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Excerpts from the Keys
Chapter One
The Key of Awareness
Use the Key of Awareness to Free Yourself from Ego's Control
I'm aware that ego is a perception of the mind created by what I've seen, heard, and experienced in the past. I'm free to believe my own thoughts and release ego's control.
A hummingbird had flown into a garage through a door that had accidentally been left open. In trying to escape, the bird had gone to the window and was banging itself against the glass. Even when all of the remaining doors were opened and freedom was just a few meters away, the bird kept beating its wings and bumping its little body into the invisible barrier.
If you were to watch the bird unsuccessfully trying to get out through the closed window, you might be baffled by its foolishness. How could it continue to beat itself against the window and not realize that what it was doing wasn't going to work? It would seem so ridiculous. Yet, isn't it true that many people find themselves in similar predicaments? When feeling stuck in an unsatisfactory life situation, rather than stepping back for a moment and looking around for an open door, a new opportunity, or a way to make things better, they continue to throw themselves into the same barriers and repeat negative patterns again and again.
The reason they do so is that they believe what they think. They think things like: I've got no choice. This is just the way it is and there isn't anything I can do about it. Besides, if there was an open door, I couldn't walk through it. I don't have enough time or money. I'm not strong enough, smart enough, courageous enough, deserving enough, successful enough, or good-looking enough to do it. Even if I was-and if I did-what would other people think? These kinds of beliefs create a lot of fear and keep one trapped in dark places, trying to escape through the same closed window. Where do these self-defeating thoughts come from? They're generated by the ego.
Some individuals associate the word "ego" with being egotistical or vane. As a result, they believe they don't have an ego. However, everyone does-including you. Simply put, your ego is that inner-dialogue that tells you what you think about yourself, about others, and about the world. It's made of perceptions and beliefs which were formed in your past by other people's perceptions, rules, religions, and beliefs. Its creation began in your childhood and has continued to be shaped through to this very moment. You weren't born with an ego. However, as you grew, your mind absorbed everything you saw, heard, and experienced-all courtesy of other people's egos-and your own ego was developed.
What this means is the reason you think about and perceive things the way you do is because you were programmed to do so based on your experiences with others-your parents, your teachers, the media, the church, your neighbors, and everyone else you've ever encountered. To illustrate, imagine as a child you were regularly told by your parents that you were very stupid and incompetent. As an adult, what do you suppose you'll believe to be true about yourself? You'll likely view yourself as being stupid and incompetent. You could be extremely bright and yet feel fearful and insecure about your intelligence based on what your parents taught you to believe about yourself in the past.
Chapter Two
The Key of Acceptance
Use the Key of Acceptance to Release Negative Judgment
I no longer judge myself with the perceptions created by others. I am self loving, self accepting and aware of whom I truly am. I have released negative self judgment and am no longer under my egos control.
I now judge myself with positive emotions. I give myself love and understanding where today I judge myself based on my generosity, my kindness, and my lovingness.
Now that you're aware of who you are without ego, you may have come to the realization that you've been on the wrong path. Perhaps you see that you've not been living your true authentic self or you've discovered that you've held yourself in a negative pattern for many years. Maybe you've become aware of the fact that you've had low self-esteem, made mistakes, and/or sabotaged yourself throughout your entire life. Perhaps you don't like the person you've become.
Listen, you are okay. Accept that you're okay because if you don't the ego can manipulate you even more. If that happens, a few years from now, you may find yourself even farther off track. That's what the ego wants. It wants to push you off your path and it'll use negative self-judgment to do so. The ego gains tremendous power when you negatively judge yourself from within. So much so that it can even cause you to abuse yourself with alcohol, drugs, food, and other addictions. It becomes an internal battle. Your ego will battle you to see how strong you are and how strong your spirit is over it. When you succumb to self-abuse, you can end up judging yourself even more.
