Ami, thank you so much for bringing this video of higher order of the heart to my attention. I felt that this was such a good review for me, and reminder of how to recognize thoughts that are from fear and connecting the dots with emotions and seeing it all with the higher order of understanding of the heart. I really needed to review all of this right now. I will add this to my favorites.

Love, Cindy

Hi Gladys. It’s good to see you again on the community board. I look forward to further sharing and growing with you as spiritual partners both here and also on the Life School calls. I’m sending Thanksgiving wishes your way as every day is a day for me to find something in my life to be thankful for!

With love,
Cindy

Welcome Catherine!

I came to read the Seat of the Soul several years ago. I had been going to bookstores and searching answers outside of my traditional religious background. I had not felt for sometime that I was really finding answers within my traditional beliefs and was gravitating towards something more expanded. When I first read the Seat of the Soul, I knew that all of what I read rang true for myself. I am very grateful for Gary and Linda and the work that they do and for this wonderful website that they have provided where I can learn more, experiment in my life, and return for more learning. I am learning to appreciate the Seat of the Soul programs more and more as time goes on. It is wonderful to be connected with others in this way and to be able to share and be supported, and to give support to others in the best way that I can. I encourage you to participate in the monthly Life School calls that are offered. This provides a wonderful real time connection with Gary and Linda and with other spiritual partners who are working to cultivate spiritual growth in their lives. Have you listened to the video of the Serenity Prayer? I feel that what Gary offers in that video is very grounding and can lead me back to where I need to apply my focus at times when I feel overwhelmed with choices/decisions that I must make with my life’s direction.

Blessings this Thanksgiving day and always,
Cindy

Soula,

This morning, I attended a “skills fair” at work after my overnight shift. I enjoyed interacting with others as I went around to the various stations where we reviewed nursing skills. I did catch myself in a fp that wanted attention. I wanted to say something “cute, or funny” when 3 or 4 of us were participating together. It was not something that would have been, “inappropriate, or wrong”, but I was able to recognize that I might want to stop myself. I am unable to say what I felt in my body at that moment, but I do know that it was coming from an attention seeking fp, because I had some difficulty with stopping myself from saying it, and that alerted me to the fact that it was a fp that wanted to engage the attention of others.

A couple of weeks ago, I was walking through a corridor outside of the unit where I work in long term care, and so I was passing through another unit. As I was coming upon the nurse’s station there, I noticed one of the residents having words with the medication aide who works that unit overnight. The resident was displaying fps of anger with her words. I stopped in the corridor, within view of the medication aide, and listened as the interaction went on and then was completed. The aide, then, came over to me and was telling me about the interaction. She had some fps of frustration which she voiced to me. There was not any action that I needed to take. I was able to be conscious with my choice of words, and to be in support of her without care-taking or making anyone wrong.

On my unit, I work with a nursing aide two weekends a month whom I have, in the past several months, had to pay attention to, to insure that certain aspects of her job are being fulfilled. She had fps that wanted to rebel, but more recently, it seems that we are able to work together better. I am continuing to work with myself with regard to coming from lps when I find it necessary to give instruction to others with regard to things which need to be corrected in the way that they are being completed, (or when they are not getting completed). I have had two times recently when fps were activated in me when I was interacting with staff. During both times, I believe that I did my best to choose words from lps. After one of the times, when something had come up at the end of my shift with my co-worker and she had left the unit for the day, I spoke from my fps and voiced frustration to the on-coming nurse. I new that I should not be doing that. I intend to continue working with myself so that I challenge those parts when they feel that they must, “vent”, frustration.

I have been working with myself throughout my days recently, to feel my emotional centers when I am feeling, “uptight”, and to relax and let go of this way of being that is so familiar. I feel the pain of tightness mostly in my solar plexus and down in the abdominal area lower than that. It can be in the middle of my chest area also. Working with myself to notice this and to let my body relax, is helping.

