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Happy Halloween! The REAL Treats of Life . . .
By Cynthia | October 31, 2008
Here’s a picture of the busy little bee that is the light of my life - my grandson, Sumner. A sweet and tasty treat.
Michael, Robert & I wish you a holiday filled with lovely surprises.
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5 Simple - NOT Easy - Steps to Creating Your Life
By Cynthia | October 31, 2008
I have BIG dreams. And I realized some time ago that, no matter what else I did to pursue those dreams in the world, I would have to change myself for those dreams to be actualized. I would have to let go of my past self in each moment in order to recreate myself. My external results would naturally follow.
So, I have been watching myself carefully to see how and when I manifest my dreams. Sometimes, like a car on a wet road, I lose traction, spinning my tires and making no forward progress. At other times, I’ve observed the thoughts, behaviors, and place of being that seem to serve up my desires on a platter.
In observing my process, I have discerned five steps that I take to be in full creation of my life. From these steps I easily and consistently manifest my desires.
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7 Steps to Transform the Ego’s Loss into the Spirit’s Win
By Michael | October 25, 2008
Winning and losing is the nature of this world. “Some days are diamonds, some days are stone,” as they say. The ego’s aim in all of life is to win and never lose. Winning is the name of the ego’s game.
We are driven to win everywhere. We want to win in our finances, our relationships, our careers, in our health, everywhere. We go to school to learn how to win. We pay professional experts, consultants and coaches to ensure we win.
When we’ve won enough, we call ourselves a “success.” We revel in it . . . we announce it, sometimes ever so subtly, to all those who listen.
To paraphrase Karl Marx, “Success is the American opium.” From winning, we dull ourselves to sleep. We become fat and happy. All is well with the world, or so we think. “God has blessed us,” is a familiar refrain.
“Look at me,” our ego shouts. “Look what I (the ego) have created. I have reached the ‘ends’ of my pursuit. I am a success.”
Just as night follows day, loss follows success. Make no mistake about it. It is inevitable. Ever made a pot of money and then lost at least some of it? Ever found the “love of your life” and then that person painfully disappeared? Ever felt healthy as a horse to only be diagnosed with a challenging disease? Ever recovered from a challenging disease only to lose the love of your life?
Need I continue to paint the picture? It’s a vicious cycle. “Win some, lose some,” we pine. If you look honestly into your life, you will find the winning and losing cycle constantly at play.
With grace, the ego’s loss can be the Spirit’s win. Loss is pain to the ego. Pain arises out of closing. Our habituation is to close. If we close our bodies and justify our condition with blame or guilt, we can minimize the pain. Or so we think. We actually drive the pain into our subconscious only to wait for its time to express itself exponentially more powerfully.
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Five Gifts from Eckhard Tolle
By Cynthia | October 16, 2008
Eckhard Tolle, a spiritual teacher and author of the best-selling Power Of Now, has a way of making spiritual concepts and experiences startlingly simple. His most recent book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, is a clear, impactful description of what it means to be a human being. He offers a way for us to have a great life as a human with fulfillment in Being.
Using different language, Tolle writes a book we might have written (or wish we had). Of course I like it! The book mirrors my experience.
When I read it, I experience the “pause” between his words. I expand. I feel close to truth.
I will share with you five gems that I “got” in a new way from reading Tolle.
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Thank God for the Economic Crisis!
By Michael | October 9, 2008
A deep sense of fear and loss is upon the human experience. It’s called the economic crisis. But the economic crisis is just the symptom of a deeper dis-ease.
The disease is your projection. You, the collective called humanity, are projecting your own experience of fear and separation onto the world screen. You have created a theatre of the absurd; an outward projection of your inward experience.
The economic crisis you see is not real! I know it looks, smells, tastes, sounds and feels real. The numbers on your balance sheet are ticking down at a dizzying rate. But it’s not real. It’s only a projection. After all, they are only numbers on a sheet of paper or in a computer network.
The illusion of an up economy, personal or global, is that you have all you need. The illusion of a down economy, personal or global, is that you are losing all you have.
Thank God for a rapid transition from up to down! It thrusts the illusions right in your face. Somehow from up to down catches your attention much more than a transition from down to up. Down to up engenders self aggrandizement. Up to down solicits pain and suffering.
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Don’t Just Relieve Your Stress. Resolve It.
By Robert | October 1, 2008
As times get tougher - economic crisis, the uncertainty of elections, environmental and nutritional stressors, illnesses, the effects of aging - having a great life seems to become more challenging, even impossible!
In times like these, your body and the mind can get so stressed that the usual ways of unstressing simply don’t put a dent in the tightness that grips you. No amount of affirmations, happy thoughts, margaritas, exercise, or extra sleep seems to take away the stress at your core. You need to RESOLVE stress, not just put a bandage on it. You long for what’s real and lasting.
What if I told you that there is a place you can go anytime that is refreshing and renewing? The place is the land of ‘”Ahh!“ I named it after the sweet delight and ease you feel as you enter.
Ahh! is a place of no disturbance, a peaceful place where the stuff that happens in the external world doesn’t create contraction. You feel centered and grounded. A sense of well-being pervades you. Everything is OK, no matter what. In Ahh! you are absolutely clear that you are part of all that is.
I’m not talking about simply having a good, stress-free day. I’m talking about a completely new way of being, one that does not exist in modern culture. A place of being that resolves stress through a quantum opening.
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Openings and Closings: the Most Basic Distinction of Stillness
By Cynthia | September 25, 2008
The possibility that we are exploring is nothing less than a new way of being human. Such a possibility implies great change from what we have known and been. And so it is.
Yet, the changes that we have experienced so far are subtle. As we move into them, the required shifts seem near, ever-present, effortless.
The key skill that you will have to develop to realize your human potential is witnessing, the ability to watch yourself (your thinking, your doing) as if you were a third party – interested but not attached. Your Source is always there … beyond your thinking … watching. You can develop a strong bridge to Source simply by attending to it.
The most basic distinction that your witnessing will begin to uncover is when you are opening and when your closing. Life is never static. Things are always changing, shifting. Noticing when you are opening to more flow and closing off to flow is key to being able to choose flow, more and more often. We must move the openings and closings from automatic responses to changes that we can see – and increasingly influence.
Here are some clues from our experience to begin to train your basic distinction of opening and closing. We’ll use the word “I” to show how personal the experience is.
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Opening into Stillness, Step by Step
By Robert | September 17, 2008
Stillness is the undisturbed Presence that invites you to connect with the highest version of yourself. Stillness is a vast reservoir of simple aliveness - without the demands and defenses of ego.
In our busy lives, we don’t often tune into the profound stillness, letting go of external and internal “noise.” Yet, the stillness is always there.
I have had the immense pleasure of watching people - including myself - “tune in.” Stillness is always completely available, but most people learn to connect with stillness gradually. At each moment you will be ready and able to let go of some amount of the tension, contraction, and identification that you carry all the time. Generally, you can only let go of the piece of which you are currently aware.
We have created a model of opening that describes your predictable experience as you open. Each of the five steps in the model offers a new resource that will improve the quality of your life. Practicing with each resource will serve you extremely well in maintaining that level of stillness all the time and in becoming ready for the next.
Below is a summary of the Steps of Stillness model and the resources in each of its five levels. As you un-contract, you will begin to have the following experiences.
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