The arsenal of painful feelings that are born out of negative self-judgment (such as; guilt, regret, sadness, self-hatred, and so on) can scare you back into old patterns. It can have you thinking that you should run back to the life you lived before and go back to being who you were before-when the ego was in charge. Of course it's going to try to convince you to do that because it wants total control. It wants to prove that it's stronger than you; but, you know you're stronger than your ego. You're doing the work, you're evolving. You've been making progress, don't go backwards. Keep going, keep growing, and accept yourself fully.
Accept who you were. If, in the past you weren't living in alignment with your true purpose, it's okay. Remember, you didn't have the tools back then or the awareness of how the ego was manipulating you. Now you do. Accept it. Accept who you are today. Who you are today is a person deserving of happiness, joy, and peace. You're someone who is worthy of love and compassion from both yourself and others. Accept that as well. Also accept who you can become. You can now begin designing a life of your own creation. Begin to live your you.
That's what the key of acceptance will allow you to do. It will enable you to change the way you think about yourself and others. It'll free you from the internal struggle that has thus far created obstacles and blocked you from living the life of your dreams. It'll allow you to release all negative judgments and, as a result, accept yourself completely.
I am a deserving person, and I am capable of self examination instead of negative
judgment.
Chapter 3
The Key of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is understanding that you cannot go back and change the past; and it's acknowledging that those experiences-whether negative or positive, emotional, physical, psychological, or spiritual-were meant to teach you how to be who you are in this moment. You need to understand and accept that today you're the person you are because of the lessons you've learned. Once you accept those lessons-and learn from them-the negatives of yesterday will never affect you again. You won't carry doubt, fear, and guilt. Instead you'll be free. That freedom comes from forgiveness.
What we teach people to do is to look at their perceptions of their past and change it. Flip it around. We ask what they have learned; what they can take from their experiences; and how will they forgive themselves and all others in their lives who have done something wrong or created a negative perception within. This helps people get past judgment and when they can do that they're empowered; they can go forward.
Chapter 4
The Key Of Freedom
Freedom, Writing the letter that allows you to be Free.
My intention for this letter is to become more aware of my freedom
Now that I live without ego's control.
With that intention in mind, write your answers to the following three questions:
1. Who am I without ego's control? Who am I free to become?
2. Who do I want to be? I am perfect as I am what changes do I now want to make to be a better me?
3. What do I want out of this lifetime? Now that the self limiting thoughts are controlled, what do I want out of myself and my future?
My true self is now shinning through; I am no longer lost or hidden. I live now without fear of my own inner dialogue, I am free from the self limiting thoughts that had me controlled, fearful and riddled with guilt.
I love the person that I am now that I am free to know who I am and have always truly been. The past training of y life no longer controls my every step I take.
I am more understanding and accepting of others and able to love unconditionally now that I am free.
My life has direction and I am not afraid of where I am going, I am proud of the path I am on.
Being free of the past fears, guilt and anxieties allows me to create a future of abundance, peace and love. I am so grateful I am free to experience this journey without egos control.
Now that I have decided to free myself and move forward I see that I want to take care of as many people as I can, helping them as well to reach their freedom and be free from their blockages. I want to give to the world the chance to embrace the lessons and understand what they have learned so they can be along side with me as I grow and learn more without ego manipulating me.
Throughout this lifetime I always believed that I was a good teacher, and a wonderful healer, I am now living the life that I have dreamed of. I have a future goal to become a doctor and to reach that goal I live without fear that I will become a doctor of natural medicine.
I am proud that I live by my truth and that the past as tough as it was has not taken me away from being the person I knew I could be.
I now know that all that I want I can achieve and my past teachings cannot take anything away from me. I am free.
For so many years I was bound to the ways that others thought I should live, in one bad relationship after another. I always had the feeling as though I had to do so much just to be accepted. I had no self awareness, self esteem or self acceptance. Now I see myself as a wonderful, kind giving and thoughtful person. I am so capable, I now see how able I am to achieve. I am free to enjoy my life, and free to speak my truth, I am free to love who I am and who I am becoming. I no longer feel controlled by my ego, I am free, I now silence my ego with self awareness Self Acceptance, forgiveness and true inner peace.
I understand that I am a whole person not just part of who I was or who I was trained to be. I am now the person that always wanted to be, free and in control.
