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Week 12

The topic is Joy, more specifically: how do you know when you are experiencing joy?

What does joy feel like in your physical body?

What does joy feel like in your emotions?

What is joy?

How is, or rather is joy different from happiness, excitement, silliness, relief, pleasurable sensual body movement, love, elation, bliss, devotion, gratitude?

How does your body express joy?

What does joy mean to you?

How do you experience joy?

Movement task – can you move your body in a way that you would describe as; yes, there is joy in moving this way?

 

The purpose of the task is to identify how those types of emotions feel in the body.
a paying attention to it when these kinds of emotions happen  and when more energy flows
through the system.

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Week 011

Tread Softly.

This really is the central message for this coming week: tread softly, so as not to scare the baby.

One could say: be gentle with yourself, be kind to yourself.

 

 

In movement – be deliberate and measured, the actual message was: slow way down, way way down.

Study and observe.

The process intensifies and rather than getting a break, we are called to be fiercely present, to pay attention to what is actually happening in and with our body sensation, emotions and thoughts.

The process this week is very much like chapter 4 of the HBM (From The Human Biological Machine as a transformational Apparatus by E.J. Gold), collecting data for the sleep of the machine, only it is rephrased like this:

Notice your automatic programs, whether it is movement, emotions or thoughts.

Movements might be: gesticulating with your hands, wiggling your legs, walking a certain way, rolling your eyes.

Emotions: feeling down on account of what someone said, feeling unworthy, feeling less than or too much or not good enough etc.

Thoughts…your automatic tapes of what you tell yourself about yourself, others or situations.

In self observation, slow way down. Pay attention to what is happening in your body moment to moment. Ask if what is happening is painful, feels good, feels right, neutral or horrible. Is it tingly, sharp, dull, hollow, pressure and so on.

Notice the effect your automatic reactions and beliefs have on your life and well being, both in specific situation and, as a consequence, in your life overall.

Study

The call to study this week is to help clarify the neuro-electrical challenges a human biological organism faces who is living with profound early trauma. Most of the more specific knowledge available to us has been brought forth in the last 25 years or so.

In awakening the human biological machine, there will inevitably come a time to face, endure or feel some sensations that will be unpleasant and very challenging. Being educated about the nervous system and the way it perceives, called neuroception, the innate ability of our nervous system to perceive all by itself, can be of tremendous help in understanding our automatic reactions. Knowing about it from a more scientific viewpoint can also help us with our patience, compassion and non-judgmental attitude towards ourselves and others.

Go slow!

Here are some topics and terms that will help to understand human biological automatic reactions as it related to survival mechanisms from very early trauma.

What is c-PTSD? (Complex – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

Is there a fundamental difference how a basically healthy adult can deal with sudden trauma, say rape, vs someone who is conditioned with c-PTSD?

What is the Polyvagal Theory, introduced by Dr. Stephen Porges in 1994.

What is the social engagement system?

What is fight or flight and freeze reaction and, how do each of them actually manifest in yourself or other people?

What is nervous system arousal, activation and hyperarousal?

What is the difference between self-regulation and other-regulation?

Educate yourself on attachment theory.
What is secure attachment, or fearful avoidant attachment or disorganized attachment?

You can also learn about it by looking into the system that uses the analogy of someone being an Island, Wave or Anchor in describing attachment styles as used by Stan Tatkin.

For those of you who have attended a live LRS (Labyrinth Readers Society) training course, you will recall the contact exercise.

Based on your study of the above, what do you think the challenge might be for a participant who has experienced severe c-PTSD?

Knowledge about the body’s neuroception and trauma responses leads to a greater ability to be impartial and stay compassionate during self observation. Armed with the knowledge gained, you might be able to stay with the sensation just a little longer and eventually notice that self observation can have a general awakening effect on the body-mind, or the HBM.

Being able to gently stay with ourselves has a softening effect, a welcoming effect for our bodies and minds, and this in turn helps energy move.

Do you HAVE to study? Not for yourself if your attention and presence are well developed.

If you work with others, like in yoga or therapy, it is professional and in integrity to know about certain things for the sake of the people that come to you.

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Week 010

Increasing capacity

This week’s exploration is about increasing capacity.

More specifically, exploration about increasing the capacity to hold charge. We could also say: to tolerate a little more and be able to stay in flow and stay relaxed.

Imagine getting or developing a bigger container to hold charge before it overflows or explodes or discharges.

