Self Awareness Institute

About Love: The Present Moment

2009-02-11T13:33:00.000-08:00

Everyone in the world seeks it. You can have fame, power, billions of dollars, but without it you have nothing. Without love you are impoverished; without love you will die. Love is what gives real meaning and purpose to our lives; it is the reason for our very existence; to receive it and to share it. When we feel love, we feel good. The more you feel the better it gets. But what IS it? In English we use the same word to describe many feelings, whereas in Spanish, for example, there are at least five. Our experience of love varies between our relationships and our life experience, but most people still haven’t realized what love is or how to grow it.

At one level there is an actual energy behind the experience we call love. There is a biological or physical factor involving hormones, serotonin and dopamine and other chemicals, there are the mental associations and neurological patterned associated with love and there are the emotions associated with both of these, but there is also something underlying it all that is much bigger and more profound. Right now something is making your heart beat. Just like a clock ticking, your heart is running off a current of energy causing life within you. This life force current, and the innate intelligence that flows through it, sustains your existence. It’s the mother’s milk for your soul.

The life force current, or spirit, is the underlying volition that brings forth life. Bringing forth life is an expression of love; life itself is an expression of the Divine love. The Source of that Divine Love is alive and well within you. It is the same volition that directs you to read this. The more we look within ourselves and tap this wellspring of Divine Love, the more we have to share with others. This love displaces those areas of our life where we feel we lack love. Love is always present, if you are not feeling love it is because you are looking outside of yourself to find it.

The more you look within and connect with the Source of life within you (that is you), the more love you will feel. The more Divine Love you feel the more you will have to share with others and the more you share with others the more they will feel, and, in turn, share with yet others. In this way, multitudes of people opening up to receive more Divine Love will create the critical mass to raise the consciousness of humanity. More people feeling more love, and sharing more love (compassion), brings more love into this world. The world could use more love. You could use more love. When you tap into the Source within you, the “Shaktipat” as we say, you fall in love with the Divine. When that happens you just love for no reason, it gets you high. It’s unimaginable. It’s amazing. I wish that for you. Happy Valentine’s Day.

From the heart,

Steven S. Sadleir

Invisible Energy Fields Are Conducting Life

2008-10-01T12:26:00.000-07:00

For everything that exists, there lies a latent potential for it to exist. The realization of that potential is an expression of consciousness. As consciousness is expressed we observe it as energy, it appears to us as time, space, energy and matter. We engage it in light and sound, through natural laws and in how our own brains function. This life force current, innate intelligence or spirit, that underlies all existence is creating, regenerating, directing and guiding all life. Life is expressed through fields of consciousness we think of as spirit. Spirit is what animates all of existence, and guides it too. That which causes life within you is you. You are the consciousness, expressing as spirit through the body-mind vehicle that you will one day discard.

So, if everything is being guided by these invisible streams of consciousness, if there really are fields of energy conducting life, and if we can learn to feel them and be guided by them and get connected with the very design and expression of the Divine itself, wouldn’t that be wonderful? We “know” some kind of energy is being conducted throughout our body, causing life, but do you really know it? There is a whole world of subtle energy guiding life. There are invisible forces guiding your life, you experience them all the time, but wouldn’t it be powerful if you could know what you are being guided towards, and what you are being guided away from? You can work with the Force, the Guidance, with Spirit.

The way to connect with this inner knowing, this Source of life within you that is you, is through Shaktipat Meditation. You may even begin to feel it now as you are reading this. Observe the energy moving from this page into your eyes. Spirit has brought us together so I could help your mind develop a relationship with the Spirit that you are. So my spirit is writing this and your spirit is reading this; an inner knowing is awakening within you now as I remind you of that which you already innately know. Interesting isn’t it? Take deep breath now and see if you can feel the Shakti in your body, let your mind behold the spirit that you are. Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and observe the feelings.

Shaktipat Meditation is simply your body and mind being present to the spirit that you are, you basically get high on God as your spirit is expressed through your mind and senses; as your mind realizes the true nature of your Self. Each time we connect through CD, book, newsletter, Enlightenment Radio, retreat, home study or Self Realization Course your energy grows stronger, your spirit shines brighter. We not only make it stronger, clearer and brighter, we raise the level of consciousness you are conducting until you can reside in the bliss all the time.Don’t settle for less. God is calling you. Just stay tuned into this.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

“Anything other than this…is just of the mind and isn’t ultimately real.”

Life 101 for Teens & Adults

2008-09-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

Looking back at my high school yearbook, the senior class asked what you wanted to attain in life, most people said simply to “be happy.” Of those who I have kept track of, I think very few have found true happiness despite having attained financial success. You readers, you students, have been asking me for years to create a “Course in Life for Teenagers,” so I have, but in creating it I realized that it is perhaps even more important for parents to take it, really, everyone. Most people don’t have these success skill sets. The answers lie within, happiness lies within, but you have to learn how to go within. I will teach you this.

The first training involves learning how to connect. How can we achieve anything in life without knowing how to connect, or how to gain the clarity and insight to make the right choices? First we must empower ourselves by knowing ourselves, we must search within and know what brings us our greatest joy, what gifts do we have to share, what contribution we can make. We need a map and compass, this course gives you that map and compass to navigate the currents flowing through your life. Like a Jedi, you learn to use the forces of nature and natural law to attain happiness and peace.

The next step is to take conscious control of your mind. To realize your full potential and find enduring happiness and peace, you must become conscious. I am going to show you how to transcend limiting beliefs and fears and develop a healthy self esteem, one built on humility and true self knowledge. You need a Yoda. The force is within you, but if not used wisely it’s easy for our mind to go to the dark side, seriously. Higher consciousness is then applied to every facet of your life, including communications, relationships, sex, work, money, and investing in order to create prosperity, happiness and peace. The third and forth classes provide the secrets to conscious relationships, Jedi mind power through voice, and how to love and be loveable and have respect and confidence. You will also learn the secrets of financial success, so any teen can become wealthy.

Finally, we are going to give you a whole program for physical, emotional and mental well being, a whole new paradigm for living. Don’t get stuck in habits that will hold you down later, and learn how to get into the shape and state of mind where you are on top of the world. We just gleamed the best, from the best, and put it in a package that is easy and tasty to digest. This is the “if I only knew then what I know now” shortcut, why go through a lot of difficult learning experiences to get it. Get it now. Like getting all the answers before the final exam, the point is that you learn it, sooner rather than later. This is a proven way to have it all. Live your dreams.

From the heart,

Steven S. Sadleir

Turn the Page

2008-08-07T15:11:00.000-07:00

Each day you wake up to a new beginning. Each day you turn the page of your life story and can begin to write whatever you want. Stories change and what makes any book interesting is reading how the hero makes a transition, has an epiphany, or saves the day. What’s the story of your life? Would you want to read about you? What would you want to read? What would you like to write if you could be the screenwriter of your life story? What kind of hero would you be? This year marks a new chapter in your life. With the New Year comes the opportunity to re-create yourself and the best way to do that is to find yourself.

As you look within and get more connected with who you are, you will naturally begin to discover why you were born. The more you connect with your purpose, the clearer it will be to fulfill your life purpose. As you begin fulfilling your life purpose you begin to feel more fulfilled, happy and peaceful. As you dial in on that inner connection through Shaktipat meditation the cloud of unknowing is lifted, like the fog evaporating on a sunny day. As you let more light in, everything becomes clear. Innately you already know; you have only to seek to find.

Come with me to a place where the sun always shines and God’s love is felt so deep you lose your mind. All the things your mind thinks won’t matter after you’re dead. What matters is love, and I am inviting you to make this next chapter of your life about love. About receiving love and sharing it. Not just personal love for people you love, that’s a given. I am inviting you to really love yourself. I am inviting you to stretch your capacity to love others. I invite you to forgive everyone, to drop all judgments of yourself and others. To surrender any and all negativity, and surrender to the presence of God that prodded you to read this.

As hard at it might be for your mind to believe, you are in the midst of an awakening. Something is changing in you. Like a spout that has popped up through the soil after years of germinating, your spirit is free and seeks the light. Leave your “you” behind and come with me to a place where the Angels dance with you. Where everyone you see is your brother or sister and the Divine is right here beside us guiding us each step of the way. Are you living with the spirit of a child? Does life fascinate you? Does God inspire you? Do you love for no reason at all? There is so much love being offered to you. There is so much joy awaiting you. Come play in the garden with me. Don’t let your mind resist it. Turn the page, a new chapter of your life is being written.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

"It just gets better."

The Message

2008-08-07T15:07:00.000-07:00

There is an awakening of consciousness occurring within humanity. You are part of a small but rapidly growing segment of the population that is awakening. You are amongst the first to develop that inner knowing and who recognize the shift in consciousness that is occurring in the world. Spirit is guiding you to read this. You have been called: to awaken from the dream and remember who you are and why you were born in order to fulfill the purpose of your existence. Those that are drawn to read this message are the ones ready to enlighten.

Go within and become fully conscious of what this means. How does it feel? Does it resonate as being true for you? Go into that feeling, go to its source; follow it to the very core of your being. Read again the first paragraph slowly and if any of it does not feel right or you are not sure, go within and feel that out too. There is a purpose to your existence that is bigger than all the things your mind thinks you need or want. There is a bigger play that you are a part of that your own mind may not even be aware of. This is your moment of realization. This message also serves as an acknowledgement and confirmation of that which you are. That which was, is, and will be regardless of your form, name, time or place.

One of the last tests those who have already awakened come to is the illusion of already being enlightened. A sense of “I” that identifies with having attained something, knows something, or be something. If there is anything to prove, that’s a red flag. If there is superiority, exclusivity, or making other groups or ideas “wrong” that’s a red flag too. Thinking you know, or don’t know, is still thinking. Your spirit is already free. Come with me to a place where you are so filled with God’s grace, Shakti, love, that it permeates every cell of your body. Merge with me into the pervasive spirit until all resistances wane and your heart may feel the living presence of God within you so strong that tears drip down your cheeks with joy.

The Kingdom of Heaven lies within. It’s a state of consciousness where you realize the living presence of God, by any name, within you and around you, everywhere, all the time, every day. The message is to stop ignoring and denying the Divine presence in your life, come back into the garden; you have only to open your heart to receive. Each breath you take is given to you through grace, just be aware of it. The more you look the more you will see. God never left. Most of humanity is still asleep, unaware of the bliss that awaits them. Are you experiencing that bliss? Would you like to? I would love to share this with you. When we all feel this we will create a loving and peaceful world. But first we need you.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Finding Peace

2008-08-07T15:03:00.000-07:00

No matter how stressed you get, no matter how life tests you or what challenges come up in your life, you can always find peace within. Everything you experience is teaching you something about yourself. You are being stretched to evolve your conscious awareness to its highest expression. Life is teaching you exactly what you need to know to learn and grow and realize your full potential…to self-realization. It’s those times where your life seems chaotic, that you are too busy or too stressed, that you need to meditate the most. These are moments where you can breakthrough the mental patterns, limiting beliefs and fears and transcend.

Each of us has an inner compass; an inner guidance mechanism that can help you through difficult times. As you gaze at the point between your eyebrows in meditation you align with the subtle currents of your own life force current, or spirit, that is always guiding you. Your “3rd Eye” is the place where you can dial in on the movement of energy that is guiding you, like a compass needle moving north your spirit can guide you within to gain clarity and insight. By meditating on this chakra you find greater happiness and peace. It has helped millions of people over thousands of years. But it only works if you use it.

Each of us innately knows that the answers lie within us, each of us knows that the source of happiness and peace lies within too. This 3rd Eye Shaktipat meditation is the gateway to that inner knowing and inner strength. Through regular practice your ability to tune in gets stronger. The more you practice the easier it gets too, and the deeper you will go. But even though you know this, or sense it might be true, and have every intention to practice regularly, your mind is going to test you. Through the choices you make you pass through the gates of consciousness that brings you back home and to the promised land. Each time you override your mind’s tendency to distract you and sit in meditation and tune in, you progress a little more on your path. The more you practice, the more powerful you become.

The 3rd Eye meditation becomes even more powerful when you work with a teacher. The meditation in its pure form is not an exercise to get something or go somewhere, but rather a time to commune with the part of you that is already realized. It’s a time when your body and mind can enjoy the presence of your own indwelling spirit and enjoy it. The practice is empowered by working with a teacher on the inner, were we join in spirit and merge in consciousness. My hand is reaching out to you. I invite you to join me and experience the sublime bliss that I had spent a lifetime looking for, and now I have found it I want to share it with you. Listen to our Internet radio station on Live365.com called Enlightenment Radio (www.live365.com/stations/sair), download some MP3’s or get some CD’s, take a class when you are ready but don’t deny yourself the joy and peace that this meditation will provide. I will meet you there.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Your Beautiful Mind

2008-08-07T15:02:00.000-07:00

What if you could think whatever you want whenever you want? What if you felt joy, love and peace all the time, or even just most of the time? Can you think of some old feeling that you would rather not be carrying around, or a behavior that just doesn’t serve you anymore and you would like to let it go? Now is the time. Your mind thinks as it was trained to. Over the years you have downloaded from your senses various thoughts, feelings, opinions and beliefs that rule over your life. Some of them may be quite helpful to you while others may be keeping you from realizing your full potential, or just being happy and prosperous.

You can consciously decide how you want your brain to work, and if there is something in your mind you no longer want to think you can now change it. Your own mind may not believe this, and may even fear the idea, but if you would like to change what goes on in your mind and body the first step is in realizing that you can…absolutely. The second step in this process is in realizing what your thoughts and feelings are and how they are affecting your life. What thoughts serve you and which ones don’t? The next step is to consciously decide in what ways you want to think and which ways you don’t. The clearer your mind is as to what you want it to think, the easier it is for your mind to think it.

Once you have gained clarity as to what you want your mind to think it is simply a matter of programming your mind to think that way. This is where I can help you. Just like learning a language, as you repeat ideas and feelings they become ingrained into the neuro-physiology of your brain and become adopted into your own personality and behavior. Thought-forms can be created in your mind and firmly established so your mind becomes the perfect servant to your own consciousness. Where there was negative you create positive, where there is fear you create courage and strength, where there is discord you create harmony.

Look how enslaved most people are to their mental and emotional conditioning. There is absolutely no reason to stay in a contracted mental or emotional state, you can start shifting and reprogramming your mind once you decide to. This choice is the power that makes it happen. Your spirit is guiding you to make those choices, just as it guided you to be reading these words. I will be conducting a series of three one hour teleconferences this month called The Enlightened Mind Series (www.selfawareness.com/YourEnlightenedMindCDSet.html). During these teleconferences I will guide you into deep states to access your subconscious and provide you a series of templates for your mind to consider and adopt if you choose. Emotionally, physically and mentally let us create those thoughts and feelings that bring greater prosperity, happiness and peace into your life and to those in your life. Why settle for anything else?

