I hope that step one,
How to understand and appreciate your divine essence,
Was beneficial to you in realizing and appreciating the multidimensional being that you are.
You should feel empowered knowing that you have such a powerful,
Innate connection to the source of all creation.
Take a moment in your consciousness,
Absorb the energy of your divine beingness.
You are a divine creation.
Now let's take a deep appreciative breath of gratitude for the pranic life force energy that sustains your existence.
Take a deep breath in and breathe out the cares of the world and any ego perceptions of false identity and unbelief.
Let's do this two more times.
Take a deep appreciative breath of gratitude in the pranic life force energy that sustains your existence.
Then breathe out the cares of the world and any ego perceptions of false identity and unbelief.
One more time,
Breathe in a deep appreciative breath of gratitude for the pranic life force energy that sustains your existence.
Then breathe out the cares of the world and any ego perceptions of false identity and unbelief.
Now let's take another deep breath of gratitude in to the divine essence of your being and breathe out doubt,
Fear,
And lack.
And do this two more times.
A deep breath of gratitude in to the divine essence of your being.
Breathe out doubt,
Fear,
And lack.
Once again,
Another deep breath in of gratitude into the divine essence of your beingness.
Breathe out doubt,
Fear,
And lack.
Now take a moment in silence and repeat these words out loud.
My conscious mind is one with my universal God mind.
That simple gratitude exercise is one of the many ways in which you can develop your divine essence,
Meaning the inner connection to your supreme beingness.
This is a state in which the soul and body are in harmony with divine mind.
This energy within the mind,
Like all energies,
Has a certain degree of power and that power holds a grip on the mind and the nervous system,
Causing you to think and act in ways that are sometimes self-defeating and that's according to Dr.
Paul Leon Masters,
Founder of the University of Metaphysics.
Unraveling the concepts,
Belief,
Conditioning,
And unconscious actions that are blocking you from knowing the truth of who you are is a huge step in the beginning.
But as you take steps to develop your divine essence,
Your intellectual mind will take second place,
Your consciousness will expand,
And you'll gradually transcend the limitations of your intellect and depend more on your intuitive self,
Your inner beingness for guidance.
Developing your inner awareness is a crucial phase of your soul's human evolution.
Up to now,
Your intellect has dominated your conscious mind and it has,
Many times,
Served you well.
The intellect can only take you a certain distance along the path to enlightenment.
The inner self must be strengthened in order to continue the process.
In fact,
You could say that the intellectual ability is the intelligence of the personality while divine essence is the intelligence of the soul.
The soul's wisdom is the cornerstone of your spiritual evolution.
The greatest human endeavor is to guide the human soul toward the supreme state of perfection and union with the One.
That's a quote from the Greek philosopher,
Palentinus.
He was a philosopher born and raised in Roman Egypt.
He's also one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity,
After Plato and Aristotle.
Taking his lead from the reading of Plato,
He developed a complex spiritual cosmology involving three fundamental elements,
The One,
The intelligence,
And the soul.
While being spiritual requires us to look inward to love and understand ourselves,
The modern world pulls us toward the other end.
It comprises everything that propels us to look outward and it hinders our progress of self-actualization.
David Hawkins,
Remember him from Step 1?
He writes,
For the serious student,
Spiritual commitment changes the context of life,
Which is then viewed from a different perspective.
What was once attractive and exciting may now seem superficial,
Shallow,
Irrelevant,
Or even annoying.
And what was previously considered to be boring is now attractive and valued as a great opportunity.
Charles Fillmore states,
That it is your daily life that is the raw material for your spiritual development.
You must be willing to submit to the process.
He goes on to write,
When a man is developing out of a mere personal consciousness into spiritual consciousness,
He begins to train deeper and larger powers,
Where before his powers had worked in the personal,
Now they begin to expand and work in the universal.
David Hawkins writes,
The spiritually inspired tend to become self-educative,
Searching through spiritual libraries,
Attending lectures,
And visiting various spiritual groups.
This is a period of research and exploration of the various avenues and spiritual pathways as well as belief systems.
Step 2.
How to Develop Your Divine Essence It's about studying to show yourself approved,
Learning to implement simple spiritual daily practices such as journaling,
Listening to spiritually uplifting music,
Reading spiritually enlightening books,
Meditation,
Things that help to fortify your spiritual development and free you from whatever life conditions you face.
Keep in mind that you are a divine original and your spiritual journey is tailor made just for your daily lifestyle.
Do not compare your spiritual journey to anyone else's.
David Hawkins again continues,
Remember along the spiritual pathway blocks and temptations appear as well as doubts and fears.
The greater the challenge,
The greater the development of inner strength,
Decision,
And determination.
This is also a consequence of the subordination of the lesser to the greater and thus priority prevails by an act of the will assisted by surrendering to the personal will of God.
And I call this phase of developing your divine essence the tug-of-war phase.
It's literally spiritual warfare.
Again,
As David Hawkins writes,
It's the test that arises from the ego because it is so comfortable commanding your life and it doesn't want to give up its stronghold over your mind and body.
The ego has been the driving force of your life for so many years while you unconsciously surrendered your will to its desires.
Now that you're awakened and want to step up your game,
The ego is going to throw everything at you including the kitchen sink to keep you in ignorance and in its comfort zones.
All sorts of things are going to start happening.
Your kids are going to start acting crazy.
The husband will start to get on your nerves.
The supervisor at work will turn into the boss from hell and your friends will definitely call you crazy.
Here are some pearls of wisdom I learned on my journey of spiritual evolution.
You have to studiously make the effort to build yourself up spiritually and the helpers will appear.
What you seek,
You will find.
When you ask questions of infinite intelligence,
You will get answers.
People who knew you when will keep you stuck in your past and never let you forget that time when.
Remember that time when,
Girl?
Your family will alienate you because they'll think you think you're better than them.
You will be born again and get a whole new lease on life.
As one of my coaching clients said,
She feels like a brand new woman.
The little voice inside will grow louder and louder the more you obey it.
If you think your life was turned upside down before,
You ain't seen nothing until divine intelligence begins to clean house.
And lastly,
You're going to let go of some people and some people will let you go.
Let them go.
Their season is up.
Always remember that you are a divine original.
Stop trying to be a copy of someone else.
Let your light shine,
Follow your path,
And dance to the beat of your spiritual drummer.
I'm Shirley T.
Williams.
Thank you for listening.
Namaste.
