The Transformation of (Y)Our World: Finding Optimism and Serenity During These Difficult Times

By Delia M. Trujillo

The Transformation of (Y)our WorldFinding Optimism & Serenity During These Difficult Times may be read and apprehended on two different levels. On one level this comprehensive guidebook shows how to clear out old patterns and perspectives that block fulfillment and success in many facets of our life. On a higher and more spiritual level these guidelines allow one to be in more profound alignment with the global awakening and shift to higher consciousness that is currently taking place on our earth. The resulting inner peace, strength and optimism will allow one to be in a better position to discern the contribution each one of us is being called to make during this critical time in earths history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 29, 2008
• ISBN: 9781469116112

Delia M. Trujillo

Delia Trujillo has studied Eastern and Western spirituality and religion for more than thirty years and has been a student of A Course in Miracles for the past seven years. After having been a mathematics and chemistry instructor for many years, she had a spiritual awakening that ultimately led to her opening White Lotus Wellness Institute, the first yoga studio and meditation center in Laredo, Texas. Through the years she attained extensive experience in the quest for integrity of body, mind and spirit and also wrote a weekly newspaper wellness column for her hometown newspaper for several years. Her first book The Transformation of (Y)our World was published in 2008. Delia now lives a life predominantly of meditation and prayer and presents occasional retreats and workshops on spirituality and wellness in central and south Texas. You may e-mail her at [e-mail]

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Copyright © 2010 by Delia M. Trujillo.

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Level I

Awakening from the Trance

An Overview

I

A Balanced Mind and Calm Emotions

II

What We Focus On, We Attract

III

Allowing Your Current

Reality to Transform

Level II

A Deeper Alignment with the Wisdom of the Ages and the Laws of the Universe

An Overview

IV

The Integration of the Body,

Mind, Emotions, and Spirit

V

Meditation, Contemplation,

and Reflection

VI

Wisdom Teachings from

Christianity and Buddhism

Epilogue

Recreating a Better World:

The Butterfly Story

Bibliography

For my children Sarita, Javi,

Carlos, and Roberto; my dearest friends;

and also my greatest teachers

The advice on wellness presented in this book is intended to

help you make more-informed decisions about your health.

This is not intended to be a medical manual. Please consult

your physician before making any changes in your diet

or exercise program.

Foreword

In 1997, I began writing this book for my fellow travelers on this journey who, like me, also refuse to give up hope in spite of all the sadness, frustration, and turmoil that is occurring in our own life and in the world around us. We are the ones who empower ourselves with the realization that there is more to life than what we have found thus far and that the change we wish to see in our world must occur first in our own hearts.

As the years went by and I delved deeper into researching and preparing the material for this book, both academically and spiritually, it became clear that there is a planetary shift in consciousness already taking place and has been for several decades. I learned that the old patterns held in the collective consciousness are being released to be healed or transmuted into new patterns more suited for the New Earth that is emerging.

I also understood that as a result of our interconnectedness with our world and with each other, this energy shift manifests as profound stress and inner turmoil within our own self. We fluctuate between feeling uneasy, overwhelmed and hopeless on one hand with feeling a great urgency that there is something we should do on the other hand.

However, when we permit worry, fear, doubt, confusion, frustration, hatred, etc., to overwhelm us, we block this transformational process both for our self and for our planet. At the same time, we attract more negative outcomes and turmoil into our day-to-day life situations. In order to fulfill the role we are being asked to play at this critical time in earth’s history, it is necessary that we be at great peace and respond with love, certainty, and gratitude as we live our life fully in the present moment.

Yes, a new era of peace and enlightenment is dawning. We are not fragmented, anxious, hopeless inhabitants of the third planet from the sun who are at the mercy of the powers that be rather we are beings of light and love, vessels of a spark of the Divine, and co-creators of our own destiny. However, we lost all remembrance of this when we incarnated on earth for this life journey.

Moreover, at the onset when you allow yourself to begin to ponder this latter paradigm, you will very likely encounter much inner resistance, skepticism, and even aversion to this possibility. This is because the former paradigm is so deeply ingrained into our programming of cynicism and despair that it feels like the rug is being pulled out from under us.