Chapter One
The Key of Awareness
Use the Key of Awareness to Free Yourself from Ego's Control
I'm aware that ego is a perception of the mind created by what I've seen, heard, and experienced in the past. I'm free to believe my own thoughts and release ego's control.
A hummingbird had flown into a garage through a door that had accidentally been left open. In trying to escape, the bird had gone to the window and was banging itself against the glass. Even when all of the remaining doors were opened and freedom was just a few meters away, the bird kept beating its wings and bumping its little body into the invisible barrier.
If you were to watch the bird unsuccessfully trying to get out through the closed window, you might be baffled by its foolishness. How could it continue to beat itself against the window and not realize that what it was doing wasn't going to work? It would seem so ridiculous. Yet, isn't it true that many people find themselves in similar predicaments? When feeling stuck in an unsatisfactory life situation, rather than stepping back for a moment and looking around for an open door, a new opportunity, or a way to make things better, they continue to throw themselves into the same barriers and repeat negative patterns again and again.
The reason they do so is that they believe what they think. They think things like: I've got no choice. This is just the way it is and there isn't anything I can do about it. Besides, if there was an open door, I couldn't walk through it. I don't have enough time or money. I'm not strong enough, smart enough, courageous enough, deserving enough, successful enough, or good-looking enough to do it. Even if I was-and if I did-what would other people think? These kinds of beliefs create a lot of fear and keep one trapped in dark places, trying to escape through the same closed window. Where do these self-defeating thoughts come from? They're generated by the ego.
Some individuals associate the word "ego" with being egotistical or vane. As a result, they believe they don't have an ego. However, everyone does-including you. Simply put, your ego is that inner-dialogue that tells you what you think about yourself, about others, and about the world. It's made of perceptions and beliefs which were formed in your past by other people's perceptions, rules, religions, and beliefs. Its creation began in your childhood and has continued to be shaped through to this very moment. You weren't born with an ego. However, as you grew, your mind absorbed everything you saw, heard, and experienced-all courtesy of other people's egos-and your own ego was developed.
What this means is the reason you think about and perceive things the way you do is because you were programmed to do so based on your experiences with others-your parents, your teachers, the media, the church, your neighbors, and everyone else you've ever encountered. To illustrate, imagine as a child you were regularly told by your parents that you were very stupid and incompetent. As an adult, what do you suppose you'll believe to be true about yourself? You'll likely view yourself as being stupid and incompetent. You could be extremely bright and yet feel fearful and insecure about your intelligence based on what your parents taught you to believe about yourself in the past.
Chapter Two
The Key of Acceptance
Use the Key of Acceptance to Release Negative Judgment
I no longer judge myself with the perceptions created by others. I am self loving, self accepting and aware of whom I truly am. I have released negative self judgment and am no longer under my egos control.
I now judge myself with positive emotions. I give myself love and understanding where today I judge myself based on my generosity, my kindness, and my lovingness.
Now that you're aware of who you are without ego, you may have come to the realization that you've been on the wrong path. Perhaps you see that you've not been living your true authentic self or you've discovered that you've held yourself in a negative pattern for many years. Maybe you've become aware of the fact that you've had low self-esteem, made mistakes, and/or sabotaged yourself throughout your entire life. Perhaps you don't like the person you've become.
Listen, you are okay. Accept that you're okay because if you don't the ego can manipulate you even more. If that happens, a few years from now, you may find yourself even farther off track. That's what the ego wants. It wants to push you off your path and it'll use negative self-judgment to do so. The ego gains tremendous power when you negatively judge yourself from within. So much so that it can even cause you to abuse yourself with alcohol, drugs, food, and other addictions. It becomes an internal battle. Your ego will battle you to see how strong you are and how strong your spirit is over it. When you succumb to self-abuse, you can end up judging yourself even more.
