"Steps to Inner Balance" is a practice which when applied to your life, brings Loving-Kindness and increased light to the inner self.

      The core of this practice is a simple method of forgiving, releasing (detaching from people, places and things) and Love for all life. Through forgiving and releasing, we begin to remove the boundaries within which separate us from being our "True" self, who is love and oneness.

Through the practice of release (dis-attachment), we begin to free ourselves from the things that tie down our spirit and stop our ascension to our true home. By giving Love to all beings you receive Life's blessing, contentment.

      As we release our self-imposed blocks, love flows more freely through us, nourishing the natural landscape of our being. As this loving nature grows, we come to realize that all creation is existing through love and kindness which flows and is the one source. All we must do at any moment is to accept and give love. On this simple path, all effort is directed towards learning to surrender every moment to Love and to release others from our grip. We have to love everyone.

 

"With visible breath I am walking.

A voice I am sending as I walk.

In a sacred manner I am walking.

With invisible tracks I am walking.

In a sacred manner I walk."

From "The Song of White Buffalo Calf Woman"

 

LOVE

     All austerities, worship, knowledge and contemplation are useless without love, and a practitioner without love remains devoid of any knowledge of God's mysteries. Various paths have been prescribed for meeting the Lord, but love is supreme and is the very life of all methods. God is love and therefore the best method of meeting God is through love. In fact all practices are for the very purpose of awakening love. Your family life, your business transactions or other activity will bring happiness and all comfort, even if one particle of love is mixed with them.

      You should therefore, love God and all creatures because all these things are a part of God, and there is nothing else"(Adi Granth)

      We have a natural connection with all creatures. GOD is our Father (& Mother), and we are all God's children. We should therefore, treat others as members of the same family. When there is love, all thoughts and feelings of hatred, anger or ill-will vanish. Love is the path of sacrificing everything. It is another name for giving away one's heart. It is the power which is eternal.

      Love is the life-stream of all creation and is also the essence of our life. It is the very core of purity and simplicity. Without it, the whole world is empty. It is the elixir which keeps life in full bloom. The soul is a part of God, and love is present in a latent form in every soul. (Philosophy of the Masters Vol. 2)

TRUTH

      Every path is true.
As a child in the first grade requires a different level of education from a student in a university -- a similar progression of understanding occurs on the spiritual path. However, in both secular and spiritual situations, some students progress at an "average" rate, some are held back, some students skip grades and some rare achievers may graduate at ten years old.

      Furthermore, the amount of money spent on classes, books, tapes and seminars bear no direct relation to a person's attainments; nor do education or intellect. The illiterate, poor, and the homeless have the same capacity to attain Loving-Kindness and God-Realization as the wealthy.

WHAT IS THE MIND?

      The mind is a complex tool designed to help us manage the physical level of existence. Mind is a self-programming bio-etheric computer, which processes knowledge and experience It receives,stores, and retrieves information for continuous use. This powerful tool is sparked to life by the real "You", Soul, who channels the energy that comes from God and enables this complex bio-etheric system to operate. The senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell & esp) are input devices which continually update this system with our ongoing experience. Our output is the moment-by-moment response to life, mentally & physically, however we express ourselves.

      For many individuals, the mind and the body -- instead of being viewed as mere tools -- are perceived to be the entire individual or self. This dilemma is illustrated by the scuba diver who must wear a wet suit and aqua-lung to survive in the depths of the ocean.

Though the scuba diver is much more than just his equipment, he must wear the device to interface with the foreign, undersea environment. The diver is aware that he is not the suit, and -- because of this knowledge -- is able to utilize it to his advantage. Similarly, we wear a body and utilize a mind to exist and interact in this physical reality; however, we have become so dependent on these devices that we believe they constitute all we are!

      This identification of the mind and body as the total self limits the level at which one comprehends experience. The mind is confined by its machine-like nature.-- it can only process input experience,while using it's past memories as the basis for the current moments' response. By comparison, the soul -- being plugged into Loving-Kindness -- is pure, unlimited power. This in-the-moment awareness determines to what extent you are captive to your mind's manipulations and projections. Remember, however, that every stage of awareness is perfectly designed to serve each individual's growth into Oneness and Loving-Kindness.

