Awakening Your Purpose
We are blessed to live at a time of awakening, when humanity is forcing itself to create solutions to its many problems. This task often appears insurmountable, for no mater how hard we try it seems our every effort is met with opposition and conflict.
This conflict is the natural and normal result of the Law of Relationship. When we understand that Law, and wield it in service to humanity and the planetary life, opposition disappears and conflicts dissolve.
The Law is extremely simple, and practicing it is a normal and natural part of being human. Usually we practice the Law unconsciously, and our effects are quite limited. As we become more self-aware, we practice the Law more consciously, and our creative activities become increasingly effective.
At first our motives are quite self-centered, focused on our personal appetites and slowly progressing to include the needs of our family, friends, business, or community —the people and things we’ve identified with and become attached to.
This is normal. Human beings naturally progress from the needs of infancy to the responsibilities of adulthood. However, whenever we create from a self-centered motive (creating for my self, my family, my business, etc.), that motive is isolated from and out of harmony with the planetary life, and the results will be detrimental to that life. This is inevitable, because motive or intent is part of the Law and helps determine the effects of all creative activity.
Audio version.
Where we live in our body
The quest for your place and function within the greater life begins closer to home, with your place and method of function within your individual life. You begin the greater journey with a short one —discovering where you, the conscious, thinking “I,” dwell within your body.
Discovering where you reside within your body is quite simple, if you can ignore any preconceptions you may have and look within. The following simple exercise will help you locate your self:
Sit comfortably with your back straight, your feet flat on the floor and your arms on the chairs armrests or in your lap.
Close your eyes and relax your physical body – beginning with your toes and moving upward to your head, command each portion to relax. Imagine a relaxing warmth, a tingling sensation, golden light, or whatever other method works for you.
Slowly relax your toes… your feet… ankles… forelegs… knees… thighs… buttocks… tummy… lower back… diaphragm… upper back… chest and heart… fingers… hands… forearms… upper arms… shoulders… neck… tongue… scalp… the muscles of the face… and the muscles behind the eyes.
Recognize that wherever there is tension within your body, there your attention (a portion of your awareness) is being held.
Sense all those points of attention within your body, and allow yourself to recognize which of them is strongest.
Recognize that this strongest point of tension is where you spend most of your time within your body. This is where your individual self-awareness lives.
Having recognized your dwelling place within your body, take a deep breath and slowly open your eyes.
We have just located the predominant point where you, the conscious thinking ‘I’ reside within your physical form. However, it is not the only point. As we shall see, where you dwell within your body is not fixed. It is not only possible to move your awareness from one place in your body to another, but most of us do it all the time.
Audio Version of Technique.
Copyright © 2008 by Glen Knape
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