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Summer 2012 Vacation “To Go” Get a taste of the Infinite while you relax
The Pain Body A doctor reveals the damage repressed emotions can do
Grow the ROMANCE in Your Life How what breaks relationships can also make them Photo courtesy Alberto Jimenez
Constance Kellough President and Publisher Namaste Publishing
Welcome to the Namaste Publishing eZine, an online magazine that replaces our former monthly newsletter. You will find many helpful articles, beginning with the insightful guest contribution by Dr Bruce West, who publishes the monthly Health Alert newsletter, about the pain body. In this edition, I am especially delighted to introduce you to a marvelous new book that’s actually a rewrite and total updating of one of the earliest books I published following the launch of our publishing house with the publication of The Power of Now to bring the teachings of Eckhart Tolle to the world. Rob McRae, who formerly went under the pen name of P. Raymond Stewart, invites us to take the step of actually living a divine life. Many talk about how God is “in us,” and how we are “in God.” But simply to hold this concept, which is known as panentheism—everything in God, and God in everything—isn’t in itself life-changing. To experience the power of this insight, it’s necessary to close the gap between God and ourselves. We have to stop thinking of God as separate from ourselves and instead embrace the truth that we are expressions of the divine. We are not the Source, but manifestations of the Source. As such, we need to begin living as God.
As long as a person thinks of the divine as something within them, there’s still a feeling of separation. We tell ourselves, “The divine is ‘in’ me, but it’s not me.” It’s only when we engage in what Rob refers to as “healing the separation” that we begin to live empowered lives. Living As God is a powerful book. I invite you to transform your experience of everyday life by embracing the understanding contained in this work, enabling you to live a divine life every day. Also new from Namaste Publishing is a book I coauthored with our Editorial Director, David Robert Ord. Entitled Meet Your Inner Grower—Your Personal GPS for Conscious Living, this eBook brings us in touch with an aspect of our lives that few seem to be aware of, the fact that our true self walks us into situations that are tailored to awaken us to the ways in which we simply aren’t yet being true to ourselves. At every moment, our inner grower seeks not only to show us the ways in which we betray ourselves, but also to bring out the best in us so that we can reach for our potential and live truly divine lives. To do this, it harnesses our inner knower. This is an aspect of ourselves that’s often referred to as a “still small voice.” But how do you actually discern this voice, picking it out from all the other voices in your head? Meet Your Inner Grower is one of the most practical books we have ever published. You can download it right now by clicking on the link below.
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Vacation “To Go” A high-powered couple get away from it all in their Mercedes, cruising through the Redwoods—replete with two fax lines, cell phones, and the internet. You're supposed to vacation, so they're taking one. But this kind of vacation is more a "vacation to go" than a real break to recharge the soul—a vacation version of fast food. From time to time, we all need the kind of vacation that's more than everyday life away from home. We need something that opens us up to the spiritual dimension at the heart of everything—at the heart of our own being. Wayne Reploge, from the University of Kansas, was a guide at yellowstone Park every summer for half a century. Celebrities and internationally famous people who come to see the park were assigned to him. One prominent visitor he was conducting through the park commented, "It must be thrilling job to take all these people through the park and listen to their exclamations of joy." Reploge replied, "You would not believe how many people I have taken through Yellowstone Park who barely say, ‘Thank you.' They came through with a ho-hum attitude.
