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Topic: Hello from Illinois - Bill W Started 10 years, 5 months ago

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Bill W
Posted 10 years ago

I recently read Gary’s book Spiritual Partnerships and I was so knocked out by it! I’m looking forward to participating in the Life School.
Catherine
Posted 10 years ago

Dear Bill, I am so glad you are here. Thank you for sharing your experience with Spiritual Partnerships. It’s a beautiful book, summarizing decades of Gary’s spiritual quest and knowledge. Would you like to share what you remember as particularly striking for you in this book?
We are almost neighbors as I live in Southwestern Michigan. Perhaps we will meet one day.
Enjoy the call in a few hours!
With love,
Catherine

Bill W
Posted 10 years ago

I was impressed by how clearly the book lays out the two polarities of either coming from love or fear. I originally found Spiritual Partnership at my library. I decided to order my own copy after I read it. I’m rereading it and underlining passages that I find powerful (which is about a third of it). I found Gay’s web site and signed up for the Life School. I’m new to on line workshops. Unfortunately I had a volunteer commitment to do at my church today so I missed the call. Let me know how you liked it.
Peace, Bill
Catherine
Posted 10 years ago

I remember how impressed I was with the clarity and usefulness of these polarities, which I had never thought of before I heard Gary describe them at the first Journey I attended. I am so glad you found this book and your way to the workshop.
You will have to wait a little for my report on the Saturday call because I was traveling and couldn’t participate. A video recording as well as an audio recording will be available soon on the Life School’s landing page. I look forward to catching up. Have you been able to watch and/or listen to previous recordings? I find each one very supportive in the moment. There is always something going on with me which that day’s presentation addresses!
A recent example comes to mind. I was on the road during the May call and listening from my car. At one point Gary mentioned how one could feel frightened parts of entitlement and react in anger (something to that effect because I don’t remember the exact words now). He had just finished talking about this reaction when another driver triggered my fps with his/her behavior, which I/fps judged to be rude and dangerous. I also felt searing pain in my chest; it was the pain of powerlessness because there was nothing I could do to control the situation. Almost instantly, as I was feeling this intense pain, I remembered what Gary had said just a minute earlier and I had to laugh seeing how the Universe was supporting me in challenging those frightened parts of my personality. Thanks to what I had heard from Gary I was able to distance myself from my reaction, to observe it and to learn from it, recognizing this fp of powerlessness. If I hadn’t been listening to the conference call, my fp reaction would have lasted much longer and I might not have learned anything from it.
With love,
Catherine
Kristen Richardson
Posted 10 years ago

Hello Bill W,
I also am your neighbor, right here in Iowa. I look forward to connecting with you. Welcome to the Life School!
Love,
Kristen
Bill W
Posted 10 years ago

Thank you for reaching out. I am challenged right now to find time to get started with the Awakening to Authentic Power course. I own my own painting business (I’m a sole proprietor) so I’m busy a lot right now. I also suspect that some of my resistance to change is up. Oh well, all in good time. Are you taking this course or have completed it? I’m new to this so it’s taking me a while to get started.
Peace,
Bill
Catherine
Posted 10 years ago

Hello again Bill. It’s good to read you. I appreciate your sharing what is happening to you. Would you like to say what it means for you to resist to change? What change would you like to make in your life? How do you feel when you resist?
As for me, I took the course a while ago. I’ve also attended workshops with Gary and Linda since 2008. I’ve experienced both change and the resistance to change, from frightened parts of my personality. It’s an ongoing journey.
With love,
Catherine
Bill W
Posted 10 years ago

Wow! That sound so cool to have been with Gary and Linda in several workshops. I would love to do that someday. I’ve had a very busy and stressful week (so far). I will try to find time tomorrow to sit down and start my course. Sometimes just getting started is the hardest part. The main change I would like to see in my life is to experience more peace and serenity. I’ve been meditating regularly for more than a year now. It has definitely helped. Thanks for asking.
Peace, Bill
Cindy
Posted 10 years ago

Hi, Bill. Thank you for sharing about your meditation experience. I often have difficulty with letting go of my mental worries in order to be successful at meditation, so it is encouraging for me to read about your success! I have presently been looking into ways in which I am blocked and or resistant to my own growth and why I would choose to remain this way. I am realizing that I can be very resistant to becoming truly close to other people in my life. I encourage your enthusiasm to Gary and Linda’s teachings and I will ask the Universe to assist you in being open to the causes of any resistance which you may be experiencing so that you may open to your own growth while the initial excitement and spark is present in your life with the new exposure to these books.

Love, Cindy
Catherine
Posted 10 years ago

Hello, Bill. I am wondering if you have started your course by now. I am moved by your intention to experience more peace and serenity, as this is an intention I hold, too, but that I/frightened parts of my personality often forget. Meditation is a great support in becoming more aware of myself and the thoughts that don’t belong to the loving parts of my personality. This is definitely an ongoing project for me. If ever you can attend an event with Gary and Linda, it will be of great support because we all interact with each other and are given the opportunity to practice creating authentic power. Spiritual partners can support us in becoming aware of what we cannot always see on our own, even with a strong intention to grow.

Cindy, thank you for your response. I have a similar fp resistance to closeness, which manifests through judging, blaming, feeling superior or inferior, fearing to show myself as vulnerable, and forgetting to look at others with reverence, as souls who are sharing this extraordinary life with me. How does your resistance manifest?

With love,
Catherine
Cindy
Posted 10 years ago

Catherine, that’s a very good question. I am really just recently opening up to the awareness that I have so much resistance to others present in my life. As I consider this, I am realizing that it can manifest when others want to have a closer relationship with me. I have sort of had some clues as to this before but was not wanting to really explore or perhaps know where to begin thus or willing to look at how great the need was for me to do so. But I did know that I had a lot of difficulty in certain types of social settings. I knew that I did not know how to get close to people sometimes in those settings. There are some settings in which I am comfortable and others in which i am not and in those I tend not to even know how to open up. They can be the more up close and personal kind. Oftentimes, I have no difficulty at all in opening up to complete strangers and carrying on a lot of conversation which seems to be both enjoyable for myself and for them. I really think that on a deeper level, that some of why I experience the resistance to closer relationships is because I am not truly close on an intimate level with myself and so I may not really know how to share the true person which I am at such a level. This is a really new revelation for me and so i need to explore this, (and other), areas a whole lot more and to experiment with them. It has been drawn to my attention recently in some different ways than before, of just how long this has been evident in my life, (hint: always!). But now I am seeing that while I sort of thought more or less that I was no longer having problems with it such as I did when I was a child, I am now becoming aware that I only just adapted very well to trying to disguish the difficulty. This has allowed me, as an adult, to be able to enjoy people and interactions with them, but I am now opening up to exploration of these frightened parts which I have for so long not seen a need to expose and challenge because I did not recognize how much they were doing in keeping me distant from others in my life. If I don’t understand what it’s all about, then no doubt it throws others off when they see my social yet antisocial behavior as well. Lots, lots, lots to learn and grow from and challenge as I explore where the Love is and how to bring that out! Becoming whole is a truly vast exploration! Thank you for asking. I am drawn to consider further, your articulation of “forgetting to look at others with reverence, as souls who are sharing this extraordinary life with me”. Right now it is bringing up some fear in me but I also realize that I may be able to benefit from this in times when I need to challenge myself in order to stay open and receptive to my loving depth so that i can share this with others and not shut down.

Love, Cindy
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