Guest Thought of the Month

I have had the pleasure to work with Shar-Ka-Tana of Ajna Spiritual Guidance based in Darlington, Yarm and Richmond. He is an gentle, intuitive practitioner and a highly recommended Spiritual Guide. After chatting about our individual work, we decided to add our thoughts of the month to each other's websites.

I have always enjoyed Shar's thoughts and have always found them thought provoking, which is why I asked him to share them here.

Sarah

Febraury 2007

January 2007

Opinion

Many years ago a man was brought from India to Great Britain, he was sent to school and educated in the western world. This man was trained by a society in spiritual thought and he was able to teach in such a profound way that could have you thinking deeply about your phrases and the way your world was created. Eventually in his 20's he left the society that had trained him as he felt it was not his direction.

A company was set up to publish his books and they sold world wide, once again he made another step that was incredible, he gave up the publishing company, sold everything and was left penniless and no roof over his head. He was invited through the good will of people wanting to hear him speak; he would sleep in their spare room or on the sofa, sometimes in a tent.

He was provided with a home and a car from a benefactor; a friend devoted her time to looking after him until his death.

Now a few years ago I was having a conversation about this man and I asked the question if he was right to do what he did, the response was very strong, “He was wrong to leave the society, he could have gone so far, he was wrong to walk away from everything they had given him, he could have been the next Jesus”.

A short time after this conversation I found myself in the same conversation with someone else, their response could not have been more different, “He did what he felt was the right thing for him to do in that time of his life”.

I am not going to ask if he was right or wrong or even ask if the two people commenting were correct because in one sense they both are.

Can any person really see the world through another's' eyes, that is to know intimately what is going on in their mind and judge for that person what is the right thing for them to do?

Across the world people have the right to say what is on their mind and not be judged for it. You can only move forward if you are aware of the mistakes you may be making in life. Each person was right to make their own remarks about what this man did, as it is their free will and the man was totally right to do as he felt was right for him.

Now if one person states that another is wrong with the choices they make for themselves and becomes insistent to the extent of becoming agitated or even angry, may be they should be taking several steps back from the conversation to reconsider their view. To make any remark is fine but you must also be prepared for your remarks not to be followed. Can any person honestly say their mind is confusion free and emotionally unattached to what is happening, considering they felt strong enough about things to make a statement in the first instance?

Speaking from a place of clarity is not that easy, to be free from emotional concerns when stating a person should do this and that; is it not in itself emotional? Is it possible to be human and be free of your emotions, do your words not speak of your likes and dislikes in life, do they not show the ways in which people offend you or make you laugh and cry? Perhaps the better place to speak from would be with a pause and listening more closely to others. Following what they are saying and in some polite manner expressing your viewpoint with the openness that it just might not be adhered to.

It is now the New Year, changes are happening all over the world and mass consciousness is on the rise towards 2012. So for a change, what about making this year one of listening more closely and demanding less of others, then you just might be able to put aside your emotions and stop them trying to control discussions.

Love, Light and Blessings

Shar

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December 2006

Change

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin.

Change is inevitable you cannot hide from it, run away from it or bury your head in the sand. Life is full of ever changing patterns, the seasons being one of the most obvious, your body is definitely another.

Many people fight change tooth and nail but there is only so much you can do with the body before you have to give in to time and allow those laughter lines to show.

While you spend your time fighting change think about all the time and effort it takes all that frustration and stress, all the arguments because everyone else is right. You will spend more time, energy and money trying to steer clear of everything that will enable change to be brought into your life than you will in sitting back and going along with the ride.

The World Health Organisation issued their annual statement at the beginning of 2006 and the second worst health condition facing the world was stress. You could do yourself and the world a favour by trying to resist less and enjoying the comments from others noticing how good the change is for you.

The changes that people fight are not only massive changes like a new job or moving house, but also changes in health regimen and dealing with those long buried issues that keep surfacing. In fact it is these buried issues that prove to be the most stressful the energy put into keeping the lid on things is tremendous and damaging over long term, but do you notice when the pot boils over there is a sense/feeling of relief.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela

Hidden in plain sight is a person that is balanced, positive about life, sees things with a clear sight and most importantly stress free. Nelson Mandela was right quite right in the above quote, returning back to a place that has not changed gives a fantastic view of where you have traveled to.

Everything is hidden in plain sight because this will be the last place anyone thinks of looking.

