tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177540012598987352015-09-16T13:20:57.444-07:00Galatic Tours MeditationMindfulness Meditations gateway to the Stages Fraser Trevornoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-72646901442954770462015-05-22T08:33:00.001-07:002015-05-22T08:33:29.958-07:00Joining The Ten Stages Study starts the emotional healing process<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UOgmQ4a8V8I/VQqH9URIU_I/AAAAAAAAQVQ/dqEAS5ywkXU/s1600/1-trauma123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UOgmQ4a8V8I/VQqH9URIU_I/AAAAAAAAQVQ/dqEAS5ywkXU/s200/1-trauma123.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="border: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joining The Ten Stages Study starts the emotional healing process, if it goes well, it risks much. Basically at risk is our false self, which is all most of us have. It’s how we’ve been defining ourselves for most of our entire conscious lives – ever since we created it to fit into our childhood families. Healing attempts to help us understand ourselves and to modify this false self, to help us manifest our recovery our true self that lies underneath, dormant or partially dor</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mant for years.We know our truth but have not been able to manifest it until now.<br />When this process succeeds, the consequences are great, and often seemingly negative. Becoming honest is a betrayal of all our false relationships – be they with friends, parents, partners, family members, colleagues, or with society as a whole. It throws our old dynamics into turmoil, which can be especially painful if there is much interdependency – and history.Our belief system turns upside down and now we taste real freedom and real recovery for the first time.Sometimes the truth hits like a bucket of cold water, spluttering we surface as the old gives way to the new.</span></div><div class="pbtsharethisbutt" style="border: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="pbt-social-icons" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></ul></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: none; clear: both; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/05/at-our-conception-we-are-perfect.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/341833007_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; 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display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dissociation (being split-off from one's deepest truth) mimics recovery - but it isn't recovery.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/drugs-arent-driver-of-addiction-in-fact.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340340705_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/drugs-arent-driver-of-addiction-in-fact.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Drugs aren't the driver of addiction , in fact, it is disassociation that drives addiction.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/self-doubt-is-part-of-ten-stages.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336408980_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/self-doubt-is-part-of-ten-stages.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Self-doubt is part of the ten stages healing process.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-have-to-admit-that-we-do-have-true.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/337259086_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-have-to-admit-that-we-do-have-true.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We have to admit that we do have a true self within that can heal and regain control over our lives.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-way-to-deal-with-normal-sexuality.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339594126_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-way-to-deal-with-normal-sexuality.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The way to deal with normal sexuality in a healthy way is to keep on healing.</a></li></ul></div></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-65623079428638295582015-04-13T08:20:00.000-07:002015-04-17T00:53:28.903-07:00The longer we go without healing our traumas, the more our problems in self-care compound.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NwJPQUFhI1I/VSvek0TMniI/AAAAAAAARnM/zS5_y-W0qG8/s1600/1452262_255925411198175_1193185658_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NwJPQUFhI1I/VSvek0TMniI/AAAAAAAARnM/zS5_y-W0qG8/s1600/1452262_255925411198175_1193185658_n.jpg" height="140" width="200" /></a></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">When we make decisions to try to take perfect care of ourselves, we become lost,frozen because at this stage our inner compass has become damaged. Our decisions, to the degree that we are traumatised, become faulty. And what’s worse, we will FEEL as if we are actually taking care of ourselves.<br />We will at this stage defend our actions to the hilt, but our decisions are bad and end up only hurting ourselves worse. This happens in a myriad of ways, including through sex, foo<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important;">d, drugs, personal hygiene, relationships, romance, money, and even through seeking help in the helping profession. We trust people who are not to be trusted, because at a deep level we cannot trust ourselves.<br style="font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important;" />And the longer we go without healing our traumas, the more our problems in self-care compound. Our lives become more and more damaged and more and more off-course. Our bodies, Our relationships, and our very connections with ourselves get more and more broken. Our very decisions only end up traumatising ourselves worse. This is the tragedy that pays out a dividend of more tragedy and locks into the very heart of addiction.