The Wake Up Book--Excerpt

Among the beautiful spiritual traditions of

many Native American tribes, seven

directions are recognized. In addition to

the standard four are added Above (Sky)

and Below (Earth). The Wake Up Book

is the most challenging and rewarding of

any that we might take our attention:

Within.

If you allow it, this book can be your

framework to discovering the depth of this

wondrous and powerful direction.

This book can help you to do that only if you are willing to be guided not by anyone else’s words, but by your own heart.

Book introduction:

It can be a bumpy road along the path to Oneness.  And it can be increasingly smoothed by ones’ intention, more and more integrated, to claim this Oneness.

Our willingness to play power games with ourselves and each other slows our path to the realization of our Oneness.

What we intend is getting to a place of focused attention that has its foundation the more and more consistent practice of responding to all experience with Love.   We do this in two steps--with lots of little steps along the way.

One step: Release of all judgment except the judgment of Love in and as all things.

Another step: Realization of our communal Oneness at depth, or full integration with everything and everyone.

We are served to remind ourselves of these priorities frequently.  This is done by reading and listening to words and music and tones designed to connect you with yourself.  It is done by delivering and receiving caresses and being with everyone as they are.  It is done by learning to accept everyone---especially yourself---just as we are without judgment.

This means recognizing the people and situations that feed you food for the path and those who do not.  It also means taking responsibility for your true or Higher Self as a priority when deciding how to be with or detach.

The imaginary ego is tricky.  As I prioritize Love, I gently suffocate the imaginary but pointlessly destructive egoic mind that does not know what true power is.

The only true power is that which is based in Love.

Ultimate power is that knowingness—and being an example always of the knowledge that all is fully infused with Love.

This book is for people who want to move more quickly along their path to living a life of true sanity, complete love, complete power.

If we look at our lives from the “Big Picture” prospective, then we sooner or later come to the realization that we are, at depth, united.  Only foolish thinking patterns would lead us astray from this knowing.

When we “get it” that we are all a part of a larger, loving, happy Whole, then the weight of the world is seen in a newer light, a lighter light.

This book, if you truly choose to use it, can help you to do the only thing you came into this life to do: To realize your deeply loving nature and to practice it always.

Propel Yourself Along the Path to Oneness Realization

The ego has a stupid answer for every conceivable question.  Ego has a perverted sense of what true power is.  Ego thinks true power has to do with money, or sex, or control of others or our Mother Earth.

We are here to recognize our connection with this Mother and with Father Sky and all that is.

Ego says no.  It says that I must control myself or others.  Ego says that I am incapable of finding any kind of power in love.  Love is seen as an opposite of power.  Ego resists the truth of love in all things.

The heart of this book asks you to explore who you are in a very simple way.  Using a series of brief ideas that build along the way of each of the Pause Sessions in this book, you will pause and ponder the idea as presented and then choose whether it works as presented or that you edit it to fit your intent for understanding what is important in this life for you.

The key to making this book work for you is your willingness to go inside yourself, to your heart, your soul, and define who you are and what is truly important to you.

So the idea is to have clarity about  yourself and how you see the Big Picture.  Each of the pause sessions is designed to help you integrate more loving clarity, awareness and humble power….if you are ready for it.  Some are not.  They need to get banged on the head by the Universe…or God, if you will…before they are willing to wake up.

Many are convinced that to reach that place of loving realization is like climbing the highest of mountains.  They are both accurate and missing of the mark at the same time.

The vast majority of the people on this planet now have been through many lifetimes.  Their spirits have evolved in that returning process.  Each lifetime has been a span of time when one has taken any of four paths.

The path can be one of stuckness, basically no spiritual progress.

Another path can be one of backsliding into false power or false weakness.

A third path finds one progressing in the realization process.

The fourth path is one in which the being enters a lifetime with the purpose of simply enjoying teaching others the path of love.  They have deeply “got it”.

If you are on the fourth path, you know it.  You honor us all.  We are grateful.

If you are not on the fourth path, then you make the choice of your path in each moment.  As you choose the third path more and more consistently, you raise your vibration and that of all in your environment, everyone you experience, everyone who experiences you.

Sometimes these impacts will be obviously powerful, and at other times they will seem subtle.  All are important.

As you more and more consistently choose the loving path, your life is more and more consistently tuned to thoughts and actions that are examples of what you intend: Being Loving Always.

The ego speaks in response: “That’s for sissies.  That’s for the weak.”

