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Eric Chen
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Date Posted: 06:03:40 11/02/04 Tue
====== Feeling your life path ======
While coaching one of my friends, I have uncovered an technique on finding your life path "by accident". It is a radical departure from the logical method of making choices where you decide using pros and cons. It works with feelings, and works best for the more emotional ones among us.
Before you enter the exercise, ensure that you have a clear mind. Alert, aware and feeling good will keep allow you to feel your journey clearly without any interference. If you feel mentally, emotionally or spiritually disturbed for any reason, then ensure that you have dealt with it before you continue. If you have a ritual you use to cleanse yourself like praying, do use it.
When you have many choices that you are unsure of which to take, first, engage your mind to come up with as many possibilities as possible. When you feel that you have exhausted all the possibilities, then tell your mind to take a break.
Then if you have a lot of possible choices, collect all your choices into perhaps 4 to 6 most likeable choices [not too many that you spend too much time on it but not too little that you have no choices at all].
Note that this step requires you to feel, not think. So use your emotions as a guide from here on and release any need to make sense. Disregard practicality - now it is your feelings that we are concerned with. Tell your thinking, logical mind to take a break and stop telling you what to do. Assure it that it will have a chance to help you later after this exercise.
In a calm, relaxed mood, allow yourself to wander into a large, spacious hall. This hall represents the sacred space of possibilities within you. Allow yourself to feel the welcoming atmosphere of this sacred space. Allow yourself to feel the presence of compassion, love and joy emanating from this room and outside of it.
Enter this hall alone, for it is your own choice that you must make. Now, allow yourself to see many doors in front of you, with each door representing a possible choice to take. Each door leads you to a future 10 years from now, after you have chosen that possibility. Once you enter each door, you will step into that future where you have made the choice.
Now as you slowly enter the door into the space beyond, just allow your feelings to come to you. Reassure yourself that you are only trying out the choices just like trying out clothes at a department store. Not committing to anything, you can worry about the bill later, so allow yourself to just enjoy the experience now.
Release the need to see or make sense of anything. Release any attempt to think, but simply feel. If any images, sounds or stuff comes, just notice them and take note of them. Allow yourself to simply dive into the choice and experience it, releasing any desire to say or think anything.
As you become familiar with the feelings, allow yourself to feel the surroundings, people, events, and atmosphere around you. Allow yourself to explore everything you like to explore around you. Stay with the experience until you feel like moving on.
Now, describe your feelings. Go beyond just saying (for instance) "joy" or "happiness". Discriminate what type of feelings you feel, like a short lived dependent joy, meaningful accomplishment joy, simple friendship joy etc.
After you felt that you described what you feel completely, then gently exit the door into the hall. If you are still feeling alert, you can continue to the next door. If not, wash your face or do some physical exercises like a quick jog to keep you awake and alert and come back to the hall later.
With this, sample each of the choices you might make by going through the doors one by one. Release any desire to make comparisons yet. Just go with the flow.
When you have completed the exercise, then check to see if you have found a choice that you "just know" is the right one. If not, then you have missed out an important possibility or you might have some emotional issues holding you back. Come back after you uncover it or resolve your issues, whichever feels appropriate to you.
When you find the most "emotionally suitable" choice, then give a prayer of thanks for this from the bottom of your heart. Thank the world (or whichever religious entity) for showing you this, and making it come true for you. Remain with the gratitude until you feel it is time to move on.
If you are unclear as to how to get started on the new journey you are making, then let your logical mind show you the possibilities, and repeat this exercise (using a shorter period like 1 year) on this question.
Enjoy this gift
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A production of the "Reflection Group" Project http://creation.is.dreaming.org
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A little more explanation:
This method works by using feelings, which are closer to the subconscious, to access the subconscious. Unlike the conscious mind, the subconscious has the answers to all the questions within you. It knows what will serve you and what will not. So draw upon it for your guidance.
The conscious mind works using thoughts. It is helpful when you would like to find out how to get to your destination but misleading when you have yet to decide where you choose to go. It is a good servant but a bad master in helping you live meaningfully, so use it with care.
Giving thanks is important because it acknowledges what is there already, and you are holding it right in your own hands. As you give thanks for what is there, you affirm it is so. And it shall be so.
Giving thanks is also important because you will help create more of which helps you. Giving thanks is the beginning of helping other people / processes help yourself.
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