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Ann K Gryczan  There is almost nothing more painful than believing there is something wrong with you, as if you came with some innate, but undefined flaw hidden deep inside your soul. Exactly what the flaw is, you are not certain, only that it exists and that others can sense it too. As painful as this is, the flaw, if it exists at all, is not even the real problem. Believing oneself flawed – and more people feel this way than you might guess – is only a cover for the real problem, and that is why trying to fix it almost never works.
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Ann K Gryczan 
Sometimes people think if the love in a relationship is no longer there, the relationship is over. This is not true! Love is a state of being and not dependent on anything outside of it – and that means we can all be love. If two people in a relationship are unloving toward one another, they are sometimes waiting for the other one to love them. Each person thinks he or she will be loving once the other person behaves well toward them, treats them kindly or somehow shows some love. But this never works and it cannot, because if we have closed the door on our love flowing out, it can’t flow in either. Ann K Gryczan 
Welcome to part two of a Dangerous Topic: gender identity. (Here’s Part One.) Looking at the gender identity issue really does feel dangerous! Why is that? Because it is about us. Collective consciousness, or the world at large, will always be our mirror, and it will especially show us what we have suppressed and pretend does not exist. (And therein lies the danger.) We can always look at the collective scene to see what we’re hiding from ourselves – and when some aspect seems especially loud or unsubtle, that is when it is emerging out of the basement of our collective consciousness and into the light of day. The transgender issue seems pretty loud right now, so let’s listen and maybe we can find a deeper truth about ourselves. 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  We are all one in the great flowing wholeness of infinite creative power that is the source of all life including our own. But we don’t see it that way – and that is why we have Out There! Whatever we don’t accept as ourselves and hide away in the darkness of our minds, life helpfully makes visible to us as Out There. Out There is not afraid of parading around in its worst behavior or going to the limits of excessiveness or insanity. Things we would never admit to and that we hide away deep inside ourselves are on bold display in the world of Out There. 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  Have you ever done anything wrong, that later you realized was wrong and you changed your ways? Like, have you ever taken advantage of someone? Lied? Taken something not yours? Pushed your way to the front to get more or be first? Insisted you were right just because you didn’t want to be wrong? So have I! Ann K Gryczan  In the last post we looked at a few pieces in the puzzle of life. One was a doorway to happiness. The doorway represented life itself and life’s promise to us: to know who we are. The next piece was responsibility. It hardly seemed to go on the same page as life’s promise – one was bright and full of potential and the other duty-bound and inconvenient, like waiting in a long line with a big package. So we looked into the roots of the word “responsibility” and found a hidden message. The hidden message was, “promise back.’ The message implied that life required something of us, and by fulfilling the requirement, we could find the wholeness of our own lives. We observed that since we live in a world of form, every form we encounter must somehow be part of life’s promise and a clue that will help us to answer the question: who am I? Finally, we acknowledged that this must be especially true for the original forms: our family, circumstances and the things that happen to us. Let us proceed and see more deeply how responsibility and the promise of life are intimately connected. Let’s see how we can accept one to receive the other. |
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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.
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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!
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Consciousness is the ultimate teacher: it is always showing us what we are.
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