The Joydancer Weekly Word and News
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Looking for Love in
All the Right Places
March 1, 2010
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"Premature
Fretation"
Are you a victim of
this dread human
condition?
Read on to find out!
The moon is beautiful tonight, here in Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico. Clouds are scattered throughout the sky, and the moon and stars are peeking out and lighting the night as they can. The air is warm and balmy, and we had a lovely dinner at the beach. I wish you could have been here with us. Perhaps next winter (I leave for my home in northern California in two weeks-- sigh). From one paradise to another.
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Premature Fretation is a dread human condition that many
people suffer from and aren't even aware of. I was speaking with an apprentice recently, when I realized how common this malady is. Do you suffer from it?
Here are the symptoms:
- Humans who suffer from Premature Fretation imagine bad things happening in their future.
- The minds of humans suffering from this condition will also drag the human into the past, and agonize them over situations and events that are gone and done.
- They worry about things that have not happened, and may never happen.
- Their minds are addicted to fear, and their bodies are addicted to the juicy chemicals made when fear is present.
- It is sometimes hard to convince these humans the fears their minds have created are about a dead past or a future fantasy and cannot be real.
- If there is nothing to worry about, humans suffering from this condition will make up stories and concerns out of nothing.
- The events that humans suffering from Premature Fretation worry and fret about in the future are never good-- they imagine the worst possible scenario!
Our minds have been programmed to be afraid. A mind is a valuable tool-- it helps you find your way back to your house at night, and balances your checkbook. But when it starts fretting about imaginary future events, past failures, or disasters (personal or planetary), it has run amuck and is not your friend.
If you suffer from Premature Fretation, I encourage you to take your mind aside and have a little talk with it. Tame it. Guide it. Let it know that you want to remain in the present moment, where the real juice of Life is.
Give your mind a big hug, and ask it to let go of the ghost stories and its fretting about past mistakes and the imaginary futures it makes up to scare you. You don't need the old stories, and the future doesn't need you. Be present, be alive, be you Right Here, Right Now. What have you got to lose but some fear? What have you got to gain? Well, Life itself. Life only lives in the present moment, and fretting about the past and future cheats you out of the joy of each endless eternal overwhelmingly fabulous and delicious moment.
Premature Fretation can be cured, and you are the only one that can cure it.
Good luck, and blessings on your journey.
Yours IN the love that I know we are. . .
Allan
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Upcoming Talks, Events, and Interviews with AllanListen to a radio interview with ALLANAllan will be live on "Nightcap With Mystic Chick" radio, Tuesday evening, 9:30 Central time, 7:30 Pacific (etc). The Mystic Chick, Loren Purcell, is a member of Allan's online community, "TACO," and the conversation promises to be lively and informative.
You are invited to call in with your questions and comments for Allan and Loren. The link to the show page for the show or to listen to the archive later is: www.blogtalkradio.com/mystic-chick
To call and talk with Allan on the show: (847) 514-6290.
Do it!
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New Audio Archive: Allan spoke for an hour with William Horden a couple of weeks ago, all about the experiences that brought him to the Toltec life and teaching he now lives and loves, and about his work with The New Relationship ~ Five Agreements to Make Love Come True. William is the author of The Toltec I Ching.
You can listen or download their conversation for your iPod here.
We hope you will.
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Allan will be the Keynote Speaker at the Healing Arts Festival, March 28, in Sacramento, CA. He invites you to come, hang out and help at his table during the day, and enjoy his keynote at 1:00 pm:
"Passionate About Relationships" |
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The Joydancer Prison Outreach Program
For the last few years, we at Joydancer.com have been quietly sponsoring a program to bring The Four Agreements™ and the Toltec teaching into prisons and the lives of inmates. It is time to invite your participation. We are receiving more requests for correspondence than Allan's apprentices can handle.
Would you like to be involved?
Would you like to answer and correspond with one or more inmates around
the country, to offer them spiritual hope and guidance based on The Four Agreements and the Toltec path?
Allan
will be hosting a teleconference on Monday evening, March 8, 6:00 pm
Pacific time, to encourage and orient new and interested correspondents.
Amber-Allen, the publisher of The Four Agreements™, provides
books to inmates who request them. All communication with inmates in
this program is anonymous, and passes through the Joydancer.com
mailbox. Your gift is the contact, information, support, hope, and love
you share with your correspondence. There is nothing in it for you (accept a chance to share your love and wisdom where it is desperately needed).
For information about the Joydancer Prison Outreach Program or the teleconference on March 8, please write to Lynn in the Joydancer office.
Or call the office: (707) 528-1271.
This program changes lives. Please consider participating.
Thank you.
Joydancer Staff
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A Closing Word
Allan's teaching is dedicated to remembering the truth of who we are-- as
perfect expressions of the love and truth that creates and animates this universe.
He invites you to write, call, communicate, and let him know what is moving in you. What would you like to see in this newsletter? What issues are you facing, and what successes are you enjoying?
Allan is available for personal consultations, support, spiritual counseling, and more. Contact him with the information below.
And perhaps today is the perfect day to forward this newsletter to a friend, with the link below.
Thanks for reading. . .
Allan and the Joydancer Staff
Get in touch, Allan enjoys your feedback and comments:
allanh@sonic.net
SKYPE: "allanhardman"
SKYPE Phone: (707) 206-7623 (toll free from Santa Rosa, CA, to Chacala).
Chacala Landline from USA dial: 011-52 (327) 219-4012
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