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  • CLINICAL FORMS OF LOVE INSPIRED BY MEHER BABA’S MAST WORK AND THE AWE OF INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS

    CLINICAL FORMS OF LOVE INSPIRED BY MEHER BABA’S MAST WORK AND THE AWE OF INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS

    Visionary Author Stuart Sovatsky

    CLINICAL FORMS OF LOVE INSPIRED BY MEHER BABA’S MAST WORK AND THE AWE OF INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS

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  • KUNDALINI AND THE COMPLETE MATURATION OF THE ENSOULED BODY

    KUNDALINI AND THE COMPLETE MATURATION OF THE ENSOULED BODY

    Visionary Author Stuart Sovatsky

    KUNDALINI AND THE COMPLETE MATURATION OF THE ENSOULED BODY

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  • EROS AS MYSTERY: TOWARD A TRANSPERSONAL SEXOLOGY AND PROCREATIVITY

    EROS AS MYSTERY: TOWARD A TRANSPERSONAL SEXOLOGY AND PROCREATIVITY

    Visionary Author Stuart Sovatsky

    EROS AS MYSTERY: TOWARD A TRANSPERSONAL SEXOLOGY AND PROCREATIVITY

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  • 55-Day Journey: DAY 1 of 55

    55-Day Journey: DAY 1 of 55

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    55-Day Journey: DAY 1 of 55

    Unleashing Your Power From Within  •  5 min read

    AN OVERVIEW OF YOUR JOURNEY

    A profound transformation begins with a single step—the decision to eXpand your self-awareness, seeing beyond the limitations that have held you back.

    Welcome to DAY 1 of a 55-day journey of self-discovery, inspired by ESSENCE Book #1, where you will break free from old patterns, awaken your inspiration, and begin creating the life you were meant to live…. by design, no longer by default.

    For too long, unseen barriers have blocked your path, keeping you confined to a limited perspective. But what if you could broaden your awareness, uncover new possibilities, and step into a greater version of yourself? This 55-day journey is your invitation to do exactly that.

    Over the next 54 days, you will receive one email lesson per day, guiding you through this powerful transformation:

    🔹 Phase 1: eXpanding Your Self-Awareness – You will begin by eXpanding your perspective, dissolving limiting beliefs, and opening yourself to new ways of thinking, seeing, and being. As your awareness eXpands, so does your understanding of what is possible, seeing new options for your life that were previously blocked from your view.

    🔹 Phase 2: Awakening Your Inspiration – With a fresh new perspective, your inner vision begins to take shape. What was once hidden now becomes clear. You will start to recognize your true desires, align with your highest potential, and feel the spark of inspiration come alive within you. 

    🔹 Phase 3: Unleashing Your Power from Within – Clarity leads to action. As you step into your personal power, you will begin bringing your vision into reality, shaping your life with intention, purpose, and confidence.

    A new conscious and regenerative civilization is forming—one that thrives on self-awareness, responsibility, and creation rather than limitation. You are invited to be a part of humanity’s transformation.

    The pathway to your higher self begins with awareness. The journey begins NOW.

    Are you ready to unleash your power from within?

    SOME USEFUL CONTEXT

    It is highly recommended that you commit to journaling in a notebook throughout this transformational process. Doing so, will deepen your experience, catalyze new ideas, and gain insights about yourSelf. 

    ESSENCE Book #1 covers 44 Aspects of Self-awareness, enabling your to better know yourSelf, becoming a more powerful version of who you truly are. These 44 Aspects help to define the new paradigm of conscious and regenerative living…. which is an existence that reflects humanity living a new higher consciousness life, filled with love, joy, freedom, prosperity, and peace. 

    This 55-Day Journey is based on Book #1 of the ESSENCE Trilogy Series. Before delving further into this Journey, it’s helpful to have a deeper contextual understanding of what the ESSENCE Trilogy Series is all about.

