ROB'S REMARKS:
A WAKING WORDS PROLOGUE

"Waking Words" is a NOUN, a THING, a NAME for the way inspiration manifests in my life as I am WAKING, in that curiously pregnant space between the dreamy, symbolic state of subconscious activity during sleep and the more concrete state that emerges as thoughts and conscious awareness. "Waking Words" is my personal, preferred way of defining that threshold where we transition from one state to the other. There’s even a scientific name for it: hypnopompia.  “Waking Words” are the pregnant, potent insights that flow into my conscious awareness as I traverse this state.

"Waking Words" is a VERB, a PRACTICE, an ACTIVITY that I have discovered and developed which was birthed in that blended space as I learned how to extend and expand that space and time into a meditation zone of sorts at the very beginning of my day. But—as I have found over time—this activity, when cultivated moment-by-moment—keeps granting inspiration and insights throughout the day! It’s a form of “Meditation to Go” which has a byproduct of alerting me to “miracles”…many of them small but still miraculous, that otherwise exist just beyond my awareness.

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"Waking Words" is a DISCIPLINE which—when understood and adopted consistently—goes beyond the receipt of insight or inspiration but actually brings on TRANSFORMATION. The more fully I adopt this practice, the more my INSTINCTS and my INTERNAL landscape are brought into alignment with these profound insights that are daily available. And—when I’m really practicing this discipline over a sustained period of time, I actually become the EMBODIMENT of that inspiration. I am transformed into a more transcendent version of myself where my relationship with myself and the world I am in is fundamentally altered!

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DIVING DEEPER…

There’s still much more to say about this TERM, "Waking Words". It’s an EXPERIENCE of something I can only describe as transcendent, which got extremely focused for me when my BIG MYSTERY was ultimately uncovered. Up until that incredible, reality-shifting moment, this BIG MYSTERY was dominating and dictating the course of my life, and was actually suppressing my True Character and Vitality. Prior to this “reveal,” my life was defined by massive shame, confusion, dysfunction, and suffering; and even though I spent decades in a diligent pursuit of self-improvement and growth, the ANSWERS to my unique burning questions remained elusive. Nothing that I attempted—whether spirituality and faith-based, or psychological and medically/scientifically-based—was able to “break the code” that might fully UNLOCK & UNLEASH the Real Me! At that time, I didn’t even know there WAS a “Real Me. ” Although I couldn’t see this clearly in the midst of it all—I was actually disconnected from my original, clean DNA…like a mutated version of myself, like some kind of X-Men character, but instead of mutant superhuman DNA, mine was subhuman!

It was as if I was a shattered version of a human being, and I was spending my life (decades of it!) trying to find where the fragments of myself had bounced away to, and then trying to piece together a puzzle from them, to discover who the HELL that person might have once looked like! But I had no blueprint of what that original Person was or how it was assembled. I use that term “HELL” very intentionally. I was living in an ongoing HELLISH nightmare, barely surviving the exhaustion and pain that was the only constant of my existence: minute after minute, hour upon hour, day after draining and depressing day, extending into weeks, months, years, and decades as I felt the sands draining out of the hourglass of my time on Earth. 

I’m trying to convey the desperation and failure that defined my existence…imprisoned in a kind of utterly DARK “solitary confinement” where the Jailor was my BIG MYSTERY, a mystery that remained undetectable and definitely unsolvable in spite of decades spent diligently seeking some kind of LIGHT through whatever spiritual or scientific resources I could find. 

If you can relate to any of what I am describing here, then discovering more about my Waking Words journey and applying it to your own may be helpful (possibly life-altering!) for you. If you can relate to a sense of some kind of BIG MYSTERY holding you back—or perhaps worse—keeping you “in chains,” Waking Words could be a step towards the personal freedom that eludes you. 

Even if you can’t relate to what I’ve described about my life BEFORE I discovered my Waking Words, I believe you may still find the practices, disciplines, and insights that have transformed my Personal HELL into HEAVEN ON EARTH for me useful and applicable to your life. Because what I discovered through Waking Words “blew the lid off” of my arduous life journey, melted my chains away, revealed and solved my BIG MYSTERY, and transported me into a realm of existence where I rediscovered my “original coding,” and “remembered” Who I Am and Why I’m Here in ways that nothing else I had ever experienced or explored came close to doing!

I finally saw how my BIG MYSTERY had kept that knowledge from me, and I became a completely redefined version of myself, based on the original blueprint which I could now comprehend! For the first time in my conscious existence, I saw myself as “BIG, INNOCENT and FREE!” I began to function in a way that felt like a “five-million-year-old five-year-old.” As I moved and interacted with others in the world, I felt like a completely healthy CELL, interacting with other Cells in the collective Body of Humanity. My functions seemed perfect… my membranes filtering out every negative thought or feeling and easily allowing every positive thing in! I generated nothing but purity, ease, harmony, and grace as I moved through my day and interacted with others. It was as if I had entered NIRVANA and carried it around with me! And I instinctively KNEW how to embody and express the most transcendent version of myself. 

It was as if I was being permitted to inhabit a version of myself that was “perfected. ” And this went on for about ten weeks, at which point I was “given a choice” to remain in that state or to “do more work” on piecing those fragments of self together. Now, there is something known as Kintsugi ("golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (“golden repair"), which is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold, silver, or platinum. 

I was being offered an insight into the process that had been underway for decades in my life, where—without a blueprint—I had been tracking down and locating the thousands of fragments my life had been shattered into as a result of my BIG MYSTERY. I had collected many thousands of shards from that original soul, but many were still missing, and many were forever lost, too fragmented and displaced to be recovered. In "Waking Words", I was being given the precious gold, silver, and platinum required to reassemble myself into something resembling my original “design,” but perhaps—due to the breakage, mystery, and the applied gold, etc. , what would emerge might even rival or transcend the original version of my “Crystalline Self. ” Picture a beautiful translucent crystal ball, broken and fragmented into a thousand shards, then painstakingly reconstructed into a version of itself with the gaps filled in by this precious and beautiful process…that is what Waking Words continues to be for me. 

In the stock market, there is a phenomenon often referred to as a "breakout and retest. " It's when a stock price breaks through a key resistance level, indicating new potential or momentum, but then retraces back to that level before continuing its upward trend. This retest confirms the strength of the breakout and provides an opportunity for investors to enter at a potentially lower price before the stock continues its ascent and eventually establishes itself at that previously demonstrated value. 

I was being offered a glimpse of what my True Value was and then being ushered back down to the level of my current disciplines and instincts, and being granted the opportunity to invest in the longer, slower, more painstaking process of BUILDING to my True Level. That is what Waking Words daily offers me, and what it is my privilege to share with others. 

A wise soul once said, “Healers are mentors to those they are two steps ahead of in their own healing. ” Another wise saying is. “One beggar tells another beggar where to find bread. ”

I believe that my experience with the Transformative Healing Process that I call "Waking Words" permits me to serve as an agent of healing to those who can benefit from it, and I offer that in the spirit of the maxims shared above.