Awakened Way

Making the shift to a divinely guided life, by Suzanne Guiesemann (a summary by Pat Evert) 

• Introduction

You have simply bought into the human BS. That’s right: the human belief system. The unquestioning acceptance by most people of the collective fiction that we are only human keeps heaven on earth at a distance. It turns mature adults into fearful, attention-seeking children who make poor choices. It leads to rocky relationships, toxic work environments, and unbalanced bodies. Now hear this! At the human level, you may be wounded and hurting, but at your deepest, most essential level, you are whole and complete. This is because you are not only human. You are also a soul, and your soul is perfectly fine. 

In the Navy, I steamed full speed ahead through tough times by doing what we were trained to do: I “sucked it up.” That seemed to work just fine until a group of 19 terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and my office building, the Pentagon. I decided that I would complete my military service on the day I was eligible for retirement and not stay even one day longer. Ty and I explored and enjoyed the East Coast of the U.S. and Canada and the Bahamas for two years. While sailing off the coast of Croatia, we received the devastating news that my stepdaughter, Susan—Ty’s beloved youngest daughter—was “gone.” A bolt of lightning streaked down from the clear blue sky and struck her. She was six months pregnant with her first child. Gazing at Susan’s lifeless body in the coffin was the most gut-wrenching moment of my life. It was also the most transformational. Through the haze of grief, I realized that what we call a “person” is far more than physical and cannot be killed. I had no doubt in that pivotal moment that the body is merely a vessel for the immortal Presence that enlivens each of us. It disarmed all defenses and aroused within my heart an undeniable knowing that death is not the end of life. I ultimately did connect with Susan. Undeniable validations followed, including the stunning declaration that Susan had brought with her from the spirit world a little baby boy whom she wanted to introduce to us. My conversations across the veil today extend beyond those who once walked in physical form to what we call angels and master teachers. Since 2010, these wise beings have taught me through daily messages and lengthy channeled sessions about the true reality from which each of us arises. It would be my greatest honor to guide you to higher levels of consciousness so that you, too, will experience the peace and joy that are your birthright.

“I am free!” She and I recognized the words as a gift from Spirit that she would come to believe and embody. On May 9, 2018, Brenda passed to the nonphysical world after a brief but heroic battle with bile duct cancer. After so many years of self-hatred, Brenda could not contain the love she had kept bottled up inside for so long. I fully expected to connect with Brenda at some point after she passed but not after only six hours. Her words came through as clearly as if she were speaking on the telephone. Lynette’s telling everyone, “She’s gone,” Brenda said in my mind. And I’m like, “Gone where?” I’m right here, Suzanne! She wrapped up this momentous visit with a final message that seemed to capture her lifetime in one short sentence: It’s all about Love, Suzanne. We got that part right. Lynette would be able to validate this unexpected visit based on Brenda’s one simple question: Like my boa? I suggested to Brenda that this is what our lives are like here: We might be washer women, or hardworking field hands, or teachers, or social workers, but once we take that last breath and the curtain comes down on this play, we all sail out the back door just like Zsa Zsa, back to our full magnificence with a final exhalation.” She used a seemingly inconsequential question to convey a meaningful message for all humanity: “Like my boa? We are actors on a stage. The bodies we inhabit are our costume, and one day when the curtain comes down, we will remove the costume—unmask our higher selves—and return to our true magnificence.” The brilliance in Brenda’s choice of evidence: “That’s what she’s showing us,” Lynette wrote. “She is like Zsa Zsa. She is fabulous, perfect, and whole . . . even more divine than she was in the play.” This verified visit by a discarnate soul one day after her passing shows us that this human reality is like a play, and the human body really is only a temporary costume masking who we really are. “We are Magnificence personified” is Brenda’s main lesson.

You, the soul, came here to do exactly that. You came here for the experiences—good and bad—knowing you would be challenged. You also came here knowing you might become so caught up in the role of being human that you would lose awareness of your true nature as Consciousness in expression. The trouble is, when you forget you are a soul, Earth School can get a bit messy. The Awakened Way is the soul’s answer to your earthly challenges. This requires updating your belief system. This is a Higher-Self book. It shows you how to approach your challenges from the soul’s perspective. There is nothing wrong with you. If you disagree with this statement, you are simply so caught up in the role of being human that you have forgotten who you really are. This higher-level guide is designed to reawaken you to both aspects of your wholeness: your human persona and the soul. As human beings, we are students in Earth School. The problem is, the students are directing the curriculum and the content instead of our unseen helpers. The change in perspective offered here will make the difference between feeling apart from those around you and knowing you are a part of one interconnected family of souls. Over time, you arrive at the ultimate reward: the remembrance and full knowing of who you really are and why you are here. Your purpose as a soul is to experience LIFE, love in full expression. 

