Saturday, February 15, 2014

CHANGE HAPPENS WHEN YOU LIVE IN YOUR VISION



So you’re wanting something to happen? You’re wanting someone to change?  You’re wanting to make a move in your life?  You’re wanting to heal? You’re wanting someone else to heal? You’re wanting to set out on a journey?  You’re wanting to set out on an adventure?  You’re wanting to cross a finish line?  Yes, any finish line.   You’re wanting to create something new, totally new? You’re wanting to create something new from something old?

The questions and variations on the questions are infinite.

So first, be sure that what you are looking at (not hoping for) is in line.  In line with what? Whatever or Whomever you line up with.  Many folks line up with God or a Higher Power, and of course, God or Higher Power looks differently for different people.  Some folks line up with a kind of inner ethic or inner way of living. Whatever or Whomever it is you line up with, be sure that what you are looking at lines up.

I used the phrase looking at instead of hoping for because hoping for can leave your “dream” in the realm of fantasy and impossibility.  When I am looking at my dream, it is real, it is already here in my imagination.

Then ENVISION what you want or desire to happen, again, what you are LOOKING AT. Envision in great great detail as if you are making a documentary video.  See very clearly in your mind, in your mind’s eye, in your soul, and above all, IN YOUR IMAGINATION what you are looking at.  

Then allow yourself to experience the emotions that go with your vision.

*So I allow myself to feel excited and proud that my book is on the best sellers list even though at this moment in time, it appears not to be so.

*I allow myself to feel the overwhelming emotion of watching a film and hearing the soundtrack my son composed.

*I allow myself to experience the wonder and awe of the phone ringing and ringing with new business day after day after day.

*I allow myself to feel the relief and resolve that comes with someone I love so dearly calling and saying, “it’s all okay, we are going to make it....we’re going to get through this....I need to take a different path....we need to take a different path....to bring us closer together....”

*I allow myself to feel the relief and freedom that comes with someone I have loved saying, “I am so sorry I have so mistreated you....I’m getting healing for myself....I understand now....I am ready to let go....I am ready to let go of you and everyone and everything I try so desperately to control....I’m going to live my own life....I am going to stop trying to get even....”

*I allow myself to feel the relief and strength that comes with someone I have loved saying, “I’m ready to accept and love YOU instead of the you I think you should be or the you I wanted you to be, and I’m ready to accept whatever that means for you or whatever that means for us.”

Whatever that vision is in your mind, in your mind’s eyes, in your soul, and above all else, in your imagination, allow yourself the emotions that go with the vision already happening NOW.
Then go about living life as if the vision is your reality.  Treat loved ones as if they have already changed or have already said all those wonderful, loving, and insightful statements. Get up in the morning as if your book is on the best sellers list. Get ready for work as if the phone is going to ring off the hook.  Deposit your money for the day as if you already have a million dollars in your account. Run that 2.5 miles as if you have already run a zillion marathons.

BEWARE of allowing impatience to creep in, disillusionment to set in, and the words, “this will never happen....I was stupid for ever imagining....What’s wrong with me?....Why do I keep hoping?”  And when you hear yourself saying, “why do I keep hoping,” realize your vision has slipped from being a reality into a “hope for.”  "Hope for's" do tend to fade away with time, with disappointment, with disillusionment, with emotional and even physical exhaustion, with age! The key here is to continue the vision and holding the vision in your imagination where you hold it to be real and already here.

When we allow our vision to slip into a “hope for” or to just fade away completely, we are giving up on our dreams, perhaps even giving up on the people we love so dearly, giving up on our Senior Partner, giving up on our own creative self, GIVING UP.

So if you have given up recently, I extend my hand to you to rekindle your imagination, your dream, go beyond your “hope for” to your vision.   See it, see it, see it.  Believe in your vision.  Allow yourself to experience the emotions of your vision. You have nothing to lose and your vision to gain.

