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July 2 - July 10, 2022
Maharishi theorized that when groups of people meditate together with shared intentions for peace, their alpha brain waves become synchronized. That coherence of brain waves then causes people who are not meditating to receive the same properties in their subconscious minds.
When joy becomes your priority, making decisions becomes easier, relationships become more loving, and you start to trust that the Universe has your back. As you choose more loving thoughts, more empowering words, more moments of prayer, and longer stillness on your meditation pillow, you’ll begin to experience and express joy naturally. This will give you the freedom you long for. It will open the floodgates for the Universe to support you in ways you couldn’t possibly imagine.
Celebrate the moments when you find yourself in sync with the Universe. This connection is available to you all the time. Bring energy and enthusiasm into the path of reconnecting and it will be a joyful process.
Let’s recap the lessons from this chapter: Get out of the way of the loving flow of the Universe. Use this prayer to realign yourself with the energy of the Universe and set the process in motion: “I step back and let the Universe lead the way.” Calibrate your energy through meditation. Your meditation practice recalibrates your energy back to the frequency of love. Set the intention to connect to your presence. Energy flows where your intention goes. Each day you can set new and powerful intentions. Be unapologetic about what you desire, and trust that what you focus on will grow. Understand
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UNIVERSAL LESSON: LIMITLESS GUIDANCE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU WHEN YOU SURRENDER TO RECEIVE IT.
The Universe is an abundant flow of positive, powerful energy. When you align with that loving, powerful force of energy, you become a magnet for more of it. When you get psyched about something and lead from a place of joy, immediately the Universe starts to show you the way. You have the power to align with whatever it is you want to see. This alignment will always be positive and supportive to your life as long as you’re in tune with your energetic power.
UNIVERSAL LESSON: RECONNECTING WITH YOUR POWER BEGINS BY REALIZING THAT YOU LOST IT.
UNIVERSAL LESSON: BE UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL.
The key to releasing this control is to surrender your outside needs and obsessions and remember that nothing can take away your true power: the love and peace within you.
The key to living with that peace is to surrender. Then, when you think you’ve surrendered, surrender some more. Trust in the power of the Universe and relax into an energy of receptivity. Stay committed to your prayer, relax, and let the signs from the Universe be your guide. This may seem difficult when you’re deeply attached to an outcome, but you’ll come to learn that it’s actually much easier to surrender.
Let’s recap the steps from this chapter: Witness your low-vibe story and how it makes you feel. Honor what you want and how you want to feel. Choose your sign that will be the gentle reminder from the Universe that you’re on track with the energy and flow of love. Turn over your desires to the care of the Universe and be patient. Patience is the key to receiving guidance. Become open to receive creative possibilities. Get psyched about your capacity to connect with the Universe. You have denied your power for far too long. Now is your time to receive love, light, and a sense of deep
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OBSTACLES ARE DETOURS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
When you ask for guidance, the Universe may throw you a curveball. Sometimes divine lessons come in odd forms.
Practicing the Holy Instant and entering into a miracle mind-set is the clearest path toward grace. Clear direction may not always be presented to you immediately, but know you’re on the right path. This knowing is crucial to your happiness and peace. When you get into the “know” and accept that even the most difficult obstacles can be divine intervention, you can deepen your faith in the Universe.
When you choose to see your obstacles as detours in the right direction, you can begin to find a deeper meaning and personal growth amid the discomfort. Maybe you can connect to a higher purpose, make a real connection to someone, or even be set on a path that will redirect the course of your life in an ultimately positive way not otherwise possible. All obstacles that are perceived with love can be transformed into the greatest life lessons.
The key to trusting in the Universe’s plan is to let go of all outcomes. When we get hung up about how something “should” turn out, then we disconnect with the flow of universal guidance. The energy behind a “should” mentality is controlling and manipulating. The Universe does not align with that energy. Therefore, we cut off communication and receptivity. It’s when we let go of the outcome that we open up our perceptual worldview and allow ourselves to be led.