They were looking at their watches. They couldn't wait to go. They said nothing positive about the whole thing at all." What were these people expecting—the glitz, the hustle and bustle of the casino? People whose lives revolve around fax machines may be uncomfortable with the stillness and the vastness of the outdoors, which is why they can be ho-hum. "It used to get me down," Reploge remarked. "Now, for the last several years, before I take them through I say, ‘Before we go out there, I want to tell you something. There is nothing out there at all to see. There is nothing there. It is all inside of you. And if it isn't inside you, you will see nothing there. But if it is truly there, you'll be excited when you see the mountain peaks, and when the geysers erupt. It's all inside of you!" We’re talking about a vacation as a spiritual experience. A weekend getaway, even the casino if you like that sort of thing, might be nice from time to time. But all of us need time to experience a vacation in which we encounter something deeper and are thereby opened up to a dimension inside us that we too easily lose touch with in modern society. A vacation in which you touch the essence of reality in its different forms can become a window onto a more meaningful way of living. You become aware that you are connected to something greater than your ego, greater than your local community, greater than your nation—and, yes, than the world itself. It's a feeling that's often called “oceanic,” because many have had this feeling on the ocean. There's a vastness, an endlessness, a stillness—and yet you have a sense of being very much a part of everything. You might have had such an experience walking in a national park, sitting by a river or lake, or climbing a mountain peak. You feel a connection to the world that resonates with your being. This is the essence of spirituality. You are in touch with the sacred circle of life, in harmony with the rhythms of nature. Many find that the oceanic generates a frame of mind that's quite different from the mindset of the Protestant work ethic. There's a relaxedness that’s the antithesis of our driveness—an ease, a flow. There's also an expansiveness. We are lifted out of our limited mental boxes and shown a larger view of reality. When you sense the spiritual connection that can come from the ocean, the forest, the mountains and lakes and rivers, or from a town lived in for a thousand, two thousand years, you are lifted above the helter-skelter pace of life. There’s something about connecting with the oceanic that has a tendency to expose the bankrupt philosophy that motivates society's driveness. You may even find yourself asking yourself deep questions—questioning what your life means, what's truly of value,
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whether you really want to live in quite the way you presently do. When you bring this sense of the oceanic home with you—if it has really gotten into your bones—you are likely to experience a shift in what gives you meaning. You could characterize it as a shift from getting, acquiring, possessing, to being and becoming. There's a sense in which life itself becomes a vacation. The late E.B. White discovered that the medical profession was interested in turtle blood because turtles don't suffer from arteriosclerosis in old age. He wondered whether there’s a property of turtle blood that prevents the arteries from hardening. So he sat down at his typewriter and recorded his views on the matter. "There is the possibility that a turtle's blood vessels stay in nice shape," White wrote, "because of the way turtles conduct their lives. Turtles rarely pass up the chance to relax in the sun on a partly submerged log. No two turtles ever lunched together with the idea of promoting anything. Turtles never use the word implementation or the phrases hard core and in the last analysis. No turtle ever rang another turtle back on the phone. In the last analysis, a turtle, although lacking know-how, knows how to live. A turtle, by its admirable habits, gets to the hard core of life. That may be why its arteries are so soft." As Lin Yutang remarked, "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." The main point of a vacation in which you touch the oceanic isn't to remember it, recounting the things you did, but to experience it. It's to allow it to have a life-transforming effect. You learn how to live. If you've ever gazed up from a sleeping bag into a crisp wilderness night, you know what we’re talking about. It's not identifying the Big Dipper or Orion that's important at
such a moment; it's the overwhelming vastness of it. You can have a similar experience floating down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Here, instead of deep
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space, its the deep time of geological strata you are encountering. You realize how short-lived are your toughest trials when set against the backdrop of
the 4.6 billion years in the making of the earth that bears you. You can get a feel for the oceanic in a different form when you visit cities that put you in touch with something deeper than merely the 20th and 21st centuries. You get a perspective of timelessness as you wander through the streets of an ancient fishing village on the Cornish coast of England, Maine, or the shores of the Mediterranean, and when you explore a town like Beaune in the French wine country, Bacharach on the Rhine, or Interlaken nestled among the Swiss alps. You touch the oceanic in our species, spanning the centuries in timeless cultures. As you are put in touch with the ebb and flow of the generations, generation upon generation, you sense that what seems insurmountable in your life at this moment will pass—and so will you as you presently know yourself. When viewed as a ripple on the ocean of humankind, each moment of your life asks for a lighter touch, and what troubles you becomes far less earthshaking. Whatever its precise form, to open the windows of the soul and let the experience of the oceanic in is to set your everyday struggles at the office, in the classroom, or on the shop floor in a context that recovers perspective. You realize that life is shrouded in mystery. As someone said, you learn once again to gasp. To vacation in the presence of the overarching mystery is to experience the restoration of wonder—and with wonder comes the rebirth of awe. Let the luminance of it in. Let it draw out what's inside of you, and you'll experience life not as enervating, but as enchanting. Your vacation becomes a prelude to living fully. Your soul is refreshed and your life again pulses with spirit, as you find yourself in alignment with the flow of pure being.
