By Jafree Ozwald
1. Embrace the God Source. What is happening now is the God Source, and it is showing up for you as the existence. Now your mind is going to have some very limiting ideas of what "God" is, yet do not pay attention to the mind. Just welcome and embrace this entire existence and welcome everything that is here now. Doing this is tricky, yet if you can open your heart to the God Source it will give you a fragrance and feeling of indescribable bliss! The very moment you embrace the God Source is when bliss begins. A powerful light feeling enters your body the very instant you say YES to the ever present divine "Is-ness". Suddenly, all your mind chatter and problems are gone when you discover the sweet sacred loving presence which is always here now. When you find yourself feeling connected with it, all you'll feel is total love, bliss, abundance and joy.
2. Allow yourself to be exactly the way you are. What does it feel like to know that you are perfect whole and complete exactly as you are. Especially with all your human faults and issues, you are just as you should be and your life is EXACTLY the way it needs to be for your highest growth and potentiality. Do you sense the relief in having this understanding? What if every single belief you have about you, is also perfect as it is? It doesn't mean you need to hold onto them, quite the contrary. When you let go of your judgments and beliefs about you, and can welcome all your parts with an open heart, you can forgive yourself for your judgments and love your life as it is right now. The deeper you can relax into the feeling of self-acceptance, the more enjoyable just sitting in stillness becomes. Self-acceptance always makes one feel loved, relaxed and at ease. Don't you want more of this in your life? You can totally accept yourself as you are now, it only creates a trickle down effect of lightness in your life.
3. Explore everything with a childlike state of wonder. Dive into each experience with a state of curiosity and wonder. When you're full of wonder, your life simply becomes wonderful! There is a childlike presence deep inside you who loves to laugh, play and enjoy the exploration of life in every way. When you are serious about anything in life, you are missing it! Life is grand when you let your innocence shine through. As you practice being child-like (not childish) you'll find that you have all the time that you need to do whatever you want to do in life, and everything you do choose to do becomes a exploration of the Divine. This is a state of divine curiosity where you can easily dance your way through any serious problems that may arise in the adult mind. By remaining curious, you cannot get upset again. You can only stay open to exploring the next possible experience that is coming your way.
4. Practice Self Inquiry Self inquiry stops the mind in its tracks and puts you on the road to bliss-ville. This is done by asking yourself questions like, "Who am I...really? To whom are these thoughts coming to? Who is having this experience right now? Who is creating this interpretation of this experience right now? Who is experiencing this breath in this body? Where is the source of this thought coming from?" When you turn your attention in and focus on these questions, you eventually bring the mind back to the God-Source. By noticing how your mind responds to these questions, can create a deeper answer inside of you to the ancient enlightening question of "Why are we here?". When you're ready to take on a deeper state of bliss in life and be free on all levels, then you are ready to practice Self Inquiry. The more you practice having no attachment to "getting it" and continuously practice diving into these questions all day and night long, you will soon wake up to an experience of bliss like nothing you've ever known before.
4. Know you are a Divine Spiritual Being without boundaries. This one simple understanding will transform your life forever. You are not your thoughts, your feelings, or your body. You are also not your income, job, relationships, or lack of all the above. You are MUCH bigger than all of this. You are a soul that is beyond time, space and has no real boundaries. The mind will not give you the truth, it is too small of a container. Do not buy into the mind nor participate in its judgments and drama. When you are relaxed in your body you find it is your home base, and you stop living up in your head. When you take time to be still, and totally present to the body you'll discover the state of spiritual bliss is already here in your heart! Notice how your body is breathing for you right now...follow it and listen to your breath giving you life. This will take you into the experience of finding the bliss that is always within your spiritual nature. If you're demanding or trying to hard to have a certain experience, then you're cutting yourself off from having this one and completely missing the ever flowing river of consciousness. It is simple and effortless to know yourself as a spiritual being, just let yourself relax deeper inside than you ever have before. 5. Surrender to the experience that is arising right now. Surrender is the ultimate key to finding bliss. We are imprisoned in the present moment for an eternity. Your body cannot escape the Now. The mind pretends it can, and tries to jump into the past and future by dreaming about them, yet the Truth always contains you here. The moment you surrender to ANY internal battle in the mind and be present to the now, you'll notice the issue simply disappears. If you are having trouble surrendering, let your greatest fear arise in you. Face it directly. See if your fear is coming from a fear of loss, or a fear of separation from the Source. Follow the fear back until you reach the Source where it came from. The meditative mind doesn't participate in such illusions because it is not attached to anything. It knows each experience of life will come and go. The moment you stop trying to make something happen, then bliss happens to you. If whatever you're doing to try and surrender doesn't work, then do the opposite of what didn't work before. The more you can simply let go, let God and simply be, the easier it becomes to find the Source of infinite riches within you.
6. Watch The Mind Vigilantly. This moment contains an entire Universe of ideas, and they are showing up faster than you can follow them. The mind cannot keep up with the moment, there is too much happening in this NOW moment to be contained or controlled by the mind. The mind is a very small vessel compared to the vastness of existence. It is only through stepping back from the mind can you experience the whole universe and its amazing divine qualities. The mind is slippery so you must be very vigilant with it and aware of its manipulative agendas. The mind can get caught in very subtle moments of the past and future. When you are totally in the moment, you'll see that there truly is NO mind, and only a pure awareness remains.
7. Always, always, always Be Super Gentle with your Self. Gentleness is the golden key to developing a permanent state of bliss. No matter what occurs in your life, always be extremely gentle with yourself. Especially if this is your first attempt at living a spiritual life. If you ever get lost in the journey...great! This is a process of awakening and your chance to lose your old self again and again until you find that you are nothingness itself again. When you have gentleness you have love. If you can't be gentle with yourself for more than 30 seconds it's O.K! You've just been stuck in the habit of letting the mind control you. Pull back on the reigns of the mind and tell it to relax, and be patient with yourself. You have an infinite amount of time to get it right.
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