“If you’re game to come along for the ride, I’d like to go a level deeper. Let’s break down the steps to change your energy and thus change your life. My intention is to give you precise tools for returning to a state of consciousness when you’ve ‘forgotten to remember’ that awareness is something you must sustain—not just in meditation, but in the rest of your waking life. To practice while wide awake, we have to train the mind to catch itself in the act of forgetting,
Step One
The first step is to become aware of who we are being—to shine a light on our unconscious automatic thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. We must become so conscious that nothing slips by our awareness unnoticed. Without criticizing, judging, or placing blame, make a game out of noticing everything about yourself. Instead of identifying with what you observe, imagine that you are just a curious bystander. Now where, when, and how did you lose your awareness in your waking day? What trigger or stimulus caused you to default back to your old, unhappy self and all those self-defeating thoughts and emotions?
Observe yourself. If you can stay out of judgment, remain in the moment, and watch yourself in real-time, you can collect all the data you need to recalibrate your new state of being—which you will do later.
Step Two
Once you’ve regained your awareness and have decided which aspects of yourself no longer serve you, you’ve got to stop being that person that you no longer want to embody. You have to unplug from the old subconscious programs that have been running your life and pause long enough to slow yourself down back into the present moment.
As you slow down and move out of survival, you send a signal to your autonomic nervous system that says it is safe to create, safe to take in and process new information, and safe to be in a state of relaxation. As you relax your body, stay awake and aware.
The act of pausing and stopping is essential for moving out of the familiar past and the programmed, predictable future (which are the known) and moving into the present moment (which is the unknown).
Step Three
The third step is to change your energy and your state of being. Once you start taking active steps that align with your intention, you should see change, both in your body and in your life.
As you move closer toward your future, which will always appear in the form of the present moment, allow the energy you have tapped into to generate more of the emotions associated with the ‘you’ you are becoming. That elevated energy, coupled with your full intention, is exactly what you need to change your state of being.
Step Four
Now that you’ve hit the reset button—and recalibrated your energy and your state of being—it’s time to return to your life with your full consciousness on board. Let me remind you that there is no end of the line here—these four steps are circular, not linear. With luck, you will repeat them many times and eventually return to a conscious state more and more quickly.
The goal of this process is for your body to eventually break through and liberate itself. For those waiting patiently to break through, take heart—that breakthrough can’t happen without the body first resisting and trying to cling to everything it knows. When you are getting close to changing yourself, your body will inevitably make one last desperate effort to prevent change from happening. You’re trying to take the body into unfamiliar territory and coax it into a new mind, and the body is averse to change.
In other words, if you’re not struggling with the body’s resistance to change, you are probably not changing. For those of you in the struggle, congratulations, and welcome to the party. You’re doing everything right. Keep going. Every time you fall, get back up. Eventually, you won’t remember how many times you have fallen because, in the end, you reached the destination.”
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