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

"Who decides what state you're going to be in?"

Beyond the Glass Ceiling

2008-08-07T14:57:00.000-07:00

As we learn, grow and evolve ourselves and are guided to the fulfillment of our life purpose we inevitably come to areas where we appear to get stuck or stagnate. Whether it is in our career, our relationships or spiritual development we rise to the capacity of our own awareness and any resistance or lack of awareness creates what feels like “a glass ceiling.” You may not even know what it is that is keeping you from moving forward, but you just are not satisfied or at peace. You’ve reached a plateau, you’ve reached that glass ceiling, then what do you do? You don’t do. The doing is what got you stuck to begin with. This is the time to release the doing and the doer and shift your energy to allowing.

Your mind will not necessarily listen to this advice, not initially, for it will surely have many rationalizations, justifications and defenses for whatever you are thinking and feeling, but through your life experience you will see that to the degree that you are open to receive, you will receive. You are always being directed and guided, and whenever you are feeling anything other than happiness and peace (your natural state as spirit) it is only serving as a reminder to get back in touch with yourself. This is where meditation comes in. Most of you already know meditation of some sort. Most of you who have been drawn to read this would likely have done a lot of work on yourselves already and have a higher degree of awareness (or you would not have been drawn to be reading this). But are you living your dreams? Are you enlightened? Are you in bliss?

Your mind cannot conceive God. Your brain will never understand what enlightenment is. The glass ceiling for most of you who are already more spiritually aware is that you may be stuck in what you already know. This was the case for me after studying and writing about world religions and teaching meditation for so many years, I thought I knew something and it kept me from opening to receive even more. I was stuck in what I thought I knew as well as with what I thought I didn’t know. It was only through the grace of my guru that I was able to breakthrough. I prayed to God to send me a teacher, I prayed to Jesus to guide me, and I got a vision of my teacher and the very next day came upon a flyer in Los Angeles announcing his arrival the very next day. It wasn’t until I met my Swamiji and let him guide me by the heart, and through his Shakti, I broke out of the glass ceiling and into the bliss.

Life is blissful. Not just alright or ok, blissful. If you are not in bliss you are not awake, you have fallen asleep and are under the influence of your mind. When you realize the true nature of yourself, as spirit, when you realize God’s presence within you and around you, you enter into the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and experience bliss. If you are not in bliss I need to talk to you. I want to help you find the love and joy and peace that lies within you, it is your own nature. You are not your mind, or body, you are spirit, living in a world of spirit, and when you enter this world you find happiness and peace. I would like to invite you into my world; I invite you into the bliss.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

The Kingdom of Heaven

2008-08-07T14:52:00.000-07:00

After years of studying and writing about world religions and spiritual paths a common message appears in each of the world’s major teachings, whether it be an eastern or western religion, spiritual group or master, and that is that one day we humans will all live together in happiness and peace in a divine relationship with God right here on earth. We will transcend our lower nature and live in divine communion in paradise: a kingdom of heaven on earth. Many believe this age is upon us. We have come to a point where we are realizing that God never left; the presence of the Divine lies within us, and around us, as spirit. It is spirit that animates our existence. When we realize our true nature as spirit, and recognize this spirit in each other, and in everything, at all times, in all places, then we enter into this heavenly state, for the kingdom of heaven lies within.

While doing research for my next book I came upon a powerful description in the Gospel of Thomas by Jesus’ brother, this Gospel was very popular among Christians in the first and second century but for various political reasons was not included in the New Testament, and whether you are a Christian or not it provides powerful insight into the nature of our existence. In the third paragraph of this gospel, Jesus tells his disciples:

“…the kingdom is inside you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will come to be known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father.”

Then in paragraph 113, his disciples said to him: “When will the kingdom come?” And Jesus said:

“It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying ‘here it is’ or ‘there it is.’ Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.”

This is completely consistent with the concept of Self-Realization and God-Realization, for when you enlighten you come to know your own nature and realize the living presence God here on earth. You enter into a state of consciousness where you realize God’s presence within you and around you. So, those who have eyes let them see. God never left, that which created us is sustaining us even now and we have never been separate from Him. Connect with that life force, innate intelligence, or spirit that you are and allow your mind to realize that it is you.

You are entering a revelation in consciousness. You have evolved your conscious awareness to the point that you have realized that there is something to be realized or you wouldn’t be reading this. You are being guided by spirit to awaken from the dream and drama that your mind has created and are remembering who you are and why you were born so that you may fulfill the purpose of your existence. You are invited to God-Realization and to enter the kingdom of heaven on earth.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

What It Takes

2008-08-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

Over the last thirty years I have watch students come and go. Some pick up some meditation tools to help them with life, they find more peace and have an awakening that gives them an evolutionary bump up in consciousness, while others clearly get the glow, find the bliss and enlighten. Why do some just get just a little and others enlighten? I’ve been studying this for years and have some insights for you. The good news is that you are reading this, and that is the evidence you are being guided. Continue to follow that inner guidance and you will get it. You have it already, you are it; you have only to realize it.

One of the most common delays and deterrents, to our spiritual evolution is “The Busy Cycle.” Inevitably, as we meditate we accelerate our learning curve and our life starts speeding up, changes come rapidly and we become busier dealing with all the changes that we’ve stirred up in our life. While this is the most important time to keep meditating, it is more often than not the time students start missing their meditations, cutting them short or not being fully present when meditating. Whether it’s a few days, weeks, months or years, eventually people seem to come back to meditation, like a refuge, but those times away can be difficult. Sticking with your practice and allowing yourself to receive inner guidance during meditation is the best strategy to help you move through these trying times.

The second biggest obstacle is “dabbling.” I have seen students go from one spiritual practice to another, teacher to teacher, seminar to seminar, and retreat to retreat for years but they don’t go deeper in their meditation. Rather than going deeper in their meditation, they simply move on to the next fun thing. The third biggest obstacle, and the test that comes up with most of my graduate students, is the “I know” syndrome. When students learn a lot and start having epiphanies, satori’s or samadhi’s, it often goes to their head and this puts up barriers to learning. This is a test all students face (as I did): getting stuck on what we think we know (or have). If you think you know, you don’t.

So, what does it take? The students who have clearly awakened and enlightened have these qualities: They are deeply committed, sincere and consistent in their practice. They are open to receive, they listen, they allow themselves to be guided, they allow themselves to be loved, and they are able to take criticism and guidance without defensiveness or resistance. Most importantly, they don’t give up. You can never fail if you don’t give up. Don’t give up, it’s so worth it.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Your Inner Compass

2008-08-07T14:33:00.000-07:00

We each have an inner compass guiding us to fulfill our purpose. We all have an inner knowing that is providing the impetus for us to develop ourselves. We are all evolving, all growing more conscious through all our life experiences; all part of a critical mass of awareness that is awakening within the collective consciousness of humanity. We are each being guided to realize our full potential by realizing our Self. Self-realization is the culmination of humanity’s potential, it is the underlying desire within all humans; it is our instinct to evolve. Enlightenment is innate. Your true Self is already realized. You couldn’t be anything other than that which you already are. It is time for your full self-realization.

Reflecting on your own nature helps your mind align with the part of you that already knows. Having the presence of mind to check your compass brings your mind in alignment with the spirit that’s calling you to wake up from the dream, to remember who you are and why you were born so you can fulfill the purpose of your existence. The energy the guides you to be reading and reflecting on these words is your spirit. Your spirit is guiding your mind as you are reading these words as evidenced by the fact that you are reading them. It’s bringing your mind into focus on the feeling that is your spirit reaching out to your mind. Shaktipat meditation is tuning to that feeling.

When you put your attention on the place between the eyebrows, as we teach, energy flows to this area and several incredible things happen: Your pituitary gland is stimulated, and working in conjunction with your pineal gland, they regulate heart rate, metabolism, respiration and other biological functions, bringing about a more peaceful state. This endocrine response further facilitates the lowering of your brain wave activity; guiding you down from Beta (14-40 cps) to Alpha (7-13 cps) then Theta (4-6 cps) and eventually Delta (0-3 cps). From within this inner quiet greater clarity, insight, happiness and peace develop. This meditation also draws the energy from your nervous system up to the uppermost regions of your brain; the “crown” in the frontal and temporal lobes of your neo-cortex. Herein lies our sixth sense, and by developing this sense your own nature is reflected back to your mind and your mind realizes the true nature of your Self.

When you meditate on your 3rd Eye, you plug into the very life force current that you are; your mind is simply connecting with your spirit, consciously. Each time you meditate on your 3rd eye, you align with the energy guiding you; spirit guides you like a compass needle pointing the way. Picture me reaching out to you in the screen of your mind, connect like a radio tuning into a broadcast, and my spirit will join with yours and we can move into this state of consciousness together. Like Saint Peter awaiting you at the pearly gates, I am reaching out to you in spirit to enter the Kingdom of Heaven that lies within. I will meet you here.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Get Your Bearing

2008-08-07T14:28:00.000-07:00

In and around everything that exists lie fields of organizing intelligence. That which creates us and sustains us is also guiding us; it is guiding us in every situation, everywhere, all the time. When we are aligned with the flow of this expression of consciousness, or spirit, we are guided to positive learning experiences and find fulfillment, happiness and peace. When we connect with and allow our body and mind to serve as a vehicle for this innate volition we are drawn to the people, places and situations that support our growth and development and life is good, very good.

When our mind diverts our attention away from this natural inclination, and to the degree it does, we feel a commensurate degree of suffering and pain. These are the signs pointing out that we are out of touch, disconnected, lost. Like a compass needle being pulled to magnetic north, our spirit is always pointing the way for our optimum happiness and peace. We are never really disconnected with spirit itself, but our mind can get so preoccupied with the stories that it creates that we all too often get lost in our own mind. But no matter how lost you are, no matter how difficult life gets, no matter how disconnected you feel, you can always come right back, get your bearing and find peace.

You get your bearing by tuning into the subtle life force currents flowing through you and around you. The more you tune in, the more tuned in you are. The more you connect with the source of life within you, the more connected you are. The more connected you are the more you will be guided to those life experiences that are helping you to learn, and grow, and evolve your consciousness to its highest expression and fulfill your life purpose. Shaktipat meditation is the means to connecting with this innate guiding volition; it’s your direct connection.

Shakti is life force, or spirit. It is energy. It makes your heart beat; it is life itself. But it is more than just energy, it is innate intelligence, it is the expression of consciousness that has been guiding you all along. It is you, it is what you are, it is what continues on long after the body expires and the sooner you are plugged into it and guided by it, the sooner you will find enduring happiness and peace. It is where you find clarity, it is where you find inspiration and guidance, it is where you find happiness and peace, and it is what is guiding you to read these words right now. You are being guided by it to find it, to realize it. The more you connect with it, the more you meditate using this Shaktipat, the stronger your connection is and the happier you are. We know, we’ve trained thousands, we see it transforming people’s lives every day, and we would love for you to experience the profound shifts that result as you awaken this inner knowing, guidance and love.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

“Find your Self and find true happiness. All other happiness is transitory and fleeting."

The Zohar

2008-08-07T14:22:00.000-07:00

We have all heard of the term “God-Realization” and most would consider it an Eastern Concept, something sought after by Buddhists and Yogis alike, and it is, but few people realize that the Bible itself leads us to “God-Realization.” To enter the Kingdom of Heaven is to realize, and have your awareness dwelling in, and with, the presence of God. Both Eastern and Western paths strive to feel the bliss of being in God’s presence and envision a time where we will all live together in happiness and peace here on Earth. The Old Testament, the Torah, is written with metaphors and cryptic messages that have become clarified through the study of the Kabbalah; the primary text of which is called The Zohar, or Book of Splendor.

The teachings of Kabbalah are said to trace back to Adam himself and carried on through the prophets to the present day. The first written texts, and a classic period of study of Kabbalah, began around the first century, with commentaries being added on through the ages. In this study of God and Man’s nature and purpose, the Kabbalah clarifies that we are here to awaken our spiritual awareness and evolve our consciousness to full God-Realization and to bring this enlightened awareness into this world in order to invoke the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. It makes very clear that enlightenment is the very goal and purpose to our existence, and the stories in the bible contain the messages that will enlighten us as to how God thinks and what we are here to do.

Even more interesting is that this information has been keep secret for thousands of years and it has only just recently been printed, unabridged, in English and made available to the public. The reason, we are told, is that we have entered the age of the Messiah and individuals are going to start enlightening in preparation for it. We have entered the age of Prophesy and unlike any other time in the history of civilization we are being given an opportunity to enlighten and, in fact, we are being called to. The first century Jewish sect called the Essenes were the only sect known to perform baptisms, as John the Baptist and Christ did, and this sect were known to have had practiced Kabbalah. Christ is inviting us to realize his Divine presence right here on Earth and we are being invited to realize that the spirit that lies within us, is us. Those who have eyes let them see. The Kingdom of Heaven lies within. Amen.
PS: I have so much more I want to share, come join in during our Satsang and free guided meditations teleconferenced each month.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

"The more open you are to receive, the more you will receive."

Intentions

2008-08-07T14:16:00.001-07:00

Let's create some intentions for this coming year. As we think about it, visualize and feel what we would like to create, our mind aligns with these intentions and we begin to realize them. What we think we create, and we create what we think. Let us begin by intending to evolve ourselves to realize our highest potential. Let us envision that everything we experience is teaching us something that is serving to help us to learn, and grow and evolve ourselves and bring about greater prosperity, happiness and peace.

Let us decide to let go of anything and everything that has been keeping us from realizing our full potential; and consciously decide to release any limiting beliefs and fears our mind might have created. Let us drop any and all negativity, and stories we have created about others, or our past, and live fully in the present moment. This coming year represents a new beginning. This coming year you are beginning a new chapter in the book of your life.

If you could write a chapter in the book of your life, what would it say? If you could play any part, any character, what character would you be? What would it be like to fully awaken your consciousness, to fully enlighten? Imagine what it would look like, sound like, feel like? Imagine feeling total love, peace and joy all the time for no reason? Imagine you were an actor in the play of your own life and rehearse the part of one who had found peace within and lived to help others find it.

Imagine that you were awakening from a dream and beginning to remember who you are and why you were born. Imagine you had been led to these words by your spirit and even as you are reading them your own spirit is making conscious contact with your mind and as your mind is pondering this you are awakening even more. Imagine you lived your life as the spirit that you are and that you began to see the spirit alive in everyone, and in everything, everywhere, all the time, every day. Imagine you were part of a movement that was uplifting the consciousness of humanity so we could all live together in happiness and peace. Just imagine.

