103,025
edits
Changes
2016-04-03-Are You Traveling Light (view source)
Revision as of 18:40, 13 April 2016
, 18:40, 13 April 2016Created page with "Image:lighterstill.jpg right|frame ==Heading== ===Topic: ''Are You Traveling Light?''=== ===Group: 11:11 Progress Group=== ==Facili..."
[[Image:lighterstill.jpg]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Are You Traveling Light?''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Anyas]]===
==Session==
*Edited by Linda Abell
===Lesson===
Thought Adjuster: “Dear child, the [[thought]] came to [[your mind]] that people travel through life in many different ways and at various speeds. Some are like freight trains who drag behind them with great [[difficulty]] many wagons filled with unwanted [[emotions]] they have failed to recycle. Others have been willing to sort through their emotional junk and recycle it along the way with no more strings attached.
“It is obvious that the ones having the time of their life are those who [[focus]] on the now [[moment]] and enjoying its ever-changing landscape. Those who remain stuck in a junkyard or are trying to move forward while hoarding their junk find it a very unpleasant [[experience]] as they [[breathe]] the stinky fumes of festering lower emotions instead of enjoying renewed breaths of fresh air.
“Nothing can improve the [[quality]] of their lives unless they [[become]] aware that they have the [[ultimate]] say in the matter. Why travel in a freight train when you could travel in a fancy convertible? Why are so many [[resistant]] to let go of their emotional junk and refuse to separate themselves from these depressing bodies? They constantly revisit painful [[past]] events, keeping them alive in their present experience.
“No life is exempt of roadblocks. The river of life may meander easily for a while until it suddenly presents you with a great boulder against which you could crash — especially if you were not [[anticipating]] such a possibility. The water keeps [[flowing]] around the boulder and you can find a way to circumvent that potentially dangerous situation without drowning in the momentarily tumultuous currents.
“If you could only [[learn]] to look at your life the same way, you would be able to make the obvious informed [[decision]] to lighten your skiff from the heavy emotional [[burdens]], which you carry along and which place you in great danger of sinking.
“Nothing will improve unless YOU take charge. You may [[blame]] life for piling upon you difficult experiences and allow [[your soul]] to be literally buried under the [[resentment]] that you have developed toward them — to the point where it may suffocate for lack of emotional oxygen. Why consciously chose such a sad state of affairs when you have the [[option]] to deal with the past once and for all? The past is past and yet you constantly give it a free pass in the present even though it has nothing new to offer.
“[[Healing]] has to take place and [[forgiveness]] is the only way to sever those [[painful]] ties which keep you connected to past events. Are you held [[hostage]] by your past? Forgiveness will loosen its hold on you. Forgiveness is the [[ransom]] you will have to come up with to free yourself from its [[bondage]].
“Difficult emotions come to the surface to be dealt with; you can keep feeding and fattening them or you can simply [[starve]] them to [[death]]. Such a decision, while a no-brainer, is met with much [[resistance]]. Until you come to your own conclusion about your inner mental state, your potential [[happiness]] will be just an unrealized potential.
===Closing===
“Dear ones, look at your life with [[honesty]]. Are you pulling behind you a freight train constituted of wagon after wagon of grudges, [[anger]], resentment, hurt [[feelings]], etc.? Or have you been able already to let go of much of these hazardous wastes? Are you propelled forward by [[faith]], [[hope]] and positive anticipations? Are you accessing each new day with a fresh can-do [[attitude]] or are you still wearing yesterday’s stained and crumpled clothes, which fail to [[reveal]] your beautiful and vibrant [[self]]?”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Thought Adjuster]]
[[Category: Anyas]]
[[Category: 2016]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Are You Traveling Light?''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Anyas]]===
==Session==
*Edited by Linda Abell
===Lesson===
Thought Adjuster: “Dear child, the [[thought]] came to [[your mind]] that people travel through life in many different ways and at various speeds. Some are like freight trains who drag behind them with great [[difficulty]] many wagons filled with unwanted [[emotions]] they have failed to recycle. Others have been willing to sort through their emotional junk and recycle it along the way with no more strings attached.
“It is obvious that the ones having the time of their life are those who [[focus]] on the now [[moment]] and enjoying its ever-changing landscape. Those who remain stuck in a junkyard or are trying to move forward while hoarding their junk find it a very unpleasant [[experience]] as they [[breathe]] the stinky fumes of festering lower emotions instead of enjoying renewed breaths of fresh air.
“Nothing can improve the [[quality]] of their lives unless they [[become]] aware that they have the [[ultimate]] say in the matter. Why travel in a freight train when you could travel in a fancy convertible? Why are so many [[resistant]] to let go of their emotional junk and refuse to separate themselves from these depressing bodies? They constantly revisit painful [[past]] events, keeping them alive in their present experience.
“No life is exempt of roadblocks. The river of life may meander easily for a while until it suddenly presents you with a great boulder against which you could crash — especially if you were not [[anticipating]] such a possibility. The water keeps [[flowing]] around the boulder and you can find a way to circumvent that potentially dangerous situation without drowning in the momentarily tumultuous currents.
“If you could only [[learn]] to look at your life the same way, you would be able to make the obvious informed [[decision]] to lighten your skiff from the heavy emotional [[burdens]], which you carry along and which place you in great danger of sinking.
“Nothing will improve unless YOU take charge. You may [[blame]] life for piling upon you difficult experiences and allow [[your soul]] to be literally buried under the [[resentment]] that you have developed toward them — to the point where it may suffocate for lack of emotional oxygen. Why consciously chose such a sad state of affairs when you have the [[option]] to deal with the past once and for all? The past is past and yet you constantly give it a free pass in the present even though it has nothing new to offer.
“[[Healing]] has to take place and [[forgiveness]] is the only way to sever those [[painful]] ties which keep you connected to past events. Are you held [[hostage]] by your past? Forgiveness will loosen its hold on you. Forgiveness is the [[ransom]] you will have to come up with to free yourself from its [[bondage]].
“Difficult emotions come to the surface to be dealt with; you can keep feeding and fattening them or you can simply [[starve]] them to [[death]]. Such a decision, while a no-brainer, is met with much [[resistance]]. Until you come to your own conclusion about your inner mental state, your potential [[happiness]] will be just an unrealized potential.
===Closing===
“Dear ones, look at your life with [[honesty]]. Are you pulling behind you a freight train constituted of wagon after wagon of grudges, [[anger]], resentment, hurt [[feelings]], etc.? Or have you been able already to let go of much of these hazardous wastes? Are you propelled forward by [[faith]], [[hope]] and positive anticipations? Are you accessing each new day with a fresh can-do [[attitude]] or are you still wearing yesterday’s stained and crumpled clothes, which fail to [[reveal]] your beautiful and vibrant [[self]]?”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Thought Adjuster]]
[[Category: Anyas]]
[[Category: 2016]]