This book includes sample Pause Sessions from "The Wake Up Book".

Without deviation progress is not possible.

--Frank Zappa

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Introduction

For some, “it” seems to hit the fan frequently already. Many have days in which it seems to be a major struggle because so much has already hit the fan, and for many it seems to continue to do so. As the world seems to be careening towards the mysterious anticipated shift in 2012, we are experiencing more and more “wake up” events. These range from oil spills to volcanic eruptions to floods, war, economic upheaval, and lover/friend challenges.

This book is a quick resource for powerful ways to cope with times when it all seems to be hitting the fan. It offers potent stress management techniques, natural mood enhancement tools and connections to resources for survival, sustainability and community building. Please experiment with the suggestions, use the ones you like and do some further research. While some of the stress management practices are explained completely, this is a starter guide, and is not intended to give you all the information you are going to want, but rather give you the basics of an idea as an inspiration to learn more. That said, you will find that many of the ideas and practices here are very powerful when applied just as stated, without any need for additional resources in order for you to experience great benefit..

Included here are links and search term suggestions for finding further information.

Please consider printing a copy of this for yourself. This insures your access to the information in case of internet access interruptions.

The challenges of living are going to be amped up in 2011 and may continue to be difficult for many into 2012. What is important to know and to trust is that, communally, we will come out of these challenges into a world of much greater harmony.

So the first thing to remember when it all seems to hit the fan for you is to trust…yourself and your path. Without trust, chaos seems to expand, fear seems to expand. With trust, calm is possible. Clear-headedness is possible.

As in “The Wake Up Book,” I have included small heart pause icons here to suggest points where you might pause and reflect upon the thought just presented. (Included here are eleven of the more appropriate Pause Sessions from that book.)

With the Pause Sessions, then you are being asked then to do something that may seem a bit radical to you: rather than thinking with your head about what has just been expressed, you are being asked to consult your heart.

As you get more and more used to communicating with your heart---filtering new ideas through it and listening to it as it expresses its intent or response via feelings---you will learn to trust that it has wisdom. In fact, it has much more wisdom about what matters than the other part of you that you may have thought was you: your mind.

The Pause Session ideas may feel quite foreign to your mind. You may not yet be used to “thinking from the heart” or trusting your intuitive sense. This is because society, family and friends have provided input that, to put it gently, can tend to have rather unproductive results when viewed as truth. As we hear and see certain ideas get repeated over and over again, we may simply accept them as truth. We have learned as truth many things that are lies.

This ebook, and to a larger extent, “The Wake Up Book,” provide a unique set of tools to move beyond living the falsely-conditioned life. Our governments, most of our religions, and the mass media have conditioned us to feel weak, ineffectual, confused, divided and unworthy. Collectively, we are now being called upon to recondition ourselves: to feed ourselves more loving thoughts, to practice compassion, to prioritize giving rather than taking, to affirming our deeply unified and loving nature.

Fighting ourselves and each other has not worked! We are challenged to more and more tap the vast wellspring of love, happiness, calm and wisdom that is to be found within each of us.

As used in this book, most of the brief thoughts that are followed with the icon are stated in the first person. Try these on for how they feel to you. If they do not express a truth for you, edit them until they feel right, remembering to focus on your heart and to get a sense as to the feeling and intent of your heart.

This brief book is loaded with ideas that can be of great use to you when “it hits the fan.” If you take some time with this before there is a big challenge, you will be in a better position to take advantage of the information here. I suggest that you experiment and find three ideas or exercises that are particularly effective for you….and then practice them so that they will come easy for you when it does hit the fan.

I have found it helpful to identify myself as my heart and soul. I cannot be my body, which, when I see its behavior and responses, I realize cannot be who I am. It is just my vehicle. It gets me around to experience life and its lessons. The body and mind, I realize, have way too many strange, useless or counter-productive cravings and responses to be defined as who I am.

As we move into the second decade of the 21^st century, more and more people are realizing this. While life is loaded with many mysteries that we may never be able to explain, I believe that it serves us to identify ourselves from the spiritual perspective, and the conceptualization of Self as some combination of heart and soul is a useful conceptualization when a pat answer for the question, “Who am I?” is simply not available.

This book is also included for free in the same file when you purchase The Shifting Process eBook.