From the heart, Steven

"Your own potential is realized when reflected upon."

Epiphany at the Portola

2008-08-07T14:06:00.000-07:00

Last month I took a group of students, primarily high-powered businessmen and women, to China and Tibet for a meditation retreat. I was amazed at how much China had changed from the late eighties. Back then almost everyone wore a drab uniform and very few people looked happy. What I remembered most were all the guards carrying machine guns and being watched very carefully wherever I went. Now, in Shanghai and Beijing anyway, I was happy to see thoroughly modern cities. People were wearing bright colors and had happy, hopeful faces. Evidence of prosperity was everywhere. Even the guards at the Great Wall would sit and laugh with us.

Tibet was even more amazing. It is such a beautiful country, with majestic mountains and magical temples filled with brilliant murals and golden beaming Buddha's. We were quite taken aback when at every temple and every statue we would be met by a monk who would inform us of the fee for taking a picture. Ten Yuan for this room, twenty for this Buddha, forty to videotape it. Of course, we were happy to make some donations to help restore the temples and delighted to support the ongoing work at the monasteries. But the gift that was given to us, perhaps by the Prosperity Buddha, was the idea of being open to receive and how money served as a means to help people.

In my early years of meditating as a "yogi in training," I adopted the notion that money was un-spiritual. My mind had created a division between my business life and my spiritual life. As a result I lived in lack because my mind thought it was a more spiritual state to be in. Teaching yoga and meditation in the eighties I would always teach on a donation basis but rarely received enough to pay for the overhead. For years SAI remained a meditation backwater in Orange County. Then, in the early 21st Century, my friend, student and teacher Matthew Ferry, pointed out to me that my lack of prosperity consciousness was keeping my work from being enjoyed by other people. Once I was open to receive, others began to receive more too.

Once my consciousness shifted from lack to value, The Self Awareness Institute grew from a few hundred people to tens of thousands all over the world in just a few years. This same shift may be helpful for you too. Are you living in lack? Do you deny yourself prosperity, happiness or peace of mind? Later this month I am conducting a Prosperity Consciousness workshop that I encourage you to attend. Prosperity is a state of consciousness, and your prosperity contributes to global prosperity. Lack serves nobody. This epiphany occurred at the Portola Palace in Lhasa. God bless the people of Tibet. Check out the photos visit: www.selfawareness.com/VideoPhotoGallery.html.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Master “The Force” Like A Jedi

2008-08-07T14:02:00.000-07:00

Whether you call it “The Force” as in Star Wars, innate intelligence, nature or spirit, we all recognize that there is something inside us animating our existence, and all existence. Some kind of energy is flowing, intricate systems of organizing intelligence and will, all working together. The more we connect with this force, the more powerful we become in using it. The more you find it within yourself; the more you realize the true nature of your Self…you enlighten. You ARE this spirit, and it is guiding you now to the full realization of God, within you and around, in every place, in all situations, all the time. As you tap into the wellspring of life itself, you tap into the flow of love that sustains your existence…and it is guiding you now.

Use The Force: Take a deep breath and connect with the life force within you, that is you. Be present to that presence within you that knew to lead you to these words. Feel the volition that is guiding you, and guiding us, to bring more light into this world. As you begin to connect and be guided by the spirit within you, you will also begin to become conscious of how spirit is guiding other people, situations and events and will know when, how and what to do. You are so much more powerful when you know what is going on. As you become more conscious you learn to use these flows of spirit as this is how we are guided to fulfilling our life purpose.

The more you are on purpose, the more everything flows. To the degree you are “off” you will find your life becomes more difficult and painful. Difficulty and pain is a sign of resistance; you just need to be guided back on track, to get back on purpose. Use your Jedi skills; use The Force. Where there is darkness bring the light. Like Master Yoda says: “Anger leads to hate, hate leads to the Dark Side.” Watch where you energy goes. Are you getting angry? Are you in fear? Is there darkness in your mind? Meditate. Connect with the source of life within you, the light within you that is you.

As you become increasingly more conscious of how energy is flowing into and out of your mind and your life, you will become adept at using the energy like a Jedi. An instinct innate within you is already guiding you. The Force is with you now compelling you to read these words. Spirit has your mind’s attention. You have come to a pivotal point in the evolution of your consciousness where you are now consciously seeking ways to further evolve yourself to enlightenment. Your training is about to begin. Are you ready?

From the Heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

"You are part of a movement that is changing the world forever."

Your Energy Body

2008-07-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

Your body is energy. Energy is absorbed through the air you breathe. It flows in your nervous system, like electricity flowing through wires, to all your extremities and vital organs. It flows in streams through channels of low resistance and high conductivity called chi, or ki. Your central nervous system conducts it like a bar magnet, with the positive charge on the top of the head and the negative charge at your tailbone. Arching fields of bio-magnetism flow out from the top of your head, encircle your body and come up again at the negative pole at your tailbone in what is called an “aura.”

Your thoughts are energy too, literally a movement of energy flowing through streams of neurons, or brain cells, in your head. Emotions are a combination of neurological discharges and secretions of brain chemicals whose discharges create the moods you feel. All your senses are picking up energy: Light is energy, sound is energy, taste and smell involve energy discharges in your brain as well. Movement is energy, gravity is a form of energy, every state perceived is something changing…energy; perception itself is energy.

Even the physical mass of your body is energy. Shrink your awareness down into the cellular level and you find the cells of your body are in constant communication with each other energetically; each cell receives and conducts energy. Shrink yourself down even further to the molecular level and you find systems of organizing intelligence conducting the energy to create the patterns we call molecules, elements, compounds-the building blocks of life. Shrink your awareness down even smaller to the world of atoms and you find that the ultimate constituents of your body are latent potential and realized manifestations of positive and negative energy, which we call protons, electrons, and neutrons.

Your body is both receiving and transmitting energy. What you think, and feel, is what you are creating. Create happy positive thoughts and those thoughts are transmitted into the fields of awareness that link us all together, like cells in the body of God. Negative thoughts are also transmitted into the field of collective consciousness and will cause you to attract the people, circumstances and situations that enable you to see whatever is diminishing the light of your own indwelling spirit. Spirit is consciousness in expression, or Shakti. That which causes life within you is you. You are the light. Realize this.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

How to Find Peace of Mind in a Crazy World

2008-07-17T15:32:00.000-07:00

Have you noticed that life appears to be speeding up? We are trying to "fit" so many things into our schedule, trying to keep up, stay on top, working harder and harder to get ahead. The whole world is stressing out. The recession is creating a fear of survival; a "lack" consciousness is begetting more lack and, then, if we watch the television, listen to the news on the radio, or read the paper, our minds are filled with even more dismal information. There is a vortex of negative energy that we feed, collectively, and unconsciously, that perpetuates this cycle and keeps us from being at peace and being happy.

This chaotic energy is endemic in our world culture now, and we are all feeling its affects. As the energy keeps spinning faster and faster, like a hurricane, we can easily get caught up in it with all its negativity and that's why so many people don't feel at peace. We have gotten caught up in the negative energy vortex, and the mind just goes on and on as if we had no control of our lives. We allow our minds to run out of control. The good news is there is a time tested proven solution to this mass chaos: unplug from it.

By first realizing that you have a choice what state of mind to be in, no matter what is happening in your life, then you begin to shift your energy. By stepping back from the energy vortex and "disengaging" it, you stop feeding it. There is a thought momentum that will pull you back in again if you go unconscious and you likely will (you'll be tested). You then just need to remember to step back again and watch your mind as if you were watching a show...which you are. Our habit is to get sucked in, again and again, and that just reinforces and perpetuates these cycles causing the chaos. At some point, you need to decide you are stepping out of it and reconnect with that place of peace that is innate to your being. This is where meditation comes in.

Most of the time when I mention something like this, people's kneejerk reaction is either "I can't meditate, my mind is too active" or "I don't have time to meditate." If your mind thinks this way it is only indicating that you have lost control of your life and well being. It's making the conscious choice to disengage from that very thinking that opens you up to new possibilities. We see this every day. We work with thousands of people who start with this "too busy" or "can't" attitude, and then watch them shift, almost overnight, into states happiness and peace. You only need to be shown how, it's learned. When you shift your state of consciousness, by intending to, your life also shifts. Not only will you find increasing joy and peace from life, but you will receive the inner guidance to fulfill your life purpose and create greater prosperity too. I guarantee it. The choice is up to you. What are you choosing?

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

What a Manifestation & Meditation Retreat is Like

2008-07-17T15:22:00.000-07:00

Hundreds gather from around the country and abroad to the vortexes and natural beauty of Sedona, Arizona, to learn The Exact Science of Manifesting from some of world's leading experts. One of the highlights of this weekend retreat was when leading clinical psychologist and best-selling author Dr. David Hawkins provided us an overview of "The Scale of Consciousness" (see Power Verses Force) and explained the various levels of consciousness and the means of objectively determining truth from falsehood. From his insights we learned of our ability to consciously raise our own level of consciousness and we inspired to enlighten.

Humor abounds as national speaker Matthew Ferry, Director of the Academy of Influence and personal trainer to millionaires, shares his secrets of manifesting whatever you want, financially, personally and spiritually, through his "8 Steps to Manifesting" process and causes us to nearly split our spleen from laughing so hard during the "Drunk Monkey" talk. The conference room was filled with inspirational art, sacred objects, special air cleansing devices were brought in create the optimal environment, and nutritional experts showed us how to cleanse our bodies through super-foods like Isagenix.

I led a half a dozen powerful meditations designed to: (1) Clear away limiting beliefs and fears, (2) connect with the source of inner knowing, (3) amplify your attractor field to manifest more powerfully, (4) raise your calibrated level of consciousness, and (5) get high as a kite through Shaktipat. By the end of the retreat almost everyone had tears of joy in their eyes and had made major breakthroughs. Dr. Sally St. John showed us how to use applied kinesiology to determine our calibrated level of consciousness and tests of the group showed that as a whole they had moved all the way into the 500's (a state of higher consciousness).

Most of the time we hung out with our friends, made new friends and hiked the famous "energy vortexes" of Sedona. Almost half the people at the retreat had never meditated before, but by the time we left everyone had experienced samadhi and each had made a deeper connection with their spirit. We all learned that "what we think we create, and we create what we think" and by Monday the magic of manifesting has already begun. People are finding greater prosperity, happiness and peace by realizing they can, through self-realization. We are planning to do another retreat in Santa Fe this summer; hope you can join us.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Making It Meaningful

2008-07-17T15:17:00.000-07:00

Do you feel a sense of absolute awe and wonder with your life? Does your life flow effortlessly with synchronicity and abundance? Do you feel you are aligned with your purpose and feel fulfilled, completely happy and at peace? If not, why not? You already know the answers lie within you. You have a sense of being guided to fulfill your life purpose don't you? Otherwise why would you be reading this? Your Spirit is guiding you to fully realize who you are and why you were born so that you can fulfill the purpose of your existence.

Once you realize that there is something to be realized, your realization has begun. The fact that you are reading this indicates that you have already awakened your consciousness and are being guided. But being guided to what? Each of us is being given the opportunity to connect with the part of us that already knows why we were born by acknowledging the volition that compels you to read these words. The more you get in touch with that, the more connected your mind will be with your Self.

To the degree we connect with this inner knowing, we live a life of prosperity, happiness and peace. I have observed this in literally thousands of cases over the past twenty years. Virtually everyone who learns the tools and practices them finds greater prosperity, happiness and peace. Everyone. You find meaning in life when you find your Self. Self-realization is the key. What keeps people from this enlightened state is what their mind does. The mind resists. This is the test. It resists making the commitment to the practice, it resists going beyond what is already known, it resists help, it becomes fearful, prideful, distracted.

When you come to the point in the evolution of your consciousness that you make the commitment to full self-realization everything in your life shifts. The doors of opportunity open up for you. The universe supports you. The Divine enters into your life in ways that appear miraculous and your heart is filled with love, peace and joy. I see this every day, I am watching thousands of people enlighten. I am hoping that you will join us and enter into this Kingdom of Heaven that lies within. I welcome you into this present moment. Close your eyes and connect with what you are feeling. I will meet you there.

From the heart, Steven

Mystical Land, Powerful Journey

2008-07-17T14:30:00.000-07:00

Imagine meditating on an active volcano. Mauna Loa, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is the most massive mountain on Earth; measured from its base on the seafloor it rises 56,000 (27,000 higher than Everest from the base) and lies over 13,700 above sea level. It was snowing on the peak even as we basked in the sun on the black sandy beaches of Puna, approximately 30 miles south of Hilo. All of Hawaii is beautiful, but I have never been to such an incredible place and wanted to share with you what a SAI retreat was like so you can join us next time.

Each morning we were led by Maura Hoffman in an absolutely wonderful yoga workout and then led into a powerful Shaktipat meditation, so by breakfast we were already naturally high as a kite. Late morning and afternoon we would typically go on excursions and meet up again in the late afternoon for Dhyana, getting even higher on the Divine. By the end of the week everyone went to an even deeper level in their meditations and several people had life changing breakthroughs as the Shakti just sets your spirit free.

One day we went hiking to beautiful Akaka Falls and then went swimming with sea turtles, another day we went into a lava tube ---the womb of the Volcano--- and sat sauna style as steam vented up into the darkened chamber. Another day we went trance dancing with another retreat group and later danced on the beach to the sounds of a dozen drums beating and the crashing of waves on the beach. We also went to the geo-thermal natural hot tubs, snorkeled about with beautiful fish, ate incredible natural meals, got massages, and had fun activities each night, such as, Kaya Kalpa Anti-Aging Secrets, Tantra, Love Tap's, Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and Bliss Sessions. We also just hung out on the beach and got to know each other better.

But the height of the trip was walking out to the lava flow. Kilauea extends out the side of Mauna Loa and is still active. We could see the steam from the lava flowing miles away from our totally decked out retreat center Rama Shala. Friday evening we hiked out of Volcano National Park and went within feet of flowing magma (molten rock) as it dropped right into the sea expanding Hawaii's shore line. Maura and I stripped down in the pitch of darkness and swam right out to the middle of the lava flow, within 100 feet of the cascading lava sputtering like a pressure cooker as it met the crashing waves below. The whole ocean reflected the bright orange glow as we bounded in the bubbling waters heated by the lava. For a hundred yards to our left and to our right was red-hot lava flowing into the ocean. Absolutely amazing. I had to tell someone (hope Mom isn't reading this). Go to http://www.selfawareness.com/VideoPhotoGallery.html to see the photos.