You know what you are and from this comes the beginnings of learning, to raise the surface a little more each time will enable changes to come into being and new growth be a natural easy flow instead of jumps into pain.

The higher up the mountain you travel the far better the view and the cleaner the air, make your life worth that view and do it with humour and humility, forget the big stick take the cup of coco instead.

Love, Light and blessings

Shar-Ka-Tana

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November 2006

Moving

Do you have times when everything about you seems to be moving far too fast and you are crawling along in the slow lane? But the moment you transfer over lanes the one you left starts to speed up. Do you think the universe is trying to tell you something or is it just your luck?

Life for me suddenly took the handbrake off and pressed hard on the accelerator, the space of a month I up rooted and moved a few hundred miles away. Since then everything appears to have kept the pace up.

But my question is, have things really changed their pace or just appear so, there are many times when you are not doing much in life, kicking your heels up and chilling out with friends, then other times everything becomes very busy and in those times the feeling of time speeding up takes place.

I believe there is a time for everything and as the saying goes, everything in its time. Such as a flower coming into blossom you cannot rush just pace yourself and feel the flow and rhythm as you move along.

Everyone has a certain rhythm that philosophers would call psychological time and is also called private time it exists only within a person. However when you have a meeting to attend and you are checking your watch, this is public time; it is the measure by which everyone relates to being somewhere i.e. catching a train.

When you are engrossed in a television show, reading or playing a game your measure of time is private and in this respect time will appear to move quickly. But in terms of boiling an egg or cooking then time may move slowly, as my Grandmother would always say a watched pot never boils.

If you are moving house you will measure out and calculate all time schedules so your furniture and you arrive in the same place at the same time, but you will become stressed and feel as if time is moving too slow and things are not getting done. Knowing something does not really mean that you are then able to handle it, like wanting to be somewhere else no matter what you do to quicken a process it will not change the outcome unless of course you miss something off the list in an attempt to free time or thinking it would make the process any quicker.

The best that can be done is to arrange to be somewhere earlier than required at least you will have some time to relax and prepare for the next step. Once you attempt to high jack time and create a false sense of changing things and speeding up you will only frustrate yourself the moment something comes in the way.

The understanding of the Tao tells us there is a flow and rhythm to all things once you find that flow everything will arrive in time and on time every time.

If you take a moment to relax and prepare yourself mentally for your day, really allow yourself to find that internal rhythm that flows with the day, you will catch buses, miss the red lights and be in the right place at the time.

It is your private time, make the most of it and ensure that internally you are the one that is relaxed and at ease.

Love, Light and blessings

Shar-Ka-Tana

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October 2006

Letting Go

At some point in a person's life they will learn to let go, it might be to their favourite cuddly toy or a pet dies, it might be to a favourite pencil they use at school and sometimes it will be a best friend at school.

Letting go is never an easy process and in many cases it never actually happens, people simply adjust and get used to the feelings of loss. At some point in the future they recall the loss and along with that recall the memories and feelings they had at the time. In reliving the event there will be a sense of loss in some cases it is less than first experienced but in a number of cases it could be just as hard.

Letting go will never mean hardening the emotions and just forgetting those objects, events or people that first brought the good feelings, it means you no longer hold onto the loss and negative feelings associated with it.

As you move from child to adult you may actually come to understand holding onto something that has passed only serves to hold you in the past, instead of learning and growing you become stunted and unable to move. Events of the past are great teachers and we can learn much from those times, you can certainly bet your last dollar if you missed the teaching the first time around you will get another chance to understand it later as the teaching repeats itself.

Letting go is also not just about loss, there are many things people carry in the present where they feel they must continue with it. Families are loving, caring, and strong supports at the same time they continually look into your life and tell you if you are doing it wrong; you certainly will not find them holding back to their thoughts.

This can prove to be very testing and there may even be constant arguments but you also continue to place yourself into events that lead to those arguments. No one person is better or even less than the other; some parents never came to understand their 45 year old child just might be capable of understanding life and getting it right. There is a certain feeling parents will never let go of and it is simply they are parents, in the same way siblings and grandparents will also feel they have some right because they are related and the blood ties give them the right.

Within yourself you have created an environment that says and will most probably always say they do have the right. As with many things in life it just comes down to the learning process that helped to develop you, at some point if you wish to change this you need to create a new processes of development.

A lot of trial and error will come into play and there will be many mistakes before there are chequered flags waving you past the finish line.

