The 10 voluntary exercises below are for would-be Angels who want to develop their wings. Each is designed to help increase higher self-awareness.

Your conscious participation in inner exercises, such as these five practices, is the only way to awaken the will you need so that one day you never have to answer to any anxiety again!...

Being renewed by Life, and starting life all over are one and the same superior, interior action: it starts with becoming aware of, and then bringing a conscious end to any lingering relationship we may have with old thoughts and feelings that want us to keep seeing our life through their eyes.

Persistence of the conscious kind proves discouragement to be a lie. Only in the light of this revelation is the deception of discouragement seen for what it is in reality: the shadow of an unconscious self that protects its life by convincing its host to accept mediocrity as the only possibility.

Our inner work to be present - including the attention needed to do so - is to make possible this revelation: the negative experience of any unwanted moment is inseparable from the nature of the seer; in this awakening is born the willingness we need to surrender ourselves, that we may be "reborn."

Be here. Be still. Remember the Divine presence that dwells in you...and you will know, without a single thought, that while all around you everything changes, your True Self is unchanging. Fearlessness follows this discovery in much the same way as late evening shadows flee the morning light.

In many ways, true blessings often come disguised as the worst moments; and yet, those who are patient enough to live in the presence of what seems to be a loss, or painful limitation of some kind, will soon see that temporary mask fall away, and see before them an impossibly kind and just face.

Falling into some form of stress or anxiety in the face of any unwanted situation is nothing more than our failure to realize the following truth: these moments are made for us... that we might realize our only real limitation in life is what we have yet to understand about our True Self.

Before we can stop making circles in time – repeating and reliving a life that long ago lost its glow – we must catch the sleeping mind as it spins another dream of a better time to come and choose, instead, to enter the Light within us... whose Life is already right, bright and whole.

Don't wish for freedom; choose it. Start by challenging the false notion that, of itself, fear has any real power. It does not. Deliberately defy the painful presence of any fearful thought or feeling that, left unexamined, makes you a prisoner of its dark domain.

Attending to, completing what the present moment asks of you is the business of Real Life. In the silence of this relationship is revealed and received, at once, a faith no fear can shake, an innocence no temptation can break, and a freedom that no unwanted moment in life can ever take from you.