In Touch With Your Inner Voice | LEVEL 1 E-Book

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

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Beschreibung

In Touch With Your Inner Voice is a self-guided course offering a spiritual, self-guided path of individuation allowing for personal development, understood as a lifelong process. The course is structured into three levels, each of which is presented and conveyed with six textbooks (lessons) and other practice materials. It addresses all those who are interested in their spiritual individuation, which is a very personal matter. With the exercises, each participant gradually discovers "their" very individual soul or symbolic language—just as they once learned their mother tongue. They learn to name and express symbols they've experienced inside themselves and relate them to their world, in the world. This, in turn, opens up a whole new spectrum of exploration and learning, each wholly unique and different depending on the participant's experience and background. Level 1: Lessons 1 ‒ 6 This level is about learning the basics of the Trilogos Method and how to use the method to train our capacity for perception, imagination, expression and self-reflection. For example, a person may learn to recognize, name and express their intuition through their perception. In this way, they will get in touch with their inner voice and discover connections with their outer world. Another participant may encounter their wounded inner child during an exercise, and begin to wonder: How do people even arrive at their beliefs, dispositions, convictions, behavioral patterns and traumas in the first place? Yet another person may experience their creative potential and seek to optimize it in a meaningful and gratifying way, in alignment with their very personal dispositions. In this way, the Trilogos Method contributes to a viable future for all, where members of society make decisions together on the basis of trust and empathy, and take responsibility for those decisions.

Leseprobe

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

In Touch With Your Inner Voice

LEVEL 1 PsyQ– LIVING CONSCIOUSLY

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

In Touch With Your Inner Voice

LEVEL 1 PsyQ – LIVING CONSCIOUSLY

The ABC of the Trilogos Method

Book 1/6

PsyQ®Training

Personality and consciousness training

A self-guided TRILOGOS course

Perceiving, recognizing, naming – deciding and acting responsibly and ethically

A spiritual path of individuation:

Personal development – a life-long process

Disclaimer

The methods and work instructions presented here cannot replace medical or therapeutic advice. The author and publisher exclude any liability for damages that may result from the use or misuse of the methods presented in this work. They also exclude any liability for the accuracy, timeliness and completeness of the information contained in this book. Any use of the methods and information presented herein falls under the sole responsibility of the user.

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All proceeds from this self-guided course go to the Trilogos Foundation: www.trilogos.com

Bibliographic Information of the German National Library

The German National Library lists this publication in the German National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.

Publisher: Trilogos Foundation

Author: Linda Vera Roethlisberger, In Touch With Your Inner Voice, PsyQ®Training for Personality and Consciousness Formation / A self-guided Trilogos course

Editing: Angela Kuepper, Dr. phil. Michael Noah Weiss

Cover design & Layout: AMBERPRESS, Gosia Warrink and Katja Koeberlin, Berlin, Germany Translation: Ciaran Cronin and Cathleen Poehler, Canada

QR-Codes: Stefan Yanku, Switzerland / Audio: Tonstudio Selmi, CH-8055 Zürich, Switzerland

Print and Publishing:

1st edition Berlin: Pro BUSINESS, 2013

2nd Edition, tredition publishing house, Hamburg, Germany, 2024

1st unabridged English Edition, 2024

ISBN Softcover: 978-3-384-18455-9

ISBN eBook: 978-3-384-18456-6

“As humans, we can only stand to gain from developing our individual mediumistic and healing – intuitive – abilities. In this way, they do not lie fallow but are instead integrated into our everyday life, in relation to our health, relationships and working life, in the here and now, in a very natural way.”

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

“From a scientific perspective, I can say the following about the Trilogos®Method: One peculiarity of the method is that it transcends the boundaries of the scientific-rational realm all the while seeking and maintaining links with science. We might put forth the scientific argument that science alone does not allow to find meaning in life or help with regard to motivation and decision-making, be it for us as individuals or collectively as a society. Therefore, alternative forms of knowing and of gaining convictions and the resulting power are necessary. With its training offers, the Trilogos Method creates opportunities, in particular to develop spiritual intelligence (SQ). As a complement to the more conventional rational and emotional forms of intelligence (IQ and EQ), SQ represents the competence for finding meaning in the social and transcendent context. The Trilogos Method can thus contribute significantly to creating a precondition for a sustainable society: the ability to make decisions based on trust and empathy.”

