5 Steps to reconnect with the Source

As you reflect on awareness, you may come to believe mind power is our greatest gift. Each human being exists in part to learn how to use it, to discern and reshape how we think. As part of that process, you are meant to accept and believe in innate abilities you initially scoffed or overlooked. What are they? How can you explore your mindset differently right now? Embrace five steps to reconnect with the Source:

1) Believe everything that happens is an invitation. You may ask, “an invitation for what?” As the saying goes, “to learn or not to learn?” That’s the question. Consciousness is a journey. Your beliefs emerge from how you project and evaluate life experiences. What you retain and how you apply it determine the life you choose to lead. You have opportunities to act or not to act, to change or remain as you are.

2) Accept reality doesn’t change. Only perception alters our sense of time and space. How you sense your truth is based on what you think and feel. At this point, you may limit yourself to a physical reality. You may permit emotions to cloud your view. Do you focus on what enables you to feel good? Do you assume uncertainty must be negative? What of the influence exerted by your ego-mind?   If you choose, you can embrace obstacles as character-building, as necessary for your own development and increased self-understanding. Your mission is what you make it.

3) Realize your interpretation of events is full of errors. You’ve been taught things that go against your innermost thoughts and principles. It’s a given. You may be at a stage where you forget the original compassion and forgiveness that define your authentic self. It’s your job to uncover to what degree outside influences shape who you think you are and how you live. Whenever your thoughts and behavior move away from this inner truth, rationalization and ego take control. This implies you refuse to give up the beliefs you’re meant to change. What are you really giving up?

4) Nothing is gained through struggle. Issues you hesitate to deal with will reoccur in new forms again and again. If you sense you’ve been experiencing a vicious circle, the same kinds of painful or frustrating experiences will keep occurring in your life. This is because you're aware and expect them. If you feel like a victim in relationships, if you feel people shaft you or you don’t get what you want, then you conclude doing nothing, fighting back (being confrontational), or becoming defensive aren’t the answer. Your own perceived problems would simply escalate.

5) Love everything and everyone unconditionally. How many people do you know who succumb to self-centeredness and make choices because of being controlled by fear? Your own life may reveal examples where taking risks didn’t “pay off.” Rather than generate resentment and disappointment, why not sense blessings everywhere? Perhaps you’ve become content to remain complacent, to continue judging, criticizing and perpetuating beliefs that seem to define your identity. The way to raise awareness is to teach yourself to love everyone and everything unconditionally, no matter what they say or do to you. You get what you expect.  Imagine the incredible impact of showing others the meaning of true compassion.