From Alignment to Enlightenment: The Path to Joy and Peace focuses on spiritual empowerment and how to create pragmatic solutions to life’s challenges operating from the position of the soul as opposed to the body. We are all spiritual beings having human experiences. Alignment is about being centered, grounded, and in line with who you truly are. Enlightenment is about being completely aware of what is authentically true. We manage our own realities of peace or chaos based on how we align with who we truly are and whether or not we remain aware of that truth. From Alignment to Enlightenment provides insights to becoming more in touch with the authentic you so we see situations, circumstances, and realities for what they truly are, with activities at the ends of several chapters to implement what you just read. It is a practical guide to living life in joy, peace, love, and tranquility, no matter the circumstance.
From Alignment to Enlightenment
The Path to Joy and Peace
By Gene BlackAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2017 Gene Black and Edward Muhammad
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5246-9504-0Contents
Purpose and Perceptions,
Chapter 1 Remembering Your Purpose, 7,
Chapter 2 Escaping the Matrix, 11,
Chapter 3 Tell Your Thoughts What to Think, 14,
Chapter 4 Circumstances Don't MATTER, 18,
Chapter 5 Your Five Senses Don't Tell You the Whole Truth, 22,
Chapter 6 Protect Your Perceptions, 27,
Chapter 7 Stop 'Telling It Like It Is' and Tell a New Story, 32,
Chapter 8 Lose Your Luggage, 37,
Chapter 9 Give Up the Struggle, 41,
Chapter 10 The Paradigm Shift: Aligning Conscious Thought, 46,
Chapter 11 Where the Unicorns Live, 50,
Chapter 12 Who Are You, 54,
Chapter 13 The Package or The Product, 58,
Chapter 14 Us vs. Them, 61,
Energy and Emotions,
Chapter 15 The Eternal Guidance System (EGS), 69,
Chapter 16 Lose Control, 72,
Chapter 17 Vibration Basics, 76,
Chapter 18 Loving Unconditionally, 78,
Chapter 19 Is That Your Primary Desire, 81,
Chapter 20 What Is Learned From a Mother's Love, 84,
Chapter 21 What's Love Got To Do With It, 89,
Chapter 22 'Take Good Care of Yourself', 93,
Chapter 23 Love as a Primary Emotion, 97,
Chapter 24 The Potter or the Clay — Creation, 101,
Chapter 25 Empathy and Empowerment, 105,
Alignment,
Chapter 26 Remove the Speed Bumps of Resistance, 115,
Chapter 27 The Path of Least Resistance, 118,
Chapter 28 The Answer Is You, 121,
Chapter 29 Align for Your Best Stroke at Life, 123,
Chapter 30 Align with What? And How?, 126,
Chapter 31 Is Your Belief Serving or Limiting You, 130,
Chapter 32 Pay Me in Gratitude, 135,
Chapter 33 Alignment — The Midas Touch, 139,
Chapter 34 What if ..., 142,
Chapter 35 Find Peace in Meditation, 147,
Chapter 36 The Exercise, 152,
Chapter 37 The Power of Appreciation, 156,
Chapter 38 Getting Comfortable in the Uncomfortable, 160,
Enlightenment,
Chapter 39 Decision Making Made Easy, 169,
Chapter 40 Change or Transformation, 171,
Chapter 41 Living From the Inside Out vs. the Outside In, 175,
Chapter 42 Mindful Parenting: Consciously Raising Our Children and Ourselves, 180,
Chapter 43 The Eye of the Storm, 184,
Chapter 44 Knowing What You Really Want, 187,
Chapter 45 Marry Yourself and Divorce Your Ego, 191,
Chapter 46 We Are God's Reality Show, 194,
Chapter 47 The Anatomy of Anger, the Construct of Bliss, 198,
Chapter 48 Turning Thoughts Into Things, 202,
Chapter 49 Karma, 206,
Chapter 50 The Caterpillar and The Butterfly, 210,
Chapter 51 I Am, 214,
Chapter 52 The Sweetness of Living This Life, 218,
CHAPTER 1
Remembering Your Purpose
Often, I ask my children, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" Having three boys in a 5-year time span, they tend to respond in similar ways that I did when I was their ages; policeman, fireman, basketball star, or like my youngest replied one day, "I'm going to go to work where YOU work." This seems so innocent, which it is at this age and as it should be. But do you find yourself later in life searching for your true purpose? Do you look back on when your parents asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up and do you recall how you responded? Can you look at your current job and say, "YES! I ALWAYS planned on doing this!" Most of us can't say that and it doesn't mean we've made wrong decisions or that we are not happy with what we do. But let's take a journey to truly remembering your purpose for being here.
Let's first establish some truths:
• Regardless of religious preference, we all have a soul, that part of you that exists without tangible proof that you know it exists within yourself. It can be qualified as your conscious, your spirit, your heart. It exists within each of us.
• Your soul is everlasting and eternal. Your soul is ethereal. Your soul communes with God, Allah, Source Power, Jehovah, etc.
• Your soul lived somewhere else (Heaven, paradise, etc.) before you were born to your parents.
• Your body has an expiration date. Your body houses your soul. Your body is perishable while your soul is indestructible on this Earth.
• You chose to come here for a reason. You chose to live in physical form for a time. You chose to come manifest in physical form.
The question to ask yourself is. ... why?
Some people's purposes are obvious: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Michael Jordan, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey. But what about the everyday man/woman? You CHOSE to come here for a reason. You CHOSE to create, manifest, and construct from the ethereal to the physical. We tend to forget why we came. The imagination of a child is not naive and uneducated. The imagination of a child is more aligned with the truths of our souls. We grow up and adopt limits on our lives. We should remember the times when there were no limitations on what we could do or create. THIS is our true selves — no boundaries on creation. No limits or glass ceilings. Just a simple understanding that what can be conceived can be created.
Today we almost walk like the horses that pull carriages in cities with the side blinders on as to not be distracted by our surroundings. These side blinders are self-inflicted limits: "I can't pursue my real passion because I have a mortgage." Or "I can't do what I really want because I don't know how I'll get paid." Or "I could NEVER do that because I'm not trained or educated or certified. So I'll just stay where I am and grind it out." Self-inflicted.
Your soul is everlasting, eternal, ethereal, non-perishable, and indestructible in this Earth. You are a powerful being who has been stunted by believing the limitations of your body are also the limitations of your soul. Break free of these thoughts. Who you REALLY are is not the reflection you see in the mirror. Who you REALLY are is the soul that lives within the body. Recognize and understand the power you possess. Remembering your purpose puts you in alignment with who you truly are and why you decided to come here.
So how do you remember your purpose? It's very simple. Ask yourself: What is your passion? What energizes you? What would you do every day of your life even if you didn't get paid to do it? Sing? Write? Dance? Act? Help the homeless? Sweep floors? Clean houses? Save animals? Teach? There are no wrong answers. "But I've got to make a living and I can't follow my passion and make a living!" This is what many people would say. And in doing so, you've just put the horse blinders back on your face.
Invest time in yourself. Take the knowledge you have right now at whatever age you are and go back to when you were 6 years old, free of all boundaries, and ask yourself, "What do I want to do when I grow up?" Discover it all over again. There are no wrong answers. The hardest part of this will be discovering what it is you would do every day without getting paid, discovering your true passion. But it is there. It exists within you and it is asking for you to acknowledge it. You WILL find it. And when you do find it, you'll be more aligned with why you chose to come here. This will be your purpose/s. Now, how do you activate it?
Activate your true passion by focusing on it without limitations, without boundaries, and...
