How To Discover the Surrendered State, with David R Hawkins

The mechanism of surrender is a sure way to total fulfilment. We are not at peace when we make effort; effort brings guilt, envy, resentment, and vulnerability to criticism. Imagine using surrender instead of effort?

Small self vs big Self. The small self is attached to familiar pain. There’s no catch on the big Self; it’s everything we want. The Self of the teacher is the Self of the student, so being in the teacher’s presence reveals the next step. 

We can only start where we are. If we fool ourselves about where we are the way takes longer. We start with accepting our negativity and smallness, so that we can transcend it. 

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All problems are healed by the Self. By surrender we experience the Self. Therefore surrender resolves all problems. 

 

Letting go is the most effective technique for overcoming the obstacles to Enlightenment. It is too simple to be appreciated. Letting go frees emotional attachments, healing suffering and psychosomatic disorders, quiets thinking, relieves the need for escapism, increases energy, improves functioning, improves relationships, decreases conflict, allows vocational goals to be more easily achieved, replaces intellectualism with intuitive knowingness, grows the personality, uncovers creative and psychic abilities, increases independence, happiness, peace, joy, awareness. Letting go can be silently done through daily life. 

The nature of thinking is relief, so it occurs automatically in the presence of the teacher.

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Thinking is held in place by the accumulated pressure of feelings. Feeling organises thoughts and memory. This is the Gray-LaViolette theory. 

Being surrendered means spontaneity, freedom to give to others, experience of the basic nature of the universe which is love, peace, and joy. 

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3 major ways of handling feelings: suppress/repress, express, and escape. 

Suppression is conscious, we are stoic or don’t want to be bothered. We don’t know what to do with feelings. Guilt and fear repress feelings through denial and projection: denial blocks maturation; projection creates enemies. 

Expression releases pressure so the remainder can be suppressed. Expressing feelings doesn’t free you from feelings. Expressing expands negative feelings, then suppresses the remainder. Freud: instead of expressing negativity, neutralise, sublimate, socialise and channel the feeling constructively into love, work, and creativity. 

Escape diverts. Discomfit with silence. Need for stimuli. Fear of being alone. Escape takes enormous energy. Escape halts spiritual growth, and brings illness. Escape blocks trust and love. 

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Stress-proneness depends on how much stress is already present within to be triggered by a stimulus, not by what happens out there. We see in the world what we have repressed. Shame sees punishment. Apathy sees poverty. Guilt sees evil. Fear sees threat. Anger sees enemies. Pride sees xxxx. 

Events don’t cause emotions. Repressed feelings seek an outlet using events as triggers. We are like pressure cookers.  XXX

The mechanism: be aware, let it arise, stay with it, let it run its course, let go of wanting it to be different, let go of doing anything about it. Let the feeling be there and let out the energy behind it. Be aware of resistance, fear, condemnation, moralising, judgement AS feeling and let them arise, run their course, and let their energies out. 

The key to letting go: resistance keeps the feeling going. Focus on letting go of resistance first. Presume there is fear and guilt over having negative feelings: a fear of fear, guilt over guilt. Ignore all thoughts: focus on the feeling itself. Letting go undoes the ego, which resists; “forgets”, escapes, vents, acts out. Solution: let go of feelings about letting go. Allow and be with the resistance. I am willing to let go. I am willing to accept and be with my feelings. If the thought arises “this isn’t working” that’s a sign of real progress! All thoughts are resistance: don’t think about letting go: just let go. Let go during good times because the teacher says it gets better. When you feel stuck, surrender to the feeling of being stuck, letting go of the stuckness in bits and pieces. Undeservingness and wantingness are forms of resistance too. We tend to discount inner progress, forgetting the very technique that brought about the change. Transcendence is easy, and goals become elevated automatically, the impossible possible, so accepting the resistance will try to save face by ridiculing and criticising a higher state is vital. Criticism and disparagement of letting go is resistance. Higher levels of functioning become easy, possible, so decide NOW to let go of resisting higher levels of functioning. “I decide to let go of all blocks to happiness, success, health, acceptance, love and peace!” This is the natural state. Ask yourself, Is there any negative thought, doubt, or feelings about my ability to let go? Let them come up, accept them, and let them go. 

