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Tools for Healing the Emotions
"There are only two emotions, love and fear."
"Choose who ye shall serve."
A Course In Miracles
By
Dr. Joshua David Stone
In a previous chapter I discussed how our attitudes create our feelings and emotions If we think with the ego's mind, we create fear based feelings and emotions. If we think with the spiritual attitude we create love based feelings and emotions. You have the ability to choose the way you feel because your thoughts and attitudes cause your feelings and emotions.
I have developed a six step process to help focalize this process more clearly. This process will be especially helpful when you get your buttons pushed in a relationship or circumstance in life and you are having difficulty figuring out the reason.
Six Step Process For Spiritualizing Your Emotional Self
Step 1:
Write down either the incident or exact behavior of the other person with whom you were dealing. For example, maybe the incident was a traffic jam on the freeway, or your mate became angry with you. The first step is just to write down objectively what happened outwardly.
Step 2:
Write down objectively your response to either the incident or the other person. For example, your response to the traffic jam might have been impatience and aggravation. Your response to your mate might have been defensiveness and anger. Step two is just to write down objectively how you responded, be it appropriately or inappropriately.
Step 3:
This is the key step. Choose to look at the incident or other person's behavior as being your master teacher, teaching you a lesson that you need to learn. Imagine that the incident or person is an instrument that God is using through which to teach you a lesson and give you an opportunity to grow spiritually. Your negative response always stems from the fact that you are not looking at the situation as a teaching, lesson, challenge and opportunity to grow. The traffic jam is your master teacher. Your mate's anger is your master teacher.
Step 4:
Make a list of all the psychological and spiritual qualities that you are being given the opportunity to learn. The first thing you are being taught with people is an example of "how not to be" (as in mate's bad example). This is a good lesson, for you. Some people set good examples and some set bad examples. You can learn from both. You know how it feels to be on the other end of someone's getting angry and attacking you, so that teaches you not to be that way. This is usually the first lesson we are being taught. In the example of the traffic jam you are being taught patience; preference rather than attachment; to look at things as lessons; surrender, and so on.
In the example with your mate you are being taught to:
Stay centered
To own your own personal power
To have your bubble of protection up so his/her top dog response slides off your bubble like water off a duck's back
To be the cause of your own emotions and not let your mate cause your emotions
Not to let your mate put you into the underdog
To communicate with your mate in a powerful, loving way instead of a defensive, attacking way
To discuss instead of argue
To respond instead of react; to be a master instead of a victim
To stand up for yourself
To make a good choice about when to talk or when to be silent
Forgiveness; unconditional love; preference, non attachment to look at things as lessons
Invulnerability
Transcendence of ego
To seek love and worth in yourself and from God first, and not seek it first from your mate
Patience; to set a better example
To refrain from catching the psychological disease of your mate and to be the healer instead of becoming a patient
To be spiritual instead of egotistical
Detachment
Objectivity
To maintain the right relationship to self and relationship to God are the two most important relationships in your life, even before your mate.
I highly recommend that you use this list of qualities in examining future lessons. So many of the lessons we learn are really the same ones in that list, repeated over and over again.
Step 5:
After listing all the wonderful lessons and golden nuggets of wisdom you have learned, then bless or thank the other person in your mind (or in person) for giving you the opportunity to learn these lessons. Make a firm resolution that, when you are tested in the following day, week or month, you are going to be mentally strong and prepared to respond appropriately. Please do realize that you will be tested again, either with the same person or incident or with a new person and new incident, but it will be a similar lesson.
Step 6:
Remember that if you truly learn from this experience you will never have to experience those negative feelings or victimization ever again, from that person or incident or any similar one.
Use the six-step process for mastering your emotions any time you get into a sticky emotional situation. By using this process and doing it on paper, it will help you see more clearly what is happening.
Catharsis And Identification With Negative Emotions
The above mentioned six step process for mastering emotions and our previous discussion of attitudinal healing can be commonly referred to as masculine, yang, or disidentification methods for dealing with one's feeling and emotions. This is the opposite of the feminine, yin, identification method.
