Here They Are: 10 Steps of Awakening in One Place!

I’ve had a kind of crazy day, broken up by meetings with stretches barely long enough to get any of my writing done. Hence, my Morning Pages became Evening Pages, especially since I started meetings early this morning.

After reading some today, in literally a few spare minutes, about the Standing Rock protest by the Sioux water protectors and their supporters — I hope they count me as one — and reading about senseless ambush shootings of police officers and the ignorance and uncouth brashness of our president-elect, my Heart demanded that I offer something to help.

Even though I haven’t accomplished all my goals today, I still have accomplished part of them, helping me to feel fulfilled and significant. Am I as far as I wanted to be? Obviously, I am not. My only goal at this point is that I offer you something, even one question, thought, comment that will help you connect for even a minute or two with your own Heart, and maybe you will experience some fullness and significance, even in the face of troubled times.

And because that is my wish, I thought it might be supportive to put my 10 Steps in the process of awakening in one place. I know this will not be the final form in my ebook, but at 11:00 p.m., this isn’t ebook quality. It’s just life, and it feels good. So I give you the list below with the hope you will see the power, peace, purpose, acceptance, and love available to you in awakening to Self. I also hope you see that the sorts of turmoil we face could be ameliorated by masses of individuals coming to such a life point. (The list below is mostly a copy from my Evening (Morning) Pages).

The 10 Steps in Awakening

1. Discover Heart, which is core Self, that piece of core Self, that piece of eternal Spirit with whom we arrived on Earth: Respond, hear, and heed Heart.
2. Co-create life Purpose: Speak with this freshly discovered Self and determine what You will do to show core Self to the Universe.
3. Develop a Vision: Envision a clear picture in the mind of what core Self and all associated activities will look like in life.
4. Map a Mission: Lay it out in writing, characterizing Self, the nature and experience of Vision, and relationships to others.
5. Write the Goals: Goals are day by day activities that make your core Self, Purpose, Vision, and Mission a daily job, a practical expression of Mission.
6. Feel the Heart-Mind-Soul Connection — allow the connection to develop: meditation, quietness, listening, joy. Fellowship with my Heart.
7. Work for Interconnectedness: Work the Goals of Mission towards everyone in the spirit of Unity, i.e., don’t allow Ego to hinder from expressing core Self, true essence. Connect with people.
8. Cultivate The Fellowship of the Heart: Hearts know things, so respond to those, bond with whose who’ve awakened to Self and know fellowship with their own heart. Collaboration, sharing, problem-solving, and celebration — among other things — abound when two people connect who know core Self, who have created Purpose, and developed a Vision — you know, the kind of times where you could talk all night.
9. Work in Flow with Heart and Spirit: Be so absorbed in manifesting core Self through our Purpose, Vision, Mission that we experience no past, no future — just now.
10. Love and Accept Self and All: Allow blessing and goodness and positives into our life; release those things that don’t serve us. Embrace awakening.

Notice I start each step with a verb — actions. Life isn’t about la-la dreaming. It’s about having a solid dream based on knowing Self and then executing, taking action. Heart action. Heart-chosen action. Not reacting out of Ego and creating the sorts of problems all around us. And we can positively affect those problems when we live Self and share that love of eternal Spirit with this ego-bound world.

​Enjoy the work of the journey. It’s worth it. Blessings!