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Detox day 4

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Sunshine month takes me away

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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

The summer solstice and times gone by

Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 0 comments so far

What was good?

So, how did you do? If you did the task, you will be feeling the reward. How hard did you find it? Was it difficult to be positive? When you first try, it is tough. The paradigm, the monkey, in your head will want to take you back to same old, same old behaviour. It is the same for all of us. But that is the good bit. You are not alone, you are simply being normal. For some reason, not known by me, the human race finds it easier to tune into the negative, as evidenced by every news broadcast on the planet. Good news is rarely considered newsworthy. That is not because it is not newsworthy, it is because it is the habit of generations to focus on the negative.

Those that are negatively focussed do so because of internal fears and doubts. Globally, people fear wars and famines, unrest and terrorism, shortage and lack, depression, credit crunch, you name it. Once we have fear, we have doubt and we have uncertainty. Personally, we may fear for our job, be fearful of debt or the fidelity of a partner. Once we have fear, the universe ceases to be a safe place and once safety is lost, our creative potential is often the next casualty.

The cycle of life

Life, in the physical world, is a cycle. There is nothing wrong or fearful about death; it is as natural and as timely as birth. There is nothing fearful about financial downturns; they are as natural as upturns. Autumn and winter are the precursors of spring and summer, and they in their turn will fade into another autumn; it is simply the way that it is.
Yet to the human mind ‘this is the coldest winter on record’ – no, it’s not, that was the ice age, or ‘this is the driest summer since records began’ – have you ever been to the desert? The planet moves in cycles. In the cold phase, the water of the planet is locked up in the poles and glacial formations. The land currently under water is exposed as sea levels drop. In the warm phase, the water held at the pole melts and the previously exposed lowlands experience ‘the flood’ as sea levels rise again. It is a cycle. In our heated and controlled living environments, we in the West are in danger of losing touch with the natural cycles around us. Our ancestors marked the changing seasons and cycles with festivals and offerings.

Summer solstice

In the northern hemisphere, June 21st is the summer solstice; this is the longest day and the shortest night. From here on, the days get shorter and the sun will set earlier each day right through to the winter solstice on December 21st that will be the longest night and the shortest day. Then the cycle will begin again as the days begin to lengthen. We all live within cycles of life and of death.

Moon cycles

Women often have a greater awareness of cycles, as each month their menstrual cycle reminds them. Men have a monthly cycle too, though not so pronounced. At different times of the month, a man’s facial hair growth will be more vigorous and his sexual drive stronger. We are all doing it.

When is your New Year?

In the cycle of the year, we identify January 1st as the New Year, but your New Year begins on your birthday. That is your cycle. That also means that your mid-year is six months on from your birthday. Astrologers would tell that this is when you are at your lowest ebb, at the furthest point away from your birthday, when you would be at your highest point of energy. This is the point where your bio-energies are weakest. I was born in February at the point when Aquarius and Pisces meet, in the second month of the year, so my low point is the eight month. What is yours?

Perhaps we would benefit from acknowledging the older customs that mark the seasons.

I hope you had a happy solstice.

Sean x

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