In summary, resistance is key to letting go, because it tends to keep negative feelings going. Common forms of resistance are guilt about having negative feelings, criticism, skepticism, undeservingness, wantingness, discounting, ridiculing, saving face, "forgetting" to let go, "feeling stuck", and venting.

I decide to let go of all blocks to happiness, success, health, acceptance, love and peace!

Result of letting go:  it’s okay if it happens, it’s okay if it doesn’t, I don’t need it for my happiness. No attachment remains. Success!

Stacks: sometimes feelings return or continue.

Transcendence: when something is fully surrendered it disappears as if it had never existed. We often don’t realise it is gone. Others notice first. Often we feel like it’s not working. 

What for? The body: humans most fear losing the capacity to experience life through the body. Select a life goal and ask “What for?” - a simple way to become conscious of the underlying emotional goal of survival. “What for?” reveals insecurity, unhappiness, and lack of fulfilment driving goals. All goals aim to overcome fear and achieve happiness. 

All life emits energy, positive or negative. Courage shifts energy from positive to negative. Letting go moves us from negative to positive. The fastest way to move up is by telling the truth to ourselves and others. 

Awareness increases rapidly by observing feelings, rather than thoughts, without any intention of doing anything about them. Recurring thoughts and feelings are written down and worked with directly later. 

When stuck, ask “What is the basic feeling that I’ve been ignoring?” 

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Moving through catastrophe quickly. Consciously use suppression, expression, escape, surrender of smaller aspects, recontextualisation with a positive meaning and uplifting significance.

A fourth way to move through catastrophe: surrender the smaller aspects first. As trivia is surrendered, the main event becomes less oppressive. Surrendering on trivia works because surrendering on one emotion surrenders on them all at the same time. 

After a catastrophic overwhelm, examine the suppressed portion of the emotion so it no longer does harm unconsciously. 

Past life crises are still unresolved, and have disabled us in those areas of life. Is it worth paying the cost? Letting go gives us a way to handle residuals. 

Create a different context for the past: a different attitude to past difficulty or trauma. Acknowledge the hidden gift in difficulty and trauma. Viktor Frankl: emotional events are healed when a new meaning is placed around them. The last human freedom: one’s choice of attitude towards circumstances. Every life experience contains a hidden lesson, gift, healing, or blessing. Jung: the unconscious brings about traumatic events in order to make us whole, and the shadow allows us to feel empathy and compassion for the human condition. A crisis makes us more human, compassionate, and wise.

Fear of life is really fear of emotions. When we master our feelings, life becomes uninhibited and opens up. 

Every life experience is an opportunity to go up or down. The confrontation is: do we curl up in a ball and escape down, or do we rise up to life? 

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Enhancing positive feelings: exercise: a negative feeling is present, what is the positive opposite? Let go of resisting the positive. This exercise locates our inner greatness, the Self. Contact with the Self transcends the world. 

The most powerful survival tool is the state of lovingness. 

Sir John Eccles: the brain is not the mind: the mind controls the brain. Brain is like a receiving station for radio waves. Voluntary movements don’t come from the motor cortex but from the intention to move stimulating the motor cortex. The mind effects the brain. 

Disease proneness: Do I hold fear thoughts about my health? Do I get excited about a new disease being reported? Am I curious about disease in myself and others? Do I believe the environment and food cause disease? Do I believe in family diseases? Do I watch accidents, hospital TV, violent TV? Do I suffer guilt, anger, condemnation, judgement, resentment, hopelessness? Am I concerned with status over relationships? Do I worry about insurance? 

Tell yourself, “I am only subject to what I hold in thought. I cancel the belief in X and I am free.”

Conscious use of surrender is the most effective stress relief. 

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Problem solving:  Letting go solves problems rapidly. Let go of the feelings behind the question. Let go of resisting the energy of the question. Ignore looking for answers or thinking about the problem. When we are fully surrender on all components, the answer appears. Thinking through scenarios is fear. Wise solutions arise in a clear and surrendered space. Long standing problems are solved by surrender with lightning speed. Exercise: take several problems, describe the search for answers, stop searching! Now, examine the underlying feelings in the search and let that go. 

