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A Message from Deepak

We are each an inextricable part of an infinite field of pure potentiality or pure consciousness. Although we tend to identify ourselves with our mind, body, intellect, and conditioned beliefs, pure consciousness is our essential nature. Consciousness extends everywhere in space-time and connects everything with everything, instantly. The attributes of consciousness include:

• Creativity

• Synchronicity

• Joy

• Bliss

• Simplicity

• Silence

• Love

When we’re aware of our essential nature and the possibilities that are always unfolding around us, we enter a state I call SynchroDestiny. We awaken to the field of infinite possibilities, and are able to apply our intentions and attention to manifest the spontaneous fulfillment of our dreams and desires.

Given our unlimited potential to live in a state of SynchroDestiny, why do so many of us feel stuck and unable to experience our natural state of joy, creativity, and abundance? One of the reasons why is that as we were growing up, we may have been “educated” about our limitations, and our sense of the possibilities became constricted. While the future once felt boundless, it now feels narrow and dark. Even though opportunities and extraordinary possibilities surround us, we simply don’t recognize them except for in hindsight.

Another reason for constricted awareness is stored emotional pain. When we’re experiencing emotional turbulence, we aren’t free to create at higher levels of awareness or experience the spontaneous fulfillment of desire. For example, when we’re holding on to anger, we feel separate and caught up in thoughts about the past. Anger clouds our perception of unity and closes us down to the transformative messages and clues of the universe.

No matter how long we’ve been stuck in constricted awareness, we can regain the wondrous joy of unlimited potential—and awaken to who we really are. The practices in this e-book will help you begin to let go of old conditioning and experience your true, unbounded self.

“Consciousness is the potential for all creation. The more expanded your consciousness, the more potential you have to create.”

- Deepak Chopra

Love,

Deepak

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Practice 1 Seven Steps to Emotional Freedom

To release the pain of stored emotions and open to a state of expanded awareness, try this powerful seven-step process.

Step 1: Recall an Emotion

With your eyes closed, recall an emotional experience that is causing you discomfort. See the circumstances clearly and vividly in your mind. It could be an embarrassing experience or a personal rejection; the feeling could revolve around loss or failure. Don’t generalize; be specific. You are recalling an emotional trigger. If your recollection is too uncomfortable, open your eyes and take a few deep breaths. When you feel less overwhelmed, close your eyes again and proceed.

Step 2: Feel Your Body

Notice where in your body this emotional memory has lodged itself. For most people, when they bring up a disturbing emotion, a physical sensation of tightness, stiffness, discomfort, or even pain will be felt in the stomach or around the heart. For a smaller number of people, the sensation will be felt in the throat or as a headache. Locate where your sensation is occurring.

If at first you don’t feel anything, relax, take a breath, and easily tune into your body. On rare occasions someone may feel numb, which is the sign of a deep emotion that has been tied to fear. But everyone eventually feels something in the body doing this exercise. Remember that an emotion is a thought connected to a sensation.

Step 3: Label Your Emotion

Now give your emotion a name. Is it fear or anger, sadness or resentment? Most people are surprised to find that they haven’t really labeled their emotions in the past. “I feel bad” or “I’m not having a good day” is as far as they get. Being more specific allows you to focus on the emotional baggage you want to release, so take the time to tell yourself exactly what you’re feeling.

To help you, here are the most common difficult emotions that people carry around:

• Anger, hostility, rage

• Sadness, grief, sorrow

• Envy, jealousy

• Anxiety, fear, worry, apprehension

• Resentment

• Humiliation

• Shame

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Step 4: Express the Experience

Take some paper and a pen. Write down what happened to you during your past experience. Put down in detail how you felt, what other people did, and how you reacted afterward.

When you feel satisfied that you’ve expressed what the whole thing was about, take a second sheet of paper and retell the same incident from the other person’s point of view. Pretend that you are that person. Write down what they were feeling, why they acted as they did, and how they responded afterward. This part is harder than writing down the incident from your own point of view, but stick with it—you will be taking a big step to letting go of your baggage from the past.

When you are satisfied with what you’ve written, take a third sheet of paper and relate the same incident as a newspaper reporter would, in the third person. How would an objective observer tell readers about the incident in question? Give the details as objectively and even-handedly as you can.

This step takes more time than the previous ones, but people tend to enjoy it immensely. They discover that they are no longer trapped in their own point of view. They suddenly can see with a new set of eyes and experience a greater sense of detachment. It’s all very freeing.