Increasing capacity could mean capacity to maintain a physical position, or capacity to understand something, or capacity to hold pleasure without discharging, or capacity to tolerate unpleasant physical sensations, or capacity to tolerate nervous system activation, or increasing what someone with early developmental trauma can tolerate in being around people and still remain present to relating and ability to respond vs react/discharge, or increasing capacity to hold light energy coursing through you.

In what way would it be beneficial for you and in your life to increase your capacity?

Be specific and come up with a plan as to how you will accomplish this.

For Example: In myself , I notice that I have a difficult time to flow with sudden, unexpected changes in some everyday events. Noticing the sensations in my body and recognizing the reaction as an old wiring of situations of overwhelm,  I can consciously relax and change my thoughts and get back into a flow that is able to incorporate the change…without getting upset. This way the capacity for dealing with sudden change increases.

Clarification:

Charge is meant as in: capacity to hold and conduct energy, without disorganized discharge, explosion, outburst, reflexive automatic physical reaction. Ideally, energy simply flows through the system and does not get stuck at all.

Using the example of a battery: the battery can be empty, the battery gets charged, battery is full. At that point of being full, it cannot accommodate any more energy. A big battery – can accommodate a lot of energy/charge compared to a small battery.

We can look at the human nervous system as if it were a battery that will forcefully discharge when its capacity is reached and no natural energy flow occurs and /or energy is not able to ground.

This forceful energy discharge is usually physical or verbal automatic reaction. Have you ever noticed after a big blow up you feel very drained?

The nervous system in people with early developmental trauma is compromised in the sense of, or as if, the battery is small and energy is held rather than flowing. It is just a beginning analogy as this is actually a huge area of study. A lot has been clarified in the last 2 decades regarding the nervous system throughout the body and various area of the brain. Much more on that later.

Relational stresses/dealing with people/environment can be very challenging and stressful. We can look at stress as charging. More stress, more charge will build up till eventually capacity is nearly full. Further charging either needs to then be minimized or stopped, or unhealthy discharge happens.

For example, one such symptom cascade is: irritation, then upset, frustration, anger and, in the worst case, outburst of rage.

The threshold when that happens varies in different people. The capacity to hold  charge and still be responsive, that is, present, vs being subject to the system (battery) overload and discharge of the energy – can be increased.

Capacity for pleasure is also dependent on the capacity of the  nervous system/presence. Sexually is only one aspect of it, though an important one and easily practiced.

P.S. – if you don’t have early infant/developmental trauma, (c-PTSD) it will be difficult to understand certain aspects of what some people deal with. In fact, Bessel van der Kolk said: for someone who has not experienced it, it is impossible to understand c-PTSD. Others (normal people without such trauma) never really get it. As a therapist however, if not knowledgeable about this, (that is called trauma-informed) – deep healing usually does not happen when simply other methods are employed. I am working on a page explaining more of this, but given that many people have written and studied this for years, I might end up simply given resource information.

Being knowledgeable about early developmental trauma and various attachment types and how they express in daily life and relational contexts IS an important aspect on this path. It starts with learning more about it. Either for oneself, someone you love or someone you work with.

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Week nine

Integration and Movement

Many tasks and explorations have been posted in the first eight weeks. It is time to slow down, rest and integrate, digest, review, take care of ourselves, take a bath, write in your journals, sit on the beach or under a tree. Just being with yourself and any new insights, discoveries and feelings is important. Take time to allow this.

Movement guided by the body – in a safe space.

Movement of your body will aid the integration process. When the time is right, you can also explore moving your body to music.

PS Remember to listen to yourself when deciding to do an exercise. Is it the right time for you to do a particular exploration? Is it time to slow down?

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Week Eight

Grounding, embodiment, shame and pleasure

This week’s investigations seem huge

1) Look it up – grounding:

Find out what people mean by grounding. The grounding that is referred to here is when you hear: ground down, usually associated with taking a deep breath, getting out of your head, getting into your body.

How do YOU ground yourself? How do YOU know if you are in your body or in your head?

There is a form of grounding used in healing that means to touch the earth/dirt with your skin, usually your feet, to allow for electron energy exchange. This is not what is meant.

2) Sense what is going on in your body:

Take time each day this week to sense yourself, your body or part of your body and give the sensation names, like tingly, hot, cold, full, pressure, tight, soft and so on. No labeling like angry jealous, irritated ….stick to the actual physical sensation.

