Let me become aware of the mental environment in which I live. CT Step 71 (MP3)
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| Let me become aware of the mental environment in which I live. CT Step 71 |
You live in a Mental Environment as well as a
physical one. The Mental Environment is filled with forces and thought forms,
generated by thinking beings everywhere. You have experienced this. You
experience it every day. Walk into any house, any building, any place where
people are congregated, and you will experience the mental environment of that
place--an environment that is created through the predominating thoughts and
interactions of the people who dwell there.
Become sensitive to your environment. Feel it
wherever you go. Out of doors, the mental environment dissipates, though places
in genera can have an overall feel to them, depending upon what has occurred
there in the past and what the prevailing ideas are in that particular
location.
Indoors particularly and in close proximity to
others, you will experience a unique mental environment. Some of these
environments you will find agreeable. Some you will not find agreeable. The
question to ask yourself is, "Where do I need to be?" Sometimes you
need to be in a disagreeable place to understand it, to discern it and to learn
further about the forces in the mental environment. These are forces that
influence you every day and that on many occasions govern you completely. This
is an essential part of your preparation for the Greater Community, where the
emphasis on control of the mental environment has been developed to a far
greater degree than is apparent in your world. Here you can practice everywhere
you go because everywhere you go, there is a mental environment. With everyone
you spend time with closely, you create a mental environment
The question to ask yourself is, "Is this the
right place for me to be?" If it is the right place, then you must begin
to learn about where you are. How does it feel? What are the characteristics?
What are the prevailing notions, ideas or sentiments that exist there? What do
they motivate in you? Do they encourage you? Do they discourage you? Do they
make you feel stronger? Do they make you feel weaker? Do they dissipate your
energy or do they charge your energy?
Beyond your practice in stillness today and your
hourly practice, carry on this investigation and do not forget. This is a day
of practice, a day to deepen your understanding and to gain new skill and
authority in your life.
Practice 71: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois.
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
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the
first time you’ve seen Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. Begin at
the beginning.
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
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