We are capable of far more love and happiness than we can imagine. 

Letting go undoes neuroticism. Therapy improves balance while letting go eliminates it altogether. 

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Health. Preoccupation with the body drain energy. “I am an Infinite Being, not subject to disease, danger, or threat.” or whatever mental program. Letting go shifts from identification as body to stewardship of body. Only the mind experiences the body. One the mind experiences sensations. There’s no need to defend the body. Power lies in the mind. People respond not to the body but to the inner attitude, the energy state, the level of awareness. Focus on the level of consciousness, not the physical body, to bring rapid results. Health automatically results from letting go on guilt and resistance to health and wellbeing. Guilt sees punishment and accidents. Forgiveness sees safety and health. 

Wealth the unconscious brings us what it thinks we deserve. A small guilty self brings poverty. Look at what money means. Does it stand for security, power, glamor, sex, competition, worth, value, esteem? Exercise: write the heading Money, and list all its meanings. Write does the feelings associated with each meaning and begin to surrender on each negative feeling and attitude. Money is just a tool to achieve positive feelings. We can achieve positive feelings directly. Money then takes on a new higher meaning. We must become conscious of what money means to us emotionally so we are not being run by it. When we re-own the power that we gave to money, and see it as our own power, we are free of concern and attachment. It is very common for people who let go to suddenly come into abundance. They become nonchalant about money, because one transcends what one has mastered. 

Happiness. One conflict can ruin a day. Why? Because we feel separate, alone, small and weak. Because of inner chaos, we must remain unconscious. We frantically do anything to avoid facing the feeling of inner emptiness. Letting go de-glamorises the world and returns power to the student.

Relationships. Common human love is primarily attachment, dependence, and possessiveness. All emotions toward others express the belief that we are incomplete in ourselves and must use others to feel good. Most relationship happens in our head. 

Relationships: Anger, criticism, judgement aims to punish others and make them sorry, and instead triggers anger in them. To handle anger, admit and accept these punishment fantasies, accept that these feelings and thoughts affect others whether expressed or not, and when we let go, often they also change. We must clean up our act: write down what you would not want others to know about you and begin to surrender it. People mirror back our negative feelings. Anger makes us vulnerable to attack psychically, and when we shift into a higher energy pattern we create a protective shield energetically. To really affect other people, really love them, then their anger will boomerang back upon them and not effect us. Hate is conquered by love, that is the eternal law. 

Relationships: Guilt. Wish for self punishment and to be punished. Inner guilt comes back at at us as criticism and invalidation. Letting go of guilt heals others criticising and attacking us. Presume the other person is conscious and aware of our inner thoughts and feelings.

Relationships, Apathy and Grief. Aim is to summon help. Effect is to drive others away. 

Relationships, Fear: inhibition aims to escape from threat. Effect is to draw the thing we fear to us. To heal fear, look at the worst possible scenario and let go of the feelings that arouses. Look at the feeling aroused by the worst possible scenario and ask “What is it based in?” Pride, anger, shame, guilt? When you identify the basis of the fear and the fear surrenders.

Relationships, Pride: expressed as neatness, punctuality, good personhood, workaholism, politeness, moral superiority. Pride also expresses as arrogance, vanity, and prejudice. Pride aims to win power and overcome inner smallness. Pride seeks to manipulate God to take our side. When we let go of wanting to be liked, we are liked. When we let go of pride’s manipulation of others, we find they respect us. Pride puts oneself down, flatters, defers, and self-effaces to influence others. False humility acts small to get respect, and gets disrespected. 

All negative emotions in relationship are forms of fear. Fear of losing, helplessness, abandonment, and lack. 

Exercise: pick a person who doesn’t like you, and ask “How would I react if I were the other person and knew what my inner feelings and thoughts really were?” The answer explains the other person’s behavior. 

To surrender a feeling in relationship easily, look at what the feeling is trying to accomplish? 

Reciprocal positive feelings bring about success in life.

How to clarify relationships: assume the other person is aware of your inner thoughts and feelings. How would you react to those inner thoughts and feelings if you were them? What purpose do those inner thoughts and feelings aim at? Let them all go and let go of resisting positive feelings. Now, how would you react if you were them to the positive feelings? Now, watch their behavior change. Sometimes karma keeps them stuck, so surrender on that. 

