Embracing Our True Selves
What keeps us apart from ourselves?
Are we afraid of who we really are?
Recently I decided I need to bring spirituality into my life in a more proactive way again. Once I set this intent, unsurprisingly, synchronicity began to take place. (It always does surprise me though).
My acupuncturist has been giving me a series of treatments to build up my heart and balance me overall. 
In this way of thinking we are all connected, and therefore everyone’s suffering is also universal.
I signed up for a weekend of buddhist teachings here on the Sunshine Coast, and I’ve participated in several teleconferences with powerful spiritual coaches.
In the buddhist philosophy we are all seen as enlightened. It’s a matter of removing the painful feelings and thoughts that block our awareness of this. Buddhists call these situations suffering and believe that it’s a part of the human existence. So they learn to tame their minds to feel joy and peace.
Our buddhist workshop was two days of teachings given by a Master who lives in Nepal and India.
We learned the basics of his stream of buddhism and basked in his presence. To me his energy felt similar, though less intense, than the Dalai Lama’s energy and I felt the power of it affecting me deeply. Once, briefly, I fell into a meditative state almost like sleep, as I did in the Dalai Lama’s presence.
What appealed to me most about the teachings was the idea of oneness that they embrace. In this way of thinking we are all connected, and therefore everyone’s suffering is also universal. This fits with my philosophy and is similar to the original ‘New Age’ ideas. Your mind can’t take you where your heart longs to go. --Debbie Ford
Debbie Ford, whose motto is “Your mind can’t take you where your heart longs to go”, also spoke of oneness in a powerful Visioning hour this week. She invited us to leave behind the ‘tricks’ of our human existence and go into a place of spirit with God, (or whatever name you choose). In this place we can listen to our heart rather than our head and are supported and uplifted by other energies.
It is difficult to describe all of this in words because, as Eckhart Tolle says: “Whatever words we use are already a limitation”. Tolle suggests two simple exercises which may help us with connection:
- Firstly, breathe, sit quietly, and simply repeat “I am”. Don’t complete the sentence and don’t effort at all.
- The second task is to breathe, sit quietly, and repeat “Who am I”. Don’t look for an answer, simply repeat the phrase. A sense will come to you.
Rinpoche taught us a basic exercise to work with our feelings of desire, anger, ignorance, jealousy or pride as follows:
- When we experience one of the above feelings in ourselves, with each inhalation imagine breathing in the same feeling from all others in the world who are experiencing the same thing.
- Then imagine dissolving those feelings into our own.
- Exhale pure white energy.
I find that everything I’ve done has taken me deeper into myself, and helped to open my heart. We appear to have the ability to change more rapidly than before.It has shifted me from my usual left-brain overload to a lighter place more consistently.
We appear to have the ability to change more rapidly than before. We’re peeling away the layers of non-self that our years of living on this earth have produced. And when we are able to listen to our hearts we are supported and uplifted.
May 15-June 5
Dare to Live Your Dreams Coaching Group Gibsons, BC
Sept. 26-28
Rejuvenate Yourself Body, Mind & Spirit Retreat Sunshine Coast, BC
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