ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self

Ep. 267 – The Mystical Nature of Golf

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Sport as practice

If our doctors tell us that we have a terminal illness and can expect to live only another year, or five years, how would we respond? In fact, we confront exactly the same question if we are still healthy and have a life expectancy of fifteen or twenty more years.”

“The Virtues of Aging”

Jimmy Carter

“Faith in something,” he has written in several books, “is an inducement not to dormancy but to action.”

Jimmy Carter

PRACTICE: Gratitude (concrete and subtle)

Pair up with someone you trust and have a relationship with

Take 4 minutes

back and forth sitting across from each other finish the stem: “I’m grateful for…”

Doesn’t matter what we say - share whatever comes through. See where it goes in 4 minutes.

PRACTICE: Gratitude and the wound

connect the gratitude practice to that deep wounded part in you, let them meet, and let gratitude be thankful for the wounding, all of its deep discomfort and pain

- start to see how the world is supporting you, to see what’s coming in (like the love), see all the gifts that come in

humility is the antidote to humiliation - it requires surrender and acceptance of what is.

we were never trained for this - perhaps only the saints at the blue level completely in servitude to God are the closest examples we have, and have turned away from because of the negative aspects of organized religion. Don’t let those aspects blind you to t

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Resilience Requires Flexibility

Resilience = emergence of something new, not a maintaining of the same

Healing trauma involves recognizing, accepting, and moving through pain—clean pain. It often means facing what you don’t want to face—what you have been reflexively avoiding or fleeing. By walking into that pain, experiencing it fully, and moving through it, you metabolize it and put an end to it. In the process, you also grow, create more room in ... See more

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