One way of starting the process is to create new lines of thought and to change the energy you emit to the rest of the world, through learning and understanding how to let go.

To start with understanding family and that family pressure can be changed and letting go of them does not mean losing their love, this will help ease your mind. No one can make another person happy, no matter how many boxes of chocolates you hand them; it solely relies upon their own mind. As an example the pet dog dies, your partner loved the dog tremendously and they are very unhappy. You take them out to lunch, buy gifts, let them know how much they mean to you and none of it works. In their mind all they feel is loss of a loved one, it is not something you can simply remove it takes time for the grieving process to be worked through.

This will apply to all aspects of life, a person's happiness is dependant upon their own state of mind, but it does not give you an excuse to forget your anniversary, birthdays or Christmas presents, O no you will not get off that easy. It is understanding that happiness is not totally upon your shoulders but you do have a part to play.

In letting go of people you open yourself to accept the control over your own life and that other people are also free to take control of their life. It is a trusting process that all will be right and that your constant attention is not required for things to work.

Letting go stretches into your thought processes about how much you need to monitor also trusting that when you do leap into the void, something, someone or even yourself will be able to catch you and not let you down. Trust according to many is something that is earned, but then I feel that is due to the emotions people have tied themselves to and feeling let down in their time of need, instead of trusting in themselves, they placed it all in another's hands.

If you are not responsible for another persons happiness, then why should you make them responsible for own trust.

Everything starts with you and will end with you, the true experience of letting go can only be found when you surrender to yourself, trust that all will be well and leap into the void. The void is not where your concerns lie because as Krishnamurti once said;

‘We don't fear the things we don't know we fear the things we do know'.

‘Freedom from the known'.

If you are walking down an alley your mind may come up with images of being mugged, this is built from images fed to you from books, films and other people telling you it happened to them. All of those things are known to you through their source of information, you actually don't know what will happen until you have completed your walk down the alley, and it is an unknown so how can it be feared.

To let go, you will need to free your mind of the grasping emotional ties that have programmed themselves into you. Trust that once you let go all will be well and you will be caught when you leap, finally understanding all fears arise from what you know not what you do not know.

Blessing, Love and Light

Shar-Ka-Tana

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September 2006

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good . — Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman), American newspaper “advice” columnist (1918-2002)

Many people believe they have a right to something in this world, it makes no difference as to what that may be, only that it is due to them.

To attain what is due might entail hauling themselves to the top of the pile, hook, line and sinker, regardless of who they may step on along the way. Then from their lofty viewpoint they can hack away at those beneath, keeping them in their places.

I have assisted people from all over the world and no matter where they were brought up they have all come across people, that will push you out of the way, stop dead in front of you while walking through a door and then probably turn around to barge their way back in.

Besides those with little graces, you will also find in every country people less fortunate than you and you will find them begging on street corners, stopping to ask for money because their car has run out of petrol, asking for twenty pence so they can catch a bus home?

Most people will ignore them, push them aside and walk on by, do they disrespect them or do they not even come on their radar.

The above quote from Ann Landers sums up one way how the measure of an individual can be gauged. There is much more about the measure of an individual than just seeing how they treat those that can be of no assistance.

The Mayans had a saying ‘In Lak'ech', it means I am another yourself and to expand, We are both capable of doing the same things. I feel there is much more to this than straight forward acknowledgment of another. There is a depth you cannot see straight away; within this there is respect, no only for others but for oneself.

Whether you earn it or pay it to another for the simple fact of them being there makes little difference. If a person has a lot of self respect I believe respect for others will follow naturally. If the person is too busy pushing their way to the top, they will probably have little value for how they look to others, only that their goal is attained.

Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique . Annie Gottlieb

One of the easiest ways to show respect would be to thank a person for opening the door, thank them for asking about your health, regardless of only speaking to them twice before in the year. If a beggar asks for money but you doubt the use it will be put to then give them food, how many of you would dare to give them the jacket off your own back.

Respect is energy that once it fills you to the brim, and you pass onto another it will naturally return.

This brings us nicely to the final stage of developing insight and intuition, respect plays a major part in what you do with the information that comes to you, through using your intuition.

Stage 1 was all about pausing, waiting for 1-2 seconds before you answer and giving yourself a moment of space before carrying on with the conversation.

Stage 2 introduced the abstract image, so while pausing you pay attention to the images floating around in your mind and watching for the abstract.

Stage 3, was is all about abstract thoughts, and some people will say they cannot visualise, but they do have thoughts every second, every day from awake to asleep the mind never really shuts off.