From a spiritual perspective is there ever a time to identify with and release and express negative feelings and emotions? Certainly we want to identify with our spiritualized feelings and emotions of love and joy and happiness on a continual basis. As for negative feelings and emotions, I believe that there is an appropriate time to identify with and express them under the following controlled circumstances:
1. Dealing with our feelings and emotions can often be compared with the potential we have to walk on water. Even though we know we have no limits, putting this into practice is a different story. The same thing goes for feelings. We know what the ideal way to think is, but putting this into practice in all relationships and in all areas of our life takes a lot of work, just as getting one's physical body fit and cleared of toxins takes enormous work and self-discipline.
Especially during crisis periods of our life, we are all at times going to have a lot of fear based egotistical emotions arise. What do we do with all these feelings? The first thing to do is try to heal yourself attitudinally, as mentioned in the six steps to mastering your emotions. This will definitely help.
What happens if you can't see the forest through the trees and a lot of negative emotions are still coming up? You have two choices: You can push them down or you can allow yourself to identify with them and express them. The first alternative is sometimes extremely important to use.
Sometimes you are, for instance, at work or at the grocery store or bank and it is just not appropriate to burst out crying or screaming. This is a time to own your own power, show self control and put your emotions on the shelf, temporarily, until a more appropriate moment to deal with them.
The second alternative is, when you get to your home, car or other safe place, allow yourself to have a catharsis. In other words, express what you are feeling, good or bad. Sometimes we are just overwhelmed and are just not on top of things mentally or attitudinally, and we definitely need to allow ourselves this kind of release.
From a spiritual perspective it is important to find an appropriate time and place and not to hurt yourself or other people in the process, if possible. For example, let's say you are feeling a lot of anger and you just need to get it out. Instead of going and letting it out on your children or your co workers or destroying your mate, you might scream in the car or take a bat and smash the pillow on your bed, or hit a punching bag, or something of this nature.
Having a good catharsis will allow you to release and let go of a lot of the negative feelings and emotions. Having a catharsis will also bring transformation, insight and understanding.
The best thing to do after your catharsis, when you are rested, is to go to your journal and do some attitudinal healing on yourself. By having the catharsis the dark cloud will have been released or the boil will have been popped.
You will be much clearer at this point to do some good attitudinal reprogramming on yourself. This would be a good time to get some insight and understanding from your journal writing.
2. The second yin or identification method for dealing with negative emotions is to set a timer and give yourself an allotted period of time really to indulge. For example, maybe you are really feeling sorry for yourself. You can't seem to break it attitudinally with disidentification and more masculine methods. So give yourself thirty minutes on the timer to wallow in self pity. Go for it scream, cry, get into a rage and really over indulge. Get it all out!
When the timer goes off, stop it and be about the Father's business. We all use this method at times. We might do it with food, allowing ourselves that last dessert, then we say, "Tomorrow morning I am going to bite the bullet and go on a diet." Sometimes we just don't have the power or energy at that moment, and maybe this option can be appropriate. The important thing is not to let a negative mood drag on without doing something about it.
3. The third method is just to carry the tension of the negative feelings you are experiencing. Maybe you have tried to heal yourself attitudinally but you still haven't been able to break the hold of the negative feelings you are experiencing subconsciously.
With this method you just accept that they are there but don't give your conscious power to them. You realize that healing is a process. Just as it takes time to heal physically when we are ill, it takes time for emotional healing. If we break a leg, life still goes on and we have to continue to function.
The same is true emotionally. We may have very severe emotional pain or negative feelings, but we have to continue functioning effectively in our daily lives. In this state the conscious and subconscious mind are not in accord. The tension must be carried until the super conscious, conscious and subconscious are all in emotional alignment.
Some people, not practicing this philosophy are just going to live with emotional pain for an extended period of time. The greater the degree of the attachments, the more severe will be the lesson.
