Sacred Dreams

”As you grow in your spiritual identity you eventually become aware of something that’s pulling you forward: the commitment and challenge of bringing your sacred dream to fruition. Go ahead. Let it emerge. Become committed to expressing the evolutionary urge of your own soul. Embrace the challenge of becoming more you.” Michael Bernard Beckwith

Empty Your Cup

We all heard about the ~empty your cup~ metaphor, but this text I found made it so crystal clear to me that I thought it might help others as well to get to the bottom of it:

 ~I see only the past~

“Look at a cup, for example.

Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup, being thirsty, drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips, having breakfast and so on? Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what this cup is except for your past learning. Do you, then, really see it?” (A Course in Miracles)

Kinds of Wild

Today I got this message from The Universe (aka Mike Dooley):

”Those who are needy of attention, Veronica, hide from themselves their greatness.
Those who are needy of opportunity, Veronica, hide from themselves their power to create.
And those who are needy of love, Veronica, hide from themselves what's already there.
But boy, oh boy, are they in for a wild ride.”
Love you like crazy,

The Universe

Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! ®

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So true...check up their site and sign up, if you please, to receive these daily reminders that ~life's magical, we are powerful and dreams do come true~ as their declared mission is.

The Purpose of Money

Today I read this idea by Arnold Patent: ”The sole purpose of money is to express appreciation.”

and...I didn't get it. It puzzled me though... so, I kept on reading about it.

What the hell does this mean?? And this guy went on explaining:

~We think it's just for buying or paying for things, but in reality, if you look at the deeper spiritual, metaphysical, or psychological reason behind it, you're really saying ~Thank you!~

In other words, you are just expressing your appreciation for something you received. Now that's something to ponder and let sink in.

Love as the vein attempt to possess freedom as freedom

"If you are mine, I lose, through possessing you, her whom I honor." J.J. Rousseau

Paul Watzlawick- The Situation is Hopeless, but not Serious- The Pursuit of Unhappiness

By now I heard it so often that to pursue happiness is a sure and trusted way to become unhappy. So, the question poppped into my mind and the minds of the tens of clients seeking help in dealing with their persistent issues: what shall we do instead?

Being on the look for solutions to this cul-de-sac I stumbled upon this book, who’s declared purpose is, in the very words of the author: ”What this book wants to offer, […], is a methodic, basic introduction- drawn from decades of clinical experience- into the most useful and reliable mechanisms for the pursuit of unhappiness.” (Paul Watzlawick- The Situation is Hopeless, but not Serious- The Pursuit of Unhappiness)

Hmmm... I said to myself while ordering it immediately from Book Depository (my favorite book store online). Could this be something?

I’ll let you decide, but will give you a teaser sample:

„Of all the knots, tangles, and other booby traps in the arsenal of an experienced relationship demolition expert (RDE), the ~Be spontaneous!~ paradox is by far the most universally utilized. And a real kosher paradox it is satisfying even the most stringent requirements of formal logic. In the pristine halls of logical Olympus, coercion and spontaneity  (i.e. that which proceeds from within without constraint and external force) are incompatible. To do spontaneously what one has been commanded to do is just as impossible as to forget by an act of conscious decision or to deliberately sleep more deeply. Either we act spontaneously, that is, at our own discretion, or we comply with a command and therefore do not act spontaneously. From a purely logical point of view we cannot do both at the same time.

But so what? What do we care about logic?

[...]

It does not seem to make much difference whether we prescribe the ~Be happy!~paradox to ourselves or whether it is imposed on us by some outside authority. Furthermore, ~Be happy!~is only one of the many variations on one basic theme of ~Be spontaneous!~. Virtually any spontaneous behavior lends itself to the construction of inescapable traps: the demand for spontaneous remembering or forgetting; the wish for a particular gift and the disappointment when one receives it „only” because one stated that wish; the attempt to will an erection or an orgasm, which makes impossible precisely that which it was supposed to achieve; the resolve to fall asleep because one wants to sleep; or the demand for love as a moral obligation that leads to the impossibility of loving.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn- Coming To Our Senses

