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Customized Rehab

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“Life is waiting for you to live it – your way. “Live” is a verb; it means to take action and that’s he point.” This is from Mike Dooley.

Walking with a cane since my mild stroke in May 2012 hasn’t given me permission to live a reclusive life. Once a week, though grudgingly I have to climb the stairs in the mall to go to mass at the chapel. On other days I have to climb the stairs to access the room where I get a massage from the blind. It’s as though the universe conspires to make me walk.

In the condo, I get my minimum daily exercise by throwing our trash into the garbage room and walking back to our unit. I usually experiment by varying the kind of steps I take to train my weak lft leg to carry the weight of my body.

The book “Urban Shaman” says: “Under the right stimulation – internal or external, mental or physical – the movement occurs and the memory is released.”

To explain: “experiential or learned memory is stored at one or more of many muscular levels.” I have regularly checked on my thoughts if only to discover what pay offs I may have stored in my memory for my not being able to walk normally. I keep on coaxing myself to reveal self sabotaging thoughts. More often now I do a lot of compassionate self-talk.

I have had acupuncture sessions which did me a lot of good. But then I developed high anxiety in anticipation of the insertion of at least 15 needles. I’m trying to convince myself to give acupuncture another chance.

Interpretations

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The same interpretation on how original sin has tainted the whole of human nature can be used to explain how my consciousness, cleared of fears and anxieties can cleanse the fears and anxieties of all who are in my consciousness. Perhaps, the process is similar to the phenomenon of the hundredth monkey described by Dr. Christine Page.

According to Joe Vitale in “Zero Limits” all I have to do is apply the Ho’oponopono  healing strategy. I have observed that as the energy of my fears and anxieties is neutralized such are also neutralized in everybody in my sphere of consciousness.

The experience and belief of Haleakala Hew Len, teacher of Joe Vitale is that “as he cleans himself” through the Ho’oponopono litany, “the world gets clean because he is the world. “All outside of him is projection and illusion.”                  “If you create your own reality, then yu created all you see, even the parts you don’t like”.

In my reality, I used the Ho’oponopono strategy to help our daughter who has become so anxious about my health. When she doesn’t get a message from me or when she doesn’t get notes from me via Facebook, she wonders whether I went to the emergency room again.

This is bad. I cannot allow our daughter to waste her energy on unnecessary monkey mind business. According to Laura Bushnell: ” you must release the problem and allow yourself to receive the solution”.

“Infinite Possibilities” has this to say : Whenever you want change, come from a place of desire and strength not of need and incompleteness, so that the ensuing journey can feel like one of adventure and choice.”

World View (Musings Again)

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For around 5 years now, I have been inspired by the following from “Urban Shaman”: “The shaman was trained to be flexible, to be comfortable with change and to direct it in a positive way, to be free to explore new ways and means of doing things, and to constantly update, and expand his or her knowledge by travel and study with other teachers”.

A priest from Don Bosco, Manila has declared shamanism as New Age; This means it is forbidden territory for obedient Catholics. But It is from my book “Urban Shaman” that I acquired the best appreciation for the Passion and my salvation.
Now that I am no longer active in the academe, I enjoy being a teacher of life. “As teacher, shamans were trained to demonstrate and share their knowledge, helping people to discover their own power to change their lives”.

In my own life I draw inspiration from the likes of Martha Beck, Gill Edwards, Dr. Christine Page, Sylvia Boorstein etc. From Facebook, I get daily inspiration from the likes of Dooley, Dyer, Neale Walsch, Esther  and Abraham Hicks etc.
I manage my thoughts because I believe I am responsible for however my life turns out to be. According to “Urban Shaman: “Confident authority is the key to conscious creations, whether used with words, visualization or feelings.”

According to “Infinite Possibilities” by Dooley: “…because not everything you think can instantly spring into time and space, only those thoughts that are aligned with your beliefs and are felt intensely to the degree that they automatically throw you into action can appear.” This I hope can help those disappointed with “The Secret” I have been protesting against “The Secret”. It does not happen automatically!

Furthermore: “The belief of yours that are the strongest will ultimately muster up, the most powerful thoughts, you think, determine the words you speak and eventually manifest the life you lead.”

Original Sin

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“By mistrusting God’s heart by reaching to take control of what they wanted, Adam and Eve initiated a process in our hearts, a desperate grasping that can only be described as addiction”
“Desire goes mad within us”

In my case it can be as petty as a problem with a feature of Facebook. For quite some time now, I have been replying to the messages of our daughter sent via Facebook. Weeks ago, I would get text messages from our daughter complaining about not hearing from me.

Out of the blue, I got a message from Yahoo that my messages needed an email address. Only then did I realize that I had been replying to the notifications of Yahoo and not replying to Facebook messages. But why only then?

At that point I needed “Urban Shaman’s” : “Understanding isn’t necessary to bring about positive change but a lot of people feel better if they have an explanation first .”
“Some people” Like me, logical by template “insist on knowing why things are the way they are before they will give themselves permission to change.”

But I have learned from Dr Cherie Carter Scott: “…we each will be presented with lessons that are custom-designed for us and designed to teach us what we need to learn next.”

So I will change if only not to be banished from the Garden of Eden. I want to be wiser than Adam and Eve.

I want to end this with a positive note from M. Tamura : “It is not God who kicks us out og His grace, it is we who drop out of the oneness, abundance, and flow of life when we resist anything. “

Francis Gaspar

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From “Artist’s Recovery” here is a prayer for Francis Gaspar: “God, please help me to open my eyes and my soul to the beautiful things and feelings that bring me the most joy.”

“Teach me to trust that I deserve joyfully and peacefully to be my creative self as an act of worship to you. Thanks for caring.”
I have no personal idea of how Francis teaches in the classroom but I have personally experienced how he conducted drumming sessions, at least twice. Francis develops leaders not followers.

I remember his injunction during the drumming sessions. “Don’t follow my beat. Drum your own way. Listen. Decice when to insert your beat.”

Developing leaders and not followers is no easy task. It would be easier to train others to conform, to obey,to follow. But Francis thinks out of the box.

In his training sessions and in his management consultancies I can imagine his struggles. I can imagine the tension between going the easy path by giving in to the participants who think echoing him or following his lead please him. Or should he challenge them to maximize what is already in them as personal gifts?

The temptation would be to earn his keep and to leave his students/participants choosing the easy way out. I suspect that sometimes Francis gets better response from his many pets especially from Bruce their family dog than from humanity. This means that Francis has a unique style of communication that even animals naturally understand but human beings deafened by social conditioning especially from verbal priorities cannot. Martha Beck has so much to tell Francis.

This is why an artist like Francis needs an expansive dimension: “to find his creative self by an act of worship.”