    Take A Pathway to a New Earth Civilization

    Book #1

    Ann Emerson & Bo Lockwood

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    As of 2024, human existence on Earth is at a precarious point in evolution. Overall, our awareness is low and our perspective is narrow. Most of us are living in a state of constriction, continually experiencing worry, drama, stress, and fear.

    Power, greed, corruption, and control dominate our existence through oppression. The richest 1% keeps getting richer, while a majority of the world’s population lives in a state of scarcity, struggling for our families’ survival. The Souls of most humans are asleep.

    Perspectives matter. Even though we all live under the same sky we don’t see the same Light.

    ESSENCE takes us on a journey of self-discovery…. eXpanding our Self-awareness, broadening our perspectives, enabling us to see new options for our lives that were previously blocked from our views.

    Now seeing through our new perspectives, our inspiration awakens, formulating new personal visions for our lives. We unleash our power from within, building our visions into physical form.

    A New Earth Civilization is emerging, and you are invited to join us. The pathway to get there begins with eXpanding your Self-awareness.

    Book #2

    Bo Lockwood & Ann Emerson

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    Available on Amazon January 2027

    As of 2025, the chaos continues throughout the world, fueled by a vortex of dark energy, led by a select few. What they don’t realize is that their power, greed, corruption, and control are temporary. Their actions are simply an aspect of evolution, whereby we must go through a period of extreme darkness to get to the Light.

    Just over the horizon, a new conscious and regenerative world awaits us. As the vast majority of humanity is experiencing hopelessness cradled in fear, a miracle happens. Out of nowhere appears a bridge unlike any other bridge. This bridge takes us from living in our fears to eXpanding beyond them, unleashing our power from within, exhibiting a strong sense of clarity, direction, meaning, and purpose.

    ESSENCE Book #1 took us on a journey of eXpanding our Self-awareness, realizing that we are infinite spiritual beings having a finite human experience.

    ESSENCE Book #2 takes us on a journey of self-discovery…. eXpanding our life awareness to an elevated 5-D human existence, reclaiming our power as spiritual warriors, becoming the greatest versions of ourselves.

    A New Earth Civilization is emerging, and you are invited to join us. It requires you to cross over the bridge to the eXpansive path in the new conscious and regenerative world.

    Book #3

    Liliana Domingues & Bo Lockwood

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    Available on Amazon June 2027

    As of 2025, the chaos continues throughout the world, fueled by a vortex of dark energy, led by a select few. What they don’t realize is that their power, greed, corruption, and control is temporary. A new paradigm of 21st-century leadership is emerging, as the world continues to awaken their sleeping Souls.

    ESSENCE Book #1 took us on a journey of eXpanding our Self-awareness, realizing that we are infinite spiritual beings having a finite human experience.

    ESSENCE Book #2 took us on a journey of self-discovery…. eXpanding ourselves to an elevated 5-D human existence, reclaiming our power as spiritual warriors, becoming the greatest versions of ourselves.

    ESSENCE Book #3 takes us on a journey of learning and integrating the new paradigm of conscious and regenerative leadership, as the New Earth Civilization transcends to its 5-D existence.

    A New Earth Civilization is emerging, and you are invited to join us. All it takes is be a conscious & regenerative leader, collaborating with us in co-creating a New Earth Civilization..

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  • DAY 2 of 55: Authors’ Note

    DAY 2 of 55: Authors’ Note

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    DAY 2 of 55: Authors’ Note

    Establishes the Tonality  •  1 min read

    Authors’ Note

    ESSENCE has no dogma, no sect.

    The leader you follow is yourself.

    This conscious writing style is our attempt to express wisdom, free of AI, free of judgment, free of agenda, with candor, love, and respect.

    This is simply a perspective that we are sharing, while honoring that you have one of your own.

    We are not attempting to convince you of anything.

    We are not even sure if the information that we are providing is accurate.

    What we do know is that our lives are filled up with love, joy, freedom, prosperity, and peace.

    We are simply sharing with you the wisdom we have gained along the way…. for FREE on our website. No financial barriers impeding personal growth.

    It’s why we are here.

    Stay STRONG!

