The value of courage:
Life Area: Interdependence
Learning a new language is a new culture. You even think differently! It doesn’t take courage to learn a new language it takes time, effort and patience. It can be stimulating and inspiring. Now, here’s the thing, take your birth language and consider creating a new one while noticing your thought/speaking patterns. With a new language you are developing new brain pathways. Changing your language you are retraining old pathways in your brain and creating new. Now add to it that you are stepping free of the herd and being the change. This is courage!
Conscious Dialogue will change the world, one conversation at a time……
Fruition is appearing through those struggling through learning and as it pops up for those in my circle of learning – amazing connection of understanding and for me, gratification for contributing I am in the afterglow of three celebrations yesterday in three separate teaching moments that makes my heart sing! Each of the three completely different, couple, single, parent, yet all struggling with the pain of unconscious behaviour of their own and those around them. In the A-ha moments, the prior distress of waking up – gone! The one I would like to share is the feedback of one who recognized the value of getting ego out of the way to work mutually towards the good of the common goal! Wow, I have purposely not used the language of the dharma (ego) even tho having the recognition of these steps as the potential to actually create this experience. Going beyond our habit and learning how to be in a dialogue with understanding is amazing in my opinion!
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The Buddha on ‘Oberservation’
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not
belie ve in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Buddha
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Black & White, Right & Wrong
Are you someone who is experiencing your world experiences in black or white, right or wrong?
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Is so, are you curious and willing to explore and self – inquire based on the following pattern of self-questioning?
- Are you aware that there is another experience available to you that isn’t as clearly defined as you perceive it?
Take a moment and imagine how you would describe your body posture and the strength you are using to stand or sit up right.
Ask yourself what type of tree would you use to describe this experience?
If you could choose one of these trees which one would it be:
- Pine
- Cedar
- Oak
Now imagine being a Willow Tree.
Can you transition into this experience with ease? How does it feel in your body posture? Does anything change, become softer or more flexible?
If you can easily imagine being a Willow Tree, now consider being Bamboo.
How does this concept come into you and through your experience? Does it stop and become blocked at the thought of considering this vision or does it carry through to a deeper relaxation into your posture?
For those of you who enjoy experiencing through our physical senses try this exploration out. Remember to have a curious mind.
- Now with a friend, peer or family member stand tall and strong with your feet firmly planted on the floor. Hold with resistance. Have your helper push on you shoulder and feel the resistance and your strength push back.
- Let this go and become loose, soft and flexible with your feet still planted firmly on the floor and now in this expression have your helper push on your shoulder. Feel the lack of resistance, resilience and how you still are able to hold your posture.
- Take a moment and reflect on how these two separate experiences through your physical strength, both are strong stances, and give yourself a moment to give feedback on how these two experiences where for you. Which one is the one that you sense a higher quality of where you would like to be now? Which one is your habitual reactive self? Which one would you be able to take an easy breath in or do you remember if you held your breathe or not?
Remember we only do what we know until a new experience and more information is available. In each experience we are meeting our own needs. It’s how we meet our needs that we could develop deeper awareness about to better fit who we long to be. Are we meeting our needs through physical, dominate strength or are we meeting our needs through physical flexible strength?
Remember, whatever our bodies are doing, our thoughts will reflect this in our thinking and acting? Information is perceived through our bodies and our mind translates it, therefore we act. If our bodies are rigid, our thoughts will be black and white, right and wrong.
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, November 8, 2012 Follow Renee on Facebook & on Twitter
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Proof Positive in my opinion why coming into present moment brings happiness
Wonderful explanation of mind wandering versus being in the moment. It includes a few sentences on the ability of the mind to organize only known to wo/man kind.
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