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Sunday, 8 December 2013
planting seeds and the kind foundation
Saturday, 7 December 2013
RIP Peace Pioneer Lynne Hazelden
Peace Pioneer Lynne Hazelden
On Tuesday 3rd December 2013 our dear friend Lynne Hazelden passed away. Lynne spoke on Radical spirit Radio and remained in contact with Helen throughout her illness. Helen offered an amazing tribute to Lynne recently on the radio show, stating how although she had only known her a short while, she had touched her life in ways she didnt quite realize and that is what Lynne was like.As a long time friend and supporter In her memory I wanted to share the story of when I met her. It was In 2009, Lynne contacted me after becoming a member of my group now called Friendship grows where love flows, we had many mutual friends, and she wanted to add my group to her peace page, Peace in our lifetimeI'm a Dreamer AND ~ We're Creating it NOW
and she made me admin there, as I too made her admin of my group, as well as adding and promoting all similar groups which had the same intentions, she organized concerts for Peace and had 16 live concert events web-stream into her website. The event incorporated inspirational films and uplifting music from talented international artists, such as Mike Lindup (Level 42), John Young (Asia, Scorpions), Steve Balsamo (Jesus Christ Superstar and The Storys) and will be held in across the world including the UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, Hawaii, Amsterdam with events in South Africa and YMCA PEACE Pre-School, Jerusalem. The parties will be streamed live on the internet and in venues in the 3D virtual world ‘Secondlife’. Inspirational ‘peace themed’ school assemblies for children will take place in Jerusalem, Canada, Ecuador, Nairobi and other countries around the world. The next year she joined forces with Peace Day TV and had over 6 Million viewers of Peace Day events.
Including MUSIC CLIPS of LONDON musicians from PEACE DAY
They gave time free and Me speaking about the day:
www.youtube.com/thekindfoundation.
LINK: www.blogtalkradio.com/plantingseedsforpeace
HOME: http://www.planting-seeds.com/
Founder of Peace in OUR Lifetime.
~Our VISION ~
GLOBAL PROJECT/ LIVE MUSIC EVENT/
~INTENT SHIFT CONSIOUSNESS ~
PARTNERSHIP/COLLABORATION/ INSPIRATION
LINK: http://www.peaceinourlifetime.com
CONCEPT/ FOUNDATION and Journey to here: http://www.peaceinourlifetime.com/newsletter/introduction_peace_our_lifetime
A GLOBAL UNITED PARTY FOR PEACE – each SEPT 21st
A DECLARATION of A DAY of GRATITUDE & THANKS
Lynne would call me regularly and update me on what was going on, whilst supporting me in my own quest for changes globally and individually. She and I spent hours on the phone, she would spend hours chatting with my son Nicholas, she always wanted to know what was happening with my kids and we realized that each of us are given a mission that could bring changes to different quarters of our world. Lynne was genuine compassionate and cared about all of the events in my life.
We both agreed that In some ways, the requirement for spiritual development is much greater now than it has been in the past, for the world is larger and its needs are more demanding. The world requires a greater understanding, a greater ability and a more complete approach. Here the emphasis is not on one or two people becoming saints or great practitioners in their traditions. Here the the emphasis is on developing the skills of humanity at large. Here the emphasis is not on heroes and heroines within a spiritual universe. Here the emphasis is on selfless activity within the mundane world just as Lynne showed to us all. This has always been the case in terms of real spiritual development, but we must make these distinctions because so much has been misunderstood and misconstrued about our spiritual development.
People think that spiritual development is a process of amplifying and granting divine powers to their personal mind. This has never been the case, for the reality is that spiritual development is meant to bring your personal mind back into service to spirit. All the great practitioners have known this, and this has been the real way despite popular and fantastic notions to the contrary.
Our culture is very much involved in hero worship, and so everyone is denigrated except for a few individuals who are endowed with supernatural powers and who are considered godlike. This is a cultural defect in our societies, and it is a defect born of the nature of human development.
Lynne encouraged everyone to celebrate the Peace that we have in our lives every day. I am so glad that she is no longer going through the struggle of getting better... but I miss her! I miss her as my earth Angel and friend. I have a hole in my heart now that she has passed on.
