tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36479127711162491182024-10-24T05:39:21.190-04:00The Inner YearThe Soul's Calendar of <br>Enlightenment, Healing and Creativity <br>
by Lynn JerichoLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-12448924013442878802011-11-06T11:58:00.001-05:002011-11-15T12:39:09.378-05:00Saying Goodbye to Your Year - Inner AdventIt’s November. The year is about to be over...done...finished...gone. How do you say goodbye to 2011? How do you discover the inner meaning of 2011? How do you prepare for 2012?
Each year you evolve. You become something you weren’t last year.
Some of your evolution is intentional and some is unintentional. But if you don’t take time to review your year as the unfolding of a new you, how Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-78996107434208659962011-11-06T11:57:00.000-05:002011-11-06T11:57:57.576-05:00Lessons from an Old StoveMy landlord finally agreed to replace the old stove. We had been living for six weeks without a working oven. The delivery men had arrived with the new stove and were removing the old one. And I was about to have a spiritual lesson from a piece of junk.
This stove was over 20 years old and I had been living with it for less than two months. Now useless junk, I watched it being wheeled out Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-91378762918312500032011-10-27T15:25:00.001-04:002011-10-27T15:41:51.126-04:00Spritual Beings - Are They For Real? Do They Matter?Halloween, All Saints. All Souls. It’s the time of year to focus on evolving our relationship to Spiritual Beings.
Are they for real? Do they matter?
Until I was in my early forties, spiritual beings didn’t really matter to me. I certainly had beliefs about their existence - Sunday-school-meets-New-Age beliefs, but I had no understanding and no active relationship to spiritual beings.Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-48186335374362624222011-10-22T11:22:00.004-04:002011-10-22T12:30:56.064-04:00Let Them Live in Your Heart It is good to recognize a blessing when it appears.
This morning I received two blessings both connected to the Lifting the Veils course. The first shows the importance of sharing your story to find yourself and help others and the second pointed out the painful vulnerability of doing this deeply intimate group work using technology.
The First Blessing - Inspiring
I receive Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-61192229475782878302011-10-19T10:55:00.001-04:002011-10-19T11:03:33.222-04:00Soul Shapers - The Story of Gladys & MeSelf development and its accompanying self-healing, self-liberation, and self-empowerment just never ends.
Three years ago I wrote a blog on the challenge of making requests. You can read it here.
http://liveinfullbloom.blogspot.com/2008/05/requesting-three-helpful-steps-and-true.html
It’s good. I nail some of the basics for making effective requests. I have always had a lot ofLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-13998873155213176312011-10-19T10:52:00.000-04:002011-10-19T10:52:31.403-04:00The Gladys PoemsGor
Geous
Gor-geous
I can say it.
I know what it means.
Gorgeous
When I say it I am beautiful.
the doorbell rings
a gorgeous sound
I run to open the door
Gladys, you look gorgeous!
She turns cold, dry, ugly.
Little girls don’t use words like that, she tells me
No, little girls will never again use words like that…
words that sparkle and shine and are filled with love.
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oh, Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-23681509982101600062011-10-11T11:08:00.000-04:002011-10-11T11:08:29.957-04:00Lifting the Veils - The Veils From Birth to SevenAnswering Life’s Questions...
Life’s questions begin as feelings: Why do I have this feeling now? Why do I always feel this way? What happened then, that keeps me from feeling the way I want to feel now? How do I let go of old feelings? and so on.
The answers to most, if not all, of life’s questions live in self-knowledge. And self knowledge develops through an understanding of human Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-85236267998477440952011-10-09T03:50:00.003-04:002011-10-12T13:13:39.762-04:00Encounters - Engaging Your Spiritual CompanionsEncounters: Engaging Your Spiritual CompanionsA Webinar with Lynn Jericho
Thursdays at 8PM Eastern beginning October 27Sundays at 4PM Eastern beginning October 30
This is the time of the Inner Year when we bring our attention to the rich reality and enriching relationships we have with Spiritual Beings.