PART I – THE FOUNDATIONS

At the level of the soul, you lack nothing. You are immensely cared for at all levels of your being, for you are a direct expression of Divine Love. Most everything ahead offers you the most divine release from the misery of thinking this is all there is or that you must go through life alone.

• The Soul Knows

The soul does not view death the way most humans do. To the soul, death is as natural as birth. It is the start of a new chapter in the ongoing flow of the soul’s experiences. Two days before our scheduled session, Mike and Beth’s son stopped by early for a visit. Wolf clearly knew I needed evidence to validate this unexpected drop-in from across the veil, and he filled my mind with things I could not have guessed about his life. I later tallied 45 unique pieces of information that he shared with me in that brief initial visit. 

With Wolf’s guidance, I distilled his teachings into three truths that form the foundation of awakened living: 

1. You are not only human. 
2. You are part of one big web connecting all that is. 
3. The creative and healing force of the Universe is Love. 

With increased commitment to further adventures in consciousness, I encountered and engaged various nonphysical beings who demonstrate creativity and intelligence far beyond my own. They are always helpful, healing, and nonthreatening, and I welcome these visits that provide insights into our true nature and a greater reality to which we all belong. To hear the words of Sanaya as they come through and to sit in the presence of their wise and loving energy is a palpable experience of Higher Consciousness. Together, Wolf and Sanaya guide us to enjoy living lucidly as both human and soul. I’m grateful to a young man nicknamed Wolf, who left such stunning and irrefutable proof that the soul knows when its time on earth is ending. This eternal part of you is eager to integrate its presence into your daily life so that you can flow through your days with greater ease.

• You Are This

Each of us serves as the physical arms, legs, and voice for God. This intelligent Force that animates our body, mind, and spirit is not apart from us, but we are a part of it. Put another way: none of us is the entirety of God, but God is the entirety of us. Imagine you wake up one morning with a case of complete amnesia. You know nothing except… you would know that you exist. “I am” indicates self-awareness of being. What do you know with certainty? “I exist and I am aware of it.” But no matter one’s age or life history, “I am”—the awareness of being—is a shared phenomenon. Think of “I am” like the vast, open sky. Any words that follow “I am” are clouds. They arise within the sky, temporarily changing the appearance of it, but they have no effect on the sky’s basic existence. The presence and expression of an immense Awareness that knows it exists. You are not apart from the sky. You are intimately part of it as a self-aware expression of self-awareness. What keeps unawakened human beings from realizing they are a direct expression of this infinite Source? They identify with the elements of a temporary story and overlook that which is always present, whole, and never changes. In trying to define the nature of Divinity, I tell the story of a woman who asked Thomas Edison for the definition of electricity. He looked her squarely in the eyes and replied, “Madame, electricity is. Use it.” Love is the word we use when we experience a connection with something or someone. Therefore, love is “lack of separation.” All that arises in awareness, including you, is an expression of this infinite Light. “This” is your true nature. “This” is you, beyond your story. As long as you, the Presence of Awareness, are playing a role in The Story of You, Awareness appears limited. “This”—limited or not—remains ultimate, Absolute Awareness. You are both Absolute Awareness and its relative experiences. You and I and everyone else is a point of view of the Oneness. To be separate from “This” is impossible. You are This. Here. Now. Aware Awareness Being.