Lynne was an Peace Pioneer, GoodWill Ambassador, Transformation Facilitator/Coach, Poet, Writer, Actress - Founder Planting Seeds & The KindTo read her Bio check this out: Woman of Action
I Love the tribute that Lynne's friend Olma Edeki wrote for her:
"You came into our lives Lynney like a flowing river... You touched our hearts in ways we never imagined..
You freed many of us from a small world of individual pursuit, causing a movement of love, generosity and compassion; a community that came together in sun, rain, sweat, tears and joys to accompany you in your journey which today has become endless..
As my mind struggles to understand that this journey had a different turning; my heart knows that your time is endless and lies beyond the hands of time..
You've freed yourself from the complaints of the body.. You've crossed over to the other shore.. And I'll never forget the light you brought into each one of our hearts.
Thank you Lynney for standing for something bigger than yourself, for being extraordinary , magical and out if this world..
Thank you, all of you, for your support, love and stand for Lynney..
For every penny raised, event created and attended, for every breakthrough, for every fear faced and every conversation had.
Thank you for allowing Lynney to touch your heart.
Rest in Peace my beautiful friend.. Missing you so deeply."
About PEACE in OUR Lifetime
Peace in OUR Lifetime offers a free
personalized peace certificate to each person who consciously chooses to
Stand in Peace. Their voice is counted in efforts to recognize 1
billions souls standing united in celebration of the Peace that is. We
will also supply this certificate to organizations who wish to also
offer the certificate, (without coming to our site and no registration
or email is required.)
Until we can see the Peace that is being
created already, we will not know peace, or feel empowered to create
more peace. Together we can restore faith and realize that peace begins
with each one of us and ripples out.
We can begin now and give this planet back to the people who are making a difference everyday.
As we shift our experience from one of power
and force to one where we see the differences we are making and inspire
people to help, work together and bring change to their life locally.
This will restore faith in our ability to create peace.
Peace will be known to exist as the bigger part of who we are.
We will be in action rather than being overwhelmed with the idea.
Peace is possible because we are already creating it every day.. maybe .. we just did not see it!
"We're all unique and see the world differently and yet,
we are ONE VOICE standing together for Peace"
Having
a Peace Certificate shows that a person has made a conscious choice to
Stand for PEACE. It is a gift to thank them and a way everyone one can
be counted collectively, as one voice for peace. They can put their free Peace Certificate
anywhere: Post it as their profile picture. They can print it on a
t-shirt, mug or make a poster of it and share it anywhere they choose.
Peace Day Invitation Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXLffphlJA0
Founder, Planting Seeds & The Kind Foundationhttp://www.peaceinourlifetime.org/notable_voices
Sunday, 17 November 2013
The Spiritual Secrets to Overcoming Depression
The Spiritual Secrets to Overcoming Depression
Written by Jafree Ozwald 
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make our world." ~Buddha
With our thoughts, we make our world." ~Buddha
We might forget that we all signed up for this amazing adventure called life, especially when we are facing a emotionally challenging experience. Painful wounding events just happen in life, such as a break up, a death, a major loss in money, health, or loss of career or our home. All of these can trigger an emotional cataclysm, catapulting every positive and wonderful idea of who we believed we were into a bottomless crevice of sadness and despair. Whatever our greatest loss has been, it's purpose was to create a depth inside us, so that we can truly appreciate the sky filled rainbow when the sun shines through again.
"Pain and joy are inevitable, suffering is optional." ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith
Depression occurs when the pain we should feel from our loss, is suppressed and not welcomed as just another experience in the course of life. When we push away, and push down any unpleasant feeling long enough, we create a wall which blocks the pleasant feelings from entering as well. Depression is basically caused by a deep resistance to life. It's an attempt to try and control life on a very deep level, which happens to the very best and the smartest people on this earth. It's not something we can avoid if our soul has come here to learn how to transcend one of the most challenging life experiences a human can have.
