This bonus episode details the daily routine I developed and have used for 15 years. It requires no special belief system nor practice and can stand alone or in conjunction with what one already does. With heart and mind as equal partners, outer success increases and relationships deepen.
- Begin the practice before opening your eyes in the AM
- If you set your alarm, give myself an extra 10 minutes
- Turn off phone alarms without seeing any notifications
- Practice this, if necessary
- Let in light and love
- Steps in Episode 9
- Use an image of the sun poking through clouds
- Say a prayer or verse
- Stay with this feeling as long as you like
- Cursory view of the day
- Glance chronologically
- See all the events that will be happening
- Look over the day a second time
- This time hover more closely
- Look at practical details
- Look for helpful tips and reminders
- Not a ‘to do’ list, it’s a ‘what’s doing’ list
- Avoid getting too lost in detail, though do so if important
- Pause where events seem hard.
- Break into two groups:
- Don’t see how I’ll get things done
- Discomfort connected to people
- See what you need to do to get through the logjams
- Massive schedule changes can be saved for review at a different time
- Save interpersonal challenges for next layer
- Break into two groups:
- Go through day again, looking with eyes of the heart
- How I want to be?
- Seeing interactions from the viewpoint of others
- Work at places of discomfort
- Reviewing ‘forgiveness’ in Episode 5
- Finding a heart-based response > see Episode 10
- If stuck, ask love to join you and move on
- When days or lifestyles are more about being than meeting scheduled demands
- Same process
- Focus on feeling love, on carrying love
- When finished with reviews, fill yourself with light and live the day
- End of day
- Before going to sleep, fill yourself with light
- Glance over the day backwards
- Stop where things went particularly well
- Appreciate that you’re loved
- Stop at moments that concerned you
- How did you do
- Non-judgmentally look
- Think of ideas for similar situations in the future
- Review situations that didn’t go well
- Dissect them:
- What were the problems?
- How could you have made it better?
- How could you avoid this in the future?
- Feel closure: you did your best
- Save issues that need more time, and get to them when you can
- Dissect them:
- When finished, fill yourself with light and love and drift off to sleep.
- Notes on process:
- The day ahead is coming
- The goal is to live fully and be in flow as much as possible
- It’s about being you
- Continued work has definite and real effects