    Ann & Bo

    The essence of ESSENCE Book #1

    Perspective matter.

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  • DAY 3 of 55: Foreword

    DAY 3 of 55: Foreword

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    DAY 3 of 55: Foreword

    Accord or Discord?  •  2 min read
    DAY 3 of 55: Foreword

    The English language offers more than one million words we can use to communicate toward knowing ourselves and our relationship to all that’s here.

    The 44 words carefully selected and ordered within ESSENCE by Ann Emerson and Bo Lockwood offer Sleeping Souls, Seekers, and the Awakened some of the best from those one million plus, from which to live a balanced life, filled with greater joy and contentment.

    One of my favorite words, or Aspects as the authors call these precious 44, is Connectedness. The quote in its Context section, by Chief Seattle, who lived between 1786 and 1866, tells much about the usefulness and importance of words, since we are still basking in his wisdom today:

    “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” As my connected life experience unfolds like a Seeker on the edge of adventure, I find our information, comprising words, critical to the beneficial advancement of all. I wonder about the perspectives we add to the global information highway, of which we are all connected, which for me, raises the thought-provoking question….

    Does the information we send and receive
    create accord or discord?

    Miraculously, we all come equipped with an internal compass, a deeply physiological one. We’ve all felt joy and know it well. We can feel it in Chief Seattle’s words. They bring on a smile and contentment.

    For those wanting to experience more of that and make a beneficial difference just by being joyful here, considering the 44 Aspects of ESSENCE, along with their Contexts, Daily Affirmations, and Insights, will sustain you.

    Your unique internal compass is your guide. So stay alert to your joy. Within ESSENCE, whichever Aspects you find yourself drawn to, know that just by reading them you will be advancing the well-being of everything, including yourself.

    Dana B. Lichtstrahl
    Princeton, New Jersey

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  • DAY 4 of 55: Preface

    DAY 4 of 55: Preface

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    DAY 4 of 55: Preface

    Freedom From Oppression  •  2 min read
    DAY 4 of 55: Preface

    As of 2024, human existence on Earth is at a precarious point in evolution. Overall, our awareness is low and our perspective is narrow. Most of us are living in a state of constriction, continually experiencing worry, drama, stress, and fear.

    Power, greed, corruption, and control dominate our existence through oppression. The richest 1% keeps getting richer, while a majority of the world’s population lives in a state of scarcity, struggling for our families’ survival. The Souls of most humans are asleep.

    Perspectives matter. Even though we all live under the same sky we don’t see the same Light.

    ESSENCE takes us on a journey of self-discovery…. eXpanding our Self-awareness, broadening our perspec­tives, enabling us to see new options for our lives that were previously blocked from our views.

    Now seeing through our new perspectives, our inspiration awakens, formulating new personal visions for our lives. We unleash our power from within, building our visions into physical form.

    A New Earth Civilization is emerging, and you are invited to join us. The pathway to get there begins with eXpanding your Self-awareness.

    Some Useful Context

    eXpansive Self-awareness

    A term used to describe an individual who knows they are a spiritual being having a human experience, viewing the world through an infinite perspective, as the Witness of life experiences.

    Why the uppercase X in eXpansive?

    The lowercase “x” symbolizes a 3D human being who is unknowingly asleep at the Soul level. They are programmed to think and act a certain way, contorting who they authentically are.

    The uppercase “X” represents a 5D spiritual being who has awakened their Soul, thereby eXpanding to their highest potential by trusting and leveraging their intuitive impulses and creative imaginations, unleashing their power from within.

    Degenerative

    The falling from a higher to a lower level in quality, character, or vitality. Deterioration implies generally the impairment of value or usefulness. The act of degenerating is degeneration. A degeneration-driven society is finite and decimating.

    Regenerative

    Able to, or tending to, regenerate–to regrow or be renewed or restored, especially after being damaged or lost. The act of regenerating is regeneration. A regeneration-driven society is infinite and thriving.

