New Global Coherence Lock-In Room

This is a wonderful experience so I am passing it on...

From the Global Coherence Initiative- Go to http://www.glcoherence.org


Meditate with the rest of the world, raise global coherence and feel the energy!

It gives us great joy to announce that the Global Coherence Lock-In Room is now up and running. GCI members from around the world are now presented a wonderful opportunity to focus coherent heart energy in unison toward any area or circumstance of the planet they feel is in need of intentional heart care and compassion.

The simple truth is these are turbulent and unsettling times in so many locations around our world. We received so many member requests this last year for a way to direct focused care and intention at the same time as other members that we felt it necessary to develop that capability. The result is the Coherence Lock-In Room. It will remain open at all hours every day. Just enter from your My Member Page on the GCI site.

We are starting with three synchronized sessions every eight hours daily, but again, you are welcome to visit the site to do coherence lock-ins anytime. If you prefer to do a lock-in with a larger group, it is best to arrive at these designated times, when we anticipate the largest gatherings will occur.

At present the designated times are 4 a.m. noon and 8 p.m. PDT. The following Web site is one of many time conversion sites for determining the number of hours’ difference between your local time and PDT – Pacific Daylight Time – which is observed, for example, in San Francisco and the rest of California in the U.S.A.: www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc.

We certainly want to encourage you to join with family, friends, co-workers and others, whether they are local or halfway around the world, in the Lock-In Room at designated times or times of you’re choosing to send out your collective coherent energy.

To view the Coherence Lock-In Room: Go to GCI Web site. www.glcoherence.org, first log-in, this will take you to My Member Page and from there you can click the Coherence Lock-In Room link and enter into room. You must be a GCI member to enter the room, membership is free, click here to join.

First time users, please click into the Session Guide (Help) to learn about all of the options available to you.

Here is a recap of the Lock-In Room basics noted above and other features of this new coherence tool:

Enter the Coherence Lock-In Room from your My Member Page on the GCI Web site. (Java required for viewing. If you use dial-up to access the Internet, you may have some limitations using the Lock-In Room, including inability to view the globe.) Please view the Session Guide (Help) for more technical help.

In the Waiting Room, you will find the most current GCI Care Focus.

A gold dot on the globe will let you see the location of other participants in the lock-in. When you’re the only one in the room, the globe won’t show any gold dots.

There are buttons to zoom in on the globe and to rotate the globe so you may see the location of participants or closer view of a particular area of need.

During lock-ins, you may choose either the audio feature with a voice guide and music or the mute button for text assistance only.

There are three designated sessions every day at 4 a.m., noon and 8 p.m. PDT.

You may enter the room for a lock-in at any time that is convenient for you.
Beta Testers Review the Lock-In Room
GCI conducted beta testing and the feedback from participants was generally very favorable, with testers noting that the Lock-In Room tended to increase the feeling of connectedness and focus. (The beta testers were anonymous.)

"I like watching the globe. It helps me concentrate on the feeling of compassion."

"I like the idea that we can come together from all around the globe to send our love and compassion out. Makes me feel even more connected, I guess we are all part of the field."

"I loved knowing that there were others participating at the same time. The guided meditation process is very helpful to get quiet."

"The world spinning before me helped me think and feel beyond my own life to the much bigger life of the world."

"After a while, I found the music was a bit of a distraction. Then I realized how to mute the sound."

"I loved the music and the voice. … I used my emWave® during the process."
We think you’ll find the Coherence Lock-In Room to be an excellent tool for taking your intentional care and compassion to a more focused and effective level. We also believe you’ll find it is an easy and intuitive tool to use, with everything you need to get started right there on the site, including a Help link at the top of the main page.

During the GCI Anniversary Celebration, Lock-In and Webinar, the Steering Committee members will talk about the project’s first year accomplishments, and plans for the next year. The GCI GCMS project coordinator will give an update on the GCI’s research and technology. You’ll get to participate in a live Heart Coherence Lock-In, and during the one-hour Webinar we’ll present a visual, step-by-step walk-through on how to use the room, so don’t miss it. To sign up, click here.

