More on Your Own Bliss

Ten Steps to Your Own Bliss:
1 Decide what kind of day you want and what kind of feelings you want to have. Tell yourself, “I will make no decisions by myself.”
2 Be still and listen for the answer you get. The answer may come in any form – a voice, a picture, an external sign, or just a sense of knowingness. The answer is everywhere and you may find it anywhere.
3 If you have a problem, then the answer you get may not resolve the problem in the manner you wanted. As a result, have no investment in the answer to any question you ask. Accept the answer you get and be patient. All things will aid you in discovering the truth. Keep an open mind.
4 Periodically, throughout the day think about the kind of day you would like to experience. And then say to yourself, “If I make no decisions by myself, then this is the day that will be given to me.” If in doubt, just listen. Allow the day to flow.
5 If you are unwilling to be patient for an answer, then you have already judged for yourself. If so, then realize that you have asked a question by yourself and determined the answer in your own terms. The right answer is not forced upon you. Instead, it comes with a willingness to listen. If you are upset, it is because your perception is wrong. When you criticize what you see, your bliss pathway will become invisible.
6 Once again, remember the kind of day you want and recognize that something has now occurred which is not a part of it. As a result, just let your question go.
7 If you can’t let your question go, then you can at least begin to change your mind by saying the following: “At least I can decide that I do not like how I feel now.”
8 As a result, realize that your judgment may have been wrong. This will remind you that internal guidance is not being forced on you. Instead, it is something you need because you do not like the way you feel.
9 Until you reach this point, you will think that your happiness depends upon your being right. But now you can discern that you would be better off if you were wrong. As a result, you can say in perfect honesty, “I want another way to look at this.”
10 The final step is to acknowledge that you are not opposed to being helped and ask, “Perhaps there is another way to look at this. What can I lose by asking?” Listen with assurance. You must desire to change your perception of the world and be willing to see another way.

This ten step procedure was adapted from A Course in Miracles and from Lee Coit’s Listening. To learn more about listening to your inner voice, I recommend the tape program, Listening, Accepting Being, by Lee Coit click here for more of his work