LIFE IS A PROGRAM (A Karmic Program)

      Throughout history, most religions have taught that a person undergoes pain or pleasure as a result of his own previous action. Likewise, he bears the consequences of present actions, immediately after the initial action or in the future. Thus, it has been advised to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This law of cause and effect operates throughout the universe through physics. This theory is known as the Law of Compensation: "As you sow, so shall you reap". It is also referred to as Karma.

      Your individual life has a built-in Karmic program that began before you were born. You can say that you chose this life's lessons to occur in this particular way, for in fact you did, through your past actions. This program predetermined the mundane and social aspects of your life: your parents, whether you receive love or abuse, your nationality, religious upbringing, skin color, mental and physical defects (if any), hair and eye color, bone structure, etc. Each individual is governed separately by his own complex Karmic formula.

      The word Karma means "to act" or "to do". Everything we think, say or do is in fact, Karma. In colloquial terms, people speak of "good" or "bad" Karma. If an individual is unaware, Karma is interpreted with worldly definitions; for instance, winning the lottery automatically constitutes "good Karma "while breaking a leg must be "bad Karma".

      In truth, "good" Karma is any action that causes us to realize our spiritual nature and walk toward God. "Bad" Karma is any event that causes us to turn away from our true selves and walk away from God; for example, breaking a leg is good Karma if by it forces us to reflect on our good fortune of still being alive activating thankfulness and causes us to think of God, and winning a million dollars is bad Karma if it causes us to ignore God by chasing material objects and by putting too much emphasis on money, power, vanity, egoism or the like. Our reaction to Karmic events is determined by our general perspective and awareness at that moment. When we finally accept both "good" and "bad" events as happening for our greater good, and we remain focused on our inner way home any event becomes "good" Karma.

THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION

      Separation is the mind-based illusion by which most of humankind live their lives. To illustrate this situation, fill a large bowl with water and observe it for a moment. Notice that all the water is indeed one.

Now, get a plastic baggie and, with a teaspoon, remove a small amount and place in the baggie. Seal the baggie and place it back in the bowl of water.

      Now, the water in the baggie is no longer one with the rest of the water. Though it originated in oneness with the rest of the water, and is indeed the same as the rest of the water, it is trapped by the baggie and is unable to merge into the original Oneness.

      This, in basic terms, is our dilemma. We are a bunch of baggies filled with water in a bowl filled with water. The baggies represent each individual's mind, body, and senses -- that part of ourselves on which we have placed the greater part of our attention. The water that fills and surrounds the baggies represents love. Accordingly, we are filled with and surrounded by love, but are distracted from this fact by placing all of our attention on our minds, bodies and senses. Our protective attention on our physical baggie (our body) keeps God's love out while our individual love reservoir remains weak, limited, confined and separate.

      Now take these clear baggies and color them with the red color of anger, the black color of greed, the green of attachment, the yellow of egotism. Now, the oneness in love becomes completely invisible to us and we feel, not love, but the fear that comes from the experience of separation. The color of our individuality keeps us from seeing the purely spiritual content of our fellow bags. Although we are all filled with love, we focus on the color and size of our fellow souls' bags and unfortunately judge and compare accordingly, thereby increasing and magnifying the illusion of separation.

    This bag in which we have our being must be first become clear and later may be transcended for us to experience the knowing that each of us is a facet and truly a part of our creator. Thus, we must replace the fear which accompanies separation with the knowledge that we are truly one with all things. If we pursue this effort, ultimately we will experience -- with increasing frequency and continuity -- Love and Oneness with God and all creation.

