PAGE 2: THE JOYFUL WISDOM JOURNEY: Handbook for Awakening to Your Self

 

Step 1: What's Your Most Important Goal, Problem, or Issue?
Step 2: Select the Title that Best Describes It.
Step 3: Roll Your Cursor Over the Title for More Information.
Step 4: Drill Down to the Exercise or Meditation that Best Supports You.

• (Broader Category) Identify and Heal Your Reasons for Being Stuck by Partnering with the Hidden Parts of Yourself
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Identify and Heal Your Reasons for Being Stuck by Partnering with the Hidden Parts of Yourself" to delve into subconscious factors that stop you and to handle them gracefully, peacefully, and without violence against any part of yourself. Use them to interact with the obstacles inside of you in a way that not only allows you to achieve your goals, but which also enables you to understand your true self more fully. Use them to embrace your whole self, so that you can move forward in pursuing your goals without rejecting or fighting with any essential parts of who you are at your core.

• Illustrated: (Broader Category) Build Your Personal Power by Taking Control over the Choices that We Call 'Habits'
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Build Your Personal Power by Taking Control over the Choices that We Call 'Habits'" to empower yourself to change your behavior whenever you want to become whatever you choose, no matter what restrictive messages you receive from your past experience, programming, self-image, and self-talk. Use them to develop the skill of delving deeply into the dynamics of your behavior so that when you make changes in your habits and lifestyle, you succeed by bringing clarity and self-knowledge to bear on your efforts. Use them to develop your mental muscles for changing habits by consciously learning specific skills that facilitate habit change, by analyzing the problem thoughtfully, by tracking your progress systematically, and by committing yourself to a realistic deadline.

• (Broader Category) Build Your Belief in Your Ability to Succeed
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Build Your Belief in Your Ability to Succeed" to create a unified state of mind by instituting and reinforcing a set of beliefs that empowers you and sets you on the path to a powerful future. Use them to manage your interpretations of your experience in the most empowering and motivating manner possible so that you can move forward effortlessly and with a sense of personal power and confidence. Use them to line up all the parts of yourself in moving yourself powerfully into the best possible future that you can choose.

• Illustrated: (Broader Category) Open Your Mind to Unpredictable Expressions of Your Personal Power
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Open Your Mind to Unpredictable Expressions of Your Personal Power" to empower yourself to choose the path less traveled by, free from the manipulation and intimidation by which the culture enslaves us and keeps us from expressing our true selves. Use them to open your mind to possibilities and goals that are so unexpected and unpredictable that they might never occur to you if you didn't go out of your way to seek them. Use them to select a path that unites all of the different parts of yourself, irrespective of the biases of the culture, so that your will be able to fully harness your personal power in moving forward toward fulfilling your highest potential.

• (Broader Category) Find Positive Ways to Handle Negative Events, Emotions, Beliefs, and Points of View
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Find Positive Ways to Handle Negative Events, Emotions, Beliefs, and Points of View" to learn to replace negative and unhappy reactions, attitudes, interactions, and interpretations with positive or detached ones. Use them to give yourself greater freedom, personal power, and joy in times of adversity. Use them to resolve issues that prevent you from living a happy, satisfied and fully self-expressed life.