From the Heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

Find Your Purpose, Fulfill Your Destiny

2008-07-17T14:19:00.000-07:00

We are each being guided to fulfill our life purpose. Collectively and individually we are all following our intuition to evolve ourselves to higher levels of consciousness. You witness evidence of this inner guidance as you read these words. You are here because spirit guided you to be here. You are being invited to take that next step and fulfill your destiny. So, what is your destiny? What lies awaiting for you to realize? First you must find yourself. Connect with the part of you that knows your calling and how to fulfill the purpose of your existence. To realize your full potential you must realize your Self, you must attain Self Realization.

Everyone reading this essay is enlightened to some degree or you would not have the inclination to read this. Start by acknowledging that part of you that seeks enlightenment. Let it be clear in your own mind that you are seeking to raise your calibrated level of consciousness and attain conscious control over your mind, and feel the full profundity of God’s love as you realize the Kingdom of Heaven within you. To think we go through so much of our life ignorant of this Divine presence. It’s a wonder how we could deny the very love that sustains our own existence, but we do. We suffer out of ignorance.

When your mind realizes the true nature of your Self, the bliss is indescribable. If you are not intoxicated on God, what are you doing? Why would you choose to live a life of trials and errors when you could walk with Him? God never left, open your eyes and see. The Kingdom of Heaven lies within. In the Gospel of Thomas the apostles ask Jesus, “When will the Kingdom come?” To which Jesus replied, “It will not come by waiting for it. You cannot say that it is here, or that it is there. For the Kingdom of Heaven is spread out before man, but he sees it not.” Those that have eyes let them see.

Brothers and sisters, your destiny is to enlighten. Until to commit to this mission you are straying from your path and that might be why it seems difficult at times. When will the time come that you commit yourself whole heartedly to your enlightenment? Through Self Realization you truly do find greater prosperity, happiness and peace. Let me show you the way to find the answers that already lie within you. Let us create peace on Earth by first finding peace within ourselves. Your destiny awaits.

From the heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

Conscious Capitalism

2008-06-13T14:51:00.000-07:00

For the world to enlighten we must first enlighten, and bring this higher awareness into every facet of our lives including business. Capitalism affords the opportunity to aspire to achieve a better life, liberty and happiness, but all too often also breeds greed and corruption. At a lower state of consciousness the ends justifies the means, at a higher state it benefits society. In a “materialistic” culture money becomes the God, that we seek and humans become devalued.I have spent a lifetime studying God and money, and from my perspective when serving others is the goal, greater good and profit result. I have a plan, a way that brings out the best in capitalism and it is simply this:

Rather than trying to make money, our goal as individuals and businesses should be to make a difference. If we can make a real contribution, that contribution is valued and we become valued and money comes. This is the key to the Law of Attraction: it’s not trying to get what you want, but helping others with what THEY need or want. If we only seek to benefit ourselves, or a select few, then we miss the greater value of making a difference. Making a difference, making a contribution to other’s lives, is what life is all about; and it’s good for business too. We find greater purpose and meaning when we make a contribution. Just making money will not fulfill you, making a difference will.

If we really do care and want to make a difference, then we think green, we think sustainable, renewable and what is in the best interest of others including the generations to come. To seek to make money and not account for the costs in terms of its long term affects on our society, our natural resources, and our environment is a short term gain (financial) at a long term cost, which is bad for business and our society. To promote products and services that benefit the well being of all, through your purchases and investments, adds value to the world, to spend and consume for pure self interest is short sighted and costly to society. The more conscious we are the happier we are both individually and collectively.

To improve the world we must first intend to. As we think prosperity, happiness and peace, we create it. The world around you is a reflection of your state of consciousness. When you care about the welfare of your employees, they provide greater productively and loyalty to your company. When you care about your customers, they support your business. This has been tested again and again and proven to be true. Think in terms of what you can do for others and watch your business grow… and your heart; profit as a prophet.

From the heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

Virtual Enlightenment

2008-05-02T11:53:00.000-07:00

Within one generation technology has brought the world together in ways unimaginable to most people. We have extended our awareness through satellite, cellular and fiber optic applications. The World Wide Web has created a global mind with information being shared with millions in seconds; ideas move through the World Wide Web much like thought moving through fields of neurons in our brain.

Where we used to have most of our classes in a room, now most people are dialing in through teleconference lines, and listening to our classes on their PDA's and iPods; we grew from a few hundred to tens of thousands all over the world in just a couple years! Our Institute is virtual, each staff member works out of their home, and I rarely even meet the students I work with in person. It's not necessary; transmitting Shakti is even more effective virtually since the teacher is not the person but the spirit that is non-physical.

This adaptation of technology has also provided an opening in consciousness that enables me to connect with you in ways unimagined in earlier times. Where Shaktipat had traditionally been transmitted through physical touch or presence from teacher to student, it is now broadcast virtually like a satellite signal to students all over the globe. For the first time in history people half way around the globe can connect with the Shakti anytime by simply "tuning in" to the life force that passes through me to you. In this way we join in spirit and commune in Divine Grace. We are all connected in spirit.

This month we launch our Membership program. Now anyone with a computer, anywhere in the world, can connect energetically to our spiritual community and radically accelerate their instinctive evolutionary enlightenment. The spiritual connection is transferred through voice, written words, and through spirit itself. You have been called to awaken from the dream and fulfill your life purpose. You are part of a growing body of people who are being led to full enlightenment and you know this instinctively. Your enlightenment is creating the critical mass that is shifting the collective consciousness of humanity so we can all live together in happiness and peace. I look forward to sharing with you more.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

On Shaktipat

2008-05-02T11:48:00.001-07:00

That which causes life within you, is you. The spirit that animates your physical being is an expression of your consciousness…it is known as Shakti. Your consciousness is what is reflecting upon these words and guiding you to read them. Observe your mind thinking. Who is observing these thoughts you are thinking?

When our body and mind are congruent with the expression of consciousness flowing through you there is clarity, happiness and peace. To the degree your mind is incongruent with your spirit there is resistance and pain. Pleasure and pain serve as benchmarks of your state of consciousness. They are your guides on your path to enlightenment.

The more connected you are with your spirit and the expression of consciousness flowing through your body and mind the happier you are. The more conscious you are the more peace pervades. All your life experiences are providing you the opportunity to learn and grow and evolve your consciousness to its highest expression…full self-realization.

Each state that you evolve to carries a higher energy. You "conduct" your state of consciousness. By tuning into higher states of consciousness you become familiar with them. When I meditate with you, in person or not, my spirit and yours connect and you naturally tune into these higher states, this is called Shaktipat. The more familiar with these higher states you become, the more you reside in them until you experience them all the time. This is an easy and enjoyable path to enlightenment. Experience it for yourself.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

The Awakening

2008-03-07T10:27:00.000-08:00

In 1990 I received a calling to go to India with my good friend and partner Jim Smith. I closed down my business, packed away a few belongings and said goodbye to my family and friends to meet up with my first guru, Yogiraj Vethathiri Maharishi ("Swamiji"), a Kundalini Master from an ancient lineage in the Tamil Nadu state in South India. I had been apprenticing with Swamiji for five years and it had been at his suggestion we created The Self Awareness Institute back in 1985 to teach these methods of enlightenment to a western world in a western way.

During those first few months staying at Swamiji's ashram in a suburb of Madras I began to notice a profound shift in my awareness. While sitting in meditation 12 hours at a time each day, my awareness was liberated from my mind and the presence of God was no longer objectified by my mind or limited by it. His gift to me was the presence felt in his presence, a natural state of being that was not subjugated by the mind and senses…a perfect peace. A peace that had always been, and is, unchanging, but now the mind was aligned and at peace with it. Nothing actually happened, it just is, but my mind was at peace with it at last.

After receiving Swamiji's blessings, I left the ashram to pay my respects to the Arch Yogi Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj (also "Swamiji"). A yogi I originally heard about from Satya Sai Baba and Satchan Charan Lahiri, of the Kriya lineage, who both encouraged me to see him. This yogi had sat in samadhi for 23 hours a day for 8 years of his life, and then for 12 hours a day for another 4 years, and had tremendous powers to heal and enlighten through the transmission of this Shakti, or life force energy, called Shaktipat. It was this Yogi that supercharged my own sadhana, or meditative practice, and had me increase my Shakti through what is called Yoga Tapas.

While sitting in Bangalore, India, Sri Swamiji had me increase my sitting time up to 16 hours, 20 hours, and then up to 23 hours a day for 40 consecutive days and nights. Under his guidance my body and mind was being developed to be a vehicle of this Divine Love, or Darshan, and upon completing this training he installed me into his lineage and gave me his blessings to give Shaktipat. Shaktipat is what you feel on the free intro calls we hold each month. Upon completing this Yoga Tapas I was given a revelation of the impending awakening of consciousness that is presently occurring throughout the collective consciousness of humanity. It is this revelation that is shared in my new book The Awakening: An Evolutionary Leap in Human Consciousness that has just been re-released. You are part of this awakening as is evidenced by your reading of these words. I hope you enjoy the book and join us in uplifting the consciousness of the planet. May the whole world live in happiness and peace.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Keys to The Secret

2008-03-07T10:12:00.000-08:00

In the last decade we have learned so much about how to use our mind and manifest what we want. The Law of Attraction goes back thousands of years to the ancient Vedas of India. When Yogi's would align with the Innate Intelligence of the Universe, and realize their true nature, they would gain this ability to miraculously manifest whatever was wanted or needed in what was called "siddhi's."

My own guru, Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj was known for being able to create clouds in the empty sky and cause it to rain, but only on the acre or two that he specifically designated and nowhere else for hundreds of miles. In our manifestation seminars we routinely see people double their income, connect with their life purpose and gain all the direction and guidance to find complete happiness and peace. They manifest this from their mind's realization of their own innate potential.

Sometimes people find this hard to believe. Your mind imagines that it should be hard, that life is a struggle, when nothing could be farther from the truth. Life is already in synch. People have only to connect with the Life Force, or Shakti, within themselves to manifest greater prosperity, happiness and peace. It's worked for thousands of years and for thousands of our students. I invite you to join us in creating a better world through creating a better world in your world, by manifesting it.

The key to this Secret is in finding yourself. This month we launch Enlightenment Radio on Live 365, the world's largest Internet Radio broadcasting company, with over 4 million listeners. For the first time in world history I will globally transmit Shaktipat live via Internet radio. Go online with us at the scheduled times and experience the energy coming into you and feel the bliss of samadhi. Please join our live broadcasts at the scheduled times below and/or check out all our recorded programming 24/7 at www.Live365.com/stations/sair.

From the Heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

What Do You Want?

2008-02-06T11:24:00.000-08:00

What do you want, what do you want from life? Do you know that you can create whatever you want? If there is any part of you that doubts that, the first step is to clear that limiting belief out of your mind. It doesn't serve you anymore. The more open you are to receive, the more you will receive. Over the past few years we have seen this principle work for thousands of students. From lack to prosperity, from struggle to ease, from tension to peace, from ignorance to enlightenment, it's all up to you. It's a choice.

What you think you create and you create what you think. What do you focus your attention on? Are you clear as to what you really want? Are you focused on what you want to create, and are you excited about it? Or, are you focusing on what you don't have, what you don't want, or something that happened to you in the past? Your intentions are broadcasted into the world like a radio transmission and what you "put out" through your thoughts, words and actions you attract. Like a magnet you are drawing into your life whatever you need to learn and grow and evolve to realize your full potential.

The clearer you are as to what you want to manifest, the easier it is to manifest it. If you are not clear, the power is weak. If you do not have energy behind your intention your power to manifest is weak. If you are focusing on what you don't have or want, you create experiences that will teach you what you need to let go of in order to manifest what you want. To develop the power to manifest you need to be clear as to what you want, develop the inner strength to transmit your intention and develop the focus to move through any limiting beliefs and fears that have been keeping you from all the prosperity, happiness and peace you deserve.

The biggest hurdle for most people is moving from "yes, I know this already" to actually living it. They deny themselves the opportunities to manifest by staying stuck in some negative mental state and not taking the steps to create what they want. Are you living with all the prosperity, happiness and peace that you want? Are you enlightened, fulfilled, feeling bliss in this moment? If not, why not? What are you telling yourself right now? What is your mind doing with this message? In this moment an opportunity is presented to take the next step. All the resources you need are right here on this page. Come join our field of prosperity, happiness and peace. It begins by asking yourself this question: What do you want?

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Self-Realization

2008-01-17T12:01:00.000-08:00

That which you are seeking is causing you to seek. Your true self is already realized and is directing your mind to read these words and think about them. The key to self-realization is for your mind to realize that you are NOT your mind. Observe that part of you that can observe what your mind is thinking as you are reading this. It’s a game, as well as a powerful way for your mind to connect with your spirit and the consciousness evolving you now.

Connect with the volition that is compelling you to read these words. Where is this curiosity coming from? What compels you to read? Turn your awareness away from the light coming into your eyes and the thoughts floating through your head, and be aware of that which is aware. Reflect upon your own nature. Turn your awareness around 180 degrees and observe the part of you observing. Allow your mind to behold that there is something other than your mind observing your mind.

Just take a moment to observe whatever you are thinking. Watch your mind as if you were watching a movie on the screen of your mind. Note that there is something other than your mind that is observing your mind. There is a subject and an object. Your thoughts are the object. The witness, or observer of the thought, is the subject. You are conscious of what you are thinking right now, just be conscious of that consciousness.

There is a sixth sense of awareness evolving throughout humanity. The fact that you are called to read these words indicates that you have reached a critical point in the evolution of your consciousness where you are now ready to fully realize your full potential…you are being called to self-realization. You are ahead of the bell-curve of humanity, an early adopter that is taking that next big step in awareness and enlightenment. Enjoy the journey, it just gets better.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

P.S. My new book The Calling takes you through this labyrinth of the mind and back into a place of full consciousness. To order your copy now visit www.selfawareness.com/BooksBySSS.html.

Revolution in Evolution

2008-01-16T16:52:00.000-08:00

Human beings have been evolving for millions of years, our minds have developed significantly in the past few thousand, and our consciousness really began developing only in the last few hundred years. But it is only in the past few decades that we have consciously been evolving our consciousness. Fifty years ago very few people would be reading an essay on this subject, but now you are here and that is significant.

You are reading these words because your spirit directed you to find us. You are part of a relatively small, but rapidly growing, segment of the population that is awakening. Your instinct is to evolve yourself to your highest potential, to realize your true nature and to fulfill your life purpose. You are amongst the first wave of humanity that is enlightening.

When you get to the point in the evolution of your consciousness, that you are consciously seeking ways to further evolve yourself to full enlightenment you will be guided to the sources that will help you achieve this objective. It is no coincidence that you happen to be reading this right now. The volition that is compelling you read this is guiding you back home.

