“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.

Use the exercise (Click) “Clarity #13b: Transform Your Relationships with the Chrysalis Wisdom Council” on page 56 with a group of two to seven people to distill the group’s deepest wisdom about a common problem, to resolve conflicts, to create a mission statement or vision, to clarify relationship issues, or to help an individual in the group with emotional, spiritual, or personal issues. This “dialog compression” exercise enables each person to discover the value of inner silence to access your deepest wisdom.

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Use the exercise “Clarity #11a: Use the Energy of Upset Emotions by Redeploying It” on page 574 whenever you find yourself thinking about upsetting situations—such as mentally rehearsing what you’re planning to say angrily or grieving a loss. Use it to discover what’s going on behind highly charged ruminations about the past or future. Master the exercise to live your life from your center, no matter what comes up.

Use the exercise “Awareness #12a: Balance Your Use of Both Sides of Your Brain (Activity)” on page 222 bring a broader, wiser, and more balanced perspective to everything you do, thereby increasing your effectiveness in doing practical things throughout your day. Use it to regularly use your right brain to give you a “second opinion” about the tightly focused left-brain reactions that we normally bring to everything we do.

Use the exercise “Clarity #12a: Delve Deeply into your Emotions and Resolve Them with Choices” on page 545 to discover the truest meaning of your emotional reactions, so that you can benefit fully from their value. Use it to help you face your emotions squarely and without denial, and to work with them until you know what they suggest for you to do. Use it to gain perspective about difficult emotions that drive ruminations and fantasies that arise.

Use the trance exercise “Imagery #7b: Consult with Your Inner Council of Advisors” on page 622 to find the wisest course of action when you wish you had some expert advice that was targeted exactly at your issues and needs. Use it to find some answers that are completely outside of your standard way of thinking about the situation. Use it to develop an affinity with people you have learned from, admire, or want to emulate.

Use the exercise “Belief #13c: Transform Preexisting Attitudes about Doing Exercises (Journal)” on page 1113 when you’re not sure how to make this book work for you. In addition, apply it to your life whenever you feel that no matter how hard you try, your efforts are useless. Use it if everything seems just like what happened before, if you feel stuck in an alien universe where the rules that you follow don’t seem to create the results you seek—and yet, you’re willing to look at any possibility that you are responsible for.

Regularly use the three- to five-minute visualization “Manifesting #7a: Build Creative Tension to Draw Yourself Gently to Your Goal” on page 1130—while active or in meditation—to supercharge your momentum during moments you otherwise would have wasted—waiting in line, sitting on the toilet, or resting between activities. Use it to create a compelling contrast between your visceral sense of how things are at this very moment and what it is that you want, so that your emotions help you progress towards your goals.

Practice the meditations in “Awareness #6b: Buddhist Mindfulness of Breath Meditations” on page 952 to learn to create deep inner peace, providing relief and inner power during times of upset. Practice them to develop your skill in focusing the mind, which will lead to greater understanding of the mind—which will, in turn, give you the ability to shape your mind. Finally, practice them to learn by experience answers to such basic issues as the nature of reality, the causes of suffering, and the way of freedom from that suffering.

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.

Use the simple, versatile desensitization methods in the section “Desensitize Yourself to the Drama of Life to Find Wisdom" on page 528 to discharge emotional energy that can overwhelm you, tie you in knots, and prevent you from moving into action to fulfill your goals. Use them to give yourself the breathing room you need to sort through confused or bad feelings that prevent you from understanding the core of complex issues and to give yourself the insight you need to resolve them with self-acceptance. Use them to gain the skill of using peaceful reflection to generate personal freedom, empowerment, and growth.

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.

Use the exercises referenced through the section “Be Present with the Reality within Which You Live” on page 172 to sort through confusing situations, for instance by going beyond your normal point of view, illuminating your truest feelings, harnessing your intuitive faculties, or otherwise investigating the situation from every conceivable angle. Use them to discover the truth about issues that perplex or trouble you at their core, as well as clarifying their meaning in your life.