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  • DAY 5 of 55: Introduction

    DAY 5 of 55: Introduction

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    DAY 5 of 55: Introduction

    eXpanding Self-Awareness  •  9 min read
    DAY 5 of 55: Introduction

    “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
    ~ Wayne Dyer

    ESSENCE eXpands our Self-awareness, awakens our inspiration, and unleashes our power from within. Inspiration is energy in action. Through taking inspired action, we will transcend to a New Earth Civilization, filled with love, joy, freedom, prosperity, and peace.

    To transcend implies a rising or extending notably above or beyond ordinary limits. In relation to our personal journeys, how we handle the series of countless challenges that occur in our lives determines our realities. Whether we react out of fear or respond with confidence and calm, depends on our level of Self-awareness. Our ability to transcend a challenge is contingent upon our perspective, which is influenced by Aspects, such as bravery, gratitude, and perseverance.

    A paradigm is a typical example, pattern, or model. A perspective is a particular way of regarding something, or a point of view. Therefore, transcending to a new life in the regenerative world means to heal ourselves and others, while embracing a new 21st-century paradigm (or model). This new paradigm requires high levels of Self-awareness, which includes an infinite perspective (or point of view) for living a loving, joyful, prosperous, and peaceful life. Remaining calm and loving during times of chaos is key.

    Inspiration is the opposite of empowerment. To empower is to give someone the authority to do something. This means that when we are empowered, it is contingent upon someone else doing something for us. Whereas, inspiration awakens from within, so we are not reliant on anyone outside of ourselves to give us the power that already resides in our Souls.

    The mass of the world population is currently trapped in the constrictive, old paradigm of 20th-century degenerative living. This old paradigm is viewed from a finite and limited perspective and is filled with fear, power, control, greed, oppression, and limitations, as well as a host of other negative aspects. This negative vortex of energy forms the collective consciousness being held captive to their drama-filled lives. When living in this paradigm, Self-awareness is low and perspectives are narrow.

    Conversely, a growing number of people are living the eXpansive new paradigm of 21st-century regenerative living. This new paradigm is viewed from an infinite and unlimited perspective and is filled with love, joy, freedom, prosperity, and peace, as well as a host of other positive aspects. This positive vortex of energy is the foundation of a New Earth Civilization that is emerging. When living in this paradigm Self-awareness is high and perspectives are broad.

    As we learn to unleash our power from within by facing our fears, we individually and collectively create this New Earth Civilization, which is a new conscious and regenerative way of life.

    ESSENCE eXpands our Self-awareness and broadens our perspective, inspiring us to create personal visions for our new conscious and regenerative lives.

    ESSENCE is a Divine flashlight in the darkness, illuminating 44 Aspects of Self-awareness and enabling us to eXpand our perspectives, awaken our inspirations, and unleash our power from within. The polarity of dark and Light means that one cannot be experienced without the other. We enjoy freedom because of oppression.

    ESSENCE supports us in viewing ourselves in relation to these 44 Aspects of Self-awareness. We tend to be able to view ourselves in each of the various perspectives (sleeping, seeking, or awake); thereby gleaning new realizations about ourselves, eXpanding our Self-awareness.

    ESSENCE captures just enough depth to provide a gateway to have you desire to seek more. It is packed with ancient wisdom of Ultimate Truth, so that everyone can benefit from reading and learning. No dogma. No sect. The leader you follow is yourSelf, knowing you are Divinely protected. Your Angels are always with you. You focus forward. Your Angels have your back. If you don’t already, get to know your Angels.

    ESSENCE embraces the infinite unfolding of ourselves and creates a new lens through which we can change our lives, to see the world we live in with renewed clarity. From this new point of view, we unleash our power.

    ESSENCE may even cast a flicker of inspirational Light while reading, when all of a sudden, a new idea pops into your heart and mind that holds the potential to literally change the trajectory of your life. And with this new idea, you now possess the power to choose. Our power to choose is among our greatest powers. The key to manifesting our dreams is by choosing to deliberately focus on positive thoughts and gratitude, while remaining nonattached to the desired outcome. Relish the creative process and let go of the rest. Have faith and trust. This is when life magically unfolds.

    An intention with ESSENCE is to encourage readers to contemplate their decisions before taking action, making conscious choices that align with the life they truly desire.

    ESSENCE is laid out in a simple format. Each of the 44 Aspects of the new paradigm are defined, having their own section, with each section broken into five parts:

    1. The ESSENCE of the Aspect is distilled down to its most basic definition.

    2. The CONTEXT of the Aspect provides a deeper understanding, enabling you to quickly grasp it. Our context of a situation influences our perspective.

    3. The DAILY AFFIRMATION supports this Aspect of your new life through integrating it into your new daily practice, embedding it into your heart, feeling your new reality.

    4. The INSIGHTS section provides thought-provoking questions for you to consider to awaken to your true power. It’s important to reconcile the blueprint of your core values at defining moments of your life. Otherwise, you will be operating on an outdated blueprint that no longer aligns with whom you have evolved to become.

    5. The JOURNAL section captures any of your personal insights about the various Aspects. These insights will be helpful if you decide to create a vision and build a new conscious and regenerative life. If so, the My Personal Vision exercise (refer to page 287) will help you achieve this, once you are through digesting the 44 Aspects of Self-awareness.

    Immediately following the 44 Aspects, the Decision Time section describes that as of December 2019—at the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic—a fork in the path emerged, unveiling the eXpansive path, which is a Divine Detour, representing The Great Awakening.

    Most people didn’t see this fork and have kept plodding along on the constrictive path until this very day. Some people did see it, took it, and remained calm amid the chaos. As more and more people discover this Divine Detour, they can decide if taking a bridge from the constrictive path to the eXpansive path is right for them.

    Arlene Rose Curley, intuitive leader and spiritual mentor, states in her mystical book, Completing the Seven:

    When you inhaled that divine fiery spark at birth, your Soul was actually buried within your body’s physical density and heavier earthly vibrations. It was shocked into spiritual amnesia, and within this deep sleep all the knowledge from previous lifetimes and from the heavenly spheres also went into hibernation. Thus, you began life as an ordinary being: awareness of body, mind, spirit—but no awareness of your Soul! You are born into a major predicament. Here you are on Earth, with your body housing your sleeping Soul. You have no idea that you have a Soul, and with your spiritual amnesia, you have forgotten everything.

    The objective of ESSENCE is to eXpand people’s Self-awareness, thus awakening their sleeping Souls, transcending to the new paradigm of regenerative living. Self-awareness is the conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires, which determines our perspective on life.

    The eXpansion of our mind and heart is limitless. The greater our awareness, the greater our aliveness. The key to eXpanding our awareness is acquiring wisdom through learning the needed lessons of our daily challenges. With greater wisdom, we broaden our perspective, awaken our inspiration, and unleash our power from within. With focus, vision, and perseverance, we create the lives we desire, fueling our love, joy, freedom, prosperity, and peace.

    The following graphic clearly depicts the correlations among awareness, eXpansion, and perspective. The outer circle is the Universe. The inner circle is the Earth. Each of the solid white dots represents the eXpansiveness of our awareness, the white arc represents our level of ascension, and the angled lines represent the extensiveness, or eXpansiveness, of our perspective. You’ll notice that the arc gets farther away from the Earth as we transcend, eXpanding our awareness and broadening our perspective.

    What’s Your Point of View?

    #it2wu | What's Your Point of View?

    POINT A represents the perspective of the Sleeping Soul, who is trapped in the old paradigm of 20th-century degenerative living, where the mass of the world’s population resides. Their awareness is low, and their perspective is narrow. They have yet to transcend to any significant degree. Their life is filled with drama, fear, worries, doubt, insecurity, and other negative emotions. The pattern of their life keeps them going in circles. Some begin to seek.

