Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential

Finding yourself is a paradox. You become your real, Higher Self by putting your personal goals second and the Higher World’s first. Only in this role of helping and service do you expand into full aliveness. And only in this fully alive state can you be a bridge between the Higher and Lower Worlds.

But that’s what’s so devious about Part X. By getting you to give in to one “harmless” urge after another, Part X is creating something much more dangerous: a self-indulgent way of life.

Whatever habit you choose, close your eyes and admit it: “This habit is evil; it hurts people, damages my relationships, and diminishes me as a human being. There is no excuse for it.” Take note of how that admission feels. • Now imagine admitting that truth every time you lapse into the habit. How does that feel?

watch what happens when you do try to restrain your urges. Try this: • Put yourself in the state of craving you experienced in the last exercise. Feel the insatiable hunger driving you to get whatever it is you want. • Now imagine holding back—forbidding yourself from getting what you want. • Notice what your reaction is: how does it feel to be den

As the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius said, “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

we described the archetypal Mother as the cosmic force of love in the universe. The archetypal Father is the cosmic force of fate.

The Black Sun This tool can free you from one of Part X’s most potent weapons—your own impulses. DEPRIVATION: Feel the deprivation of not getting what you want, as intensely as possible. Then let go of the thing you want. Forget about the outside world—let it disappear. EMPTINESS: Look inside yourself. What was a feeling of deprivation is now an en

If you’re convinced your future is bleak, then nothing you do in the present is going to amount to anything anyway, so why bother doing it?

activate your Higher Self. Here are three of the biggest ways you can do that: • Giving to someone when you have nothing to gain for yourself • Performing generous acts that no one is aware of (even the recipient) • Helping someone else at a personal cost (for example, canceling your vacation in order to stay with a close friend who is ill)