The arsenal of painful feelings that are born out of negative self-judgment (such as; guilt, regret, sadness, self-hatred, and so on) can scare you back into old patterns. It can have you thinking that you should run back to the life you lived before and go back to being who you were before-when the ego was in charge. Of course it's going to try to convince you to do that because it wants total control. It wants to prove that it's stronger than you; but, you know you're stronger than your ego. You're doing the work, you're evolving. You've been making progress, don't go backwards. Keep going, keep growing, and accept yourself fully.
Accept who you were. If, in the past you weren't living in alignment with your true purpose, it's okay. Remember, you didn't have the tools back then or the awareness of how the ego was manipulating you. Now you do. Accept it. Accept who you are today. Who you are today is a person deserving of happiness, joy, and peace. You're someone who is worthy of love and compassion from both yourself and others. Accept that as well. Also accept who you can become. You can now begin designing a life of your own creation. Begin to live your you.
That's what the key of acceptance will allow you to do. It will enable you to change the way you think about yourself and others. It'll free you from the internal struggle that has thus far created obstacles and blocked you from living the life of your dreams. It'll allow you to release all negative judgments and, as a result, accept yourself completely.
I am a deserving person, and I am capable of self examination instead of negative
judgment.
Chapter 3
The Key of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is understanding that you cannot go back and change the past; and it's acknowledging that those experiences-whether negative or positive, emotional, physical, psychological, or spiritual-were meant to teach you how to be who you are in this moment. You need to understand and accept that today you're the person you are because of the lessons you've learned. Once you accept those lessons-and learn from them-the negatives of yesterday will never affect you again. You won't carry doubt, fear, and guilt. Instead you'll be free. That freedom comes from forgiveness.
What we teach people to do is to look at their perceptions of their past and change it. Flip it around. We ask what they have learned; what they can take from their experiences; and how will they forgive themselves and all others in their lives who have done something wrong or created a negative perception within. This helps people get past judgment and when they can do that they're empowered; they can go forward.
Chapter 4
The Key Of Freedom
Freedom, Writing the letter that allows you to be Free.
My intention for this letter is to become more aware of my freedom
Now that I live without ego's control.
With that intention in mind, write your answers to the following three questions:
1. Who am I without ego's control? Who am I free to become?
2. Who do I want to be? I am perfect as I am what changes do I now want to make to be a better me?
3. What do I want out of this lifetime? Now that the self limiting thoughts are controlled, what do I want out of myself and my future?
My true self is now shinning through; I am no longer lost or hidden. I live now without fear of my own inner dialogue, I am free from the self limiting thoughts that had me controlled, fearful and riddled with guilt.
I love the person that I am now that I am free to know who I am and have always truly been. The past training of y life no longer controls my every step I take.
I am more understanding and accepting of others and able to love unconditionally now that I am free.
My life has direction and I am not afraid of where I am going, I am proud of the path I am on.
Being free of the past fears, guilt and anxieties allows me to create a future of abundance, peace and love. I am so grateful I am free to experience this journey without egos control.
Now that I have decided to free myself and move forward I see that I want to take care of as many people as I can, helping them as well to reach their freedom and be free from their blockages. I want to give to the world the chance to embrace the lessons and understand what they have learned so they can be along side with me as I grow and learn more without ego manipulating me.
Throughout this lifetime I always believed that I was a good teacher, and a wonderful healer, I am now living the life that I have dreamed of. I have a future goal to become a doctor and to reach that goal I live without fear that I will become a doctor of natural medicine.
I am proud that I live by my truth and that the past as tough as it was has not taken me away from being the person I knew I could be.
I now know that all that I want I can achieve and my past teachings cannot take anything away from me. I am free.
For so many years I was bound to the ways that others thought I should live, in one bad relationship after another. I always had the feeling as though I had to do so much just to be accepted. I had no self awareness, self esteem or self acceptance. Now I see myself as a wonderful, kind giving and thoughtful person. I am so capable, I now see how able I am to achieve. I am free to enjoy my life, and free to speak my truth, I am free to love who I am and who I am becoming. I no longer feel controlled by my ego, I am free, I now silence my ego with self awareness Self Acceptance, forgiveness and true inner peace.
I understand that I am a whole person not just part of who I was or who I was trained to be. I am now the person that always wanted to be, free and in control.