WISDOMWORK COURSE Find wisdom in your dreams by practicing dreamworking techniques. Focus text: Seven Principles for Living

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1• Read the Seven Principles for Living four times during the day. Commit to writing notes on your coursework.

2• Meditate on the First Principle. Say the line over and over to yourself. Remember it throughout your day.

3• Tell others in various ways to 'come into the Now.' Let it be a theme of your conversations and note what happens.

4• Make choices to keep coming into the Now. At the end of your day list the choices you have made.

5• Meditate on the Second Principle, saying it over and over to yourself.

6• Rewrite the Second Principle in your own words in as many ways as possible.

7• Draw, diagram or paint the Second Principle.

8• Check your life as to where you are trying to serve two masters.

9• List ways you can serve today a greater source or value than yourself.

10• List how you have put yourself first today over a greater value.

11• Analyze a conflict for the split between your personal ego and a greater source or value.

12• Read and say many times during this day the Third Principle. Note its effect on you.

13• Practice going where the most positive or negative energy is and deal with it.

14• Practice freeing yourself of people and things that lack energy for you.

15• Practice only staying with things as long as the energy is flowing.

16• Live passionately this day what most moves you. List these experiences.

17• Repeat to yourself throughout your day the Forth Principle.

18• List the possible losses in your day and how you will deal with them.

19• Go through some fear by choice and action, doing what you are afraid of doing.

20• Say and write the Fifth Principle at special times in your day.

21• Practice saying No to others to say Yes to yourself.

22• Practice loving another person by also loving yourself.

23• Memorize the Sixth Principle and write it also in your own words, or give examples of how it applies.

24• List some personal desires, evaluate whether they are immediately possible or not. Let go of the now impossible ones.

25• Practice seeing what is wanted in the situation and also what you want. How do the two points of view contrast with each other?

26• Talk about the Seventh Principle throughout your day, asking questions and pointing to the need for wholeness.

27• Paint or draw the center for you, or write a meditation on center, letting the words and feelings flow.

28• See if you can say all seven principles. Review what has happened in this 28 day wisdom course. Write up the essence.