Sacred Geometry Yantra Meditation cards and their accompanying explanations are tools for self-realization and offer one of the most effective means of entering into present moment awareness available to us, enabling us to move rapidly into living fully in the Now. While many struggle to reach enlightenment, the Ivan Rados believes that everyone has the capacity to experience this state, which is an experience of freedom from our illusionary egoic mind, without all of this struggle. This capacity is realized not by following rules, performing rituals, or imitating enlightened masters, but by bringing awareness to the mind’s attachments. The yantras feature Ivan Rados’ gorgeous inspired artwork, which flows from his profoundly rich experience of present moment awareness. Through his stunning yantras and clear explanations, Ivan offers us a simple way to still the mind so that we become deeply aware of the Infinite Consciousness at the heart of our own being. Sacred Geometry Yantra Meditation is a peaceful practice that has no goal other than to lead us into the pure state of inner emptiness. As it does so, it introduces us to the self-fulfilling life energy of the divine. There are 52 yantras, matching the number of weeks in the year. However, Ivan offers a variety of ways to use the cards for the development of divine consciousness, along with tips for gaining specific insight and guidance. The yantras cover topics ranging from the pitfalls of the ego and its mindset to discovering peace and harmony in our lives, confronting our fears, facing our insecurity, seeking guidance, and experiencing fulfilling relationships. This is a treasury that will enrich your spiritual experience throughout the whole year, and for years to come. Beautifully printed and presented, it also makes a superb gift for those you care about. Sale price $23.99. To order, click here.
You are probably familiar with the saying, "Make the voices stop." While many of us laugh about this situation and take it lightly, it is serious indeed, even deadly. You see for most of us, and for most of our lives, our thinking is beyond our control—that is, involuntary, automatic, and repetitive. It is kind of a mental static noise, or as we like to say, "voices." The voices have a life of their own, and you are at the mercy of the noise or voices. Generated by your past and present experiences, both real and unreal, the voices become a steady stream of incessant and compulsive thinking and negative emotions that constantly swirl about in your mind, having a
The physical body is blessed with what I like to call universal intelligence—that is, a natural intelligence that gives cohesion to the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies. Universal intelligence is the organizing power that makes things work in the body. It is behind the functioning organs; the conversion of oxygen and food into energy; the heartbeat and circulation of blood; the immune system that protects from foreign invaders; and the translation of everything you experience into nerve impulses that are sent to your brain, decoded, and then reassembled into a coherent picture of your reality—where you are in time and space. Your universal intelligence does all this as well as thousands of other
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negative effect on your behavior and health. Examples of such thinking are: Life is not fair; There is never enough money; People cannot be trusted; Nobody appreciates me; Life lets you down; No one loves me; I need to fight in this world; It's not my fault; and I can never get ahead. These are all unconscious and often unfounded assumptions that reside in your mind, usually formed from early childhood. Without these negative emotions your health is better and your body can operate healthfully.
simultaneously occurring functions, all perfectly coordinated. In fact, you don't run your body, your universal intelligence does. Yet negative emotions interfere with this perfect balance and harmonious functioning. Fear, jealousy, anxiety, anger, sadness, envy, and so on—they all disrupt the energy flow throughout the body and affect the heart, the immune system, digestion, production of hormones, circulation, and more. These negative emotions not only affect you, but everyone else with
whom you come into contact. Through a chain reaction, these voices, thoughts, and negative emotions affect everyone, even countless people you may never meet. It is this state of negative emotions, thoughts, and "noise" that becomes known as unhappiness. Lots of people have created lots of names for the thoughts and negative emotions inside your mind, both real and unreal. L. Ron Hubbard likes to call these engrams. Eckhart Tolle calls them the ego. And the way you and your body react to these emotions creates what Tolle likes to call the pain body. The pain body can and does make people physically sick. And unless you are a perfectly enlightened person, you too have a pain body—everyone does. The good news is that you do not have to stay in the pain body.
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Break Free from Your Torment by Living NOW You, I, and anyone can stop adding to the pain body that we already have. We can break the habit of reacting to, or dwelling, in the past —whether it is yesterday or 50 years ago. We can learn not to keep situations, events, thoughts, crazy "movies" or "voices" alive in our mind, making us sick. Instead, we can break out of this by just awakening to the fact that our pain body can ruin our health and our life. This is the first step, an automatic beginning if you will, of breaking out of the pain body. Instead of existing with the pain body and its havoc, we can actually live and return our attention to the pristine, timeless present moment. It is at this point of truly being in the present moment that your reality changes.