“That insensitivity is particularly onerous, even destructive, when we attempt, as we often do, to force things to be a certain way, ~my way~, without regard for the potential violence, even on the tiniest but still significant scale, that such a break in the rhythm of things carries with it. Sooner or later, such forcing denies the reciprocity, the beauty of the give-and-take and the complexity of the dance itself; we wind up stepping, wittingly or unwittingly, on a lot of toes. Such insensitivity, such out-of-touchness, isolates us from our own possibilities. In refusing to acknowledge how things actually are in any moment, perhaps because we don’t want them to be that way, and in attempting to compel a situation or a relationship to be the way we want it to be out of fear that otherwise we may not get our needs met, we are forgetting that most of the time we hardly know what our own way really is; we only think we do. And we forget that this dance is one of extraordinary complexity as well as simplicity, and that new and interesting things happen when we do not collapse in the presence of our fears, and instead stop imposing and start living our truth, well beyond our limited ability to assert tight control over anything for very long.” Jon Kabat-Zinn- Coming To Our Senses

Well, many people know and talk about mindfulness today and even the scientific community is now very eager to incorporate it in all treatment protocols, but this guy started on it more then 30 years ago being ridiculed and all about it. Still, he was a student of famous teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh and founded the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program helping people to cope with stress, anxiety, pain and illness.

This book, as well as others written by him, are gems of wisdom. I like to read a paragraph or two in the morning and sit on it. His hypnotic phrases take you to places you never visited inside yourself. Places you want to spend some time in. You can find the guided meditations as well, but this entire book is a invitation to take that journey you didn't even know you longed so much for. Enjoy!

Passion

"The passion that you feel is God inside you beckoning you to take the risk and be your own person."

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Meanings, events and beliefs

The meaning you give to an event is the belief that attracted that event.

Foto credit: Ryan Twedt's Online Labratory

Excellence is a habit

Firewalking

When you listen to the voice of your soul, and take action on its behalf, all things become possible. http://dimensionsinhealing.org/healing-services/firewalking/

Unleash The Power Within cu Tony Robbins

Dreams can come true… îmi sună în cap și nu doar atât, uneori visele se îndeplinesc în mod neașteptat, chiar mai repede decât ai crede. Totuși, nu e suficient doar să visezi, cum zice și Tony, you gotta do the work.

Acest ”the work” de care vorbește nu are legătură cu munca silnică pe viață la care ne supunem mulți dintre noi, ci aș zice, mai degrabă, că are de-a face cu o muncă interioară, cu noi înșine.

Încă sunt sub imperiul experienței copleșitoare pe care am avut-o la Londra la UPW 2018 și multe nu s-au așezat încă în mine, cert este că nimic nu bate experiența.

Poți citi oricât vrei, poți asculta zilnic înregistrări, dacă nu traduci informația în experiență impactul acesteia este minim.

Experiența schimbă perspectiva radical.

Am călcat pe cărbuni încinși și nu m-am ars. Nu a fost așa un pas grăbit peste un jăratec, au fost cel puțin 6 pași pe un covor de cărbuni încinși care mi-a părut ca un covor de mușchi moi (”cool moos”). Nu mi-a fost frică deloc, deși cei care s-au ocupat de pregătirea cărbunilor aveau fețele acoperite cu eșarfe pentru a se proteja de văpaie și chiar înainte să trec eu au mai turnat o lopată de cărbuni proaspeți.

Pentru minte a fost ceva incomprehensibil. M-am observat gândindu-mă că nu cred că au fost fierbinți cărbunii aceia, deși erau roșii. M-am gândit că aș fi putut să mă duc să îi ating cu mâna ca să mă conving că ard. Și totuși, este un mister pentru mine cum am reușit să-mi anihilez în așa măsură instinctul de conservare încât să nu simt nimic, nici o umbră de frică în fața focului. Ba chiar am simțit un impuls irezistibil de a face pașii aceia no matter what.

