Liberating Your Boundless Potential…
We so often have the misconception that our emotions interfere with our experience of ultimate peace: that they are the storm that distracts us from the spacious calm. We learned at an early age that there were ’good’ emotions and ‘bad’ emotions. We learned that ’bad’ emotions weren’t welcome and the only ‘good’ ones were allowed. If we felt fearful, shameful, hurt or angry, we were taught to cover it up, push through and be strong. Pretty soon, any strong emotion arising caused an instantaneous shut down and cover up, as we quickly tried to transmute it into something more comfortable to society. Even if we secretly sequestered ourselves away we would often fight back the tear, try to talk ourselves out of what we were feeling or diminish its importance.
Emotions became our invitation to go to battle. The instant anything arose that we or society felt was too emotional, all our strategies to annihilate, deny, or transmute it arose…we fought it, resisted it, tried to explain it away; we argued with it, projected it and blamed others for it, blamed ourselves for feeling it, and ultimately stared to develop more long-term strategies for suppression. We took up smoking, drinking alcohol, overeating, senseless television watching, endless reading of just about anything; all in an effort to narcotize and put to sleep any and all so-called unacceptable emotions that might dare to raise their heads and try to destroy our peace. It’s no wonder we can’t experience peace for any length of time. We are always on the battlefield, fighting wars against the enemy – an enemy that won’t give us any rest. It’s a battle we all fight!
It’s our very resistance to what is that destroys our peace, robs us of fulfillment – not the ‘negative’ emotion itself, but the struggle against it. What if, instead, you said, ‘Come one, come all. All of my emotions are welcome into the ocean of love that is always here?’ That which you resist persists.
The invitation is to finally lay down your arms and welcome all of life with all your heart. Your old enemy will turn out to be your closest friend, and the only enemy still at large will be realized to be resistance itself. The time has come to befriend your emotions. They are the gateway to your Self. They are the gateway to freedom.
It Transformed My Life…
This is the comment we most commonly hear as clients tell us of their personal experience of this deeply profound, yet gentle work.
My wife Claire and I, through our company Life Works, have each developed a private practice of helping people both in our local community and in our greater international community world-wide. Using the principles, training, experience and techniques we have studied, learned and honed over many years of successful practice, we have been able to extend the envelope of health, healing and wholeness into the world.“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." "
Every day in so many ways, The Journey has positively impacted us. Like the ever-radiating rings created by a simple stone tossed into the center of a pond, more and more members of our community, our family, friends, loved ones and clients are benefitting by improving their lives. As a result of doing this work, we have seen alcoholics leave behind their need to drink; drug addicts move into deep healing so they can live drug-free; marriages that are falling apart, repaired and restored, a bi-polar patient who is now whole and living life in joy and radiance; an ADHD diagnosed boy now off prescription drugs and living a full and happy childhood without disturbance; a cancer patient now living a life of joy when she thought she had none to live; a man overcoming his debilitating grief after losing his wife to cancer after 64 years together; a recluse finding joy and freedom from his depression by reaching out and helping others.
This and so much more has become a part of our daily lives with The Journey, with our work…we call them “every day miracles”…and they happen here every day.
We invite you to experience all this for yourself. We welcome you to open into abundance, clarity and freedom…we invite you to experience Life Works.
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“Arise from dreams of littleness, to the realization of the vastness within you."