Monday, 8 August 2011
"There Is Only Ever Well-Being."
Resistance is about believing that you are vulnerable or susceptible to something not wanted and holding a stance of protection — which only holds you in a place of not letting in the Well-being that would be there otherwise. There is nothing big enough to protect you from unwanted things, and there are no unwanted things big enough to get into your experience. - Abraham-Hicks
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Monday, 1 August 2011
Dr Robert Anthony: Are You A Victim?
where most people live. In working with companies that have asked
for my help, the first thing I look at is the manager or CEO of the
company. In almost every single case I invariably discover that
the core problem is not with the company, but with the manager or
CEO. Usually he or she is living at the victim level of awareness
when it comes to his or her business.
Their "story" is usually how they are being victimized by their
partners, employees, suppliers, the government, etc. Until they
move out of the victim level, it is impossible for me to help their
company. So I work on them first.
What about your life? The bottom line is if your internal story is
one of victimhood, you will suffer. It is very simple. And if you
are quite certain that you are not telling yourself a story of
victimization, and yet you continue to suffer, then I suggest you
are lying to yourself. You are telling yourself some variation of a
story of how you have been wronged. Whether it is a story of God,
your parents, your current or former husband, wife, girlfriend,
boyfriend, the government or circumstances that have wronged you,
it is all a story about being a victim.
Even the most violent aggressors, when the superficial layer of
aggression is cracked, have a story of having been wronged.
Striking out in anger against individuals, groups or countries
always involves a story of victimization.
Seeing how your victim story plays out in your life is an important
step to realizing true freedom. When you really see that your
victim story has to be recreated each time it plays out, you
realize you are perpetuating it. Playing it over and over in your
mind takes energy, attention, belief, emotion and some kind of
masochistic pleasure in the pain. Yes, it is shocking! To see this
operating in you can be quite disturbing.
To stop being a victim doesn't mean to trivialize the horror in
your life, to deny it, gloss over it or repress it. However, it does
mean you don't have to justify, wail, moan, complain or seek
revenge. You just leave it alone. It does not serve you in any way.
Are you willing to let your stories of victimization go? Are you
willing to let all those horrible aggressors go unpunished? At a
certain point you have to be willing to call it off. Are you
willing to end it? You are free to suffer and you are free to stop
suffering. No one can end it but you. That is where your true
freedom lies. When you consciously choose to let suffering go you
are free. The bondage of victimization is thinking you do not have a
choice. You can choose to be free or you can choose to continue to
suffer. It's up to you.
Dr Robert Anthony
In Order to Get Anything Done... Gag Your Inner Critic
Han Solo (Harrison Ford) is about to fly into an asteroid field to evade capture by Darth Vadar and company.
"The possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field," warns the fretting android, C3P0, "is approximately 3,720 to 1."
"Never tell me the odds," replies Han Solo.
After surviving the asteroid field Han Solo points his little spaceship in the direction of Darth Vadar's really, really big spaceship.
"The odds of successfully surviving an attack on an Imperial Star Destroyer are approximately..." ventures C3P0 until Princess Lea tells him to shut up.
Finally, CP30 pleads: "I really don't see how that is going to help! Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances!" At which point Lea shuts the robot off.
We are all born with a C3P0 of an Inner Critic babbling away in our head -- constantly telling us how the odds are against us and we should just give up.
In order to get anything done you need to bind and gag your Inner Critic. Once it's out of the way you can start the journey – whether it's one of self-discovery, of changing old habits, a new career or learning a new language.
But as long as you have a neurotic voice in your head telling you why you can't do something then you won't make as much progress as you are truly capable of.
That's why liberating your life is all about removing the self-sabotaging Inner Critic first, self-discovery second.
When the Inner Critic is out of your life (or at least silenced) you are able to fully engage with whatever program, book or teacher you are studying.
I bet you have a stack of personal development programs sitting on the bookshelf...
So when are you going to do them?
You're going to do them after you have liberated your mind from that voice in your head that is stopping you from using whatever personal development strategies you know will help you.