<br style="font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important;" />None of this is a great mystery. We all hear stories of people who have been severely wounded in childhood who end up living the most hurt, suffering-filled adult lives.The difference for us is that we have a solution in the Stages Study Course that directly challenges and gently heals our predicaments.</span></div></div></div><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-will-feel-as-if-we-are-actually.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336709873_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; 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display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">People who hold beliefs about a vengeful god were also more aggressive towards offenders, and that those who held beliefs about a loving god were more forgiving.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagescoursestudies.blogspot.com/2015/04/there-really-is-nothing-remotely-like.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336853591_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagescoursestudies.blogspot.com/2015/04/there-really-is-nothing-remotely-like.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">There really is nothing remotely Like the ten Stages: all bad decisions we make, even our reenactments of our wrong life threatening decisions offer us a chance to learn.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/335589192_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="background-image: none; 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(Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:One_Step_at_a_Time.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><div id="lws_0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="linkwithin_outer" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="linkwithin_inner" id="linkwithin_inner" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 477px;"></div></div></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Power of the 12-Step Process and the gift of that power to the 12 Keys to the Kingdom. </span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">From the book Alcoholics Anonymous: "In spite of the great increase in the size and span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope."</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">What is the Twelve Step Model? How is it a "treatment for alcoholism" or "alcohol abuse?"</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> "A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles (accepted by members as 'spiritual principles,' based on the approved literature) outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioural problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939. The method was then adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs. Twelve-step methods have been adopted to address a wide range of substance-abuse and dependency problems."</span></span></span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"Addiction treatment" WORKS! There is addiction help out there and "addiction recovery" is possible. If you are battling "alcohol addiction" there are people who know EXACTLY what it is like! </span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">From the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: "Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."</span></div></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-40579333764065770432014-07-14T23:52:00.001-07:002014-07-14T23:52:33.874-07:00NORTH EAST ENGLAND: Summer TEA MINDFULNESS COURSE at the BAMBOO GARDENS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: Allerta; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://saltburnrecovery.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/north-east-england-summer-tea.html" style="color: #3778cd;">NORTH EAST ENGLAND: Summer TEA MINDFULNESS COURSE at the BAMBOO GARDENS</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://saltburnrecovery.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/north-east-england-summer-tea.html" style="color: #3778cd;"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PKDp6FuKUfY/U8TPSSE5ocI/AAAAAAAAOfI/RjRduSnxaSU/s1600/WP_20140526_16_00_52_Smart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PKDp6FuKUfY/U8TPSSE5ocI/AAAAAAAAOfI/RjRduSnxaSU/s1600/WP_20140526_16_00_52_Smart.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div></h3></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-44616977649949198002014-06-26T21:50:00.001-07:002014-06-26T21:50:04.389-07:00 contemplative monk Br. David Steindl-Rast.<p><img style="vertical-align: top;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JqsS4YmXdFY/U6z3v_RE_QI/AAAAAAAAOMw/zj-duE7JLt8/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="384" /></p><p>"When I go within myself, I feel that I have discovered something over which had no power. Life and death are constant changes, but I have something that is one and unchanging." So says renowned contemplative monk Br. David Steindl-Rast. Is this the deathless soul that survives the ego's death? Is this what we are all here to look for?</p>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-37463352197110349242014-06-24T21:50:00.001-07:002015-04-17T00:47:45.096-07:00Assignment Higher Power<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnL381ZT3rk/VTC6gJci6MI/AAAAAAAAR4g/LMeVt3e3dJE/s1600/WP_20140526_16_00_15_Smart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnL381ZT3rk/VTC6gJci6MI/AAAAAAAAR4g/LMeVt3e3dJE/s1600/WP_20140526_16_00_15_Smart.jpg" height="200" width="112" /></a></div>Simple techniques and small daily meditations make major changes to our lives. Progressing in life becomes easier in a balanced state of mind. Imagine a bicycle: you need to balance it successfully before moving forward.<br /><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-child-within-is-new-species.