| Being human is having a disease of separation from | | | | music and nature sounds settle my brain, and allow |
| others, from ourselves, and from our higher | | | | me to listen more attentively to Presence in others, |
| Presence. Humanity suffers - often unconsciously -- | | | | in readings, and in life events. Soft music and nature |
| sometimes consciously - always with some level of | | | | sounds seem to encourage my mind to rest and to |
| pain, fear and loneliness lurking just beneath the | | | | hear clearly. |
| surface. | | | | On different days, the specific music and sounds that |
| Each of us has our own personal experience of what | | | | help me find my daily inspirations varies. There is |
| this means. Somewhat like yard sales: one person's | | | | music that I used when I first began daily meditation |
| junk is another person's treasure. Each of us have | | | | that I now find distracting or disabling of my |
| unique mental perceptual filters - some genetic, and | | | | inspiration. And there are new music, sounds, and |
| many created by past life events and circumstances | | | | verbal meditations that I continue to use and add. |
| that were never resolved. So we each experience | | | | Meditation tapes have also been helpful to me for |
| life at different levels of consciousness, with different | | | | over 20 years as aids to daily inspirations. These |
| expressions of mental filtering, and with different | | | | tapes give verbal directions for experiencing higher |
| levels of conscious pain and separation. | | | | Presence through mental and physical relaxation and |
| Finding daily inspirations, for me, is finding those | | | | focusing. Again, different levels of necessity or pain |
| inspirational life quotes, experiences, actions, and | | | | seem to respond better to different recordings. |
| relationships that match my moment to moment | | | | INSPIRATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS |
| levels of pain and loneliness, bringing me back to and | | | | In my experience, human beings possess the highest |
| increasingly maintaining a level of serenity, joy, and | | | | levels of spiritual energy and Presence for daily |
| presence. Because my conscious levels of pain has | | | | inspirations. I have had a spiritual guide for over |
| been rather extensive, beginning at age two, it has | | | | twenty years, and I have been and am a guide for |
| been necessary to pursue more daily inspirations | | | | others. When I struggle with my illness of being |
| experiences than has seemingly been necessary for | | | | human, I go to other humans who know they have |
| many others. My level of necessity for finding daily | | | | the same disease, and who have been practicing |
| inspirations has driven me to find and practice a | | | | inspirational living as the treatment for their |
| different inspirational lifestyle. | | | | symptoms. |
| Finding daily inspirations has involved developing | | | | I have also found that when I cannot reach my |
| inspirational resources that I practice daily, in all of the | | | | spiritual guides, my higher Presence comes to me in |
| affairs of my life. And then there were times of | | | | the form of the people who simply appear and |
| heightened consciousness when I needed "booster | | | | respond in my life for those immediate needs. They |
| shots" of additional inspirational resources - in order to | | | | may not understand, but they are always the |
| return to a level of comfort and serenity. The key | | | | messengers of the exact daily inspirations needed. |
| here is to develop and store - in my spiritual and | | | | My life has no accidents or coincidences. All events |
| emotional banks -- the needed daily inspirations so | | | | and people are placed in my life exactly as I need |
| they are available daily, and so that more inspirational | | | | them and ultimately as I would want them if I had |
| resources are available when there is an increased | | | | my higher Presence's level of information. And I am |
| need. There are three major areas of finding daily | | | | the same for others. The difference each time is the |
| inspirations that I have found helpful: | | | | level of my ability to hear, which depends on my |
| INSPIRATIONAL READINGS | | | | level of access to conscious pain. |
| I have about eight daily readers that I have read | | | | Frequently my spiritual guide will be someone for |
| almost daily for close to twenty years. These daily | | | | whom I am officially their spiritual guide. The key |
| meditations typically include inspirational life quotes | | | | seems to be my level of acceptance of the fact |
| and some form of inspirational sharing about the | | | | that, by myself, I am powerless over what I |
| thought in the quote. | | | | perceive and how I react. An inspirational window or |
| Also, I have other books from which I find daily | | | | door opens inside and I am able to leave my |
| inspirational readings. From these books, I frequently | | | | humanness and enter a better place. |
| read from a few paragraphs up to a page each day. | | | | My level of necessity is directly proportional to the |
| These are books that feel personal rather than | | | | level of my conscious discomfort with my |
| professional -- experiential rather than intellectual -- | | | | humanness. The level at which I need to find daily |
| similar to my own life experiences rather than | | | | inspirations is determined by my level of spiritual and |
| "preachy" and detached. | | | | emotional necessity. The task and gift of my life is to |
| I listen to readings to hear the voice of a higher | | | | find levels of inspired Presence that match my levels |
| Presence, giving support, direction, and closeness, and | | | | of daily necessity. And I believe we can all share |
| I hear their voices in these daily inspirations. | | | | these same challenges and these same opportunities |
| INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC AND MEDITATIONS | | | | together. The daily inspirations we need are always |
| I have found that certain types, styles, and forms of | | | | available. |