ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self
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”
“The Virtues of Aging”
Jimmy Carter
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
confront a kind of resilience that isn’t really about returning back to the way you were before, but is much more about reclaiming whatever new shape your form has taken. A resilience that doesn’t really ask us to forget, but that carries the memory of whatever harm or whatever fire we’ve been through. A resilience that carries that memory and stil... See more
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
Choosing to Face Our Pain
“Faith in something,” he has written in several books, “is an inducement not to dormancy but to action.”
Jimmy Carter
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
... See moreEp. 267 – The Mystical Nature of Golf
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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.
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