The Divine Intelligence Governing Everyday Life: Your Guide to Becoming Your Better and More Successful Self

© 2013 Lonnie Hudspeth, Ph.D.. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/12/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3128-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3126-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3127-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013919581

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Let’s Visualize a Greater World into Being!

Introducing a New Dimension in Your Life!

The Seven Truths about Life

Chapter 1    Joy and the DIGEL

Chapter 2    The DIGEL

Chapter 3    How the DIGEL Communicates to You through Others (Treasure Detector #1)

Chapter 4    Mindful Learning (Treasure Detector #2)

Chapter 5    Mirrors (Treasure Detector #3a)

Chapter 6    Projection (Treasure Detector #3b)

Chapter 7    More about Your Emotions in Action-Reaction Situations

Chapter 8    Self-Actualization

Chapter 9    The Four Stages of Lesson-Learning (Treasure Detector #4)

Chapter 10  The Guiding Principles to Lesson-Learning (Treasure Detector #5)

Chapter 11  Guiding Principle #3

Chapter 12  Guiding Principle #4

Chapter 13  Guiding Principle #5

Chapter 14  My Discovery and Decoding of the Key Lesson

Chapter 15  Learning the Lesson

Chapter 16  Overcoming Common Barriers That Prevent You From Learning From the DIGEL (Treasure Detector #6)

Chapter 17  Your Journey with the DIGEL

Chapter 18  Conclusion

Appendices

Appendix 1: How to Identify Your Current Set of Lessons

Appendix 2: How to Get into a Mindful Learning State

Appendix 3: Direct Experience Exercises

Endnotes

To my mother and father, Louise and James, both of whom have passed on to the next stage of their process.

Acknowledgments

Editing Team: Corey Johnson, Victorine Merrifield, Antoine D. Langley

Let’s Visualize a Greater World into Being!

By Lonnie Hudspeth, Ph.D.

My quote below expresses my vision of a world we can co-create. This vision compelled me to write this book. If we share and hold this vision in our collective intention, we will realize it. Let’s restore peace to our world. We can do this!

Imagine how different our world would be if we appreciated everyone in our lives. Envision a world where we equally value the people we like and don’t like. Imagine a world where we see everyone in our lives as a messenger.

What if we no longer saw people as objects to be consumed or rejected?

Instead, what if we saw people as divine messengers? This shared viewpoint would change the nature and quality of our relationships. Such a world could establish peace on earth. That world would reduce, and maybe eliminate, most of the conflict, harm, and hurt we see today.

Today, too many people scorn others because of who they appear to be (or not be). Too many people don’t connect to others because they perceive them to be different. They see these people not representing what they believe. Too many people harm others whom they judge to represent what’s wrong.

We could learn to see our conflicts with others from a different perspective. We could learn the deeper meaning of the disturbances that others trigger in us.

Conflict with another person is really about you—not him or her. When someone triggers a conflict within you, a higher intelligence brought that person into your life to do just that. That person knows nothing about this but was used as a medium by this higher intelligence.

Your conflict with him or her points to a lesson you need to discover and learn about yourself.

When humanity understands this fundamental truth, life will be splendid for all. Such persons triggering the disturbance will be appreciated as divine messengers, not evil victimizers.

Introducing a New Dimension in Your Life!

Imagine the following scenario. You recently bought a big, old house and the large plot of land it sits on. One day, when fumbling around in your house, you notice a crack in the floor. You discover that this cracked part of the floor is removable. You remove it and discover a metal can underneath. This can contains an old scroll.

The scroll reveals a great secret that could make you fabulously wealthy. The scroll says that underneath all of the land you own and other land surrounding it is an ancient city. Over centuries, this ancient city has been covered over with layers and layers of dirt. Now the city is buried underground.

The great secret is that volumes of treasure are scattered throughout the ruins of this buried ancient city: jewelry and ornaments made of gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and more. All of this treasure remains intact, untouched, and still buried throughout your land.

Since you own the land, this vast treasure is yours. All you need to do is locate the treasure and dig it up.

To find this treasure, wouldn’t you

•   seek out a metal detector and underground scanning tools to help you easily discover it?

•   put forth focused effort on finding it?

•   rejoice in finding each piece of treasure?

•   spend less time paying attention to and worrying about the distractions in the world around you?

Of course you would! This story is symbolic. It’s about you. It’s about your life situation right now as you’re reading this book. This book symbolizes the scroll. The great secret: you already own vast treasure that’s underground.

Underground means your subconscious (sub means under). Your underground treasure is symbolic of the many pieces of your potential future self. These potential parts of you should become actual parts of you.

These parts exist, but they are subconscious. Each piece of you in your subconscious represents a part of your potential you’ve haven’t actualized. Each piece actualized in you becomes a new talent, ability, attitude, value, feeling, intellectual insight, knowledge, understanding, or perspective.

