Tools To Help Your Inner Journey

Betty Bethards teaches to look at people as children doing the best they can
Betty Bethards teaches to look at people as children doing the best they can - it can help you to be patient with them
On the road of discovering yourself, work to identify your expectations. Verbalize your needs and release your expectations of others. We are usually  disappointed when we set expectations and they aren’t met. If we can release them, and accept what is, we will find life to be much easier.

List of Tools

  1. See all people as children doing the best they can. See yourself as a child learning. Be as patient with yourself as you are with others as we all grow.

  2. Realize that God never lets you down. If you look and listen within, He is there to guide you. Knock and the door shall be opened to you. Seek and you shall find. It is all within. If you fear you cannot love. If you don’t trust, it means that you are not loving yourself.

  3. Start today with being an observer of your life, your relationships and all situations. Keep a daily journal of your needs, verbalize them and discuss them. This is how you build trust. In our past, our parents, government, and teachers let us down as some of their values weren’t true for us. To change that, we need to begin to build trust from within and “to thine own self be true.” Open your eyes and ears for your own truth and live it daily for the rest of your life. If you let someone down, verbalize and clear it up right away. If someone disappoints you, forgive them. You will begin to restore your faith in God and goodness. Some people forget that they are good. Dissect the situations you are presented and see where others are. Try to look from your third-eye. Take off your rose-colored glasses.

  4. All truth will ring true!

  5. Meditate daily and move on. There is no way to further your inner journey without raising your energy. . . and meditation raises your energy.

  6. When in discussions and/or arguments with loved ones, partners or having conflicts with people, spend only 30 minutes a day on discussing the issue and then stop. Come back to it another day if further discussions are needed.
  1. Write down your feelings and reactions every day. Find your positive lesson.

  2. Get into counseling if needed. Verbalize and share. Break the silence vow and share all parts of yourself with others. Speak even if you feel fear.

  3. Do it! Move forward even if full of fear. If you are going to do something now or later, why wait?

  4. Listen to your dreams.

  5. When in a new relationship, see how much past cargo the person is carrying before you go deeper into the relationship. Take time with new relationships. The truth finally does come out. You will know, over time, if they are right for you.

  6. Ask for help from God (prayer) and guidance from the people you trust in your life.

  7. Use visualizations when meditating or when sitting quietly and imagine talking to a “teacher” about a problem. See the problem as a third person and let this person verbalize the situation. Let the teacher answer your questions and if they have advice, listen.