The deeper background of this beginning exercise is the inhabiting of our bodies. The being intimately aware of the body’s sensations, this sensing of your physical vehicle. This getting to know your body and ultimately to actually fall in love with this vehicle we inhabit and are one with.

It is through our bodies that consciousness comes alive.

This process might bring up images or judgments of some things that we feel ashamed about.

3) Get acquainted with shame

Maybe you already are fully aware of the things you hide and would not want anyone to ever see or know. Maybe you have not really looked at it.

In this next exploration, be gentle with yourself! Take some time to think, or even write a list, of things you are ashamed of.

It is possible that you might even be of the opinion that there is nothing you are ashamed of in yourself.

Think about it this way then: what are the things about you and your life you don’t want to tell anyone?

Why is that?

The force, the life energy, the breath – the spirit that moves through all things and cells knows no shame. It is something we acquired from our human and societal environment.

Our essential self and our physical manifestation are intimately linked. We are the embodiment of our soul, our essential self. You will not ever live here with true freedom if some part of you has to remain hidden from you, and others.

4) Explore pleasure in movement

Watch this video of yoga movements.

Try out something similar. You might first notice tightness or pain or tension. Keep exploring. Notice when your physical movement feels pleasurable, when your body feels good. Just notice.

If you don’t speak enough English to understand what is said in this video, watch it anyway – open to the feeling of the movements. If you are male and can’t quite relate, try it anyway. There are masculine and feminine currents in each one of us, and while each individual has a centrum of gravity on the spectrum, we all have both energies and at times we all need to occupy the opposite pole. We want internal flexibility to do that.

https://youtu.be/soA-PHxcgbI

I am including this quote:

True change and advanced human adaptation are not made on the basis of any self-conscious resistance to old, degenerative, and subhuman habits. Change is not a matter of not doing something. It is a matter of doing something else — something that is inherently right, free, and pleasurable. Therefore, the key is insight and the freedom to feel and participate in ways of functioning that are right and new.

The tendencies and patterns of your earlier adaptations are not wrong. They were appropriate enough in their own moment of creation, and there is no need to feel guilt or despair about them. Likewise, efforts to oppose and change them are basically fruitless. Such efforts are forms of conflict, and they only reinforce the modes of egoic “self-possession”.

What is not used becomes obsolete, whereas what is opposed is kept before you. Therefore, the creative principle of change is the one of relaxed inspection and awareness of existing tendencies, and persistent, full feeling orientation to right, new, regenerative functional patterns.

Adi Da Samraj
from “The Secret of How To Change”
in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body (October, 1978)

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Week Seven – Play

This week, we explore play.

If you have a young child or a pet in your life, it will be a great help.

First, what is play, what is playing?

What is the difference between playing a game and “just” playing?

In the divine play of incarnation we are playing the earth-game, being a human. As humans, we are all playing one or more games here on planet Earth.

We are doing this program to play a certain game better, the game of evolution, the game of developing an harmonious human being, the game of living an inspired life, for which we need to investigate our internal structures, beliefs and conditioning so we can then choose to be empty, more free, to allow inspirational energy to flow through us.

But back to the task of the week.

Play. Take time to play this week.

How about playing in the beach sand, playing making a blanket fort, playing with paints, painting with fingers, or toes, playing with paper, rocks, wooden blocks or building an obstacle course and imagine going on an expedition, pretend being various animals?

Those are just some suggestions. It could be that you end up just sitting there for a while, maybe even getting bored.

In this play there is no goal to win or to be the best or to create something worthwhile selling or even keeping.

For this daily play, it is exploring and having fun, being curious, experimenting, alone or together with someone else.

Share with us what happened for you with this one.

Birdie Transformation Program week Six

Gratitude

Yes, there is always something to be grateful for.

Investigation: what IS gratitude? What is an attitude of gratitude?

Find information on how a focus on gratitude changes the brain/us. Share it with us.

Here are the two explorations/tasks for the week

One:

For this week, every evening, write down at least 10 things you are grateful for.

Include at least one item from that same day.

Go over the list and mark the ones you also FEEL grateful for.

For the rest of the week, you can play exploring the difference of being grateful for something and feeling grateful for something – what is the difference for you?

As you go about your day, notice when you are or feel grateful.

