We want to go from being externally focused to internally focused—from looking outside of ourselves to sense how others perceive us, to looking within ourselves to sense and feel who we really are. Only then do we awaken to and become who we really are.

When we resolve them, we gain access to higher-frequency qualities of our true nature, such as courage, forgiveness, compassion, love, creativity, acceptance, and joy. It’s by going through difficult situations that we progressively express more as the true spirit being.

Everything exists in what my colleague the biophysics researcher Dr. James Oschman, in his book Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, calls a living matrix—in layers of interconnectedness.

I knew that I was unharmed by this turn of events. Everything was going to be okay. I knew from experience that what had seemed so devastating a moment ago would ultimately be beneficial to me in a larger, more complete context.

There is evidence that the physical universe is expanding. Your life is part of the universal creation, as is your consciousness, and they too are always expanding. Some scientists, myself included, interpret this to mean that we are constantly evolving. We are always waking up. This means that everything that happens in your life is serving that

Any trouble spots are not “broken” things that need to be healed or fixed, but rather questions whose answers need to be set free from deep inside you and allowed to rise into your conscious awareness.

this act of bringing my attention to the core of my body is a practice called pratyahara, taught by masters of consciousness

The irony of this is that, when we throw all our energy and attention onto something or someone, it actually pushes them away.

Each density within your system is a piece of your magnificence, pocketed away. Each has within it a special part of your wholeness that will make you more at home within yourself and in the world.