Dr. Roland Fischer, University Professor, Alpen-Adria-Universität Wien/Klagenfurt, Interdisciplinary Research

“If we dare to leave familiar shores, then we embark on a search for our true, essential self, and evolve beyond that – in responsibility of the individual for the whole.”

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

This self-guided course is dedicated to those who – like me – never cease to be moved and enchanted by life’s coincidences … which ultimately aren’t coincidences … and who confidently take strides on their life’s path with the deep trust that whatever is meant to fall into place will do so.

May our inner light illuminate our path always, so that we can walk the path assuredly and in deep trust: wonderfully protected by positive powers … for us and therefore for others.

Table of Contents

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Introduction to the Course (Level 1 to Level 3)

Level 1: Intuition: Imagination or Inspiration?

Book 1: The Abc of the Trilogos Method

A Small Introductory Experiment

Unit 1: Finding Your Inner Home

1. The point of the exercise

2. Experience – The Golden Sphere

3. Evaluation

4. Case studies

5. Learning objectives

6. Quintessence

7. Further reading

Unit 2: Experiencing the Spiritual World

1. The point of the exercise

2. Experience – Tree and Obstacle

3. Evaluation

4. Case studies

5. Learning objectives

6. Quintessence

7. Further reading

Unit 3: Symbols and Their Correspondence in Everyday Life

1. The point of the exercise

2. Experience – White Bird

3. Evaluation

4. Case studies

5. Learning objectives

6. Quintessence

7. Further reading

Unit 4: Life is Relationship

1. The point of the exercise

2. Experience - The Flower Tree

3. Evaluation

4. Case studies

5. Learning objectives

6. Quintessence

7. Further reading

Afterword

Glossary

Acknowledgments

The Author

Trilogos Foundation

Notes

In Touch With Your Inner Voice | LEVEL 1

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Afterword

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Trilogos Foundation

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Introduction to the course (Level 1 to Level 3)

You too can learn to integrate the fascination with as well as the miracle of magic, mediality and the invisible so as to enhance the meaning and value of your life. Your natural gift of magical intuition, your capability for extra- or inner-sensory perception and last but not least the symbolic language – the most important foreign language in the world – are at the center of this course. They will be gently awakened, trained and purposefully used – always in relation to your continued development and your everyday life.

Whom is the course intended for?

With this self-guided course, which consists in total of three levels, I address all those who are interested in their spiritual individuation. Individuation is a personal matter. By doing the exercises, each participant learns to get to know, name, express and relate “their” very own individual soul or symbolic language – essentially a mother tongue – in relation to their “world in the world.“ Each participant will then be guided to new areas of knowledge and learning depending on their world of experience and level of education. For further explanations, see glossary.

• For example, one participant may get to know his perception and his intuition, and to name and express these. Hence, he comes in touch with his inner voice and discovers signs on the way through his personal symbolic language.

• Another person may discover her wounded child’s heart and begin to ask herself: How exactly does a person end up adopting or developing the beliefs, dispositions, convictions, behavioral patterns and traumas they have?

• Yet another person may experience his creative potential, and seek to optimize it in terms of how it may allow him to find meaning and value in accordance with his own personal dispositions. Innovation through intuition becomes possible.

• The Trilogos®Method can significantly contribute to creating the conditions for a sustainable society: the ability to make decisions together based on trust and empathy, taking decisions with full responsibility.

Practical pointers for completing the course

The exercises in the individual units create a bridge to your unconscious. You may read them first and experience them passively or, if you want to get more directly and actively involved in the process, listen to them as an audio recording (QR-Codes). Do not allow yourself to be actively involved in the exercises if you are not feeling well-balanced or are not experiencing inner stability. If in doubt, consult a doctor or therapist you trust. You can always listen to the audio experience later, at another time. The passive experience, which occurs when reading through the unit, also has a positive effect.

