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Awakened Wisdom:
A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance
- The Workbook -
This Workbook belongs to:
_______________________________
Call us to discover how to awaken your organization.
We are human, on our journey home, back to the Divine. All of us have had moments in our lives when we’ve felt clear and connected to our Selves, those around us, and to our wisdom. If you recognize having had one of those moments, then you were most likely connected to your Divine Essence.
Divine Essence is that aspect of us that is clear, connected, open, resourceful, compassionate, wise, and joyful.
The Divine Essence is free from irrational fears, attachments, and aversions.
The Divine Essence is connected to and is one with Universal wisdom. The Divine Essence provides clarity and is connected to the “truth” of what is. We are talking about the real truth, not that which is imagined, illusionary, fabricated, or distorted.
The Divine Essence is not preoccupied with principles, egoist points, or being right, better than, less than, or anything that creates separation between beings.
The Divine Essence is connection, beauty, resonance, and congruency with the whole. The Divine Essence is in the present moment. Divine Essence is courageous, compassionate, generous, loving, and forgiving. Divine Essence experiences stillness.
The Divine Essence is our connection to the highest wisdom that is available in any given moment. As the Divine Essence is connected to Oneness, it is also able to recognize synchronicities (discussed in detail later on in this section)—coded messages and opportunities that the Universe is always sending to us.
Divine Essence is also willing to take risks, and therefore moves and guides us through life in a way that supports us in having a full life experience. The Universe is always available to connection, as One with us, and the Divine Essence is the portal to that connection to the Divine.
The full experience of Divine Essence is the closest we can reach as humans to the Divine. The Eight States of an Awakened life are outlined later in this workbook.
Distorted Self
Just as you recognized the experience of moments when you’ve been in touch with Divine Essence, you will surely also be familiar with those moments when you’ve felt disconnected, angry, judgmental, confused, or victimized in relation to others or things that have happened to you.
We have all had those moments, and they are indications that our Distorted Self has been activated. The more we slip into a distorted state the more we isolate to our Self. We create a chasm of separation between us and everyone and everything that could otherwise help us out of this state. The world becomes I versus you; we versus them. In a state of Distorted Self, we become victim or oppressor; superior or inferior; kinetic or comatose; distracted or afraid; unconscious or hyper-vigilant.
Distorted Self is an aspect of us that is commonly referred to as the inner critic, the committee, the saboteur, or the super ego. I will refer to it here as Distorted, or Distorted Self.
Have you ever looked into a mirror that’s been bent and shaped to create a distorted reflection? Perhaps the mirror was curved to make you look very tall, or tilted in such a way as to make you look short or skinny or fat. You probably laughed when you saw your Self this way because you knew it wasn’t an accurate depiction of who you are. That is what Distorted does.
It takes what is happening and changes it into something different. It creates a distorted view of what is. Distorted Self, therefore, uses misinformation to create paralysis, fear, shame, guilt, paranoia, and anger. The challenge for us is to recognize when Distorted is at work within us. Otherwise we believe its messages and take them as truth.
In any moment when change seems imminent, Distorted will rise up like a wave of negative energy and attempt to shrink us back. Distorted believes that no matter how bad things might seem, the status quo is better than risking a change and inviting in the unknown.
In contrast to the stillness that Divine Essence knows, Distorted Self will create stuckness that is absent of resourcefulness.
The experiences of the Distorted Self are those of judgment, superiority, victimization, emotional overwhelm, sleepiness, or the distraction of busyness—all to keep you disconnected from the present moment.
Divine Essence Versus Distorted Self
The trick is to know, in any given moment, whether you are operating from Divine Essence or from Distorted Self. There is often no clear line that indicates one or the other. There is a lot of opportunity for shades of both to be present in any given situation. What we are talking about here are the degrees to which each may or may not be influencing you in the situation you are in. The following chart shows that progression.