THE JOURNEY PART 1 Page 4

'What do you have to lose by searching
for your answers in the 90 percent of
your mind that you don't normally use?'

USING A JOURNAL

A Journal enables any seeker of clarity to record progress made during the time period it is used. In our modern world, it becomes easy to forget the winning situations that allowed us to make stable gains in our lives.

Once a problem is solved or a challenge met and conquered, we are off again on to other things. The agony of the fearful moment is forgtten as trivial when we see the bright light of a new morning. We often forget, in our joyous victory, to be grateful for the tools that allowed us to get through the darkness....

If we use a journal to mark the steps along the Sacred Path, we are then more able to note the patterns of our lives and to see how we set goals, meet challenges, create solutions, and better ourselves.

Unwanted habit patterns or chronic situations that limit our personal growth can be readily changed once we discover them and choose behavior alternatives that will enhance our lives.

A journal can be a confident, a counselor, a teacher, a diary, a memo, a progress report, or a self-improvement manual. It's purpose and uses are up to you, however as you use it as an activity toward your growth, it can catalog the manner in which you choose to structure that growth process.

When we learn to use old information in new ways, many fresh ideas arise and the creative process begins once more. With the journal we can trust that new skills presented will allow new opportunities for growth.

The more any talent is perfected, the easier it is to use. As each person develops their living and inner knowing skills, they begin allowing more energy to flow through them. The faster the energy flows, the less we are resisting our divine right to wholeness. The more we hesitate or limit ourselves, the slower the energy flows. The more we learn about ourselves, the less we resist the future and the unknown.

One thing you can do with your jounal is to write in it during the week what challenges were met, lessons learned, understandings that may have come out of these experiences.What solutions you may have learned and put to use.

 Questions you may come across or problems with something you may want help with the following week. You can write notes on things you may have learned about yourself that day or revelations you may have as you go through your daily challenges.

You can write notes on a particular teaching you put into practice that had an interesting or profound life changing outcome. Habits you may have broken or other growth processes you experienced. How the new understandings you applied to your life brought about change or some new wisdom.

The journal is a very powerful too when used in the right ways and on a regular basis. I write dreams that leave an impression on me when I wake up. I write about the guidance given to me when I've been in a meditation or while driving along in my car and I get revelations that I know I'm going to want to remember at another time.

I have stacks of journals that date back many years ago when I began my own growth process. I love going back and re-reading them. Sometimes I see patterns that I'm still sorting through that I wrote about two or three yeas ago. It helps me realize that it's something that has a strong hold on me and that I need to spend more time exploring it and finding a way to break the old habbit.

I'd like to emphasize once agian that the journey you have stepped onto that will lead you out of pain and suffering and help you raise your consciousness to a higher vibration cannot be completed in a single motion or a single day. It cannot be hurried. You go at your own pace. You need to spend sufficient time on each part of the journey to truely absorb it.

Practical work will be given on each part of the journey I'll lead you through as a powerful learning aid. Just reading it will certainly be 'interesting', but like most spiritual work you need to do it to know it. Knowledge, realization, illumination, comes from the actual PERFORMANCE of the work.

Do the work and the range of your awareness will be gradually extended as your inner senses are awakened or enlivened from their dormancy.....

It is important that you approach the teachings with an open mind, unhampered by any preconcieved notions,theories and beliefs. It means setting your beliefs aside for awhile so you can consider new ideas with an unpredjudiced mind and one that is free from making judgements or comparisons.

Now that I've given you an introduction to what the first step is about. 'Knowing yourself' lets get started with some real work.

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