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Considerations Eighteen …
Taking a specific time to do inner work
If there is one practice that is almost a *must* … it is this …
You must set aside a short period of time … preferably the same time every day … to find a quiet place to settle down and design your life from within … one step at a time … one issue at a time. This has obviously been given many names … the most popular of which is meditation … and for the most part … that term is sufficient to use to refer to quiet, inner time … but for the most part … meditation tries to narrow the focus … and instead you want to broaden the focus on issues … one at a time … gain an understanding of them … and revise or realign them to your benefit.
Meditation is often designated for the slowing and stopping of the mind … using whatever mantra one prefers … making the mind one-pointed … attempting to just stop the mind and gain some relief for the moment … and many believe this “relief” is indicative of attainment of a certain level or status. Since most people will take up this practice for many lifetimes … whatever one wishes to “use” to attain that state … is just fine. It’s all part of the sequence and the learning process.
What I am trying to suggest here … is almost a rehearsing of the inner goals you have designed … using this quiet time to focus and “live” them for those moments. Without both a reminder … and an enhancing … of the inner goals … one at a time … very little will be attained.
This does *not* have to be a long, drawn-out affair. Just 20-30 minutes would be wonderful. Maybe the first goal is just to get yourself trained to take this time in the first place. Use the tendency of the mind to rely on habit to your benefit here and do this at the same time every day.
This time period needs to be private, quiet, undisturbed, not to retreat and focus selfishly … but to go inside and gain perspective.
The outer world is designed to grab your attention. The more chaotic the outer world … the more your attention is commanded to those outer events and little to no time is given to your inner world. This is by design. Most people try to wrestle with the outer world as they are in it … as their attention is being overwhelmed by it.
And so … you need to take some time to retreat … and go in and look around. This is a great beginning to knowing oneself. This is almost impossible to do if your outer world is always howling at you.
If you have designed a goal that you wish to revise or exchange for another more beneficial behavior … this is the time when you go inside and practice BE-ing that. Go pretend. Go inside and act as if that new behavior is already a part of your inner system. Enjoy it. The more you get “involved” with it … the more it will speed its appearance in your own inner and / or outer life.
This is *your* world you are designing. Feel it. BE it … even just for the moment.
One rather generic method is to just hold to your inner goal and take slow, deep breaths as if you are breathing it into yourself. Game your mind into getting into this.
Many of you have either heard of or have read … Neville Goddard writings. Neville died in 1972 and travelled widely to offer his perceptions and beliefs on self-help … mainly from a Biblical point of view. I personally find it interesting how he uses the Biblical scriptures to portray his beliefs … but it is not necessary to use these practices from the Biblical sense.
He offers a lot of valuable and fascinating information. His articles on revision, dreaming, imagination, consciousness, assumptions … the list goes on … are more than worth scanning through. It is good, viable, basic information … great for the development of the essential fundamentals.
You can use and develop further much of what I have offered in these posts with his suggestions. If you dismiss the Biblical point of view … and I mean NO disrespect to the Biblical teachings here at all … these are great, generic suggestions and practices. If you dig into the free PDF’s … you can uncover a wealth of suggestions and directions.
If you Google … Neville Goddard Text Archive … you’ll find a free web site that offers many hours of browsing.
Again … one repeated and exceptionally vital suggestion … when you do any of this type of work … make sure you do it ONLY for your own inner and outer plan. If you do this to try and control someone else … I don’t even want to be on the same planet when you will have to resolve the karmic implications that incurs.
But obviously … it is your choice. You can use these same practices any way you wish … and it will be *you* that must balance it all out at some time … in some way … to some person. It *is* … your choice.
More later.
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