COURSE of TRUTH

for the Inner Work Aficionado

This is the first of 4 Modules

Truth

*Spades*

*followed soon by Love (Hearts), Inspiration (Clubs) and Purpose (Diamonds)

 

This course is designed to take you to Joy. Part of a fun, supportive, safe, like-minded group of people, we will immerse ourselves into a series of inner-work tools that yield results as opposed to meandering around aimlessly. We will do this following the Cards of Truth mapping of life, as taught by my friend, Ernst Wilhelm, which will help readers and lovers of Cards of Truth find deeper meanings of the cards, as related to inner work.

I hope, with this course, to help guide you towards clearing away some of the traps that pseudo-spirituality and mass psycho-babbling promote out there nowadays.  We will, for 10 weeks, follow a path of self-discovery, so that each of us can pick ourselves up from wherever we’ve been stagnating or from wherever our personal road feels like less than peace.

 

This Course will yield results for you if:

• You feel absolutely sick of your experience and are committed to getting out from under it once and for all.
• You have been looking for answers for a while now, but, for some reason, you have not been able to translate any of the answers you’ve found into productive ways that truly, meaningfully change your experience.
• Something perpetually intervenes between what you know you have to do and what you are actually, tangibly doing.
• You are at your wits’ end and feel lost and don’t know where to even begin to look for a solid foundation for your life.
• You are committed to feeling whatever you will feel, no matter how painful, how humbling, or how frightening.
• You are ready, able and eager to consistently challenge what you think you know about life and about yourself.

This Course might not be for you if:

• Your mind is closed and pinned into concepts that you hold as truths that you feel unwilling or unable to challenge.
• You are merely shopping around for distracting information that allows you to keep floating away on the ocean of your current experience.
• You are not ready to deeply, courageously look for what keeps you away from the Joy you say you are looking for.
• You think inner work is a journey of happy-go-lucky positive-vibe Unicorns, Fairies and Bliss-Bunnies.

 

This is about “I”.

It is about what it means to be human on Earth on the most personal level.

The course will consist of (Zoom) weekly meetings with myself and the other members of the group, where we will discuss what comes up for each of us with regards to the following themes. We will focus on practical exercises and removing traps that sabotage our self-development and our joy. We will have homework for each theme in order to experientially process whatever comes up for you.

The Spades Module will cover these topics, one for each week:

Ace of Spades - Who Am I?

• Take up a meditative practice.
• Allow new understandings to come in about who you are.
• Develop your “awareness muscle”.
• Revise and challenge every single notion you have.
• Develop radical openness.

Two of Spades - What Do I Need?

• Research upon human needs and tackle those first.
• Develop trust in your body’s ability to supply its own needs.
• Learn to recognize and dissociate the story from the sensation.

Three of Spades - What to Let Go Of?

• Learned adaptations.
• Stories that only serve to perpetuate survival-based adaptations and thus dis-ease.
• Blaming and projecting your inabilities on people.

Four of Spades - Feeling Stable

• Allow yourself to develop your “awareness muscle”
• Constantly reinforce the focus on what your sensations are as opposed to what your mind translates them as
• Watch out for the “Poor Me” and other mind parasites that might hijack your development
• Consistently practice self-compassion and gratitude

Five of Spades - What to perfect

• Chose one path, one method, one person to sustain you and TRUST them.
• Make sure that what you trust or affirm as being “your truth” is not some hidden agenda of your unassumed psyche
• Remember that peace comes from silence, not from excitement or anger or gloom
• Fighting your most important battle
• Be vigilant with what you hold true as concepts
• The mantra THANK YOU is priceless

Six of spades - Cruising Away

• Enjoy peace but be vigilant
• Get back on track whenever you slip off
• Keep reinforcing your tools

Seven of Spades - This is the end

• Surrender and trust that which is breathing you
• Let bygones be bygones
• Face yourself honestly

 Eight of Spades - Vigilant peace

• See the world as you see yourself
• Imprisonment as a sign to go back to inquiring about yourself
• See through the most common parasites of the mind
• Withdraw from projections

 Nine of Spades - Becoming one

• Let life take you where it will
• Surrender to your concrete experience
• Deep connection comes when the I is overcome

Ten of spades - Life as a conch

 

*This first course is priced at $333 and will include:

• one 30 minutes private session with me where we assess together your personal goals for the course
• participation in the 10 weeks course
• my eBook: Ayla's Book of Truth
• my deck: Ayla's Cards of Truth