JD LeJeune

ReCreation Foundation Newsletter #205 By: Neale Donald Walsch, Author “Conversations With God” series of books. …snip

So here you are, at the beginning of the Enlargement stage on the Path to Self-Awareness. You have already moved through so much. You’ve come through abandonment, requirement, resentment, argument, and discernment to get to Contentment. You just want to stay there for a while. You want a rest. It’s only natural. Yet the inner yearning to do more, to go further, to advance in your spiritual development, to expand your expression of who you really are, is undeniable.

All of this makes a perfect recipe for inner conflict. For some, that could even look like inner turmoil. Certainly there are days when it has looked exactly like that in my life. Yet now I have stopped becoming frustrated about the apparent slow pace of my next step, having reached the awesome heights of Contentment. I have given myself permission to notice that this is just part of the process. And as I let go, I move on. Little by little, perhaps, but I move on. I experience more “starting” and less “stopping.”

Now here is what I am starting to do:

1. Declare, inwardly, who I am and who I choose to be. Create the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever I had about myself. Dare to step into that vision more often and more fully.
2. Deal with my tendency to procrastinate (in a lot of things, not only my spiritual development) by pushing ahead on my most important projects (such as writing this very material) and my inner work as well (like daily meditation and physical exercise and rearranging my eating habits so that I can eat well).
3. Stop denying who I really am and begin to act like who I really am.
4. Broaden my concept of how I can apply my inner vision to my outer reality.
5. Send thanks daily to God for all that I am and all that I have. (I talk a lot about this but I don’t do it nearly as much as I know is good for my soul.)
6. Trust the Universe, trust Life, trust God to bring me exactly what I can most benefit from right now and in every moment of my life, see the opportunities being presented to me, embrace them and engage immediately in moving them forward.
7. Forgive myself for my past and let go of the pain of guilt. Resolve to live a newer version of myself, to never repeat the behaviors about which I have previously felt guilty, and mean it.
8. Stop lying, immediately. Know that it’s the little lies that kill me. The exaggerations, the half-truths, the avoidance tactics, the hide-a-ways and the cover-ups that I think are shielding me from damage, but that are only opening me to continue hurting myself and others.
9. Empower everyone around me to be, do, and have what they choose as benefiting them on their own journey to self awakening and self awareness.
10. Read, read, read ; write, write, write ; pray, pray, pray, and stay connected with God. Use God more and more in my daily life, in the moment-to-moment of my experience, and become far more creative and far less reactive in my environment.

These ten “starter-uppers” have gotten me on the road to getting moving again in my spiritual development. I am paying more attention to my soul, and my soul is rewarding me by bringing more into my inner and outer reality that I have hungered for-specifically, a grander experience of my true self. The third phase of Enlargement is sustaining that experience.

• NDW