Enlightenment for Beginners

By Matt Blythe

Inside Enlightenment for Beginners, the author guides us gently and clearly through learning to cope with our feelings, mind, body and spirit, attracting a love partner, forgiveness, the psychology of personal repair, meditation, the law of psychosomatics, the seven chakras, aura, your pseudo soul or ego, the feminine principle, goal setting, finding your purpose, principles for decision making and living your purpose wholeheartedly, plus many more chapters for those serious about their own personal development and spiritual growth.

Complete with informative and simple diagrams, exercises and quite a lot of humour, Enlightenment for Beginners is the essential handbook for anyone from those wanting to improve the quality of their life to those embarking on their own personal enlightenment.

"The aim of this book is largely reparative. I wrote it myself during testing times both emotionally and financially. The principles and aphorisms contained herein became a staff for me at the time and many of these formed the basis of the belief system that supports my psychology. They transformed the most chronic of problems easily and became the cornerstones and building blocks for a brighter, more positive future. Enlightenment for Beginners aims to educate and enlighten you, increase your awareness and give you an expanded view of what we call life. I hope to share this knowledge with you it comes from the depths of my awareness. With understanding and a solid foundation every problem we encounter becomes a way of extending ourselves and transforms into a gift. After taking "The Road to Recovery" and a short journey within, we can safely and confidently return to the mainstream of life with renewed interest and energy. Seeing where we are now, and how far we have come, allows us to settle into life knowing we are guided, gifted, supported and rewarded, throughout this intrinsic tapestry of life. I hope you have at least as much fun reading Enlightenment for Beginners as I did writing it. If I can help one person walk into the future with an open mind and a grateful heart then it would all have been worthwhile." Matt Blythe

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Sep 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453506400

Matt Blythe

"Twenty years ago a series of life changing events led Matt to write "Enlightenment for Beginners" which became the basis for forming his own company Inner Vision and were the beginnings of his enlightenment. At the age of 21, as a way of trying to heal his own trauma and psychology, Matt began taking notes which would later be typed up into the manuscript you are reading today. After 14 years as a relationship coach, workshop facilitator and student/teacher of A Course in Miracles, Matt feels now is a good time to share his Wisdom with the world."

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Enlightenment

for Beginners

Matt Blythe

Copyright © 2010 by Matt Blythe.

Library of Congress Control Number:        2010913513

ISBN:                  Hardcover                       978-1-4535-7476-8

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Contents

Part I—The Early Days

Introduction

Learning to Cope with Feelings

The Tree of Life

Mind, Body and Spirit

Exercise

Attracting A Love Partner

Growing Old—Getting Younger

Heaven is a Place on Earth

Why Jesus Died

Believe in Yourself

Forgiveness

Psychology of Personal Repair

Meditation

Drink When You Are Dry

The Law of Psychosomatics

Reversing Cause and Affect

Hay Fever

Prison Concepts

How to Destroy A Prison

Time as a Concept

Direct Proportionality

The Seven Chakras

Don’t Hold Back

Aura

Centre of the Universe

Part II—The Road to Recovery

Introduction

Get on the Roundabout

What is the Truth for Me Here?

Celebrate Your Problems

Your Pseudo Soul or ego

What You Teach You Learn

Mirroring and Matching

Laughter

Desire

Partner With Your Partner

The Power Struggle

Forgive Yourself

The Rules

The Feminine Principle

I Were to Know

Goal Setting

System for Ascertaining Direction

Four Rules That Must Get You What You Want

Finding Your Purpose

You Can Change Right Now

Principles for Decision Making

Living Your Purpose

God Keeps His Promises

Have Faith

Extension and Projection

Seven Phases of a Projection

Morning Power Questions

Evening Power Questions

Problem Solving Questions

Summary

Acknowledgements

Sources

Part I

THE EARLY DAYS

Introduction

The aim of this book is largely reparative. I wrote it myself during hard and testing times both emotionally and financially. It was a staff for me at the time and transformed what was the most chronic of problems into a cornerstone and the building blocks for a brighter future.

This book also aims at educating you and enlightening you, increasing your awareness to give you an expanded view of what we call human consciousness.

This is the first book I have written in terms of time, hence the subtitle, The Early Days. I hope to share this knowledge with you it comes from the depths of my awareness. With a solid foundation every problem becomes a gift.