Emotions are really subtle attempts to force others. Emotions are attempts to impose our will on them, which they unconsciously resist. Instead, lovingly picture  the best possible outcome, a true win-win. Be non-attached and let go of all resistance and negativity. 

Relationships, sex: letting go expands sensory experience. If one breathes slowly and deeply, smiling instead of grimacing, the fear will become conscious and can be surrendered. Sex loses compulsion, one becomes free to indulge or not in sex or orgasm. A shift from wanting to sharing. Using letting go, go into all the negative emotions about myself and intimacy, allowing the feelings to come up one by one. Sex reflects level of consciousness: letting go expands sex and makes it more gratifying and not necessary. When we seek to give instead of get all our own needs are automatically fulfilled. 

Work: Feels limit or extend talents and abilities. Feelings set the quantity and quality of success and failure. How do feelings free up our ability for success? Positive feelings result in success, negative in failure. Negative feelings start the thinking “I can’t”, and arise when we dislike what we see, feel, think, remember. Comparison to others when holding suppressed feelings can lead to envy: undo it by facing the resistance to feeling underlying feelings: fear, desire, anger, shame, guilt. These feelings to seek success block the recognition we seek. Negative feelings cost us happiness and success. The cheap little satisfaction of blaming others for our lack of success, and the sympathy we get, is an excuse.  Negative feelings are replaced by loving what we do, delighting in my and others success, and boundless energy to excel. Positive feelings mean “I can”. Nothing need happen to get positive feelings; they flow naturally when negative feelings are surrendered. When the clouds are removed, the sun shines forth. By surrendering negative feelings, automatically inspiration creates success. Inspiration automatically follows surrender of negative belief and self-limitation. Tamas, Rajas, Sattva: in inertia, decisions don’t stick because of apathy, grief, and fear; in effort, performance is uneven, self-centred and win-lose because of desire, anger, and pride; in peace, decisions based in courage, acceptance, and love create inspiration, connection, concentration, and win-win contexts. Peace at work leads to greatness. We meet everyone’s needs and our own needs are automatically fulfilled. If we cannot see a win-win solution, then we have un-surrendered inner feelings blocking it. As soon as we totally surrender to a situation, the impossible becomes possible. Let go of negative feelings because you want something higher, peace, harmony, and getting the job done. It’s like rearranging the furniture or a bathroom break to shift from negative to positive.

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Basic Concepts, a review: thoughts have energy and form. Thoughts and feelings control the body and can heal it. Healing results from surrendered negative emotions plus a thought that gives it specific form. When a feeling is let go, all connected thoughts disappear. We surrender by allowing resistance to be there and accepting, looking at, observing, and letting it be. It runs out in due time. Start surrender by letting go feelings about feelings. Surrender feelings by acknowledging the payoff. Ignore thoughts as resistance. Steadfastly surrender all the time. Surrender rather than express negative feelings. Surrender resistance and skepticism to positive feelings. Let go of negative, share positive. Notice letting go brings a subtle lighter feeling. Letting go of desire clears a way for it to happen. Let go by osmosis in the aura of those who have what I want. Let go by associating with spiritual people. Accept that people know your inner state. De-label physical disorders and stick with specific body sensations. De-label feelings and let go the energy behind them. 

All negativity is associated with guilt about having it in the first place. Forgiveness alleviates guilt. Surrender and forgiveness work together. When we feel we should be doing something else, that’s guilt. We accept media enemies, that’s guilt. 

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Healing vision - most vision is simply escapism. We see only what we need to see. It takes about six weeks. We see with the mind, not with eyeballs. 

Self-healing within is activated by continual surrender. 

Whether God exists or not, we all have feelings about the idea of God that need to be dealt with. 

In meditation when the feeling behind a series of thoughts is located and surrender, the whole series instantly stops. An extremely silent state of meditation is possible in daily life through letting go. 

Affirmations increase in power by surrendering the “yeah but” obstacles to the affirmation.

Step three surrenders wilfulness, the basis of the ego, and is almost the same as letting go. 

If problems persist, surrender on a karmic pattern. Ask for more of it. 