With the ghosts and spooks of Halloween and the Holy Day of All Saints, our Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-31018245093291509972011-09-27T03:35:00.002-04:002011-09-27T03:35:57.249-04:00The Inner Rembrandt
One of the surprising welcoming notes around my move to the North Carolina Triangle area is the "Rembrandt in America" show at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/rembrandt/ opening in the most Rembrandt time of year - the end of October when light and dark embrace each other in nature and in the human soul celebrating the vitalLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-81736417415865364192011-09-22T10:35:00.000-04:002011-09-22T10:35:09.615-04:00Inner Changes at the Inner EquinoxHow does your path of self-development change with the Equinox?
The Solstices and the Equinoxes are turning points for the work of self-knowledge. The Inner Year is a cosmic organizing and nurturing principle for your inner life just as Nature's Year organizes and nurtures life on Earth.
If you think of your Higher Self as your Inner Sun organizing the process and nurturing the progress of Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-2187928641691163732011-09-21T11:28:00.003-04:002011-09-22T11:01:52.007-04:00Encounters - Confronting Your ChallengersCONFRONTING YOUR CHALLENGERS Recognize and overcome the challenges to your spiritual and moral development.
This is the time of the Inner Year when we seek the wisdom to recognize and overcome the counter forces who seek to challenge us and undermine the truth, beauty and goodness of our human spirit.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the rootLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-78565211529786866582011-09-07T05:44:00.002-04:002011-09-07T18:35:12.448-04:00Out of the Shadow Into the Light - Ten Years Later OUT OF THE SHADOWINTO THE LIGHTONLY YOU CAN DO IT! Thoughts on 9/11 - Ten Years Later
On July 3, 2001 I moved into a brownstone in Jersey City. There was a deck off the living room where I could see the World Trade Towers across the Hudson River (about a mile away). Exactly ten weeks later, I stood on that deck and watched the towers fall and an hour later was down at the riverLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-52451772860599080472011-08-14T18:08:00.000-04:002011-08-14T18:08:48.884-04:00Life is a High Wire...Are you Out of Balance?Life is a High Wire...Are you Out of Balance?
Are you confused? Are you having difficulty making a choice? Does your life look like you want it to? Is there too much or too little of something or everything?
Are you floating away with your fantasies or collapsing under the weight of your daily drudgery?
Do you lean towards things, people, activities or pull back? Are your relationships too Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-50585498117212321122011-08-05T11:04:00.001-04:002011-08-05T11:07:41.278-04:00The Summer Flow of SelfOn a hot summer day, the thought of diving into a secret shaded cooling pool of water feels so freeing as the still summer heat fights the flow of life and discourages inner and outer activity and vitality.
Sometimes I feel like my inner life is hot, sticky, breathless and unmoving. I need thoughts that cool me down and bath my soul with flowing waters. Sometimes meditating on a word that Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-76773734016413451742011-08-03T20:26:00.003-04:002011-08-14T16:15:28.350-04:00The Inner Balance Webinar
The Soul's Focus for Inner Summer
INNER BALANCE
Standing Strongly in Yourself & in the World
“ Lynn Jericho's seminars are so very worthwhile. They are engaging, revealing, insightful, and deeply satisfying. Lynn brings great wisdom, humor and kindness as well as a gift for being present with the group and to the needs of individuals.
Working with Lynn has brought clarity of thinkingLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-53414629155282955702011-07-25T20:35:00.001-04:002011-07-25T20:44:48.282-04:00Sleep on it! Why?SLEEP ON IT!
We all know the truth of the benefit of a night’s sleep to making a decision or getting a clearer perspective on a question or a concern. Why does this work? How can we actively use the mystery of sleep to live richer lives?
Here are some of my thoughts.
THE MYSTERY OF SLEEP
What is sleep? What happens to consciousness? Where do “I” go when I go to sleep?
