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 July 2009
Suzanne Scurlock-Durana's news from Healing From the Core
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Are You Rushing Through Life?
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Greetings!
We are doing some fun new things with our newsletter
this month - first, I have recorded a personal message from California, click here to listen ... The second new thing is that we are
sending this newsletter while I am away teaching and relaxing at the Esalen Institute.
My newsletter message this month is all about slowing down and e njoying more in
your life, so I am taking my own advice and enjoying the clear cool Pacific air and resting back here at Esalen Institute.
I am including a photo of the coast I am looking at here at Esalen - come
join me if you can. If not, sending cool breezes your way!
Special Reminders:
Tonight (Wednesday) is my presentation on the free Teleseminar Series, Layers of Health. In addition to lots of information, I will be giving all the listeners a wonderful free gift. To learn more about Layers of Health, click here, it is not too late to sign up and join me!
Continuum Alumni, we are offering a $100 discount to you this summer on your registration to Waves of Consciousness, Oct. 16-20th in Reston, VA. Details below.
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 Are You Rushing Through Life?
by Suzanne Scurlock-Durana
I was driving the other day
on a two-lane road that widened to include a passing lane for a brief period. I
found myself automatically speeding up to pass the person in front of me.
They
were not driving particularly slow. I just unconsciously kicked into gear to
pass them. As I did, it struck me that I have been doing that all my life.
Raised with a brother only 15 months younger, and a sister several years
behind him, I had spent my life pushing myself to stay at the head of the pack.
The rivalry between my
brother and me was particularly fierce. When he died in 1996, I grieved deeply,
and in that process, got to ask myself who would I have been without my
brother? It was a mind-boggling concept to wrap around at the time. Now, 13
years later, I can answer it a little bit better.
So, this was not the first
time I had realized that this default stance, or autopilot programming, was
running behind the screen of my conscious awareness. Yet, I am still surprised
each time I discover it (which I do periodically). Then I take the necessary
steps to turn off the autopilot, once I realize it is "driving the bus" of my
existence.
When I first discovered it
years ago, I thought of it as a positive trait. I was somehow proud of it.
Then
I came to realize how it kept me out in the future all the time. So I set out
to let it go. That is easier said than done! But now, years later, I actually
have skills that help me drop back and enjoy each moment more fully and easily.
In that moment, driving down
the highway I just chuckled, "There I go again!" And then I slowed down and let
my car drop back behind the other car. I took a few deep slow breaths and let
myself relax. There truly was in no hurry. Just my autopilot gone temporarily
amuck.
This experience reminded that
I needed some attention spent in this area. Last fall, after spending over a
year in high gear to get my book completed and published, this autopilot
program was clearly running. I was stunned to realize that I
was having a hard time slowing down. My family could have told you that easily,
but I was oblivious. What was the next task? Put me on it, and watch me run!
So this year has been about
reclaiming my ability to slow down and enjoy life. It has been extremely busy,
but each time I catch myself speeding up unnecessarily, I laugh and let go.
How do I do this? First, I
don't judge myself. I take a deep breath... I take another deep breath. I feel
my feet on the ground. I take an honest inventory of whether or not I really
need to go faster. Then I act on that assessment.
I was rushing, packing it
all in. However, since I recognized the autopilot pattern, I have been
systematically letting it all go. I take a nap. I take a walk. (Note: not a
run, a walk.) Maybe get a massage. Or
a long catch up session with a friend on the phone. A long soak in a hot bath.
Snuggle with my sweetie, my kids or my cats on the couch.
Life is too sweet to rush
through. It took me a lot of years to realize this.
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 Continuum and the Healing Process
Waves of Consciousness
October 16-20, 2009
Reston, Virginia
In their thirteenth year of cutting-edge collaboration between the
movement world of Continuum and the hands-on world of CranioSacral
therapy, Emilie Conrad and Suzanne Scurlock-Durana continue to pursue
the vastness of the human experience.
Our concern in
these tumultuous times is to deepen our potential to source ourselves
in greater life-supporting ways. Our current capacity to be present is
an accumulation of all of our experiences up to now; our goal is to
increase this experiential range. The facility to fully feel our bodies
as a vibrant flow of moving energy read on here...
Click Here for detailed course information and registration on our website.
Click Here for the full Waves of Consciousness brochure to print and share with friends and collegues.
Special Offer for Continuum Alumni, save $100 if you register before September 1st.
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