Regina Dawn Akers

The day is fresh. All staining that seemed to occur is misperception (in the first place) and in the past (in the second place). Today is fresh.

What shall one do with a fresh new day? What does one want to do with it? God would never ask you to do something you did not want to do.

Ask yourself, “What do I want to do with this day?” Recognize that the answer to this question is yours. It was not coerced upon you. It came from your Heart.

Then ask your Heart to join you in partnership in making this day be exactly the day you want it to be.

The fearful self is a mirage. One cannot see that while believing the stories, the world and the self, so one believes is fearful. But the true Self is never fearful. It has simply projected its attention into an outer experience and the outer experience seems to become the self.

One way to learn that the true Self is not fearful is to allow the experience of fear to its completion. This may seem very difficult while one believes the story, the world and the self, because one also believes that, a fearful and threatening situation will come to fruition. While believing in this way, one will not notice that even if a situation of the world comes to fruition, Self has not been threatened or changed at all.

Another way to learn that the true Self is not fearful is to discover what the true Self is. This is a process of awareness-recognition, since true Self cannot be taught but it can be recognized.

True Self is not individual, but one may begin to recognize the invulnerability or eternal nature of true Self without yet recognizing the full nature of Self. This step of recognition is helpful, because it removes or reduces fear as a distraction, which simultaneously allows a fuller reflection/contemplation or focus on Self. This enables additional discovery of what Self is.

If one sees fear as a distraction to knowing one’s Self, one may be willing to allow the distraction or obstacle to be removed. However, most people who are focused on fear are not motivated enough by desire to know Self to allow this desire to be fully motivating.

However, one may be motivated by ideas such as release from fear…true happiness…consistent peace. The error has been thinking that these goals can be satisfied by changes in the world. This is why a first step must often be an understanding of the purpose and nature of the world. When one realizes the world can never bring the answer, one is finally ready to begin looking in the direction of the only solution, which is here and now. It is the nature of Self.

When ego ends you may not be aware of it, because when ego ends there is no “I” to think “I do not have an ego.”

Some awareness of loss of ego may arise when you witness the expression of “you” and “I” as separate ideas by another. But because the idea is dead in you, the awareness will have no effect. The mirror-reflection that seems to be an “other” will not suddenly become an other for you. But you will see that the idea is not fully dead, and you will hear the expression of the idea as a call to speak only of its falseness.

Since receiving the guidance to move from "doubter" state of mind, which my friend Christian calls "the questioner," to Abiding, I have had two experiences. I have had the experience of abiding naturally and I have had the experience of a "me" that is trying very hard to regain control.

Yesterday a friend called with a suggestion...which I feel was guidance. That suggestion was to write. This morning when I awoke with "me" thinking spiritually, I put "me" aside by grabbing my notebook and willing to write with that other flow that I previously would have called Holy Spirit, Ramana or Jesus. I felt the familiar flow come, and this is what was said:

Thinking can be very wrong, even when it seems spiritual…seems right. My purpose is to put the ego aside completely and be led by God-awareness. (This first line written was an act of putting aside the thinking “me”. After this line was written, the flow started.)

This is right-thinking. Right-thinking is noticing that “I” comes up first as “my identity” or “me”, and putting it aside so another flow that does not come from “my identity” or “me” can rise up.

The second flow…the one that arises when “me” is placed aside, may be described as feeling universal or feeling like a Voice that belongs equally to everyone. It has no specific identity of “me”. It is your Voice, My Voice, his Voice, her Voice and that Voice all at the same time. It speaks for all and is the Voice of all. This is the Voice you want to get to know, feel and listen to.

Previously when writing with this Voice you called it Him or “other-than-me”. Now the Voice will be used differently. It will be used to drop “me.”

Resistance to this step is natural. When you see/feel resistance as a loss of connection with this Voice and as a scramble to re-identify with “me”, don’t fight it; don’t judge it; just observe it in stillness and realize what it is. It is resistance to dropping “me”. Patience and willingness and a continued desire to reconnect with the universal non-me is the best way to overcome this resistance.

Yes, it may seem tough at times. At times “me” may feel very firm and being not-me may seem like an impossibility. But when that is the case remember you’ve been “not-me” many times; remember how natural and You-ness that has felt. Know that what is natural must return. Watch “me” die as universal You becomes I/we without “me”.

Watch it happen. Trust it is happening. Don’t step away from participating in its happening. The way “me” participates is through surrender to You and through patient waiting for You to rise and guide naturally.

That is today’s guidance as I continue to watch resistance to surrender, which is also resistance to relinquishment of ego. And that’s ok.

Love, Regina

Hi Friends,

In Love,
Regina