With care, compassion and coherence,

The GCI Steering Committee


P.S. If you have questions or comments, please contact us at feedback@glcoherence.org.



Global Coherence Initiative 14700 West Park Ave., Boulder Creek, CA 95006 | tel (831) 706-2981 | fax (831) 338-8504 | info@glcoherence.org

We Are All Connected!

Science of The Heart

Heart - Brain Interactions

Recent discoveries have shown that the heart generates a mysterious and powerful electromagnetic field. In this video, Rollin McCraty, Ph.D, Executive VP and Director of Research for the Institute of HeartMath, explores the scientific basis for understanding the amazing ways that we are connected. ....

Click on the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQipX-hIDs

Heart Focus Breathing

Another tip from the Heart Math De-Stress kit!

Heart-focused Breathing to reduce stress and anxiety.
Practice breathing while imagining your breath passing in and out through your heart area or the center of your chest. Envision yourself as taking a time out to refuel your system by breathing in an attitude of calm and balance (like breathing in an emotional tonic to take the rough edges off).

The key to making this exercise effective is to generate the true feeling of calm and balance. You can substitute calm and balance at times with breathing the feeling of appreciation or compassion (or whatever attitude you choose to breathe). This can be done in a quiet place or while walking, jogging, and even in a conversation once you get familiar with it. It’s very helpful for reducing anxiety, anger and mild depression.
Here is the short version of the above technique for quick reference:

1. Imagine the breath passing in and out through the heart or the center of the chest.

2. Breathe an attitude of calm or balance (or whatever positive feeling you choose) to help restore balance.
Heart-focused breathing is being taught by doctors, nurses and clinics throughout the world. It’s especially helpful during times of crisis or whenever you experience anger, anxiety or emotional overload. Heart-focused breathing exercises can help you shift stress-producing attitudes more quickly and reset your stress tolerance baseline.

I recommend that when your energy is low or you are feeling anxious you stop whatever you are doing, close your eyes, take a 3 minute break and do this technique. This is a very quick and effective centering practice.
Breathe deeply and be in the moment!

Marion & Tracy

The Matrix- Great messages

Quotes from The Living Matrix

“The reality is that science is a story told in installments, and every new chapter often times refines or completely changes what has come before.” Lynne McTaggert

“When you’re processing with your brain, you are broadcasting fields.” Bruce Lipton

“The brain is closer to a receiver and transmitter of information, not the central repository of that information.” Lynn McTaggert

“The existing control system of modern medicine is enzymes, and hormones. Not consciousness. Not emotions. Not body field. . . We find this a bit inadequate to explain the whole majesty of human behavior and sickness. . . it’s impossible.” Peter Fraser

“The placebo effect is the fact that a belief that a person has can override their biology. Science has recognized that at least one third of all healings – including drugs, surgeries and other allopathic interventions—one of all healings has nothing to do with the process, but has to do with the placebo effect.” Dr. Bruce Lipton

“Sending an intention “that I am better,” sending information with belief that “I am better,” is sending information to the body to correct itself. . . A thought is an actual physical energy too, and it sends information to the body as well. So a negative thought or a thought about being ill is sending a scrambling to the body in a sense.” Lynne McTaggart

“It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects our lifestyle, so that if we don’t believe that we can help ourselves, we probably cannot. If we don’t believe that positive information is useful to our health and well being, it probably won’t be.” Edgar Mitchell, PhD

“…the role that our intention, our consciousness plays in healing has yet to be understood, and in fact has been largely rejected by mainstream, established medicine. You know it’s time for us to bring these qualities of healing into the mainstream conversation about what is necessary to create an optimal healing system.” Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD

“If we change our interaction with our environment, we change our genetic potential ….so there is nothing fixed in our biology. It’s always changeable. Since we are not fixed… all of a sudden you realize how powerful you are as an individual in controlling your gene expression rather than buying into belief of victims of genetic determination.” Dr. Bruce Lipton