Am stat mai apoi și am meditat la ceea ce știam deja teoretic că noi putem alege modul în care percepem realitatea și că asta ne va schimba experiența. Pentru cei mai mulți dintre noi când auzim aceste cuvinte ne sună bine, dar ele nu sunt vii în noi. Nu le trăim ca atare, sunt doar un slogan până când decizi să le testezi by doing the work. Nici nu e nevoie de o experiență atât de extremă ca aceasta a umblatului prin foc, dar cu siguranță că cu cât mai extremă este experiența cu atât mai puternică este concluzia că limitele pe care credem că le avem nu sunt nici pe departe reale. În această clipă nu știu dacă ele există de fapt.

What disease is

"All disease is a result of inhibited Soul Life... The art of the healer consists of releasing the Soul, so it can flow through the aggregate of organisms which constitute any particular form. The true and future healing is brought about when the life of the Soul can flow without impediment and hindrance throughout every aspect of the form. It can then vitalize it." Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul

Your Monument of Existence

“Thus, the transitoriness of our existence in no way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities. Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of present potentialities; which of these will be condemned to non-being and which will be actualized? Which choice will be made an actuality once and forever, an immortal "footprint in the sands of time"? At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.” Viktor Frankl- Man’s Search for Meaning

The Importance of Letting Go

”E aşa de important să laşi anumite lucruri să treacă. Să le dai drumul. Să te desprinzi de ele. Oamenii trebuie să înţeleagă că nimeni nu trişează, uneori câştigăm, alteori pierdem. Nu aştepta să ţi se dea ceva înapoi, nu aştepta să ţi se recunoască efortul, să ţi se descopere geniul, să ţi se înţeleagă iubirea. Încheie nişte etape. Nu din orgoliu, din neputinţă sau mândrie, ci pur şi simplu pentru că acel lucru nu se mai potriveşte cu viaţa ta. Închide uşa, schimbă discul, fă curat în casă, şterge praful. Încetează să mai fii cine erai şi transformă-te în cine eşti!” Zahir-Paulo Coelho

“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.” The Zahir-Paulo Coelho

Micul prinț

Doamne, ce omuleți însuflețiți au fost duminică la Cluj, au înduioșat sala întreagă. Iar despre Micul prinț, ce să mai spunem?! Veșnic actual! Nu e de mirare că au făcut 3 spectacole din unul, toate sold out.

Tot povestea cu vulpea și ”taina ei” îmi place cel mai mult, deși mi-au plăcut toate cugetările lui în raport cu ”oamenii mari” și metehnele lor.

”Iată care-i taina mea. E foarte simplă: limpede nu vezi decât cu inima. Ochii nu pot să pătrundă-n miezul lucrurilor.
- Ochii nu pot să pătrundă-n miezul lucrurilor! spuse după dânsa micul prinţ, ca să ţină minte.
- Numai timpul cheltuit cu floarea ta face ca floarea ta să fie atât de preţioasă. - Numai timpul cheltuit cu floarea mea…! făcu micul prinţ, ca să ţină minte. - Oamenii au dat uitării adevărul acesta – zise vulpea. Tu însă nu trebuie să-l uiţi. Devii răspunzător de-a pururi pentru ceea ce ai îmblânzit. Tu eşti răspunzător pentru floarea ta.- Eu sunt răspunzător de floarea mea… spuse după dânsa micul prinţ, ca să ţină minte.”

Și niște vulpițe care m-au fascinat deopotrivă de la AdrianArt:

Cum să crești tare după o traumă

Foto credit: www.psifocus.ro

Dire Straits Experience

Acum 20 și ceva de ani, când am descoperit muzica lor și a altora ca ei nu visam că voi avea vreodată ocazia să îi văd live. Prin urmare acum, când multe lucruri care erau de domeniul SF pentru noi atunci sunt la ordinea zilei, vreau să profit din plin și să mă bucur de experiențele unice pe care mi le oferă. A fost seară faină alături de prieteni dragi și muzică adevărată...

Identity diversification- an interesting concept by Tim Ferriss

~When you have money, it’s always smart to diversify your investments. That way if one of them goes south, you don’t lose everything. It’s also smart to diversify your identity, to invest your self-esteem and what you care about into a variety of different areas — business, social life, relationships, philanthropy, athletics — so that when one goes south, you’re not completely screwed over and emotionally wrecked.~

Bene Gesserit “Litany Against Fear,” from Frank Herbert’s Dune