A Way of Grace

Journey of Grace

1) The Call - Acknowledgement

• What’s going on? Where are you? - Meditation (Ordinary World)
• Where do you want to go? "How Can I Serve?" Intension
• What steps will take you there?

2) The Guide

• Has traveled the way to unconditional love
• If guide can love herself, and therefore, others unconditionally,  ~ she will give others the best support of all:  communion in unconditional self love. 
• Has confidence that you can get there, too.

3) Crossing the Threshold:

• Decision to seek wholeness, the first step,
• Journey to Awareness
• Doors of Perception

4) Surrender, Non-Attachment, Least Effort, Willingness to hold uncertainty; "Let Go and Let God," Serenity Prayer; Submission

• Relax

5) Facing Demons: "The serene is what is left over once we've faced our demons." Sky

• Tests
• Approach to Inmost Cave
• The Ordeal-Confrontation with greatest fear

6) Receiving the Gift of Grace: Awakening to Unconditional Love

7) The Return

• Fall from Grace
• Integration
• Celebration! Sharing

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

1. The Law of Pure Potentiality
2. The Law of Giving
3. The Law of "Karma" or Cause and Effect
4. The Law of Least Effort
5. The Law of Intention and Desire
6. The Law of Detachment
7. The Law of "Dharma" or Purpose in Life

Hero's Journey

1. Ordinary World
2. Call to Adventure
3. Refusal of the Call
4. Meeting with the Mentor
5. Crossing the First Threshold
6. Tests, Allies, Enemies
7. Approach to the Inmost Cave
8. Ordeal
9. Reward
10. The Road Back
11. Resurrection
12. Return with the Elixir

The Cycle of Radical Transformation

1. Wake up call
2. Holding uncertainty
3. Asking for help
4. Grace, insight and awakening
5. Honeymoon
6. Fall from grace
7. Integration

Compassion Ritual

1. To Be: Acknowledgement of predicament; survival: Red
2. To Feel: Feeling :Orange
3. To Do:Honoring, Power, respect, laughter, sense of awe, boundaries: Yellow
4. To Love: Compassion, walk in others shoes:Green
5. To Share: Creation, Leadership, Expression: Blue
6. To See: Wide Perspective, non-attached: Purple
7. To Unite (Embrace, Connect, Understand, Merge): White Light

Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression by James S. Gordon

1. The Call: Finding the Right Way "Depression is not a disease . . . It's a wake up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, a journey that can change and trasnform our lives." preface
2. Guides on the Journey
3. Surrender to Change
4. Dealing with Demons
5. The Dark Night of the Soul
6. Spirituality: The Blessing "We can think of depression as a kind of disconnection from the spiritual and this circle of ease and light and love." p. 288
7. The Return