Element 1  Guiding Principles

•   You and Your Life

.».  Opening
     You and your connection are the intention of the work… you are the intention of this Practice.  Be the intention for your work and the Universe will provide the resources.

.».  Expressions
You and your life:
» Do it for you, do the work for you.
       Recognize evolving is about you, your evolving is the intention (point) of this life.  S5. Intention looks into you and intention.
       It is possible for me to create this entire process without really changing, same for you to read it.  There is another way when you feel the intention of the work (you are to believe, faith).
       So what is evolving?
              Meditate for you (me).
              Pray for you (me).
              Receive for you (me).
              Support for you (me).
              Connection for you (me).
              Rest for you (me).
       What about praying for them, helping them?
       + Self centered and disconnected how much help can you be to them?  The answer is exactly you, how ever much strength, time, energy you have is all you will be able to help.  As you evolve you will intuitively change how you are internally, how you are with others and freely help.
       Note:  Read this as “rest for me”, hear it to you as connection for you.
» Commit to the life, the gift of living.
       Commit to the work?
       + No, commit to the life (your life, you, living).
       So what is the life?
       + Receiving.
       I’d like to help others, how is my receiving important?
       + Alone you can do so much, receive the strength (S6. Strength) and your abilities expand.  It will become less about helping others and more about being there for them as a conduit for the energy (of the Universe and God) to flow through you.  If you help them to get something (a thank you, good karma, admiration) then it’s closer to shadow (Source 2).
       Note:  This doesn’t mean you have to work for free though.  Imagine a therapist who allows the energy to flow through them.  As a result their patients heal faster, move their lives forward.  The therapist is meant to receive in the exchange too, we all are.  You may view it as the difference between doing a job solely to get a check and working at something (somewhere) to move your life forward.  A lot of it is perspective too.  If you work at a job but smile, brighten someone’s day then you are making a difference in the world (and a check), your job becomes your work.
       See: S6. Relationships, » The journey of Source 6 is to open up space for God to work through you.
       From S4. Receiving:  Receiving = Evolving = Connection.
       Study the work for the benefit of your life (no other reason).  S11. Inhabit Your Body is one way you can be your life.
» Live the work?
       + No, live your life enhanced by the work (connection, receiving, love).
» You want me to…
       + No.
       You are showing me to…
» Create the life (experiences).
       Through committing to the moment.  This is to create the receiving.  In the middle of your chaos; pause-breath (a little posture too).  That right there is your life, true life independent of the life (“my life”) you are experiencing.  You may feel it pulling at you, “come back to the pain”.  In essence commit to that moment (feeling) dwelling beyond the pain.
       Imagine someone walking and focused only on their phone.  Looking down they miss the free sample out in front of the restaurant (and they are hungry).  They miss the smile from the person walking the other way (could be a relationship could be a nice pick me up in a difficult moment).  They miss the moment they miss the receiving available during all moments.
       Note:  We are not implying that looking at your phone is bad.  The point is to realize the moment more than only the thing (device in this case).
       Relates to the same idea as S5. Knowledge to Wisdom, » + Connect in with the Universe, ask for the knowledge and wisdom and the experiences to gain wisdom.
» Continue to live while (through) doing the work.
       There is no pause in time (S5. Time).  Don’t forget to live life, to feel the present moment.  Do the work, yes yet live, get out and live.
       Take all you have learned and connect to the physical.  This is to truly live, to unify the practical and Spiritual.  What you learn will be a mixture of practical and Spiritual, bringing them together, allowing the connection in both directions is the unifying.
       What does it look like to express this work?  
       + Physically.
       To experience life through the Great Divine?
       + You have.  Open the space.
       A lot of it is to just stop fighting it, trust and faith yet more than that.  Just walk out that door as a living connected Being and embrace life.  Don’t change anything, don’t do anything different, don’t go anywhere different just walk out that door the same as you always do yet as a living connected Being.
       Take the work out into the world?  
       + Yes but deeper than that.  See the work in everything.  Connect the work to the physical by bringing the Spiritual to the physical (here and now).  Allow what you feel to permeate the Spiritual boundaries expanding those boundaries (too).  This is to unify the practical and Spiritual (E2. Alignment Posture).  See how unify is about both directions.  So your connection with your essence, Universe and God yes but also your essence, Universe and God’s connection to you and here (S11. Your True Relationships, S1. Totality, S4. To Feel).
       Note:  See the work in everything.  Laying there one morning I could feel this.  I could see the work in their anger (towards me) in how I make my morning drink, in the small rust spots on my camper.  I could see the compassion in all of it, not only the negative things in the positive too, just compassion.
» Commit to the journey.
       Not the this or that, the journey.  The stuff is part of the journey but not the journey.  You are the journey, commit to the journey.  In a sense it’s about how do you want to be.  Excited (nervous too) is an example of committing to the stuff or thing or thought.  Committing to the journey is about happy(ness).  S9. Happiness looks at the contrast of happy and excited.
       So in this moment what does it look like to commit to you?  I’d like to get this specific thing yet where am I in the process?  I want to look at the picture of the thing to (somehow) make it real, this is to try and ground through it.
       + It’s about living it for you.
       “I don’t know who I am”.  Who am I (S11. Who Am I)?
       For a moment imagine (even look at) the picture.  Can you notice the feeling in you, for you rather than the “thing”.  The difference between “that (thing) looks great” and I feel great is a start.  This feeling is the journey.  In time you will see you are/were really spending your time distracting yourself from this feeling, this is the method of the ego (S11. Egoic Methods).
       Note:  I personally would like to go sailing so I try to imagine the Sailboat, a particular model.  One step further is imagining me on the boat.  Now rather than what does my dream “look” like will I notice what am I feeling out there living my dream (S10. Dream).
       Through this exercise the blocks might reveal.
       Note:  One thought I noticed was around it not being possible.  This is the block to live past.
       Beyond this exercise you can feel your emotion to the Universe (S5. To Emotion).  Smile, breath, posture (S11. Smile Breath Posture) too.  Beyond commitment (and a deeper level into your journey) is inspiration (S5. Inspiration).

.».  Examples
       Sometimes as I’m writing and having issues (my typing skills are lacking at times) I can feel the frustration (tightness) in me.  This is to miss the point of the work, to miss the point of evolving for me.  I may have written a new paragraph that I feel is really good, but for me I am tight.  So many of us live this way achieving something at the expense of ourselves.  The work suggests there is another way.

       While studying the work imagine your cat or child comes in and “interrupts” you right as you are “getting it”.   The easy path is to get angry.  Do you imagine there will be interruptions in life always independent of you understanding the work.  So now is the time to feel the work amidst the interruptions (which really is just your cat pointing out the presence of it all).

       From the Opening: Be the intention for your work and the Universe will provide the resources.  See the difference between: reading this practice to assess it, critique it, review it and reading the Practice to change your life, progress forward.  Set your intention as a first step to receive towards your intention.

       The word to suggests direction and action.  Throughout the Practice the idea of to live can be read as direction and action.  You are to embrace direction and action.  To embrace relates to: Source 6 Ask God for Help.

.».  Summary
     In essence the journey is about your evolving (S1. Evolving).  There is a somewhat deeper meaning as essence (S7. Essence) speaks to you beyond the you here now yet including you here now.

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