The first step to getting out of this black hole going nowhere, is understanding what depression is and why it happens to us. The reason why depression continues to manifest is our unconscious resistance and avoidance to an emotional trauma from our past. This avoidance manifests in the form of being distracted, keeping perpetually busy doing this and that, which creates an even greater energy drain. If we feel we are not strong enough to deal with our pain, we may creatively compensate by turning to drugs, alcohol, TV, sex, stimulants, or food. We may say we are just enjoy life to the max by pushing every entertainment button we can find, yet deep down we can see we're avoiding the pain that we fear facing inside. Whatever we resist, persists. The stronger the resistance, the more unable we become to find peace with the experience we are trying to avoid. If this avoidance is kept up over time, it will eventually drag both the mind and heart down the path of emotional despair, hopelessness and into a deep dark depression.
One of the greatest secrets to healing depression comes from investigating the goldmine of feelings that remain at the bottom of our deepest emotional abyss that has been covered by layers of addictions. Exploring the pain we have is not soooo unbearable when we know the real reason why it continues to remain there. The reason our pain never goes way is that it's naturally summoning us into our spiritual core. At the core of our innermost being is where our greatest stillness, silence and absolute healing abides. This magical core of our being is where the most profound spiritual realizations occur in one's life. When we come to realize that the greatest spiritual experience is waiting for us at the end of our darkness hour, the pain we were once avoiding suddenly becomes this greatest tantalizing mystery we can open up to explore.
All of this talk about depression can get quite depressing to say the least. Yet, when we know the secrets to handling any energy depleting monster, we will be able to look at it, talk about it, and explore it all day long and not by emotionally depleted by it. One of the greatest secrets to dealing with any emotional demon is simply learning how to face it with conscious gentle kindness. When we approach it with this tactic, we can slowly pull off all the masks that it's wearing.
Depression can seem to hide from us in a variety of ways, yet ultimately we are the ones hiding from it. The reason is because we don't want to revisit that wounded part of ourselves who feels attacked, scared, or simply wants to hang out with you in a safe place all day long. This wound is not trying to bring you more pain, its only trying to soften the ego so that you relax deeper into your true self and find out who you truly are. When we know this wound within is only needing more tenderness, patience and love, we aren't so quick to run the other direction and instead can meet it with a gentle curiosity. This gentle love changes everything and is the catalyst that summons in the greatest healing force that there is.
If any level of depression has been pulling you down in life, just stop and ask yourself one honest question, "What is that one thing you are holding onto and cannot let go of?" Find out your most honest answer to this conundrum and you'll discover the key to relieving yourself from a future visit to the psychotherapy clinic. There is always a deeper meaning behind every challenging life experience. The bigger the experience is in life, the greater the meaning and purpose it has. The purpose of depression is always to push us deeper down beyond our mind into the spiritual aspect of ourselves. This is so that we surrender, let go of life, and truly learn how to relax into our journey home. Depression is teaching us in a backwards sort of way how to trust life, and do a complete free fall into ourselves. If we don't learn to relax in life, the negative complaining mindset will simply eat away at us, and bury a hole in our emotional body until we surrender and learn to trust in something greater than ourselves.
"The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties." ~Buddha
Another secret to dealing with depression is understanding that everyone and everything in life has a dark and light side. We wouldn't know what night was unless we had day light, and there would be no long dark tunnel unless we were carving our way through a great mountain. Facing our darkness is not the end of us, but simply the dawn of a new beginning. Once we let go and trust depression, allowing it to plummet us into the deepest core of our being, we will soon find the source of true emptiness and actually become free. This is an emptiness that is not lacking anything, it is emptiness that is free from all great and lowly ideas about who we are, and who we are not. It is the greatest void that has been avoided by the western world out of fear, thinking we could never find a way through it. The great irony here is that there was nobody home in the first place to make it through the void.
Now this may seem quite confusing at first, yet the mixed bag of ideas we've clung to about who are and who we are not, are simply a mixed bag of ideas. The sum total of all the ideas we have about ourselves doesn't equate to who we are. The ideas we've become identified with is what we call our ego, and is not who we truly are. The real essence and eternal fire of awareness from our soul is what we truly are. All the ideas about who we are will come and they will go, they are not the truth of who we are.
Finding out who we is the essential key to transcending depression. To start this self inquiry journey ask yourself this question. Which ideas do you most cling to and why? When you take a closer look at what ideas you cling to and start to see who is doing all the clinging, you'll discover the ego. The ego here is not really real, it has the reality and sustenance of a shadow. Does a shadow really exist, or is it merely the absence of the Light?
