In AHAM, we are often asked the question, “How does one remain connected with the Source and stay strong and steady in the Heart, or the Self, while living a busy lifestyle? And, what about during my relationships, while fulfilling my daily responsibilities and personal obligations? ”

In answer Ramana explains:
“Remember often to draw your attention back into Awareness Itself, and just imbibe of this quality of pure Awareness. As often as possible, watch your activities as though you are watching someone else doing them.  It is like looking over your own shoulder. Watch the thoughts in your mind, as you stay quietly, silently, abiding in the prior Awareness, the feeling I AM — not ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ but simply the pure feeling of I AM. Merge your thoughts in IT, and the mind and feelings will become one. This is Living Free!”

AHAM’s Conscious Curriculum gives you a way to Live Free no matter what is happening in your life. It has a simple, easy, unique approach that brings together, in a balanced way, your spiritual and worldly affairs. Many people come here who are dealing with the conflict of how to “live and be in the world, but not be of it.”  In AHAM and its teaching, your ability to do this begins with awakening to the Feeling of Completion, which you learn to awaken with AHAM’s “Completion Process”™. The “truth that makes us free” that Jesus mentions, is the Truth that we are already complete, whole and free — just as we are — when we awaken to our true Self.

In order for this not to be just an intellectual understanding about the Truth, we offer experiential processes that actually Awaken you to this Truth. And, at the same time, those areas that have been incomplete in your life, that are now pulling on you, are completed consciously. You are then able to appreciate and are deeply motivated to live life from this state of Completion and Fulfillment — at all times. The conscious process of Self-Inquiry is learned as a way to continue to steadily and strongly remain in the Truth, the Reality of the true Self, no matter what is happening in your life — good, or not so good.

AHAM’s approach to “Living Free” is shared in these words of truth from A. Ramana:
“Emptiness, or freedom from thought, is Happiness. Happiness is freedom from desire. Desire is suffering, yet it appears to temporarily bring a sense of freedom; that is, when your desire is fulfilled there is momentary sense of freedom from desire and the emptiness brings the feeling of happiness.  However, this is usually not seen as being the way it is.  Or, it's more often unconscious or unrecognized. Instead, we ignorantly attribute happiness to be from attaining the object, situation, or event that fulfills our desire, and not to this emptiness, or freedom from desire. It is the freedom from desire that gives happiness, not attaining the desired objects.

“AHAM is about living in freedom, which is freedom from desire and fear.  It is about being present in and as Pure Awareness, the True Self, the nature of which is happiness.  When body-mind identification ends all compulsive thought ends, leaving emptiness, which is filled with the fullness of Pure Awareness. This is true Peace, Freedom, and Joy – or Real Happiness.”

Listed here are a few features or facets of our Conscious Programs:

• “Awaken to Awareness Retreat ” – Introductory Program to our Conscious Teaching.
• Our Catalog and Calendar of programs.
• The importance that Completion plays in our teaching.
• Involvement in the AHAM’s Conscious Community.
• “Living Free” - one day programs held outside of our own facilities:
  Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
  Unity of Richmond
  

 

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