With my thoughts, in regard to these feelings, and at my workplace, I have been considering that the fp thinks that things must be a certain way, and done, “right”. I know that with regard to my nursing work that things do need to be completed in manner which will assist the health of the people whom I serve at my job, but I intend to work to get to the bottom of the fp, (understand it and feel the pain fully),so that when I communicate with others, I am able to do so from loving parts.

Thank you for asking me to share with you.

Love,
Cindy

Hello Leo,

I am feeling grateful for your sharing of your experience with letting go of fps of judgement of yourself and also your fps that came up from the judgement coming from another. It is beautiful to read that you were able to detach from the fps and consciously move into lps and to feel, “the grace of accepting myself”, and to become, “open and at ease”, with your energy centers. I appreciate how you share that you, “set my intention of forgiveness to myself”. I am grateful for the work that you have done with yourself and grateful that you have shared this beautiful moment of empowerment in your life, making choices to heal yourself.

Blessings to you as well,
Cindy

Hi Sundar,

I have to say that I think I have been given opportunity in my previous communication to you, to see myself in a “teaching” fp. I am feeling some sensation in my throat right now, and pain in my chest area as well. It is interesting to me that I am feeling discomfort in my throat area since I know that I have fps around not being able to express myself and to be “heard”, or for what I say to be seen as being of value. I was lengthy in my reply to you and sort of repeated the same information more than once. I became “excited” as I continued on with my description for you and reread and edited to get it “right”. It is not concerning me that the description which I offered may be “wrong”, but I intend to learn to come from Love in my communications with others. It is the intention that I want to set again, and again, to be truly coming from Love when I communicate with others, and without attachment to the outcome. This is a learning experience for me.
Love,
Cindy

Luz, I love how you describe Acceptance as being in flow with; gratitude of the moment and who is before me–as they are. Being in the moment and seeing with an open heart and Love within me. For a couple of days after the call on Tolerance vs Acceptance, I was able to apply my new found knowledge of what it meant to be accepting. I experienced tightness in my chest area and in my upper arms easing up as I began to experiment with being accepting of all as it was in the moment. In the past few days at work, I have had some very rewarding moments with some of the residents in dementia care with whom I work. I have been very grateful for the Love that has come back to me from them. Additionally, over the weekend, I met with fps in myself at times, when they were activated by a coworker and also a resident. I have been working to look at my intentions and I did my best in a moment with the coworker as I felt that I needed to communicate something with her. I also know that I want my best to be better the next time that those fps are activated. I felt fps activated for at least a couple of hours early Monday morning near to the end of my shift at work. I had a lot of pain in my chest and continued with my work all while the pain was there. A resident was also bringing my fps to my attention over and over through that time. I chose to read to her for a time, from a religious book that I knew would be meaningful to her. After that, I needed to redirect her twice, out of the rooms of her fellow residents, (of long term care). I chose to speak with her very patiently and directly both times, even though it is difficult to really know how much she is absorbing from my words. I was really surprised and encouraged when, on the second attempt, just as she came to the doorway while leaving a room, she suddenly turned to me and said “Thank you”, in a very clear manner, and then she reached out to me with her arms to embrace me. That was the second time in the weekend that I was rewarded with Love, and again, something encouraging happened last night.

Thank you so much for sharing your words about acceptance and giving me them to consider and to continue to work towards being truly accepting all of the time and with everyone.

I saw something on a social network recently reminding me to pause when in various inner situation such as anger, etc. and to pray during that pause. This was very supportive to me as I know that I want to reach for support from the Universe more. Sometimes when I take time to pause, I notice that the person with whom I speak begins to run forth with the conversation. At those times, it is difficult for me to know how to support the other person. This happened to me a couple of days ago as I spoke with my sister on the phone about a project in which we are both involved. Each time that I paused, she would run forth with her words. I was not aware of my physical sensations at the time. I know that I did not go into anger. But I was conscious of how the conversation was coming forth. I just noticed.

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