Instead of the negative thoughts and emotions that were your reality, you can experience the momentous presence and peace of now—the absolute present—which becomes your identity and your reality. What a powerful feeling! The past has power indeed. It creates the reactive mind that creates the pain body that can wreak havoc on your physical and emotional life. But the past is simply not as powerful as the present—once you decide to live there. Your past, all the voices, the ego, and the endless negative thoughts and emotions cannot prevent you from being in the present moment. And if it cannot prevent this, what power does it really have? The answer is simple. To live out of the reactive mind, the ego, and the pain body, you simply must recognize that these exist. This is the beginning of the cure. The only other step to reject the pain body is by living in what is truly the only thing that we really have—the present. When negative emotions arise, simply reject them by being
forcefully and fully in the present moment. This is the answer to clearing the negative emotions, to ending the pain caused by your mind, to bringing an imbalanced physical body—caused by negative emotions—back into balance, and to finally begin to make the voices stop. I sincerely hope that you take this to heart. Eckhart Tolle has written two wonderful books on the subject: The Power of Now, and A New Earth—Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. They may be a little tough to read, but they are powerful indeed. The entire subject is challenging. But truth is timeless. And the only thing that we really have is now. *Editor's Note: Dr West publishes a monthly newsletter Health Alert. Chock full of insightful health information, it's different from what you will find most places. To learn more, go to: www.healthalert.com. The above article was reprinted with permission from Health Alert, Vol., 26, No. 1, and is copyright.
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Grow the ROMANCE in Your Life David Robert Ord How many people do you know who, after
thousand others. But I've made him my friend,
the initial blush of romance has faded, enjoy a truly romantic, passionate relationship? The reality is, it’s rare. But why is this? Gail Godwin's novel Evensong revolves around an Episcopal priest and her chaplain
and now he's the only fox in all the world." The author’s point is that to become conscious of your oneness with the infinite mystery enables you to transcend your separateness. You become aware of yourself as
husband. Early in the novel there’s a description of a character called Madelyn, of whom it’s said that she "could see around to the backsides of the stage sets people presented as their lives." I think that's what relationships do––enable us to
part of a oneness that permeates the cosmos. This feeling of oneness is what powers lasting romance—indeed, all meaningful relationships of every kind. Yet the author is at pains to stress that in no
see around to the backsides of the stage sets we present as our lives. When we have to deal with a partner, we discover how much of our essential self we have––or haven’t––developed. It's in
sense does transcending your separateness involve a loss of your individuality. On the contrary, the journey from isolation to connection involves not the loss of who you are but the sharing of who you are.
relationships that we really find out who we are. This is brought out in Antoine de SaintExupery’s tale of The Little Prince, published in 1943 and still an international bestseller. If you don’t know the story, it’s about a little fellow who
The little prince is going to show that it’s possible to experience your oneness with everything and everyone only to the degree you maintain a strong sense of your uniqueness. Yet paradoxically, becoming an individual with a
comes to Earth from his own asteroid, having run into difficulties with the love of his life, a rose that has appeared on his planet. As the little prince surveys a field of 5,000 roses, he becomes aware of how special the
strong identity rarely happens in isolation. It takes others to bring out who you truly are. Until we go deep with someone, we’re really nothing at all yet compared to the person we have the potential to become.
rose back on his planet is. He tells the field of roses, "You're not at all like my rose. You're nothing at all yet. No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone. You're the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred
Having said this, it’s the case that many feel they lose themselves in relationships. This happens because they haven’t yet found their own center—haven’t yet discovered their oneness with the Source of all love.
If relationships can submerge us, they also
You begin losing yourself in the
have the potential to make more of us. A relationship invites us to risk bringing into our everyday lives those parts of ourselves we have long kept under wraps. It asks us to complete the work of growing up that wasn't completed in
relationship––which is the death knell of romance and passion. It’s what happens to most couples. To illustrate how a relationship can either cause us to lose ourselves and hence become
childhood, so that we learn to relate in mature ways instead of in the infantile, limiting ways to which we often resort. You know what causes relationships to become situations that make more of us?
unhappy, or expand our sense of ourselves and thus add to our joy, the little prince points us to the stars. His star, which is really only an asteroid, is too small for him to pick it out in the night sky. This doesn’t disappoint him, though.
