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Ann K Gryczan  Saying grace is a wonderful tool for students of consciousness because it puts illusion and Reality in their proper places: illusion that the ego is the source of life, and Reality that it’s not. Ann K Gryczan  # 1 Don’t Explain Have you ever noticed how the ego/mind is constantly explaining, justifying, countering imagined arguments and defending its actions? It is always talking to itself, and often, it talks out loud to everyone else too. So the practice is: Don’t Explain. Sometimes it is important to explain, of course, and sometimes you’re asked. So the practice, Don’t Explain, is about all the other times. Ann K Gryczan 
Be in the world as if the whole thing is God. You can substitute the word “Life” for “God,” if you prefer: be in the world as if the whole thing is Life. Ann K Gryczan  Hello again and welcome to the third and final installment of The Road to Happiness! In the last post we left off with the ego’s secret – the bottom-line dynamic we called ‘Me versus God.’ To be up to speed, be sure to read parts One and Two for context and to know how we arrived at the current assumptions. In the last post also, I suggested, when encountering traffic, that you practice extending (through generosity, awareness and allowance) – rather than contracting (through self- preservation and gratification). Not that there is anything wrong with those things; they just don’t work for happiness! How did it go? Notice anything? Traffic is Really a Workshop Life often feels like traffic – forcing us to make detours and blocking our way. Yet, in regular life the situations we encounter can seem so encompassing and complicated we can’t get our heads around them. We can’t figure out what the real problem is or how to solve it. But can anything be more clear than giant chunks of metal and plastic literally blocking us from getting what we want and need? This is obviously a workshop set up for our own personal growth and edification. So let’s do it. Let’s take this workshop! Ann K Gryczan Dedicated to Dawn, with love  Has this ever happened to you? You have to go somewhere. You get in your car, get on the road and everyone else does too! Now we’re all here – all of us in our cars, on the same road, at the same time. Time for Traffic Practice! Traffic is the perfect practice for students of consciousness: we don’t have to go to a meeting or service, don’t have to wear anything special, assume a posture or breathe any particular way. Traffic is just here, waiting for us whenever we decide to show up. How fortunate to be born into the perfect life! First or last, loved or unloved, in a rich country or poor, with parents who stay or go away, who raise us up or seem to push us down. Perfect. But sometimes life doesn’t seem perfect at all – it seems to stand in our way or push us around, being unfair and difficult. Events of childhood can seem like immovable barriers, keeping us from fulfilling our potential and reminding us of what within us is damaged or lost. How Can Life Be Perfect When it Seems So Very Imperfect?
The world we perceive is an extension of our minds. Have you ever noticed how impossible it can seem to talk about the world with someone who doesn’t share our viewpoint?
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We may at first have thought consciousness was in the mind, or even thought it was the mind itself. That it was somehow part of our domain; our personal interface with life or our go-to source of thinking and reason.
Exploring the mind however, we discover it is not consciousness that is personal, but the mind. We discover the mind is limited and finite and that we can go beyond it — to consciousness itself. Even as a new explorer, we are aware of something here vast and whole, an infinite peace, potent and complete. And we know — as if remembering — that this is also the intrinsic, intimate truth of ourselves.
Welcome!
This is a blog for those who travel an inner path, seeking truth, beauty and the source of being.
Here are ideas and practices to help and encourage the traveler, and to address the obstacles that we, as students of consciousness, inevitably encounter. Everything you find here you can do at anytime and take as far as you want.
This is a blog for those who travel an inner path, seeking truth, beauty and the source of being.
Here are ideas and practices to help and encourage the traveler, and to address the obstacles that we, as students of consciousness, inevitably encounter. Everything you find here you can do at anytime and take as far as you want.
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I invite you to use Paradigm Practice as a foundation for your practice, which you may find here, free and available for your use. Paradigm Practice is a powerful guide for bridging the gap between limitation and new awareness. Awakening into the happiness and peace of your true nature benefits all the world. May you be blessed on your journey!
Ann |
Consciousness is the ultimate teacher: it is always showing us what we are.
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