PAGE 3: 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.

• Illustrated: (Broader Category) Rein In the Illusions that Separate You from Compassion, Clarity, and Enlightenment
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Rein In the Illusions that Separate You from Compassion, Clarity, and Enlightenment" to step back from your reactivity over and over again--using Buddhist meditations--so that you can clearly see what’s real when the illusions that you create for yourself no longer have such power over your mind. Use them to deeply understand the working of your mind through contemplating it deeply, and thereby teaching yourself to cherish it as it is and empowering yourself to gently release the stress, worry, separation, and resistance that cause you so much unhappiness. Use them to free yourself from the suffering and isolation that you create for yourself through your habits of thought, such as your beliefs that you are a separate self, that you can prevent change, or that your story about reality is the same as reality.

• (Broad Category) Unite Your Conscious and Subconscious Minds to Realize Your Goals
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Unite Your Conscious and Subconscious Minds to Realize Your Goals" to create a habit of communication with the many hidden parts of yourself that are constantly active, even though they are subconscious and not in your immediate conscious control. Use them to focus your entire mind on succeeding with your goals by developing your skills at creating and maintaining a two-direction communication channel with your subconscious mind. Use them to explore and clarify your life's mission, to activate the universe in supporting your success, to change your behavior, to communicate more effectively with others, and to eliminate beliefs that hold you back.

• (Broad Category) Create a Daily Partnership with Your Psychic Energy System
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Create a Daily Partnership with Your Psychic Energy System" to measure the health of your psychic energy system, to energize it as needed, to correct imbalances and blockages that you find, and to harness your chakras for intuition. Use them while doing other things or by taking a two-minute break to use them in daily life, or use them for fifteen minutes or more as a meditation for more difficult problems. Use them to learn to automatically manage your chi energy levels, in the same way that you manage the oxygen in your body without taking time to remember to breathe.

• (Broader Category) Modify Your State of Mind to Become More Mindful, Self-Aware, Self-Expressed, and Happy
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Modify Your State of Mind to Become More Mindful, Self-Aware, Self-Expressed, and Happy" to sharpen your inner self maintenance tools so that you are in the best condition to handle the goals that you're pursuing, and to make your pursuit of your goals express who you authentically are, your inner wisdom, and your center. Use them to align your mind around your goals, as well as nurturing yourself through being more centered, more relaxed, and more in touch with your true self and true opinions. Use them to gain control over the way your state of mind influences or even controls your effectiveness in targeting your objectives and managing your progress mindfully.

• Illustrated: (Broader Category) Be Inwardly Silent During Your Busy Day for Greater Joy and Increased Effectiveness
  • Use the exercises referenced through the section "Be Inwardly Silent During Your Busy Day for Greater Joy and Increased Effectiveness" to practice inner silence for practical purposes while going about your busy day, for instance by being present in the moment while physically active. Use them to pilot your brain and body more effectively, replacing stress with confidence and happiness, reframing or defanging your problems, enhancing your intuition by reducing the noise that interferes with it, and improving your memory. Use them to facilitate making better plans, choices, and personal changes by using inner silence to help you work from a more balanced perspective, by reducing impulsive behavior, and by tuning in to your true values and needs.