It says that real power is about making someone else feel small so that I can feel more important.  Ego demands that I see love as weakness and unacceptable vulnerability.  Ego says that power is about having a bigger TV, bigger boobs, firmer erection, and tastier, sweeter foods to stuff into my face so that I can feel temporarily better right now..  Ego says I am more important than the Earth Mother that supports me, so I can pollute Her.   Ego says my pleasure and profit are more important than doing what I can to keep Father Sky clean of poisons.  Ego tells me to look for someone to blame or throw judgment upon when I am faced, rather, with the opportunity of accepting responsibility if I am to grow.  Ego tells me that I am not good enough as I am, that I am unworthy or unacceptable to God or that I am superior to others.  Ego is stupid.

If we live out of our ego, then life is indeed a formidable, harsh mountain to climb if the mountaintop is seen as the attainment of a fully loving way of being.  Those who hold onto the Egoic Life will suffer much pain in the Birthing Process of our collective Love realization.

Egoic mind chooses to complicate and obfuscate.  It refuses to see simplicity and the benefits of opening to the simple solutions to the challenges of life.

It is all so much more simple than most people seem to realize.

It boils down to these things:

1. Acceptance of everything and everyone, including the apparent self, exactly as it is right now, just as it is.
2. Feeling completely equal to all that is, not better or worse than anyone or anything.  This means non-judgment of anything.
3. You feel a responsibility to live life as a consistent example of the fact that you experience love: you live it, you give it, you are receptive to it.
4. You see our collective family of people and stars and galaxies and trees and seas and flowers and bugs as one big complete entity.  We are one Being in harmony with itself.
5. You trust that everything you experience is your teacher to meet with grace.  Whether you are interacting joyfully with the most loving of partners or  you are faced with a crazed attacker, you more and more consistently find a loving way to respond.

This is what we are being asked to integrate.  With the contemplation of the simple ideas and your taking the time to contemplate and tuning of them to fit who you are, you speed up your own realization.

Are you ready to more completely let go of the old ways that do not and will not work for you?  Are you ready to become a more loving being, a person of calm, humble, loving power more and more consistently?

Try a pause session now.  See the bottom of the homepage.

More from the book introduction:

The Quest

This book reflects my truth about a path to becoming what I believe all of us have come into life to be. I do not always succeed in living that path in the way that I intend. When I do not, my intention is to forgive myself and to do my best.

In truth, I never fail. I always succeed at receiving more lessons that will move me along the path to what I and, I believe, all of us have come here to become: Love. Just Love. It is my inner knowing, not just a belief, that we can all become what we came here to be. None of us is more or less deserving than anyone else.

Many of the ideas in this book are stated in the first person. This is done so that you can choose to believe or know the idea as your truth, or if it is something for you to edit to make your own.

The quest is to recognize myself as a fully loving being. This is my priority.

When this is integrated fully, then all virtues are embodied in my Being, in all my thoughts and actions…and all challenges, all experiences will simply be seen as opportunities to practice that love.

Throughout this book, when you see writing in italics, I am expressing a thought for you, the reader.

Non-italicized words are those you might choose to contemplate or edit. Most of these are written in the first person.

Also, the word “Self” is capitalized to indicate the Higher or Loving Self, as opposed to the worldly self.

Individually and communally, we are here in this life to do one thing and one thing only: We are here to realize the loving depth of who we are. Nothing else could be as important. For some strange reason that none of us can explain, most have chosen to expect that, despite their track record of failure, we should look to external sources to find happiness, wisdom and self-understanding.

Searching the external to find the internal is simply ignorant. We may reap some interesting seeds in that search of the apparently outside world. Pondering these seed thoughts from the perspective of the heart is important if we intend to unfold our Love most gracefully.

The puny mind tells one that the self is too stupid to know what is important, that one must look to religion, government, science and family to tell us what to think and how to behave. Some think that it is only through these sources that we can find happiness and contentment.

This book introduces the science of Heart-Intentional Self-Conditioning, a simple and highly effective method for uncovering your inner wisdom, calm and happiness: for unfolding your true Self.

It has nothing to do with self-hypnosis because you, the reader, decide from the heart level what you agree with and what you do not in the content of this book.

It is not brain-washing. You edit what does not work for you.

It is not a bunch of affirmations that I would ask you to just swallow. You edit brief ideas, one at a time, to fit who you are, to fit what your heart tells you is true for you.

I do not provide the secrets of the Universe in this book. It has always been an open secret.

What makes this book unique is that it takes single and related groups of ideas and chunks them down to simplify their understanding. We tend to read at a rate of 12,000 or more words per hour. Motivational speakers talk at a rate of about 150 words per minute. Talking for an hour, they give you about 9,000 words. Some minds can absorb that volume of words, but the heart generally wants more time between the ideas to tune into each one and feel it, especially if the ideas are spiritual in nature. The heart of this book chunks down ideas so that you can more deeply connect with them.