Nevertheless, it is no coincidence that this book has fallen into your hands. You also are a bringer of the light. We are all one, and as you and I reconnect with our divine potential, all our loved ones who have not yet awakened from the trance are lifted up—all life is lifted up. This is why I chose to name this book Transformation of (Y)our World because the individual and the collective transformations are occurring at the same time.

At the time I began writing, I knew in my heart that you and I and everyone else who is motivated by compassion, yearning, love, intuition, and tenderness would be the ones who would help usher in a new world order. Let all of us together step-by-step allow our heart to be healed and thereby allow our present reality to be transformed. Let us all do our part in contributing to the shift to a higher level of consciousness that is healing and transforming our planet.

Delia M. Trujillo

Austin, Texas

12 October 2007

Acknowledgments

The following persons have made significant contributions to my life journey and in doing so also to the material in this book:

My former student, Rodrigo Ceballos, MD, LAc, who subsequently became my teacher after completing his studies in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. At that time, he introduced me to holistic and natural healing, yoga, meditation, healing herbs, and the benefits of a vegetarian diet. I also began to learn how our body has the magnificent ability to heal and rejuvenate itself if we are in alignment with the laws of nature.

Dr. Oliver Markley, my colleague and spiritual companion, who was my strongest supporter, patient and loving critic, and devil’s advocate as I prepared my manuscript for publication. Moreover, in the time that I have known Oliver, I have been shown by his example what it means to follow the path of the bodhisattva, the way of selfless service and deep compassion.

Dr. Jim Rigby, pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, who not only brought me back to a deeper appreciation of Christianity but also opened my horizons to spiritual activism. Whereas, before I was content to simply meditate and lead a good, law-abiding life, I now understand that it is important to take a stand wherever I see injustice. My voice does count; however, it must not come from a place of anger and hatred, but rather from a place of forgiveness and compassion for everyone concerned.

And lastly, I acknowledge my four children Sara Moctezuma Balli, Javier Moctezuma Jr., Carlos Moctezuma and Roberto Moctezuma, who were already teaching my heart to love deeply and selflessly even in the months before their birth. As our life journeys unfolded together, they became bringers of the other gifts of the Spirit—joy, peace, patient endurance, kindness, generosity, faith, gentleness, and self-control—and nurtured the growth of these virtues in my own life.

Introduction

By

Oliver W. Markley, PhD, Emeritus Professor

of Human Sciences & Studies of the Future

University of Houston—Clear Lake

We live at a momentous time in human history. After millennia of growth in human activities and their ecological impacts on the Earth, the very sustainability of human civilization is now in question. The essence of our dilemma is captured by the following statement, which can aptly be called the central challenge of humankind:

When one species attains a position of dominance over all the other species in the ecology of its planet, if it is both egocentrically greedy and has a powerful set of technologies through which to amplify the expression of that greed, then unless that dominant species can find a way to limit or to transform itself and its greed-based systems into something more wholesome, it will foul its planetary nest as surely as the night follows the day, perhaps even to its own extinction.

When we try to grasp the enormity of the interconnected patterns (social, technological, economic, ecological, and political) which are currently not only continuing, but also exacerbating unsustainable growth trends, it is difficult not to lapse into despair and even something like denial—preferring to tune into what passes for television news and other entertainment channels rather than face the music of our times and our responsibility for changing the tunes to which we all dance.

How can we both take care of ourselves and take care of the planet? The view put forward by this book is that it needs to be an inside job. That is, we must start first with our own selves and our innate capacities for healing and wisdom that are customarily talked about in terms of the Divine, starting first with the Divine within and then realizing the Divine without as well.

Although written in a seemingly simple style that is easy to read, this book makes clear how to apprehend and apply the wisdom of the ages to the needs of everyday life. As such, this book needs to be appreciated at several levels.

One way in which multiple levels of the book are evident is in the title, Transforming (Y)our World. Here the device of combining your and our cleverly signals the connection between the personal or egoic self that feels separate and apart from the mystery that is called by names such as Holy Spirit, Atman/Brahman, Allah, and God and the transpersonal or spiritual Self that knows itself to be in union with and part of the divine, the All That Is that must forever remain a mystery to the egoic self.

A second way in which multiple levels are evident