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    Getting Started Introduction Sessions ▾ Journal Workbook

    Author Bio

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    Further Resources

    Bonuses
    SESSION 3 ≫ PAGE 1
    Technical Support

    Journal Session Three: The Mind, Part One

    So far in the course, we have stressed the fact that you are in there experiencing what passes before you. We
    Your notes will be
    saved to the journal discovered that the moment unfolding in front of you took 13.8 billion years to get here, and it is not personal. You
    tab did not create the moment—it was given to you and you alone. Each moment is a unique gift.

    Now we will begin to explore another thing you are aware of: the mind. As we’ve learned, you are not the mind; you
    are simply aware of the mind. The human mind is truly amazing—it is brilliant and creative, and yet at the same time
    it can be the source of great personal su ering and pain. To be free of this pain, we must understand the mind. In
    this session we will learn what the mind is, where it came from, and why it creates the thoughts it does.

    In this session, we began to explore the mind. We learned that the pure mind is a eld of energy that creates
    thoughts that you, the consciousness, are aware of. The mind also receives and renders the world that comes in
    through the senses. It allows you to experience the outside world and to learn and grow from that experience. The
    problem is that the mind creates an alternate reality out of thoughts. It is built of the impressions you stored from
    past experiences you either liked and tried to keep, or could not handle and pushed away. These stored impressions
    create what Michael calls the personal mind.

    Based on your stored impressions, you created a speci c directive as to how the world in front of you needs to
    unfold in order for you to feel good. This alternate, mental reality prevents you from experiencing true reality, and it
    ultimately causes you extreme su ering throughout your life.

    Caught in this fabricated world of thoughts, you are no longer able to see the truth of life because your past
    personal experiences are prejudicing your mind. Your past likes and dislikes are distorting your perception of the
    present moment unfolding before you. This further contributes to the building of the personal mind.

    Does it have to be this way? Ideally, the moment comes in, and you learn from it—both comfortable and
    uncomfortable. You let the moment pass through you. Letting moments pass through you is the act of surrender.
    Surrender is the highest path because it says, “I want to experience who I truly am, not who I think I am.” The whole
    of spiritual growth is getting comfortable with all moments—the good and the bad. When you are able to do this, you
    will begin to become free.
    In this session, we explored how the personal mind is built. After watching this session, are you able to distinguish the
    di erence between personal thoughts and impersonal thoughts? Describe what you understand to be the di erence.

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    How does the world in front of you need to unfold in order for you to feel good? Can you see that you have modeled it all
    within your mind? Can you see that this limits what will make you happy to the things you have decided you want? What would
    it be like to expand your comfort zone to include more of life?

    In this session, we talked about “mind-blowing experiences.” We have mind-blowing experiences when we are able to center
    our consciousness on the experience we are having in front of us. Are you able to describe a recent experience where your mind
    was blown?

    While hiking, the experience of spotting a coiled rattlesnake with a ickering rattle on your path is very di erent from the
    experience of a monarch butter y landing on your arm during the same hike. As we learned in this session, every single thing
    that comes in is supporting your evolution, even a rattlesnake. Looking back, is there an experience in your own life that at the
    time upset you, but now on re ection, supported you in becoming a better version of yourself today?

    What are two experiences that you’ve had in your life that you feel left an impression on you, and now run your life? For
    example, you were bitten by a dog at the park when you were eight years old, and since then have avoided dogs your entire
    life. Or, you grew up in a beautiful town with redwoods and rivers, and now only dream of returning and settling down in a
    similar place like the beautiful town in which you once lived.

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