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We all tend to have comfort zones. Comfort zones are all those situations and environments with which you feel comfortable with, mainly because it is known to you you’ve had conscious contact with it before and because of that you have a sense of certainty about what to expect and how to handle it.

Anything outside your comfort zone feels uncomfortable because inherent in the unknown lies a certain level of uncertainty.

As soon as something unknown or unfamiliar comes into your life you tend to loose your sense of certainty, and out of this uncertainty your mind starts to make up potential meanings in trying to establish a level of certainty. Most of the time this not only creates fear, but also breeds it.

Fear gets constructed in the imagination by making-up meanings to events and circumstances that has not happened  and probably never will. It is only natural to feel fear as it is one of your most primordial instincts designed to protect you.

Unfortunately, we’ve come to mistreat the emotion of fear since we tend to treat a lot of trivial things as potentially dangerous by imagining the worst possible outcomes. This is what keeps us trapped in inaction and procrastination. The unknown is just too scary, so you stay in your comfort zone where you feel certain that you know what to expect and how to handle it.

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God’s heart exists within your own heart, and as you travel along the pathways of spiritual life, your own divine nature begins to emerge and awaken. As your spiritual essence becomes more manifest, your heart begins to awaken and to seek the way Home.

A heart that longs for love, and that longs to find the way home to God, opens a pathway of light from the human, embodied self to the soul that exists eternally in the realms of spirit. This important connection creates a funnel that can transmit knowledge, love, light and comfort from the realms of spirit to your embodied self.

Truly it can be said that longing is the path Home to God, for it activates all the forces of heaven and Earth to infuse you and your daily life with God’s light and love.

Spiritual longing not only activates spiritual growth and transformation, but it also activates the healing of any and all inner blockages to love that may exist within your being. Pain, resentment, anger and blame that are directed towards others eventually sap the life force from our own inner light, and so at some point on the spiritual journey, we are led to the path of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a state of being that emerges from love. Forgiveness cannot be forced, especially if you have been abused, neglected, or treated cruelly, or have suffered trauma at the hands of others. In this kind of situation, healing needs to progress in stages, first by allowing yourself to feel all the emotions that resulted from the trauma.

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Heath Ledger’s sudden and tragic death really brought home the impermanence and fragile nature of our lives.  As the years  go by, we tend to forget about our inevitable death and continue living as though we are immortal.

I hate to break the news to you, but our lives can end at any moment and we really have little control over our death.  As morbid as it sounds, I think we should all take time to focus on our death to help realize the impermanence of our lives. 

 By doing this, we learn to live each day as though it was our last and appreciate the beauty in everyone and everything.

Like the sparkling sun, we all shine in our own way and now is the time to take advantage of our unique gifts before it’s too late.

Stand in front of a mirror and what do you see? Where does your gaze go? What inner dialogue or head talk do you hear?

The inner voice is guiding and directing your actions and beliefs whether or not you are listening.

As you look in the mirror do you focus on the piece of hair that goes its own way, a facial mark, or the size of your nose? Are your inner words full of criticism and disapproving value judgments? Are your ears only tuned to rejecting messages? Do your eyes scan past your valuable features? Is your sensitivity level turned up high to faultfinding messages or tones of voice? Can you hear affirming words and caring messages?

The ability to look at you looking back at yourself and seeing your unique and wonderful aspects is a skill necessary for a mentally positive self-concept. Notice the warmth in your smile, the tilt of your brow or the dimple in your chin. Look for the features that are part of what those who care about you know and appreciate. Give yourself a pat on the shoulder and some encouragement.

Feel the shift in your physical posture, muscle tension and facial expression when you say critical words vs. when you say positive things to yourself. Be attentive to these changes and you will start to be aware of some of the physical aches and pains you feel when you get stressed.

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One question that puzzles many on the spiritual path is, “How can I be sure that this inner voice I hear is guidance and not just something I’m making up?”

Here’s an exercise to play with that can give you greater certainty. When you have the question, put your focus on analyzing where in your body you feel the source of the “inner voice”. If the source is coming from the head, most likely that is simply mind chatter. It will also have a “noisy” or clamorous “look at me” type of energy to it. There’s no peacefulness to it. It could have a high pitch or be frenetic. Ego is screaming from this source.

If the source is located lower on the body, the stomach, solar plexus or heart/chest area, that is most likely inner guidance. It will have a calmer, more peace provoking lower register feel to it. There is no ego from this source.

- The practice exercise is to move from head to your lower focus point, feeling the difference between the two. Go back and forth between the two, paying close attention to the subtlety of the differences.

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I recently decided to purchase two mind machine AVS (Audio Visual Stimulation) devices which are basically light and sound generators that alter your brainwave states through entrainment. Why do this? Altering your brainwave state can help decrease anxiety, pain, depression and even help with ADD and memory tasks. 

In a nutshell, our brain operates at different frequencies throughout the day depending on what we are doing or thinking. (see graph on left, click to enlarge)

When we are wide awake and concentrating we are operating in Beta and as we relax our brain waves shift to a slower Alpha state.  Then next lower state ,Theta, usually occurs when we are ideating or day dreaming followed by Delta which is the sleep and dreaming state. Finally, When we when we are in a deep dreamless state our brains are operating in Sub-Delta.

The mind machines in this comparison are designed to induce the desired brainwave state using pulsing tones and flashing lights which cause our brain to sync or entrain to the frequency of the chosen brainwave state.

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Quantum-Touch represents a major breakthrough in the art of hands-on healing. Quantum-Touch practitioners use special breathing and body focusing techniques, to raise your energy level so high, that with but a light touch, you can see postural corrections spontaneously occur as bones gently glide back into their correct alignment.  —Facilitated by Mike Love and Judy Johnston.

Unity Church Charlotte
1000 E Woodlawn Rd
Charlotte, NC 28209
(704) 523-0062

General Program Buddhist Meditation Classes Mondays

Suggested Donation - $10

Classes on Mondays at 7:00-8:30 pm in Basement of  the Education Building, Myers Park Baptist Church, 1931 Selwyn Avenue, Charlotte, N.C. 28207.

These classes are intended to help you develop positive ways of thinking that you can take with you into your daily life, and enable you to find happiness within your own mind.

Thursday,

Course in Miracles with Steve Weber
7:00PM
Join us as we delve into the way to love and inner peace through forgiveness. From ACIM text: “The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” In addition to his work in the Course, Steve has also studied the Toltec philosophy of Don Miguel Ruiz. Steve is dedicated to helping people regain balance, release old patterns and see through the eyes of love

Center For Positive Living
6101 Idlewild Rd.
Ste 332
Charlotte, NC 28212-0517
704.531.7993

Seeing With Spiritual Eyes - “Being Present and Listening”
7:00PM
Price: Love Offering
The purpose of this class is to bring our awareness to the fact that we can see God everywhere when we look. The class will be presented by the practitioners (prayer team) at CPL and will include discussion and exercises. Each class will focus on a different angle of looking for God. Week one focuses on “You” and challenges us to become all we are meant to be as co-creators of the Great Work of the universe. Week two focuses on “Being Present and Listening”. Week three is about “Nurturing,” week four is “Forgiveness” and week five is “Imagination and Creativity.” We hope you will join us and learn to sharpen your vision and see God everywhere!

Center For Positive Living
6101 Idlewild Rd.
Ste 332
Charlotte, NC 28212-0517
704.531.7993