• Stuff Happens

As Carly so clearly showed, your loved ones who have passed hear your conversations and your thoughts. While they respect your privacy, they also see you and your surroundings more clearly than you might imagine. “She says she can see right through the furniture, like X-ray vision.” That exchange with Carly shifted my belief system yet again. I learned that the different dimensions are relative realities. We call the afterlife the “spirit” world, yet their world seems quite solid to them. We call ours the physical world, yet as Carly showed us, those in spirit see through our furniture and walk through walls. Solidity is relative. What we call normal waking consciousness is only one viewpoint that Awareness can take. Other lenses through which you as Awareness experience reality while in human form are in dreams and expanded states. But why stop with the human point of view? There are other lenses through which to view reality. As you come to know that you are “This”—pure Awareness being—you gain access to worlds upon worlds. You are Aware Awareness experiencing a continuous flow of sensations that give the impression of solidity, permanence, and individuality. But all is not as it seems. the waves of experience can be categorized into three elements: Sensations, Thoughts and Feelings I use the acronym ST-F (pronounced “stuff”) for these elements of experience. Ultimately, you are undivided wholeness in flowing motion. You can stay in the default point of view as a human being in a body, or you can shift your attention when you need a higher perspective and be the Observer of your story. With awareness and intention, you can drop the shackles, turn around, and step out of the cave of self-imposed isolation. As you turn up the light of Awareness, the shadows disappear. You discover that emptiness is actually fullness, and separation is an illusion.

• All Is Not As It Seems

At the surface you may feel at times separate and alone, but within you is a knowing that you are part of a whole. All experiences—all sensations, thoughts, and feelings—whether you call them “mine” or “yours”—arise from one shared I AM being. This is known as “the hero’s journey,” and it is what your soul came here to experience. Your soul’s journey plays out on the stage of planet Earth. Your costume is a human body. You chose this role and the other actors with whom you would interact. The problems occur when you take your role so seriously that you forget your Higher Self. Unless you maintain soul awareness and step out of character every so often, suffering is a big part of the story. 

All is not as it seems. You are just another part of Me. It’s all malleable, Joy-as-Susan now explained. You said you wanted to experience Oneness. It’s all of us! We are all the same, just different instruments in one symphony! Whichever instrument you focus on is the one you experience. This was the perfect message: the basic essence of life is undivided wholeness. You are Joy playing the role of a soul playing the role of a human being.

• Point of View is Everything

I thought, What if I sat through the movie not as entertainment but as an experiment in practicing the Objective Observer perspective of the soul? As the action on the screen became more intense, I shifted to Observer mode. I kept myself from getting sucked into the drama by mentally repeating phrases such as, This is a movie and These are actors. I remained emotionally neutral by stating, Isn’t that interesting? when something that would normally upset me happened in the script. Movies provide a safe environment to feel the heightened emotions that make you feel most alive. You willingly subject yourself to high drama knowing you can avert your eyes or walk out of the theater. Like the moviegoer, you, the soul, took on this role for the heightened emotions you can experience while in human form. Nonphysical beings don’t encounter extremes of happy and sad, peaceful and angry. They don’t feel shame or unworthiness. They don’t rage or cry with grief. You may protest, “I never would have signed up for this!” And yet, at the soul level, you did, for the tremendous growth opportunities that such extremes present. Any challenge you face is easier to handle when you shift to soul mode. You are both, a soul and a human, and also the wholeness of the entire expression of being. You, as pure Awareness in expression, are constantly shifting between these limited/spacious states. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you must achieve perfection to come to know your highest nature. Your more limited aspects are all part of Joy. 

• You are Never Alone

Saying yes to this adventure was easier because you knew that help would always be available. Of course, life on earth becomes more difficult when you forget that your nonphysical helpers are always with you. The heart is your best judge with any new teaching. The issue is that your soul’s task is to help a more mainstream audience understand and connect to Higher Consciousness. Stick to the basics and teach only love. Look to the past only to learn. You can establish a relationship with your team of helpers starting immediately. Begin to call on them regularly and experience the difference that working with your guides makes. They have helped you more than you may realize. Do you want your guides’ specific help and clear advice? Simply ask. That’s how it works. They may not have all the answers, but their perspective is naturally higher than yours while you’re in a body. They can help you to remember to live lucidly.

• LIFE is Love In Full Expression

Life is one complete energetic whole in ever-changing states of unfolding and enfolding. It is a process, an eternal flow, a dynamic dance of being and becoming. It’s Earth School, for God’s sake! To become upset by experiences that include both smooth and rough patches shows a lack of awareness of the nature of this reality and your reason for incarnating. You came here to enjoy the fullness of the creative experience. In the process, any growth you experience adds to the growth of humanity as a whole. You may want off the planet. You will instinctively turn to the kind of mind-numbing behaviors mentioned above until you discover there is a better way to deal with the disconnect between expectations and experience. That better way is The Awakened Way of balancing soul awareness with human nature. No one escapes Earth School without scrapes and bruises, yet your wounds hold the key to your transformation. The soul has no “shoulds,” “musts,” or “have-tos.” It doesn’t need rules because it knows only connection and flows with what is. 