Stage 4 was all about combining images and thoughts, the combination of the two providing a more solid foundation.

Once you have come to see how the abstract words and images fit into the conversations you have been having, there is only one real method to testing them out. Putting them into your conversation, you will need to be quite selective in how you phrase things, telling someone that you are seeing an ass as they speak may not go down as you would expect.

However if you ask them if they really believe in what they are saying and jokingly with respect suggest it was coming out of thin air; you just may get away with it.

The point I make is that you have hold of information they will be totally unaware of, you need to respect this and not rush headlong into a verbal insult or throw out images that will most probably mean nothing to them.

When you are looking at putting over the images and thoughts you see, your time spent pausing will come in very handy here, because you need to wait for the right moment. Alternatively you can bring the conversation back and say ‘a moment ago you mentioned' or ‘you just said'. There is a variety of ways to back track, the key is keeping the conversation flowing.

Once the conversation has finished and they have left, make a few notes about it so you can look back later and see how you got on.

Once you become aware of the measure of true respect you can hold for yourself, you can only look upon others in the same light. Doing anything in truth will spill over into your life and without asking people will treat you in ways you may have never experienced.

Take care on your journeys, respect the space you are standing in, it just might be part of someone else's.

Blessings, Love and Light

Shar-Ka-Tana

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August 2006

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. Krishnamurti

If you listed all the things on your mind, it just might look as if there is disorder and appear like a monkey all over the place.

However, all of the things written down have meaning and in some way they are placed in order. Some will be used to avoid things while some are priorities and others will be things you want to do. The mind also links in with your senses and responds accordingly, and the senses easily over ride the mind.

Once you step into a process of meditation it may seem like this listing actually becomes worse, and appears endless.

This list will be in layers and as the prioritised are released the next will move on up. A couple of good terms are gross and subtle levels, gross levels are made up of things the mind believes to be top priority as these layers lift the more subtle layers spring up. As there are no gross layers you believe the subtle layers to be gross; not realising or understanding they have been cleared.

As you practice with meditation the mind will slowly start to focus, your endless lists will not seem to be there and the mind becomes quiet. The more often you practice the more your mind will be able to stay quiet and at peace.

This is only one step along a road of self discovery, however until that happens the mind will bring all sorts of different events for you to look over, there are people that believe this is ego/mind trying to sabotage your efforts. However, the only way in which any effort can be sabotaged is through you allowing it to be so.

There is nothing and no one that has it in for you, especially not your own mind, through habit it has become accustomed to acting in a certain way. Even to the extent of protecting you from pain, the mind has been shown how to protect you from tears and heart ache; this was done through self learning from experiences of growth.

The mind is happy to follow its training, the retraining takes time and effort, how much and how long all comes down to you. Obviously the more you repeat an action the more you can change an action. If you struggle with sitting down to meditate but make certain that no matter what is going through your mind you still sit to practice this will become a positive habit and the mind will be become accustomed.

This is the greatest meditation to come upon this extraordinary thing for the mind to discover for itself the observer is the observed. Krishnamurti

Once the mind has been retrained you may enter a state known as the observer, where you will observe as if you are not participating at all. If you imagine sitting on a river bank, the river is very busy with boats up and down all day long. There may also be a certain amount of flotsam and jetsam on the river, which you observe along with the boats.

Everything floating on the river has nothing to do with you and that enables you to observe without becoming attached.

However, everything that rises in your mind you are attached to and this is why it is so difficult to release and retrain the mind. Through releasing this attachment to the objects that freely float through your mind will help you in becoming the observer.

Now be careful here, do not think you are being trained to become emotionless, this is not about not caring or loving, it is about being free from the directionless running of the mind. To be free from the control of the senses and allow yourself to follow the directions you feel correct.

Observation of the mind takes us to Stage 4 watching and listening to your mind and the thoughts and images that arise.

Stage 1 was all about pausing, waiting for 1-2 seconds before you answer and giving yourself a moment of space before carrying on with the conversation.

Stage 2 introduced the abstract image, so while pausing you pay attention to the images floating around in your mind and watching for the abstract.

Stage 3 was is all about abstract thoughts, and some people will say they cannot visualise, but they do have thoughts every second, every day from awake to asleep the mind never really shuts off.

Now onto stage 4 and combining efforts to pay attention to what the abstract thoughts and images are telling us. At this point you should have a reasonable idea of what is going on within the pausing and the images, through adding thoughts you will have a more solid impression.

