🔸️ AWAKEN LESSON 1 – Awareness

The first element of my model AWAKEN the joy within is AWARENESS

But awareness of what?

For many of us our focus is on the outside world, on the actions of others & stuff that is happening; we can get so caught up in reacting & responding to the outside world that we end up disconnected from our True Self. As a result, we develop anxiety, insecurity, yearning & avoidance because at the core we live as though we have no control over what is ‘done to’ us.

For others, including myself, we live in our heads & trap ourselves in the illusory stories we have created about ourselves & others. Responding to the stories in our head (often ego fear based) but believing them to be a true picture. Believing that we are the sum of our thinking & stories we tell.
When we get trapped in our thinking we lose sight of our True nature & the True nature of others in the present moment.

When we step forward from our limited intellectual thinking, we find ourselves reliving the past in the present moment &/or worrying about the unknown future. Either way, we are not at ease or feeling joy.

Now! Here’s the interesting bit, we can conclude that our THINKING in the moment is what causes our fear, anxiety & hurt feelings.

Surely then, I am going to tell you to be aware of WHAT you are thinking & change it to something positive?!

BUT here’s the thing our thinking is not our True Self …. underneath the flow of our thought created feelings is our stream of Consciousness that connects us to the radiant, expansive Universal Mind of unconditional love.

We are energy beings directly plugged into the formless radiant energy of Universal Mind (some may say Divine/Source/God).

In fact our Factory Default setting is expansive radiant Joy in the present moment. It is just that we have clogged ourselves with the bloatware of beliefs, expectations & identity of self & about others.

The fabulous part of knowing we are Joy by nature- not broken & not needing fixing is that we can gain insight into the fact that any thinking that takes us away from our natural state of Joy in the present moment, is not worthy of our attention & we can let the thinking evaporate instantly the minute we shift our awareness back to our heartful wisdom in the present moment.

So when you work with me to “Awaken the joy within”, we won’t be staying stuck in analyzing & reframing what you are thinking or getting caught up in why you thought it.

I am here to remind you THAT your thinking in the moment is disconnecting you from your True Self, where joy arises from.

👉 Comment with your take aways & or ask a question 😊