• Every experience is temporary. “This too shall pass.”
• There is nothing to fear
• You are never alone; beings at all levels are the expression of the same Source.
• You are not judged for your mistakes. Each moment is a new beginning.
• You are cherished beyond measure, no matter what.

In no longer resisting or rejecting the darkness and shadows, life magically reveals itself as LIFE: love in full expression. The Story of You is not a fairy tale. It is real. It is messy. And it is Divine, as only unique and beautiful you could enable Joy to experience it.

PART II – THE PRACTICES

The following exercises will hopefully become a way of life once you see how useful they are in expanding your perspective and keeping ego and the human drama at bay. Be aware of any expectations you are bringing to the experience and be willing to set these aside. After time, it won’t feel like work at all. It will be your Joy, moment by moment, to take what you’ve learned and easily step into the fullness of being.

• Getting to Know Your True Nature

Getting to know your true nature asks you to step outside the story. It requires effort and making conscious choices to make the quantum leap to new ways of thinking and acting. Who am I? is the most important question you can ask as you move toward True Self knowledge. You will want to ask this not just once but at regular intervals as your beliefs evolve. This requires being open to your higher nature and shifting your point of view before you ask the questions. Taking one slow, relaxing breath and shifting your awareness to the heart is all it takes to align with the deeper part of you. Your awareness of your multidimensional nature will increase.

What you call “my life” is most definitely yours. It is also part of the cumulative experience of “The One,” being you. The highest part of you is that which is shared by all beings. Any practice that helps you to personally experience this shared, unified, indivisible state of being requires setting aside the contents of The Story of You. You may be aware of ST-F bubbling up, but your attention remains fully on the purity of the no-thingness in which the ST-F appears. You allow your awareness to rest in these nondoings, these nonhappenings, these pure being experiences. You come to know that this silent stillness is the seed from which all life sprouts.

• Close your eyes and become centered with a few deep breaths.
• Seek the space and silence, observing how the ST-F naturally fades away. 
• Ask yourself, “Who am I beyond my story?”

Don’t become frustrated if you can’t maintain your focus. You aren’t meant to while you’re in a body. Lacking drama, this Source-Space becomes your haven, your respite, your go-to whenever the outer experience gets to be too much.

Imagine how the world would change if instead of saying, “I don’t like them,” you would acknowledge what’s really going on energetically and say, “I don’t resonate with them.” Instead of making things personal, you are acknowledging the human story and honoring the soul. The soul does not judge. The soul is aware of the underlying unity of all beings. Your joy is in integrating soul awareness with your human role. You can choose to consciously gaze into the calm depths of every human with whom you interact and find your common Heritage. I call this shared field of being “Joy.” Therefore, Joy is “We” and Joy is “Us.” This realization removes the sense of separation. 

• Shift to soul awareness, “I am an expression of Joy, the Light of Awareness.”
• Take a circle of beads. Ask Joy to put into your mind a succession of people with whom you’re familiar by name.
• Names will bubble up purposefully due to the emotions these will arouse in you.
• Silently repeat the name followed by “is an expression of Joy.”
• Every few beads you may want to change “Joy” to other ways of referring to That Which Is Nameless, such as “Source,” “Force,” “God,” etc.

Notice what sensations, thoughts, and feelings arise each time you assert that a certain person is Joy in expression. This does not mean that you or they are always joyful in human terms. It simply means that you see their inner Light. You recognize them soul to soul. The spiritual “win” comes when the names of people who rub you the wrong way arise. Observe how your understanding expands as you periodically return to this exercise. Instead of judging others from the human point of view, you will recognize that the soul is within everyone, no matter how obscured. No one is any more important than another. There is no hierarchy at the level of the soul. The aspect of you that never changes is the same in every human being. All are Joy in expression. 

Increasing numbers of people are learning to align with Higher Consciousness by accessing more spacious states. This shift from objective to subjective experience allows modern humans to become reacquainted with their vastness. Ocean Breathing is a powerful practice designed to reconnect you consciously with your true nature. 

