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Topic: Aloha~ Excited to be here - Daniella B Started 7 years, 5 months ago
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Aloha Daniella, So beautiful to welcome you to the life school. My name is Luz and I also feel your excitement about being part of learning and growing in the evolution of this lifetime! π Might I suggest another wonderful book written by Gary Zukav and Linda Francis called “The Heart of the Soul, Emotional Awareness”. It is another book that has brought new awareness and understanding in my life. In addition to that knowledge, it also helps introduce some of the vocabulary used in the video’s appearing Gary and Linda. If you are open to doing so, I invite you to share with us how you are experiencing the intensions you set and how that is appearing in your life. Feel free to explore throughout the Life School website and share your thoughts in the community form. With much love, |
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Daniella, Your post reminded me of my first experience with The Seat of The Soul. Totally filled a part of me that was so deeply starving for food. For me I am discovering that my most painful life experiences that at the time I totally wanted to run from we’re going to be such beautiful experiences to learn about myself. It has been so special to see my perspective completely change about things in my life that at the time were so terrifying. Until Seat of The Soul I did not realize the Journey I was on on or what I was here to do. Welcome to The Community. With Love and Gratitude, Doug |
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Thank you so much Luz and Doug. What beautiful light and connection shared. I will check out that book, Luz. I have a question for you both. How do you participate in they Life School. I am just heading to our Member’s Home Page and watching video’s that call to me. As well as check in here to our community space. Is that anything else you do? Perhaps I will dive into the E course too. |
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Daniella, You can also go through the list of various questions answered by Gary. Some of those questions might just reflect the questions that you might have at the moment. Pay close attention to Gary’s responses. If something is not clear enough to you in a given response, then you can go to the corresponding parts in Gary’s books or to the corresponding videos. The result could be highly beneficial. And, to the above list of books you might want to add The Mind of the Soul and The Spiritual Partnership also. With love and trust, |
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Thank you so much Sundar. Blessings to you. |
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Daniella, A special part of the Life School are the monthly calls. The next one is June 24th. Gary and Linda will share their insights on a topic and then open it up for Q and A. Then they break all the callers into small groups of 4 or 5 people and we interact about the topic. It can be very connecting and powerful. Watch carefully for your reactions as you consider joining the call. Sometimes folks call in for Gary and Linda and then drop perhaps because a frightened part of their personality got triggered thinking about interacting with strangers on the call. Gary has for me a powerful quote, “it is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow”. Never really occurred to me it takes courage but at times for me it does. With Love, Doug |
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Daniella, To add to the important point that Doug has made above, the topic for last month live call was proactive loving. The audio for this can be seen under Latest Live Teaching on the right of the home page. The same is going to be the topic for next month live call also (on the 24th). Doug and others, I need help regarding the above topic. I am unable to recognize the difference between this topic and any previous discussions on just loving (rather than proactive loving). What are the important differences? Thank you in advance. With love and trust, |
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So nice to see an active and energized community board. Doug, love the saying about courage of engaging in relationships. So beautiful. Would second Sundars request for clarification on loving vs. proactive loving. They’re both different aspects of courageous human relationships? Thanks all y’all for your love and wisdom. Shelley |
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Hello Shelley, Thank you so much for seconding it. I like to elaborate on my question. By their very design, the frightened parts automatically become active at any given moment unless I take special efforts to challenge them and force the loving parts to become active instead. So, by their very design, the loving parts have to be initiated consciously by me at every moment. I cannot sit back, be unconscious and hope that the loving parts would become active on their own. When I sit back and be unconscious, fear always takes over and my path is always horizontal; I continue to get angry. For love to take over fear and for me to travel on a vertical path I have to take the initiative, be dynamic, not static, and bring about the changes internally within myself with awareness, with consciousness. That is, I always have to be proactive. So, does the adjective proactive just add emphasis to this inherent nature of loving, implying that there is no other go than to be proactive about loving? In other words, does loving always imply proactive loving? This is what it seems to me to be the case. Or, are there fundamental differences between loving and proactive loving that I happen to be missing? That is, as you are also wondering, are they both different aspects of courageous human relationships? If so, what are those fundamental differences? Expecting comments from you and other spiritual partners on the community board. Thank you all in advance, as I am deeply interested in understanding this. With love and respect, |
