Going past the illusion of sacrifice.
The purpose of this exercise is to realise that there is no need for sacrifice to gain peace and joy.
We need to discover what behaviour we are locked into in life that prevents us from being who we really are.
We have been given everything but need to wake up to this fact.
There is no cost involved in this awakening.
In this exercise you will be asked at one point to welcome the help that is ever present for all people,
All the time,
But which we often forget is there.
This help may be known by many names such as Higher Self,
Spirit,
Soul,
Holy Spirit,
God,
Jesus,
The Goddess.
I will use the term Spirit,
But please feel free to use whatever name or term you feel most comfortable with.
This symbol represents a presence that is all wise and loving,
With absolutely no judgement of you.
It simply seeks to correct your errors of thinking and return to your memory the beauty of who you really are.
This presence sees what we call sins as merely nightmares which it seeks to awaken us from.
We begin the exercise with some relaxation.
So please get comfortable.
Lie down if you wish,
But if you are feeling a little sleepy it is better to sit up.
Take some slow deep breaths to begin with.
When you next breathe in,
Tense both your legs and as you breathe out release the tension in the legs.
With the next in breath tense the buttocks and then release on the out breath.
And now the same with the stomach.
Breathe in and tense the stomach and release.
Now tense the muscles of the arms and make fists of the hands as you breathe in and release.
Breathe in again and squeeze the shoulder blades together and then release.
Now check is your neck relaxed and rotate your head if necessary.
Lastly tense the muscles in the face.
Make a face and then release.
And now silently count backwards from 20 to 1.
Feeling yourself becoming more relaxed as you count.
You cannot be healed unless you accept help from outside yourself.
What I am calling spirit.
We need to become aware of our issues and be happy to release them.
The final healing is through spirit.
It is automatic.
So now send out a prayer to spirit in which you welcome and invite its presence to be with you.
The help is always there but needs your invitation as it cannot act against your free will.
It must be made welcome.
If it helps you can experience the presence of spirit as a ray of light shining down upon you.
Or if you prefer as a felt sense a presence that surrounds you.
Or perhaps there is someone you visualize and whose hands you can hold.
Imagine yourself looking at the front door of your house or flat.
A door that is quite familiar to you.
Walk towards the door.
Open it.
And enter your house or apartment.
As you stand there in the entrance you feel yourself becoming light.
It is a pleasant sensation.
And you start to hover above the floor.
You start to float.
And you enjoy this feeling of ease and lightness.
You start to float up until eventually you go through the roof.
And a few feet above the roof you stop and you look down.
You can see other houses and dwellings.
And perhaps there are people.
Perhaps animals.
Tell yourself to float a little higher so you can see more of your neighbourhood.
Any people now will look like ants.
You feel safe and secure.
Just floating.
You look around at the sky and the sun is beginning to set.
And the first stars are beginning to come out.
It all looks very beautiful and feels very peaceful.
And the stars fill the sky.
And now you catch the first light of dawn in the east.
And you start to watch the sun rise.
A beautiful sunrise.
There are white clouds above you.
And you decide that you want to float higher.
And so you go up and through one of those clouds resting on its surface.
The cloud beneath you,
The sky above,
And it all feels very peaceful.
As you look around you see another cloud,
Some way off.
And there's a point of brilliant light on it.
You know immediately that this is the presence of spirit,
The help that you've asked.
A presence that is all wise and loving and that knows you very well but has absolutely no judgement of you.
All your so-called sins it just sees as nightmares.
It knows who you really are.
Slowly this cloud moves towards you and you start to make out details for what this being looked like.
Allow it to take whatever form or shape that feels appropriate.
Or if you cannot see anything just imagine the presence coming nearer to you.
When it's close by greet this being.
Ask this presence,
This being,
To show you the biggest sacrifice you are making in your life.
To show you how you are holding yourself back from the peace that is your birthright by maintaining this sacrifice.
What behaviour are you locked into to prevent the flowering of who you really are?
Allow yourself in the silence to be taught by this wise being what is holding you back.
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