• Inhale slowly and begin to gaze around you. 
• As you exhale, soften your gaze and release your identification with your human role. Dissolve into simply being, This . . . here . . . now . . . Awareness . . . being.
• On the inbreath draw Awareness back into the physical body.
• As your breath goes out in all directions, try repeating thoughts such as “I am one with all that is,” “There is no separation as Aware Awareness,” or “Flowing…”

Observe Awareness rippling outward like a pebble dropped into the water. Find yourself merging in awareness with all objects in your path. Work Ocean Breathing into your normal daily activities and practice in various settings. Over time, these periods of practicing conscious unity awareness will gently push out deeply ingrained thoughts of separation from your subconscious mind.

• Maintaining Daily Energetic Hygiene

We recognize the importance of daily physical hygiene. So also, your human energy field naturally seeks to maintain balance in the physical body, but your human thoughts and behaviors can be at odds with this natural, vibrant flow. Failure to maintain your energetic hygiene can have the same effect as neglecting your physical body’s cleanliness. At any given moment of the day, your energy field is either in harmony with the Universal Field or in a disharmonious state. Discordant emotions and physical pain are the surface effects of an underlying energetic imbalance. The use of energy balancing exercises, you can tune your energy field as deftly as a skilled musician. You must still interact with other humans who may not be aware of the importance of maintaining a high-vibrational state. Any number of daily events can have a detrimental effect on your personal energy field. Choose only friends and social media options that uplift and inspire you. The cells in your physical body are doing their best to maintain your health and well-being. They will seek harmony and balance, but you must give them good energy to work with. 

Vagus Nerve Breathing –  Vagal breathing is a conscious practice that allows you to capitalize on the parasympathetic nervous system’s benefits. 

With vagal breathing you want to notice a strong contraction. Your heart rate slows, your blood pressure drops, and you reap the reward of instant serenity. One vagal breath will stop a craving in its tracks by instantly relieving the stress that causes you to want to overindulge. Try Vagus Nerve Breathing when you notice you are about to say or do something that is out of alignment with your true nature. When you focus awareness on the core of your being and become present with the breath, you will come to know what it means to be centered.

Chakra Balancing – When it comes to energetic hygiene, chakra balancing is the shower. Chakras are the major energy exchange points between your physical and etheric bodies. As an energetic being, you are directly affected by constantly changing conditions. When you hold the intention that each energy center will find the perfect state of flow, the chakras will do the rest. Simply set the intention that all your chakras come into perfect balance and alignment. Adopt a state of childlike curiosity when doing these exercises. The proof is in the results. 

 Clearing Physical Spaces – Energy can remain in a space long after an event occurred which can explain why you might experience inappropriate emotions and moods that have no apparent cause. Remember: not every thought or feeling is your own. The energetic frequency of sage is particularly suited for clearing negative energy. I strongly recommend you clear the energy and your own field regularly. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, merely transformed.

• Interacting with Higher Consciousness 

Unfortunately, all that doing keeps you from being still and knowing I AM. The spaciousness of the soul is always accessible, but its presence is eclipsed by the attractions of the external world. The Story of Me is far more interesting to the ego than silence. Without a concerted effort to bypass the ego, you can easily forget that this world is not the only reality. You cannot be separated from the spaciousness of the soul. You are always connected to Higher Consciousness. As long as you are in a body, your brain will filter out awareness of the higher dimensions. The methods that follow will train you how to temporarily bypass that filter.

The Bless Me Method – As a soul, you have access to the Universal Studio, the source of all available channels. By properly attuning your human energy field, the ST-F of different realities can appear on your screen of Awareness. 

The SIP of the Divine – The SIP of the Divine is a stunningly simple method and it is an excellent method for taming the undisciplined monkey mind. Surely you can find three minutes each day to SIP: sit in peace. If you use these three minutes to regularly set your story aside and align with the higher dimensions, you will discover the heavenly treasures of peace, connection, guidance, and wholeness. 

• Sit or lie where you won’t be disturbed. 
• Set the timer on your smartphone for three minutes.
• Silently ask from the heart, “What do I need to know right now?” 
• Sit peacefully and scan the field of awareness for an answer.