Margaret's oldest friend Harriet says to her, "Remember that nasty old witch you told me about? The one you were scared would drag you off into the closet and make you live with her when you were little? So what's the first
In fact he tells the pilot, “It’s better that way. My star will be . . . one of the stars, for you. So you’ll like looking at all of them.” His point is that truly valuing one star prepares you to appreciate your oneness with all of them.
thing you do when you grow up and get free of the closet? You look up the witch, you call her up on the telephone, and go and live with her." That's a pretty good description of relationships, especially romantic ones, don’t
Now this translates to people. You can’t appreciate all the people of the world as individuals, for it’s impossible to get to know more than a handful well. But if you become deeply connected to someone special, or a few
you think? You look up the witch and go live with her—in the form of a husband, a wife, a partner, a close friend! Much as we may grow on our own, we don’t come up against the challenge of being fully
special people, through this connection your heart is awakened to feel a commonality with everyone. In loving one person well, you’re participating in a single, universal love that flows through all.
ourselves until we embark upon a deep relationship––with one special person, or with friends or family members. The challenge is to be truly connected to another yet not lose yourself in the relationship.
Your unique connection with this person is representative of the connectedness of the whole of reality. You know the many through the one. The little prince imagines the stars as bells in
To really be true to yourself, and not sell yourself out as the relationship becomes more important to you and you therefore don’t want to rock the boat, isn’t easy. You become so concerned about losing a partner, a parent, or a
the sky, ringing out their songs of joy. The way he sees it, the more deeply you are connected with your special star, the more you feel yourself to be connected to an entire sky full of joyously tinkling bells.
friend who has become a significant part of your life that, to keep things happy, you can be tempted to compromise yourself.
Whether the fundamental joy that the little prince envisions as basic to the cosmos is allowed to well up and burst forth in your
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everyday experience is a choice you make in
forget that ecstasy and rapture are even
each moment, moment by moment. You either become more you with every single choice you make, and therefore able to be closer to others, or you let fear of losing yourself cause you to close off—in effect, cause you to limit your joy.
possible. The airman actually finds himself resisting the rapture the little prince seeks to rekindle in him. It’s this sense of rapture that can make looking up at the stars such a wonderful
So the question this story of the pilot’s encounter with the little prince poses is: How deeply are you willing to be connected to someone significant, while being absolutely true to yourself—and never, ever selling yourself out
experience. Says the little prince, “When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll be living on one of them, since I’ll be laughing on one of them, for you it’ll be as if all the stars are laughing. You’ll have stars that can laugh!”
or pulling back from connection? The degree to which you can maintain your sense of self in an ever-deepening proximity to another is directly proportional to the degree of joy you’ll experience. So the real question is,
The question the little prince poses for each of us is: Am I willing to tolerate the degree of joy that can become my everyday state if I allow my relationships to push me to become more fully myself? For this is what relationships at the
how much joy are you willing to allow into your life? How much happiness can you tolerate? Tolerate might seem a strange term to use. But the fact is, most of us exist in a rather mediocre state of homeostasis. We maintain an
spiritual level are all about.
even keel that feels sort of okay. We’re comfortable with it. It’s not ecstatic, not rapturous, but it’s all right. We might even describe ourselves as happy. The challenge the little prince poses is to grow yourself into a bigger person who can connect more deeply, and hence for whom life becomes deliriously happy. You’re no longer content to simply get by. There’s not a bone of mediocrity in you. Instead, you dance through each day. Little children are generally deliriously happy. This is why the story of the little prince has a lot to say about the child’s heart that’s buried in each of us. It’s really sad that the excitement we
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all started out with gets crushed. We become so used to feeling sort of okay that we completely
which Lessons in Loving—A Journey into the Heart is based, at any bookstore or online.