FORGIVENESS and FORGETTING

      There can be no spiritual progress without forgiveness. It is only through complete forgive-ness that we burn-off the crust through which we view and experience the world, ourselves, others, and God. Just as you can't enjoy drinking fresh clean water from a glass filled with mud, you cannot experience the love of God if your heart is filled with worries, anxiety and distasteful recurring memories. Lack of forgiveness causes us to project our past fear, mistrust, and hurt on every fresh new relationship. We become unable to have a loving and honest relationship or have a clear playing field. We mistrust until the other person proves worthy. Do we ever ask or look within ourselves to see if what we judge in others is a mental or emotional projection of our own issues? If not, then we must, because no conception of thought occurs first outside. It must first form as an opinion fueled by our unforgiveness, which is why we are doomed to repeat lessons until they are truly done and forgotten.

      Forgetting is imperative to complete forgiveness. As long as the memory of injury is still imprinted in our minds, we will relive the event emotionally, experiencing once again those feelings of fear, anger, greed, worry and frustration. The return of these feelings acts to remind us that we have not fully forgiven ourselves or others we believe caused us injury. We must wipe the mind clean of bitter thoughts by forgiving and forgetting and then actively fill that space with thoughts of Loving-Kindness toward the object of our forgiveness. The exercises in this book are designed to help do just that.

ACTORS ALL

      Shakespeare spoke truthfully when he uttered those famous words: "the world is a stage, and we are but actors". In fact, we are not only actors, but each one of us is the leading actor in our own drama of self-discovery. The remaining cast of characters enter and exit on cue -- the karmic cue. The plot is perfectly orchestrated. All things happen how and when they are supposed to happen, not a second sooner or later.

      This life is a play of which God is the director and sometimes puppet-master. As we observe our fellow actors, some seem to play the parts of heroes and others appear to be villains. Yet remember that all are playing out their own leading roles of self-discovery. Our responsibility is simply to play to the good side of our individual parts to the best of our ability. Our only responsibility is to focus all of our past experience and awareness on doing the best in whatever role we have been given. Of course it goes without saying that that is precisely what we are doing.

      Just imagine attending a Broadway play where instead of playing their assigned roles, all of the actors stand around criticizing each other and yelling about how badly the other is playing his or her part! The director would undoubtedly be very upset! Fortunately, God, our personal director, only exercises love, mercy, and forgiveness towards us, his actors, who do this very thing.

PRACTICE

      Practice of new enlightening precepts requires the conscious effort to discipline the mind. Virtually any effort to learn a new thing requires repeated practice, such as playing a musical instrument or learning to be doctor. So does learning to Love unconditionally. The simple teachings of love, truth, the nature of mind, transcendence, forgiveness and self-focus are no good if they remain in theory as mere mental concepts and ideals. We can read a cookbook all day long but we cannot eat thoughts. We must make the conscious effort to prepare the meal. The following exercises are designed to aid the practitioner in experiencing the reality described by the concepts discussed in this book.

LIFE CURRENT

      Life-Current, Ch'i, Reiki, Qi, Prana, Vital Force and Love are all different words for the same thing. Namely, the underlying and unifying power of life: God-in-action, or in-vibration. This energy is life itself. For our purposes we will call this energy "life-current". The life-current originates with God, permeates the soul, flows down to the mind, and manifests as the emotional, finally solidifing as the physical body. Life-current can also be consciously enhanced and directed for healing purposes. Life-current is in and sustains every atom, every cell, and every organ. It gives form to every object (animate and inanimate) and comprises not only our body, mind and soul but it is also the space between our seeming individuality. These are not empty words requiring faith. These truths have been scientifically proven in the theory of Quantum physics. In reality there is no space only finer and finer God (life) in motion or vibration.

      While in the body, the first step to mastering the flow of our life-current is to become aware of it. Even though we have our being in this flow, like a fish in water, most of us do not realize our total dependence on GodÕs power, this current. But when that fortunate "good-karma" day comes and we discover how to accept Love in awareness from the One Creator, our spiritual progress is accelerated and we are moved to greater and greater heights of Love-Consciousness.

