Exercise Fourteen

April 20th, 2006

Entraining in the field of Love (500) - Radiating Light

When we were children we would often 'dress up' in adult clothes and in school plays and at Halloween, most of us would pretend to be someone other than our self.

This week we are practicing being Realized. We are practicing entraining our self to the high fields of love, joy, peace, enlightenment. What I mean by that is, whenever possible, we express reverence, serenity and bliss. Our outlook, our life-view, as Dr. Hawkins describes it, would be that of being complete, benign, and perfect. We are to play with expressing no wants, no needs, no desires.

Now it would seem that our egos would just love to play being enlightened. It would seem to 'don enlightenment' would feed and nurture them. However, to manage to stay in the state of joy, a state of peace, a state of love, we must overlook the beliefs of the ego. They must be set aside and surrendered. Our egos, our personalities, believe the world is a place of competition, a place of 'getting', a place where needs are fulfilled. The ego does not understand the concept 'to give is to receive', even though it thinks it does. Instead, it sees the world as having something to give or take. The ego sees everyone as separate. It sees the world as fulfilling its desires.

To play enlightened, we don the belief that the world can offer us nothing, does offer us nothing and will offer us nothing. We hold in mind that we are already complete and whole. Instead of getting from the world, we play with the understanding that by our very be-ing, we give to it. Like the sun that gives to all, we would play with the idea that we are radiant and complete. ("To have all, give all to all" ACIM)

Set aside a time in your day to play 'being enlightened'. The power of the 500 and up fields of consciousness [refer to Dr. Hawkin's map of consciousness] will entrain us to them.

• Give yourself a half an hour of pretending to be in the higher fields.
• The practice is about holding in mind the intention of being in the 500 and up fields. These fields of consciousness are such that we experience and express feelings of reverence (500), of serenity (540), of bliss (600) and feelings that are ineffable (700-1000).

EXERCISE

• Recall something you especially love. This might be a scent, a scene from nature, music, a person, a movie, a season, a memory. Bring the intense loving feeling to mind.
  For example, I recall a time in my home when I had one whole corner of the living room set with an arrangement of potted plants. I had never before had such a lush and varied selection and I loved them with a passion. The standard lamp that lit the area had a 'grow light' bulb in it. It shed a moon light blue hue over the luxuriant green leaves. For me, this memory brings up a feeling of utter, primal beauty. Even as I type, the feeling of loving those plants rises up in me. Find loving memories like this one, tucked within you. Use something or someone you feel intense love towards. To recall the feeling of concentrated love brings us into that field of energy, the field of love, which calibrates at 500.
• Let go of the catalyst; that which triggered the feeling and hold instead in the field of loving-ness.
  Love is contextual and what is loved is merely content. My memory of the beauty of the house plants assists me to move from the memory itself to the feeling the memory elicited.
  Let the memory be like the training wheels -- allow them to fall away as unnecessary.
  Drop the 'event' - realize you have no need for memories.
  No need to focus on that which reminds you of feeling the love.
  Instead realize you can choose to maintain the feeling of intense love. You are able to choose to feel the love. You willingly choose to recall the intense feeling of love and hold in that field of energy.
  
• Willingly let go of the content - the 'thing' you remember - and become the Love - the context.
• Choose to hold this radiant, fierce, expressive, giving feeling of love. See how you let the love radiate out at no one or no thing in particular. Notice the quality and feeling of this Love. This is you being love.
• Entrain in the field of love for longer and longer periods of time. You may manage to hold in this field for seconds, then minutes. Remind yourself of the power of this field and realize how much you do for all by being in it for seconds. Be a lamp of love. See it radiating from your body, off your skin, out of your eyes and ears and mouth.
• When it becomes effortless and you are able to remain in the field of love for longer and longer periods of time, attempt to hold in this field while in public. Focus intensely on holding to your purpose of being love while with others. See the love beaming out of you as you entrain to the field. Think of yourself as a sun - it shines on everyone and everything without exception.
  This is a radical exercise and it is imperative that you be intense about it. Be childlike in your expression.
• Until such time, put on the watcher and notice and be aware of how long you choose this state.
  Release any judgments or demands of your self about how long you should be loving and notice. A resistance subsides by being noticed and accepted. Watch and be aware of how long you are able to live in the vibration of the Love field before dropping the intention. Notice the quality and feeling of love without attachment to 'something'. Notice the feel of Be-ing love you are entraining yourself to the field of Love.