August 2010
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All those wild horses!
Consider how much of our lives are dominated by our feelings. We take feelings for granted and let them run our lives by default. I guess that would be okay if all our feelings made us feel great. However, many of our feelings are negative and make us feel bad! Add to that mix the
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The Journey to Wholeness
Lets wind back the clock. When we are born we arrive psychically intact and whole. As very young children we spontaneously expressed our true selves – warts and all often to the disapproval of our parents and other family members! However, through a process of domestication we somehow lost touch with our real selves. An internal
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Ancient Wisdom continued…..
The Fifth Agreement “Be skeptical, but learn to listen” Being skeptical is quite different from being cynical. It requires you to listen carefully to what is being said and then to not just accept what you are being told at face value. Always keep an open and questioning mind through asking yourself: does this sound
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Ancient Wisdom continued……
The Fourth Agreement “Always do your best” This sounds like something from a Scout meeting – “dib dib dib we will do our best.” That aside I believe that in a world gone mad where we are taught that we should always aspire to achieve “perfection” this Agreement is just the tonic we need. The
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Ancient Wisdom continued……
The Third Agreement “Don’t make assumptions” There is some truth to be found in the old saying that “when you make an assumption you make an “ass of u and me“! This follows on from our discussion of the Second Agreement in which we learned that there was no point in taking things personally as
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Ancient Wisdom continued…..
The Second Agreement “Don’t take things personally” When you realise that everyone has created for themselves and lives within their own virtual reality or dream of life you can more easily understand that what another person says or does is not so much a comment about you personally but more a reflective comment about themselves
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Ancient Wisdom
The Toltec were an ancient civilization who lived in southern Mexico at Teotihuacan (which means “where man becomes God”), the ancient city of pyramids. The Toltec lived and taught a spiritual way of life which has been preserved and handed down through generations. At the heart of this way of life and teaching were the
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That “Ole Devil called Love”
Love is a much bandied around word. Yet I suspect not many people really understand what it means to them personally. It is easy to say “I love you” and when we hear these words we feel so good. On a practical level those words affect us emotionally. They makes us feel appreciated, valued and
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Reality vs Virtual Reality
There’s an old Biblical saying that goes something like “only children will enter the kingdom of heaven”. Much objective truth can be distilled from these very simple words. Let’s begin by turning back the life clock to when you were born. You were born a unique individual with an inbuilt programme that was yours alone.