To give you an example: a while back I used to wake up in a lot of pain. It went on for a couple of years. A hot morning shower felt so incredibly good and helped with that pain a lot. I felt – and still feel it every single day – so grateful to live in a place where there is hot running water. Thank you!!!

Two:

This is easily done when already in bed and before going to sleep, but you can do it any time.

Think of, sense or touch areas or organs of your body and thank them for having been with you all this life, worked for you, served you, protected you, …and so on.

Imagine your body’s cells or organ’s responses when appreciated and cared for or when complained about, blamed or neglected. Imagine how it would be if all the cells of your body were accepted and welcomed as they are. How might that feel?

Whether or not you have found evidence of benefit in appreciating your physical body and it’s varying parts, for better or worse, together your body as a whole and its specific organs and various
parts, have gotten you this far.

Another example: there was a time I really really thanked my heart for having had to feel so much and yet, there it was still beating.

Sometimes the gratitude for certain events can’t be understood and felt till years later.

A long time ago a friend wrote this at the end of an e-mail:

Always remember gratitude.

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Week 005 – Moving like a Baby

This week we will get in touch with our body in a new way. We begin to move. Maybe it would be better to say, we will begin again to move like we used to. I know, you already know how to move. You have moved all your life and your muscles, tendons and bones are in a particular habit. Maybe you even power through some exercises every day, because you know it is beneficial, or you like it or it makes you feel better. That is all okay.

We start at the beginning again, learning to move again with a different attention. Things might slow down quite a bit.

We will pretend to be a baby, with no agenda, no demands, just there, just following the impulses of our bodies.

If you have a 4-6 month old baby in your life, observe how it moves. Or, watch the video below.

Explore moving like a baby who does not know how to crawl yet, does not walk, does not yet stand.

It can look around, bring the hands together, arch, tilt its head back and to the side, move the legs, turn and push itself up, maybe get on all fours, maybe scoot forward, but not crawl yet.

Lie down on a surface comfortable for you. If you have a yoga mat, that works also. You can put on some gentle music, or not.

Lie down, feel where your body touches the ground, then – just lay there.

Maybe nothing more wants to happen for a long time.

Or, at some point, maybe you feel like looking around, or look at your hands or do little movements as they want to occur. Play with it, feel your legs, your back, your arms, your head, your neck. Maybe a stretch wants to happen, or a start of a turn, or maybe hardly anything at all. Start listening and let your body tell you where to stretch, what to move and where to open. Let the impulse come and follow it. And remember, babies do not judge how they move. They also burp, fart, sneeze, hick-up, sigh, whimper, cry, smile, frown and laugh as it comes.

Do this every day for as long as you want.

“Everything we feel and everything that happens to us is in the body.” – Angela Farmer

To live an inspired life, there needs to be internal space for energy to flow. The clearer the vessel, the more freely the energy flows. It we are tight, full of held stress, full of unconscious frozen energy blocks, energy can’t move and we are stuck and chronically stressed out. Anything more that happens can stress us out enough to explode, just to relieve pressure.

We need to feel to heal, we need to be able to feel our bodies.

Enjoy the exercise of this week.

Video.

https://youtu.be/D9Ko7U1pLlg

addendum

For those who would like to go further on sensing and listening within, you have a few options: one is the financially cheapest: practice listening to your body’s impulses, your sensations, your body’s way of saying yes or no, its way of telling you there is danger, or to relax, despite what your head is telling you.

If you have intuition, this sense or curiosity to go further with a trained professional, below are listed three method’s good to research, and if you have a good practitioner available in your area, give it a try.

Somatic Experiencing, which focuses on one’s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences). It was created by trauma therapist Peter A. Levine. Very good for any kind of past trauma and chronic pain still held in the body.

Hakomi. The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy is a body-centered approach to therapy developed by Ron Kurtz. I combines somatic awareness with experiential techniques to promote psychological growth and transformation.

The Feldenkrais method, invention of Israeli physicist Moshe Feldenkrais, is a way of retraining the body. There are two modes of this retraining. The first is group classes called Awareness Through Movement or ATMs, group classes where the instructor simply stays where he/she is, not touching the participant or doing demonstrations.. The second mode, Functional Integration or FI , is more capable of causing dramatic improvements. They are done with a trained practitioner. In one-on-one sessions. You remain fully clothed on a low table and the practitioner gently moves or presses your body in different directions to make you aware of a subconscious tension and holding patterns that make your movement less efficient, and can help you learn more efficient ways of coordinating your body.