You could (or should) become conscious of these pieces of yourself. Becoming conscious of them first requires you to shift your attention onto them. This is symbolized in the story as bringing your treasure to the surface.

When you actualize most of these pieces, you’ll become the ideal you. The ideal you is the great person you’re meant to become, capable of accomplishing whatever you want.

Your challenge is to become conscious of your treasure pieces in your subconscious and make them parts of your conscious personality.

In the story, your house symbolizes your conscious personality. All that happens around your house, and on your land above ground, symbolize your consciousness of everyday life.

However, there’s more happening above ground and around your house than meets the eye. You’re not noticing these things because they’re invisible. These things are related to you discovering your buried treasures. These things are happening because of the divine intelligence governing everyday life.

The Role of the Divine Intelligence Governing Everyday Life

You experience ordinary life through all of your senses every day. Meanwhile, ordinary life is pregnant with divine intelligence. This is the Divine Intelligence Governing Everyday Life, which we’ll refer to as the DIGEL. This divine intelligence intentionally arranges your experiences and relationships. The DIGEL seeks to communicate to you through other people, your life events, and your emotional and behavioral reactions to them.

The DIGEL selects certain people whose traits and behaviors will trigger your emotional and behavioral reactions. In such situations, you’ll likely focus your attention outward, toward the people who triggered your emotions and behavioral reactions.

However, at the same time, your emotional and behavioral reactions are functioning like flashing beacon lights, attempting to direct your attention inward. By noticing, interpreting, and learning from these reactions, you have a chance to discover and learn key lessons. By learning such key lessons, you grow as the DIGEL intends. Such learning and growth is the reason why the DIGEL arranges your experiences and relationships.

So, in terms of our symbolic story, the DIGEL intentionally seeks to guide you to discover and bring to surface your treasure. To discover and actualize each potential piece, you must learn a key lesson from the DIGEL. Learning each key lesson is like using a treasure detector tool to detect and bring to the surface each piece of buried treasure.

This book shows you how to recognize and use the DIGEL’s guidance like you would use a treasure detector.

It’s true that your treasure pieces in your subconscious aren’t diamonds, rubies, gold, and silver per se. But by developing your potential talents, skills, and understandings, you’ll be able to generate real financial wealth and riches for yourself. You’ll have the knowledge, skills, abilities, and wisdom to achieve whatever you want.

The DIGEL Defined

The Divine Intelligence Governing Everyday Life is an invisible force intentionally communicating to you to reach and teach you your key lessons. To understand the DIGEL, you’ll need to understand seven truths about life. The DIGEL operates through these truths:

Truth #1.   Your life has a destiny and a purpose.

Truth #2.   To fulfill your life purpose and destiny, you must learn some key lessons.

Truth #3.   The DIGEL always nudges and guides you to learn your key lessons.

Truth #4.   People you interact with will mirror your key lessons to you.

Truth #5.   Your body communicates to you when someone’s mirroring a key lesson to you (e.g., through your emotions, feelings, perceptions, attention, thoughts, and behavior).

Truth #6.   You choose whether or not you learn each key lesson offered, but each choice leads to specific consequences.

Truth #7.   Your key lessons will stalk you in life until you learn them.

Your Journey—Becoming a Better You; Your Destination—Becoming the Best You

To help you become the best version of you, the DIGEL

•   communicates to you though your body, relationships and everyday experiences;

•   guides you to learn your key lessons; and

•   helps you realize your life purpose and destiny.

The DIGEL’s Communication: Although the DIGEL is invisible, it communicates to you in two visible ways: through other people and through your behavioral reactions. The DIGEL communicates through the traits and behaviors of other people that you notice. Not only do you notice these, but other people’s traits and behaviors trigger your behavioral reactions.

Your behavioral reactions are the second noticeable way the DIGEL communicates with you. You can learn to interpret your emotions, feelings, thoughts, and other behavioral responses to the traits and behaviors of others as communications from the DIGEL.

Learning Key Lessons: Through this two-part communication with the DIGEL, you’ll detect, discover, and learn your key lessons. Each key lesson you learn from the DIGEL grows more skill, ability, knowledge, understanding, and talent into your personality. The more key lessons you learn, the more you grow and the closer you become to the ideal you.

Every time you learn one of these key lessons, you’ll feel a spark of positive energy. This is positive feedback from the DIGEL. This feedback will make you feel more whole, enriched, powerful, peaceful, fulfilled, and great. This feedback is a way of reminding you—and confirming to you—that you are connected to something good that’s greater than yourself.

By using it consciously, the DIGEL can help you more intentionally generate your treasures—personal and financial—and improve your quality of life.

Even though you have not known it by name, the DIGEL has already been helping you develop. Since you’re reading this, the law of synchronicity suggests that now may be the time for you to establish a conscious relationship with the DIGEL.

Realizing Your Life Purpose and Destiny: The more of your key lessons you learn, the closer you are to becoming the best version of yourself. This lesson-learning journey is your path toward self-actualization: realizing your potential to