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Meditations
Aspirations:
Teresa's Acid Book
by Teresa Allen
Introduction:
Through this book, I offer various meditations and motivating thoughts, written from time to time throughout my adult life. The name, Acid Book, comes from a friend who journeyed with me in Guatemala (protagonist for Guardian of the Maya Tree). Relationships and career uncertainties were troubling her, so I suggested she keep a meditations journal like the one I had. "Oh, you mean Teresa's Acid Book," she had laughed. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, I share with you, in this book, the avenues of my head.
Contents:
1. How do I feel? Happiness. Loneliness. Childhood Assumptions. Sources of Pain.
2. What do I want? Noble Goals or Life Achievement Goals. Priorities Day by Day.
3. What's best for me? Wants and Needs: Spiritually, Emotionally. Wishes and Desires
4. What am I doing wrong?
Goal Spoilers. Social Gaffs and Clichés. Habits, Hobbies and Routines. What to Avoid. Self-Deceptions, Hates and Vices. Fear and Anger, Games of the Heart. Bad Decision. Important Changes to Make
5. What am I doing right?
Improvements and Changes. Hobbies and Habits. Good Decisions Made.
6. Think and Re-Think.
Setting Goals. Schedule, Plan and Execute. Future Things to Study. Organization.
7. What's Trite: Memory Long and Short Term
8. People (Books) I admire
9. Courage, Confidence, Creativity, Clarity: Day to Day Journal Log with Prompts and Quotes, Meditations and Poems
10 Thought Provoking Tools and Spiritual Guides:
a. Envelop with selections of right words (thought, action, lifestyle...)
b. Tarot Cards: Symbols of My Own
c. Bodhisattva Statues at my desk, Pictures on my wall
d. Cats and Dogs
e. Thought from World Spirituality: mostly Buddhism, some Hinduism, some Taoism, some Abrahamic
f. Mantras