Suppose that you are giving a major public speech to two thousand people the following week, and you feel nervous and anxious. No matter how hard you try, you can't seem to get rid of the fear: This method might be just to accept that it is there but tell the fear you are not going to let it knock you off center and let it ruin your speech.
You carry the tension and give the speech even though you have stage fright the whole time. This is similar to someone who has to live with physical pain. He gives it acceptance and stops fighting it but does not give it his power and let it ruin his life.
4. The fourth yin and identification method deals with handling negative feelings in relationships. When negative feelings are coming up in respect to your relationship with a partner or mate, the best thing to do is to take some time alone and try to get right with yourself and right with God. This means to center yourself and get things in proper perspective.
Often, however, there isn't time or, even if there is time, you still are not able to resolve all the negative feelings you are experiencing. What is appropriate here from a spiritual perspective is to share in what is called a "secondary communication method."
The primary method is when you are communicating, and you are out of your ego. The secondary method of communicating is when you share your negative egotistical feelings with your partner in a responsible, calm, rational, loving manner. In other words, you share your hurts or resentments in a loving way, telling your partner that you realize you create your own feelings and emotions and that you are taking responsibility for your own reality and that you are communicating in a loving, not attacking, manner so he/she is not threatened.
You tell your partner that you are sharing these negative feelings in the hope that together you can help each other to achieve clarity within yourself and in the relationship. Sometimes your partner can help you to sort out your attitudes and feelings where, working in your journal, you were stuck. It is imperative to have this method of communication available to you, because it is literally impossible to stay clear every moment of one's life.
Your partner will probably be very impressed that you are taking responsibility and not blaming and that you are communicating in such a kind, loving and respectful manner.
These are the four basic instances where I believe identifying with your negative feelings and emotions is appropriate. However, you do not want to let your negative feelings and emotions run out of control, hurting yourself and allowing them to hurt other people.
There are a lot of people who think that their feelings and emotions are God's gift to mankind. They think the proper way to live is to do whatever their feelings tell them to do. In my opinion, this is an irresponsible philosophy and way of living. Our feelings stem from our attitudes. If our attitudes are egotistical, then all our emotions are going to be egotistical, based on fear and attack.
If you run your life by your feelings, what happens if your feel like punching someone out, or stealing something or cursing someone out at the market? Is this a responsible way of living? Is this how God would have us live on this earth? Don't be seduced by this false philosophy.
You can trust your feelings once you disidentify from your ego and get your mind under control. Then your feelings will be a perfect guide. It is very important for us to guide our lives by our mind and intuition, which is the guidance of the Higher Self.
Subconscious Mind Letter
This can be another helpful tool for dealing with your mind and emotions. The idea is to write a letter to your subconscious mind with the understanding that you are the master and captain of the personality. In a firm but loving, or tough love manner, tell the subconscious how things are going to be. In letter form be the computer programmer. The letter is a way of programming that is more fluid than using specifically designed affirmations. I use this method myself, and I find it to be extremely beneficial.
If you want, you can dialogue with your subconscious mind and see what it has to say in response to your firm and loving commands and programming. This can be done in your journal. The subconscious mind will be a great servant, as long as you are in command and you treat the subconscious with love.
The idea is to form a team with you serving the superconscious and the subconscious serving you. All for one and one for all. This, again, is the proper integration of the three minds.
Dialoguing
Another helpful tool for resolving emotional conflicts is dialoguing. This is similar to the last method except that you do it with whatever relationship you are having problems. Write a letter to this person, and then in your journal let him respond back to you. Continue this process until your unfinished business is complete. This tool can be extremely helpful.
As previously mentioned, this dialogue method can also be done intra psychically with the inner child, critical and permissive parent, firm and loving parent, Higher Self, physical body, subconscious mind, God, ego, spiritual attitude, and so on. You, the conscious mind, talk in letter form to any one of these parts and then let the sub personality part respond back. Create a dialogue and see what it has to say. Just remember that you are the commander in chief of the personality. I cannot recommend this dialoguing process more highly.