Right now your Inner Critic is telling you that you can never learn __________ or that you can never practice ________ every day. Your Inner Critic doesn't really care what "blank" is – it tries to tell you that you can't do it.
"Photo-reading? Mind power? Italian? Martial arts? You can't learn that!" says your Inner Critic. "Who are you kidding? Or even if you did make some progress it wouldn't produce any real results. You could have spent that time enjoying yourself -- watching TV and hanging out with your friends on Facebook."
Sure, your subconscious may not come out and say things this clearly. Usually your Inner Critic is FAR more stealthy than that. But some subconscious or conscious variation of this is true for everyone who isn't able to move forward in life.
As we've already talked about... your Inner Critic doesn't want you to change your life. It only wants to keep you "comfortable."
If you have enough food in the fridge for the next three days, your Inner Critic is happy. If you paid the rent or mortgage this month, things are good.
Like a baby it's mainly concerned about eating, sleeping, pooping, peeing... Or much like our caveman ancestors who did not know how to stop food from rotting or to farm – the kill of the day was all that mattered.
But we are neither children nor caveman. We want so much more from life. And the distractions that 80% of the population embraces – celebrities, sports, beer – just aren't fulfilling enough for people like you and me who want, and deserve, to live up to our greatest potential.
You want to move forward. You want to discover what your purpose is here on earth and what you are capable of.
But your Inner Critic won't let you.
Your Inner Critic has to go.
It's time to liberate your life.
Chris Cade
ChrisCade.com LLC, PO Box 1354, Capitola CA, 95010© 2011 All rights reserved.
BBC NEWS: Music Therapy May Help Depression
The technique used non-verbal communication to help patients express their emotions.
A study on 79 people, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, showed a greater improvement than in patients receiving standard therapy.
British experts said music may engage people in ways that words cannot.
Music therapists are used, including by the NHS, to help children who struggle to communicate. Playing instruments and singing with a trained music therapist is supposed to help children express themselves.
Initial Improvement
In this study, all patients with depression received the standard practice of counselling and appropriate medication. Thirty three of them were also given 20 sessions with a trained music therapist, which involved things such as drumming.
After three months, patients receiving music therapy showed a greater improvement in scores of anxiety and depression than the other set of patients.
However, there was no statistical improvement after six months.
Professor Christian Gold, from the University of Jyväskylä, said: "Our trial has shown that music therapy, when added to standard care helps people to improve their levels of depression and anxiety."
"Music therapy has specific qualities that allow people to express themselves and interact in a non-verbal way - even in situations when they cannot find the words to describe their inner experiences.
Dr Mike Crawford, who specialises in mental health services at Imperial College London, said in a journal editorial: "The results suggest that it can improve the mood and general functioning of people with depression.
"Music-making is social, pleasurable and meaningful. It has been argued that music making engages people in ways that words may simply not be able to."
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14345808
Dr Robert Anthony: What You Want Most In Life...
The feeling of making others come into agreement with you in order to get what you want will render you powerless every single time. Even people who want to agree won't agree with if you are worrying about them agreeing. Instead, LET IT GO! Say to the universe, "You know what I want. Give it to me in the path of least resistance.
Give it to me in whatever way is appropriate." and then watch how many vortexes open for you.
Everything you want can come to you and you don't need to demand the cooperation of others. When you come into alignment with what you want the cooperative universe yields it to you endlessly and other uncooperative people become irrelevant to your creation. You can have everything you want if you don't make what other people want seem like it is in opposition to what you want. If you don't make it a big factor in your vibration the universe will find a way through the path of least resistance to bring it to you.
Watch out for the non-essential things that you are trying to control. When you clean up your vibration you can see that not only can you have everything you want, but everyone else can have everything they want without stepping on your creative toes at all.
You don't get in each other's way unless you fixate on something you don't want them to want and use that as an excuse to mess up your vibration. The universe has the ability to give everyone what they want without anyone getting in each other's way.
Dr Robert Anthony
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