However, as solid as this impression may be, you still have to trust yourself to correctly interpret. I do feel the need to stress correct interpretation as strong friendships can easily be broken through one incorrect translation.

Adding images to the thoughts provides you with a better perspective than any single image/thought ever will, it gives interpretation much more meaning and makes it a lot easier. It is like being your own private detective trying to figure out if it was Colonel Mustard in the Dining room with the Candlestick. The more information gathered the better the chances at solving clues, all the images/thoughts are those clues.

Again, there is not much to this process but the art is practice and time, through which both your instincts and intuition will grow and grow. At the end of the day you are still human and you will makes mistakes, you cannot expect 100%, so be easy in your learning.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Krishnamurti

Blessing, Love and Light

Shar-Ka-Tana

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July 2006

Once you have sat back from a tiring day of work work and no play, listen to what is being said inside then when you feel have done enough listening, stay where you are and listen until it feels correct to move.

Life is full of do this but not that, follow the yellow line, follow the orders given, life is full of directionless instructions on how to succeed and complete your self as a person, as a human being.

Interesting how very few people actually spend the time to stop, turn to you and ask, what do you want? If they ever did would you have an answer or would the fact of being asked in the first place completely blind side you.

Most people would probably respond with a long list of request and wants, all tying themselves up with their own neediness.

(Where CS is present the quote is from: http://www.cit-sakti.com/kundalini/surrender-and-service.htm)

When one finally gives up one's futile attempts to make reality conform to one's own wishes, and allows it to unfold on its own terms, all the energy that was tied up in foolish attempts to manipulate the universe is freed up. If the giving up is partial or shallow, one may end up simply content or smug, but if the surrender is deep, there is nothing left to do but to serve others from the fullness of oneself. Mahatma Gandhi said that when people die to themselves, they immediately find themselves at the service of all living things. Mahatma Gandhi in Spiritual Emergency, 185 (CS)

To surrender yourself to peace and quiet is not as easy as it may seem, we can all sit down and watch the TV or read the newspaper, but how many can sit down with themselves and be at peace. The mind is always on the outlook for the next distraction to lead it away from being still.

As you sit at work running thoughts through your mind concerning the latest gossip that has reached you and thinking how unjust it all may appear, bare in mind than within work it is the management that are supposed to guide. Then moving one step further ask outside of work who is the manager for your own mind, because once that manager offers the guidance that is best for you, will you then come to see placing blame anywhere is as futile as mixing cement from ocean water.

Your mind becomes accustomed to its habits and as habits are formed by continually repeating actions, does it not make sense everything can be changed.

Many years ago I had the pleasure of knowing a wonderful lady that had found a belief structure that satisfied her. Whenever conversation was harsh or bitter, she would quietly slip out of the room un-noticed. People would turn around to include her and she had gone, very few actually noticed she had even left.

The mind is easily engrossed in actions formed out of perpetual habit.

Our problem is that we don't want to surrender what we can surrender, and we do want to surrender what we can't surrender. Daniel Moran (CS)

Most of our ideas about surrender are just ideas, not lived sacrifice. Those who do not know surrender can only talk about surrender, intuit surrender, and pray for surrender. They certainly should not assume that they are surrendered simply because they can speak about it elegantly, or because they once had an insight about it . Cathy Woods ~ www.cit-shakti.com

Every moment is an experience, every experience is a moment to grow and every moment of experienced growth will enhance your life ten-fold. If you knew there was a way of changing your life completely would you not jump at the chance and drink deeply, eat till your stomach bulges and ask for seconds.

Well there is an easy way, there is something that you do every day, before birth you did and at times when you need it the most, your mind shuts it out.

Listen to your insights and intuition not the part of you that will lead you on a merry journey of the senses, but the part of you that is silent and feels internally every other part of itself. So silent it is like an un-struck sound and will vibrate within you forever.

In May 2006 I started a course to help you on the way to listening, here is stage 3.

Stage 1 was all about pausing, waiting for 1-2 seconds before you answer and giving yourself a moment of space before carrying on with the conversation.

Stage 2 introduced the abstract image, so while pausing you pay attention to the images floating around in your mind and watching for the abstract.

Here we are at stage 3, this is all about abstract thoughts, and some people will say they cannot visualise, but they do have thoughts every second, every day from awake to asleep the mind never really shuts off.

