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Break Through to a New Level of Being with Tools That Will Wake You Up and Allow You to Experience the Aliveness, Freedom, Peace, Love, and Fulfillment That Is Your Natural State!
AWAKENING NOW is a self-directed and self-paced 100-day online course on a beautiful and user-friendly multimedia platform, where you can listen, read, or watch the course materials on any device (computer, tablet, or phone). The entire course is in audio and also available as text. You will receive the first module’s materials as soon as you join and then continue to receive a new module every 10 days. You will always be able to return to the materials even after you have completed the course.
Methods for Awakening and Transforming Your Consciousness
Awakening Now will help you experience life through fresh eyes and discover the delight of truly being alive. This 100-day inner workout is packed with both time-honored and original teachings that will pull the rug out from under your ego and wake you up. You will immerse yourself in materials, practices, guided meditations, and inquiries that will transform your consciousness. The methods presented are powerful companions on the path to enlightenment and true happiness. By the end of 100 days, you will have developed new habits and ways of being that will result in being more richly alive and present and greater joy and equanimity.
Awakening Now will not just enhance your understanding of yourself and life and your psychological well-being, it will also change your brain state more permanently so that you function more rationally, creatively, and compassionately and less from your fear-based, egoic self. This means you will be more at ease in the world and more in the flow and connected with your divine intelligence.
Transmissions That Accelerate Your Spiritual Evolution
In 10 video webinars (a value of $200), you will receive transmissions of Christ Consciousness, which are a direct current of love and healing that will help you break through to a new level of being. They will assist you in embodying Christ Consciousness and being your best self: who you came here to be. These transmissions are particularly intended for awakening and can also clear and cleanse longstanding issues by working with the unconscious mind. Sometimes, physical healing also takes place. Transmission has been used throughout the ages to accelerate spiritual evolution and raise consciousness. These live webinar events, which are on Zoom video platform, take place every Saturday at 5 pm Pacific time and every Sunday at 11 am Pacific time. You can attend any 10 Sundays of your choosing for free as part of Awakening Now. More information about these events is available on RadicalHappiness.com.
Expert Guidance and Support and Connection to a Community
Throughout the course, you will be expertly and gently guided by me, Gina Lake, and any questions you have will be promptly answered on the course forum or through personal email. I am happy to give you all the support and encouragement you need to support your awakening to your divine self. I know what it’s like to struggle with a negative mind, to overcome depression, to learn to be happy, to have a successful meditation practice, to overcome fears, and to live a happy and an awakened life, one guided by spirit, and I have counseled people on spiritual matters for over twenty-five years. This course is not just information, but a program of transformation, and I am actively engaged in this process with you to the degree that you want and need me to be.
And, you will not be alone in this transformation. In the forum, you can connect with others who have a similar commitment to awakening, with whom you can share. For those of you who feel alone and disconnected as you travel your spiritual path, the live webinars and especially the forum will help you feel that you are part of a community, where you can share your experiences and receive support.
Join Awakening Now Today and Get "A Contemplation A Day" 60-Day Online Course as a Bonus
Every day for 60 days, you will receive a short contemplation that is read by me, Gina Lake, and set to soothing music, for you to enjoy and ponder at your leisure. These contemplations will inform you, inspire you, and help you be more present in your life. They are intended to shift your consciousness and help you experience more happiness, love, contentment, gratitude, and awe. Here's what one participant had to say about A Contemplation a Day:
"I loved the succinct teachings and the ease that it allowed me to look at my conditioning and faulty thinking. I see my ego in motion regularly now. I am very grateful to have been able to take this course. I want to go back and reread again and again and again.” –Karen Weber
You will be given a link to join A Contemplation a Day in the first module of Awakening Now. A Contemplation a Day is the perfect accompaniment to Awakening Now.
MODULE 1: Getting to Know the Ego
We examine the thought-stream (the voice in your head) to discover the truth about it and to see
what the ego, through the thought-stream, is up to and whether its communications are useful
and necessary. We see that the ego is designed to keep us engaged with it and that it attempts to
guide our life, however unskillfully. You develop a greater awareness of your thoughts and begin
to examine your “I” thoughts and the character they refer to. You discover what that self is like
and begin to peer into what the true self is like, as you become more aware of what is aware. And
you experiment with guided meditations as a means for quieting the mind and experiencing who
we really are.
♦ Discovering the truth about the voice in the head
♦ Becoming more aware of thoughts and what is aware
♦ Getting to know the character described by “I”
♦ Experiencing just being in guided meditations


MODULE 2: Overcoming Fear and Being in the Now
We explore the truth about fear and how to defuse its power over us, and we examine any
distrust we may have toward life, which also keeps us from being more present in our life. We
see that life is, in fact, trustworthy and supportive, despite the ego’s perceptions. We explore
why and how to forgive and let go of the past. You find out what it’s like to live in the present
moment, and through a guided meditation, you experience the space between thoughts.
♦ Discovering the truth about fear and defusing it
♦ Overcoming distrust of life
♦ Learning to forgive and let go of the past
♦ Discovering what living in the present moment is like
♦ Experiencing that you are the Space in which everything arises
MODULE 3: How to Meditate
You learn the benefits of meditation, how to meditate, why meditation is important, and how to overcome any resistance you may have to it. We also explore what creates stress and how to relieve it. In a guided meditation, you experience the power of listening to bring you into Presence.
♦ Discover the Benefits of Meditation
♦ Learn How to Meditate
♦ Realize the Importance of Meditation
♦ Learn Tips to Relieve Stress
♦ Overcoming Any Resistance to Meditation
♦ Experiencing Presence by listening