"See the perfection in the seeming imperfection that seems to be." ~ Lester Levinson
A good analogy to use is that our awareness is like sunlight, and our mind is like a microscope which zooms in on whatever our awareness is shining upon. When we get stuck in a depression, the mind is simply caught in the habit of zooming on something we don't want to look at. We may be aware that we are focusing upon something we don't want, yet don't know that we have the power to redirect the mind towards the ideas we want to think about.
To take back your power simply takes practice. Just notice throughout your day, is your mind focusing on what it wants or what it doesn't want? Just notice, it's really that simple. Depression cannot continue when the mind is deeply aware of itself, and then regains the ability to focus on what it wants. This shift in focus can only occur when we know who we are, that we are the pure light of awareness. With awareness we can see when we're caught in the mind's habit of resisting feelings and thoughts, instead of focusing on the feelings and thoughts that our heart truly yearns to have.
Truly finding freedom from depression and transcending the sadness habit occurs when we release all over-identification with the mind. This means we completely let go all assumptions we've made thus far about ourselves, good and bad. When we see all the ideas we've believed to be true about ourselves, we catapult our potentiality naturally into an extremely positive and empowering direction. This leap into positivity simply happens on it's own accord. When we discover the lie we've living, we naturally become joyous, excited about living life again, and feel eager to greet each new day as the great adventure it is. We explore every little thing on our inner and outer world with an open child-like curiosity. We no longer live in fear of meeting any part of ourselves, and are courageous enough to remove any masks in the way from knowing this truly alive and radiant authentic being we actually are.
My invitation for you this week is to be rebellious with yourself, and take the time to question your reality and everything you've believed to be real. Use your laser like awareness to cut through to the core of all of your emotional compost, and discover the burning truth of who you actually are. When you do this, you'll find that no depression can linger inside. The fire of awareness will shine through all the shadows the mind was running from before. When you look within with compassion and curiosity, you will see that YOU are the Source of Awareness, who is all encompassing and truly beyond anything that is remotely depressing.
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
Mother Ann in Uganda
Our wonderful angel friend and Samaritan to the children Will be visiting Uganda again this year
taking small
gifts to them for Christmas.
Anyone that can buy just a few packs of balloons
please contact Ann at the below facebook page
and she will give you the address to send.
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Beautiful start
Begin each day with a feeling, one which you would like to feel for the rest of the week
its okay to wake up laughing,
Joy begins in the morning and lasts throughout the day.
Fill it full of energy and inspiration,
Focus upon memories which fill you with joy and love,
No matter what else is happening around you act peacefully and with love in your heart.
Love unconditionally even those that are hard to love,
Send them peace and know you have done your best to create peace,
You have no control of others..
When you pave a peaceful path to your heart from others,
The path is there for them to walk..
They dont have to take it, as long as they know its there,
You have done your best..
Let it end with a deep sense of satisfaction and peace..
And remember
Love conquers all.
I love you Catherine
Bloom where you are planted
Many people dream of the day that all their wishes and dreams come true, and they think "Oh, how happy I'll be when 'this dream comes true' or 'that experience manifests'...". However, if you think like this, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
You will NEVER be happy if you put off your happiness to some far off day when things are finally going your way. With an attitude like that, no one is a vibrational match to their desires.
Not. even. close.
For one thing, tomorrow never comes. All we have is this moment.
This NOW.
And anyone, no matter who it is, can make THIS NOW the best now possible for themselves; starting with cultivating the right attitude about where they are and where they're headed.
If you're relatively happy with your life, then the concept of "blooming where you're planted" should not be too difficult to understand and undertake. However, some of you say "I don't like where I am. I really want to change my life..." The fact that you can say that is wonderful, because if you aren't living your dreams - it is most likely that you are focused way, way, way, too much on what you don't want.
Get your focus off of what is getting your goat, causing you pain, or just in any way cramping your style, and start looking for things to be grateful for in your life that you already have.
You may want to change your life, but you will never manifest the life of your dreams if you're constantly sending out a signal to the Universe that says "I don't live the life I want!" or "Things will only get better 'when'...."
You must spend time enjoying the moments of your life NOW, because that is the only way to create a happy future.
