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" Michael Assedo has been a modern spiritual teacher for 30 years in Jerusalem, and a contributor to the spiritual capital's leading online magazines. He teaches simple higher wisdom for both internal and physical, material enjoyment. His wisdom is not a derivative of any tradition; he was born with the knowledge he shares. Without a single business card, but by word of mouth, his lectures, meditations, and consultations have lit-up folks around the world. Lara Sragow is a Columbia, Cornell, and UCLA trained health and wellbeing expert from New York City and Los Angeles. She has taught many walks of life (executives to kids) three main keys (meditation, nutrition, and fitness), through multimedia (speaking, writing, and television). Her longtime professional practice, Lara Life, helps unlock the potential in your life. She has also coauthored The Core, as the writer, capturing its higher wisdom in plain language."

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The Core

BALBOA PRESS

Contents

Preface from Lara..................................ixPreface from Michael...............................xiiiIntroduction.......................................xvii1. Awaken Your Core................................32. Think Inside a New Box..........................123. Inhale..........................................204. Own Your Reality Show...........................285. Meet Your Real Needs............................366. Look in the Inner Mirror........................447. Never Mind......................................518. Metabolize Not Visualize........................579. Don't Fear the Fear.............................6310. Love the Now...................................6911-16. Remember the Rest...........................75Summary............................................8617. Reprioritize Money.............................9118. Expand Your Circle.............................9819. Don't Push the Dancer..........................10220. Meet Yourself..................................10921. Open to Your Soul Mates........................11622. Agree to Disagree..............................12323. Eat Light for More Might.......................12924. Make Your Body Your Window.....................13525. Lead without Carrying..........................14126. Practice.......................................147Conclusion.........................................153

Chapter One

Picture that classic angel and devil (or what I call angel and animal) on each shoulder. Animals are simple. They have animalistic needs and abilities. We call it survival of the fittest. Angels are simple. They have angelic needs and abilities, which are not just about surviving but thriving and not just about the fittest but the lightest, highest, or other measures. The struggle, of course, is that we are part angel and part animal with simultaneous yet opposing needs. As we know all too well, this is the complexity and conflict of being human.

As I explained in the introduction, with evolving consciousness we finally have a new need, ability, and capability. It is to embody our angelic side within our animalistic side and the physical world around us. We can finally ground our higher, brighter, mightier creative forces within our daily world, reaping all the vitality, freedom, success, and joy they bring.

Until now, the angel and the devil (again, what I call the angel and the animal) have been depicted on each shoulder. Metaphorically speaking, however, they were not even on each shoulder. We could have depicted our angelic voice as somewhere up above us, and our animalistic voice as our physical body and instincts.

Now the metaphor and its depiction have upgraded. Now our inner angel is not inherently on one shoulder or even up above us. It can be increasingly grounded within our physical body. And in turn, our inner animal is not inherently on the other shoulder or even just our physical body and instincts. It can be our physical body embodying our inner angel. In other words, we can become a much better laboratory intermixing these two sides of us than ever before, for new and improved joy inside and out.

Myth vs. Truth #1

The first myth is that the higher forces, sources, and resources reside just above us. The universal truth is that they reside within us to the extent that we cultivate them. The related myth is that our purpose lies in doing something specific. The universal truth is that our purpose lies in cultivating our forces, sources, and resources, no matter what we do.

First, let me clarify a few terms. That angel on one shoulder is our higher wisdom. It is the high road. It is the voice of our higher self. It is the voice of our soul, our spirit, and our heart, depending on what you chose to call it. In the field of spirituality, these terms are oftentimes used interchangeably. (Technically, they are all different angles of our inner angel.)

As I will explain below, this whole continuum—our inner angel, higher self, soul, spirit, heart, or whatever you chose to call it—is the most powerful creative force and spark within us. Throughout this book, I call this continuum simply our spiritual side. And what I teach is the awareness of how it works in daily life for more satisfaction.

On the opposite side, that little devil on the other shoulder (or animal, as I call it) is our lower self. It is our animal instinct, body, ego, mind, and fear thinking in terms of food, sexuality, and money (even though animals only think about food and sexuality, since they do not need money).

Our core is the intersection of these two spiritual and physical continuums within us. Our core is our inner angel flowing through our inner animal. Our core is our heart flowing through our ego, and soon. Our core is not just the inter section of who we are. It's the center of who we are. It is the middle line of our body and being from our lips down to our hips, along but in front of our spine. It is also our inner screen, from where we project and receive double of what we have projected (which I will explain in "Own Your Reality Show").

The significance of this new time is that the consciousness has been raising and accelerating, such that this merging is more possible than ever. As I said in the beginning, let's say that our inner angel has been above us (instead of on one shoulder) and our inner animal has been our physical body (instead of on the other shoulder). We could say that our inner angel has been like a yo-yo, in and out of our body, rather than rooted within it.

How rooted it has been has depended upon our level of awareness, which until now has not been very much (generally speaking). Additionally, the relationship has been more vertical than horizontal. Meaning, we may have focused on aligning with this part of us during a particular timeslot, like in a class or when reading a book. However, then expanding it outwardly in to the day-to-day, nitty-gritty material world through business, relationships, and so forth has not been so easy.

Now, however, we can finally embody our own angelic avatars and their creative forces even within the daily grit and grind. These forces, which we had considered to exist outside of us and which actually did to a large extent, can now operate from our core more than ever if we foster it. They always could to some extent but at a fraction of our potential. Now after thousands of years, all of us from humans to animals to plants are privy to this ability, as a natural spiritual evolution. Just as this last creation began with the separation from it, this new emerging world ushers in the unification of it.

This is why bigger things are finally possible that previously were not, not just collectively but individually. We always knew bigger and better things were possible, but it was always difficult to fully reach them. We always had the right ideas, but there was still too large of a gap between these two continuums with in us. That gap is narrowing more and more with each and every day.

You could compare this shift to when more primitive humans evolved into more advanced human beings. Only now, we humans can become more like angels, not up in the clouds but here down on earth. Yet this does not mean we are becoming saints or monks who sacrifice good food, good romance, or good business. Rather, it entails expanding our spirit through the material world instead of by transcending it. And it...