What a great exercise this is! It is so easy to get disconnected from our essential self in our busy lives. We move through the days without understanding motivations or deeper meanings and then we’re exhausted and only interested in getting enough rest to tackle another tiring day tomorrow. But how important it is to hit the pause button in Life sometimes, to take a break from the running around, the supercharged and busy life that has us moving on only 2 speed options: full speed ahead or full stop. Maybe the most important thing we can learn in these busy days is to take time to pause.
So how will you take the suggestion in the message today and apply it in your life? Will you take time to do the exercise and get in touch with your essence? Do you have some other method that you use to do exercises like this?
I don’t think the methodology is as important as the commitment to Self to take time to go inside and see what we find. I had a major insight in a class where I was doing a mandala exercise, drawing something in a blank circle. I looked at the circle on the paper and ‘saw’ the image of a pyramid that extended beyond the edge of the circle. I colored outside the lines for the first time in my life! It was tremendously freeing to give myself permission to do this. To you this might be funny as you’ve always done this, but to someone who has always been a ‘color inside the lines’ kind of person, this is huge!
Some people start journaling and find that their hand almost has a mind of its own as it writes things that were never before revealed or disclosed on paper. Others find art exercises or walks in nature or meditation experiences that unveil previously hidden parts of Self and create their own ‘aha’ moments. What is your favorite way to gain insights into yourself?
Whatever method or methods you decide to use, make a choice today to give yourself some time for inner work, self reflection, in the near future. Find the time, commit the time, make the arrangements and then keep that commitment. You will be richly rewarded for doing an exercise in getting in touch with your essence.
And this is not something that you just do once. Commit to doing this more than once. What frequency feels good to you? Is this something you want to do once a week for awhile? Every day? Once a month on the Full or New Moon? Ask yourself what feels most beneficial for you and then put the time on your calendar and allow yourself to follow through.
What other questions would you like to ask? These exercises often lead us to asking other questions when we feel as if we are stuck or are hitting a wall. When you feel something going on ask yourself, ‘What is behind this?’ and then ‘What is behind this?’ again until you feel that you have reached the real center point.
In tense situations the question might be, ‘What is this?’ Keep asking the same question until the energy shifts.
Come up with your own process, your own questions, and see what happens. All you need is a few moments of your time and a curious mind/heart.
‘Who Am I?’ is a good place to start!
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: “Who Am I, Really?” by Rosemary Bredeson
January 4, 2011 — RosemaryWhat a great exercise this is! It is so easy to get disconnected from our essential self in our busy lives. We move through the days without understanding motivations or deeper meanings and then we’re exhausted and only interested in getting enough rest to tackle another tiring day tomorrow. But how important it is to hit the pause button in Life sometimes, to take a break from the running around, the supercharged and busy life that has us moving on only 2 speed options: full speed ahead or full stop. Maybe the most important thing we can learn in these busy days is to take time to pause.
So how will you take the suggestion in the message today and apply it in your life? Will you take time to do the exercise and get in touch with your essence? Do you have some other method that you use to do exercises like this?
I don’t think the methodology is as important as the commitment to Self to take time to go inside and see what we find. I had a major insight in a class where I was doing a mandala exercise, drawing something in a blank circle. I looked at the circle on the paper and ‘saw’ the image of a pyramid that extended beyond the edge of the circle. I colored outside the lines for the first time in my life! It was tremendously freeing to give myself permission to do this. To you this might be funny as you’ve always done this, but to someone who has always been a ‘color inside the lines’ kind of person, this is huge!
Some people start journaling and find that their hand almost has a mind of its own as it writes things that were never before revealed or disclosed on paper. Others find art exercises or walks in nature or meditation experiences that unveil previously hidden parts of Self and create their own ‘aha’ moments. What is your favorite way to gain insights into yourself?
Whatever method or methods you decide to use, make a choice today to give yourself some time for inner work, self reflection, in the near future. Find the time, commit the time, make the arrangements and then keep that commitment. You will be richly rewarded for doing an exercise in getting in touch with your essence.
And this is not something that you just do once. Commit to doing this more than once. What frequency feels good to you? Is this something you want to do once a week for awhile? Every day? Once a month on the Full or New Moon? Ask yourself what feels most beneficial for you and then put the time on your calendar and allow yourself to follow through.
What other questions would you like to ask? These exercises often lead us to asking other questions when we feel as if we are stuck or are hitting a wall. When you feel something going on ask yourself, ‘What is behind this?’ and then ‘What is behind this?’ again until you feel that you have reached the real center point.
In tense situations the question might be, ‘What is this?’ Keep asking the same question until the energy shifts.
Come up with your own process, your own questions, and see what happens. All you need is a few moments of your time and a curious mind/heart.
‘Who Am I?’ is a good place to start!
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