Awakening Exercises & Worksheets

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Spiritual Realization Quiz
Discover your stage of spiritual realization and developmental stage. Explore where you are on the path of awakening.

Four Stages of Enlightenment Exercise
Explore the Four Stages of Enlightenment with this guided exercise for reflection, observation, and personal growth.

Belief Polarity Exercise
Explore how your beliefs may suppress their opposites and reflect on greater self-awareness with this practical exercise.

Stream Entry Exercise
Practical exercises to help break the first three fetters of awakening, guiding reflection, journaling, and self-inquiry.

Identification with Self Exercise
Reflect on the different ways you identify with yourself and explore how these identifications impact your well-being.

Coping During Ego Dissolution Exercises
Use these guided questions to build awareness, resilience, and new ways of responding after traditional coping fails.

Developing Witness Consciousness Exercise
Observe your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs, reflect on your experiences, and strengthen your awareness.

Exploring Conceptual Emptiness Exercise
Reflect on beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and self to deepen awareness and experience the emptiness within concepts.

Nonduality Exercises
Explore perceptual, sensory, and emotional nonduality with this reflective worksheet.

Identifying Our Mental Chains (Fetters)
Reflect on the ten fetters—mental chains that keep us bound to suffering.

Reflecting on Mental Illusions Exercise
Explore how beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create subtle illusions in your experience.

Shadow Work Prompts
Use these prompts to explore hidden beliefs, emotions, triggers, and inner parts for personal growth and healing.

Reflecting on Spiritual Paths
Reflect on the four stages of awakening, identify practices and teachers that resonate.

Shadow Work Exercises
Identify hidden shadow aspects to gain self-awareness, integrate emotions, and support personal growth and awakening.

Spiritual Integration Exercise
​Identify hidden shadow aspects to gain self-awareness, integrate emotions, and support personal growth and awakening.

Limiting Beliefs Exercise
​Identify hidden shadow aspects to gain self-awareness, integrate emotions, and support personal growth and awakening.

Nonattachment Exercise
​Use this worksheet to deconstruct attachment by identifying the thoughts and sensations that create it.

Radical Acceptance Worksheet
​Use this worksheet to deconstruct attachment by identifying the thoughts and sensations that create it.

Illusion of Separation Exercises
Five reflective exercises to help you see through the illusion of separation, with space to record your own insights and experiences.​

Deconstructing Mental Constructs Exercise
Explore common mental constructs with reflective questions designed to reveal their impermanence and nondual nature.​

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