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Dear Spiritual Partners, There is a section at the bottom of the main page where we all are invited to submit questions to Gary and Linda and I have used it often. For me personally answering questions or rendering opinions can actually be a frightened part of my personality active that wants to feel smart or to call it what it is in me a feeling of superiority. This forum triggers that part in me often but I keep coming back to work on challenging that firghtened part of my personality. With Love and Gratitude for you all, Doug |
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Hi Doug, Thank you for your honest sharing. I totally empathize, as I have seen the same tendency in myself, to share, to help someone because a frightened part of my personality wants to get that boost. I, Ms. wonderful, know it all and am helping little you, so to speak. A temporary sop to the frightened parts, at best. But still, it is a conundrum. We could all be helping one another better understand how to apply these wonderful teachings to our day to day situations. We could all be making good progress. In AA, CODA, NA and such anonymous programs, one of the foundations is that as you get better, you teach others, that strengthens your own base, your own understanding and practice. Also, part of being authentic must mean being able to coach and guide others. So, how do you do that without acting out your frightened parts? Perhaps the answer is meditating on it until you know your motivation is pure? Perhaps it is sharing not just your successes, but also, how you had a similar situation (admitting you are not Ms/Mr. Superior), but this is the advice we got, or this is how we worked it out. Someone more steeped in the program than I can perhaps step in and clarify. Or maybe you have had additional insights on this since you last wrote, would love to know the progression of your journey. And, I hope you know that we really appreciate your guidance Doug, and I at least have not smelled the stink of superiority, but rather always seen thoughtfulness and a genuine desire to help in your responses. Love and gratitude for all,
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As I read the above, I see a lot of “you” statements. Most are meant as a general you, not directed at you, Doug. Apologies! I will try to be better about using “I” statements in the future. I can’t see the button for edit anymore, or I would edit. |
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Shelley, You have made good points. To add to them, let us imagine for a second that Gary had taken the same stand as suggested by Doug – let us imagine that he refrained from sharing his ideas in his wonderful books after assuming that his frightened parts were probably making him feel superior to everybody else. What would be the consequence? Unimaginable as far as I am concerned! Because of the impact of his books on me in my life. I honestly believe that your statement “But still, it is a conundrum” says it all! I have always thought that every good message can have one of two possible effects on any one – a positive impact or a negative impact. One might wonder how a good message can ever have a negative impact. After learning from Gary’s amazing teachings the answer seems to be clear – it is just the role of the frightened parts; they make sure that the good message is misinterpreted as much as possible by the personality and the personality applies it in the wrong direction. Shelley, I like to share here an honest feeling of mine in a courageous manner – there is something fundamentally wrong with this community board. Under normal circumstances I would expect my questions to generate a wealth of good discussions and heart-to-heart communications among the members. I honestly believe that my questions about loving vs proactive loving are extremely important. It is one thing if no member has any response at the moment for the questions asked; I can understand the corresponding silence. But, when I read the response which pointed to me that there is a provision on the home page for asking questions to Gary, I had to tell myself ‘here we go again’. But, I had decided not to respond to it at all. However, after I saw your response, I decided to share my honest feeling. I could be totally wrong in my feeling, in which case I will stand completely corrected; in fact, I hope I am wrong. During almost every live call Gary and Linda encourage everyone to use this forum; I am hoping I have not misunderstood their directive in any way. With love and trust, |
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Hello Doug, Sundar, and all spiritual partners. Lots of agreement and disagreements with the above conversations. Hopefully I can express my thoughts with love and truth. First, a community board like this ought to have some rules. I don’t know if this one has. If it does, I do not remember seeing them. Maybe a good idea for whoever manages the board to post more prominently, and perhaps pm journeyers when rules are broken? One of the rules I have seen on other forums is that we focus only on ourselves, our journey, our feelings, and do not make judgments about other partners’ journeys. I was the first to break that rule, by posing the conundrum question. For that, I apologize. I can only know my own internal truth, where I am on my internal journey. So, if I or anyone feels that I cannot give advice because I am not sure what my underlying emotion is, how wonderful is that?! They are doing the work, they are asking the why (am I doing that), and hopefully the why underneath the why, and finding answers to the question, what motivates their behaviors/choices. They are on their wonderful discovery journey! It is no doubt frustrating to us, newerbies, as we want to hear words of support, wisdom from those further along the path. We are in a rush to learn and this board is no doubt a little quiet. So I understand your frustration and I second it. But perhaps even this board is our spiritual partner, teaching us something we need to learn. In essence, let’s all focus our writing on this board on our own journeys. Let’s share our successes, not to show off but to make it more concrete, and to act as a lighthouse for others lost or struggling on the path. Let us share our struggles, so others know they are not the only ones struggling with a particular issue. Let us share new strategies we are trying, so others get ideas for how to resolve their issues. Let’s all make this our own community board Hop, pop, crackle! Energize us all on our journey! |
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