Creating A Non-Ordinary Day
The point of creating a non-ordinary day involves the movement into a higher spiritual state with new perceptions and greater joy. Over time, you can incorporate a few of these practices into your life.
1) Begin with connection. Express gratitude for the marvelous feeling of life (even if you don’t feel this way – it will change in time.) If you have enough time, have a glass of water, a shower and maintain contact with your body by sending love to it.
2) Take five or ten minutes to sit outdoors. Focus on the visualization of your desired life.
3) Send light to those that you love. The universe returns all energy so we receive a blessing when helping others, but eventually the practice gives joy.
4) As your mind begins to give mental suggestions for the day, it’s good to envision tasks easily completed with a feeling of energetic happiness.
5) Practice seeing your work as a universal service and give your best. Imagine light flowing through you and your work.
6) Take a break during the day for a walk or exercise. Re-connect with the Universe and let the energy flow into you and into your work.
7) There is rarely a day without a difficulty, problem or irritation. We can begin by refusing to interact with the problem or by sending light to the problem. It’s important to realize that problems reflect an aspect of our consciousness (however small) and contribute to our personal growth. It’s best to wait a few minutes before responding. If you feel anger or burdened or sad, ask what part of you is experiencing this and what is a higher vision for the problem? See the solution and detach for a while.
8) Examine your energy level several times during the day. What would give more energy? What activities increase your energy level? Who, what and where lessens it? What is your level of identification with what other people think, feel or say?
9) Imagine that you make new exciting contacts – friends, professionals or others – who make your work day and progress easier.
10) Rest and meditate again in the afternoon or early evening. Exercise, call on the angels and find a task or hobby that is fulfilling. Rest and enjoy the process of relaxing.
11) Review the day from evening to morning and change whatever it is that was uncomfortable to happy or enlivening. See yourself waking on the next morning as feeling rested and relaxed. Give thanks for the day.
How We Create Our Ordinary (Day to Day) Reality
1) We begin with our identification on the time/space continuum line. All of us have chosen a time and space because we resonate with it, whether or not it serves us. But we see and feel that location as well as the furniture, the resonance of the place and the people around us. There is usually a part of us that feels this time/space location is either safe or a good place to evolve.
2) As our day begins with the movement from sleep to wakefulness, we usually begin to run on an ego pattern of brushing our teeth, dressing and a series of movements that defines our day.
3) Identification with the outward world results from our pattern of interaction with others, a series of actions and series of thoughts and feelings with which we measure ourselves and our day. How do we look? How do we feel? How do others react to us and how quickly are we moving through the series of actions?
4) During this time, we also resonate with problems, rarely “receiving solutions” but searching mentally for them, while judging ourselves and the other people who are involved in our definition of the problem. (It should be made clear that the societal method of dealing with problems simply doesn’t work.)
5) We rarely stop, except for perhaps meditation or with those we love, on this strange clock of movement that we call life. It is easy to see that if most of our movement is outwardly turned toward action or inwardly in self-measurement that we never connect with the “Big Energy”, which brings miracles, an incredible vibration of joy and love and impossible answers.