In the Toltec tradition there are two ways of accessing information – stalkers just know or receive a block of information while dreamers have visions or dreams about information. When I was a student I often felt like I was missing something when we would do a meditation. I wouldn’t see images like many of the other students. Eventually I realized I was a stalker – I seldom saw images, but I often had insights and an awareness that transcended my thought process.

One way to view life is as a dream. In lucid dreaming the dreamer awakens in the dream and can begin to direct the dream instead of passively wandering through the dreamscape. I think of life as an opportunity to live lucidly. If we awaken in the dream of our life we can begin to actively create our experience, we can choose our actions rather than reacting to life.

Whether we are a stalker or a dreamer we still see life through our filter system. We never experience life directly. Once we realize that we can begin to awaken, we can begin to see our filter system for what it is and modify it. The more clearly we see our filter system the more easily we can transform our life. Seeing the dream rather than being caught up in it is a process that allows us to move toward personal freedom.

We are free, but only once we know what freedom really is.

With love,
Susan

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It takes a village to raise a child. It often takes us finding our ‘tribe’ to achieve a deep sense of spiritual connection. Each one of us must walk our own unique path alone, but to become one with the universe we must do it together.

As a species we seem much more comfortable following a path then blazing our own. I have observed many paradoxes on my spiritual path and perhaps one of the greatest is we need to find our own path yet do it together. That is the magic of moving beyond domination and into the realm of dominion and interdependency.

Be aware of when you are following or leading – heads and tails of the same coin. Focus on finding that place within yourself where you know who and what you are. A sense of at oneness springs forth from that connection. Leading and following develop from a sense of separation.

No matter what we think or feel – at the energy level we are all one. Tap into the energy and let it guide you. This planet is one big community – imagine what the world would be like if we all lived as if that were so.

With love,
Susan

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What is it you want? If you want to be loved then love yourself and others – be loving. If you want freedom allow yourself to feel freedom and then make your choices from that sense of freedom. Allow yourself to be whatever it is you want.

The world is a vast energy system and if we do allow ourselves to be what we want – what we want shows up a lot faster. You are constantly broadcasting energy. If you broadcast the energy of ‘want’ you will get back the desire to want something, but if you broadcast the energy of having what you want you will have it.

A wonderful analogy is music on the radio. If you want to listen to jazz, tune into a jazz station. If you consistently tune into a heavy metal station expecting to hear jazz you will be disappointed.

Get clear about what you want then tune into that station. Feel yourself having what you want and it will be yours. The universe always gives us exactly what we ask for it is just that what we ask for is consistent with our filter system which is not necessarily what we would like to have.

With love,
Susan

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One of the meanings of the word passage is the right, permission, or power to come and go freely. In our life our filter system can deny us that permission without our conscious awareness of that denial. Until we retrain our mind can’t begin to be aware of all the limitless possibilities life holds.

Our filter system is composed of our beliefs, agreements and assumptions. Once we make an assumption our course of action is dictated by that assumption. If we believe something to be true we won’t even entertain other possibilities. We tend to keep our agreements even when we aren’t consciously aware of them. Life is only limited by our filter system. We don’t see life at all what we really see is our own filter system.

There is a very simple exercise that can increase your possibilities and grant you free passage into the limitless nature of reality. This exercise is from my book Mastering the Toltec Way:

Changing your Habits and Routines

We tend to be creatures of habit, even if our habit is to not have habits. Experiment with breaking your habits and routines.

Go to work a new way
If you’re usually on time be late, if you’re late be early
If you’re a vegetarian eat meat – if you’re a meat eater don’t
Change the way you dress
Put your clothes on inside out
Don’t comb your hair
If you meditate every day don’t, if you don’t do

Decide to change your habits and routines for a week and see how long you remember to change them.

The Toltec tradition is really a method of retraining your mind so you can create your reality from your spirit instead of your mind. Which is in charge of your life right now – your mind or your spirit?

With love,
Susan

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Ten simple steps to finding Happiness, Freedom and Joy

1. Breathing. Pause frequently during the day and take a deep breath. It is so easy to get caught up with the events of the day and forget to take the time to connect with ourselves, no less our spirit. The simple act of taking a long, slow, mindful breath will allow us to do just that.

2. Choice. Each moment of our life is an opportunity to make a choice. We can choose thoughts that allow us to feel stressed, disconnected, and unhappy or we can begin to train our minds to think thoughts that bring peace.

3. Perspective. How we look at life dictates how we feel and the choices we make. If you change your perspective everything changes and nothing changes simultaneously. Dominion is a way of looking at life in which the problem and the solution becomes one and in which happiness becomes second nature. Symbolically dominion is represented as a sphere. Today imagine yourself looking at life from a different spot on the sphere and see what happens.

4. Gratitude. When we are truly grateful fear no longer exists. If you find yourself stuck in traffic be grateful you have a car. Whatever you ‘hate’ in your life find a way to be grateful for it.

5. Emotional Neutrality. Nothing in life inherently has an emotion attached to it. All of our emotions are based on what we tell ourselves about the events in our life. If you don’t like how you are feeling at any given moment – notice what you’ve been telling yourself and tell yourself something different.

6. Eyes of love. We can see life through the eyes of love or the eyes of fear. Practice asking yourself, “How can I see this through the eyes of love?”

7. Meditating. Instead of fitting your spiritual practices into your life why not fit your life around your spiritual practice? Set aside a specific time each day to meditate and then sit back and relax. You will find you have more time not less when connecting with your spirit becomes a priority rather than an occasional after thought.

8. Discernment. You are constantly talking to yourself – at times you are more aware of your self-talk than others. Ask yourself, “Is this the voice of fear or the voice of love?” Learn to listen to the voice of love more often than the voice of fear.

9. Letting go. As the Buddha said – all suffering is caused by our attachment. In life you can let go of outcomes, people’s behaviors, and events in two ways. If you have something in your hand you can let go with your palm facing up and it remains in your hand or you can let go with your palm facing down and it falls away. Practice letting go of life with your palm down and see what happens.

10. Do you want to be right or happy? Your beliefs and perspective often make those choices mutually exclusive. Before you decide to act today notice if you really want to be right or if you really want to be happy then decide accordingly.

With love,
Susan

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