Both frigidity and impotence are behavioural statements “I can’t resisting joy, love, and aliveness, usually caused by repressed guilt, fear, and anger.

I am free to not surrender. It’s my choice. One part of the mind believes that holding on will magically bring about a desired end, while another part of awareness knows that you are free to let go. 

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Enlightenment. Surrender wanting to control everything as it arises. “That there’s a good and a bad, a desirable and an undesirable; that’s all in the mind. In Reality, the sun shines and then the clouds come; the rain falls and the grass grows up and dies; the stock market goes up and down; age comes and goes; people arise and leave… By surrendering to whatever is cycling up, it eventually disappears. You disappear it by choosing to be one with it and refusing to want to change it as it arises… The one or two things you hide behind probably represent a stack. That’s why you’re hanging on to them.”

How to Become More Loving With Louise Hay.

Self-love. Look in the mirror, say “I love and accept myself exactly as I am”. What comes up? Try “I accept and love all parts of myself”. “I accept all that I have created for myself, and I can create more”. Affirmations acknowledge power and heal victimhood. Affirmations open the way to new experiences “I am open to the next step in my life”. Counter the idea that affirmations don’t work with  “I am open and receptive to power, change, and good things.” Pad and paper: write down messages, negativity or guidance, you receive when you affirm in the mirror; set them aside, and come back to them later to understand them. I treat myself as someone who is deeply loved and cherished. I am perfect as I am, right here and right now, sufficient, one with all life. I become better when I relax into my own perfection. Love nourishes my greatness, I am good enough. I know I can become more of what I am, not a better person, but more. Therefore I am willing to change and grow. Love erases old imprints; by gently, kindly comforting yourself, you change. Love yourself in the mirror from top to toe, dressed and naked. We are always working with the three year old child within, so spend time speaking soft and loving words to him every day, and life works better. Today, I think and say only what I want to have created in my life, and I refuse to believe in negative ideas.

Work. I am open to hearing and accepting an abundance of good advice and wonderful new ideas! I choose to accept good advice!

Prosperity. I constantly receive incredible gifts. I accept prosperity. I love to give generously, and I release the need to reciprocate. I feel pleasure, gratitude, and joy accepting all gifts, and I pass on to others what I do not want.

Learning I am here to learn. I am here to teach. I love teaching. I love learning. Each time I do something new I celebrate, appreciate, praise myself, and tell myself what I do right. I feel really good learning new skills because I am there for myself. I tell myself I am absolutely wonderful to be learning new skills. Each time I learn I am better and better. Soon I will have a new skill to celebrate. I learn something new every day. The most important things to learn are how to love myself and how to think supportively. 

Anger anger is a defense against fear. Anger is a normal and natural process. We get angry in repeated patterns. Release the anger to the person in the mirror, then ask “What can I do to make a change, what is the pattern that created this?” Being angry at ourselves reinforces negative patterns: at least once a week, beat the pillows, make noise, say all the things you want to say, and give yourself a release from anger. Accept being angry at yourself as fear of not being enough, affirm “I am enough. I am adequate to life. I am supported by the Universe in my endeavours.” 

Relationships. I envelope all my relationships in a circle of love. I have wonderful harmonious relationships with everyone with mutual respect and caring. We live with dignity, peace and joy, together and apart. When you trust yourself, when you are there for yourself, you trust and enjoy other people. Distrust of others is a call to support love and back yourself. I am my own best friend: I love being with myself, being myself, I love and be with myself, right here, right now. Unconditional love accepts what is. If we are not unique and different, if we are like other people, then we are not expressing our specialness. I am my own unique self: I am not x or y person. No competition or comparison exists. Listen to the people who prove what they are doing in practice, and who are winners. I am a natural winner: I love myself, so I am a winner; I feel good about myself and attract wonderful experiences of winning. Relationships flourish when we affirm each other; saying “don’t” negates the other person by cutting the lines of communication. In relationship, say only what you want to be true for you both. In relationship never say “don’t”; say “do”. Imagine a world without criticism: being supportive helps everyone grow and learn, and recognises the perfection of life. When criticised, tell yourself “I love being me”. Addictions come from anger with ourselves and criticism: I love and accept myself exactly as I am. I have loving compassion for my family. I bless my family with love. I am worth loving because I exist. 