UNIVERSAL LESSON: THE UNIVERSE WILL DO FOR YOU WHAT YOU CANNOT DO FOR YOURSELF.
The next time you get hung up in a victim mentality over why something isn’t working out the way you planned, simply say this prayer and realign with love: “Thank you, Universe, for helping me see this obstacle as an opportunity. I will step back and let you lead the way.”
Let’s recap your steps: Accept that obstacles are detours in the right direction. Get honest about how you’re controlling certain circumstances in your life. Then use your prayer: “Thank you, Universe, for helping me see this obstacle as an opportunity. I will step back and let you lead the way.” Practice the guidance meditation to lead you into a surrendered state of patience and peace.
Trusting that your obstacles are detours in the right direction helps you align with the power of the Universe and gain relief.
“As you think, so shall you be” and “You see it when you believe it.”
Hard work, passion, and commitment can bring you all the support you need to fulfill your life’s purpose. Certainty of outcome, however, is the secret ingredient. When we are certain, we can relax into a sense of knowing and faith.
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”
When you let yourself dream big dreams, and learn to rely on your inner wisdom, you will receive the gift of certainty.
If you like to meditate to music, I often recommend using a certain mantra for this visioning meditation. This Kundalini mantra is: Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad Sat Gur Prasad Ek Ong Kar. This mantra means that there is one creator of all creation. This mantra is the only Kundalini mantra that comes with a warning. Whatever you’re thinking about while listening to or singing the mantra will manifest in your life. You will be in such a state of manifestation that your thoughts will have even more power than usual. Simply stay aware of your thoughts while listening to the mantra and consciously
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When we pray and meditate, we immediately lock into our connection to love and surrender to higher wisdom. It’s our daily commitment to choose love, tune in, and converse with the Universe that sets us up to live with certainty that we’re being guided and supported.
When you walk through life conjuring up the feelings that you want to feel, the manifestation process begins, and your desires are reflected back to you.
The way to get your needy and controlling vibe out of the way is to stop praying for what you think you need and instead pray for the highest good for all. Whenever you pray for the highest good, you get your agenda out of the way. You surrender into the Universe’s plan and release your own. Remember that the Universe doesn’t respond to manipulation—the Universe responds to love.
Certainty brings forth an energy of peace. That is the goal: to live in this world but believe in a peaceful loving world beyond it. Our faith in a world beyond our physical site is what allows for genuine peace to set in. A Course in Miracles says, “You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go.”
Let’s recap the pathway to certainty that we covered in this chapter: The first step on the path toward certainty is your readiness. Stay willing to be free on a moment-to-moment basis. Tap into the feelings you desire through your meditation. Begin a dialogue with the Universe through your writing exercise. Consciously co-create your reality by tapping into the feelings you desire and cultivating those feelings in moments throughout your day. Stop praying for an outcome and instead, pray for the highest good for all. Establish a spiritual relationship of your own understanding. It will change
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the Universe guides us wherever we focus our energy and intention. When we surrender our intentions and feel energized by the infinite possibilities, we will be amazed by how fast the Universe responds.
begin your day with a prayer: “I focus my attention on the love that is around me, and I expect miracles.”
Remember, a simple shift in your perception is a miracle.
It’s important to celebrate these miracles by saying thank you to the Universe. Thanking the Universe reinforces your faith and trust that you’re in sync with a power greater than yourself.
Making prayer a daily practice will help you feel the flow of synchronicity and universal support all the time. Your connection to the Universe will be present in all things.
The more often you allow the light to come in, the safer it feels to be free from the darkness. Fear is a habit—and this practice will guide you to make love a new habit that in time will outweigh the pressure of fear.
It’s important to witness the difficult situations in your life through the lens of love. Choose to see them as an opportunity to surrender to your spiritual practice even more.