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/332819045_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-child-within-is-new-species.html" style="background-image: none; 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text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LESSON 2: like all bad decisions we make, even our reenactments/dissociation offer us a chance to learn.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-become-very-uncomfortable-that-this.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854363_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-become-very-uncomfortable-that-this.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We become very uncomfortable that this study course would dare to contradict everything we hold dear.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; 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list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/stage-9-within-stage-9-we-come-to.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854426_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/stage-9-within-stage-9-we-come-to.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">STAGE 9: Within Stage 9 We come to acknowledge our journey into reality through the stages.</a></li></ul></div></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-5742538943736683962014-06-24T16:33:00.001-07:002014-06-24T16:33:49.590-07:00The danger of taking life too seriously as a spiritual person<p><img style="float: left;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RNpUI1DJePk/U6oKqHEO6-I/AAAAAAAAOIw/y5SjXPEC2rI/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="384" /></p><blockquote>Life is too serious to take it seriously. I see all things new. My mind is like that of a child. New.</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-4950986215809935122014-06-24T16:30:00.001-07:002015-06-13T20:39:16.639-07:00The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aXdWGcRo-08/VR8lzTF29oI/AAAAAAAAQ28/CzG-kkCImX4/s1600/1-The%2BTen%2BStages234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="116" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aXdWGcRo-08/VR8lzTF29oI/AAAAAAAAQ28/CzG-kkCImX4/s320/1-The%2BTen%2BStages234.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become." - Gisele Bundchen</blockquote><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://tenstage.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-have-had-traumatic-experiences-and.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/342816955_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://tenstage.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-have-had-traumatic-experiences-and.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We have had traumatic experiences and, based on those experiences, our child within has decide that ALL of life is hostile.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://tenstage.blogspot.com/2015/05/positive-experiences-that-contradict.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/noimg_93_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://tenstage.blogspot.com/2015/05/positive-experiences-that-contradict.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Positive experiences that contradict a traumatised child's negative expectations are critical to helping the mind to readjust itself.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://recoverystage.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-can-create-positively-honestly-and.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/344328522_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://recoverystage.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-can-create-positively-honestly-and.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We can create positively, honestly and beautifully by letting our child within move through and guide us on an ongoing basis.</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/think-of-your-recovery-and-your.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/noimg_39_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/think-of-your-recovery-and-your.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Think of your Recovery and your Intuition as guidance from your child within and you'll begin to see how everything is in perfect order</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/05/preliminary-stages-workshops.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/343934892_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/05/preliminary-stages-workshops.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Preliminary Stages Workshops introducing ourselves to the different parts of our Child Within which live at different stages of healing.</a></li></ul></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-21613210927901773512014-06-24T16:28:00.001-07:002014-06-24T16:28:04.888-07:00The danger of taking life too seriously as a spiritual person <p><img style="float: left;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-dpkXj6RPGHE/U6oJcjc3jLI/AAAAAAAAOIc/06ADb-74cXo/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="492" />"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go." - Natalie Goldberg</p>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-20217873157241453752014-06-19T16:22:00.000-07:002014-06-19T16:22:05.658-07:00Han Shan ( 9th century)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34245669@N03/5694366816" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cold mountain, tribute to han shan" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="200" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3566/5694366816_a654da95ab_n.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="150" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">There's a tree that existed before the woods,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">In age twice as old.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Its roots suffered as the valley changed,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Its leaves deformed by wind and frost.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">People all laugh at its withered aspect,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Caring nothing about the core's beauty.