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Greetings!
Your life, your identity comprises a story you tell yourself about you. It is also the saga you tell other people when they ask you about yourself.
Your personal story is a fable, a myth; a fictional novel you have developed over the years to describe the space you occupy with your body.
Depending upon the depth of belief you have in your autobiography, you are either able to realize that you are the author or not. If you really feel certain that your history is based upon the way life is treating you, you are caught in the drama.
Taking a good look at how you created the adventure you are calling your life, how much of it you own and how much you put off on others is the beginning of waking up. After all, it truly is a tangible dream.
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In this video - a "once upon a time" story about your fable, you get a chance to watch the mind create a definition of you in earth.
And that is the key, isn't it? "You in earth".
When you look at yourself "outside of earth", things begin to change. You don't have the same identity constructs, the same need to appear in the world according to a prescribed set of beliefs and you no longer have a physical body to maintain. This definitely changes everything!
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I am reading My Stroke of Insight by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Though I was already familiar with Dr. Jill's story through her presentation on TED, reading her narration from the beginning is a rare treat.Dr. Jill is a neuroanatomist - a brain scientist. In 1996, she experienced a stroke that affected the left hemisphere of her brain leaving her unable to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life.Her narrative relates the experience of recognizing she was having a stroke through the left side of her brain while experiencing euphoria in the right side of her brain. This experience opened her understanding to the value of uncovered feelings of well-being that are hidden in the clutter of the mind's chatter.While enjoying her writing, I was pleasantly taken by surprise when, on page 17, I read: "Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think" (italics in original).I have always known that humans feel first and think second. It appears that you think first because the initial feeling is often submerged within the subconscious because you don't want to own the authentic feeling. The mind creates a thought that allows you to feel safe and you assign a feeling to that thought believing that you "think first, feel second".This is the basis of the Riding the Wavecourse - teaching you how to "hear" your feelings, quiet the non-stop stream of inner dialogue and go from practice to perfect - using this new awareness in your life.While Dr. Jill experienced a significant shock to her physical body as well as her psyche, it isn't necessary for everyone to learn in this manner. Riding the Wave will open the door to clarity of awareness, the ability to act on authentic feelings and release you from second guessing yourself.
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Delving Into Beliefs
I am going to dedicate this space in each newsletter to delving into belief systems. It is these ideas that are the framework of everything that happens in your life. I invite you to send me any belief you would like to look at to post in this section of the Sacred Spaces newsletter. I will post the question, "delve into it" and provide the answer here. I will not use your name or any reference to who you are in the postings.
To get started, I am going to look at a question that has come up several times this week during telephone conversations.
Question: I always intend everything for the "Highest Good", yet things seldom turn out that way. In fact, events often seem to turn out for the worse. Why does this happen?
Delving into the answer: Most people do intend all things, all events, to turn out for the good. The problem arises when you believe that you know what that good is - what comprises the "Highest Good" in relation to your intention.
This idea might be rephrased, "I always intend everything for the 'Highest Good' as I see it. I intend for events to turn out the way that will make me happy. That is what I call the 'Highest Good'."
When you really intend for all to unfold for the "Highest Good" of all concerned, you surrender what you prefer and allow each person, place and thing to experience the event according to their own soul's design without interfering through your personal desires. It is surrender in its most graceful form.
Email: sacred@anacortes.net
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A personal reflection:
I had the most exciting opportunity presented to me yesterday - a horseback ride! It has been years since I have ridden and, having been brought up with horses in horse country (Nevada), my heart is always activated by these magnificent four-legged beauties.
When I joined my friend who had offered the ride, I was told I could choose either a) the horse that sometime spooked at cars (we would be riding on the road) or b) the horse that liked to take his head and GO. I chose b) - definitely a safer bet rather than not knowing what the horse might do.
It was a magnificent day for a ride and I absolutely loved every single moment of it - especially since I was allowed to ride bareback which is something that many people do not want you to do since there is the hazard of falling off. I spent my youth and much of my adult life riding horses bareback - from my giant Morgan in my teens to the half-broken Mustang I owned for many years in the '80's.
What was most surprising, adding to the ecstasy of the ride, was my horse's behavior. Not only did he not "take his head", he gave me a marvelous, perfect, open-gaited walk complimented by a slight trot now and then. The only time he wanted his own way was when he saw a particularly nice blade of grass calling his attention.
Afterward, I mused over how my quiet joy, the well-being I felt on the horse's back, contributed to his change of temperament. I knew he was feeling the bliss in my heart, mirroring it back to me.
How many times during the day do you have an opportunity to extend your own sense of well-being? What a marvelous mirror in which to look!
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Know that I love you,
Toni Elizabeth Sar'h
www.youaresacred.com
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