Exercise: Be present to the appearance of any thought or feeling from the past that wants your attention, such as reliving an experience or reaction, judging yourself or someone else. See what happens when you don't feed it.

Exercise: Work to keep the shutter open when the shudder appears. The more you are able to keep your attention, the longer you are able to keep the aperture open in order to let the impressions 'seal' in you.

Topics covered: Review of the lunch exercise; We want to initiate a new degree of awareness of our own emotions and heart; We have a tendency to identify with negative states; Attention exercises are to bring us to the point of seeing that there is a kingdom of experiences that relate us to our own sensitivities; Change is inseparable from revelation; Underneath impatience is desperation; A ch...

Exercise: Notice when your mind is conceiving your life, and instead make an effort to be a receiver of grace. Shift your attention from a closed, conceiving mind to being open and receiving of the world above you.

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to wait three seconds before talking; Exercises are not given or practiced to achieve a result, they are intended to allow you to see what is within your power and what is not; The patterns you have are the tracks of a self within you; The character creates the pattern, not vice versa; Put your attention on the pattern maker; Real change doesn't...

The one great exercise of prayer is... To come wide awake and to place the center of myself into the center of my will and... Having done so, take this gathering of attention and surrender it wholly to my God...

Topics covered: Working with the lunch exercise to pause 3 seconds before putting a bite of food in your mouth; Real intelligence can't be insulted; It's useless to grasp something with only your mind, heart, or body; Attention exercises give us windows into parts of ourselves we weren't aware of; An epiphany is a form of a shock; Thought is in time but impressions are timeless; There is a fle...

Topic: Being Unstoppable: How to Walk Through Any Fearful Moment; Questions: What is the difference between the whole of awareness and the whole of existence; Should I look for a partner or trust the relationships I need will be given to me; How to deal with past mistakes; Can dark forces control you through your eating; Does 'honor thy father and mother' refer to active and passive forces; Th...

Topics covered: Working with the double attention exercises; How do you come to understand and live from the immortal self; Tools for introducing others to spirituality; Walking away from abusive family relationships; Comments on the Easter talk regarding light and dark; How can I live a simpler life; Understanding what it means to 'fall into a pit'; How can I help my young grandchildren while...

I have struggled to awaken for so many years, but have found your recorded audio and video to be of tremendous help. Of late, I've been following along with your recent exercises on attention. I've noticed what is akin to a healing crisis in my physical body. Some chronic pains have gotten worse and some old pains have returned and gone. I can see all of this as fear trying to hold on. Through...

Topics covered: Should I quit my job before having another one lined up; The more I'm aware of my suffering, the more I suffer; How can a spiritual aspirant stand against aggression without reciprocating; How can God be both merciful and punishing; Questions about the Active Double Attention exercises; Why does success come more easily to my less responsible partner; I don't know whether to st...

Topics covered: Review of the lunch exercise to come back to double attention while sensing your emotional state before taking a bite of food; One of the main reasons for a spiritual exercise is to see that you're asleep; Setting an intention is a deliberate invitation for second force; Most of what we call emotion is just the byproduct of whatever thoughts are passing through us; We want to b...