“Wisdom Skill #1: Use Inner Silence to Enhance Every Aspect of Your Life" on page 34. Click this link to access SIA blogs which excerpt this chapter.

Wisdom Skill #2: Nonattachment, Acceptance, and Cherishing All That Happens” on page 70. Click this link to access blogs which excerpt this chapter.

“Wisdom Skill #5: Be Present in the Moment” on page 170.

“Wisdom Skill #6: Heightened Sense Awareness” on page 176.

“Wisdom Skill #7: Broadening Awareness—Releasing Tight Focus” on page 211.

“Wisdom Skill #11: Listen to the Voice of Your Intuitive Mind” on page 324.

“Wisdom Skill #17: Embrace Your Emotions as They Are, and Choose Your Emotional State” on page 512.

“Wisdom Skill #18: Verbalizing Thought Processes; Using Verbal Cues and Checklists” on page 558.

“Wisdom Skill #24: Create Rapport through Identifying with Others” on page 743.

Use the exercise (Click) “Clarity #13a: Listen to the Core Messages from your Essential Self” on page 58 to ensure that you consistently take the time to thoughtfully choose the wisest course before leaping into action. Use it to transform automatic life patterns into conscious, well-considered choices, for instance by exploring why you’re resisting doing the right things, or refusing to accept what you know to be true. Use it whenever you feel upset or trapped, or when not in touch with your personal power. Finally, use it for planning, taking breaks which support your projects, working with affirmations, and preparing to respond to letters or other communications.

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Use the exercise “Clarity #5b: Cultivate Insight with the Clear Choice Conversation or Journal” on page 500 when you want to get completely clear about the wisest way to approach a difficult situation, and you’re willing to spend a significant amount of time to delve deep into the core issues. Do this with another person to build a stronger relationship between the two of you. (Schedule around two hours each so that you both have a turn.) You can also use this exercise alone using your journal, though it might require several days.

Use the exercise “Imagery #3b: Explore Who You Are in Trance Using People as Mirrors” on page 790 when life seems to constantly be filled with too much drama, and you just wish everyone would settle down and stop being so crazy. It will help you make sense of the situation by distinguishing how you have projected parts of yourself into it. When you sort out your contribution to misunderstandings, for instance, you’ll know how to move beyond them.

Use the two exercises referenced by “Progoff Dialog Methods” on page 497 when you need to improve your relationship with your body, with another person, with a goal or a project, with your higher self, with a group of people, or with specific circumstances that you find yourself in. One of these exercises combines journal work and meditation delve deeply into your relationship with the different parts of your life. The other enables you to make productive, effective use of miscellaneous periods of time which normally get frittered away in daydreams, reactions, impulses, habits, and mental masturbation.

Use exercises in the section “Things to Do with Your Spiritual Community to Strengthen It” on page 766 to create a fun and satisfying spiritual community, using activities like meditating together, powerful deep communication, visualization or prayer, ritual, or hiking together. Although you can use almost all of the methods in the Global Wisdom System in groups, these meditations are particularly targeted towards building community through group practice.

Use the exercises in the section “Apply Skillful Listening to Transform Your Relationships” on page 762 to develop excellent relationships in which important issues are discussed at a deep, emotionally honest level, and everyone involved feels understood, validated for who they are, honored for their contributions, and cherished. Use them to create dialog that always lead to the wisest, most productive conclusions. Finally, use them to learn to distinguish your fantasies about other people from who they are in reality.

Use the exercises in the section “Use Inner Silence to Live More Effectively” on page 48 to learn to repeatedly apply the inner silence process to whatever you’re doing or experiencing, including solving problems, tackling any issue, creating a vision statement for a group, understanding emotions better, using visualization to change your life, improving your relationship with your body, or developing your intuition.

The section “Tools for Developing and Using Your Intuition” on page 328 references methods for understanding your psychological makeup and for developing your psychic sense. These two approaches to intuition are compatible and synergistically related. In other words, the more of these exercises you do, the easier it will become to use all of them.

The exercises in the section “Tune In to Obtain General Guidance for Your Life” on page 336 are primarily targeted at achieving a broad perspective and receiving general guidance for life, yet they can do much more. They can also provide specific answers to problems, issues, or questions, and they can break through the emotional walls that prevent intuition that you put up in response to conflicts, concerns, and challenges. Use them to expand your point of view to a more peaceful and universal perspective and receive intuitive answers from a deep relationship with your inner wisdom.