We are coming together to create the world that we want to live in. The Kingdom of Heaven lies within us…it is a state of consciousness where we realize that we are spirit and the presence of the Divine is everywhere. As more people enter into this state of God intoxication and find inner peace, this creates a critical mass of awareness in the collective consciousness of humanity that serves as a catalyst to awaken this awareness in society at large. You are fulfilling the prophesy by considering this. You have awakened. We look forward to sharing with you more.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Your Enlightenment

2007-11-01T10:18:00.000-07:00

Throughout your entire life you have been learning, growing and evolving. Everything you have experienced has been teaching you something about yourself. All the books you have read, courses you have taken and things you have done to develop yourself are the result of an innate intelligence, or spirit, that has been guiding you to further evolve yourself, to realize your full potential, to self-realize.

The volition to read these words comes from your spirit. The answers lie within you, and from this inner knowing you gain the impetus to explore, to understand, to find greater meaning, purpose and peace. So as you are reading these words I invite you to check in with the part of you that is curious to learn more. This path of self-discovery is guiding you to enlightenment. You have been called. You are being guided, and that with draws your attention to these words is guiding you to take that next step in your development.

The same volition that compels me to write these words draws your attention to read them. We are all being guided, by spirit, to realize our full potential through self-realization. As you enlighten you come to realize who you are and why you were born so that you may fulfill your destiny. The fact that you are reading these words is the proof that your spirit is guiding you to full enlightenment. The primary reason I am writing these words is to acknowledge that part of you that already knows this innately.

We are all being called to enlighten. We live in an age where masses of people, such as yourself, are learning more about what consciousness is and are now consciously seeking ways to further evolve their consciousness. You are ahead of the learning curve of humanity, you have realized that there is something to be realized and are now consciously seeking ways to further evolve yourself. It is your destiny to enlighten. The Self Awareness Institute is a gathering place for those ready to live in the light, to enter the Kingdom of Heaven that lies within us. Welcome home.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

The Power Lies Within You

2007-09-04T13:56:00.000-07:00

Your source of power lies within you. The answers lie within. Happiness and peace lie within. You know this all already innately. The same life force energy that makes your heart beat enables you to create the world you want to live in. The same innate intelligence that knows how to regenerate the cells in your body also provides the answers and direction to fulfill your life purpose. You have the opportunity right now to realize your own potential by simply taking some time to explore the possibility.

Look at your life right now. What do you want? What do you need? What if you could manifest your desires? What if you could realize your dreams? Wouldn't it be worth taking a few minutes to look and see what possibilities lie within? The practice of going within is meditation. There are many forms of meditation, but the one we teach is to simply observe your own life force energy or spirit. That which animates your existence is you. That which brings life to your mind and body holds the key to realizing your potential, realizing your dreams, realizing your self.

Right now your heart is beating. Simply observe this. You are not personally making it beat. You don't make it beat, and short of killing yourself you can't make it stop. What is that that makes you tick? Find that, and you find the source of power within that can make all the difference in your life. Things can, and will, start shifting as soon as you have the presence of mind to seek it. Even your consideration of this possibility is awakening something from within you. What is causing you to consider this? What is compelling you to read these words? Observe that volition.

Once you realize, that there is something to be realized, your realization has begun. Each time you meditate, each time you reflect on this possibility, each time you go within, you water a seed of consciousness that is already germinating within you. You have been lead to read these words by your own innate intelligence. Your spirit is guiding you to realize your dreams…to realize your Self. This self-awareness brings greater clarity, happiness, prosperity and peace. Don't let your mind get in the way. Listen to the calling of your own indwelling spirit. You will hear it within the silence of your own mind. I will meet you there.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

The Amazing Shakti

2007-08-03T11:46:00.000-07:00

Everything in existence owes its existence to a life force current, or spirit, that animates its existence. The same energy that causes my heart to beat is causing your heart to beat. The same innate intelligence that is directing the movement of every atom, molecule and cell of your body, is also directing the movement of every being, planet, star and galaxy. And the same volition that is compelling me to write these words for you to read has moved you to read them.

Shakti is that life force that is conducting this play of life. The more you connect with it, the more connected you are…the more clarity, insight…the more happiness and peace. Meditation on the Shakti within you brings your mind in direct awareness with the very essence of who you are. The more connected you are with who you are the more easily you are going to be guided to fulfilling your life purpose and find greater meaning and purpose in life.

As you are reading these words and reflecting upon their meaning what are you feeling? Take a moment to reflect upon the very volition that brought you to this moment. You are being guided, just as I am. Spirit is guiding us all to evolve our conscious awareness, to realize our highest potential and fulfill the very purpose for which we incarnated. You are part of a growing mass of humanity that is leading the way to bringing forth a world that we all want to live in. Deep inside you know this. Go to this place within you that already know. This is meditation.

The more you go within and connect with the life force within you, the more this inner knowing develops. You don't try to meditate, you simply observe the life force within you and enjoy it. Rather than trying to meditate, you allow yourself to be meditated. The more open you are to receive, the more you will receive. Let me come to you in spirit. Let us join in Divine embrace, like children playing in a Heavenly Kingdom that lies within us. Right now you are connected. Take a moment to close your eyes and feel your spirit guiding you. I will meet you there.

From the Heart, Steven S. Sadleir

World Peace

2007-07-28T18:03:00.001-07:00

Please share your vision of world peace, a prayer, or a statement of compassion for humanity and the enlightenment of humanity. Put this energy, this intension, this desire into the collective consciousness of humanity via the Internet. Your thoughts and feelings have energy, use the power of your words, thoughts and feelings here. Please also take a moment to read and reflect on what others have shared. Let us share this vision of peace together.

I see the whole world living together in happiness and peace. I pray that you fully enlighten and realize the Kingdom of Heaven that lies within you, and share that love with everyone you see, everywhere you go, all the time, every day.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

The Art and Science of Meditation

2007-07-28T18:00:00.002-07:00

Meditation has been practiced in various forms for thousands of years all over the world. From the jungles of Borneo to the Ganges River, Tibetan tundra to Siberian back woods, shamans, sadhus and seekers alike have gone within to find God, find themselves, find purpose and meaning in life. Archaeological relics from the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro in western Punjab, India depict the ancient yogic deity Shiva (as An) sitting cross-legged meditating on his “Third Eye” in a state of transcendental bliss. Buddha sat under a tree; Jesus sat in the Desert and Mohammad in a cave. All the great prophets, gurus and saints used some form of meditation to commune with God and realize their true Self.

In the Yoga Sutras Patanjali defines yoga as the cessation of thought or the absence of mental modification. When the mind becomes still, inner clarity develops and the true nature of the Self is revealed. This is the essence of yoga; yoga is the both the art and science of Self Realization. Initially an aspiring yogi or yogini would be taught various yoga asanas or postures to prepare the body for meditation. The goal has always been to quiet the body in order to quiet the mind. In India the Rishis developed various meditation practices based on the level and temperament of the student.

Some forms of meditation are contemplative, where the student reflects on a verse from an illuminated text such as the Bible, Koran, Yoga Sutras or Bhagavad-Gita; yet others are quite active and involve some conscious movement as in tantric lovemaking, tai chi or practicing yoga postures with such inner quiet that the student goes into meditation while holding a pose. A common form of meditation to begin with involves primordial sounds called mantras. Most spiritual disciplines recognize the mind altering power of sound vibrations: the Sanskrit language of the Yogi’s, ancient Hebrew and Arabic are each believed to conduct energy when spoken or contemplated.

The most familiar mantra “Om” often pronounced as “Aum” moves life force energy up the spine to the top of the head. The “Ahhh” sound can be felt in the region of the navel, the “Ohhh” and “Uuuu” sound are carried at the heart and throat centers, and the “Mmmm” vibration is felt as the buzzing of bees in the head. Repeating this sound relaxes the mind and turns ones awareness inward. The popular Transcendental Meditation or “TM” of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi repeat a single sacred sound mantra from the Vedas is repeated to help aspirants go within and find inner peace; whereas members of the Hari Krishna movement, or ISCON, repeat a series of sacred trance inducing sounds praising God that creates a euphoric state, this is called Japa.

One of the more common forms of meditation involves concentration on various energy centers of the body called Chakras; where a meditator would concentrate their attention on such areas as their Navel Center (Manipura), Heart Center (Anahata) or Third Eye (Ajna). The energy being directed to these centers through focused attention activates the energy at these points and shifts the state of consciousness of the meditator. For instance, when one focuses at the Third Eye point between the eyebrows this activates the pituitary and pineal gland which help regulate your brain wave frequencies, like a natural biofeedback response. As the student connects with their life force energy, or kundalini shakti, at this point their brain wave frequencies drop from Beta (14-40 cycles per second) to Alpha (7-13 cycles per second), and eventually lower still to Theta (4-6 cps) and Delta (0-3 cps). While in these ultra quiet states inner clarity develops and the consciousness is liberated from the confines of the mind and sense perception and merges into the whole…samadhi. These exercises are even more powerful when initiated by a Guru whose spirit or “Shakti” can conduct the life force to make it easier for the student to tune into or connect with.

One of the most powerful forms of meditation is direct inquiry or self-reflection. When the yogi reflects on the very impetus that causes them to meditate they make a direct connection with their Self: “That which you are seeking is causing you to seek.” To ask yourself “who am I?” and go into the part of you that wants to know is to practice a form of yoga called Jnana. Simply observing that which is observing the mind liberates it from the mind. Just as one would look into their reflection in a mirror to know what they looked like, one has only to reflect upon their own nature to realize it.

At the heart of meditation lies the heart. It is through grace that our own true nature is revealed and it is through love that God is revealed. When the meditating yogi opens their heart to receive, when they surrender the “doer” then their own true nature becomes clear. The devotion to your Creator expressed through the devotion in your practice makes the practice of meditation easy and enjoyable to practice. Most people struggle with trying to stop their mind, which is like a cat chasing its tail. When the yogi allows their spirit, or life force, to meditate them then the practice of meditation becomes profound.

The use of a Guru or teacher has proven effective to help students find the truth that lies within them for thousands of years; it works. Most Westerners are leery of those who purport to be Gurus, and for good reason as this sacred trust has been abused by a few in the past, but nonetheless it is time tested and proven effective. When the student is ready the teacher will appear, but a reliable Guru is one who empowers you to find the True Guru, or Sat Guru, within your Self. Ultimately, that which created you, and which sustains your existence, is guiding you to awaken your consciousness to full realization; it is what is causing you to read this right now.

From the Heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Steven S. Sadleir is the Director of the Self Awareness Institute in Laguna Beach, California, and Shaktipat Meditation Instructor. He is author of several books on meditation and yoga including his most recent a compendium of world religions and spiritual teachers Looking for God. For more information go to www.selfawareness.com or direct questions to info@selfawareness.com.

Attaining Bliss

2007-07-28T18:00:00.001-07:00

How Much Bliss Do You Want?

The seniors at my High School were all asked: what they wanted to achieve in life for the yearbook. While many had specific career and financial goals, or a vision of an ideal family, almost half simply said that they wanted to be "happy." I was a little more intense; I wanted Self Realization. In the two plus decades that followed I have tracked the lives of many of my peers and observed what appears to be successful lives in terms of financial wherewithal, families and good health, but I also noted a growing sense of disillusionment, discontent and often even a quiet desperation to find some greater meaning or purpose in their lives. None were in bliss.

We come into this world as spirit, not even knowing our own body or mind. When you look into a baby's eyes, you see their spirit beaming back at you. As we get older we start identifying with our body and mind more and become increasingly disconnected with our spirit, our life force, ourselves. As we become more distant from ourselves we lose the peace, the intuitive insight and the bliss that is the intrinsic nature of our own spirit. That glee from your childhood never left, your spirit never vacated, you just began to ignore its presence. We deny the light of our own indwelling spirit as we become more enslaved by our mental programming. The bliss is already here just as your spirit is; we simply ignore it. But you don't have to any more.

The Kingdom of Heaven DOES lie within. Each of us has only to look within to find the living presence to invoke it. The spirit that animates your existence, that causes your heart to beat and your cells to regenerate, has also been guiding you through life experiences that serve to evolve you to your highest potential and purpose. This same spirit has guided you to read these words, to trigger the latest memory of who you are and why you were born, so you could awaken from the dream and realize your true nature as spirit. As your mind recognizes, aligns and recalibrates to the presence of your own indwelling spirit you feel a commensurate amount of bliss. The more you awaken, the more bliss.

There is unquestionably a means of realizing the Self, there is a definitive way to awaken your consciousness and live in the blissful awareness of the Divine presence. This is your destiny. You most definitely do have a life purpose and there absolutely is a way to find and fulfill it. The question is: How much bliss do you want? If you want it bad enough, there is a way to dissolve the resistances your mind projects. You can discover clarity of purpose and reveal your Divine blissful state. Right now you have an incredible opportunity to break out of the confines of self-imposed limitations and set your soul free. Unimaginable joy awaits you. Spirit calls.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Before Before

2007-07-28T17:58:00.000-07:00

Before Before

Before I was
And after I am
The appearance beyond
The "you" I see
Will merge with me
And that which we are
Is
And will ever be
And love will love
Until nothing is left
And nothing never was
Nor will be
Nothing created or destroyed
And nothing
Can be said
More
Not now
Or
Before

Steven S. Sadleir

The Meditation That Works Wonders

2007-07-28T17:57:00.002-07:00

You can learn to meditate in a very profound way very easily. Follow these simple steps and enjoy.

Take a moment to sit quietly and be still. Acknowledge the part of you that feels compelled to meditate. Get in touch with that part of you that is evolving you and guiding you to realize your full potential. Get in touch with the volition or will that desires to meditate, find peace or enlighten. Sit comfortably strait up and take a few deep breaths to calm your mind and relax your body, as if you were sitting in a hot bath or jacuzzi. Open your heart to receive the grace and feel the life force energy in your body. That which causes your own heart to beat.

Close your eyes and forget about your mind. Do not try to stop your mind. Just relax, let your mind go on like a television left running in the room next door. Focus your eyes and attention at the point between your eyebrows. Gaze into the dark screen of your mind and tune into the subtle current of life force energy, or spirit, that is gathering at this point through your focus of attention.

Let this feeling be your guide. This current of life force energy is your homing beacon; tune into it like a radio tuning into a broadcast. Step out of your own way and let your spirit guide you. The more open you are to receive, the more you will receive. Open your heart.
Any time you are distracted by a thought, feeling or sound, just come back to the feeling and let it guide you. The more you focus the clearer it gets, and the more you allow the feeling to guide you the easier it gets. From peaceful to blissful. Enjoy the bliss.