Feel free to change what you ask, but try to stick to only one question per session. In so doing, you are aligning with your soul and reminding yourself you are not only human.

The BEST Method – In truth, you don’t need any step-by-step method to connect with Higher Consciousness. The higher realms are here right now. The reason you aren’t normally aware of the nonphysical dimensions and their inhabitants is because your focus is usually on your objective, physical experience. Using this simple process ensures that you make the shift from the normal brain-based way you operate in Earth School to the soul-guided, heart-centered mode of interacting across dimensions. 

• Breathe—Take one slow, deep vagus breath to become relaxed and centered.
• Expand—Picture your aura moving outward to fill all space. 
• Shift—Move your awareness from the head to the heart and from your human story to the spacious state of Wholeness. 
• Trust—Know that you are a soul and that by making this shift you have optimized your ability to talk to guides, angels, and loved ones. Ask questions, receive guidance, bask in the presence of Love, and acknowledge your beautiful, shining light.

• Working with your “A” Team

At the nonphysical level, you have a soul family with whom you go through multiple incarnations. Your loved ones from this current lifetime who have passed are part of this special group. You also have guides who help you with the challenges of being human. They operate at higher frequencies than you can perceive with your physical senses. They have a higher perspective of your life than you do. So they can provide higher guidance that you may not be privy to unless you connect with their wisdom.

Their reality is energetic and interpenetrates this earthly one. Nevertheless, we refer to their dimension as being above our own. Our A Team, with “A” referring to above. That makes you and me part of the B Team, with “B” referring to below. One of their major objectives is to help you understand that whether you experience yourself above or below, all are expressions of one Team arising within one infinite field of Awareness. 

Engaging your higher helpers – The practice of engaging your higher helpers is about maintaining a conscious awareness with beings you may have temporarily forgotten but have known for eternity. With awareness, you can take your issues directly to those in the higher realms who always have the higher perspective. Your guides are here for you. They enjoy being with you. They never judge you. There is nothing you can tell them that shocks or upsets them. 

Discerning Yes and No Answers – In the timeless dimensions, you have teachers, guides, and loved ones who are even closer at hand than Siri or Alexa. Once you discover how useful these ever-present helpers are, you may want to turn to them as your prime information resource. Your body and mind are intimately connected, and the body can’t lie. The body is beautifully designed to show us when we are deceiving ourselves. The heart is the bridge to the soul, and the soul knows what is best. 

• Invite your main spirit guide to blend their consciousness with yours. Whether you sense a presence or not, trust that this merging has taken place.
• Ask your guide, “When I ask you a yes/no question, how will you communicate a yes response?”
• “When I ask you a yes/no question, how will you communicate a no?”

The element of surprise is one of the prime ways that you come to trust this mode of communication as you personally experience the creativity and unexpected nature of A Team interactions.

Asking for Evidence – Ask, “What sign will you send me to validate this connection?” Physical matter is not solid to those in the nonphysical realms. Those across the veil can literally see through objects in our dimension. The more you play The Sign Game, the more you will realize that not all your thoughts are your own. Ask the higher beings to share a current event in the life of someone you know. “I trust that this is you. To validate your presence, please tell me something I don’t know.”

Noticing Snags and pulling the Thread – Ask them to clearly snag your attention from now on anytime they have something helpful to share. The more you notice these oh-so-subtle attention-grabbers, the more your Team will use them. It’s a highly practical way to build an ongoing, interactive relationship with those who have your best interests at heart.

• Practicing Presence Moment by Moment

If you want to see what presence looks like, watch a new baby in its crib. It gazes about, taking everything in. It will stare, mesmerized, at a mobile overhead. It smiles in reaction to the beaming faces looking back at it. It cries when the body sends painful reminders that it’s time to eat or drink. It is very much present because all it knows is “now.” It’s good to be vigilant, but the tendency to focus on your problems keeps you from being present. The problem is that most people resist, deny, ignore, and avoid anything that is less than pleasant. The concept of wholeness is lost in the fragments of the past, present, and future story. When you no longer deny your wholeness, you will experience the fullness of LIFE, warts and all. 

