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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.
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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 sh​owing us what we are.​​​

Every step on the inner path, however seemingly small,
is a benefit to all of life and advances the whole of consciousness.



Saying Grace

3/29/2020

 
Ann K Gryczan
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​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.

​It can seem like saying grace is a religious thing, and even though it is an aspect of religious practice, saying grace is way beyond that: it is simply a conscious decision to receive what life gives.

Saying grace is a consistent reminder that all life comes from the infinite wholeness of which we are all a part, and it tells us somewhere deep inside that we are safe, there is plenty and we are okay.

Saying grace gives us permission to come out of an arbitrary and self-imposed exile from life and to accept the blessing that is always present and always given.

The Ego Doesn’t Like This Idea

The ego doesn’t like the idea of grace, naturally. It will never acknowledge that anything is greater than it. So we must do that by stepping outside its world and onto that firm ground where we have a sense of who we really are and what we want our life to be.

And fortunately, we can do that because greater truth is always beckoning, our true Selves are always calling us back home.

Graces

How do you say grace?

First, declare yourself an active participant in life, like this: 

O

The sound “O” is an opening, a doorway that announces your readiness to approach life, to be open to it and to receive its gifts.

Second, address the infinite wholeness that is life, for which no words are adequate, in whatever way best allows you to leave the ego’s aggrandizement and enter into awe – to step away from isolation and into life.

Here, you can run into some snags because some of the words we have used throughout history may carry uncomfortable connotations for you. So find something that helps you recognize the Infinite. For example:

O Life or
O Infinite Presence or
O Source of my being and All That Is or
O God

Third, receive the gift.

O God (God works for me, but you use whatever you like), I (we) give thanks
O All That Is, thank you

Fourth, acknowledge what you are receiving.

O Life, thank you for these fantastic enchiladas and for our friends and family.
O God, we give thanks for your sustenance always, for this food and ask for your Divine blessing over it.

By asking for blessing we open into accepting the blessing that is life. It is an opening into Grace that already exists but may have seemed unavailable – only because we were until now closed to it.

Finally,
Amen 
So it is 

Confirm as true. This is your confirmation that you are aligned with life in this moment, to the best of your ability.

Food is So Delicious

Say grace silently or out loud, whatever is comfortable for you and for those around you. Say grace for every food: a big dinner, a burger from the drive-through, a berry off a bush – Thank you, God!

Thank you O Divine Life for this perfect peach, and for nourishing and sustaining me always.

Each grace is an acknowledgment of What Is and by acknowledgment, we align with that truth and become it a little more – we are less aligned with the ego and more with Self.

Plus, food is delicious and accepting it fully through our appreciation only makes it more so!


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    Ann is a long-time student of consciousness and has been offering guidance for remembering the true Self since 1987.


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    The ego/mind is based in the ideas of identity and duality, and committed to its survival over all else. To ensure this, the ego/mind uses any means necessary to get what it desires and avoid what it fears. Over eons, the ego/mind and the survival instinct evolved in the manner it fulfilled this purpose, developing increasingly sophisticated and complex capabilities: it learned to conceptualize, manipulate, imagine, deceive, convince, invent and so on. All of this bundled together with emotion (another evolutionary development), created what most of us now experience as our identity — as myself.”



    A paradigm is the framework of belief, perception and emotion through which we experience and understand ourselves and all of life. It is the filter through which we perceive, the lens through which we see. Like water to a fish, it is our unquestioned sense of reality. The paradigm both creates the appearance of reality and confirms to us that what we call reality is as we believe it to be. Normally, we are oblivious to what makes up this paradigm — the framework of what we call reality.”



    Consciousness is often thought of as being located in or created by the brain; its origin purely chemical or physical, and its function that of creator, recorder and experiencer of our interface with life. Consciousness seems like our individual and distinct sense of reality, but what we are actually experiencing that seems so unique to ourselves, is the ego/mind.

    Consciousness is an infinite and omnipotent field, a unified and congruent wholeness of unlimited creative power whose source, and ours, is Absolute Reality.



    God, Divinity, Ultimate Reality, Self and one's true essence all seek to describe the indescribable: the Absolute, which is omnipotent, omnipresent and eternal; the infinite unity out of which arises all existence, consciousness and life.



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