After taking The Road to Recovery and a short journey within, we can safely and confidently return to the mainstream of life with renewed interest and enthusiasm.

Seeing where we are now and realising how far you have come, allows us to settle into life knowing that we are gifted, guided, supported and rewarded throughout the intrinsic and colourful tapestry of life.

Learning to Cope with Feelings

The Start of Wisdom

"To be strong and brave you must first admit that you feel weak and afraid."

To have a good grounding and solid foundation we need some understanding of how the nervous system works.

When someone has a major smack in life or what we call a nervous breakdown, in my experience it is not the slackers or the losers but people who are very gifted, intelligent, generally good at what they and do not have any problems playing the game of life. People who intend to be somebody and to get somewhere.

The problems begin because we are getting control and getting to be right about something, but our fundamental thought processes are out of alignment. Control is actually a way of attempting to cover fear and only delays life and the birth process that wants to come through.

A person might be sailing along quite nicely thinking they are learning life’s lessons and they get overconfident. Possibly driven by greed, vanity, lust or revenge, some intention other than love, and they start skipping lessons, maybe not consciously, but before long they find themselves in a situation they think they cannot handle. Instead of saying, OOPS! I made a mistake! Let me go back to where I went wrong and try to correct the mistake and start again a bit more cautiously this time. Taking responsibility for their feelings and the situation, they pull the plug or hit the plunger, then they fry! Then they attempt to give the responsibility to someone else, the boss, their partner, the doctor, God! They may even think God is punishing them in some way only adding to their fear and already sensitised state. People lose faith. They dismiss everything they have ever done and wonder why they bothered in the first place. Then they get cynical and join the illusion of the world and anyone else who has ever experienced anything like this. Welcome to earth!

God is not punishing you. It is the result of a simple set of mistakes or one good one, and a chaotic thought system.

We are never placed in a situation that is outside our capability, since at a deeper level of the mind we actually create the external world and choose the events we experience. A major smack in life happens when we have outgrown our personalities and are being asked to give up our way of doing it. To surrender to our purpose, so we can be true to ourselves and be taught better ways of achieving success.

But we get scared for some reason and pull back or withdraw from life. Maybe afraid to ever get in a situation that painful again or afraid of writing off that much life and having to be wrong, or worrying about what other people might think. Guilt keeps the mistake in place rather than learning the lesson and getting on with our life. Guilt is like flypaper! It is the excuse we use not to live life to the full through fear of making another mistake.’

People invent all sorts of problems so as not to have to deal with the reality of a situation; withdrawal, running away, denial, pretending it didn’t happen, convenient loss of memory. Some turn to drugs. They think if they can block out all the uncomfortable feelings they might get a rest! But the energy needed to suppress your feelings is typically greater than the energy of the feelings themselves, leaving you tired and depressed and actually helping to keep you in a state of nervous exhaustion.

We also have these huge expectations on ourselves and about how life should be, so when things blow up or do not turn out the way we planned, we tend to over react. A broken heart is really a form of broken expectation or broken dream.

Feelings come from our likes and dislikes and where we choose to put value largely originating in childhood. Feelings come from within and are expressed through you. Suppressing them is something we do and this is why it drains our energy and resources. Fear and feelings are basically a form of energy that wants to move through our body to be felt and replaced with love in order to be healed. So we can rejoin the path of life and get back IN THE FLOW.

It is only when we try to suppress our feelings, resist or stop the flow of life giving energy that we create problems. It is worth knowing that in a difficult situation, it is impossible to feel fear in the present moment.

We fear that the future will be like the past thus projecting the past onto the future. Or we fear the unknown. You can only experience fear if you are trying to live in the future. The future is generated by how you live in the present. So if you let the future go or turn it over to the Hands of God and trust that everything is being handled and taken care of in the best possible way, you can live in the present. And if you lived wholly in the present you would release and transform the future.

Quite often after a trauma people complain of feeling dead or not feeling because they have suppressed or are afraid to feel that much pain again, which could be healed if they openly grieved or communicated about their experience. Because underneath deadness is some pain or misunderstanding that needs to be felt in order to be healed, and behind that are good feelings and relief. Deadness is a feeling just like any other. If we acknowledge it and feel it long enough it will transform and we can get to the feelings underneath. Ironically, some people would rather