Here’s your recap of the steps: Miracles are natural. Let the Universe support you. Look for love in all the right places by repeating this prayer throughout the day: “I focus my attention on the love that is around me and I expect miracles.” Practice noninterference. Miracles are habits and should be involuntary. Create your faith statement. Commit to your faith statement and recite it throughout the day.
Judgment and separation form the basis for so many of today’s problems. Without judgment we would see one another as equal. We’d have no feelings of better than or less than. We’d be one. Oneness is our true nature. When we’re in tune with the feeling of oneness, then judgment and separation dissolve and our connection to the love of the Universe is restored.
What you judge in others is a reflection of what you judge in yourself, whereas what you love in others is a reflection of your light.
We begin to heal our judgment toward others when we accept that people are our teachers in the classroom that is our life. Making that commitment allows us to look differently on our situations. Witness how we drag the past in the current moment, and then choose again. We can choose to look at a person (or situation) as if we are seeing it for the first time.
Practice saying this prayer before every encounter that triggers the shadows from your past: “I want to see this person for the first time.”
To close out the judgment clearing process, follow this beautiful Kundalini meditation. This meditation is designed to remind us that we all have a shared essence that is beyond our physical site. Practice this meditation and reconnect to the essence to experience oneness in this moment. Posture/Mudra: Sit comfortably cross-legged on the floor with a straight spine. Place your right fist at your side with the index finger pointing up, and place the left hand over the heart center. You can also do this meditation sitting back-to-back with a partner. Focus: Focus the eyes at the brow point.
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Calling on the Holy Instant allows us to remember that we are all the same, and so we should be kind to one another. Identifying this sameness is what allows us to shift our focus from separation to love. The same way we share the thought system of fear, we also share the loving mind. Most important, we share the same capacity to choose love over fear. As my dear teacher Kenneth Wapnick said, “We see that we all have the same interest of awakening from the dream of unkindness and returning to the kindness who created us kind.”
Let’s recap the four steps: Be willing to release judgment and accept that you have chosen fear. Forgive the judgmental thought with this prayer: “I recognize that I have chosen fear, and I choose again. I choose love.” Let go of the shadow of the past by seeing someone for the first time with the eyes of love. Practice the Kundalini meditation, and recognize the other person is you.
This four-step process can set you free one moment at a time. Each time we release judgment and return to love, we experience a miracle. When we add up these miracle moments, we get more deeply aligned...
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Tuning in to the love of the Universe lowers our stress levels, restores our cells, and reorganizes our energy. Conscious contact with love interrupts the pattern of fear and returns us to our true nature.
Prayer is the pathway to love. This prayer acts as an intermediary between your feelings of separation and your truth. Use the prayer as an invisible guide back to love. Let each word sink into your psyche. Recite this prayer out loud to yourself. A Prayer for Truth “I call on the energy of the Universe to guide my thoughts back to love. I surrender the false perceptions I have placed upon myself. I forgive these thoughts and I know that I am love. I am peace. I am compassion. I am the Universe.” Following the prayer, settle back into the energy of love through the following meditation.
This Kundalini meditation will move stagnant energy and get you directly aligned with the Universe. The posture in the meditation opens your heart to reconnect you to your true nature and oneness with the Universe. I recommend practicing this meditation with the song “Halleluiah” found at GabbyBernstein.com/Universe. Old Gypsy Way of Calling on the Spirit of Mother Earth Originally taught by Yogi Bhajan on July 4, 1994 This meditation is meant to help you invoke the loving spirit of the Universe. Posture: Sit comfortably cross-legged on the floor with a straight spine and a straight neck.
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Visualization: Stay still and imagine a flame at the heart center. Breath: Breathe consciously, long and deep. Time: Sit in this meditation for three minutes. To End: Inhale deeply. Hold your breath for 15 seconds. Exhale. Inhale deeply. Feel in your connection to the Universe. Hold for 15 seconds. Exhale. Inhale deep. Feel the taste of the sweetness of life. Hold for 15 seconds. Exhale. Following this meditation, lie on your back and rest for several minutes.
