We should spend half our time releasing and half of it just being. When I think of just being, I think of being loving, because that is what we are....Love.

The 6 steps

Lester designed 6 Steps to help us release our "Ego" and realize who we are!

1. Allow yourself to want freedom more than you want approval, control, security and separation.
2. Decide that you can release and be free.
3. Allow yourself to perceive that all of your feelings culminate in the four wants: the want of approval, the want of control, the want of security. Then allow yourself to let go.
4. Make it constant, release these wants daily whether alone or with people.
5. If you get stuck, release the need to be stuck or unstuck.
6. Each time you release you will feel lighter and happier.

Gains in Public

I was thinking of doing a pubic "Gains" journal, put then Lester had warned against telling people about your "Goals", because it would weaken your drive to achieve them. I imagine the same could happen with posting "Gains". The ego would kick in, and say "Look what I did!" and then stop releasing.

So to that end, I will post some gains, but the majority will be held privately.

Where did that come from?

Had a nice day of releasing. Released until a I felt really "Blah"..that's a technical term, and then I rested while just "being", and giving myself approval and love.

Released today a lot on W/A or wanting approval. That want is soooo strong. It is amazing how many things we do, and don't do, based on wanting someone's approval. It borders on the line of insanity really.

Here we are an all infinite being that has divided itself out, and created this illusion of separation, and then we run around doing silly stuff for the approval of some other being that we made up in our head, but is nothing more than a part of our beingness.

On the flip side today, I also practiced sending love and approval to other parts of me (that would be people and animals in this instance.) It is amazing how the environment changes during that process. Nothing but my thinkingness.

Discrimination

The more I listen, read, and experiment with what Lester Levenson shared, the more I tune out a lot of what I see and hear. It almost as if the information I receive does not align with what I choose to create, then It is not of any interest to me anymore. I'm only interested in what I'm giving my attention to...what I'm creating. Everything else is of no consequence, because it has no effect on what I'm creating, unless I choose it to be. Now that's different.

Disappearing cold

For the last two days I had the sniffles, and then last night, I was feeling cold even in a room that was 85 degrees (the benefits of a pellet stove). I didn't have the tea that I normally drink all winter long to keep the nasties away, so I was afraid that I was going to get really sick. Instead of staying up and trying to finish homework, which I wasn't doing a very good job of concentrating on, I went to bed. As I went to sleep, I sent love to myself, and I felt an energetic change all over my body. This morning I was cold symptom free! Good shaman....Good shaman...hee hee!

"What we're seeing out there is our own mind. "

"All happiness has it's source in the Self, all misery has it's source in ego."

Lester Levenson