It is recommended that once you have chosen the subject you wish to focus on, whether inspiration, challenge or both, you stay with that subject until you experience some manner of opening occur inside you.

The main point is to use the moment to elevate your own thinking and feeling.

If we choose something inspiring, like the action or life of a person whom we deeply admire, or perhaps a book, film or beautiful song, or something in nature, then our contemplation will begin to lift us up. It will raise our spirit, elevate our mood and suffuse us with a sense of peace and wonder. This is one major purpose of learning and

There are many things we can use as a point of focus for contemplation, and there are two main approaches we can take. We can choose something that inspires us or we can choose something that challenges us.

the facts are self-evident — the way we think determines the reality that coalesces around us. Our attitude moulds our thought forms. Like the world weather, a high-pressure system pushes the clouds away, whereas a lowpressure system attracts them. In the same way a clear mind repels confusion, doubt and negativity.

Likewise, a positive thought pattern such as ‘all human beings are essentially good at heart’ can create and attract a very different set of relationships and life experiences.

Through the universal law of affinity, we attract certain thought patterns through the mental dimension.

Imagine that your mind is a kind of radiant sheath that surrounds your physical body. It extends from every cell of your body and it permeates your body. Perhaps this ‘mental body’ extends far out into the room in which you are currently sitting. From this alternative view, you are living inside your mind instead of the other way around. Other

When you enter a temple or a library or a museum, usually you are asked to leave your baggage at the door. This is a symbolic act as well as a practical necessity. Similarly, we enter the inner temple of our mind having taken our shoes off first. It’s important to understand that you are not being asked to change your views or opinions, or to