The worksheets in each unit (Evaluation of experiences, Associations and insights, Bridge to everyday life: implementation and use, The point of the exercise, etc.) help you to a structured and careful processing of the experience. Additional case studies, the learning objectives, the respective “Quintessence” sections as well as the recommended readings should give you further insights to complement your work on yourself. At the end of the book you will find a detailed glossary to help you familiarize yourself with my body of thought.

For your optimal preparation, I recommend the following:

• Use the empty spaces after each exercise for your personal notes.

You may also want to start by getting your own “dream book” ready, in other words, a book with blank pages, along with a special pen you like to write with. In the dream book, which would complement the worksheets, you can elaborate in more detail about the pearls you found and dived for. You will thus be creating your own reference work, or a way to establish new links and gain new insights about yourself and your everyday life time and again…

Let yourself be surprised about what life has in store for you. Important messages from your unconscious to yourself will amaze you time and again. This self-guided course will give you orientation in finding your bearings and in finding your way to yourself and beyond.

If there are things in your life that you truly want to change and if you are resolved to get active and do something, then you’re on the right path with this course!

For this reason I recommend that all self-guided learners find the space and time required to work on a unit continuously and at their own pace.

Without further ado, I wish you plenty of patience, discipline and perseverance in pursuing this goal!

…You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him to discover himself…

Galileo Galilei

Level 1

Intuition: Imagination or Inspiration?

In Level I of the course, which consists of Book 1 to 6, you will learn how to consciously explore your inner world – your perception, your visionary powers and ideas, your truths. We begin by presenting definitions of intuition, imagination, and inspiration. These should help you to better distinguish between those three areas when doing the practical exercises.

The exercises are designed to teach you to use your intuition, imagination, and sources of inspiration and to put those experiences in relation to your external world, to your everyday life. In this way, intuition, imagination, and inspiration can become your source of life, your gate to the eternal Creative Power and your joy of life. At the same time, you will also become aware of the three keys to your own spiritual and mental strength: 1) your perception (e.g., in the form of dreamed symbols); 2) your awareness; and 3) your inner voice, which will begin to communicate with you and give you an impetus and a new, holistic orientation in the world.

In the Trilogos®Method, “the three Is” – imagination, intuition, and inspiration – are a means to make the unconscious conscious, following which your own individual power can be strengthened and brought into an optimal equilibrium.

Imagination

Imagination comprises the faculty of imagination, that is, the ability to imagine that which is “not present. “ This may be, for example, a picture (e.g., imagine the portrait of the Mona Lisa – it will appear immediately before your mind’s eye). However, it can also be smells, tastes, or sounds that you imagine (e.g., the taste of freshly baked bread or the smell of peppermint, which you perceive with your inner sense of smell or taste).

Imagination is humankind’s visionary power; that is that which makes us creative. Nonetheless, surely we have all made the experience that we have imagined or envisioned something which then contrasted sharply with how things evolved in real life. This touches on the topic of the distinction between “delusion and reality,” which comprises the subject of the Trilogos Method.

Your imagination can be likened to a television used to watch a quiz show. You can receive sensory impressions, in this case audiovisual, through a television; however, this process also requires an antenna and a TV station. More on this later. (see also Glossary)

Intuition

Intuition is the immediate, non-reflection-based recognition and capturing of a situation or a more complex process. Thanks to your intuition, you can imagine or be receptive to something spontaneously. In contrast to pure imagination, by which you imagine something willingly and actively (such as the image of the Mona Lisa in the above example), intuition is based on passive perception. For instance, an old friend may come to mind out of the blue and then, at the next moment, the telephone rings and it is that friend. In that case, your inner voice intuitively gave you the idea of this old friend because she or he was about to call.

In this course, we will learn, through practice exercises, how to acquire this faculty of spontaneous, intuitive recognition of something about to manifest, including how to use it as a valuable resource for everyday life. Your intuition is like the roof antenna that can receive various programs, such as the quiz show aired at prime time. (see also Glossary)

Inspiration

Inspiration is an intuition (lat. inspirare), an idea. These inspirations and ideas are of different origins. They can come from your unconscious, from other people, or from spiritual, transpersonal levels. As part of this course, you will learn to distinguish between the sources of an inspiration.

