To Recognize Feedback

The second set of exercises—four through eight, helps you identify what you can do to take what you have learned from your messages and use it to improve your life further. The exercises help you formulate plans to think, feel and act in line with the perspective that your messages induce in you and observe the feedback that you get. They help you identify the elements that you deem crucial and improve them. They will focus on the two elements that I have found particularly important: our attention and intention. By clarifying what it means to you to have a state of spiritual attention and what it means to you to act in the direction that they seem to suggest, you can see how refining them improves the quality of the spiritual help you get in that particular situation.

What are the rewards of this kind of spiritual mastery? Not only will you solve everyday problems more effectively with this spiritual help, but you will also discover a new kind of pleasure, the one that comes with work, mastery and greater overall competence in an important area of life. This feeling can be better understood by analogy to the one we all experienced going to school. We may not have liked doing homework at first but as we saw the value in what we were learning we began to work better, for we discovered the pleasure of learning and mastery. So, this different kind of spiritual pleasure that comes with greater mastery of the lessons of our messages is essential if we are to continue our spiritual development. For only when we are convinced that we can engage spiritual reality better in our own life-circumstances will we make the kind of ongoing efforts required for real change so that we can enjoy even greater benefits that this greater understanding of our messages promises to bring.