Hi to Everyone,
I was thinking how much effort needs to be put in each day just to keep up in the material world. And then I think, What happened to my spiritual growth today? I have been busy in the material world. Then I remember some small victories when I did control my actions, and am pleased that now I do notice when I am coming from a frightened parts. I have receiving the gifts that Gary and Linda and all of you are giving me each day and think and feel gratitude and love which I extend to all you all. Thanks Imre

Hi, everyone. I just wanted to express my gratitude as well for the tele conference calls that Gary and Linda have led us on every two weeks. I had come home from the journey retreat with intention to put to great effort to create authentic power in my life and it wasn’t very long at all until I found it very difficult to keep that focus and practice in my every day life. The phone calls have been very supportive and have served to help me to continue to remember that creating authentic power in my life is a commitment that I want to continually engage in and the path that I want to spend the rest of this life (and all others) on. It has taken several calls until of late I find myself spending more time in my everyday life actually remembering emotional awareness and trying to create authentic power. Those efforts are still quite scattered throughout any given day but I feel like its a start and without the calls most probably I wouldnt even have that at this point after the retreat. So a huge thank you to Gary and Linda and to all of the Seat of the Soul staff who work to make this connection possible. Right now I am in a very tough life circumstance with my family and some things at work have been tough with coworkers and so I have plenty of opportunity to test the waters of experimentation with creating authentic power. I don’t think that I respond always all that well during the break out sessions of the calls but I am glad for the opportunity to challenge frightened parts in speaking truthfully. Today I spent time with a close friend and we talked on and on together and it is easy to open up with her because my frightened parts don’t get in the way and so I do not have so much trouble speaking up and expressing myself. In conversation I was telling her about the books of Gary’s and Linda’s and describing the emotional centers and how to recognize when you feel pain due to frightened parts and choosIng from loving parts in that moment in order to develop better relationships with those people who you are engaged with at that moment and she said she’d never heard it all described like that before and she seemed very interested and she told me that I did a really good job of describing it. I can talk with strangers really easily and love to talk with people in general and can be very good at listening but in closer relationships and when I really would like to be able to reach in deeper and tell those I’m in closer relationships with such as a partner or a parent or a child then frightened parts can I think sort of send me into a block. It can be a lot more challenging to engage and stay engaged and say all those things that are held inside and later I think of all the things that I really would like to be able to get across in the moments when they would mean the most. So I think that the break out groups are teaching us and giving us opportunities to learn to do just that. Am I correct about that? Anyway, I think I’m seeing some progress and again, I’m very grateful for these calls and I’m going to spend more time with this online community as well. Bye for now. Cindy from Kansas

I am so inspired when I read the community board, and each time I do I learn something about myself from reading what other people have written. This also happens with the breakout sessions on our calls. Each call has been rich with insight because of something someone has said and I can relate to it in my life in some way.
I challenge a strong frightened part in me that finds excuses not to share in this forum-things like, “why would I want to put my process in writing” and “I can’t really create authentic power over the Internet, I like face to face interactions.” I am aware of a heaviness in my shoulders, and a tightness in my neck and jaw when I indulge that frightened part. Other thoughts that accompany this frightened part are “I won’t be clear or I won’t be understood or I can’t explain all I have to say.”
I loved what you said, Lori, about seeing your frightened part as “not the truth” and then asking if your choice will be from love or fear. I also feel the courage in that well up inside me when I apply it to my frightened parts- it is powerful- authentically powerful. At that point it is so clear! It is my purpose to create from love, consciously and with reverence for this precious life. Thank you all for sharing.
With Love, Hazel

I apologize for the response I put on the board 48 minutes ago. I had forgotten that these responses are immediately posted with no prescreening. I had just earlier thought that the response which slipped away from me would have gotten to you and as it was incomplete, I had wanted to give you an explanation as to why that was so. I think a laptop would be a good investment as trying to type on my phone without pressing a wrong button is sometimes a bit difficult. I had lost my original response to Lori in this manner. Thank you. Cindy

I wanted to follow up on my previous post since time has moved on with the course.

I want to start off by stating that I am really finding value and appreciation in the personal sharings that Linda is offering the group. I like them because they are new ones that I have not heard in the last 4 years and I find that the experiences that Linda has shared, have either resonated with me and have been validation of what I am experiencing, challenging as I learn more deeply about myself in the course or I am having some reactions to what she has said, which I have been using as an opportunity to really look more closely at myself and move to deeper layers of frightened parts that have been coming up for me. These opportunities have been wonderful for me to see where I am not feeling loving about myself, not feeling compassionate or forgiving of myself.

I find this gift of Linda’s offering to be a gift that continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. I am looking forward to re-listening to some of the phone calls, so that I can learn even more about myself where I have been unconscious and where I project my frightened parts on others instead of feeling the pain of what is really going on with me. This course has gotten me to look at all my major frightened parts more deeply and I have been able to release some distance with family members that are still alive and even some that are not and as I went through my Mom’s transition to the light, the tools were very helpful as my Mom declined from dementia.

It was amazing how I could use the guidelines and experiences with someone, Mom who was no longer able to speak and recognize me, and to challenge in the present moment what this brought up for me and to be as loving, heart centered and compassionate.

I have also been using the guidelines at some of my meetings that I attend at my church treating my fellow board members as spiritual partners as much as they have been open to my supporting them.

I have experienced more opportunities to choose love over fear, and self forgiveness and compassion at the times that I chose fear in moments of exhaustion and deep emotional pain. I have been grateful also for chapter 6 in using intuition, there has been more opportunity to use and trust my intuition since experiencing this chapter and I have also seen where acknowledging and using my intuition has activated fear and working with some of those fears that feel like love that are not, and then taking the opportunity to take personal responsibility for not following my intuition regardless of how painful accepting the consequences are.

I mention these because each experience has truly been a gift for the growth of my soul, which I have set my intention to heal those parts that I am now aware of that control me, and the discovery that I have so many more than I originally thought is priceless.

Thank you for the opportunity to grow, learn and share with the others in the group calls they have been very helpful as well to “see” my spiritual partners as souls even though we were on the phone. Its been an eye opening experience.

Namaste and love, Pamela