Please use the pause buttons here!

My intent is to provide a context and a tool for you to find your own deep truth. Nothing of this world could be as important. I invite you to make your self-discovery your highest priority. There is only one thing to be fully discovered: Love.

I see the process of unfolding our Love as having two major leaps. The first is in understanding and then fully living our beliefs. We cannot trust who we are and where we are going until we are willing to look inside. As we release the need to hold onto old, limited, unloving beliefs, we more and more integrate loving beliefs. This book was designed to help you do exactly that, and I am in the process of it. While I am clear on the intent to take the second leap, I do not pretend to have taken it as I complete this book. I am still in the process of making the first leap.

Once we build a high level of consistency in living loving beliefs, my sense of it is that we will then be ready to have no use for any beliefs. This is the second leap.

You are invited to use this unique tool for Self-understanding, calm and powerful happiness. Your choice to use it can be a powerful gift to your Self and your world.

Beliefs divide. Knowing acknowledges unity.

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“Belief is in the head, disbelief is in the head, trust is in the heart.

-Osho

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Is this Book for Me?

In less than two pages, right here, you may have a clear answer:

Please do not bother reading beyond this first paragraph if you have not yet come to a great place of clarity that life goes beyond simply either enjoying or tolerating it.* To do so would be like trying to eat a coconut before you had cracked it open.

It is important to have clarity about what the point of life is. If you are tuned in to the heart or spiritual part of you, then you know that you are here for a purpose. That purpose, for you, is more evolved than “Life is a bitch and then you die”. It is more evolved than “How can my life be always about pleasure rather than pain?”

If you have arrived at a place along your path where you know that you are here to integrate Love completely, then you know the heart of the big picture quest. You know what matters. You are developing more and more commitment to making the quest important in your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

* If you have not come to such a place, then I suggest that you first read my initial book, All That Matters.

In the process of inner exploration, we discover amazing things about ourselves: We can be extremely powerful, happy, loving, calm and contented just as we are. Yes, it is possible.

You will do this for yourself effectively if you are willing to….

• Be open. The mind tends to reject ideas which seem foreign to it. No matter how poorly some beliefs serve us, the mind tends to hold onto them tightly. There is a false security in sameness, even when the sameness is painful. Admitting that some old beliefs have not been worth holding onto takes courage. Please choose to be open.
• See yourself from the perspective of your heart. This is challenging for many, kind of like having someone suggest that you should hear with your nose. Please get past that. As you are open, this book will help you to do that.
• Create regular spiritual practice. The mind can appear to be quite devious. Your ego mind seems to think that Love is death. If the idea of spiritual practice is foreign to you, start with 10 minutes per day. You can even take weekends off, if you like. The key is to set up a practice and then keep your word about it. Doing more, building up more daily time is fine, but please start with something you know that you can and will do. Regular use of this book is a spiritual practice.

It has been said that knowledge is power. That is way off-path if spoken as a generalization. Communally, the vast majority of what we think we know is either lies or gross inaccuracies. The drama we suffer in our personal lives, as Don Miguel Ruiz so succinctly states it, is the result of believing in lies, mainly about our own selves.

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And what is power, really? As used in this book, the term “Power” is expanded to be defined as “Loving Power”. The only real power is that which is based in Love. Anything based in domination, manipulation of another, greed, shame or guilt has nothing to do with having true power at all. These are all facets of weakness and of choosing to know something as true that is actually false. So let’s offer a reworked version of the knowledge-power declaration:

True and loving knowledge is true and loving power.

To get the most out of this book, your challenge is simply to have the courage to face yourself, every part of you. In remembering to tap your courage and your trust as you move through the challenges that you will be facing, you will make discoveries about yourself that will make Lewis and Clark look like shut-ins.

Are you willing to tap that courage and trust?

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A note from Carlo Ami:

I guarantee that you will love this book. Spend a year or more working with it, keeping some brief passages with you for a day or more, in some cases. You will come to more and more trust in your own timing about when to move onto the next set of ideas.

Unless you like to spend a lot of time in front of a computer and making side notes in a notebook of your own, then you will want the printed version of the book. It is available at yourpausebutton.com

I am not in this to get rich. I am in it to serve and to grow. I am using the book myself to help smooth my own path. In the meantime, all I look for is a roof over my head, simple food on the table, and an occasional night out with my sweetie.

Please note that 10% of the revenue from the sales of The Wale Up Book hard copy will go into a fund that will create books and consciousness cards for free distribution.  As I create sources of distribution for these free books, I will note them on this website.

All the Best to You,

Carlo Ami