Safety. I relax and enjoy life. I declare whatever I need to know is revealed in the perfect time and space sequence. To reprogram the thinking you must relax the body and come to a state of receptivity. Don’t joke about yourself, put yourself down, or say bad things about life: your subconscious picks up on it and creates it. Speak to yourself in a way to create good experiences in life for yourself. Your breath is precious, love it and trust that it is freely given to help you move through life. Awaken to life and know that life is always there for you. Appreciate fear: ask “what are you trying to help protect me from?” and thank the fear and affirm the truth. 

Peace. Today I am a new person. I relax and accept the thinking and feeling. I am present to myself and to my Higher Power. I use thinking and speaking as tools to shape the future. I am willing to release, surrender, let go, and have HP set aside for me. I reflect on thinking and feeling and experiences and clean house, throwing out old ideas and nourishing new ideas. I place old ideas, hurts, unforgiveness, pain, in the stream of life and lovingly release and dissolve them. Get to know your Higher Power: what can you let go of, nourish within you, create anew? The wisdom of the universe is yours! I thank all my spaces for being there for me. If someone throws a hot potato at me, I can always just step out of the way and refuse to catch it. I love where I am and open myself to a wonderful new place. My home is a peaceful haven. 

WORK. We resist growth. Where do I keep saying “I can’t” and “I won’t”? Where you cannot grow is a lesson that is important to you. As the sun is always shining, the truth is always true. When good comes into our life, say “I deserve this.” Welcome in our good. I am here at the right time: it is always the right time to come, always the right time to go, always the middle of the movie of life. Life is always about learning to love more. When we leave, our capacity to love is the only thing we take with us. If I leave today, how much love would I take with me? Procrastination is resistance to growth: whenever negative thoughts come up at work, tell yourself, what I do for work is very fulfilling for me, I get pleasure from my work and connect with the creativity of the Universe. Accidents/mistakes: look within to see the pattern and bless the problem with love and release it. I work where there is love, joy, and laughter, and I am appreciated. Our business is a Divine Idea in the One Mind, created and sustained by love. Love brings me to work. Divine Harmony permeates us all and we flow together in a most productive and joyous way. The Divine Mind is our business consultant and has plans for us which we have no yet dreamed. Our business is a Divine Idea. I rejoice in my employment: people want what I offer. I gratefully demonstrate Divine intelligence through work. I quiet and love myself and wait for words of wisdom to fill my mind. I am abundantly compensated in exchange for my exhilarating job. I freely express my Higher Power at work. I am in the right place thinking positive thoughts. I take the right actions from love and unity. I gratefully ask life for help. Life is a loving grandmother. I tell life what I want and allow it to happen. I am a center of harmonious peace and positive action. People love working and being with me. I release all vibrations of confusion, disharmony, or distrust. I am a harmonious being, all is well in myworld, and life gets better all the time. I always center in truth and peace, going beyond problems to the Divine right action solution. 

Money. Money is about what we believe we deserve. Money is not about stuff, but about the capacity of our hearts to receive good things. The quickest way to increase your income is to affirm “my income constantly increasing. I am worth prospering!” Deposit positive affirmations, and cancel complaining withdrawals, from your spiritual bank account. The quickest way to create a wonderful life is to love yourself and think joyful happy thoughts. Spend time thinking about joyous experiences: prime every day. I declare richness and fullness for my life today!

Healing and Health. I am healthy and filled with energy. My body is a friendly place to live. I respect my body and treat it well. I connect with the Universe and let my body be well. I let my whole body vibrate with light. My hands are powerful healing tools. I allow myself to give energy to myself. Every hand that touches me is a healing hand, and my Higher Power flows through others. I listen to my body’s messages, and ask “What is it I need to know?”