If you would like additional help just picture me, call to me inwardly. I will meet you in spirit within the silence of your own mind. It will come as a feeling, as spirit. Like walking together with a brother. This inner guidance makes it easy, effortless and more enjoyable to meditate. You will go deeper faster with a trainer and will enjoy it more.

Guided Meditation tapes, distance learning courses, seminars and retreats are available when you are ready, and more information is provided on our website. May the whole world live in happiness and peace.

To receive a free copy of my new 12 page eBook 7 Meditations in PDF format visit our website: www.SelfAwareness.com

From the Heart,
Steven S. Sadleir
Director

The Himalayas

2007-07-28T17:57:00.001-07:00

Twice I have climbed the Himalayas seeking the Truth, seeking enlightenment, seeking to find my Self and fulfill some life purpose that was calling to me. There was something powerful in making such pilgrimages. There was the power of the intention in going. Putting forth the effort was acknowledging that part of me that was seeking, that was guiding me. The destination served as the place my mind would accept what my soul already innately knew.

Whether you can join us for our trip this summer to China and Tibet or not, you can join the pilgrimage in spirit by recognizing that part of you that is seeking to find itself. That which you are seeking is causing you to seek. This is the first precept of the Self Realization Course, the first thing you need to realize on your path to full enlightenment. Your true Self is already realized; you already know that the answers lie within you. The first step to realizing whatever it is you are looking to realize or find is to acknowledge that part of you that is looking.

Many Yogi's have climbed the Himalayas seeking self realization. It goes back into recorded history many thousands of years. It is an enchanting place, a mystical and mythical place, a Shangrala of the spirit. There is power at the roof of the world. We are all connected with the life force current or spirit that is guiding all of existence, but you can feel it so strong upon the world's tallest peaks. The entire culture is devoted to recognizing the Buddha nature and to bringing it about for the whole world to enjoy, a consciousness of compassion. You feel it there.

But you can feel it here right now too. Wherever you go, the presence is present. The same life force current that is flowing through me to write these words for you to read is providing you the volition to read them. We are being guided by the same spirit to awaken. Connect with the part of you that knows this and awaken with me now. Whether you come to the Himalayas with me this summer or not, you can be with me right now in consciousness. I just wanted you to know that I recognize who you are. I want to welcome you back home. Look forward to seeing you.

From the heart,
Steven

Finding Love

2007-07-28T17:56:00.000-07:00

So many people are looking for love. We are all searching to find greater meaning, happiness and peace in our lives. Why do so few find it? because they are searching outside of themselves. All the love that you could ever want and then some already lies within you. When your mind hears that it wants to turn away, but deep within the core of your being you know that it is true. This is the message of all the prophets, saviors and saints: God is love. Through God Realization you find the love that you are seeking.

Love is what created you. Not just the love expressed through your parents, but the very life force that caused your cells to multiply, to grow, to be expressed as a living being. This expression of life is love. The spirit that animates your existence is an expression of this love, and when you tap into that spirit you tap into the source of love itself. Love is never missing, because God is never "not there." This primordial expression of consciousness which is life itself is omnipresent, which means it is ever presence within your own being. This spirit is what is causing your heart to beat right now, it is what is causing your cells to regenerate, it is compelling you to read these words and contemplate there meaning. Connect with this presence by observing your volition to read on.

When you feel the living presence of God within you, as the spirit causing life within you, you feel love, not just the emotion of love but the very essence of love itself. Every emotion of love is like a wave flowing across an ocean of love; the waves come and go but the ocean is always there…you are floating in it. Like a fish living in the sea, your very existence is supported and sustained by this loving presence and the more aware you are of this loving presence, the more you feel it. This Divine presence is always present or you would not be alive, whenever you are not feeling this loving presence it is only because you are either ignoring it or denying it. Your mind or emotions have directed your attention elsewhere.

Anytime that you are feeling anything other than happiness and peace it is only serving as a reminder to get back in touch with your Self, to connect with this Divine Presence, and to engage the love that already lies within you. Your tendency will be to turn away, to try and find it though yet another relationship, material manifestation or circumstance, but those pleasures are fleeting whereas the presence of God is eternal, unconditional, and immediately accessible. From recognizing this presence within you, you then have the capacity to express this love through your relationships, your material life and circumstances. You are not denying the pleasure or demands of the "real world" but rather engaging it from a place of being conscious, from a place of love.

So many people suffer needlessly because they are looking to find happiness and peace outside themselves. People will vehemently argue, justify, rationalize and defend their right or perceived need to feel contractive negative states, and even hearing this could trigger resentment in you because your mind wants to control you. But your spirit is reaching out to you right now through the reading of these words; your spirit is leading you back to God; back home, back to the Kingdom of Heaven that lies within you. Your state of consciousness is a choice. All the love that you are seeking already lies within you, why deny it any longer? Realize this living presence by putting your attention on it. Listen to the call of your own indwelling spirit; find your Self, Realize God. God is love.

From the Heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

The Kingdom of Heaven Lies Within

2007-07-28T17:54:00.000-07:00

The Garden

Enter the Garden
You have not far to go
Your feet are already upon it
Even now

As you look beyond
What your mind projects
What your senses shelter you from
You’ll see it never left

Only love grows
In the Garden
Pluck the fruit
That dangles between your eyes

These angels need not wings to fly
Here
God walks among us
As us

The only sin
Is denying the love
That already
is

Steven S. Sadleir

How You Evolve

2007-07-20T13:29:00.000-07:00

Human beings have been evolving for millions of years. In the last few decades we have evolved considerably: growing taller, living longer and developing greater brain density. The last part of our brain to develop is the area at the top of the head, and in this space, the crown of your skull, is where the frontal and temporal lobes reside. It is in this part of your brain that the latent memory of who you are and why you were born is stored. This part of your brain is the seat of your latent faculties of higher awareness, your sense of "Self," and the memory of your life purpose. The answers you seek lie here.

In meditation you put our attention at that point between the eyebrows, or "third eye." As your body's life force energy is directed there it stimulates your pituitary and pineal glands, releasing peptides. As these glands are stimulated through focused awareness it induces a biological "relaxation response" that lowers your brain wave frequency quite naturally, and calms and quiets your mind. It also begins to activate the part of your brain that is still developing and still evolving to reach its highest potential. By consciously awakening your consciousness through meditation your consciousness evolves more quickly. It is a matter of your body and mind downloading the presence of your own spirit to realize your own true nature. The answers already lie within you; you are destined to awaken.

As you focus your attention on your own life force, or spirit, you develop inner clarity, happiness and peace. You also become attuned to your own life force energy, or spirit, it becomes more familiar to your mind and your mind begins to "realize" your own true nature as spirit. Not an "understanding" but, rather, a "realization." The more connected you become with your Self, the more clarity, happiness and peace you will experience. The more your consciousness awakens, the more clearly you see how you are being guided to realize your full potential and how you are fulfilling your life purpose. This is already happening innately as you reflect on this in this moment.

Your spirit led you to read this. You have been called. You are part of a small, but rapidly growing segment of the population that is awakening to full self-realization. The Self Awareness Institute is a gathering place for those who are awakening. In the last month over 10,000 people have join us. A little more than half of these people are from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom, India and Canada. We just had over 100 people from South Africa sign up, as well as individuals from over 117 countries including United Arab Emirates, People's Republic of China, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe. Welcome. May the whole world live in happiness and peace.

From the heart,

Steven S. Sadleir, Director

You Are Being Guided

2007-06-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

We human beings are instinctively being guided to evolve. As with all creatures, we must adapt to changes in our environment to survive and flourish. We can see evidence of this evolutionary trend in our physiology, our society, and in our technology. Our brains continue to develop, an increasingly large percentage of humanity is becoming literate and educated, and technology has provided immediate access to billions of people's minds through phone cells and chip sets. Satellite and Internet infrastructure is providing a "global mind" where we see and think the same thing at the same time, as one consciousness. The critical mass of what we think shifts the consciousness of individuals on a global scale. How we think affects the quality of our life, and even our survival.

Each day of your life you are provided experiences where you have to make choices in how you think and behave. The more conscious you are the more those choices bring greater happiness and peace into your life. You have learned from your life experiences what brings greater pleasure or pain into your existence, and have adapted your ways of thinking, feeling and behaving to increase the pleasure in your life and reduce the pain. The more conscious you have become, the greater clarity, happiness and peace you have gained by evolving your conscious awareness.

Your instinct has guided you to learn, and grow, and evolve to your highest potential, and it still is. You have been guided to these words to reflect on them. The more conscious you become of how you are being guided, the more you will see how you are being guided. The more conscious you become of the consciousness that is guiding you, the more conscious you become. Your consciousness evolves the more conscious you become of your consciousness. As you become more conscious you gain greater clarity, happiness and peace. It is only when we become unconscious that we think, say or do things that hurt ourselves or others. Only unconscious people hurt others, lie, cheat, steel, abuse or hate. Only an unconscious society disrespect others rights, destroy its natural resources, overpopulates or wages war.

We evolve through the tests and trials of daily living, both individually and collectively as a society. Lessons learned help to evolve us, but when we are not conscious of what we are being tested in we fail the test and get tested again and again until we learn and either further evolve, or perish. You have been guided to this moment of introspection in order to reflect upon your own place in the evolution of your own consciousness, and the role you might play in awakening the collective consciousness of humanity so that we might all live together in happiness and peace. You are part of a rapidly growing segment of the population that is awakening to full consciousness. Your individual awakening is contributing to the critical mass that is shifting the consciousness of the planet; you are preparing the way for an evolutionary leap in human consciousness. You are building the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Tantra: The Art of Divine Sexual Union

2007-05-18T10:46:00.000-07:00

That which caused life within us is us. The life force energy, or spirit, that animates our own existence is an expression of the consciousness that lies at the very core of our being. The same spirit that is causing my heart to beat is also causing yours to. This underlying spirit is creating and guiding all life through the universe. You are a part of this greater wholeness of being. Being aware of this interconnection is Tantra.

Tantra literally means "that which extends." It refers to our awareness extending beyond the form and into the underlying essence of all that is…enlightenment. The Tantric Yogi's of India, and later Tibet and China, connected with the life force within themselves to connect with the Source of life itself. Once you realize the Source of life within yourself you realize the Source of life itself...God Realization.

The meditation that we teach is Tantric. It comes from an ancient lineage that dates back thousands of years through the Siddha lineage in the Tamil Nadu state in South India. The part of Tantra that people take the most interest involves yogic sexual intercourse to achieve Divine Sexual Union. By first recognizing this Divine Presence within your partner, and by your partner recognizing this Divine Presence within you, you both serve to help each other to raise your consciousness. Your lovemaking becomes a spiritual discipline or yoga.

By bringing your energies together and consciously moving this sacred energy between you and within you, you can awaken your consciousness and experience profound states of bliss…like an orgasm, but stronger.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

How To Manifest Your Inner Desires

2007-04-26T09:48:00.000-07:00

Within each human lies the instinct to evolve. Your desires draw to you the learning experiences that cause you to discern what you like and dislike, what you want and don't want, and through this process you learn and grow and evolve to realize your full potential. Through this variety and diversity of life experiences what you innately want becomes clearer. As what you want becomes clearer your power to manifest what you want becomes stronger.

Feelings of joy, peace, and excitement serve as a honing beacon guiding you towards experiences that help you to fulfill your life purpose. Feelings of discontent, discord and being stuck help you to see how you are moving away from the opportunities to realize your full potential and find happiness. When you are connected with that inner guidance, and to the degree that you do connect, greater prosperity, happiness and peace are attained. This peace is innate; you just need to connect with it by being true to your intrinsic desires.

Desiring has energy. As you think about what you want that desire builds strength. Where you mind is focused energy follows. As you become more focused and clearer as to what you innately want, the energy to manifest gets stronger. This energy can be felt as excitement. The vibration of your intention is transmitted like a radio signal and the innate intelligence of the universe responds to it in kind. Put your attention on the joy of your desire and you will joyously attract that into your life, we see this miracle again and again with our students. Put your attention on what you think you lack and you attract more lack. It is a state of consciousness.

Create a clear picture of what you want in your mind, what does it feel like having what you desire. Be in that state of enjoying it whether it has manifested or is being manifested. Then put your life force energy into the vision, like a light shinning through a motion picture film, the desire is projected into your world. The more powerful the projection the more powerful the manifestation. To increase your power to manifest, connect with the source of life within you. Meditate. It comes back to getting in touch with the source of life within you. It comes back to getting in touch with your Self. It comes back to Self-Realization.

From the heart, Steven

Revolution in Evolution

2007-04-26T09:42:00.000-07:00

You are reading these words because your spirit directed you to find us. You are part of a relatively small, but rapidly growing, segment of the population that is awakening. Your instinct is to evolve yourself to your highest potential, to realize your true nature and to fulfill your life purpose. You are amongst the first wave of humanity that is enlightening.

When you get to the point in the evolution of your consciousness, that you are consciously seeking ways to further evolve yourself to full enlightenment you will be guided to the sources that will help you achieve this objective. It is no coincidence that you happen to be reading this right now. The volition that is compelling you read this is guiding you back home.

We are coming together to create the world that we want to live in. The Kingdom of Heaven lies within us…it is a state of consciousness where we realize that we are spirit and the presence of the Divine is everywhere. As more people enter into this state of God intoxication and find inner peace, this creates a critical mass of awareness in the collective consciousness of humanity that serves as a catalyst to awaken this awareness in society at large. You are fulfilling the prophesy by considering this. You have awakened. We look forward to sharing with you more.

From the heart, Steven

The Power Lies Within You

2007-04-26T09:37:00.000-07:00

From the heart, Steven

It's All Love

2007-04-26T09:32:00.001-07:00

Love is the transcendent reality; everything else is just a state of mind. Creation is an act of love, and that which sustains all of creation is an act of love. We are an act of creation; the Divine presence supports and sustains our existence. It is through an act of love that our heart beats, it is through an act of love that we exist, we are an expression of that love. You find that which causes life within you and you find the source of love itself; you find your Self.

You couldn't be anything other than that which you already are. Your true self is already realized; only your mind projecting the illusion of being separate causes your mind to think that you need to find yourself or search for love. The very volition that brought you to read these words is your spirit reaching out to your mind to get your attention. You are here reading this because it is time for you to wake up from the dream, to remember who you are and why you were born so you can fulfill the purpose of your existence.

There is an awakening occurring within the collective consciousness of humanity. Human beings are individually beginning to realize that there is something to be realized, a potential they have yet to realize within themselves. You are part of a small but rapidly growing segment of the population that is leading the way to awakening the collective consciousness of humanity; you are ahead of the bell curve. As you reflect on this possibility you are awakening your own potential to be conscious, and this contributes to the collective awakening on the planet.

