The Daily Awakener

When you deliberately choose to do something to try and please someone you feel more fulfilled and experience a sense of freedom as you feel this is your choice…so this action is taken in love and you usually feel pleasure doing it.…Many of us forget paying attention to this…In relationships we get scared that we might lose someone if we aren’t trying to please them all of the time or we fear we might get punished by them. We then take this action out of fear not love. So when we are doing something we feel we have to do, even if we really don’t want to do it,  we sometimes resent it, and therefore don’t feel nourished by it. Try this week to focus on deliberately choosing whatever actions you take this week and how that makes you feel…Email me the results.

Jeri DeVale, Ph.D.
Devale42@gmail.com
www.instituteofhealingartsandfilms.org

Dear Brave Hearts,

Besides unlearning thought patterns based on fear and instituting thought patterns based on love, trust, and forgiveness and fueling the 5 virtues, we also detach from the 5 passions of the mind… we then move to feel God realization…and choose to connect the circuit.  I feel the connection with God and Love in all things and I respond to this with a YES…and so I say “thank you” every moment I can, with every breath for being here and how wondrous it is. We need to continually express our true nature of love, trust and forgiveness…We will then feel the cosmic kiss that results in excited participation in life. How to feel this kiss more often is explained in my book “Kissing Our Way to Enlightenment“.

I love you,
Dr. Jeri DeVale

www.jeridevalePhD.com
www.instituteofhealingartsandfilms.org
devale42@gmail.com

The negative effects of the 5 passions of the mind is greatly reduced when you balance them out with cultivating the 5 virtues.  They are Forgiveness (tolerance), contentment, detachment, discrimination and humility.  St. Francis was a prime example of someone living in humility and tolerance.  I have found the best way to cultivate these is to cultivate gratitude and it somehow feeds all of the other virtues.  Your eyes then will be looking all day long for something to be grateful for.  Waking up and savor smelling a cup of coffee in the morning and say thank you and having that to start your day.  Enjoying your shower in the morning and feel the sensuality and pleasure of it and say thank you…talking to and hugging your children, your mates, your animals…and say thank you…thank you …. thank you…step out of your door and say thank you to the wind…the trees…the flowers….thank you …thank you.  Trees are our silent sentinels…they help absorb the bad stuff in the air for us.  Thank you then becomes like a mantra which is a series of words that we repeat over and over to help us keep us focused in a positive direction..so thank you… thank you… thank you. Give gratitude this whole holiday season no matter what your busy mind might be thinking…thank everything …every minute of the day…and your new year will be filled with blessings.  The blessings already are Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

With Love always and in all ways,
Dr. Jeri DeVale

www.instituteofhealingartsandfilms.org
devale42@gmail.com

We have to CHOOSE to be aware.  What helps us is knowing what to look for, and to accept we need to give up or transform all the positions that get us glued to our false self.  These are some of the things we have to give up.  We have to take notice become aware of the anxiety we feel when we don’t have a firm position to stand on.  Anxiety is not the enemy it is our friend…it tells us we are coming from or looking in the wrong direction and a belief system may need to be changed or transformed.  We literally make positions of our beliefs, and dig in our heels and say we aren’t leaving, even if intellectually we know that belief may not be true anymore.  We want something to be all right or all wrong…when in spirit there are no absolutes.  And fifth dimensional thinking which I talk about in my book. ” Kissing Our Way to Enlightenment” knows that our beliefs, our positions must be fluid not rigid or we become bullies and terrorists.  Fifth dimensional thinking is always thinking in relationship to something else…We are always only partly right and wrong.  For example,  killing someone else is murder and is wrong…killing in war for your survival is not.  So killing is not all wrong or right…it always depends upon what is at the top of the triangle….the third belief system that gives it meaning.  We feel emptiness unless we get the meaning of life and these thoughts which we cannot do if we think of these in absolutes…Substance abuse is the result of this…not seeing and feeling the meaning not seeing the third principle that transcends right and wrong. So always look for the third belief system or thought that gives meaning to it.   There is no right and there is no wrong…there is only partly right and partly wrong…there is what works for you…there is what works for your family…your government.. the third principle can be love, harmony, peace. When we are looking at what is right and what is wrong can we add the third belief which acts like a harmonic creating of course more harmony and meaning.  It is known in music that harmonics heal.  So if you add the third position to be love, or forgiveness, or harmony then you would think that killing as an act of mercy is also ok only if the person you are killing ok’s it. We can’t cross someone else’s will without creating bad karma.  Crossing someone else’s will is negative witchcraft.  But be aware here as I learned the most from my pain…the last stages of someone’s life may provide the opportunity for tremendous growth…so don’t spare the person of pain help them transform it if you can…the other person has to be willing.   Each situation is unique. The third principle is always fluid.  Don’t push the river it flows by itself. Love, forgiveness, discernment-awareness HEALS.  So when we are thinking rigidly and not adding the third principle…we are fueling are attachment to our false self….and feelings of emptiness and lack.  When we are fluid in our thinking and look through the window of love, peace, and harmony – which transcends rigid thinking, we are spiritually re-framing and looking and thinking through the eyes of our true self our divine self and our attachments lessen.  More on this in the next email.

Dr. Jeri DeVale

Devale42@gmail.com
www.instituteofhealingartsandfilms.org

Many people think they are afraid of Failure but really many of us are afraid of Success! How do you know this? By paying attention to all of the ways You are sabotaging yourself.

Do you eat or drink too much? Do you Exercise too little.

Do you procrastinate with getting things done?

Do you take responsibility for keeping your stress low by meditating, doing yoga, or tai chi? Do you love yourself less than you love others?

Do you put yourself first or are you last on the list?

Almost all religions mutually accept that the five passions of the mind are self-destructive and keep you from realizing God, Love, and Joy more fully.

To be awakened more fully we need to know how we suppress ourselves with these five passions…because on some level we don’t feel we deserve more success or believe we can achieve it. So the 5 passions of the mind step in to help us sabotage ourselves…some people feel that the energy behind these 5 passions is the devil.

Whatever you believe it is…we have the spark of the divine in us and we can co-create with God and problem solve every problem or issue we have.

The 5 passions of the mind are: Anger, Lust, Greed, Vanity, or Attachment. Underneath all of these are based in Fear. More on these in the next email.

Dr. Jeri DeVale

Devale42@gmail.com
www.instituteofhealingartsandfilm.org