MODULE 4: More About Meditation
You are introduced to one more way to meditate and experience what it’s like to be fully in your body and senses. By practicing experiencing whatever you're experiencing without judging it or trying to hold on to it or push it away, you learn to stay in the present moment. We explore further any resistance you may still have to meditation. And we also take a look at how you may be interfering with your own happiness: How do you make yourself unhappy? In a guided meditation, we explore who you really are.
♦ Learning to be fully in our body and senses
♦ Experiencing whatever we’re experiencing without resistance
♦ Overcoming any further resistance to meditating
♦ Learn that happiness is in your control
♦ Discover your secret to happiness
♦ Explore how you may be making yourself unhappy
♦ Experience your true self in meditation
MODULE 5: Practices That Enhance Positive Feelings
You discover the power of gratitude to overcome negativity and increase the flow of love and positive feelings in your life, and you take time to practice it. You also explore the power of smiling to change your state and change your brain. By making time for these two practices, you see that being in a positive state is in your control and that by focusing on the experience of that state in your body, you become anchored in the present moment and in touch with your innate joy and love. You also try out the effectiveness of repeating various mantras and positive phrases to change your state.
♦ Discovering the power of gratitude to make us happy and more loving
♦ Exploring smiling as a way of changing our state and experiencing more joy
♦ Learning to focus on the experience of joy, love, peace, and gratitude in the body
♦ Using mantras or positive phrases to create a positive inner state


MODULE 6: Meditating on Beauty
You are introduced to more activities that bring you into the moment and into intimate contact with what is truly satisfying: our true nature. You increase your capacity to be present in your daily life as well as your ability to experience beauty everywhere and in everything by practicing focusing on something beautiful, without thoughts about it. Through a guided meditation, you also increase your capacity to be present to what is rather than to thoughts. Through inspired writings, you are pointed to the goodness behind all life, including within yourself. And as you go about your day, you practice being in your body and being present to its movements.
♦ Experiencing beauty in daily life by being present to it
♦ Experiencing our innate goodness and the goodness in all of life
♦ Being in the body and attending to its movements as a way of staying in Presence
♦ Learning to live more and more in the present moment
MODULE 7: Breathing Practices
You discover the power of breath to change your state of consciousness. By experimenting with various ways of breathing, you learn what works for you to deepen into meditation more quickly and to relieve stress during your day. Through writings, you learn more about the mysterious duality that we all are: We are both human and divine. We are divine perfection expressing as human imperfection, which itself is perfect. And, through a talk and guided meditation, you come to understand more about who you are and experience it.
♦ Discovering the power of breath to change our state of consciousness
♦ Practicing shifting our state by changing how we breathe
♦ Realizing that human perfection is not possible nor required
♦ Realizing who we really are through a guided meditation and talk


MODULE 8: Love and Forgiveness Practices
We examine the importance and power of forgiving others and ourselves. Forgiveness frees us from the past and allows us to be present and to love. Through a practice of forgiving and sending love to others, you clear your past relationships. Love heals, and we heal as we align with it. Selected writings inspire you to make love the basis for your speech and actions. And in a guided meditation, you experience being loved and being love.
♦ Discovering the importance and power of forgiving others and ourselves
♦ Clearing past relationships, replacing negativity with forgiveness and love
♦ Realizing the power of love to heal and make our lives whole
♦ Experiencing being loved and being love in a guided meditation
MODULE 9: Spiritual Inquiry
We explore the power of spiritual inquiry to deconstruct the false self and experience the true self. Through examining the various voices of the ego and getting to know its different personas, we are empowered to detach from it. Once we see the truth about the ego, ignoring the egoic mind’s chatter becomes much easier. Then it is possible to experience who we really are. You try out various inquiry techniques to uncover who you are, and you experience yourself as the Noticer in a guided meditation.
♦ Discovering the power of inquiry to deconstruct the ego and experience the true self
♦ Getting to know the various personas the ego takes on
♦ Exploring direct inquiry to discover who you are
♦ Experiencing the Noticer in a guided meditation


MODULE 10: The Practice of Prayer
You learn about the power of prayer and what prayer is, what it accomplishes, when to pray, and how to pray. You learn to connect with and experience the spiritual forces that work on your behalf to bring about your evolution. You see they are real and here to serve you. With a simple surrender technique, you surrender all worries, fears, and “problems” easily. You discover what it means to let things be as they are and what happens when you do.
♦ Learning about prayer: what it is, what is does, when and how to pray
♦ Connecting with guiding forces and experiencing them in your life
♦ Surrendering what keeps you from peace, happiness, and love
♦ Allowing things to be as they are