I must say none of the above belongs to me.  It has been passed on to me by “folks” like God, other folks like Wayne Dyer, Lao Tsu, Alberto Villoldo, Neal Donald Walsh, Julia Cameron, Bob Berg, Andy Andrews, and so many others. There are folks like Jay Martin who lives in the place we call heaven who has walked with me faithfully in recent years, holding me safe, leading me on to places in my life I never knew existed, but here I am.  There are folks, like David Bradley, who lives in Morro Bay the last I checked, who also holds me safe by not allowing me to slip into a “hope for” spot, not even for a second.  

And in whatever way, I can be a cheerleader for you and your dreams, I will cheer.  The best way I can cheer for you is to see you in your vision myself, so now your dream exists in two imaginations.  And the more “folks” you invite to envision with you, the more imaginable your dream becomes.

CHEERS! 

SOME PART OF US KNOWS TO HOLD ON,
HOLD ON TO OUR VISION
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

I SEE YOUR DEEP WOUNDS AND I AM GOING TO STICK IT TO YOU

     Blaming your partner or spouse creates a courtroom atmosphere in your relationship. Obviously, there is not much conversation in a courtroom. There is, however, plenty of prosecution and defense. When you bring that courtroom atmosphere into your relationship, you spend all of your energies either accusing or defending. You bring up tons of evidence to prove yourself right and your partner GUILTY beyond doubt! Listening does not have a chance. It’s overridden by your mutual drive to rebuttal each and every accusation. You even go so far as to invite children and sometimes friends to sit on the jury! Nothing good comes from proving your partner wrong or guilty (Chapter Seven, pages 41-42).

     This happens frequently right in front of me during session.  It is absolutely awful to be a witness to this gladiator style fighting.  Over the years, I have become adept at refusing to enter the jury box, but it is still an absolutely devastating experience for the couple and could be if I let it, for myself as well.

More than likely, you were in this condition when you came to the relationship

     Viewing this emotionally brutal fighting tells me a couple of things.  For sure, neither one of you is a whole person, not even a semblance of a whole person.  Each of you are run through with holes or wounds in your soul in your psyche in your self worth, and you are good at sticking it to each other right smack into those wounds, but more than likely you entered the relationship with these wounds.  More than likely neither of you inflicted the original wounds.

     Or something very very very over-the-top painful happened in your relationship, and again something that fit right into your existing wounds, but instead of grabbing on to this painful event and working with it and each other to heal, you buried the event and made a contract to leave it buried.

     Unfortunately, neither one of you can leave it buried, but since you said you did, you fight about all kinds of other "shit" to disguise the fact that this Big One did not get buried, but instead buried each of you.

     Want to shift gears and stop being gladiators? Want to give a genuine gift for Valentine's this year like closing the courtroom door for good and healing the Big One?  Well, Chapters Seven and Sixteen will walk you through the healing steps. 



THANK YOU FOR INVESTING IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP.

A WOMAN'S FORKED TONGUE!

     I hear so many women complain that their sweetie pie is  "not emotional or sensitive enough....too controlling.....All he is interested in is sex.  Can't just cuddle and hold me.  Any affection always has to lead to sex....He doesn't listen....I have to chase him around the house if I want to tell him something important....He is too rough with the kids....He is too demanding with the kids....He is so tight with the money....Of course, he is a good provider....My Dad was a good provider, but I don't want to be married to my Dad....Just because he makes more money than me, he thinks he can spend our money on whatever he wants, even if we cannot really afford it.....He never wants to go on vacation where I want to go....Okay, so maybe he deserves to relax, but he drinks way too much....He doesn't want the kids smoking pot, but that's all he does out in the garage, and he thinks the kids can't smell it....Whenever we go somewhere, he is always staring at other women and he thinks I don't see it...."

     So you know what happens when the guy starts crying in therapy?  She reaches over and pleads with him not to cry or worse, "you don't have to win an Oscar, honey."  When I suggest that he stop drinking, she says, "Well, I don't think you have to stop drinking, just don't get drunk."  When I tell the big guy that he comes across as controlling in the session, she says, "Well, I don't want you to be a whimp."  When I suggest that he just hold her more frequently without any sex, she immediately jumps in with, "Oh, that'll never happen.  You don't know him." And on and on it goes.  


