Tools for healing and recovering the true Self

I start with a list of tools which hopefully expands and improves through various contributions and discussions until we develop a program that everybody can agree upon.

(Sorry if the layout is a little off. I can't figure out why the pasting changes my file.)

Mindful breathing

Keeps me centered in Self at all times, mindful and aware, relaxes me, keeps my blood free from acidity, an important prerequisite for physical health.

Mindfulness or insight meditation

Awakes me to awareness of spirit or Self, realizing that I am not identical with my thoughts and emotions, awareness that thoughts create emotions, realizing that we are not hurt by other peoples actions but by what we think about them, by our own attitudes.

Activating the witness consciousness, recognizing that I am awareness and will beyond thoughts and feelings.

Acceptance of the now

Letting go of past and future through acceptance of All that is. Only when I accept I can develop ideas on how to improve. Criticizing only locks me into the past.

Open mind

Beginners mind, recognize that we know nothing through thinking, but everything through open minded awareness

Focusing

We choose our experience by what we focus on.  Focus deliberately on positives, - on what we want, not what we don't want, -expressing goodness makes us feel good. Focusing on love, compassion, generosity, giving, serving all, right thinking, eightfold noble path. Focusing as a practice teaches us to connect to our “felt sense” and develop what and how we think by how it feels.

Change of mind, change of attitude

Letting go of negatives, realizing that negative thinking hurts us, not them. Letting go of dependencies on experiences that are not chosen by Self, but hinder Self awareness such as substances, personalities, power, thinking, or emotions. Realizing that the fear of not getting enough is the root of all dependence. Knowing that we are always living in our own minds and feelings and can learn to manage them.

Recognizing that we cannot change other peoples thoughts except by indoctrination and manipulation.

Experiencing that a change of mind changes and heals our life.

Recognizing that mind is a quality of the universe, not only humans. Intelligence/consciousness is part of the universe as we are part of it.

Emotional Clearing

Uprooting subconscious fears and misbeliefs.

Healing trauma, shame and guilt. Emotional trauma has been found to be the source of emotional, mental and physical illness as well as of crime and violence. Recovering from trauma is recovery of the true Self. The tools of healing trauma and dependencies are tools for healing Self.

Discreating physical symptoms and psychosomatic causes of illness by reclaiming our power of Self. Enhancing life by replacing negative beliefs with positive attitudes which penetrate into the subconscious through Emotional Freedom Technique, Polarity Therapy, Rebirthing, Avatar Course, Trauma Recovery, Twelve Step Program of AA, spiritual awakening, letting go, and many other techniques.

Recognizing our mental framework as a thought field which is in constant exchange with other thought fields, local as well as regional, national and the world thought field, called the Zeitgeist.

Ecology of mind consists of keeping our thought field clear by clearing negative emotions, focusing on positive, life-enhancing ideas and by choosing and creating loving and supportive relationships with other “thought fields” in the awareness that they will influence our field no matter if we recognize it or not. Maintaining a sustainable peace of mind enables peaceful cooperation on all levels.

For the views on these concepts by Gary Craig, the inventor of EFT, see his article “The solution to all the world's problems” on the

EFT Blog at http://eftcommunity.emofree.com/blogs/eft_blog/default.aspx

Forgiveness

Recognizing that forgiving serves me, not the one I forgive. Forgiving frees my thought field from entanglement with others, past, future and my false self.
Freedom and peace of mind by forgiving the past, self and others, forgiving the ignorance we are leaving behind, realizing that I am o.k. beyond story and conditioning, because I am spirit, not thoughts.

Liberating the soul

Choosing happiness and peace of mind as the top priority of life. Letting go of being right. Let go let God. Recognizing that we know nothing, but our spirit/Self knows everything and guides us by making us feel good and joyous if we contemplate doing the right thing and bad if we contemplate the wrong. Joy and happiness appear as I get out of the way. Practicing the constant presence of “God” = good-ness, spirit, intelligence, love, truth, and integrity expressing in, as and through me. The presence of my true Self as an expression of the life-energy-consciousness-of-goodness-love-and-peace assures me that I am always on the right track as long as I am aware and feel good, honest, integer and joyful.

Gratitude, appreciation

The direct way to happiness are gratitude and humility. Spirit/universal intelligence/goodness/nature is in charge, not the ego.

Service, Creativity,

Helping others onto the path towards peace and happiness reminds me and clarifies for me how to stay on the path. “You cannot keep it if you don't give it away”. Each one teach one.

Build a Society of Friends

Develop and support projects for peace and spiritual awareness

Essential Books and Resources:

Mindfulness:

Thich Nhat Hahn, The Miracle of Mindfulness

                           The Heart of The Buddha's Teaching

Joseph Goldstein: Insight Meditation

Mikael Mindchanger: Awareness in the Now @ learnoutloud.com

Acceptance of Now:

Eckardt Tolle, The Power of Now

The Sedona Method

Open Mind:

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind

Focusing:

http://www.focusing.org/

http://www.focusing.org/spirituality.html

http://www.focusing.org/buddhism_rlevin.html

Esther Hicks, Ask And It Is Given

Mikael Mindchanger: A Change of Mind @ learnoutloud.com

Change of mind, attitude:

Will Harmann: The Global Mind Change

Richard Carlson: You Can Be Happy No Matter What

Happiness Is Free

The Sedona Method

Harry Palmer: Living Deliberately

Gerald Jampolsky, Diane Cirincione, Love Is The Answer,

   Change Your Mind Change Your Life

Emotional Clearing:

Gary Craig, Emotional Freedom Technique website http://www.emofree.com

Roger Callahan: Thought Field Therapy

John Ruskan: Emotional Clearing

Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

Liberating The Soul or true Self:

Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind  

Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

Vernon Howard: Psycho-Pictography

Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood: How To Know God, The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

Harry Palmer, Living Deliberately

Owen Waters, The Shift, http://www.infinitebeing.com/theshift/

Etc,etc,etc,etc