In summary, inspiration is a spiritual, creative impulse that appears in our consciousness in an unmediated, spontaneous manner – and that can be perceived intuitively as well as with the senses.

For a better understanding of this process, let’s go back to the quiz show: To view the quiz show, you need a TV (metaphorically speaking, this is your imagination, your inner monitor). To be able to receive the quiz show, you need an antenna on the roof of your house (metaphorically speaking, this is your intuition, your inner radar). However, you will also need a TV station that includes the quiz show in its programming in the first place (metaphorically speaking, the inspiration or source of inspiration). If one of these three parameters (TV, antenna, TV station) is missing, the quiz show cannot be received. It is in this sense that imagination, intuition, and inspiration belong together, yet are different from one another. (see also Glossary)

Book 1

The ABC of the Trilogos Method

Thinking, feeling and believing – basic human capabilities

In the four units comprising this first book you will consciously experience your personal language of thoughts and feelings, the power of your psyche and the power of your belief and your trust in your creative power. Your “sensory link to the spiritual world” will awaken and with it your five internal, mediumistic faculties of perception: (sound, sight, feeling, smell and awareness). You will discover the world of your sensations and your faculty of conscious perception. You will become acquainted with your world of symbols and your personal dream language and make connections through your symbols to your innermost being and to your daily life: you will discover what it means to participate actively in creating and shaping your destiny. You will be aided in this by your innate basic capabilities: to think, feel, believe, trust and as a result have courage.

Subjective perception: Truth is what we take to be true

Objectives of Book 1

• To become acquainted with the Trilogos Method

• To train and enhance your perception

• To get in touch with your inner voice

• To have initial experiences of your self

• To experience the power of intuition

• To feel and practice mindfulness

• To acquire initial insights

• To train resilience and empathy

• To recognize a personal benefit of the method

The basics of the Trilogos®Method:

Faculty of perception, faculty of imagination, faculty of expression

A Small Introductory Experiment

Take a moment. Close your eyes and imagine a rose …

Faculty of imagination

Did you manage to do so? Were you able to imagine a rose? If so, then you have discovered the first important tool for this self-guided course: your power of imagination.

Faculty of perception

Were you able to form an internal picture of a rose and to perceive this internally? Then you became aware of the rose. With this you have also discovered an important second tool: your faculty of perception. Your perception of the rose is a ‘passive’ process which surprised you and encouraged you to become ‘active’ and to form an internal image of the unexpected rose. A rose emerged from your imagination without you having to define it.

Faculty of expression

Recall your internal perception of the rose and now make a detailed description or drawing of your rose: its colour, shape, size, the density of the blossoms, thorns, leaves, etc. This is the third important tool for this course: your expressive ability. You can give outward expression to what you perceived internally, to your thoughts and feelings, ideas or symbols of the internal world of sensations. In describing the rose in your way, you transfer something internal, in this case your personal rose, from your inner world, from the world of imagination and perception, into your external world.

Cast you mind back again: did you sense the petals of your rose or even its thorns? Were you able to hear the sound made by a gardener makes when cutting roses? Or did an idea simply occur to you or did a specific rose simply appear before your mind’s eye? Were you able to form an internal image of the shape and colour of a rose or to smell its fragrance?

The mediumistic senses: the internal ability to perceive

Just as you can perceive with your five external senses – that is, sight, hearing, feeling, smell and taste – so, too, you can perceive internally: you have just done so with your rose. Through this little experiment, you may have already become aware of your world of sensations, your inner world. You perceive this world through your inner senses: internal sight, hearing, feeling, smell, including taste, and awareness. Together they constitute your sensory link to the spiritual world.

Interpreting truth

If several people conduct the ‘rose experiment’ and each of them describes his or her rose, then you will notice something: none of the roses is exactly like any other; each of them is individual. Why is this? Your rose is an expression of your distinctive individual thoughts and feelings; it is an expression of your inner world or your spiritual and intellectual power, your psyche.