Meditation is only quieting our body and thinking, which lets our inner wisdom unfold. Work only on becoming quiet and loving yourself, and the answers appear. I love myself, and I am making the right choices. Ask yourself, is this the right choice for me now? When uncomfortable, go within and ask “How am i creating this, what is it within me that believes I deserve this experience?” Power to improve our lives comes from connecting to our inner self. In meditation, I say Yes to life; I choose my Yes with care, saying Yes to opportunity and prosperity and all good things. I am a yes person living in a yes world being responded to by a yes universe, and I celebrate this! Life is simple: patterns of thinking and feeling create life experience, and from practicing wonderful new thoughts and feelings comes a new experience of life. Stop: what are you thinking right now? Do you want this thought to create your future experience? Notice and be aware. Everything is on time and in perfect Divine right order: all is complete in and of itself. Affirm guidance: say “the answers are within”; open the door on your inner wisdom. Breathe expands love and flow; ask “do I want to expand or contract?”. In meditation, confidently call on the Universe to supply every need. 

Some helpful beliefs to create over time:

• I am always safe

• Everything I need to know is revealed to me

• Everything I need comes to me in the perfect time, space, and sequence

• Life is a joy and filled with love

• I prosper wherever I turn

• I am willing to change and grow

• All is well in my world.

Change. The moment I am willing to change on the inside, the Universe leaps to bring me what I need on the outside. Change is easy: I accept the process of untangling, love myself through impatient resistance because I want the inner process more than the goal itself, and follow step by step getting easier as I go along.  

The Process of Change involves wanting the inner opening to love more than the goal, making my insides clean, tidy, clear, and bright, following patiently step by step as it gets easier, and meeting impatience with loving acceptance. Change is easy. Change is untangling our threads. Change is gradual, taking time and effort to learn. Love and be patient with yourself as you change. Test it: “Am I willing to change within?” If no, what is the belief in the way? It is only a thought and a thought can be changed. The best way to change quickly and easily is with gentle, firm insistence and consistency in choosing thoughts. For changing habits, ask “How does it serve you? What do I get out of it? If I no longer had it, what would happen? Why do I believe that I don’t deserve to have a better life?” We often create a problem because we do not know how to handle some area of our lives, so ask “Where am I sorry, angry, avoidant?” - when we become ready to handle that area, we are freed.  

It’s only a thought and a thought can be changed. Just as you can refuse to think positive thoughts, you can also refuse to think negative thoughts. Don’t fight thinking, just say “Thank you for sharing, and I choose something else.” Acknowledge and go beyond. 

The Spiritual Heart is like a beautiful mansion with many rooms. The entry to the mansion is birth, and the exit door is death. Our life is a series of doors closing and opening. When one door closes, another door opens. We walk from room to room having different experiences. Some rooms are dark and scary and you can use the torch of self-awareness to find the light switch of mindfulness: when you are mindful and awake, the lights are on and the room is no longer scary. The furniture of each room is our thinking. The experiences of each room is our feeling; and by practicing loving thinking and feeling you open the door to wonderful new experiences; something a learning experience, and sometimes a joyous experience. But the most important thing to know about this house is that a Higher Power has come before us and prepared a Place for us to rest in. Whatever room of life you are in, you are always safe.

I deserve joy. I deserve good in my life. I open my arms and say I am open to receive good things. 

I am safe and willing to feel my true emotions fully and let them go.

Happiness. I can do what I want. Happiness is feeling good about myself. I can do anything I want to do now I am grown up. I am allowed to have fun. As I nurture myself I find more fun in my world. The more fun I have the more other people love me. I make adult decisions that support and nourish me. 

I am willing to change and grow. I know I can become more of what I am, not a better person. I am good enough. I can become more of who I am. Today I will be with my loved ones, silently bless them with love, and say only what I want to be true for me. Amen. I will speak words of love gratitude appreciation and compassion 

It may not seem like I do this by choice, but I do. I do not have to, I choose to. Today I release the pressure of MUST and admit the peace of CAN. I choose my life. I look forward to my day.

Today I will say only what I want to be true for me. I will speak words of love compassion and mercy. Amen.

Louise Hay: working with expansion and contraction. Love expands. I breathe in love and flow with life. If I’m scared or mad or negative, begin to breathe. Expanding your breath also expands your thinking, your chest and spine, freeling your heart and stomach to process feelings. Ask, Do I want to expand or contract? When you want to contract, do so deliberately, mindfully. Stay awake when you contract, and do it with loving breath.