    POINT B represents the perspective of the Seeker, who is transcending to the new paradigm of 21st-century regenerative living. There is uncertainty, yet this person is discovering calm in the unknown. Their awareness is eXpanding, their perspective is broadening, and their sense of fear, drama, worries, doubt, and insecurity are waning. Such a person is beginning to feel more inner peace and love in their life.

    POINT C represents the perspective of the Awakened, who is living in the new paradigm of regenerative living, viewing the world with unlimited vision, being open to all possibilities. He or she realizes they are an infinite spiritual being having a finite human experience. Such a life is filled with love, joy, freedom, prosperity, and peace. They view themselves as an aspect of the infinite.

    A Parable

    eXpanding Our Self-Awareness,

    Awakening Our Inspiration,

    Unleashing Our Power From Within

    A student is standing in front of a chalkboard, staring intently at a problem that is directly in front of their face. They are so close to the problem that all they see is the problem.

    Their awareness is low, their perspective is narrow, and their frustration is overwhelming them. They don’t know how to solve this problem, as they don’t see any potential solutions. Standing behind them is the teacher and a classroom full of students, wondering, and some even judging, what the student will do to solve this problem.

    The teacher asks the student, “How do you feel?” The student mumbles, “Nervous and frustrated.”

    Fortunately, the teacher is aware, and knows how to inspire. They are aware that by eXpanding the perspective of the student, potential solutions may appear, and their frustration will be replaced by inspiration.

    So they ask the student to go the back of the classroom, envisioning themselves standing in front of the chalkboard, staring at the problem.

    The teacher states, “By standing at the back of the classroom, you have eXpanded your awareness, and are now in a place of being the witness, which involves intent listening. Can you see yourself standing at the chalkboard?”

    The student immediately replies, “Yes!”

    The teacher continues, “The greatest power that humans have over all other species is our ability to observe ourselves in any given situation, listening intently to those around us, while allowing our internal voice to guide us.

    Through eXpanding our Self-awareness, we are in a position to appropriately respond to any situation with a state of calmness and inspiration, while not reacting to it with nervousness and frustration—for this reaction occurs when we are standing directly in front of the chalkboard in a state of fear.”

    The teacher then asks, “By standing at the back of the classroom, what else do you see?”

    The student replies, “I see a lot more. I see you and all the students staring at me trying to solve the problem on the board. I see myself nervously staring at the problem on the board. I see the floor, walls, ceiling, lights, and windows. Through the windows, I see birds, grass, trees, and the sky.”

    The teacher responds, “Do you now realize that your perspective is much more eXpansive from the back of the classroom?”

    The student smiles, “Yes, much more eXpansive!”

    The teacher probes, “So with this eXpansive perspective, do you believe there are more options available now, including options to solve your problem?”

    The student confidently replies, “Definitely.”

    The teacher then asks, “So through the realization that more options are now available to you, how do you feel?”

    The student confidently states, “Calm and inspired!”

    The teacher smiles wide. “So what have you learned about yourself?”

    The student confirms, “I have learned about the power of eXpanding my Self-awareness to broaden my perspective, entering a space of being the witness. I’ve learned that by being the witness, I can observe myself in any situation. I’ve learned that by observing myself in a given situation, I am able to intently listen to those around me, as well as listen to my own internal voice. I’ve learned that by listening intently, I become more and more aware of what is going on around me. Through this elevated awareness, I am better equipped, and see more options, for solving my problem at hand. And by having more options, a sense of calm fills my body, while my frustration subsides and my sense of inspiration awakens.”

    The teacher exclaims, “Yes! You just learned a very important lesson of eXpanding your Self-awareness, awakening your inspiration, unleashing your power from within! You are worthy. You are powerful. You are able to inspire yourself and others, including me.”

    The student shines as they return to their seat.

    Inspired by Dana B. Lichtstrahl

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  • Day 6 of 55: How Self-Aware?

    Day 6 of 55: How Self-Aware?

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    Day 6 of 55: How Self-Aware?

    Sleeping, Seeking, or Awake?  •  2 min read
    Day 6 of 55: How Self-Aware?