Movies to Grow By
The Four Seasons Alan Alda and Carol Burnett star in this 1981 movie about three successful couples who for years have gone on vacation together in each of the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The movie opens with their spring vacation in the mountains. All six individuals, who are extremely close friends, have for the past few decades related on a somewhat surface level. They have a great time together, and the movie is hilarious. But when one of the guys announces to his buddy that he’s going to divorce, the news sends shockwaves through all their relationships. How can Nick do this to Anne after so many years together? Things heat up when, on their next vacation together sailing in the summer, Nick shows up with a gorgeous young blond. The other four are threatened by the outright fun the couple are having, which spotlights the tedium they’ve become accustomed to in their own relationships. But gradually, what they resent begins to rub off. Tension builds, among the many laughs the movie provides, as we head toward their winter skiing vacation. By now, the new member of the group is expecting. Jack, played by Alan Alda, goaded by his wife Kate, played by Carol Burnett, finally lets his controlled facade come down and totally loses it as he rips a moose head from the wall of their rental home and stuffs it into the fireplace. He can’t believe he’s really this angry! As everyone becomes more open, we’re left with the idea that suppressed anger is like a volcano whose magma needs to be released. The movie depicts what so many of us still believe about our emotions and so many counselors encourage. Yet it’s a theory that’s been disproven. Venting anger doesn’t release it, but strengthens it. It becomes a habit as we indulge in it more and more. A more accurate image of the effect of venting is a muscle. The more you work the muscle, the stronger it becomes. Lose your temper, and you’ll find yourself losing it more and more. Indulge in pity parties, and you’ll become increasingly sad until you are eventually depressed. Becoming real, so that we abandon the facade that’s so typical of human beings, does mean we begin to feel suppressed emotions. Many of us have lived our lives in denial of our real feelings. But the answer isn’t to vent. It’s to contain. When we contain an emotional reaction instead of letting fly, sitting with it, being with it quietly without turning it into a story about how awful our life is, we integrate the suppressed emotion. Its energy then
becomes available for living responsibly, but fully alive instead of just going through the motions. The pretense disappears and the masks come off as we at last become true to ourselves. The movie is available at some rental stores. Or you can rent it on DVD from Blockbuster.com, or buy it from Amazon.com for $9.99. How to contain instead of either denying, suppressing, or venting? The answer lies in Michael Brown’s amazing book The Presence Process. Enjoy The Four Seasons—and then begin to open up to feel more fully—and simultaneously contain. You’ll be amazed how enriched your life will be.
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by Namaste Publishing staff A year ago, I divorced. Just recently, I had occasion to meet with my former husband in the presence of my college age daughter. It was the first time I’d seen him in over a year as I live in a different state now. I exploded at him because he wasn’t honest with me over several matters when we met. Now my daughter is enraged with me for spoiling out time together. Since then, I’ve begun The Presence Process by Michael Brown. How does a person who is truly present in the moment handle a situation like this without compounding the damage? And what do I do with the mistrust and anger I feel toward my ex?
This really isn’t about your former husband or your daughter. In terms of The Presence Process, the upset you may have triggered and are now feeling is what Michael Brown calls a “set up.” Your inner grower (see the Namaste Publishing eBook Meet Your Inner Grower) has placed you in just the right situation to integrate the emotional pain from your earlier life that’s driving your present explosiveness. The thing now is to simply sit with the feelings you are experiencing. Don’t try to push them under the rug, but don’t dwell on them either. Just allow them to be exactly what they are without self-recrimination or blame. Use the breathing technique outlined in The Presence Process while you sit with what you are feeling. As you allow the emotion to surface, breathe in the connected breathing manner the book explains. You’ll gradually find that unresolved pain from the past will dissolve. It’s crucial not to analyze who did what, who said what. No analysis is needed. All that’s required is to be with the emotion. The more you go over something of this nature in your mind or in conversaton with others, the deeper the issue becomes. It’s like digging yourself into a rut. As the pain behind the emotion is resolved, the trapped energy of this emotion will become available for problem solving. You likely won’t need to straighten things out with your daughter. You’ll just be the loving person you really are quite apart from all of this explosiveness. Whatever may be required to bring you close again will simply flow.
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The Dalai Lama has stated that the world will be saved by women. I am tempted to say, 'Not if the Pope has his way.' Yet even though the church has suppressed the feminine for centuries, the very institution that has most disregarded woman Ainds itself promoting a resurgence of Hildegard at this time.
It's as if Hildegard’s truth were bursting out despite all attempts to silence her these long 900 years. In this era of global crisis, Hildegard represents and calls forth the healing power of the divine feminine in all of us. Matthew Fox
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