      In summary, all that exists is God. Our personal vision of the world is our individual realization & view of God. Our relationship with the world is our relationship with God. Everything has soul, love and the spark of the divine. Our moment-to-moment awareness determines the level at which we realize, experience and know this truth. This is the very essence of all spiritual teachings. Everything contains God and God contains all and everything. Therefore, we simply must learn to walk in a sacred way so that everything we think, say or do while playing our individual parts projects this concept. Like the wings of a bird, Grace from God, and our individual effort, discipline and patience are all that is required for us to achieve the flight toward true freedom and love.

THE CHAKRAS OR ENERGY CENTERS

      The word chakra means "whirling wheel". When seen clairvoyantly, each chakra appears to be several wheels rotating within a larger wheel. Each chakra is comprised of spinning vortexes, the number of which depends upon the function and nature of the specific chakra. Chakras are the energy centers of the mental, physical, and emotional bodies, acting as gathering, storing, and pumping stations for the life-current. The chakras work in conjunction and in series with one another. What affects one may in one way or another affect another.

      The life-current permeates, & enters the subtle body network through the crown and base chakras, as well as through the breath. This works similar to plugging in any appliance to an electrictal outlet so that it may fuction. As long as the body is plugged in, it is alive. The soul on the other hand is always plugged in and alive, it never dies.

      As the chakras spin they distribute the electromagnetic-love force or life-current throughout the body through pipeor transmission lines that are also called meridians. As sometimes happens with household plumbing, our electromagnetic pipelines can become clogged. These meridians often become blocked with emotional waste -- repressed feelings and unfulfilled expectations -- sometimes causing a total breakdown of our life-current supply. For plumbing problems, we call a plumber; for meridian problems, we visit an acupuncturist, a Reiki practitioner, a Yoga class or a massage therapist to unclog the system so that the energy can flow freely again. In severe conditions the blockage is manifested physically to the extent that we require surgery or other drastic measures to prolong or ensure physical life.

      The goal of the following meditative and visualization exercises is preventive. They are designed to fortify each chakra with Loving-Kindness while balancing them in relationship to each other. This results in a healthier condition and control of the mind, emotions and physical body. While increased vibrancy and increased awareness are a by-product of this practice, the main purpose is to prepare our total being to discern, accept and carry out God's will as it is designed individually for each one of us.

The Chakras and their various functions are:

      Crown Chakra: located at the top of the head; governs the unified administration of the physical, spiritual and mental bodies; when developed expansion of consciousness is increased, along with understanding, Oneness and all other universal attributes.

      Mind/Third Eye Chakra: Located in the exact center of the head; governs mental activity; when developed one attains spiritual discrimination, watchfulness, pure thoughts and dis-attachment from the physical plane of existence.

      Throat Chakra: Located in the center of the neck; governs vocalization, motion of the tongue and respiration; when developed, intellectual and logical expression are evident as well as artistic expression.

      Heart Chakra: Located in the center of the sternum or breast bone; governs the heart, circulation of body fluid, respiration and digestion; stores all past life memory; when developed the higher feelings of compassion, Loving-Kindness, joy, forgiveness, and harmlessness toward all life forms are pronounced.

      Solar Plexus Chakra: Located behind the navel; governs the stomach, spleen, pancreas, liver, gall bladder, and kidneys; when developed emotional balance, balance of physical movement and contentment are experienced.

      Sacral Chakra: Located behind the pubic bone; governs reproductive systems, sexuality and the functions of both the large and small intestines; when developed physical vitality and confidence are obvious.

      Base (Root) Chakra: Located at the base of the spine, pointing toward the earth; governs function of the bladder and rectum, elimination in all forms, and assists the reproductive system; when developed, physical harmony with the earth and adaptability to the environment are attained.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES & PRACTICE

      For thousands of years meditation has been used to control the mind and focus the direction of its tendencies. One advantage of controlling the mind is that we actually begin to feel that there is something beyond the mind, and that thing is soul. This experience of transcendence aids us in placing our mind's will in service of the soul's will and eventually in God's Will.

