Let peace be with me today. Continuation Training Step 83

Let peace be with me today. CT Step 83 (MP3)

Let peace be with me today. CT Step 83

There is peace in knowing that you are on the right track. Even if you have much work to do. There is peace in knowing that your life is coming into right order within yourself. There is peace in confirming that your relationship with Knowledge is being honored and furthered. There is peace in knowing that resolution is coming in conflicts and relationships around you.

When you attend to what you know and follow what you know, this gives you inner confirmation. This heals the division within yourself and brings real restitution to your experience. As you advance as a student of Knowledge, your problems will be more and more circumstantial and not personal in nature. You will encounter difficult thresholds along the way, but increasingly you will not be the problem. The Wise are more concerned with negotiating circumstances than they are with negotiating internal difficulties. This is an unparalleled freedom and accomplishment.

As you speak to others today, you will hear how much they do not have this peace. You will see that they are not yet right with themselves and how much work remains for this to be accomplished. Therefore, take time today to experience this peace in your meditation in stillness and in your hourly practice. Look with gratitude upon your life, for it is moving. You are escaping the past. You are leaving the past behind. You are moving into a new life and a new awareness and understanding. The power is in your life, and Grace is abiding with you as you are learning to abide with it

Practice 83:   One 30-minute stillness practice.

                         Contemplation practice.

                         Hourly practice.

Picture:  A rainbow over the mountains on I-70 en route from Salt Lake City to Moab in Utah. For me, the rainbow is a sign of peace.

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

For the continuation of reading material we go to Other Revelations of the New Message from God that have not yet been compiled by The Messenger into volumes and books. Next in the list as of this date is:  Building the Four Pillars of Your Life

We continue.

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

Great joy is with me today. Continuation Training Step 82

Great joy is with me today. CT Step 82 (MP3)

Great joy is with me today. CT Step 82

There is great joy. It lives within you and lives in your genuine relationships with others. This joy is born of gratitude, service and recognition. It is not the kind of joy one has by having immediate sensations of delight. It is more a joy that a miracle is happening in your life, and you are bearing witness to it. For all the work that must be done along the way, there are these moments of confirmation. That is what they are.

Everything can be problematic in your life, and yet you can still have this experience of confirmation. Look at your true ally and feel grateful. Look at this study in Greater Community Spirituality and be thankful that you have it, for you could be lost without it. Be grateful that you can live today, that you have your health, and that you have the opportunity to give to someone else.

Let this be your focus for today. In your practice in stillness and in your hourly practice in awareness and discernment, be open to receive this joy. For this sense of joy is a natural by- product of the genuine work that you are doing here.

Practice 82:   One 30-minute stillness practice.

                         Contemplation practice.

                         Hourly practice.

Picture:  Setting a goal and achieving it generally gives a sense of joy. These scenes from Arches National Park, Moab, Utah show a window feature that is an achievable goal for a hiker visiting there. Beyond it is a greater landscape.

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

For the continuation of reading material we go to Other Revelations of the New Message from God that have not yet been compiled by The Messenger into volumes and books. Next in the list as of this date is:  The Night Meditation

We continue.

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

I will not be afraid of conflict today. Continuation Training Step 81

I will not be afraid of conflict today. CT Step 81 (MP3)

I will not be afraid of conflict today. CT Step 81

Do not be afraid of conflict. Use conflict to develop discernment. Discernment is an exercise in power and self-determination. It is an exercise in freedom, essential freedom as we have described it.

If conflict faces you, face it. Do not run from it. Do not slink away. Do not put a happy face on it and call it something else. See it as it is. Face it if it must be faced. Face this within yourself, in conflict with another or in conflict in a situation where you are working or living. Postpone nothing that must be faced today. See if resolution can be found. Listen carefully. Hear what is being communicated. Listen for Knowledge. Make sure that your own position is genuine.

If conflict is in your life, this is an opportunity to practice. If conflict is outside your life, existing somewhere else, listen to it. Look at it. Listen to all sides. Don't try to make everything justifiable. It is possible in certain situations that everyone can be wrong and that the answer lies somewhere else. Or it can be possible that someone simply will not give in. They will not compromise where they need to. Look and listen. That is the practice for today. Enjoy your time of stillness and reprieve. And upon the hour remember where you are and what is happening.

Practice 81:    One 30-minute stillness practice.

                         Contemplation practice.

                         Hourly practice.

Picture:  Hunter - Lake Michigan shoreline- Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Guns in America are a source of conflict. For some hunting is violence; for others it is an historic means of getting food.

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

For the continuation of reading material we go to Other Revelations of the New Message from God that have not yet been compiled by The Messenger into volumes and books. Next in the list as of this date is:  The Confirmation

We continue.

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

I have a gift that I share with others. Continuation Training Step 80

I have a gift that I share with others. CT Step 80 (MP3)

I have a gift that I share with others. CT Step 80

Your great gift is meant to be given in conjunction with the giving of others. You do not get to be a superstar in reality. Your contribution comes through relationship. You have part of the gift. They have part of the gift. You give together. It is your relationship that gives and makes the giving possible. This serves as a perfect antidote to all personal ambition and self-glorification. Even the advanced man or woman of Knowledge represents relationship. Without this relationship--with the Unseen Ones, with Knowledge, with others--their gift would only be a potential. Yet they have built the relationships. That is why they have advanced.

You are building the relationships. That is why you have the promise of advancement. Your giving is shared with others. This is the key. Find the others that have the other part of your gift and become united with them. Bring into these relationships all that you have learned and allow others to teach you more. This will generate real humility. Real humility is the recognition that you understand the nature of power and its expression in the universe.

Exercise this today in your practice in stillness and in your hourly practice. Exercise the awareness that a Greater Power is working in your life, that you are working in your life and that everything is working together. It is towards this that you are working today and every day as you practice as a student of Knowledge. You have not achieved this balance yet, but it is growing. Each step in this direction gives you strength, power and confirmation, which are the elements that redeem you to yourself and to the world.

Practice 80:   One 30-minute stillness practice.

                         Contemplation practice.

                         Hourly practice.

Picture:  Basement level at gift shop - Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Might these “others” share gifts?

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

For the continuation of reading material we go to Other Revelations of the New Message from God that have not yet been compiled by The Messenger into volumes and books. Next in the list as of this date is:  The Great Threshold

We continue.

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