So the principal here is the same as with images, the first second is insight after that the mind trundles along and takes over with its own barrage of logic. Store the abstract image and use it for information later, run through the abstract thoughts that appeared in your own time. In conversation you have an abstract thought of the white rabbit running around holding a clock and this could lead to direct meaning to the person you are conversing with.

They are controlled by time and meetings, so while they are chatting to you they could be actually thinking about the next meeting or time is running short. It may even apply to yourself, showing how you are controlled.

As with everything you need to keep in mind discernment and the thoughts being translated are only as good as your translations. Taking time to study those thoughts and reflect on the conversation gives you time to perfect your listening skills.

Although it may seem too simple to put this into practice I can tell you that everything is simple, it is the mind that complicates all the time.

The Human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. P.B. Medawar

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. H.G. Wells

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James

Blessings, love and light

Shar

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June 2006

It's smell the grass time of year, when the lawn mowers are fetched out from underneath cobwebs and marched like soldiers on parade up and down in a relentless battle against growth.

Much has happened through May and we now enter into June and bring on the Summer, there has been some intense downpours where I live and some roads have turned into streams and rivers, but it all cleanses no matter how much comes down it all cleanses.

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time” John Lubbock

Many people have a tendency towards looking at the rain and thinking not again I wish it was summer, then summer arrives and we are caught in a drought, people stand there and wish for the rain.  Nothing ever seems to satisfy this unknown hunger for something that appears to come across as a need for balance, sunshine but not too much of it, rain but not too much of it, etc. On the thoughts roll and tumble into abstract feelings creating tension, depression and still it is not enough.

To myself I see something is missing and it is balance with a dash of harmony thrown in, people strive to improve their lives even though they chose the path they are walking, people constantly look for something better than they have.  This looking leads to broken marriages, distraught children, unhappy homes, and all the time it is an intense looking beyond where they are.

A number of wealthy people were once asked if having the money made their lives any happier, nearly all of them responded with ‘no', but it does make the unhappiness easier to bare.

So what is this elusive thing called balance with a dash of harmony, in fact it is not that elusive and lies right inside yourself.  It is all about your perspective, about how you view the life you lead and what you are doing within it. You chose the partner you are with and yet some people sit there looking and thinking ‘What was I thinking?'.  So what stops you from stepping back in time and remembering? One of the hardest things to do is to be angry while you are smiling, or to get angry while you are laughing and in the beginning of any partnership, career or social circle it was happy, it was a place you welcomed.

The need is to actually return to grass roots, to the place inside where you first found that spark of happiness and rejuvenate it.  When I go to the cinema I remember myself at the age group the film is suitable for and I put myself in that age, so far to date I have never been disappointed by a film.  When eating an ice-cream remember how as a child you may have chased after friends to get to the ice-cream shop first. In that first moment there would have been a second and a third, remembering the good moments in life will help some of this balance to come back, only some because people become trapped in habits and those will definitely need changing.

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” Anon

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” Shaquille ONeal

It is your life, your thoughts, your deeds, and while people like me can provide signposts, we cannot do the work for you.  Be easy on yourself, one step at a time, change the bad habits into good habits and never forget to treat yourself when it is all going right and one day you may stumble across this balance and harmony.

Last month I started an exercise and this will be found on the bottom of May 2006, now for stage 2 of that exercise.

So far you have been pausing and listening to another person's being, their voice and tones, their smell, their body language.  Now you take it a step on and start to look inside yourself, you are looking for an abstract image, or an image that will leap at you in the first second, it will be that quick. The first second is your insight and intuition, after that my friend your mind is leaping in and taking over.

You do need to careful with this, sometimes the image that comes forward is so abstract you may ignore, for instance someone is talking about a friend and how elusive they had been of late, they could be saying many things about this friend all of them negative and you pause and in that pause you have an image of someone doubled up in pain. However, instead of suggesting they phone them you agree with the negative comments of your friend, only to find out late on the other person was ill.

The insights and intuition of people will work differently because we are all individuals and brought up to think within certain culture groups and religions. However the way it works is the same for everyone, pause to allow space and capture the first second of the abstract image. To use it is a different matter because you need to learn discernment on how and when to use this information, this will come with practice and time.

For now enjoy life make the most of summer, go running out into the rain because at some point you may be wishing for it. If you have any questions to this exercise please email and I will provide what answers I can.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein

 “The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.” Norbet Platt

Blessings, Love and Light

Shar

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