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Healing the shadow (a diffrent perspective)
Feelings
of incompetence can be as self inflicting of pain and as equally
dangerous to the world around us as believing yourselves to be
villainous or evil.
In this human experience of duality, especially where we use religion as a way of healing, we can in fact create more pain through such extremes of self belief. Religion views healing as coming only where you are able to see yourself as the the Villain.(Satin) Evil or extremely good Godly (God)
It forces you to see the most extreme reflection of self before you will choose to change. Yet with such self revelation still many cannot see this as a healing path, as this healing through negative self belief just creates more negative self belief and can even create those who cause atrocities in the world. Some, in fact most religions teach that even natures medicines, some which also come with a belief of healing through a placebo effect, which we still know to this day works has historically has been viewed as "witchcraft." (which is still perceived by religion to be evil) In fact religion teaches more evil than it does good.
Many spiritualists today call getting to this core belief of your darkest self "shadow work" and whilst they label it a different way of healing, this process is still very similar to that of religion, it takes you to a place within your thought processing to lead you to the very extreme of your negative thinking, back to thinking yourself to be evil. so that hopefully in this self realization you will choose to heal this extreme within yourself at the root core level. Knowing that this extreme is within all people, none exempt, not even the pope, mother Teressa nor any other saintly or God type being we may kneel to in prayer, it is another way of causing self reflection and a realization that perhaps there is no need to change. You are normal.
In this human experience of duality, especially where we use religion as a way of healing, we can in fact create more pain through such extremes of self belief. Religion views healing as coming only where you are able to see yourself as the the Villain.(Satin) Evil or extremely good Godly (God)
It forces you to see the most extreme reflection of self before you will choose to change. Yet with such self revelation still many cannot see this as a healing path, as this healing through negative self belief just creates more negative self belief and can even create those who cause atrocities in the world. Some, in fact most religions teach that even natures medicines, some which also come with a belief of healing through a placebo effect, which we still know to this day works has historically has been viewed as "witchcraft." (which is still perceived by religion to be evil) In fact religion teaches more evil than it does good.
Many spiritualists today call getting to this core belief of your darkest self "shadow work" and whilst they label it a different way of healing, this process is still very similar to that of religion, it takes you to a place within your thought processing to lead you to the very extreme of your negative thinking, back to thinking yourself to be evil. so that hopefully in this self realization you will choose to heal this extreme within yourself at the root core level. Knowing that this extreme is within all people, none exempt, not even the pope, mother Teressa nor any other saintly or God type being we may kneel to in prayer, it is another way of causing self reflection and a realization that perhaps there is no need to change. You are normal.
Its
understandable why people choose this path to healing their most
embedded formed self inflicting habits which harms not only yourself but
also others, whether emotionally or physically by blaming it on merely
Incompetence (many times chosen!) you will feel temporary healed. It is
easier to think of yourself as incompetent than villainous when you do
things which are hurtful to others. This opting out of taking
responsibility is also an opting out of the need to heal. Healing can
never come from this opting out of nor not taking responsibility for
what you do.
At this point of self belief you can see how you are extremely affecting your own lives with extreme negative intentions and thoughts of self which do not serve you, but causes more pain that will never benefit you.
Healing is the only "sane" response to the natural world and the true nature of who and what you are created from and of, it is this is balanced with the true nature within you and the world around you which bring your greatest healing balance and contentment. Your self beliefs are powerful. None of you are purely evil or purely good. Yet you judge yourselves with these these basic beliefs unknowingly when you settle for feelings and self belief of "I am merely incompetent" or "I am stupid." This is self harming on an emotional level.
A choice of self healing must go much further than even this and can only come through balance and acceptance of every aspect of who you are. The knowledge that you are as equal and as peaceful and as beautiful as the very nature of the earth that surrounds you can bring you back to a state of grounding, the path of self alignment with nature..Whilst accepting that it is normal that your mind can wander to any extreme of self belief at anytime, when balanced focused and grounded, no disconnected words of self contempt even incompetence will alter your ability to bring you back to focused self love and help you heal your life..
At this point of self belief you can see how you are extremely affecting your own lives with extreme negative intentions and thoughts of self which do not serve you, but causes more pain that will never benefit you.