Your spirit brought you to read these words so that you can reflect on this possibility, to go to the place of knowing within yourself, and to consider your life's calling. The part of you that already knows who you are and why you were born is making contact with you now. You will be thinking about this now. As you think about it, the energy of your attention will naturally begin to awaken your consciousness. The next step may be to find the tools and training that will help you fully enlighten. When you are ready, the clue will be staring you in the face.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Enlightenment

2007-01-02T10:00:00.000-08:00

Each of us have an instinct to learn, to grow and evolve. Everything you experience is teaching you something about yourself. Life lessons that we miss we tend to get tested in again and again until we learn the lesson. The more we learn the better life we live. The more we evolve the greater prosperity, happiness and peace we experience in our lives. This is universal.

But what are we evolving to? What is our potential as individuals and collectively as a civilization? What is the optimum that we could realize as human beings? Asking this question lies at the core of finding the answer. This is our quest, to fully realize who we are and why we were born so that we can realize and fulfill the purpose of our existence. You have come to the point in the evolution of your conscious awareness that you are now ready to fully realize who you are and why you were born and that is why your innate intelligence, instinct, or spirit has guided you to be reading these words.

You have come to the point in the evolution of your conscious awareness where you are now ready to enlighten. Your consciousness has already awakened or you would not be reading this. The volition to read these words is evidence of your enlightenment. The answers already lie within you. Your true Self is already realized. Your mind has thought that you were the personality that it created, but even now your mind is beginning to realize that you are not your mind. You are that which is conscious of whatever your mind thinks. That which is conscious of itself is the Self and your mind is beginning to realize this even now.

The only thing that remains to free yourself from the trammels of your mind and senses is to give up all that you think, feel and believe. All that you know, including what you think you have realize, as well as all that you think you don't know has absolutely nothing to do with you. Observe what you are feeling right now as you reflect upon this. A connection is being made in your mind. Now observe the part of you that is observing the feeling. Who is conscious of observing? Go there. Observe the observer. Be aware of the part of you that is aware. Be conscious of that which is conscious of itself. Be here now until the bliss blows your mind. I will help you.

From the heart, Steven

Dreaming of 2007

2006-12-04T09:12:00.000-08:00

There is power in dreaming. What you direct through your mind has energy; what you dream of you can create. What do you want? At the very core of your being, what is you soul searching for? What would you like to manifest in your life? I would like to invite you to join me in visualizing and feeling an optimal existence for the world and ourselves. I see you in good health, with lots of energy and inspiration, receiving lots of clear guidance and direction from within. I see you and your family being safe and secure, protected and guided by the Divine in all your activities, day and night, in all places.

I see you living fruitfully, enjoyably, with prosperity, happiness and peace. I see you being guided towards fulfilling your life purpose, living in synchronicity and manifesting all that you need effortlessly. I see you attracting abundance into your life, feeling good about all the money coming into your life and seeing that others appreciate and value you. I see you attracting all the people, circumstances and resources that you need to realize your full potential, and I see you seeing and acting on those opportunities and it bringing about what is highest and best for you and all concerned.

I see you living with perfect clarity, happiness and peace. I see you fully awakening. I see you transcending any mental and emotional programs that have limited your ability to feel fully loved, valued and appreciated, and I see you growing in awareness and in your capacity to be loved, to receive grace, to be fully conscious. I see you enlightened. I see you living in a state of total love, peace and joy and I see you sharing that light within with everyone you see, everywhere you go, all the time, every day.

I see the consciousness of the planet awakening. I see individuals connecting to the spirit that is guiding us all to full realization. I see individuals such as yourself entering into the Kingdom of Heaven that does lie within. I see us creating the world that we all want to live in. I see you as part of a movement within humanity that is realizing it own potential to create paradise on Earth by living in a fully awakened state. I see the whole world living together in happiness and peace. I see us working together to create it. I look forward to seeing you.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Levels of Consciousness

2006-11-06T09:29:00.000-08:00

There is an awakening occurring within the consciousness of the planet. You are part of a relatively small, but rapidly growing segment of the population that is consciously evolving…enlightening…as is evident by the fact that you are reading this. We are all being called together to work to help to create a more conscious, loving and peaceful world; our spirits have brought us together and your spirit is now providing you the impetus to read these words. We are here to help each other to fully awaken and realize our full potential.

These levels of consciousness are apparent by observing your own life and observing how you have evolved and grown over the years. The more you evolve, the happier and more peaceful you are, and the clearer your purpose becomes and more meaningful your life is. Those that have awakened have brighter energy fields around their heads…halos, or auras as it were, that can be more clearly seen and felt as you awaken. Most of you have already begun to awaken but are not fully self-realized yet, and that is why I am addressing you. I want you encourage you to take the next step... to complete your mission and fulfill your life purpose.

Dr. David Hawkins, the author of Power Verses Force, created a "Scale of Consciousness" from 0 to 1000 to represent the various levels of consciousness that people can experience and uses applied kinesiology to test these different levels; while not a method that may not be considered perfect science, it does appear to indicate strong correlations when compared to actual results based on our testing hundreds of students at SAI. Using this scale most Americans are in the 200's, while most "seekers" lie in the 300's and spiritual teachers and more advanced students tend to be in the 400's. Most of the better-known authors of the subject are in the 500's and those who have self-realized by Hawkins account are over 600. When at least 100 people enlighten, Hawkins believes that we will create a critical mass that will awaken the consciousness of the planet, a goal that we share here at the Self Awareness Institute.

Students entering the Self Realization Course typically begin in the 300's or 400's, and over the three months of training we test and see them going up into the 500's and several even into the 600's. See an actual example by clicking here. What is most interesting is at the various levels the same kinds of tests show up and similar experiences occur. We never give our students their numbers because we don't want to create a competitive environment, but it has become a useful tool in determining what the student needs to reach the next level. In this way we can accelerate their growth and help them attain self-realization easier, quicker and more enjoyably. What is absolutely amazing is now there is now a clear way to chart your progress and a more definitive path for attaining self-realization. We know how to get there for those who are ready. Ask yourself: Am I living in perfect harmony, clarity and peace? If not, we would love to help you. You have a choice what level to reside in. Are you ready to complete your mission and fulfill your destiny?

From the heart,

Steven S. Sadleir

The Power Within

2006-10-02T16:16:00.000-07:00

There is literally a power running through your body causing your heart to beat, causing your cells to regenerate, and your hair to grow. A life force current with innate intelligence is flowing through you right now providing the volition to move your eyes across this page and to think about what I am saying. There is a power greater than your individual self that is making your life possible, and it is making all life possible everywhere. The same spirit that causes my heart to beat is causing yours to beat too. We are all drawing our life from the same source. Connect with this source and it will guide you to fulfill your dreams, to fulfill your destiny.

Where does your will come from? What drives you to learn, grow and evolve yourself? What is compelling you realize your full potential, or to enlighten? Turn your awareness to that energy and you can make good use of it. Just take a moment to be aware of the volition that is causing you to read these words. Why are you reading this? What compels you to read, to learn, to understand? Where is this energy coming from? Reflect on this.

You have an incredible potential. A potential to create the world you want to live in; a world with greater prosperity, happiness and peace. Within you lies an energy, that when you tap it, will provide you the clarity, insight, motivation and drive to manifest what you most want in your heart. Here you gain the strength to move past resistances, limiting beliefs and behavior patterns that have slowed your growth, and the power to attract the people, places and resources to realize your full potential. Realize that within which is conscious and enlighten.

It really begins when you realize that what you are looking for, what you innately need, is right here, right now. It begins when you realize that there is something to be realized. It's already begun because you are thinking about it right now. If you could only stay focused on the volition that is guiding you to read this. Each moment you do your consciousness awakens. From this moment on you realize this. Take a few minutes to reflect on this and observe the subtle currents of energy being activated. Close your eyes for a moment and observe what you are feeling.

From the heart, Steven

A Vision of Happiness & Peace

2006-09-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

As we celebrate the upcoming holidays a message of "Peace on Earth and Good Will Towards Man" is echoed by people of varying faiths from around the world. If we all wish for that, why have we not created it? We have only to look into our own lives and ask ourselves "am I at peace right now?" We can create a more peaceful world through the collective efforts of individuals creating peace in their own world. Here are three simple things you can do to create more peace in your life.

(1) The single most powerful thing anyone can do to create more peace in their own lives is to consciously decide to create more peace in their lives. Hold the intention to create more peace, so your mind has some direction and guidance. Left unchecked, your mind will create even more stress, more activities, more justifications and rationalizations for thinking and doing things that create stress and discord in your life. You have to value peace and commit to create it in order to create it.

(2) Meditate. Throughout the history of civilization, in all the major cultures and religions throughout the world, people have found some form of meditation to find greater clarity, happiness and peace...it's time tested and proven effective. Even though it is now universally recognized that meditation helps you find peace, most people don't make the effort. Meditation is easy, effortless and enjoyable when you learn the right methods. Come take the free class and see for yourself. Come again if you'd tried it before, the reinforcement can only help.

(3) Forgive. Peace is your natural state. If you are not feeling peace it is because you are focusing on something going on in your head. Some of the greatest causes of mental agitation are anger, resentment, and a resistance to letting go of something that has bothered you. If you are feeling anger, just let it go. If you are feeling resentment, just let it go. If you are resistant to letting it go, let that go. Just let go. Open your heart and peace will reign. When we all forgive, when we all let our anger and resentment go, we can all live together in happiness and peace. It begins with you.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

P.S. Please join our Global World Peace teleconferenced meditation September 14 & 21 at 7pm, pst. To receive an invitation email us at info@selfawareness.com.

The Witness

2006-07-04T09:40:00.000-07:00

As you are reading these words light is traveling into your eyes and projecting this image of words in your brain. Observe this. Your mind retains the memory of what these words mean, observe your mind recalling the memory of the words you are reading…as you are reading. Electrical and chemical impulses are running through fields of neurons in your brain as you are reading this. Just imagine the pathways of electrical charges moving between the places in your mind where you store the memory of what these words mean. Now observe the part of you that is observing how you are thinking. Observe the thoughts that are flowing through your mind right now as you are reading this. Observe that part of you that is observing.

Some part of you can observe your own mind. The brain is a biological machine that operates very similarly to a computer. Taking in data from the senses, storing and processing information. Your mind is the workings of the computer brain, with its programming from past experiences and adopted thinking, feeling and behavior patterns. You are that which observes what goes on in your mind. You are the witness of that which comes in through your senses. You are that which is conscious of being conscious. You are the consciousness.

As you reflect upon what I am sharing with you here what do you feel? Does it resonate as being true for you? Do you understand it clearly? How clearly do you understand what consciousness is? Observe that part of you that can discern how much you understand this, that is conscious of how conscious you are. The more conscious you become of how conscious you are the more your consciousness evolves and awakens. Close your eyes for a moment and observe that part of you observing your mind.

If you project an image of a Mickey Mouse upon the screen of your mind it appears similarly to that of the images you have seen before on TV or theater. Just as there is space between you and the screen of your TV see the projection of the Mouse on the screen of your mind. There is a subject and an object; the object is that which is being projected in your mind. The subject is that which is observing the projection. That which is conscious of what the mind is projecting is you. You are that consciousness. If you observe your mind and your life from the place of the witness, you will live your life more consciousness. You will find greater happiness and peace.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Nick

2006-04-26T15:43:00.000-07:00

In over twenty years of teaching meditation I have had the privilege of watching students awaken before my eyes. I have see spirit guiding individuals not only to find greater happiness and peace, but to find themselves, find their life purpose and to be able to fulfill that purpose. Each individual has a destiny to fulfill; helping people find and fulfill that destiny is our purpose. Nick is a shining example.

I can remember Nick coming up to me after class one day all excited. He had had a vision in meditation: An image of a woman, a "Goddess", had appeared to him. She was within a block of wood. Nick worked as a plumber and tennis coach, and had never carved before. He came to me filled with excitement and asked what the vision meant and what he should do. I simply said: "Maybe you should find this Goddess and set her free." He said he didn't know how to sculpt. I simply suggested to "let your spirit guide you."

A month or so later a beauty sculpture of a Goddess was brought to class to everyone's awe and amazement. She seemed to be alive. You could feel the passion in the art. A couple years later Nick was invited to exhibit at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Museum, and then President Bill Clinton purchased one of his pieces. Recently Nick was invited into the Binelli, a very exclusive art guild, and will be amongst some of the world's greatest artists showing in Florence, Italy.

Nick is being guided, as you all are. Each time he felt blocked or under dyer circumstances he would meditate and clarity, insight, motivation and guidance would come. The discipline of meditation in the face of frustration, resistance and hardship helped him through. To be able to go within and tap the wellspring of spirit that is your own abiding nature made all the difference. It worked for Nick, it works for the thousands of you practicing our meditation right now and it will work for those of you who have yet to experience the full potency of your own potential. To see Nick's work, go to http://www.spiritformlaguna.com/

From the heart, Steven

What Do You Want?

2006-03-06T09:49:00.000-08:00

Have you found enduring happiness and peace? Have you discovered why you are here, what you are here to do, what your purpose in life is? Deep inside each human being lies the latent memory of who they are and why they were born. We each have a calling; we all play a part in the Divine play of life. Just as each cell and organ in our body serves a role in a greater whole being, each human being plays a part in a greater whole in humanity.

Each of us draws life from that which is greater than our individual Self, and each contributes to a greater whole as well. The same life force energy, or spirit, that causes my heart to beat causes yours to beat as well. We are like leaves on the tree of life; each an extension of a greater expression of life that is evolving and growing. To the extent that we connect with the innate intelligence within us, we connect with our true Self and the memory of who we are and why we were born becomes clear.

As your body and mind aligns itself with this innate intelligence, this same innate intelligence will guide you towards fulfilling the very purpose of your existence. To the degree that you connect with your Self and allow your spirit to guide you the greater happiness and peace you create in your life. To the degree you disconnect with your Self and your purpose you find discord, suffering and pain. When your body, mind and spirit are aligned and congruent your life flows and is synchronistic, to the degree you are out of touch life appears to be a struggle.

To find your Self you have only to look. Your spirit is guiding you even now to read these words and reflect upon them. You are being called…to wake up from the dream and remember who you are and why you were born so that you can fulfill the purpose of your existence. The collective consciousness of humanity is awakening. You are at the leading edge of a tide of change that is calling forth the spirit within humanity to live as spirit and bring forth a higher consciousness so that we may all live together in happiness and peace. Don't you want that?

