A 5 Minute Process to Accelerate Your Awakening…

The journey is essentially about turning the mind (ego) on itself—becoming self-observant—in order to shift the momentum of our energy from unconsciously operating out of a conditioned response to life to allowing a greater intelligence to inform our response to life, on a moment-to-moment basis.

Prior to embarking on the inner journey, we learn, from childhood onwards, how to respond to life in ways that protect our sense of identity. These early experiences quickly set the stage for the behavioral patterns that’ll drive us for the rest of our life (if we never challenge them).

Our ego is like a sponge that takes in all of the prevailing thoughts from the society, culture and family we’re born into, along with our experiences that contribute to the makeup of our psychological self and organizes them into the way in which we view ourselves and our relationship with the world.

From here, we associate who we are as this web of relationship between the thoughts we’ve learned to think and the experiences we’ve learned to define ourselves by. This is what creates the veil between knowing ourselves as a soul and falsely believing that we are our ego.

Our job is to dissolve this veil. And the primary way in which we accomplish this is through self-observation…turning the mind on itself by creating a splice in the conditioned consciousness so that something far grander can begin to flow through us.

When this happens, we move from acting out of fear (which is what preservation of the false self is) to extending out of love. Instead of using our time here to “get” what we need to secure the (false) self, we begin to use our time here to extend that which we are…love.

But before we can move into the full and total extension of love, we must heal our unconscious inclination “to get” that which we believe secures the (false) self by creating a shift in the momentum of our conscious awareness.

5 minutes is all it takes to begin…

Find a quiet space to sit where you won’t be disturbed (for five short minutes). And if you are disturbed, learn to release that disruption before ego can react against it.

Grab your iPhone (or smart phone) and set the timer for five minutes.

Close your eyes and begin to take a few slow deep breaths to calm your mind. To help focus the mind, say, “In my perfect wholeness and safety, I release all tension”. Repeat a few times, if needed.

Then, once you feel calm and focused, say “I dedicate myself to creating a shift in my consciousness.” I like to say this because it shows that I’m consciously choosing to be here, in this moment, and it reinforces my purpose for doing so. This helps to release any resistance that ego may try to kick up.

Then, move on to say, “In my perfect wholeness and safety, I dissolve my mind in the perfect peace of God”. You can say “ego” instead of “my mind” if that feels more comfortable.

The first few times you do this, you may just continue repeating these three things in any order that they come to you or that feels comfortable. Do not make this a rigid process because ego will either become identified with the process by owning it as “a spiritual thing that it does” or it will create a resistance towards the five minute process.

The objective is to set aside five minutes where you consciously enter into relationship with the truth of what you are, so that you open up to being more than the bundle of identifications that ego has claimed as your sense of self.

I’m calling this a meditation (more appropriately, a meditative exercise), but it could just as well be considered a prayer or a time to set aside and focus on your intention to connect with truth. It doesn’t matter how the process is labeled so long as its objective is met, which is to create a splice in the unconscious momentum of ego’s thought system, so that something new can enter.

Another variation on this process is to see your awareness as a pool of energy where you intentionally drop in the specific pebble that you want to use to create a ripple (versus unconsciously allowing the ripples to be made).

When I do this particular exercise, I focus on dropping in pebbles representing qualities that connect me with truth so that I consciously align with and extend those qualities either throughout the day ahead or towards an experience that I may be working through that has caused me some degree of frustration.

In this scenario, I imagine dropping in pebbles for “love”, “a state of perfect forgiveness”, “an equanimous mind, where I’m rooted in the peace that passes all understanding”, “joy”, “bliss”, “abundance”, “expansiveness”, “unlimitedness”, etc.

If, in your five minute exercise, you begin to feel the stirring of something that you know to be of ego, that’s okay. You’re being guided to things that require healing. Focus on embracing what comes up as that which needs to be worked on in order to continue shifting the momentum of your consciousness.

Allow yourself to go into the things that are coming up or set them aside for another time to go into them. The most important thing is to embrace and accept what comes up, knowing that it’s a part of the healing process. (Going into the things that come up will likely extend to longer than five minute sessions).

Five minutes is easy to put off because it seems like you could easily make time for it later. However, I encourage you to see the five minutes as something that can easily be made a priority now. Make it a part of your morning routine so that it can set the tone for your day.

As soon as I started doing this process, I loved it so much that I just wanted to come back to it more and more so I started doing it a few times a day. It’s a great way to set the tone for the day, to get back to being centered if something took you out, to work on a specific issue or situation that keeps cropping up or to cap off your day.

I just can’t say enough positive things about this exercise! It’s time efficient…only five short minutes! And it’s super powerful in its ability to accelerate your awakening, since it creates (and steadily builds upon) a gap between how you thought when you were fully asleep and how you’ll think when you’re fully awake.

To using time constructively,

Shanna