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">When the bark is stripped off,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Only essence remains. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><img height="1" src="http://www.dailyzen.com/images/dot.gif" style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" vspace="7" width="1" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><img height="1" hspace="55" src="http://www.dailyzen.com/images/dot.gif" style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><a class="artist" href="https://www.blogger.com/null">- Han Shan ( 9th century)</a></i><br /> </div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-36752190828397544362014-06-17T02:11:00.000-07:002014-06-17T02:18:11.428-07:00Galatic Tours Meditation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N2qW8x9ETfY/U6AF9_9UCXI/AAAAAAAAN_k/-6TF2ubi9NM/s1600/output_QsEnTR.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N2qW8x9ETfY/U6AF9_9UCXI/AAAAAAAAN_k/-6TF2ubi9NM/s1600/output_QsEnTR.gif" height="255" width="320" /></a></div>Galatic Tours Meditations<br /><br /><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><br />researchers announced the first detection of gravitational waves; a smoking gun for the Big Bang. Scientists believe than in a time period lasting 10-34 seconds, the Universe expanded 100 trillion trillion times until it reached the colossal size of… a marble. The gravitational waves come from fluctuations of background radiation from this inflation period. articles <br /><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2014/06/galatic-tours-meditation-for-today.html"></a><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/275939795_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2014/06/galatic-tours-meditation-for-today.html" style="background-color: initial; background-image: none; display: block; font-size: 11px; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Galatic Tours Meditation for Today</a></li></ul></div></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-26130445347800360162014-06-17T01:56:00.000-07:002014-06-17T01:56:03.040-07:00Modern Koan Just Rust<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Modern Koan Just Rust</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9G6KIJmt0H8/U6ACHDB_43I/AAAAAAAAN_c/lKOqWT6fhOg/s1600/output_PONNPT.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9G6KIJmt0H8/U6ACHDB_43I/AAAAAAAAN_c/lKOqWT6fhOg/s1600/output_PONNPT.gif" height="320" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><br /><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://www.smashflare.com/zen-koans-explained-three-kinds-of-disciples" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/278618687_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://www.smashflare.com/zen-koans-explained-three-kinds-of-disciples" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Zen Koans Explained: "Three Kinds of Disciples"</a></li></ul></div></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-83540388844484128482014-06-17T01:44:00.001-07:002014-06-17T01:44:40.409-07:00Rolling Grass Meditation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Rolling Grass Meditation</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5oJmSd5SQ68/U5__d17j7PI/AAAAAAAAN_M/EdiOFEvQBrc/s1600/output_xtiXty.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5oJmSd5SQ68/U5__d17j7PI/AAAAAAAAN_M/EdiOFEvQBrc/s1600/output_xtiXty.gif" height="320" width="211" /></a></div><br /> </div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-48888418996935155152014-06-16T02:58:00.000-07:002014-06-16T02:58:17.722-07:00The Reality of our meditations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81851211@N00/225513104" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gods Own County" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="213" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/225513104_018eadacdf_n.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="320" /></a></div>The Reality of our meditations are that they are pointing towards is not hidden, or secret, or far away. You cannot earn it, deserve it, or figure it out. At this very moment, Reality and completeness are in plain sight. In fact, the only thing there is to see, hear, smell, taste, touch, or feel, is Reality, or God if you like. Absolute completeness surrounds you wherever you go. So there is really no reason to bother yourself about it, except for the fact that we humans have long ago deceived ourselves into such a confined tangle of confusion and disarray that we scarcely even consider, much less experience for ourselves, the divinity within and all around us. </div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-13511733716298235872014-06-16T02:53:00.000-07:002014-06-16T02:53:13.130-07:00We often think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25036263@N02/6277060825" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="christianity @ the clinic" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="113" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6277060825_db5a201e7b_n.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a></div>We often think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness. </div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-31020881538541586092014-06-13T16:03:00.001-07:002014-06-13T16:03:38.623-07:00Lack of gratitude:<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/synchronicityawareness?ref_type=bookmark">Synchronicity Intuition and Awareness</a></p><blockquote>Lack of gratitude: Much of our lives are spent in silent complaint, or sometimes not so silent. We are so unhappy with little things in our lives, which is a form of suffering. These complaints mean we’re missing out on what’s great about our lives. Self-compassion helps us to deal with the pain of these complaints, and instead turn to the amazing things we can be grateful for, which increases our happiness with life all around us.