     Yes, I get the impression that as much as women complain about men, they really don't want men to change because then.....  Yes, women will have to change as well.  Imagine that?  When we go down the change highway, WE ALL GET TO CHANGE!  



     There is a balance in each relationship and when one person changes, even if for the better of the relationship, the whole relationship has to change and that is unsettling.  I remember a woman complaining for years, I mean years, about her hubby's drinking and it was BAD and we all felt BAD for her until hubby got sober!  Within a month, she went out and bought a full bar for the family room because, as she put it, "we entertain a lot, and we need a bar!"  Go figure. The balance in the relationship had been turned topsy turvy with him sober.  Yes, it had!



     So, ladies, not sure how to deal with your double bind?  You want change but you don't want the consequences of the change?  Get this Book, the perfect guide, the perfect walk along, to carry you both through the topsy turvy's.


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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

RELATIONSHIP MADE IN HEAVEN - CRASHING DOWN = NOW WHAT?


     Relationships made in heaven or in dot com heaven can come crashing down to earth, and when they do, it can be a disaster worth seeking Federal aid for.  Makes you wonder if there ever was a relationship in the first place or if you were just in la la land riding high on a fantasy.  You could have sworn that God sent you Prince Charming or Sleeping Beauty and well, hey, she sleeps all the time.  And well yes, he is charming all the time, but that’s about it! So what are you complaining about?  God did you send you Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty.  But you wanted more than a fairy tale relationship, right?

     So what about soulmates?

     For a long time I thought soulmates was a bunch of hogwash.  You can tell just how old I am.  How about a bunch of bunk?  More poetic than hogwash!  But I have been fortunate to experience a soulmate, so now I have to swallow my bunch of bunk.  And even soulmates live in a body!  Yes, a body, that sometimes is sick, broken, not-so-toned, blind, deaf, falling apart, wrinkled, ovulating, in pain-triggering nastiness, and well, you know, everything else that comes with a body working or not.  And even soulmates have a brain which has it’s own quirky quacky, quocky, neurons, firing and misfiring.  Even soulmates live very unsoulfully and treat their loved ones in unsoulful ways.

     So what’s my point?  We can avoid the “hard wark” as an Irishman once said, the “hard wark” of relationships by insisting that our relationship is made in heaven or that we are soulmates.  And why do we do that?  That is a complicated question for another blog!  But we do, and ironically the “hard wark” we try to avoid doesn’t have to be so hard or difficult or painful.  

     It can be as simply as being conscious, being aware, being awake.

     I can remain conscious of the other’s quirks, quacks, and quocks and rather than “warking” hard to somehow get or make my partner change, I can "wark" hard to learn to live with the real person I chose to love, to enjoy those quirks, quacks, and quocks, to see them as precious, to learn to be responsive to them and yes, that is hard “wark.”

     Hard “wark” but not a crash, not a disaster.  In fact it can become the delight of my day.



     And this wonderfilled book will walk you through the hard "wark" Irish or not.



     THANK YOU FOR INVESTING IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

THE CHOICE: BE IN THE DIFFERENCES OR BE IN THE RELATIONSHIP




When we first meet, our difference are extremely attractive.  In fact, some times, our differences give us the impression that we are so much alike!  As our relationship develops, the differences become more pronounced and at some point, they become sore spots, the source of disillusionment, the driving wedge that pushes us apart and into being separate, no longer a couple, no longer a relationship.

I hear a lot of folks say, "Well, that's just how it is. The romance fades and real life sets in.  You can't keep the romance going forever."

I hear other folks say, "Well, romance will never sustain your relationship.  Romance is like young love. As you grow in the relationship, your love matures and no, it's not romantic, but that's what true love is.

You know what?  As much truth as there may be in all of that, I think it is ALL BUNK.

The romance in the relationship is ALWAYS there for the taking, ALWAYS there for the taking.  It is a choice.  You can choose to be or live in your differences and go nuts with each other and ultimately leave each other, or you can BE and LIVE in the relationship.  That's how you experience the romance over and over and over and over again.


You don't know how to do that?  So pick up the book and start reading, read it together, and do the work at the end of each chapter.



THANK YOU FOR INVESTING IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP.