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# Re: Lost the way?

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- Subject: Re: Lost the way?
- From: "Alan Cook" <fish_studios@...>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:05:26 -0000
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    Dear Martin,

    >> My focus on my spiritual development seems to wax and wane in six
    month cycles and I do not know whether to accept this as the way
    things are or find a way to change it. <<

    No one can really answer this question but yourself. But here are
    some questions that I've asked myself on occassion:

    Is spiritual development and important part of my life?
    Is this something that I want to pursue to the fullest?
    Do I have the means to make the commitment that this will take?

    One thing that a friend told me and I've always rememebered: If
    it's important to you, you will make time for it.

    >> I do feel silly posting this message asking other people for
    advice on how to sort out my life, believe me, which is why I have
    left it so long. <<

    Don't worry. Half the time, after I ask a question, I see the
    answer for myself. It also helps to get a different perspective
    than the one that you've been banging your head on a wall with for
    some time ;)

    >> I guess on a more practical note, one of the major problems is
    the fact that when I am teaching, I am tired when I come home and
    then have to prepare the next day's lessons and then just want to go
    to bed and if I tried to meditate then, I think I would just wind up
    falling asleep. <<

    For physical tiredness, you could take a cold shower or do a bit of
    cardio exercise, something to get the blood flowing.

    For mental tiredness, the EOM exercise is a great way to relax and
    rejuvenate the mind. Just don't force it. Sit quietly with the
    *intent* (not thought) to let thoughts flow from your mind and leave
    it empty. I've found that just sitting quietly and doing the
    observance of thoughts exercise for some time helps to refresh the
    mind. Just don't try and force anything, or get frustrated. Just
    relax :)

    >> Also, if I do find a way of incorporating the practice of IIH
    into my life again, would you recommend starting again from scratch
    including the re-working of my soul mirrors? <<

    You'd have to answer this for yourself. It never hurts to revisit
    your soul mirrors and redo them. But keep the old one and compare
    them, adding to the new one things that you may have discovered last
    time but happened to miss this time.

    As for the other exercises, it never hurts to redo them at any point
    and time. So far, I've made it a point to go through all of the
    preceding exercises before moving to the next step, just to make
    sure that I haven't neglected something and that nothing has lapsed.

    All Will Go Well,
    --Alan

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