Hi everyone! Welcome to new readers, and welcome back to all readers! It’s a pleasure for me to be with you in this way. I just got back from California where I experienced powerful coaching training led by Arjuna Ardagh, a master teacher and the author of “The Translucent Revolution”. For me, it just doesn’t get any better - deepening my ability to enter the Stillness and live more deeply from this place while learning tools to coach others to do the same, all within a global community of wonderful people. There were fifteen participants who made the trip from far and wide - Chile, Norway, Tasmania, England, Hawaii via Germany, Western Canada and various states from the east to west coast. I felt inspired by this work and am excited about passing it on.
I share the above - a rose photographed by my mate, David Hays - as it represents how the beauty in nature is able to take us to the present moment. In addition to this portal into the present, I learned powerful ways to close the schism between self-realization (the awareness of your core) and real life. Those of you who are tired of the unnecessary suffering that is generated by the evaluating, analyzing, comparing, judging and over-processing mind are ready for this work.Is It Just Me? A client asked out loud a question that, I’m sure, many of us have thought in our own minds. “Is it just me? Why am I so sensitive? Why do I have so much mind chatter? Why are my feelings so on the surface? Is everyone like that?” My thoughts? Yes, it is the human way. We all have minds that are filled with concepts and points of view that can be limiting. All of us have ‘stories’ that are rooted in our past and influence how we see our current reality as well as the emotions that we experience. And there are people who choose to keep their inner cave closed, or at least a big part of it - NOT wanting to poke around and find out what’s really there in the darkness. There can be consequences to this practice of hiding or disowning parts of ourselves - the practice of avoiding the dark. Contractions occur which show up as body tension, over-reactions to others and the circumstances that we find ourselves in, and the non-existence of the full range of feelings available to us as humans, including pain and joy. Feelings or thoughts that are pushed down and kept in the dark can seep through the cracks (staying with the imagery of a cave) in a myriad of twisted ways like addictions, passive aggressiveness, and other destructive behaviours. We only have to pay attention to the news of, for instance, priests who are pedophiles or politicians who do the very thing in their personal lives that they fight against in their public lives, to see evidence of the ‘shadow’. The shadow is that which is disowned, judged or denied within us and projected ‘out there’ onto others - with the goal of keeping our own inner cave doors tightly shut. It takes courage to open that cave door and shine a light on what is truly happening deep inside. Due to conditioning and old habits, it can be very easy to judge our feelings and thoughts as either negative or positive, and then to try to make the ‘negative’ feelings or thoughts go away. Resistance to ‘what is’ can become the order of the day. The truth is that resisting doesn’t work as what we try to push down, in actuality, intensifies. What does work? Simply noticing our thoughts - they often just pop out of nowhere, and we really can’t control them. Feeling all of what’s there at a body-sensate level without the story. Identifying contractions that can then be tenderly explored - allowing the emotional charge of each opposing view to be released. And there are so many more practices for us to stay connected to our core. This work is a lifetime process. It doesn’t mean that we reach the place where we have no thoughts, feelings, body tension, or pain. As I said earlier, we’re human. It just means that we’re able to observe, love, and accept our humanness at deeper and deeper levels. We experience compassion. We experience Presence at greater and greater depths. We live with sobriety around what’s real as distinguished from any story that is based on assumptions and misperceptions. We make peace with the unchangeable past. We show up as our true selves instead of an image of what our minds tell us we ’should’ be like. We fully engage with our Life. For me, the investment of time, energy, and finances is all worth it. For this client and many, many more, it’s worth it. Why? I ask - why wouldn’t it be? Embracing all of life - the darkness and the light - encourages us to walk with the Divine. In the spirit of being complete and not finished,
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