The Experience of Self-Awareness

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The experience of self-awareness is not something you can get from the physical world. You will still chop wood and carry water, as the ancient Zen proverb tells us. You will not suddenly develop totally new talents or interests. But your interactions with the material world will be altered dramatically when you become self-aware. You can expect the following qualities of heightened awareness to become part of your daily life as you walk the inner path.

1. You will experience and enhance the meaningfulness of coincidences. You become aware that there are no accidents in this intelligent system. You realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. You start to know that you are a partner with fate rather than its victim. Ultimately you come to manage your coincidences and become fate's collaborator.

2. You will become aware of a universal source of energy. You begin to exercise your ability to make contact with this source and make it part of your daily life. You develop a strong knowing about the God force and your ability to access this energy.

3. You will feel loved. You will call for and accept divine guidance. All seems as it should be, even though you may not understand it. You will feel peaceful about what you see and feel.

4. You will develop a sense of appreciation and awe. You begin seeing beauty, and feeling awestruck at the magnificence of the universe. By focusing your inner energy on the beauty that surrounds you, you will receive that energy from your surroundings.

5. You will feel connected to everyone. You will sense that anything that is destructive to one human is destructive to all. This higher awareness will lead to the conclusion that Mahatma Gandhi came to: "God has no religion." This awareness will give you a loving energy that will help bring all of us together.

6. You will make a new agreement with reality. The limits of your perception will expand to include another world that coexists with ours. You will know that all of the "powers" that have been ascribed to spiritual masters are within your capacity to manifest.

7. You will experience surrender and acceptance. You will finally stop fighting and simply let go, even when you fail to understand why so many things transpire that are inconsistent with how you would orchestrate the universe.

8. You will become a waking dreamer. The power of your mind to manifest what previously could only occur in sleeping dreams will begin to be your awakened reality.

9. You will know the power and the ecstasy of silence. Prayer and meditation will be integral to your life. The answers you seek, the guidance you need, the assistance you require, will appear as you practice honoring your true self with moments of silence.

10. You will know that there is a spiritual solution to every problem. When you are peaceful, experience silence, meditate and listen, really listen to God, you will be directed away from the worldly and toward the divinity that is within you. You will know what you need to do.

11. You will shift from acquiring to sharing. Rather than being focused on what is in it for you, you will be guided by the inner desire to help meet the needs of others. You will desire less and yet feel more fulfilled. You will shift your attention away from yourself and take pleasure in serving others. You will need less, want less and find yourself less attracted to acquiring and possessing.

12. You will live authentically. You will no longer have any difficulty just being yourself. You will be able to say with conviction, "I am what I am." You will find it easier and easier to listen, without being defensive because your inner knowing is strong and satisfying. You will live your life authentically-fulfilling your reason for being here, knowing that "life gives exams" and learning from those that you fail to pass.

13. You will experience bliss as a natural state. It is a state of grace, and a state of self-sufficiency. It is a connectedness to God, a connectedness to the universal truth. Your bliss provides you with the sense that you are "on purpose."

14. You will be less judgemental and more forgiving. You will begin seeing that judging others does not define them-it defines you. You will accept that others are on their own paths. The things you previously found irritating about them will become a reflection of a part of yourself. As Carl Jung put it, "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

You will also begin to forgive yourself. You will see mistakes as lessons for you to transcend. This will free you from the tyranny of self-recrimination. You have made the decision to be free.

Freedom is the ability to leave the single room of awareness you were born in. In that room you learned the limits of your life. Outside of that room you learn your life has unlimited possibilities. You needn't be one of the people Arthur Schopenhauer described when he wrote: "Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."

© Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Debra D'Souza

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"All things are possible to those who believe." Jesus
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The Experience of Self-Awareness

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