B-P-M Practices – the heart is considered the bridge between heaven and earth, the balance point between your human persona and the soul. The letters stand for breathing, posture, and mindfulness. The breath serves as a point of focus when your mind is scattered. As you become aware of moving from one action to the next without pause, stop for a bit and simply be. Put your shoulders back, breathe deeply, and send a wave of gratitude to the Higher Self for this moment of awareness and clarity. No matter what you sense, what you experience in these sacred time-outs is presence, which leads to peace. What you experience is This . . . your essential nature. 

Awakened Way Reminders – You have spent a lifetime focusing on The Story of You. The habit of identifying with yourself as a separate “me” or “I” rather than as Aware Awareness becomes ingrained. Use physical world attention-getters to remind you to shift beyond the material world. Ask your guides to give you unique ways to increase your connection with them.

The Human/Soul Dial – You may go through periods when you remain in an expanded state of knowing you are more than your physical body, and then you swing back the other way to thinking, feeling, and acting “fully human.” Picture a gauge where the dial swings between H for human and S for spirit. When you sense the dial is pegged to the H side, you can bring yourself back to the center by using the phrase, “Isn’t that interesting!”

Silence on the Bridge – Any activity that demands your total attention helps you to practice presence. Eager to reduce the stress, I pressed my tongue upward molding it to my pallet. How can something as simple as pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth be so effective? When you flatten your tongue against the roof of your mouth, you energetically unite the central and governing meridians. When you achieve this state of wholeness, the result is instant “silence on the bridge.” How gracefully you can sail through life when fear isn’t a factor. With presence, you will feel ever more guided. In place of insecurity, you will experience newfound confidence.

• Turning Emotional Scars into Glowworms

Most people are walking wounded, Suzanne. You can see the scars from up here. They’re like little knife wounds all over the auras. But don’t worry. They’re battle scars, and that inner light never does go out. Just like you always say, we really are the Light. The wounds that you don’t work on fester. But the scars that are healed by working on them get this extra light around them. They look like little glowworms. Could there be any more beautiful imagery to show that you are not alone in your human struggles and that your efforts to raise your consciousness truly make a difference?

The No-Fault Process – Unfortunately, repressed feelings carry an energetic charge. The NO FAULT process is designed to realign your human story with your true nature. There is no need to prove wrongdoing by any party. When something triggers repressed ST-F in you that needs to be released, it serves no purpose to blame anyone. This lack of judging or blaming is critical. LOVE your human self from your limitless Higher Self’s perspective without any conditions.

Upleveling Your Point of View – Ego is the default mode for human beings. The ego survives and thrives when you identify yourself as a standalone being and adopt a “me against the world” mindset. Your identification with yourself as a human being is a highly limited perspective of Pure Consciousness. The soul’s point of view is far more spacious and unitive. In releasing your identification with the ego, you realign with the soul and find instant peace. Better yet, you come to know yourself beyond the soul—as pure Being—and from this state enjoy the knowing that all is well, no matter what. Through the eyes of Unity, you realize that you and your friend not only share the same Source, you are Source. As you raise your awareness to the higher states of the Self, ego will have no choice but to dissolve. What a blessing this simple practice is, for when you experience the lack of separation between yourself and others, you will come to know yourself as Love. 

Forgiveness in an Instant – When you are in “only human mode,” you see life through a very narrow lens. There is limited flexibility in your point of view. Stuck in the drama. Your thoughts and actions can change in an instant with the understanding that comes from seeing through another’s eyes. Uplevel to the soul’s perspective and see with new eyes. No matter what, at the deepest level far beyond the story, all is well.

Rewriting Your Past Energetically – The rules of Earth School say that you can’t change the physical circumstances in your human history because these are part of a shared reality co-created with other beings. You can, however, relive any past event and change your mental and emotional reactions to it. This is the difference between the outer, objective world and the inner, subjective reality. Your inner world exists outside of time. Consequently, any changes that you make to your past thoughts and emotions carry over to your energetic field in the present. Relive your thoughts and emotions completely anew from the empowered perspective of Aware Awareness that is always whole and cannot be harmed.

• Conclusion

It is the very fullness of experience with all its ups and downs that brings about your transformation. You know this state now as Love . . . not the fleeting kind of love with human have-tos and shoulds imposed upon it, but that which has always been right here inside you . . . the unconditional kind that says, “You are so very loved . . . no matter what.” The seeking is over. You live each moment consciously connected and divinely guided, allowing life to unfold, taking appropriate action as guided from the heart. You realize that there is ultimately only One Story.