Regina Dawn Akers

12/30/09 Regina ends this year and prepares us for the next by sharing NTI Luke, Chapter 8, which clarifies why we need purification in order to awaken and teaches the specific process that allows purification within our mind.

12/23/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion focuses on the pursuit for happiness. We look at ways we try to find happiness that don’t work, and we look at ways that may actually be helpful in finding Happiness right where it is.

12/16/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. Today’s discussion focuses on compulsive behaviors (addiction), the greatest of which is listening to ego (the birth/death cycle). We look at addictions, the pleasure/pain experience and discuss practices that free us from complusive behavior altogether.

12/9/09 Regina reads two single, quiet thoughts and a related commentary by Holy Spirit. We learn that the awakened mind has no desires or individual will, but it is moved in service to our desire for awakening.

12/2/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion focuses on ‘how’ to achieve a still mind. Regina also shares the names of books that are helpful for children of different ages.

11/25/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” During today’s discussion we see that stillness throughout the day is more helpful than a time of formal meditation followed by a day without stillness. We also see that our perception indicates whether our mind is still or not.

11/18/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. She also discusses her decision to start an ACIM Original Edition study group and uses thoughts about the different versions of ACIM as an example of letting go of past meaning and opening to new meaning (given by Spirit) now.

11/11/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” In today’s discussion we learn how to train ourselves to listen to stillness.

11/4/09 Regina reads from “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion guides us to look at our attachment to ego … really look at it … & then surrender so we can let that attachment go.

10/28/09 Regina read’s from Eckhart Tolle’s, “A New Earth”. Today we talked about how an attitude of “great interest and curiosity” can help us see all things differently. This attitude is helpful to seeing Heaven on earth and it is helpful in letting go of ego. To find out how, listen to this recording.

10/21/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” In today’s discussion, we look at symbols of the world that teach us God is Love. We learn that peace is possible if we can remember “we are always on vacation with our Father.” This is an exciting and inspiring discussion. Enjoy!

10/14/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” In today’s discussion, we see how True Acceptance is the undoing of the ego. We also see how Spirit’s Guidance of what to do in a particular situation, if anything, comes from True Acceptance.

10/7/09 Regina reads a line from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” and then uses this line to help Debbie, her roommate, who is having a really tough time. Meet Debbie in this teaching, and listen to Holy Spirit’s perfect medicine … perfect answer … for all of us.

9/30/09 Regina shares a little about her move to Pueblo and her guidance to invite Debbie to stay with her. She also reads from Eckhart Tolle and discusses the decision to be joyful.

9/9/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. Today, Regina discusses the practice that is guiding her to Self-realization.

9/2/09 Regina reads from “A New Earth”. Today’s discussion focuses on discernment. How do we tell the difference between ego and Holy Spirit when ego begins to speak based on spiritual education? We also see that the Voice for Stillness (Holy Spirit) is always present and available for us to choose.

8/26/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion focuses on object consciousness and space consciousness, or…said another way…how to live in the world without being a part of the world.

8/5/09 Regina reads from “A New Earth”. Today’s discussion focuses on identifying with inner stillness as the realization of the peace of God.

7/29/09 Regina reads from “A New Earth.” In this discussion, we see that leaving meditation to step into the world is choosing the experience of duality. We also see that we do not have to leave meditation in order to be active in the world. Therefore, we can be active without choosing the experience of duality.

7/22/09 Regina shares a little about her summer travels and then reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. In this discussion we learn how, if our current experience is sometimes total and consuming fear, to begin experiencing the peace of God .

7/1/09 Regina shares a personal story about a puppy, constipation and failing to follow guidance…at least until the puppy helped to open Regina’s eyes so she could see her error. (It might be helpful to listen to last week’s Awakenings teaching first. That is the teaching below, dated 6/24/09.)

6/24/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion focuses on the value of perfect nonattachment. Willingness to release attachments (potential upsets) allows perfect nonattachment (perfect peace) to rise into consciousness.

6/17/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. Today’s discussion focuses on how to discern between “true freedom and enlightened living” and a false substitute that is initated by ego.

5/20/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. Today’s discussion talks about trading the judgments of good and bad for awareness of Reality and eternal peace & joy.

5/13/09 Regina reads from “A New Earth” and discusses how attachment to the world is attachment to time and suffering, while attachment to the single thought of God is attachment to eternity and constant, consistent happiness.
(During this teaching, Regina references an earlier teaching when she received a glimpse of eternity. If you’d like to listen to that recording, click here and play the recording dated 11/12/08.)

5/6/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”, then shares examples of the miracles she experiences as a result of practicing forgiveness as taught through A Course in Miracles and The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI).

4/29/09 Regina gives willingness for Stillness through prayer, then shares from Eckhart Tolle’s book, “A New Earth”. In this discussion we learn what A Course in Miracles means when it says “Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know.”

4/22/09 Regina shares from Eckhart Tolle’s book, “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion focuses on a state of mind that is spacious, absent of judgment and things, and all joy.

4/8/09 Regina shares from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion centers around welcoming the appearance of our own error as the Grace of God…Welcoming error for forgiveness and in the purpose of awakening.

3/25/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”, today’s single quiet thought and her notebook discussions with the inner Teacher in order to shine new light on the idea of nonattachment.

3/20/09 A 40-minute discussion about grace.

3/18/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth.” Today’s discussion centers around the answers we are given when we ask for what to do, where to go, what to say and to whom.

3/11/09 Regina talks about her experience with resistance to practice, and shares how Holy Spirit is helping her so she can move beyond resistance, and practice as He asks.

3/5/09 Regina shares a song by Resta Burnham, Laurent Elie Levy & Larry Seyer, then reads from A New Earth. Today we look at how to overcome criticism and fear.

2/25/09 Regina reads from A New Earth. In today’s discussion, we look at the constant change in the world and contrast it with the changelessness of peace, which comes from abiding in Self.

2/18/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. Through today’s discussion, we become very focused on the current goal, which is true perception. Some misperceptions about enlightenment are addressed in today’s discussion.

2/11/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and shares two single quiet thoughts, one “personal” and one shared through postings. Through this discussion, we see that our enlightenment is one enlightenment, and we learn how the thinking mind can be helpful to realizing enlightenment.

2/4/09 Regina reads from NTI Luke, Chapter 12. In today’s discussion, we learn how to begin looking at our thoughts with Holy Spirit.

1/28/09 Regina reads from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and a message given to her from Holy Spirit called The Ego is not the Devil. Through these two readings, we see what the Holy Spirit means when He teaches that the world is not real.

1/21/09 Regina reads from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament, NTI Luke, Chapter 6. In this discussion, we discern the difference between giving that is guided by ego and giving that is guided by Holy Spirit.

1/14/09 Regina reads from the day’s single quiet thought and commentary to the single quiet thought. In this discussion we see the link between desire and our experience of being guided by Holy Spirit.

1/7/09 Regina reads from “A New Earth”. Today’s discussion centers on the positive use of denial, surrender and the reminder that our only responsiblity is to accept the atonement for ourself.