How To Nail Your Top 10 Beliefs?

[JevinR]

I've been watching a ton of videos, and have done some meditations on it. I'm thinking meditate for 60 minutes then take a shower with (Life Purpose Course) materials. How do you pinpoint your top ten to the very last yoctometre? The problem is that I envision a specific version of myself, or have a vision some specific character/entity, and my values change accordingly. So how do I nail these beliefs and connect with the authentic/higher self?

[Philip]

@JevinR Congrats for buying the Course. It's really worth it, i think you'll never want a single penny back. 

First, I suggest not to listen to it in the shower, except for the bonus audio reviews at the end. Or the first 35+ theoretical videos, but just if you also sit down and watch those videos on a screen at some point. You have to make those videos sacred and important, otherwise you'll decrease their efficiency.

Now I guess you meant "top 10 values" in your topic's title.

1 hour ago, JevinR said:

So how do I nail these beliefs and connect with the authentic/higher self?

Unfortunately, you probably can't connect totally with your authentic higher self right now. Because you have limiting beliefs, social conditioning, cognitive biases, false information and low consciousness mindsets that are lurking around your mind, pretending to be healthy authentic thoughts. And you can't make the difference between those authentic and inauthentic beliefs and desires. That's why it's called subconscious, it's because it is just not visible in your consciousness in any way. It's non-existent to you.

But, with lots of time, effort, honesty and emotional courage you can make those thoughts and needs become more conscious. Through journaling, affirmations, visualizations, contemplation, strategic planning, shadow work, enlightenment work, self-help, therapy, positive psychology, meditation, changing social circle, changing habits, changing hobbies. But if you want a single exercise that is very specifically focused towards reaching your authentic self, then just follow the process Leo has set up for you in the Course. It's cleverly constructed, it's detailed, it's complete and it's well organized. So just trust the process. Suspend your doubts for a little while and marinate in the course. I personally think that's a clever way of extracting the most wisdom out of a course : emotional investment.

Also, your values are always changing. And you have to write down the definition of each of your 10 values at some point in the Course. So those definitions will also be changing. But short definitions like these can never be precise

3 hours ago, JevinR said:

to the very last yoctometer

as you said.

My only advice would be to define your values in a way that leaves a bit of wiggle room. What I mean is that if you happen to change a few words, and then it becomes incompatible with the rest of the values list, then it's probably a inauthentic value that just sounded nice to you at the moment.

For example, your definition of Honesty will change a lot as you become more honest. It will become less naive over time, more mature. So if another of your values is Politeness, make sure it leaves some room for Honesty to grow the immense ramifications it can have in one's life. Maybe Politeness doesn't even belong in your list anymore. Which leaves a lot of wiggle room for your Honesty to evolve and mature.

I hope it makes sense to you. Tell me what you think. And also good luck and have fun with the Course !

[JevinR]

@Philip Thank you so much ~ What I'm getting is that I should finish the course, but you have provided many insights on connecting with the authentic self. I praise you my friend, much love