    Before beginning your journey into the depths of your Soul, it’s wise to establish a baseline measure of your current level of awakening by taking the ESSENCE Self-Awareness (ESA44) assessment for FREE. This will answer the question, “How Self-aware are you?“

    You will be encouraged to take it again once you have digested the 44 Aspects, calculating the level of personal awakening that has occurred in you while reading this book.

    Please note that you can take the ESA44 assessment as often as you desire, tracking your progress to a state of awakening. It’s free, and always will be. There’s no email, credit card, or personal information required. It takes about 15 minutes to complete. Super easy. Self-awareness is power!

    Be sure to record your ESA44 Round #1 results for future reference. You are able to track your state of awakening on page 303 of ESSENCE.

    Now that you’ve established a baseline measure of your current state of awakening, are you ready to embark on this journey of eXpanding your Self-awareness?

    If so, then let’s do it! This journey to awakening your Soul begins with knowing thyself….

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  • DAY 7 of 55: Aspect #1

    DAY 7 of 55: Aspect #1

    ESSENCE: A 55-Day Journey

    DAY 7 of 55: Aspect #1

    KNOW THYSELF  •  3 min read
    DAY 7 of 55: Aspect #1

    “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.”

    ~ Socrates

    ESSENCE: To Know Thyself is our greatest power.

    Know Thyself is Self-aw is Self-awareness; the ability to know yourself through the conscious knowledge of your own character, motivations, strengths, weaknesses, cravings, and desires. It is a timeless perspective, which underscores the importance of introspection as a pathway to accumulating wisdom and personal growth.

    To know thyself is our greatest power. It is related to how much applied introspection to our personalities has been taken, and if we can witness our strengths and weaknesses. To know ourselves at a deep level means to be highly Self-aware, thus having an eXpansive perspective. The process of eXpanding our Self-awareness occurs as we acquire wisdom through learning the needed lessons of our daily challenges.

    With greater wisdom, we broaden our perspectives, becoming more of our powerful selves. By having high levels of Self-awareness (a.k.a. eXpansive Self-awareness), we are inspired with unlimited vision and unshakable faith and knowing. From this eXpansive perspective, we see a new vision for our dream life, while having the confidence to build it into physical form.

    Sleeping Souls generally do not know themselves too well. Many view themselves as victims of circumstances, as life conspires against them. They are taught to seek pleasure and avoid pain, not knowing that the richness of a full human experience includes all facets of life, not just the good times. Many are taught to deny the bad times, as if they never occurred. They fail to understand that life operates in polarity, whereby everything has its pair of opposites. Yet their ego mind has them living in duality, thus judging experiences as either good or bad, creating greater separation in their lives by only wanting the good while denying the bad. They are living in denial of the truth of themselves. Remaining highly judgmental and self-righteous, they limit their lives without even realizing it. Some begin to seek.

    Seekers are on the Soul journey to know themselves. Oftentimes, this personal journey is initiated by a traumatic event and/or bouts of ongoing struggle. Human beings, as with all of Nature, grow through struggle. As Seekers exercise the courage to face their fears, they eXpand their Souls and build their confidence. As they eXpand, they gain a deeper and deeper appreciation for the power to know thyself.

    Awakened are those who undoubtedly realize the importance to know oneself. Many have learned to live with stoic principles that guide their lives. One such principle is to remain calm among chaos. Doing so requires tremendous strength and eXpansive Self-awareness–to know thyself. Awakened know the truth of who we are. Hence the saying, “The truth shall set you free.” Awakened are free, as they recognize the strong correlation between our ability to know one-self and “personal freedom,” as their definition of personal freedom includes the realization that we are infinite beings….

    DAILY AFFIRMATION

    I know myself….
    Spirit, Heart, Body, Mind, and Soul.

    INSIGHTS

    How well do you feel that you know yourself?

    Are you able to remain calm during stressful and/or chaotic experiences?

    What is one habit that you can form to become more of who you truly are…. a powerful being?

    Perhaps now is a good time to journal some insights!

    eXpand Your Self-Awareness

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