When I was a Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-81473429484013526122011-07-14T16:28:00.001-04:002011-07-25T20:43:41.938-04:00Wonder of Childhood InterviewInterview with Lynn Jericho and Give AwayI am so very excited and honored to bring you this interview with Lynn Jericho. Lynn’s work is so powerful, healing and transformative. Lynn works out of Anthropsophy and brings such a dynamic and fertile living element to ideas and phrases bantered about and read in texts. She brings it to life ~ our lives. I keep telling her to call her work Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-958275023128769532011-07-10T10:50:00.000-04:002011-07-10T10:50:08.090-04:00Pistachio MemoriesWhat are Pistachio Memories? They are not nutty!
All memories feed your soul, actually nurture your inner maturity, when you “work” with them in the right context. Lifting the Veils provides the right context:
exploring eight archetypal relationships that shaped your childhood and your adult life
inspiring and creative questions to evoke your memories
a compassionate way to free your Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-73922505306087476742011-07-03T06:58:00.000-04:002011-07-03T06:58:59.395-04:00A New Independence
Happy 4th of July! Give yourself a new independence! My Mother’s Day post and my Father’s Day post generated a large number of personal emails and requests for private conversations with me. I am not surprised as how we were mothered and fathered is the source of many of our self-concerns, all the feelings and stories of burden, anxiety, confusion, resentment, abandonment, Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-4416046132433913102011-07-02T01:00:00.005-04:002011-07-05T16:24:17.308-04:00Lifting the Veils - Your Life From Birth to SevenAnswering Life’s Questions...
Life’s questions begin as feelings: Why do I have this feeling now? Why do I always feel this way? What happened then, that keeps me from feeling the way I want to feel now? How do I let go of old feelings? and so on.
The answers to most, if not all, of life’s questions live in self-knowledge. And self knowledge develops through an understanding of human Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-26100638292060634752011-06-24T07:13:00.000-04:002011-06-24T07:13:51.397-04:00Solstice, St John & YOUJune 21 The Solstice
Midsummer is here. We have just experienced the Solstice. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we have had the longest day/shortest night of the year.
I just realized that I wrote the year. Even for me with all my work bringing our attention to the Inner Year, I write the. Let me begin again.
...You have just had the longest day/shortest night of YOUR year! This is your inner Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-19491280072832377142011-06-18T14:44:00.000-04:002011-06-18T14:44:18.703-04:00The Missing Pieces - An Understanding of the FatherMost of my mentees, those I mentor through conscious conversations, arrive wanting to find the missing pieces of their lives.
I remember being a child and loving to play with
puzzles - putting all the pieces in place was such a great
experience.
But when a piece was missing, it didn't matter that I had put
all the other pieces together, the hole sucked away all my joy.
It took Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-75176601035160691112011-06-12T08:59:00.003-04:002011-06-12T08:59:00.787-04:00Standing in the Center - Inner PentecostIt’s Pentecost.
When I write my posts it is always scary and thrilling because I am taking a stand. I take a stand somewhere between opinion and truth, between prejudice and openess, between demand and encouragement. I struggle to have my language of soul meet your language of soul in a creative engagement.
I strive to find the words that point to the center of an idea or a feeling or a desireLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-81188190869625184172011-05-27T06:00:00.003-04:002011-05-27T06:00:05.957-04:00Is Ambivalence Making Crazy?
Do I change or stay the same? Do I rebel or conform? Do I leave or do I stay? Do I do it now or later?
Of these 20 possible toppings for my pizza, what are my three choices?
Do you suffer from ambivalence? I do, all the time. But I am learning to work with it, master it, observe it, appreciate it. Here are some thoughts that will give you some solid ground on which to find both feet Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647912771116249118.post-77217181209773445632011-05-23T08:59:00.002-04:002011-05-23T08:59:00.265-04:00I read this insightful quote from the great French novelist, Stendhal. He wrote
“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
Which word in this quote got your attention?
Each temperament will be attracted to a particular word in this quote and base its interpretation and understanding of the entire statement on it.
The choleric will see “character.”
The sanguine, “Lynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.com0