Healing is the only "sane" response to the natural world and the true nature of who and what you are created from and of, it is this is balanced with the true nature within you and the world around you which bring your greatest healing balance and contentment. Your self beliefs are powerful. None of you are purely evil or purely good. Yet you judge yourselves with these these basic beliefs unknowingly when you settle for feelings and self belief of "I am merely incompetent" or "I am stupid." This is self harming on an emotional level.
A choice of self healing must go much further than even this and can only come through balance and acceptance of every aspect of who you are. The knowledge that you are as equal and as peaceful and as beautiful as the very nature of the earth that surrounds you can bring you back to a state of grounding, the path of self alignment with nature..Whilst accepting that it is normal that your mind can wander to any extreme of self belief at anytime, when balanced focused and grounded, no disconnected words of self contempt even incompetence will alter your ability to bring you back to focused self love and help you heal your life..
Sunday, 29 September 2013
A message for the empathic healer in you
Keeping yourself spiritually protected.
As you go through the intuitive healing process you need to know: each
of us has our own special power. We carry it within; it waits to be
awakened. Call it your inner self, your spirit, or light--however
conceived, you must meet and come to know your core-essence. The source
of all intuition, it is your fiercest ally and advocate against danger.
By connecting with this part of yourself you'll mount confidence, feel
safer in the world. Then whatever or whoever crosses your path--even the
devil incarnate--will be no match for your resilience.
What you must do is flush out beliefs that divert you from your intuitive healing power. Begin by asking yourself, "What in my life throws me off center and why?" I'm referring to everything from a stranger flashing you a dirty look, to fear of rejection, to dealing with someone in pain. Interactions where your energy dims. Weak spots, points that need securing. And what about negativity? How do you deal with yours, or another's? If a supervisor says, "You'll never be successful," or an ex-lover announces, "You're incapable of a healthy relationship," do you buy into it? We each have our triggers. The basis for centering and protection is grasping where we get caught, and then disengaging the trigger.
Beliefs that Drain Your Power
1. I'm not strong enough to protect myself.
- As children, many of us aren't taught to believe in the full power we contain. Yes, our parents may support our intelligence, talents, physical attractiveness--even teach us sound ethical values, the difference between right and wrong. But what happens to our inner self? Might even devoutly religious parents fail to realise it is there? Our starting point is to recognise we possess a very real internal source which enables us to deeply see and know. Yet when something goes wrong, frequently our first impulse is to look outside ourselves for someone to "fix" us. We get sick; we rush to the doctor. We become depressed; we call a therapist. We're in pain; we take a pill. It's fine to seek expertise--but we have it backwards. Look inside first. Really, it's not a big blank in there. Then act on what your wisdom tells you.
What stops us? A likely culprit is the vulnerable child we each carry within. Mogul or mailman, mother or monk, this aspect of our psyche yearns to be taken care of, protected, and is unequipped to do it alone. He pops up in the darndest circumstances, reducing us to a helpless tiny tot. Of course we must tenderly acknowledge her needs--but know where to draw the line. Would you want a baby running your boardroom? Your life? Remember: Your inner self is more than your inner child. Far grander--capable of ministering to all your needs--is the radiance of your spirit. Feeling this, knowing this, is the best protection of all. You must become your own champion before anyone else can. When you believe in yourself, no one else can diminish you.
2. Other people's negative thoughts can harm me.
I am always struck by how worried people are about being thwarted by other people's negative thoughts. Such concerns need to be addressed. On an intuitive healing level, ill intentions or feelings can affect us, creating anxiety or physical dis-ease. We must train ourselves to deflect them. What is negative energy? Any force antithetical to your well-being. How does it turn up in everyday life? Let's start at the lower end of the spectrum. Your neighbor doesn't approve of you. A friend puts down your plan to start college at forty. Your ex-boyfriend's girlfriend is sending you bad vibes.
What do you do?
Strategies to develop intuitive healing:
* Don't lead a lifestyle based on assuming others are out to get you. This perpetuates fear.
* If someone is sending you negative thoughts, avoid dwelling on them. The more attention you pay to negativity, the more influence you give it.
* Focusing on the strength of your inner self is the best defense against negativity, no matter how dramatic its manifestation. If you are solidly connected to yourself, nothing can get you.