</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-63679701166460956682014-06-12T03:45:00.001-07:002014-06-12T03:45:52.153-07:00The root of our problems and sickness is terminal selfishness<p><img style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6IQj6B3v4Rc/U5mE0Ri_5RI/AAAAAAAAN8U/azzzNVd_p2M/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="339" /></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/meditationminds?ref_type=bookmark">(1) Meditation Mind</a></p><blockquote>The root of our problems and sickness is terminal selfishness, what we can call the inner enemy. Selfishness causes us to engage in negative actions, which place negative imprints on the mind-stream. These negative actions can be of body, speech or mind, such as thoughts of jealousy, anger and greed. Selfish thoughts also increase pride, which results in feelings of jealousy towards those higher than us, superiority towards those lower than us and competitiveness towards equals. These feelings in turn result in an unhappy mind, a mind that is without peace. On the other hand, thoughts and actions directed to the well-being of others bring happiness and peace to the mind.</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-11176292225526444452014-06-11T22:35:00.001-07:002014-06-11T22:35:16.767-07:00Meditation Mind<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/meditationminds?ref_type=bookmark">Meditation Mind</a></p><blockquote>A Lovely Morning isn’t something that just falls into your lap — it’s created consciously. You don’t have to implement all these ideas at once, but try one or two out and see if your mornings improve. I think you’ll enjoy them as much as I do.</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-77966378506895047302014-06-11T22:34:00.001-07:002014-06-11T22:34:35.700-07:00Meditation Mind<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/meditationminds?ref_type=bookmark">Meditation Mind</a></p><blockquote>‘Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.’ ~Thich Nhat Hanh</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-79226412907210698752014-06-11T22:33:00.001-07:002014-06-11T22:33:56.976-07:00Creating the Wake Early Habit<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/meditationminds?ref_type=bookmark">Meditation Mind</a></p><blockquote>Creating the Wake Early Habit</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-38145979134778760692014-06-11T21:57:00.001-07:002014-06-11T21:57:37.074-07:00We’re all flawed, and yet we’re all giving it our best shot. What could be more divine than that?<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/synchronicityawareness/insights"><img style="float: left;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-t4Hb7DY3m78/U5kzHWMxALI/AAAAAAAAN7s/o26KntH6_qM/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="192" />Synchronicity Intuition and Awareness</a></p><blockquote>We’re all flawed, and yet we’re all giving it our best shot. What could be more divine than that?</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-76044079272109462802014-06-11T21:54:00.001-07:002014-06-11T21:54:31.272-07:00Synchronicity Intuition and Awareness<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/synchronicityawareness/insights">Synchronicity Intuition and Awareness</a></p><blockquote>A soaring endlessly curving path, Every few miles we have to rest. I look around for my friends. They've vanished in the wooded hills. Rain floods the pine trees And flows hushed among the rocks. There are silent words deep in hill water, A long whistle over the summits. When I look at South Mountain The sun floats white through the mist. A blue marsh is luminous and clear. Green trees are heavy shadows, drifting. When I am tired of being closed in, Suddenly I come upon a clearing, And the mind is at peace. - Wang Wei (699-759)</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-75733457649089860892014-06-10T15:48:00.001-07:002014-06-10T15:48:46.533-07:00 Spiritual REHAB<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spiritual-REHAB/277551342403976?notif_t=page_new_likes">(4) Spiritual REHAB</a></p><blockquote>One of the most beautiful things about meditation is its complete and total freedom. No one will tell you what is right and wrong, or what is good or bad.</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-35252897825746754162014-06-10T03:11:00.001-07:002014-06-10T03:11:52.161-07:00Synchronicity Intuition and Awareness<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/synchronicityawareness?ref=hl">Synchronicity Intuition and Awareness</a></p><blockquote>Seeing people being stigmatised as toxic simply because their ideas run counter to those of a dominant group, or they’ve fallen into a disagreement with someone who is unwilling to engage with them.</blockquote>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17754001259898735.post-31953800413116998522014-06-10T02:59:00.001-07:002015-04-17T00:55:22.730-07:00This feeling is called shame. The antidote to shame is compassion and self-acceptance.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/clearedspace?ref=hl">CLEAR SPACE MIND</a><br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnL381ZT3rk/VTC6gJci6MI/AAAAAAAAR4g/LMeVt3e3dJE/s1600/WP_20140526_16_00_15_Smart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CnL381ZT3rk/VTC6gJci6MI/AAAAAAAAR4g/LMeVt3e3dJE/s1600/WP_20140526_16_00_15_Smart.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div>Often, we feel that we are unworthy as we are. We may think we are worthy, but logic and feelings are widely different things. We may say, “I know I’m bright, talented, etc…” but when challenged with opportunities to step into our full power, we hesitate. “Maybe I’m not talented enough. Maybe I’m not good enough.” Many, if not most, of us carry the burden of believing that there is something inherently lacking within – that we are not good enough as we are. </blockquote></div>Fraser Trevorhttps://plus.google.com/101164610264267202162noreply@blogger.com0