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Sunshine month takes me away
We’re all going on a summer holiday
As I write this blog, the lads are loading the car, checking the oil and water in the engine. All I have to do now is to finish this, press send and then, as is my habit, check that the water bottles are full, back the car out of the drive and head for the horizon and the rising Sun. I love that feeling, the freedom of the open road and the wonder of not knowing what is around the next bend. I have Canned Heat playing in my head ‘...I’m on the road again’; it brings back so many good memories.
The dawn is such a magical time in all senses of the word. We use the image of the dawn to describe newness, breakthroughs, and new horizons: the dawn of the technical age, the dawn of the industrial society, the dawn of understanding. I see clients every day who experience that sense of coming into the light when, perhaps, for the first time in their lives, they can see things with a hitherto unknown clarity, as the truth dawns on them for the first time.
The person who is awake is always learning
In Ayurveda, my original training, it is acknowledged that the purpose of life is about learning, and that our body’s senses, mind and emotions are all designed to enable this to happen. Learning is a life-long process, though people may stop learning and growing at any age. Some people will cease development while in their childhood and may exhibit the emotional maturity of a seven-year old when they are seventy. However, the reverse may also be true, so that a seven-year old may possess the wisdom of a seventy-year old.
What is dawning on you?
If you are a growing, waking person, and I guess you are or you would not be reading this, there will be dreams, challenges and developments going on in your life that will represent new dawnings of understanding for you. I think about this a lot and review where I am up to. I use the contemplation part of my meditation sessions to do this, so dawnings are...
Time waits for no man
I often heard this one, but it is dawning on me that time passes quickly and it is easy to procrastinate; there are things that I want to do before I turn up my toes. I was reading something by Jack Canfield that suggested writing down the one hundred things you would like to do before you die. That got me thinking, so I have set myself some goals.
Things to be done
My top five are...
1) To develop my life and my relationships in such a way that they benefit not only me, but all those that I interact with, especially with my Rie.
2) To develop the courses so that I have at least one thousand people a year doing the Ten Steps Program
3) To get all the books written that I have in my head
4) To record more music albums and maybe do some performing
5) To create a purpose-built environmentally-friendly building that is used as a centre of learning, therapy and respite for those on the path of self-development
It dawned on me many years ago that the only way to achieve these things is to be focussed on the task and to be consistent and persistent in all that I do to achieve my aims.
What are your five?
You may be able to go for the hundred, though five is a good start. What are the things that it is dawning on you that need to be done? It is time to get them done. Try not to put off till tomorrow what you need to get done today.
Hey ho and away I go
But task number one is to go and enjoy my holiday. Tomorrow, I will wake in Lille France and then heading down through Belgium, Luxemburg and Switzerland to stay in Basil. Then the Italian lakes for a while and then back up through Mont Blanc and Dijon. Watch the site and I’ll keep you posted on progress and try and use this wonderful technology to post some pics on the site.
So pop by Wednesday and have a wonderful week.
Sean x
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Tell me something good
Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 0 comments so far
Monday 15 June 2009
Tell me something good
It is Monday, so I hope you are feeling good and positive and setting your mind to have, and enjoy, a wonderful week.
I have been playing the “Tell me something good” game over the past few weeks. I have been asking people on courses, clients, friends and family. You see, when I was first trained, I came to it as a depressed adolescent. My teacher would continually say, “Tell me something good” and as I had taken a vow of obedience, there was no escape; I would have to find something positive to focus on. It took me a little while to get the idea, but as my mind turned from negative to positive, the task became progressively easier. My teacher would spring out on me when I least expected it. Once, I was holding the end of a long beam on my shoulder that myself and a few others were trying to slot into a wall where we had just made an opening. I was at the red-faced, bulging veins, goggling eyes, and the attempting-not-to-swear, stage. Then up pops my teacher, “Tell me something good”. “I haven’t yet collapsed,” I gasped. “That is a blessing,” he said, wandering off with a smile.
Continual change
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is a Chinese Confucian oracle. It identifies that human experience and emotional and spiritual understanding is changing minute by minute and day by day as we grow, or, as the Buddha put it:
You can never step in the same river twice
As the water of the river flows, the water that you trod in a few minutes ago may be many miles away by now; the river is never the same, second by second.
You can never live the same moment twice
Just as water flows, so does the energy of your life. Each moment, second by second, you are changing. These changes are your own minute contribution to the overall movement of evolution, and each step is a unique increment in your own spiritual evolution. Just as the water of the river flows, your past experience, even if it were only a few minutes ago, has flowed away from your present and may be long gone by now.
Mindful change
Once we understand that change, and the flow of life, are natural, normal and the very essence of all nature around us, we can, if we wake to that potential, develop a mindful awareness of the flow of change within and around us.
How much is too much?
My teacher would check me out several times a day, maybe in a constant stream just minutes apart. The deal was always the same: “Tell me something good.” I was no longer allowed to be negative. As I say, I have been playing the game over the past few weeks. I discover that, if I ask the question, often people’s ability to retain a positive experience diminishes, and they may even tell me to “sod off” as they run out of positive fuel. I have tried varying it so that if I say to someone, “Tell what was good about that?” or “How did you enjoy that?”, it is interesting to see how many times someone can tune into the positive before they run out: “You already asked me that” or “I’ve told you that already”.
Insight and understanding
Bob Proctor tells of how he has read the same books many hundreds of times. He points out that each time he reads the same book, he sees something different in it, but it is not the book that changes, the word and the print are the same. What changes when we read a book again is us, the reader, because we have grown, changed and evolved; we are able to see things that we missed before.
Emotional dams
When people fail to change, develop or grow, it is as though they have built a dam in the river of their life. This may hold back their development for a while until they release the block. If the dam becomes too strong, then their lives will become still and fixed. If the situation persists, they become stagnant and, in the extreme, putrid.
Letting go
In letting go and forgiving, we take down our dams, allowing any tainted water to flow away and allowing fresh pure water to flow in, cleansing and renewing. Water is a hugely powerful symbol for us, whether it is the washing away of sins by John the Baptist or the cleansing power of the Ganges.
Acknowledge your change
Your life flows. You are not the same person today as who you were last Friday, and next Friday you will be a different person again. The only exception to this is that you may have dammed your progress and are becoming, or are, stagnant. The fact that you are reading this would suggest that you are either removing your dams or attempting get the flow right for you. The world is wonderful when you acknowledge the changes in you and others.
So, tell me something good
Email me and share with me how your life is changing. Ask yourself, several times a day, to focus on something good and, if you dare, ask those around you.
Because I practise what I preach, I can share with you that my day is wonderful. I am sitting in my garden on a warm, sunny day, laptop in front of me. I am listening to the gurgling water of the fountain, opposite me is the woman of my dreams, who is also tapping the keys of her laptop. All in all, my life is better than it has ever been and I love it. So now I am going to press the send key, and go and make a rich Espresso. Drop by Wednesday for some psychology for your soul.
See ya
Sean x
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