Are there other methods to help with developing this kind of body awareness, discovering pattens and beliefs held in the body? There are, but I don’t know enough about those to be able to recommend them.

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Week 003

Daily Morning Minute

The beginning of daily morning practice and connecting to what is deepest in you. Setting intention for the day.

First: In the first next day or two of week 3, find an item, could be a little statue, an image, a book with sacred texts, a painting…something, just one object that signifies to you a representation of the sacred Being, God, consciousness and that you feel connected to. It is not just about finding an object that in your head you know is supposed to represent the divine, but something you have a feeling for and through which you can access a more expanded state than just your own body-mind.

This object should be small enough to take with you in a backpack, small enough to put up in a room that is shared with others.

Most likely, you already are using such an item in your altar. If you don’t have an altar, you can read more about purpose of an altar below.

Second: Place this item in such a way that it is visible and easily accessible where you live. It should not require for you to go into a special room or house or shed, but be right there where it is available to you.

Third: Before you go about your regular daily life chores and activities (after your bathroom routines) , stand before this item, put your palms together and hold them in front of your chest. There is a sacred space created by this connection that will surround you and the item.

What happens next will depend on you and the day and what is going on in your life.

Take 30 seconds to one or 2 minutes and, for example, express gratitude for this day to be alive, or visualize a light inside yourself that slowly gets bigger and radiates all around you. Or, see a light connecting your to the core of the earth and all the way up to the heaves. Or state your intention to be more present in this world today. Or ask for help from the higher to guide your words and actions towards being kind, or be of benefit to all beings, or ask for help in being present when your are triggered by what is happening around you. Or ask the universe to bring you what is most needed for your transformation. Maybe you want to send love to some people of animals. You can imagine your energy being getting larger and larger till it extends to infinity. As you stand there, it will be apparent.

The purpose is to connect to the higher and deeper in you and consciously set your intention for the day.

Do this every day.

As your ability to access deeper states of being increases, the nature of this minute will change.

As you do this practice, notice how your days will change and how you are being in this world.

It is a matter of a one minute practice. Not having “time” is no excuse not to do it. You might feel internal resistance. Investigate within yourself what that is about. If you are not ready, that is okay. There is no judgment. Just know it is available always.

Daily practice is very important and useful on this path. For now you could just take it as a given, or you can also do some research on it, or, you can try it out and find out the truth of that for yourself!

Many people don’t yet have such a practice, at any time of day.

This will establish a first daily morning practice, and one minutes is not too much time.

If you forget one day, just set your intention right where you remember.

If you already have a daily morning meditation practice, that is great. Maybe all you need to add is setting your intention for that day.

Function of an Altar Space

Excerpted from Let The Healing Begin

Commonly, “altars” are places that mark a space as not common to everyday life, but indicate that something is happening or practiced here that is of a spiritual, non-everyday, non-ordinary nature. You can find such special places, altars, in all corners and cultures of the world. Many people have an altar type place in their homes – their sacred place, a place of stillness for letting go of the mundane to connect the deeper part of themselves and with higher vibrations and spaces, angels, spirit guides or deities.

Altar objects are items of special spiritual significance to the person involved. If you have an altar, you most likely have several items on it. Some items, like prayer beads, especially blessed ones, can definitely acquire the status of sacred.

Depending on religious practices, beliefs and insights or tendencies, different people may choose different objects to place on the altar. These altar objects usually hold a very special meaning and are held in highest regard. They may be useful in accessing altered states of consciousness and often are imbued with special energy. They can function as connecting devices to a deity, spiritual school, group or space and more.

Altars do not have to be expensive to function or convey a sense of the sacred. Basically, anything you set up for the purpose can function as an altar.

Why would one want such an altar space?

“One” would want it to help facilitate non-ordinary states of awareness or awakening, to have a place to pray or sit in stillness. A place where non-ordinary states of consciousness are invoked and the ordinary worldly concerns are left behind. It is where we intend to access higher spaces, the divine, the sacred, unity or higher guidance. It can be used as a centering device, for invocation, to pray, to slow down and access a space of going with the flow, an open heart and compassion.

One of the most important conditions for accessing altered states of consciousness is the switching from beta brain predominance to other brain-wave states. This can be induced with the help of sounds, scents, moods, meditation, relaxation techniques.

Some altars are special purpose altars, such as Labyrinth Readers’ altars.