There are as many inter-pretations of the truth and reality as there are human beings

For this reason, the rose that you perceived and described is yours alone and no one else’s. Therefore, it is important for you whether the rose you perceived was open or closed, red or white, a strong-smelling or a more delicately scented rose or even a completely different kind of rose. What would it say to you if, for example, the rose you experienced was half open? Perhaps it means that in your case something has already begun and has not yet been brought to fruition, and thus awaits completion?

Perception is individual

Your rose reflects your own individual inner world and your reality, your completely personal state of consciousness, and you describe and interpret these accordingly. Only you know – intuit and feel – what your rose means for you in concrete terms. The truth concerning the meaning of your rose for you rests entirely with you. You experience what is intuitively coherent for you. Others may make suggestions, but do not let yourself be deceived or deterred … There are at least as many interpretations of the truth – and hence as many realities – as there are human beings.

The world of our imagination is full of wisdom. If we learn to immerse ourselves in it, we can recover many treasures and learn a number of things about ourselves. Here it is important that we proceed in a disciplined way in order to avoid loosing ourselves in a dream world. In each exercise there is an indicator which shows whether we are on the right track: it is our sense of well-being. Especially when we do the exercises alone, we must undertake always to remain within the limits of our sense of well-being. This applies to both physical relaxation and to the imaginary journeys conducted.

In the phase of deep relaxation preceding the exercises, we let go of tensions. These tensions may have built up during the day – for example, as a result of stress – though they may also be the result of a false movement or of any other causes. However, some tensions are deep-seated. Perhaps we have been “taking cover” for years or we may have adopted a defensive stance or are instinctively protecting an area of our body on which physical or mental pain has been inflicted. In body therapy we speak of “body armour”, which refers primarily to the ways in which a deep pain can lead to persistent muscular tension.

If we now perform conscious relaxation exercises, over the course of time we may stir the affected areas of our bodies. Traumas we thought we had forgotten may be recollected because they have been stored in our bodies. In many cases it is sufficient to imagine these parts of our body bathed in golden light and in this way to allow the tensions dissolve gently. In this way, we heal the past and let go of it.

But if, in addition, you should experience strong feelings of discomfort and the memory of the past causes you too much pain, then it is time to take responsibility for yourself and to seek professional help, for example, from the Trilogos team, from a doctor or from a therapist whom you trust.

It is important that, in all of our exercises, we remain within the boundaries of our sense of well-being.

Let us return to our rose – a simple exercise from which we can learn a lot more as we progress.

Discipline is also required in the rose exercise. We set out on a journey on which – as in the following exercises – we are our own tour guide. Hence, here, too, we are responsible for ourselves. And, to reiterate, the journey should feel comfortable for us. Moreover, at any moment we can change the course of the journey or break it off altogether if we do not feel well.

There is a very simple way to do this: we take a deep breath and focus our attention on our feet and how they touch the ground. Perhaps we move our toes a little. And while we feel the ground under our feet, we take three deep breaths and return to our real world. We become more and more aware of our body, open our eyes and find ourselves back in the present.

Let us pursue the rose exercise a little further.

As before, we close our eyes and imagine a rose before our mind’s eye. We inspect it more closely, its stem, the leaves … does it have thorns? And what about the bloom? Is it already open? What colour are its petals? Do they give off a delicate fragrance?

While we examine the rose, we notice a rose bush a short distance in front of us. And it is not just a single bush … it is part of a whole hedge of roses in bloom. A lovely fragrance is wafting through the air and slowly we move towards the hedge. Perhaps we hear the buzzing of bumblebees or wasps swarming around the flowers a short distance away. Maybe we would like to know what is behind the hedge. Is there a path leading through it? But we see the thorns and decide to enjoy what we see before us: countless blossoms, some open, some still budding.

We take a deep breath and then another, so deep that it seems to flow through our whole body. And we feel our feet, move our toes a little … and again breathe deeply. Slowly we detach ourselves from the world of the imagination and return to the room in which we were safe and secure all the time. We bring a sense of well-being back with us into everyday life … as if the scent of the roses were still with us.

Evaluation

What did your rose look like? Do you remember?