I’ve spent a major portion of my life trying to figure out my own feelings and those of others.  At times I’ve felt desperately confused and discouraged.  And at other times I’ve been so grateful to have been helpful that I wept.

Trying to figure out my feelings and deal with them, as well as other people’s feelings has been a major investment of my time, energy and life-force.  It is for many of us.  I’m so glad that the teachings of A Course in Miracles actually work.  It’s a much faster path with far less frustration, but it does require a great willingness.

We can have so much healing by noticing our feelings and going the other way.  However, when we work WITH Spirit, Partner UP, and stop trying to go it alone, things improve so rapidly it’s astounding.  This is part of an effective spiritual practice.

In this kind of training, there are people who are sharing their experiences and reminding me of how frustrated I used to feel.  I used to feel so hopeless that I could ever effect a change.  Now, my whole life has changed.  Spirit did that.  

For so long I thought that I didn’t have time for spiritual practice.  

Now, I know that spiritual practice saves time.  

It saves, time and money.  

So many people in my Masterful Living Program have told me they have both saved a lot of money because they avoided surgery, they were able to give up expensive medications and anti-depressants.  And many have been astounded at how their income increased.  

I feel it’s so important to talk about it because most people simply don’t believe, or won’t believe that an effective spiritual practice saves time, energy and money, but it does.

Most spiritual students start in a place where they don’t believe that spiritual practice will be healing for them.  

When we do the healing work, all heaven breaks out.

When there’s upset, there’s a cry for Love and a healing opportunity is at hand.

When we put Spirit in charge, and stop going it alone, that’s when we have the most tangible results.

I used to get triggered by something and then feel emotionally dragged down an old familiar rabbit hole that I hated.  It happened so many times and so often that it became an affirmation that there was something terribly wrong with me and that I had no ability to control my life or my feelings or even what I said and did.  

I’d “lose it.”

As children, when we lose self-control, the adults are supposed to be able to help us and teach us how to find “it” again – “it” being our center, our right mind.  But many times they don’t.  They’re not present enough in their right mind and instead of helping us find our way back to center they simply make us wrong.

I talk with so many people in Masterful Living classes – and it even came up this past week – who were told, as children that their emotions and upsets were wrong.  As little precious children so many have been told:

“Children are to be seen and not heard.”

“Stop crying or Ill give you something to cry about.”

Parents are overwhelmed.  It’s completely understandable even if it’s not lovable or likable.  We can have compassion for adults who can’t handle their own emotions and definitely cannot handle a child who’s freaking out.

We get taught that our emotions are wrong.  

They’re bad.  

They’re unhelpful.

They’re unwanted.

The big messages are:  

FEELING IS BAD!  

FEELING WILL GET YOU PUNISHED!  

FEELING WILL GET YOU IN TROUBLE!

STOP FEELING … OR ELSE!

How can parents teach what they don’t know?  

It’s not fair to expect them to.  

And so we must forgive.  

When I was a kid, I had long hair as I do now, and I used to want to have my Mom braid my hair and help me to do things with it.  She didn’t have that skill.  I remember asking her to braid my hair when I was about 15.  She tried to get out of it, warning me that she just wasn’t good at it, but I insisted.  So, my Mom did as requested and, you know what?  She was right.  She wasn’t very good at it.  That was when I finally got it.  Don’t ask her to do something she’s not good at.  It’s not a loving thing to do.

I say, don’t go to the hardware store for frozen yogurt because they don’t have it.  (Although, I do think it would be a hot seller.  Mostly guys who work hard go to the hardware store and they often like a snack.)  

We must forgive our parents for not being able to help us with the things they don’t know about. 

WE are the generation that is turning the tide.  We must forgive ALL so that we can get on with the business of teaching only Love.  There’s no more productive way.

One of the things that we’ve found so helpful in the Masterful Living Program is to learn to feel our feelings. It takes real effort for most of us to allow ourselves to actually pause in the midst of tings and feel what’s going on.  

Our feelings indicate our thought patterns.  Thoughts come before feelings.  It may not seem like it, but our thoughts reflect our belief systems and that’s what will determine how we interpret our life and what we think.

Someone can tell me I’m an idiot, but it won’t bother me if I don’t believe it.  I won’t even remember that it happened if there’s no hook of belief.  These false beliefs can be healed if we will allow it.

I’ve carried feelings of shame about something I said or did for decades that no one else remembers.

I remember when I was about 27 years old, I went to a friend’s home and they had just had made slipcovers for their couch.  My friend had made them himself.  I was a smoker then and I accidentally dropped my cigarette on their sofa and burned a hole right through their brand new sofa.  I felt so bad and ashamed for that.  20 years later I brought it up to them and they had no memory of it at all.  20 years of feeling bad and ashamed.  All of my own making.  

Feelings are so helpful to us, but on our own, they’re overwhelming.

That’s why I feel so compelled to support people in bringing these healing opportunities into our lives and making it easy, attractive, appealing and even fun to move through things fully and completely so we can free up all that stuck energy.  That’s what Masterful Living is for.  

It takes motivation and inspiration to make a change.  

For me, my motivation was misery and pain.  I worked with that until I caught a spark of inspiration and began to see I could really make a difference in my own life, and in the lives of my family and others.  

We can be truly helpful in ways that are beyond anything we ever imagined.

This is what I’m interested in.  I’m interested in the next insight, the next realization and the full revelation.  If you’re interested in doing that with me next year, come join me in Masterful Living 2024.  It’s our 16th year, and it just gets better and better.

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