While the connection between reader and voyager is non-physical and requires nothing other than the essential tools which are natural to all beings, attention, presence and will – our experience as readers is that a properly equipped altar dramatically assists in the process of reading.

Over time, the reading space, or generally, any altar space that is used as such, gets charged, and merely sitting down can trigger the body to change states.

Consider creating such a space in your home.

Ultimately, we will realize the sacred space is something that is part of us and accessible anywhere at any time. This will take practice.

Addendum

Sharing my item for the morning minute, week three, which has been with me for many years. I grew up catholic, and even though I no longer subscribe to any religion, and even though there were goddesses from other religions I felt drawn to in the past, this image holds Divine Love, unconditional love, nurturing love for me – and provides the space to expand and include all to infinity, the space to ask for help, the space to surrender

I don’t seem to have an item that I have felt it embodies the sacred Being for me. What could I do then?

an item that inspires you to more than the ordinary? something that reminds you of that with is infinite? Love, grace? an image of a goddess? the ABD? a candle? . and maybe you don’t need one…and can stand in your sacred space and don’t need an item? maybe you would feel drawn to playfulness, or dance…as in dancing shiva? maybe THOR…the nordic god 🙂 maybe it is a small item that was given to you by your grandmother, signifying total acceptance…who knows…even without an item, take the minute, put your palms together to connect with …that which is…could be the item won’t show up till you start

you have done so many readings…you can stand there and create the 8 pointed chamber and stretch it to the infinite…and so your item is the (to others) invisible chamber….

you have done so many readings…you can stand there and create the 8 pointed chamber and stretch it to the infinite…and so your item is the (to others) invisible chamber….

Since I read this third-week task, I was pondering about what you said about the object: “It is not just about finding an object that in your head you know is supposed to represent the divine, but something you have a feeling for”
My mind is quite agile and that has been helpful in this lifetime, but it also is dominant many times when it is not completely necessary. I wish we can address this subject too in this program, or maybe all the process can lead us to a place where the mind eases a bit and let space to see and feel from the heart.

I like your suggestion about the eight points of the chamber and the one about placing my hands on the chest. I will combine those.

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Addendum

Sharing my item for the morning minute, week three, which has been with me for many years. I grew up catholic, and even though I no longer subscribe to any religion, and even though there were goddesses from other religions I felt drawn to in the past, this image holds Divine Love, unconditional love, nurturing love for me – and provides the space to expand and include all to infinity, the space to ask for help, the space to surrender

I don’t seem to have an item that I have felt it embodies the sacred Being for me. What could I do then?

an item that inspires you to more than the ordinary? something that reminds you of that with is infinite? Love, grace? an image of a goddess? the ABD? a candle? . and maybe you don’t need one…and can stand in your sacred space and don’t need an item? maybe you would feel drawn to playfulness, or dance…as in dancing shiva? maybe THOR…the nordic god 🙂 maybe it is a small item that was given to you by your grandmother, signifying total acceptance…who knows…even without an item, take the minute, put your palms together to connect with …that which is…could be the item won’t show up till you start

you have done so many readings…you can stand there and create the 8 pointed chamber and stretch it to the infinite…and so your item is the (to others) invisible chamber….

you have done so many readings…you can stand there and create the 8 pointed chamber and stretch it to the infinite…and so your item is the (to others) invisible chamber….

Since I read this third-week task, I was pondering about what you said about the object: “It is not just about finding an object that in your head you know is supposed to represent the divine, but something you have a feeling for”
My mind is quite agile and that has been helpful in this lifetime, but it also is dominant many times when it is not completely necessary. I wish we can address this subject too in this program, or maybe all the process can lead us to a place where the mind eases a bit and let space to see and feel from the heart.

I like your suggestion about the eight points of the chamber and the one about placing my hands on the chest. I will combine those.

and yes, the space of the eight pointed chamber and touching your chest…is a space where you can do any invocation for the day

about week 3, the daily morning minute: the main point is to do the daily morning minute every day before starting the rest of the day. – setting intention for the day, and/or connect with the highest in you or god/Absolute. if you don’t need a focal point, an item, a little altar, that is ok

yes, the space of the eight pointed chamber and touching your chest…is a space where you can do any invocation for the day

about week 3, the daily morning minute: the main point is to do the daily morning minute every day before starting the rest of the day. – setting intention for the day, and/or connect with the highest in you or god/Absolute. if you don’t need a focal point, an item, a little altar, that is ok