Step 5: Share Your Experience

Now share your experience by reading your three accounts to someone else. In a group setting, which is how I normally lead the exercise, people are very eager to share, and the whole tone of the room is uplifting, filled with excitement and laughter. The prospect of gaining emotional freedom from their past is exhilarating. When you do this exercise at home, having a partner or a small group really enhances this step.

You can also do this exercise with a good friend of family member over the telephone. Read them your three versions, making sure that they understand why. But don’t call the person who caused you the emotional hurt you’re recounting. They aren’t likely to understand and probably won’t cooperate. About 90 percent of the time, they won’t agree with your version of the event in question; they might deny it even occurred. So stick with someone who is sympathetic and has your best interests at heart.

Step 6: Ritual of Release

Now it’s time to formally let go of your painful experience. Take your written stories and literally let them go. This is done through a ritual where you release your past to the universe, God, or whatever higher power you recognize. You can create your own ritual. You might want to set your paper on fire and throw the ashes to the wind or the sea. You could also tear it to pieces and bury it in the back yard. Some people simply flush the paper down the toilet. Choose a ritual that resonates with you.

The ritual is important because it draws a line between your past and who you are right now. If you have fully expressed your old emotion, letting go feels very satisfying. But don’t hold yourself to a false standard. Release what you can today. It’s normal and natural if you find yourself doing later releases around the same hurt.

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Step 7: Celebrate Your Release

Once you have released your old story to the universe, celebrate your moment of liberation. You can do this alone or with others, just so long as you appreciate the step you’ve taken. I find that people often skip this step unless reminded. They don’t want to make their emotions a big deal, but in reality they are a big deal. Emotions can trap and bind you—and they can also set you free and change your future.

Practice this exercise regularly, and you will eventually be able to let go of long-held emotional turbulence and pain, freeing yourself to experience your true self – pure, unbounded consciousness in an infinite field of possibilities.

Practice 2 Moksha: Sutra Practice for Emotional Freedom

Moksha (MOKE-shah) is an ancient Sanskrit sutra that means freedom, liberation, or release. It has been used for thousands of years by millions of people to transform negative energy into a higher state of awareness.

Whenever you feel stressed, anxious, or out of balance, you can silently repeat the sutra moksha to remind yourself that you are pure, unlimited consciousness, free of whatever situation has thrown you off course.

• In a comfortable, seated position, close your eyes and silently repeat the sutra and its English translation: Moksha. I am emotionally free.

• Keep repeating the sutra for several minutes, letting it resonate deep within you.

• Next, take some time to focus on the following intentions for emotional freedom, repeating the sutra moksha after each one.

Imagine that you are without physical form, a field of awareness everywhere at all times. (moksha)

Imagine that you have left behind forever any sense of anger or resentment. (moksha)

Imagine that you are free from blaming and free from feeling guilt. (moksha)

Imagine that are never drawn into melodrama or hysteria. (moksha)

Imagine that you can choose any feeling you want to experience. (moksha)

Imagine that you can see any goal you want to achieve and actually achieve it. (moksha)

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Imagine that you are free of your habitual compulsions and unhealthy patterns of behavior. (moksha)

Imagine that you are free of all addictions. (moksha)

Imagine that you never participate in gossip. (moksha)

Imagine that you are free to respond at the highest level of awareness, no matter what the situation is or how anyone else behaves.

(moksha)

Imagine that there are no limitations on what you can manifest. (moksha)

Imagine that you can see infinite possibilities at all times. (moksha)

Practice 3 Become Aware of Awareness

To awaken to expanded states of consciousness, you don’t have to meditate for ten hours a day or sequester yourself in a cave. You don’t have to do anything; you simply have to be aware. Take a few moments throughout the day to try this:

• Ask yourself, “Am I aware?”

• Then slip into being, noticing the space between your thoughts, the space between your breaths, and the space between you and the other people or objects around you.

By putting your attention on space or the formless, you experience the ever-present witnessing awareness in which everything arises and subsides. You open to the realization that all of your experiences are activities in consciousness.

Similar to a mantra, a sutra is a sound or vibration that when repeated, allows you to transcend into a deeper state of consciousness. While a mantra has no meaning, a sutra has an intention coded in the sound. When you repeat a sutra, you embed that intention in your consciousness, which increases the likelihood that your desired outcome will be fulfilled.

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