From the heart, Steven

Manifesting Effortlessly

2006-01-24T15:40:00.000-08:00

Human beings are a manifestation of something much greater than their individual selves. The very power that causes our hearts to beat and cells to regenerate is the essential nature of our own being. The same innate intelligence, life force or spirit that is causing my heart to beat is causing yours to beat. The same volition that is compelling me to write these words for you to read is compelling you to read them. This incredible force is guiding all of creation; it is the very act of creation. What is manifesting in you, as you, is you.

Once we realize the essence of our own being, we realize the nature of existence and the incredible force that is directing and guiding all of existence. When we align our body and mind to work congruently with this innate force within us, we gain the ability to use our body and mind to express this life force with the power to manifest. The key is to connect with the source of this creative potential within you. It is not a matter of you doing something to get what you want, but, rather, allowing yourself to be a vehicle to manifest what is in the highest and best for you and all those with whom you are exchanging energy with. It is not what you do, but what you consciously allow to express through you and to guide you.

The clearer you are as to what it is that you are compelled to manifest, the more powerful your manifestation. The power lies not in your mind and its desires, but in your innate intelligence and the cooperation of your mind and body to be a vehicle for that which already knows your life purpose and what serves you best. What you think you want may actually be getting in the way of manifesting what would serve you best and bring the greatest peace, happiness and fulfillment.

The things that you want have energy. What is the state of consciousness of your desires? Is your desire to manifest creating peace and joy in your life, or is it creating discord? The higher the calibration of your stated desire, the more powerful your ability to manifest. When your desires are in line with your intrinsic higher nature, your ability to manifest is easy, effortless and enjoyable. What are you experiencing in your life? Are you at peace? Are you feeling bliss right now? If not, you could be. You can manifest peace and joy and bliss right now. Ultimately it is a matter of knowing your self; it is a matter of realizing your Self.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir, Director

True Freedom

2005-12-05T10:55:00.000-08:00

We all know that the answers lie within us. We also know that the ultimate source of happiness and peace lies within too. The Kingdom of Heaven does lie within, and when you find your Self you live in a state of grace. If you don't live in bliss you have not fully realized your Self. The good news is, that there absolutely is a way to find it and you have no farther to look than within your Self. It is not hard, but appears difficult for most people because they are trapped in their own mind. People are looking outside of themselves to find what never left. How far from your house do you have go to find your way home?

I have traveled the world and sat in many ashrams and monasteries looking to see whom, or if anyone, had found the Truth…found inner peace…found God. I spent twenty years reading every major spiritual text, sitting before dozens of gurus and masters searching for enlightenment, and have written two popular books on the subject (see Looking for God, A Seeker's Guide to Religious and Spiritual Groups of the World, Penguin 2002). What I observed was that very few people had actually found what they were looking for. Despite years of searching and certitudes that they "knew", they were as lost as anyone else. Those that had found it had one thing in common: they were not attached to any ideologies, understanding or beliefs; they had all surrendered their mental attachments and surrendered to the love within.

The path to Self Realization is the path to freedom, freedom from the trammels of the mind and senses. The apparent lack of bliss is due to our attachments to what we think, feel and believe; it is due to the projections of the mind. The attachment to what we people think we know becomes the bondage that keeps us from realizing the Truth; Truth transcends the mind. Those freed from their mind and senses live in a state of grace, a state of total love, peace and joy…even bliss. I am sharing both from my own experience, and from that of helping thousands to find greater happiness and peace. The path is clear; it's already here. You have only to be open to receive what already is.

If you knew that there was something that would bring greater happiness and peace, what would keep you from it? What resistances keep you from Self Realization? Why would you deny yourself the experience of living in bliss? Every time I write an article like this I get responses from people who want to argue and debate. I use to do that too, but I never found bliss from that. When I surrendered my knowledge and opened my heart, love replaced all the "me" that I was stuck on. Ask yourself what keeps you from bliss? If you are not living in that state now, why are you settling for anything else? If you have read this far, your spirit is guiding you to the light. I invite you into the Kingdom; I invite you into the love that you already are. I invite you to surrender all that you think, feel and believe and experience utter freedom. Let us celebrate existence together. Thank God for our freedom to pursue happiness and peace. May the whole world live in happiness and peace. May it begin with you right now.

You Deserve Better

2005-11-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

Everything you experience is teaching you something about yourself. All your life experiences are providing lessons to help you to evolve and grow to reach your highest potential. Difficult situations test you in order to help you to see what state of consciousness you are in and also point out where your mind still has dominion over your awareness. Innately, you know this already. All of your life experiences are providing opportunities for you to become more conscious, to both receive and express more love. Life is also teaching you what you need to let go of in order to find greater peace and happiness. Life is the process of evolving consciousness.

The only thing that keeps us from being completely happy and at peace is what our minds get stuck on. If you think about all the things that bring unhappiness, it involves a way of thinking and feeling. The attitudes, opinions, judgments, perspectives, beliefs, feelings and ideas that we are attached to bring about most of our suffering. What you want or do not want, what you are trying to control, what your mind thinks it needs to be happy keeps us from experiencing the mind-boggling bliss that is already present. The Kingdom of Heaven lies within; all the happiness or peace-of-mind that you are looking for is calling out to you. It is calling you through your volition to read this. You are being guided to find peace.

So, why are so many people suffering? Because they live in their head; instead of their heart. They allow their mind to take over their life, and ignore the incredible Light that shines within. They deny the love that is sustaining their very existence. Why? The mind resists. It is a test. Look within yourself. Do you live in a state of love? Do you feel the bliss of your own intrinsic higher nature? Realizing that you can is the first step in getting there. Knowing that you don't have to do anything or go anywhere to get there is the next. Realizing that you may need some help and then taking the action to get that help are the next.

It is insane to live a life where you are not at peace, not happy…not in bliss. Why deny yourself any longer? I invite you to contact me. I want to help you. Come play in the Garden of Eden with me. Let us all play together. Let us embrace the paradise that is an innate state of consciousness within each of us. Let's share it with everyone we know. Together, we can create the world that we all want to live in --- by creating it in our own life. May your desire to find this happiness and peace overcome your resistance to finding it. Happy Holidays.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Overcoming Resistances

2005-06-15T20:35:00.000-07:00

Clarity, happiness and peace are innate. When not engaged in mental activity, your mind naturally calms down and inner clarity develops. In this natural state of being there is only happiness and peace, even bliss. From this place within you gain the insight and direction from your own indwelling spirit. When you connect with your Self in this way, you get connected with the innate intelligence, or spirit, that is directing and guiding you towards learning what you came here to learn to evolve yourself to your highest potential and fulfill your life purpose. The answers lie within you. Happiness and peace are innate within. Then why do we not always live in this clear and blissful state? because of the mind's resistances.

The key to finding enduring happiness and peace is then to realize what detracts you from it. What does your mind do to keep you from being in peace or being happy all the time? Once you become conscious of what your mind is projecting that causes you to get disconnected, that awareness begins to loosen up your mind hold on you and your peace of mind. Your awareness of the resistance breaks it down. Seeing it for what it is neutralizes the energy it has over your attention. Shifting your attention to the place within you that is innately at peace keeps those resistances from growing. Those resistances are only fed by your attention. Redirect your attention on the place of peace innate within you and you grow the peace within you. This practice is called meditation.

So everyone knows that meditation helps you find greater peace and enlightenment. Those of you who have been on our calls and experienced our meditation know how blissful it gets. You know how powerful meditation is. Most of you reading this already know that you will be more effective in your business, find more harmony in your relationships, and will be happier in general through meditation, but the power of the mind is such that even knowing this you will ignore that inner knowing and let your mind pull you back into a contracted mental state that creates confusion, frustration and turmoil. You can break this cycle by consciously deciding to.

It is amazing how people deny happiness in their life. I hear people say, "I don't have time to meditate." This is the time that they would benefit from the meditation the most. This is a sign that their mind has taken over and is causing discord in their life. If you are saying this to yourself, recognize it as the resistance that is keeping you from your peace, happiness and destiny. I have the fortunate position of watching miracles occur in people's lives as they self realize through meditation. I see the love, peace and joy growing as they practice the tools they have been given. I also see those who fall off their practice, and watch them suffer. Where are you right now? Are you in the bliss? Are you at peace and on purpose? Could you use some help? Would you like to gain greater clarity, happiness and peace? If so, what is keeping you?
From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir

Happiness & Peace

2005-05-05T07:47:00.000-07:00

What You Already Know

2005-04-28T12:18:00.000-07:00

You already know that the answers lie within you. You also innately know that the source of happiness and peace lie within too. You know that you are being guided, matter of fact, you are being guided to read this right now. Your spirit is guiding you to evolve yourself to your highest potential; to find enduring happiness and peace through Self Realization, and to fulfill your life purpose or you wouldn't be reading this. An opportunity is presenting itself in this moment.

Sometimes the answers seem so clear, and other times they do not. Sometimes you can see how you are being guided, while others times you cannot. You may be happy and at peace fairly often, but there are times when life throws you a curve ball and you may be caught off guard. What if you had the tools to connect with the source of clarity, insight, happiness and peace within you, and you could take conscious control of your life?

For many people this sounds too good to be true. However, thousands of people already have learned these tools and have been able to prove it to themselves and are living happier and more fulfilling lives. All it takes is learning how. It is not at all difficult either; it only takes making the choice to learn how. The first step is to recognize that you want to, and who wouldn't? The second step is to actually take a step towards making it happen. Most people at this point will ignore the opportunity, and will keep going over the same life lessons over and over. Once you make a choice to break the pattern your spirit takes over and guides you the whole way.

Having the presence of mind to look within yourself is what enables you to see. The trick is in knowing where and how to look. That which you are seeking is causing you to seek. Engaging that curiosity develops the sense of knowing within you. Heeding the call of your own indwelling spirit enables your spirit to guide the evolution of your consciousness to full self-realization. The volition that is causing your eyes to glide across this page will continue to guide you if you let it. Stop for just a moment and reflect on that. Once you realize that there is something to be realized, your realization has begun. An exciting adventure awaits you.

In service to your spirit, Steven S. Sadleir

The Physiology of Consciousness

2005-04-04T11:50:00.000-07:00

The Physiology of Consciousness

Human beings have been evolving for millions of years. We are living longer, growing taller, and are developing more mass in our brains, and we are still evolving. We are beginning to develop our latent faculties of higher awareness and becoming more conscious of our own consciousness. You have evolved yourself to the point that you have realized that there is something to be realized and that is why you are reading this now. You are awakening.

The last part of the brain to develop is the outer edges of the brain, particularly on the top of your head in areas called the frontal and temporal lobes. These regions store the latent memory of who you are and why you were born, and provide the state of consciousness where you can "witness" your own mind and take conscious control of it. By developing this part of your brain, referred to in both Yoga and Kaballah as the "Crown," you develop the seat of higher awareness---your consciousness.

Most human beings only use a very small percentage of their brain, less than 15 percent. We have a vast potential that has yet to be fully tapped, and as we do, we develop a higher state of awareness. We evolve our consciousness to the point of being fully conscious which means we can take conscious control over our mind and live in a state of greater clarity, happiness and peace. You intuitively know that the answers lie within, that the source of happiness and peace lies within and even that the "Kingdom of Heaven" or bliss lies within.

To pass through this gate of higher awareness you have only to realize it is there and consciously put your attention on developing it. Similar to how you develop parts of your physical body through training; you can train your brain to develop your consciousness until you are fully conscious. You are part of a small but rapidly growing segment of the population that is awakening your consciousness, and that is why you have been led to these words. You are ready to fully awaken. You are ready to enlighten your consciousness. Go to the place within you where these words ring true and observe that part of you.

Steven S. Sadleir, Director
Self Awareness Institute
www.selfawareness.com

How To Find Peace in a Hectic Modern World

2005-02-15T16:44:00.000-08:00

Wouldn’t it be great if life just flowed, no stress, no worries, just happiness and peace? It sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? But why should life be difficult, stressful and why shouldn’t we live in happiness and peace? The truth is our mind is not programmed for peace. It’s not programmed for peace because peace is your natural state and it is only when we get caught up in our head and its programming that we create the stress, discord and disease that diminishes our happiness and peace. Fortunately there is so much you can do to get centered and clear headed again even amongst the chaos. Take just a few moments to read this and your life will be changed forever.

The first step to finding greater happiness and peace is in realizing that you have a choice what state of mind you are going to be in. Without directing your mind and attention to that which creates happiness and peace, your mind will unwittingly follow the course of action that most people take which results in stress, pain, worry, anger, and a plethora of negative emotions and mental states that rule their lives. Focus your attention on that which creates stress and you create stress, consciously redirect your attention to what brings greater clarity, happiness and peace and you will experience those states. No matter what is going on outside of you that is affecting you, you can take conscious control of your mind, and state of mind, by becoming conscious of your own mind.

So what does being conscious of your own mind mean? No matter what you are thinking there is a part of you that is observing your thoughts. You are even now watching your thoughts as you are reading these words. There is the mechanical process of recalling the meaning of the words and discerning what they mean, and another part of you that is watching the though process going on in your head. Your consciousness is what is observing the movie going on in your mind. Whether that movie, or life experience, is a drama, comedy or tragedy your consciousness is what “witnesses” these life experiences. From this place of being the witness of the dramas that play in your head, you come to a place of inner peace that always lies within you.

If you are watching a movie that is scaring you, or is upsetting to watch, you can sit back and tell yourself that you are watching a movie and this starts bringing you back into a more peaceful state. Similarly, when you observe what thoughts and emotions are going on in your mind as a conscious “witness”, you are then able to look at these emotional and mental states from a place of greater clarity within you. Witnessing enables you to be less attached and more objective in your perception and responses. From this place you gain greater perspective on the situation, greater clarity and insight as how best to deal with the situation, and less emotional attachment that naturally reduces the tension from those life experiences. Step back from your mind and observe what you are thinking and feeling as the witness, and live in that place of peace that is your own consciousness.

From the Heart,
Steven S. Sadleir

Steven S. Sadleir is an author of numerous books on Self Realization and founder of the Self Awareness Institute that provides training programs in finding happiness and peace. Go to http://www.selfawareness.com/ or call 949-497-9954, and send questions to info@selfawareness.com

Self Realization

2005-02-14T13:34:00.000-08:00

Welcome

There is an awakening occuring within the collective consciousness of humanity. You are part of a small but rapidly growing segment of the population that has awakened and is being guided to full self realization. You are part of a global movement to help awaken the consciousness of the planet so we may all live together in happiness and peace.

Your spirit has guided your body and mind to this page, and to this moment, in order to be acknowleged for what you already innately know, and so that we might work together to bring more love into this world. Thousands from all over the world are coming together here, welcome home.

From the heart, Steven S. Sadleir