      The following spiritual exercises have been selected from the myriad of techniques developed by meditation practitioners thousands of years ago, many of which are still in world-wide practice today. They are very simple, and may be practiced daily for the purpose of habituating the mind and increasing life-current flow in the body.

      Throughout each and every exercise we place firmly in our minds the fact that this life-sustaining current we breathe-in is God's essence, Loving-Kindness.

      To begin, find a quiet space where you can relax without interruption. This place may become a sanctuary as you use it on a continual basis for the sacred purpose of infusing your entire being with Loving-Kindness. Place yourself in a sitting position, with your back straight on a chair or on the floor.

      Take time to find a position in which you may sit comfortably for a minimum of a half hour.

      Please Note: Do these exercises slowly, do not rush. and most importantly find a rhythm that is comfortable to you.

The first excercise is to balance the energy. The next is for grounding. Continue the excercises in order, which progress from the bottom chakra to the top crown chakra. You will notice with practice that the energy current will begin moving upward. When you get to your head you will feel great and feelings of contentment will arise.

 

BASE (Root) CHAKRA EXCERCISE

       The purpose of this exercise is to increase our connectedness with the earth energy source which nurtures us, gives us a base to live on and provides food and water, sustaining the temple of our being through Her Loving-Kindness.

      We can begin by recognizing this power with the following or similar prayer or proceed directly to the exercise.

"Earth Mother, teach me to walk in a sacred manner".

      1) Begin breathing slowly and deeply.

2) Feel the nurturing energy come from the Earth up our spine and out the top of our heads in a fountain of light.       3) Mentally repeat the following words mentally or out loud once with each inhalation: "I Am Loving-Kindness".

      4) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

      5) Relax for a few seconds then go on to the next exercise.

SACRAL CHAKRA EXCERCISE

      The purpose of this exercise is to harmonize our physical, mental, and spiritual energies in our relationships with others from moment to moment.

1) Continue sitting in a comfortable position with back straight.

2) Place right palm over heart chakra , left palm over pubic bone 3) Continue breathing in long slow deep breaths. 4) Concentrate on the second chakra, located just behind the pubic bone. 5) Push the abdomen out while inhaling through the nose.

6) While inhaling, visualize the life-current flowing into your nose down through your lungs and out your second chakra toward your hands. Then see it flow up to the top of your head coming full circle. Exhale through your mouth or nose whichever is most comforable.

7) Mentally repeat the following words once with each inhalation:

"I Share Loving-Kindness "

8) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

9) Relax for a few seconds then go on to the next exercise

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA EXCERCISE

The purpose of this next exercise is to develop emotional balance and to cleanse the emotional center with Loving-Kindness.

1) Continue sitting in a comfortable position with back straight.

2) Place right palm over the heart, left palm over the center of your navel. 3) While inhaling, visualize the energy as it flows in through your nose and down to your navel, where it flows out. Then see the energy flow up to the top of your head coming full circle. Exhale. 4) Mentally repeat the following words once with each inhalation: "I Feel Loving-Kindness "

5) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

6) Relax for a few seconds then go on to the next exercise.

HEART CHAKRA EXCERCISE

The purpose of this exercise is to cleanse the heart with Loving-Kindness and develop a continual feeling of love towards all-our-relations.

1) Continue sitting in a comfortable position with back straight.

2) Place one hand over the other on the Heart center. 3) Inhale through the nose, extending the upper chest outward. Visualize the life-current flowing to the heart center, where it flows out then up to the top of the head coming full circle. 4) Mentally repeat the following words once with each inhalation: "I Give Loving-Kindness"

5) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

6) Relax for a few seconds then go on to the next exercise

THROAT CHAKRA EXCERCISE

The purpose of this exercise is to develop truth in speaking and non-injury in words.

1) Continue sitting in a comfortable position with back straight.

