CT Step 14 - REVIEW… important to focus on the Four Pillars of your life. – Journal – CT Step 13

Today: CT Step 14 – REVIEW … important to focus on the Four Pillars of your life. (MP3)

Here we have our first Review Practice in the Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training. In Our Reviews, it is important to focus on the Four Pillars of your life. This is "checking in", so to speak, while building the foundation that you need to build, each day.

Today, review all the former lessons. Read through them, and if you have kept a journal, which is recommended, recall what happened to you on those days. See what has occurred. Begin to see where you were present and where you were not present. See how things influenced you, and how you influenced them. Begin to see these kinds of relationships in action.

Also today in this Review, check in on the Four Pillars of your life, remembering that each Pillar is equally important. Though one may require more effort or attention at any given moment, they are all equally important. Like the four legs of a table, each must be strong. None can be sacrificed for the others. You cannot build one to the neglect of all the others, or nothing great can be given to you and nothing great can be realized.

Come then to the Pillar of Relationship in your practice today. Instead of practicing stillness, do this Four Pillars Review. Come then to the first Pillar, the Pillar of Relationship, and ask within yourself, "Is there anything I need to know about any of my relationships?" Ask this question in such a way that only a “yes” or a “no” can be an answer. If the answer is “no”, that is fine. Yet if the answer is “yes”, seek out who that might be. Maybe it is the relationship that you need to attend to at this moment. Ask yourself, "Is there something I need to know here?" Then open yourself to receive what that could be. This may only take a moment, but you must be very present.

Then go on to the Pillar of Career and Providership, the Pillar that deals with work, money and contribution in the world. Continue the same process: "Is there anything I need to know regarding my career and providership in the world?" If something comes to mind, ask yourself, "Is there something I need to know here?" Then open yourself to what that could be.

Then go on to the Pillar of Health and you ask yourself, "Is there anything that I need to know about my health or about the health of those who are close to me?" If something comes to mind, ask yourself, "Is there something I need to know here?" If there is, open yourself to it. Face it. Receive it.

Then go on to your Pillar of Spiritual Advancement and ask yourself, "Is there something I need to know regarding my spiritual advancement?" And as with all of the other Pillars, if something comes to mind, ask yourself, "Is there something I need to know here?"

This process of visiting your Four Pillars represents your primary practice for this Review. Take as long as necessary to complete this process. You will be repeating this Four Pillars Review in each of your Review Practices in the Continuation Training. This will give you a focus in your life: to maintain an awareness in these four fundamental areas of activity. Here you begin to build, brick by brick, stone by stone, a foundation that the world cannot shake or undermine.

In addition today, practice your hourly practices until they become automatic, until your mind becomes present in every situation that you are in. This is the goal towards which you are working every day.

Practice 14:    Four Pillars Review.

                         Hourly practice.

Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps CT Recordings - Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training - Working file

From the journal:  CT Step 13 - I give myself to my practice today.

Thursday, September 6, 2001

6 p.m. Contemplation – All things working together is how the Creator advances humanity. Back at work today I continued this philosophy – connecting out to the world on behalf of cooperation.

At this moment I'm quite tired. My 4 Pillars need work. That will be my step X tomorrow to get on schedule for a Saturday review.

Technology application network – not simply training to use tech, but applying it – to train. Tech is only a tool.

The x day is contemplation, but no Step. This is to get my Review day to a Saturday cycle.

8:05 a.m. Friday, September 7, 2001 –@ 4:41 AM. CDT Susan Marie was born. Sarah went into labor at 9 a.m. or so on Thursday. Mary Ellen got there@12:30 p.m. yesterday. Mary Ellen sounded fine – Sarah was tired and relieved. What is next? The baby was 7 lbs. 11 oz. Where will Leland fit into this? What about Tommy Pace's family? A new child is in the world. Rejoice, rejoice – this baby feels different than Lane or Emily.

6:18 p.m. Home… late for contemplation time. Knowledge is working carefully in Sarah's life. She signed Susan Marie into protective custody. When the system works lives are saved – lives are bettered.

My focus today is on the four pillars. I need to send that information out.

NNC

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If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:

“This is the Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do. If you have completed the book, Steps to Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to begin this more advanced study”.

If you are an independent student, that is certainly an option. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.