Send in Your 'Burning Questions' for P'taah
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Don't forget that this is your chance to submit questions for the January Conversations with P'taah. This will be our third Burning Questions session and each one has proved more popular than the one before.
Questions can be anything you would like to ask P'taah. We will cover as many questions as possible in the session. Anyone whose question is used will be sent the MP3 file as our gift.
If you have lots of questions and would like to talk one-on-one with P'taah, personal sessions are available by telephone. For more information, visit the website or call 1-760-366-0375.
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Because we don't want our wonderful friends who just renewed their subscriptions to lose out, they will get an extra month added to their 12 month subscription renewals.
The December session just went out and features Nelly Cartier talking with P'taah about intimate relationships, our relationship to our bodies, and following up with more questions on DNA.
*Or a discount based on the subscription cost and equal to about 11% of the subscription price.
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| Message from P'taah
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"Q: P'taah, how do I find what's exciting when things don't seem exciting? In other words, how do I get excited and stay excited and draw excitement to me?
P'taah: Well, you know, sometimes it is not exciting, hmm, and that is all right.
Q: Well, I know a person who is trying to follow his heart and follow his passion but he is having a hard time finding out what that is. He doesn't know how to find what makes his heart sing.
P'taah: How about 'what is fascinating'? That's the one that you often forget. What is that you find fascinating?
Q: Excellent, (laughs) I like that! You know, what I've found fascinating is this that we're talking about -- the growing of our consciousness. I mean, I spend my days and minutes and seconds always being fascinated by this growth that I see around me and within me.
P'taah: And beloved, that is why you find yourself in happiness.
Q: Not always but many times.
P'taah: Indeed, and when you are not, it is because you, in that moment, are in the perception of something else and in the feeling of something else. But when you are fascinated, then indeed that may well ignite the passion, may ignite new ideas, new perceptions, new ways of doing things.
And you see, very often, the fascination is not there because you are not being in the Now moment of what it is you are doing. You are kind of gliding over everything without paying, without giving anything, your full attention.
Q: That's such a good point, P'taah. That is so very true. Because when you are really in the Now moment, everything is fascinating.
P'taah: Indeed, it is, even that which are your mundane repetitious chores. Where you are really in the fascination and the attention, and really in the Now, then nothing is ever the same.
Q: So that could be the answer to how we can be more patient. If I am truly in the now, there is no where to go.
P'taah: Beloved, if you are truly in the Now, there is no such thing as impatience.
Q: (Laughs) True!
Q: We were just talking about the Now and that brings me to another question. I have a friend who says that his attention span has been very short and he is wondering if that is healthy or is it more of an assistance to allow him to be in the now. He is worried about it because he thinks that television and computers are starting to cause him to have this short attention span so that when he is with other people, the other people think he is not really with it or there. He is wondering why he can't keep his attention on certain things but it drifts to something else that is going on right now.
P'taah: Well, indeed, beloved, you know, when you are bored, it is very difficult to keep your attention on something.
(Laughter)
P'taah: Which is a bit of dichotomy really, hmn? There is the underlying thought that you would really rather be somewhere else or doing something else and so the attention may not be really focused. Certainly if you are fascinated, you are very focused. When you are watching an enthralling movie, we could say that the attention is very focused.
Q: Yes, on the story.
P'taah: Indeed! So we would say it is really not a matter of short attention span, but rather it is lack of focus and boredom.
Q: Do you have any tricks to deal with this?
P'taah: Go and do something else.
Q: So if you are bored, go do something else. But supposing that your task is to clean the house or write the paper and you find yourself drifting away. Are there ways to keep pulling yourself back?
P'taah: Well, beloved, of course there are, but the bottom line is the heart's not really in it. But if you say, "This is a task that I really desire to accomplish, I do not particularly want to do it but I do desire to have it done," then indeed it is simply a matter of focus that you'll do it and do it in the best way you can. That is a choice which comes back to sovereignty.
Q: Exactly.
P'taah: You have a choice whether or not to really focus and do the job and do it the best way you can or you can skim over it and think, "This is too boring and I do not want to do it really," and go on to something else. Well, that is also viable. You see there is no right or wrong about it, no right or wrong about it. Only how do you feel at the end of it.
You see the only important thing here is the feeling that results from the action or the feeling involved in the action. There is no judgment on the right or wrong way to do it, only how does it feel. And if indeed you want to skim through something to eagerly get on to something else, then that is perfectly valid. If you say, "I do not want to really do this task but I'm obliged and so I shall do and I shall put all of my energy in to do the best way I can," then that is also valid and also feels good. There is no right or wrong of it.
So, my beloved ones, sufficient unto the time for this day. We love you all grandly and issue forth to each and every one of you,
Namaste."
P'taah
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