It is also possible to dialogue with any sub personality or thought form within the subconscious mind. Every thought, feeling, impulse, desire, emotion, has life of its own. It is possible to isolate any particular sub personality or complex with which to dialogue.
For example, you can dialogue with the part that wants to stop smoking or the part that wants to travel to Europe. The lists of possible parts are literally infinite. The important thing to realize is that whatever part you work on always has an opposite. The part that wants to smoke cigarettes has a part that doesn't want to smoke cigarettes. The part that wants to go to Europe has a part that doesn't want to go to Europe.
When dialoguing with any specific thought or feeling or sub personality be sure to talk to both sides, so you can get a fully balanced perspective on any given issue you are exploring.
Negative Emotions Log
Another very helpful tool for refining, purifying and spiritualizing your emotional self is to keep a negative emotions log. This is a small pad of paper and pen that you keep with you in your purse or pocket. Any time you have a negative emotion or feeling, just make a little brief note of the feeling and incident. Then later, when you have free time you can go back to your journal and work the six step process to figure out what the faulty belief was that caused you to feel the way you did.
If you don't keep a negative emotions log, you are very likely to forget about a great many of the lessons that occurred during the day. If you really want to learn to refine, purify and spiritualize your emotional body this is the best way to do it.
Carrying this a step further, you can go back through your day and relive each of these experiences the way you would have liked them to happen. Since the brain cannot tell the difference between that which happens in imagination or actuality, this is a way of programming the subconscious with a positive to replace the negative.
Logging In General
The purpose of a log is to bring more consciousness, awareness and discipline into the areas of your life that need it. There are many kinds of logs that you can keep. You can keep an exercise log, where every day you write down the date, how much you exercised, and how you felt about your effort that day.
Another type of log is a meditation log, where you write the date, how long you meditated, and any feelings or insights you gained. Doing this is important because it is easy to forget what you received in this altered state of consciousness, which can be similar to dreaming. You know how easy it is to forget what you dreamed last night.
Another example would be a food log where you write down everything you eat during the day. Having to write it down makes you more aware, which is the reason you are keeping the log. Knowing you are going to have to write it down is good motivation to eat appropriately.
A log can be created for any area of your life in which you are trying to achieve greater mastery and self control. Diagrams "1," "2," "3," "4," and "5" are examples of psychological logs I often give to my clients and have used myself.
On the left hand side of these diagrams is the list of days one to twenty one. On the top heading for each column is a particular psychological attribute that you are trying to log. Below that are the designations "Morning and Evening" or on the last three logs the designation "M/A/N" (Morning, Afternoon, Night).
You score yourself on a percentage basis in terms of how you are doing in manifesting that particular attitude or quality. You can score yourself twice a day or three times a day. I have listed twenty one days because this is how long it takes to cement a new habit into the subconscious mind.
These types of logs keep you very focused and motivated. When trying to do it only in your mind it is too easy to lose concentration, motivation and discipline. To grow spiritually can be compared with keeping track of one's finances. If you tried to keep all your finances, tax records, and banking business in your mind it would be impossible to keep it organized.
The same holds true for our spiritual life. Trying to keep it together without some form of spiritual bookkeeping is impossible and overwhelming. Having a spiritual bookkeeping system for your life is imperative, and logging is one fantastic tool for mastering any given area of your life that needs attention.
Keeping A Journal
I cannot recommend more highly the importance of keeping two journals. The first is a journal for writing in when you get unclear or when you just feel like it. The purpose for writing in your journal is multifaceted. One reason is to empower yourself. Another is to do attitudinal healing in the process of writing.
Since our thoughts create our reality, as we change the way we look at things our feelings change. Attitudinal healing is the process of moving from egotistical thinking to spiritual thinking. Journal writing is also for reprogramming the conscious and subconscious minds. It is for gaining attunement to your Higher Self, for gaining insight and understanding, as well as catharsis.
What you don't want to do is write in your journal and just reinforce the same patterns on paper without movement or change. You must go into your journal writing with the proper attitude of wanting to move toward self mastery, personal power and perfect spiritual attitude and attunement.
The second journal is used to store in one large notebook the various tools, logs, and psychological practices on which you are working. The purpose of this journal is to keep all this material together in an organized fashion. Following are some other very valuable sections you might keep in your journal:
Major Lessons Of The Day
The "Major Lesson of the Day" section of your journal is for use before bed each night or in the morning when you get up. Review your day and write down the main golden nuggets of wisdom you have learned that day. The golden nugget of wisdom might be something you did well or a lesson you Iearned from a negative experience.
Getting into the regular practice of doing this in your journal or in your mind is very important. It will be much more effective, though, if you do it in your journal. The act of writing things down has a much greater impact on the conscious and subconscious minds.
So many people live their lives without learning from their mistakes, so spiritual progress is slowed and the school of hard knocks is perpetuated. You should learn continually from what you have done well and what you did poorly, and then build upon this each day.
No matter how good yesterday was, you want to make the next day better. Enjoy your victories but never be satisfied until your ultimate divine goal is met.
Goals And Priorities
This is an essential section to have in your journal. You are never going to get anywhere on any level if you don't know where you are going. For this section make a list of all your goals on an earthly physical level, a psychological level, and a spiritual level.
List all the things you want to accomplish in this lifetime. List all the psychological qualities you want to develop; list the abilities you want to develop; list your ultimate purpose and goal; list what earthly experiences or things you want to attain.
A helpful mini meditation you might do to help in this process is to imagine that seventy five years have passed and your soul has passed on to the spirit world. Imagine that you are looking back on this lifetime. From this perspective what do you want to see? How do you want to see yourself as living? What do you want to see yourself as achieving? What do you want to have written on your tombstone?
This experience is actually going to happen in your future. You have the opportunity now to create that about which you will feel good in your future. It is very easy to waste and misuse one's time and energy on frivolous things. Are you being about the Father's business? Are you using your time and energy to achieve your God given potentials? If not, you need more focus as to what specifically you want to achieve.
Life Plan And Design
The second step, after getting clear on your goals and priorities, is to set up a life plan and design. This is a tentative map for the next fifty years or however long you think you will be living on this earthly plane. This life plan or life map begins with your ultimate goal of self actualization.
From there you break down your goals into a timetable, loosely designating what years you are going to focus on what. Part of this process is prioritizing. What do you want to focus on in the next year? Then in the next five years? Ten years? Fifteen years?
For example, you might write down when you want to get married, have a child, go to Europe, study meditation or healing, get a college degree, go to India, read certain books, take certain classes, perform certain services or contributions. This life design and map is very tentative so you can constantly change it as you see fit. This begins to give your life a grid or focus to keep you on the right path.
It is so easy to be taken off one's path. There are so many temptations and so many different energies pulling on you from many directions that without a psychological and spiritual map, you are very likely to be pulled off course.
Cycles
The next step is to refine this process even further. The idea here is to take the goals and priorities of the next year or two and get focused as to a timetable for accomplishing these things.
For example, you might say to yourself that this Spring your goal is to focus on writing a book, physical fitness, and maintaining the status quo. Then the summer goal is to spend more time with your family, go to Hawaii and focus on making more money. September to the following Spring, you might want to put energy into practicing meditation and the study of healing.
By doing this you have developed short term goals for yourself. This will help you be more focused, disciplined and motivated. As your life changes you may have to make adjustments, but always set up a new cycle, or short term goal time periods.
It is also extremely helpful, in considering this concept of cycles, to take one of your journal writing sessions and examine the past cycles that led you to your present state of consciousness. We all have had certain cycles or initiations or turning points that led us to our present position. Understanding our past cycles will help in creating what is appropriate in the present cycle and what is appropriate for future cycles.
Examples of past cycles, turning points, or initiations might be when you graduated from high school, got a certain award, made the basketball team, met your first boy friend or girl friend, had your first religious experience, met a certain person, had a baby, or graduated from college. Each of these turning points in your life started a new track or phase. I am suggesting in this journal section that we be much more conscious and aware of these phases. I think you will find doing this very helpful.
Weekly Routine
The next step after cycles is to break and refine this process even further by creating a weekly routine. (See Diagram on page 166). I am not saying you should do all the things on this routine. It is meant to give you an overview of some of the kinds of things you can put on your weekly routine. The idea of this journal section is to take your present cycle and focus on how you want to create each week.
It is of the utmost importance, in my opinion, that every person have a routine or regime. You will never develop spiritually or on any other level if you don't. The danger of a routine is in becoming too yang or regimenting your life to the point where there is no spontaneity. On the other side of the coin, you don't want to be too yin.
To be too yin is to be too flowing, too flexible, too laissez faire. There are no hard and fast rules in creating a routine. Some people need more structure than others. A routine can be likened to braces that one wears to straighten teeth, guiding us in the direction that we need to move. A routine is to be followed whether we feel like it or not. This is not to say that we have to be neurotic or become absolute slaves to the routine.
Again, it is more of a tentative guide to use except when an emergency or special occasion arises. Its purpose is to help you achieve the goals and priorities that you have clearly set up for yourself. Haphazard exercise is not going to achieve physical fitness any more than haphazard meditation will give you the fruits of the spirit.
Most people do not function well at all without a routine. If you took away their jobs or school, they would be lost and without motivation. Most people look to other people to set up structure and routine for them. Ideally you want to have the personal power and self discipline to set up and follow a weekly routine with your own goals and priorities.
Don't make the routine too difficult or you won't follow it. on the other hand, don't make it too easy. You will find your routine constantly changing as your life changes, and that is fine. But always keep a routine, to help you develop positive habits in your subconscious mind.
After a while you will have positive habits of exercising, eating right, meditating, and so on. Having a routine will also make you much more efficient with your time and more productive. By following a routine you know you are accomplishing your goals, so your free time is much more enjoyable.
Daily Routine
Now, if you really want to get fancy you can take this one step further and have a daily routine. This is something I do and really enjoy. Every night before bed I map out my next day including telephone calls, clients, errands, spiritual disciplines, diet, vitamin and mineral supplements, food planning, physical exercise, thought form and attitudes I am trying to hold, and so on.
I have memorized my weekly routine so I just write out my mental, emotional, physical and spiritual life plan on paper the night before. By doing this I feel organized and efficient, so I sleep better. In the morning I can go right into action because my inner and outer day is laid out before me.
As I think of new things, I write them in; and as I finish things, I cross them off. By writing things down I find I don't have to hold onto things in my mind, which allows me to be more creative and less worrisome. Doing this before bed also serves as a type of programming device. I find to a certain extent that I have the energy that I program myself to have. If I know the night before that I have a big day tomorrow, I do better than if I don't realize it until the morning.
Battle Plan
This particular journal section I find to be one of the most helpful tools of all. I cannot recommend it more highly. The battle plan section is to take whatever area of your life you are currently working on and make a list of every possible thing you can do to achieve that goal.
If you are having health problems, you make a list of every possible action you can take to get better. If you want more clients, business contacts or money, make a battle plan listing every possible inner or outer helpful tool you can think of. I cannot recommend it more highly.
For example, let's say you are sick with some kind of systemic infection and your immune system is run down. The following is a brief example of some things you might write down in your battle plan:
Own personal power;
Pray for healing;
Affirm and visualize health;
Diet of steamed vegetables;
Drink lots of water; Take Vitamin C;
Take herbal immune formula; Take homeopathic remedies;
Get some acupuncture;
Lie in the sun;
Go for a walk;
Do deep breathing;
Get into a jacuzzi;
Keep a positive mental attitude;
Sleep as much as possible;
Journal write;
Have faith.
There are a lot more things that can be done, but by creating this list you are attacking the problem instead of letting it attack you. When you are letting life attack you, you are being victimized and you are going to be depressed. When you attack the problem, even if you are physically sick, you will feel better. I guarantee it. You feel better because you are assertively doing some-thing to remedy the situation.
The creating of this battle plan serves to instigate lots of good ideas and also serves to inspire, attract, magnetize and catalyze what you want. It is very likely that you will have battle plans for a number of areas in your life.
Whenever you are feeling off center or are unmotivated, indifferent, or uninspired, either create a battle plan or review your battle plan. You will immediately feel better. I have mine taped onto my desk so it is right in front of me whenever I sit at my desk.
The battle plan renews your faith and inspires your personal power. Rather than letting life victimize you, become the master of your life The battle plan technique will feed this causal master inspired consciousness.
Quotations And Good Ideas Section
This section of your journal is for writing down inspiring ideas, essays, poetry or pictures. This journal section might even be a separate aesthetic type of journal. Since our thoughts create our reality, having a journal like this can serve to inspire and reawaken us to the joy and beauty of life when we are down or unmotivated. Looking through this journal will help rekindle the ultimate reality that we know to be true.
In summary, try out and experiment with these different tools and find out which ones work best for you. You will be pleasantly surprised at their effectiveness.
Prayer versus Meditation
Prayer is the act of talking to God, and meditation is the act of listening to God. Prayer is the masculine or yang aspect. Meditation is the yin or feminine aspect.
Tools For Developing Attunement And Greater Contact With Your Higher Self
1. Dear God Letter
This I find, personally, to be a very enjoyable and helpful tool. The idea is just to write your Higher Self a letter. I do this every morning and sometimes before bed as well. The Higher Self is like an older and wiser brother or sister. Talk to Him/Her as your friend your best friend. Form a relationship in your free flowing letters. You will find that your Higher Self will respond, sometimes in subtle thought channeling, in dreams, or in the other ways I have already mentioned. I sometimes use my "Dear God" or "Dear Higher Self" letters as one avenue of praying.
2. Higher Self Affirmations
Affirming certain statements to yourself throughout your day will create instant attunement. My favorite ones are:
a) I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
b) God goes with me wherever I go.
c) I trust in the Lord, and He will light the way.
d) If God be for me, who can be against me?
e) I have perfect faith, trust, and patience in God and God's Laws.
f) All things are possible with God.
g) Father, I expect a miracle.
h) God and Christ are now bearing my cross with me.
i) God is my co pilot.
3. Higher Self Attunement Visualizations
Close your eyes and imagine a symbol or image that attunes you and reminds you that your Higher Self is with you all through the day. Just as you have a symbol for your personal power, self love, and protective bubble, create a symbol of your Higher Self that you can carry with you to re attune you throughout your day. It could be a dove flying above you. It could be a golden white light hovering above your head. There are infinite possibilities so use your imagination.
Shuttle back to these different images and affirmations throughout your day to reattune you. The affirmations and images provided in this book will provide comfort, peace of mind, strength and power in time of need. It may also be helpful to create imagery for the presence of God and Christ and the guides, teachers and helpers that are also available to assist you.
4. Creating A Shrine Or Altar
A small holy place or shrine in one corner of your bedroom is a lovely Higher Self attunement practice. It can be created in many ways. Some people have little statues of Jesus, Buddha, Moses. Other people have pictures of the great Masters and teachers. I also recommend having incense and spiritual music which helps you attune your consciousness.
Above this can be added affirmations, poetry, or pictures from magazines. Some people create this on a bulletin board or poster. I pin up all my battle plans, centering models, schedules, commitments, and inspiring thoughts. It is really fun and inspiring to create.
Candles can be added. It is nice to meditate near your altar or shrine, if possible. The shrine serves to remind you of your connection to spirit and your high calling.
Copyright © 2004 Dr Joshua David Stone. All Rights Reserved.
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