Inner Compass: Exercises and Insights of a Masterful Life

By Ivan Bava

Inner Compass is a source of guidance and direction for every-day situations and challenges, giving short practical answers and practices established in spiritual truths and wisdoms applicable to contemporary world. It is as if having a spiritual master or life-coach with you to answer your questions and doubts. This book will guide you back to the knowledge hidden within you and remind you of your true power and reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982244590

Ivan Bava

Swami Bava is an awakened master of non-duality, allowing and surrender to the Flow of Life. A disciple of Sathya Sai Baba, he was born in Croatia as Ivan Bavcevic and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology to become an international lecturer, therapist and life sciences teacher with his School of Awareness and Spiritual Mastery established in Spain, Slovenia, and Croatia. He holds his programs directly in Spanish, English and Croatian, giving people access to the most current life and spiritual knowledge in their mother tongue. He is also a guest speaker at the University of Granada and other schools and colleges in Europe. Every month he teaches hundreds of students and public audiences practical disciplines for a conscious and advanced life as a master over your own mind, emotions and body. He is a frequent guest in various radio and TV shows. From 2011 till 2019 Swami Bava has travelled more than half a million kilometers and gave more than seven thousand hours of lectures, workshops and healing sessions. In his work with tens of thousands of people, he has seen that there is a huge inner struggle and lack of acceptance of oneself so he uses his ALO Method (Allow, Let Go, Surrender) to give people the possibility for liberation from the conditioning of the past, traumas, resentments, and emotional and mental states.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020905423

Balboa Press rev. date: 03/31/2020

Contents

Expression of Gratitude

How to Read This Book

Introduction

Consciousness, Life, and Feeling

The Knowledge Is Within You

What Does Life Want from Me?

Your Teacher

Do Not Postpone! Feel!

Notice the Mechanisms

Saint and Sinner

Remember Who You Are

Awakened Consciousness

Ego or Consciousness?

When the Light Turns on…

The Path of Awareness

Mind or Spirit?

You Are an Inexhaustible Source of Energy

Feel It in Your Heart. Stay in Your Heart.

Body

Listen to Your Body

Relax the Body

Pure Physics - Body Posture Is the Key

What Is Your Body Showing?

Body-Mind Unit

What Is My Body Telling Me?

Dance, Run, Jump!

Enjoy Your Body

The Spirit and the Heart

Meditation Brings Good Health

Conscious Observing

Free Flow of Energy

Playfulness

Awareness of Breath and Awareness of the Heart

Start Today

The Hardest Addiction

Training Your Consciousness

The Strength of Consciousness

Mastery Over the Mind

Who am I?

We Are Waiting for Your Gift

When I See You, I See Myself

Everything I See - I See Myself

The Mirror

Problem And Solution

The One Who Looks Inside Herself/Himself, Will Part from Himself/Herself

First Step

Everything Is Inside of You, You Are Everything

Transformation

My Truth

The Magnificent Life

Who Am I in This World?

Embodied Consciousness

Mind and Thoughts

Mind Is a Tool of the Creator

Why Does This World Seem Painful?

As Is the Thought, So Is the Life

Awareness of Thoughts

Most of the Thoughts Are Like City Buses

Types of Thoughts

Don’t Own the Thoughts

Positive and Negative Thoughts

Even One Thought Based on Love Is Enough

I Choose to Have Only Positive Thoughts in My Mind

Stop Fighting Your Thoughts

Practice Makes the Master

The Energy Goes to What You Are Focusing on

True Responsibility

Freedom of Choice

Look and Stop

Choose

Your Choice

Don’t Fall Into the Trap

You Are Not

My Experience Is the Measure of My Evolution

I Choose to Be …

The Show of Your Life

World Is a Stage and You Are an Actor

Notice Your Influence

Where Is the Script of Your Life Created?

Consciousness Changes the Flow of Life

You Are the Star and the Main Role in Your Life

Don’t Fight With Life

Why Shame and Guilt?

Up - Down

Now and Here

In the Present Moment

The Power of

Gratitude and Love

Gratitude

All of Creation Supports Your Life

Discover Paradise

The Power That Moves the Universe

The Almighty Love

I Love Myself Completely, Just as I Am

The Basis of Living Without Resentment

Practical Expressions of Love

Love As Respect

Love as Understanding

Love as Acceptance

Love as Care

Love as Compassion

Love as Freedom

What Should I Do?

Accept!

Allow

Allow and Let Go

Allow the Intelligence of Life

Bing Carefree Is the Key

Allow Everything That Is Within You

Allow All of the World

Relaxing, Allowing, Surrendering

Surrendering

Throw Yourself Into Life

Reality

Pure Consciousness

In the Virtual Reality

User In the Background

What Is a Lie?

Reality

Appearance

Get to Know Yourself

Silence

Awakening

About the Author

School of Awareness &

Spiritual Mastery

The Center of Consciousness

OMNI Academia

Dedicated to the Cosmic Source

Expression of Gratitude

I want to thank the Cosmic Mother and Father for the gift of this Knowledge. I want to thank my earthly parents Dušanka and Željko for the gift of life, and the care and love that they have given me. Special thanks go to Sri Sathya Sai, my beloved teacher and the embodiment of unconditional love and mercy without whom I would not be where I am now.

Thanks to all the teachers in all forms all these years, from my family and friends to strangers and colleagues, for pointing out to me the mistakes and hidden inner negativities, helping me in difficult situations, supporting me and sustaining me physically, materially and emotionally, and for loving me and enjoying with me the adventures of life.

Thanks to all the participants from my seminars and lectures without whom these thoughts would not have been said nor written down for the benefit of future readers. My thanks go to Sanja Tapušković who listened to the audio recordings of the seminars and transcribed some of the valuable parts that are in this book. Thanks to the whole team of The Center of Consciousness that made publishing this book possible.

As for the English version of this book, I am especially grateful to my beloved friend, mentor and guide, prof. Gladys Winkworth who has been like a guardian angel to me ever since I enrolled at the American College of Management and Technology in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She came to my rescue many times, including at the time of publishing this book. The English translation of this book was greatly assisted by Vanesa Stošić from Serbia who did the initial draft, and for this I am grateful.

Thanks to all of you who I cannot name in this moment, but who have left a deep mark on me, a mark of spiritual and psychological growth, of care and of love. The list of your names could extend for several pages and for that I am eternally grateful. You can be certain that I keep you in my heart!

Ivan Bavčević Bava, Split-Croatia, November 2019.

How to Read This Book

The basis of this book are the transcripts from the lectures that I gave in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and India from the year 2010 to mid 2013, that were later extended and enhanced by the suggested exercises and daily activities. The topics and texts in the book serve as a daily reminder or an answer when we have a certain question. The book is here. You can reach into it easily, or just open it randomly so that Life could guide you in the required situation. There are no coincidences, so feel why you have opened that particular text and message.

After every message you read, take a few minutes and contemplate it. The intellectual knowledge is not enough; it is important to feel the message from the inside, to awaken, integrate, apply, and allow it to become a part of you. Generally, you can close your eyes after every message, direct your attention to your breath, exhale the tension while feeling relaxation and observe what you’re feeling and what is coming to you, what you must do. It is you speaking to yourself because