2) Place right palm over heart, left palm over the throat center. 3) Breathe normally in through the nose, concentrating on the energy as it flows in with the breath and down to the throat center. 4) Visualize the energy flowing out through this center then up to the top of your head where it comes full circle. Then exhale through the nose. 5) Mentally repeat the following words once with each inhalation: "I Speak Wtih Loving-Kindness"

6) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

7) Relax for a few seconds then go on to the next exercise

MIND/ THIRD EYE EXCERCISE

This exercise opens the mind to recognize our divine purpose and path. It helps to increase spiritual knowledge and develop the experience of Oneness.

1) Continue sitting in a comfortable position with back straight.

2) Relax hands on your lap.

3) Concentrate on breathing deeply in through the mouth in long, slow full breaths.

4) Place the tip of the tongue on the roof of the mouth to direct the life-current. 5) Inhale through slightly open mouth, fully and deeply. 6) Visualize the life-current flowing up through your head out the crown chakra. Visualize the inside of your head filled with light. 7) Mentally repeat the following words once with each inhalation: "I See Loving-Kindness"

8) Exhale with normal relaxed breath.

9) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

10) The higher the breath flows into the head, the more intense the effect. The longer the breath, the greater the result.

CROWN CHAKRA EXCERCISE

The purpose of this exercise is to increase awareness of our individual connection with God, the source of all love, joy, peace and wisdom. This practice strengthens these higher attributes in all the other chakras. This exercise provides a direct experience of God flowing to and in the human being.

1) Continue sitting in a comfortable position with back straight.

2) Visualize a star of shining white light appearing directly above your head. 3) Experience this energy as it flows in through the top of your head and floods your being with light. Experience God's love, peace, joy and wisdom with thanks and gratitude. 4) Mentally repeat the following words once with each normal un-focused inhalation: "I Accept Loving-Kindness"

5) Exhale with normal relaxed breath.

6) Continue this exercise for three minutes or longer.

7) Relax for a few seconds repeat the process or go on to the next process

Congratulations! You have just completed the first part of "The Steps to Inner Balance", My advice is to do these first exercises for 10 days before moving on to the next section. The reason is that gaining a comfort level with the first exercises will enhance your ability to accept the next steps into your being. As for myself these steps were given to me over a period of weeks giving me time to absorb them. I practiced the first steps until they became second nature, that is, I was conscious of doing them all the time.

I suggest that you read through the next steps so you are familiar with the entire practice. The steps in part 2 can also be developed to become second nature.

FORGIVING & RELEASING

The following exercises are not meant to replace person to person dialog, but rather to work in conjunction with it. There is no replacement for face to face resolution in an open discussion providing that anger, blaming and shaming are replaced by accepting responsibility and changing ones behavior patterns, thereby entering a state of transformation. Of course one can only try and make an effort toward this end. I know from my own experience that some issues with people are easy to resolve when done in-the-moment. Most problems are based on understanding and respecting anothers' viewpoint. Each person with his/her own system of dialog accepts information in a specific way. Each person must make an effort to listen to what is actually being said. Understanding and respecting do not mean that you must agree.

I have found that most problems are easily resolved if one confronts the issue as quickly as it happens with the ego aside. Deal with it then, if you can, otherwise the further one gets from the moment the harder to resolve.

Most issues deal with a power struggle or attachment to an idea left over from a past association, not necessarily from this life. Remember each one of us is a bundle of tendencies working toward unconditional love. That is the hardest thing to focus on. Rather than to judge a person, instead repeat "Everyone is a struggling soul."

You can't change another persons tendencies but you can work on your own.

Resolution Begins by Dealing With the Past

Past experience often haunts us needlessly, controlling our decisions with fear. We can eliminate the useless past -- any associations which are not motivated by pure love -- and move onto a present filled with Loving-Kindness that contains all the positive and negative lessons learned from past experience. In the following meditation we will wipe the mind clean of negative associations related to particular people, places and events by forgiving and forgetting. Then we will actively refill that void with thoughts of Loving-Kindness.

After you have practiced the basic life-current exercises begin to work on forgiving and forgetting. Sit in your meditation posture. Center your attention on your Heart Chakra, by placing your hands one over the other on the center. Breath deeply and calmly through your Heart.