3. I'm too sensitive for my own good.
- The arch-enemy of intuition is lack of sensitivity. Know this: There is no such thing as being overly sensitive. To grasp the concept, you may have to reconfigure old ideas that have been drummed into your head. When parents or teachers said, "You have to toughen up," or especially with boys, "only sissies cry," unknowingly they were undermining the very crux of your intuitive tie with the world. Male sensibility, in particular, has been bludgeoned by such rigid conditioning. But, for both sexes, to break down childhood armoring requires extraordinary commitment, trust, and resolve.
What I'm speaking of isn't simply expressing your emotions. It's slowly learning, in your own time frame, to remain wide open to an intuitive realm--being one with the wind, the moon, other people's joys, sorrows, the continuum of life and death. From this comes an intimate ecstatic bond with all of existence, exactly what you don't want to protect yourself from. Sensitivity only turns against you when you feel overwhelmed. But how do you stay receptive and not get obliterated by the intensity of such input? It is possible to remain vulnerable and feel safe. The answer is never to shut your sensitivity off but to develop it as a creative resource.
4. It’s my job to take on the pain of others.
- We're trained that as big-hearted people it's laudable to try to relieve the pain of others. A homeless person holding a cardboard sign, "I'm hungry. Will work for food" at a busy intersection; a hurt child; a distraught friend. It's natural to want to reach out to them, ease their angst. But many of us don't stop there. Inadvertently, we take it on. Suddenly we're the one feeling desolate, off kilter, bereft, when we felt fine before. This loss of center is what I want to address. It does not serve us. I am adamant: the most compassionate, effective route to healing people is to be a supportive presence, not attempt to live their pain for them. Moreover, sometimes suffering has its own cycle that has to be respected, hard as that may be to witness.
We must lie to rest the old metaphysical prototype of the empathic healer. Typically grossly obese women (extra weight, they mistakenly argued, was the only way to stay grounded), who cured patients by absorbing symptoms with the technique of laying on of hands. The result? Patients would leave feeling better; the healers would be a sickly wreck. These women were convinced such a sacrifice was necessary to lessen the suffering of others. I almost got snagged in the same trap. I used to drag myself home, flop into bed half-dead from everything I'd absorb: a sure path to burn-out. This tack wasn't good for me or anyone around me.
I've learned the value of being a catalyst for people's growth without compromising my well-being. Friends themselves have taught me I can't do the work for them. That is not my job. Nor is it yours. Keep this in mind: it is none of our business to deprive anyone else of their life experiences. I understand the impulse to want to make things better. Compassion and the desire to console are human. But there's a fine line between supporting someone and trying to do it for them. No matter how well-meaning or heartfelt your intention, doing too much is not an act of love but of sabotage. You can be caring and honest with someone, yet still let them be. Don't equate honoring their growth process with abandoning them. A practical philosophy of intuitive healing must include preserving your energy as well as serving others. Striking a balance is essential.
Monday, 23 September 2013
These people are proof there is still good in the world.
The Voice of Radical Spirit Radio: Special guests, and regular listener
Vice Chairm...: Special guests, and regular listener Vice Chairman at SOUTHERN TROOPERS Simon James wolf Henry otherwise known as wolfy Sout...
Vice Chairm...: Special guests, and regular listener Vice Chairman at SOUTHERN TROOPERS Simon James wolf Henry otherwise known as wolfy Sout...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
The Voice of Radical Spirit Radio: Nothing Short of Barbaric (written October 2012) -...
The Voice of Radical Spirit Radio: Nothing Short of Barbaric (written October 2012) -...: A Freedom of Information document from the DWP has revealed that rather than an average of 32 deaths per week as a result of Welfare Reform ...
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Saturday, 14 September 2013
projections
If you are hurt and angry inside, you will unconsciously see and experience everything and everybody based upon a negative conclusion..No matter how beautiful, caring, intelligent, positive thinking, angelic a person is, you will project and impose your view of their intentions upon them..You will reject every soul that tries to align with you, who tries to lovingly support you..and who wants nothing but the best for you..You will not choose to see their light, but your own hurt within them as you reject love..But only you can change your life, by changing what is inside of you..Nothing else, no physical change can make your life better.. Only this will make your life better, only your decision to heal your OWN life.. Always C. Love♥
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