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two back-packs, and $3000.00. We bought our tickets and put our bikes on the plane and headed for Hawaii. Upon reaching Hawaii we got on our bikes and headed into Honolulu to look for jobs and to swim on those beautiful beaches. It took us a week to find jobs that would temporarily tide us over until we could find what it was we really wanted to do. Eventually my higher self graduated the stakes of its requests as my confidence in myself and my trust in my higher self grew. On one such occasion years later, my higher self communicated to me that it wanted me to go to Japan and get the Flower of Life started there. At the time, I had no money. I remember saying to myself, "I wonder how higher self is going to work this one out?" Within a few days I had a ticket to Tokyo and I had borrowed $300. In October of 1993, I landed in Tokyo, Japan and stayed for 3 months. To make a long story short, I was successful in getting the Flower of Life started there. The lessons and adventures I experienced opened me up to a whole new way of being. There are many such stories I would like to share but we need to get back to the higher self. Communicating with the higher self is an ongoing process of refinement and discernment in three distinct areas. These are: Refining our ability to sense and receive the subtle communication. Refining the clarity of the message. Refining our ability to remain in the receptive state. Refining our abilities in these three areas enables us to more clearly sense or tune into the higher self, more accurately receive the messages, and reside more consistently within the receptive state during the course of our day. It has been said that, "The highest form of art is being receptive to higher inspiration." For now I will cover only one area as there is so much to cover within each area. Refining Our Ability to Sense and Receive Subtle Communication A: The Mind When we afford ourselves a moment to stop the mind's constant mental chatter, it reverts to a state of quiet calmness or inactivity. This calmness or inactivity has a benefit that promotes receptivity. When we recognize the moment we attain this mentally quiet state and how we ventured into it, it can be refined into a heightened state of receptivity that becomes more familiar and easier to access. Breaking the merry-go-round of mental activity and juggling our daily priorities with the emotional stresses they bear upon us is similar to observing a lake. When the high winds blow upon the waters, an endless series of waves bounce across the surface. The wind and wave action create currents under the water's surface and dredge up the loose mud, which in turn clouds the water. This is very similar to the state of being constantly preoccupied with mental chatter and fixated on keeping ourselves busy with an endless list of priorities that need to be done now. The amount of internal pressure and preoccupation we place upon ourselves to accomplish the list of priorities keeps our attention, focus, and emotions locked into the mundane and away from our inspiration.
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