Spiral process in your journal to bring clear alignment.

Expansion Spiral:

–   Draw a large spiral

–   In the center write how you are feeling about what is. I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that… I feel disappointed that…

–   On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”.  I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.

–   To start, you do not resonate with the outer statement.  The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.

–   Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.