1) Let your mind drift to a memory which evokes painful emotions. Visualize the event as clearly as possible. 2) Picture the key person whom you believe caused you pain. Recall key words or phrases exchanged during the episode. 3) Now, while holding this image, mentally or out loud, say "I honestly forgive you for all I believe you have done to me. I completely forgive myself for feeling anger (insert here whatever the feeling is) toward you. You are God's essence, and made of the same Love as myself. All is forgiven, all is forgotten."

It must be noted here that it is always better to ask the person you feel you have wronged for honest forgiveness if physically possible. It may be embarrassing and painful, but personally asking cleanses faster and more completely. However it is essential that it be done in a honestly humble a way as possible. The impersonal method described here works well but requires more effort.

4) Now visualize the event exploding into light and picture the images replaced by the word "LOVE." 5) Recall the same event again and repeat the sequence until you cannot recall it. 6) I personally image a TV set with a large delete button alongside which I mentally press.

The more firmly the emotion is fixed in your mind, the harder it is to remove. But don't give up; keep working at it. It will be gone after a few honest attempts. There is no need to begin with complex events. Start with small ones until you master this simple process. By eliminating the negative thoughts and fears of the past we can truly live in the present with an open heart.

ONENESS & DIS-ATTACHMENT

Have you ever seen ten appliances plugged into one outlet? Sometimes too many concerns and worries are plugged into our life energy and soon we don't have enough to power our own needs and we blow a fuse. When we pay too much attention to a worry we can overdraw our psychic account and we can be left feeling empty and depleted.

The following practice enables us to actively regroup our out pouring power back to within ourselves. This power is really God's attention focused in this point of time/space that we call ourselves. Our attention connects us to people, places, objects and events. Whether we know it or not, we are connected to everything we think about. As we pull back more and more of our attention to ourselves, our spiritual focus increases. We are not doing this exercise to withdraw love from our relationships; rather, the intention of this technique is to conserve this precious power so that we can focus it most effectively every moment. After the practice you may love even more powerfully, secure in the knowledge that God is taking care of all.

1) Relax in your posture completely. Close your eyes 2) Watch your energy stream out into the world until it reaches a person, object, place or event which is important to you. This connection can be seen as a ribbon(s) of golden light. 3) When you can see this ribbon of light connected to the object of your attention, reach out in your mind with two fingers and dis-attach the ribbon of light from its object, returning the energy to yourself. 4) Repeat untill all ribbons have returned to within you.

This is a simple technique that works. It can be used throughout your day as you -- the main character in your life drama -- walk from scenario to scenario. As each scene completes and we leave the people, places and objects associated with that scene behind, we dis-attach ourselves from them, bringing our total focus into this moment. This new reservoir of faith increases present awareness which automatically improves our effectiveness and focus at whatever we are called to do in each moment.

win Hearts Meditation

Meditation on the Twin Hearts is a form of service to the creation. This exercise helps to connect us with our divine purpose and path, bringing us more in harmony with all life. It increases the knowledge and experience that we are truly one with God.

"Twin Hearts" refers to the heart and crown chakras when used in unison. The crown chakra is the center of illumination and divine love or Oneness with all. In other words, God focuses his love towards us through this center. The heart chakra is our individual love center and through here our love is projected individually in the creation. The heart chakra is the center for compassion, joy, affection, consideration, mercy, and other refined emotions.

This exercise can be done with eyes closed, or open.

1) Place one hand upon the top of your head and the other upon your heart. This aligns the two centers and helps you to concentrate simultaneously on the crown and the heart.

2) Now cover your heart chakra with one palm over the other and centering your attention on the energy flow, bless the world with the following invocation, or improvise as suits you:

Forgiveness for Ones-self

The greatest single thing you can do for yourself.is that you can begin everyday first asking God's forgiveness, then you can forgive yourself, If you have injured or hurt someone's feelings ask them for forgiveess as soon as possible. If resolution will not come easily, try again, you may be surprised. We are in state of perpetual transformation always moving in and upward. Remember that there are no mistakes only growth.