CONTEMPLATE Our Root Motivation: Feeling - We want to feel Whole by Connecting with Our Soul and Source at the Base of our Being Our Quest: Emptiness - Finding and Filling the Inner Void Find the Hole and Let it Fill from Within Itself. Our Origin and Destination: Bliss - Deep Realization and Satisfaction-Based Happiness - Coming from it, Finding it and Going to it. Don't Search for it - Resolve the Distraction. Our Means: Reality - True and Perfect Thoughts of God Radical Honesty, Stillness and Silence - Leads to Understanding our Anxieties and Transforming our Fears. Our Support: Practice - Self Control and Increased Awareness - Acquiring A Disciplined Consciousness Through Controlled Breathing Finding and Sitting in Emptiness Leads to Fearlessness, Feeling Bliss and Experiencing Reality, so Practice it.  My fourth "Major" has only recently
(within the last ten years)
evolved from my interest in Energy Healing and Emotional Alchemy. It
has to do with investigating and understanding the origins
of our emotions and the roles that they play in causing and anchoring
dis-ease. I've become convinced that this is
the most important and current field in Spiritual and Medical
Investigation. The "Space Within" is the final frontier. So my
continuing investigation has focused on what are commonly called "The
Issues".
And addressing the "Issues" in the
tradition
of Spiritual Healing and Self-Realization, I reached the conclusion
that the
"issues" are not the issue. What I mean by this is - the root
core
of our dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction itself -it is not whatever we feel
we are dissatisfied about, but that we are dissatisfied at all.
Transforming Dissatisfaction
Isn't it obvious that many of us are simply afraid of
our
feelings. We are petrified, unable and unwilling to feel.
Yet
experience has proven that the feelings themselves, even though we are
afraid of them, are nothing to be afraid of. What causes us the most
difficulty in out lives is how
we respond to them, our
judgments around them, or, how we feel about how we feel.
Which leads me to conclude that the
work and beginning of
perfect healing is coming to
be able to sit with and feel our
dissatisfaction. If we cannot tolerate it then we cannot feel
it, and if we cannot feel it then how can we heal it? The "Zen" of
healing
would say, "If you cannot sit with your feeings then you cannot be
conscious of your enlightenment, grasshopper".
And in the tradition of Radical Therapy I say, "Anything but that is self-abuse." The
Fundamental
Principles of Healing with
Mindfulness
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