“One of the fundamental things that has to change in the future of medicine is this focus on the gene as being the solution to every illness.” Lynne McTaggert

“The heart actually sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. . . If we look within the nervous system at the parasympathetic branch, ninety percent of the nerves are carrying information from the heart to the brain. . . What the heart is sending to the brain profoundly affects brain function.” Rollin McCraty PhD

“. . . There is some other informational field perhaps which informs the entire body. . . These are unresolved questions in biology, but nevertheless it . . .suggests that there is something like information that is as essential and maybe more fundamental than even the material or energetic part of us.” Dean Radin PhD

“There is an information flow in our bodies . . . Our intuitive information is really of a quantum nature. . . what we call our intuition is our sixth sense when in reality it should be called our first sense.” Edgar Mitchell, PhD

“We have such a thing as the perfect hologram. There is the perfect you. There is the picture of you as a healthy person always there. . . We get stressed by a million different things; all of these stressors act as information upsetters and distorters. . . Our idea is that all you need to do is correct the . . . information in the right part of the energy hologram of the body. Once you stop the distortion, the physiology begins to work; the chemistry comes right; and there are really wonderful healing stories to be told here. Peter Fraser

“We’re on the threshold of an entirely new understanding of how disease happens, how information is transferred, and how to enhance information transfer within living systems.” Peter Fraser

Think out of the box and create yourself anew! Everything is possible!

Namaste,
Marion Ross Phd.

Color and Sound Healing Class with Tracy Latz M.D. & Marion Ross Ph.D

May 1, 2009 by docmarion

Please join us for our Color and Sound healing Class on May 5th in Mooresville, North Carolina at 6pm.
Learn ways to use color and the vibration of music and toning for rebalancing, de-stressing and healing ($150/person).

Location: Lake Norman Integrative Psychiatry office (Meditation Room): 116 South Main Street suite 301. Contact admin@lakenormanintegrativepsychiatry.com or contact info@12keystoshift.com to register for classes or seminars.
Check out our website for details at:http://www.12keystoshift.com

Hope to see you there!

Marion Ross PhD & Tracy Latz M.D.

Think Out Of The Box

People who think they are crazy enough to change the world often do!

Great inspirational video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9GTUMh490

SHIFT YOUR LIFE Seminar Schedule April-May 2009

PARIS, FRANCE

April 15, at 3pm Reiki For Children

In this Reiki for kids class we will teach how to sense energy, self healing and how to heal pets and plants.
Contact: info@12keystoshift.com for registration and directions.

April 16, 1pm to 5:30pm Energy Medicine

Learn how to Optimize your health, increase your vitality and overall well being by working with your body's own energies.Contact: info@12keystoshift.com for registration and directions.

April 17, 9 am to 5 pm EFT

We will be teaching, demonstrating, and practicing a unique form of Energy Psychology called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) commonly called “tapping”. EFT creates changes at an energetic level, therefore, it can treat almost any physical, mental, or emotional issue.
Contact: info@12keystoshift.com for registration and directions.


Mooresvile, North Carolina

May 5 at 6pm Color and Sound Healing

Learn ways to use color and the vibration of music and toning for rebalancing, de-stressing and healing ($150/person). Location: Lake Norman Integrative Psychiatry office (Meditation Room): 116 South Main Street suite 301. Contact admin@lakenormanintegrativepsychiatry.com or contact info@12keystoshift.com to register for classes or seminars.

Open Your Mind!

"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." ~ Eric Hoffer

EFT For Kids

This is a very clever way to work with some children with EFT.
It comes from Gary's newsletter. I hope that you find it helpful!
Docmarion


Using EFT Rhymes for children
Here's a useful idea from Don White in Australia that involves using simple rhymes to help children use EFT. This could make a BIG difference for some age groups. Also, while Don suggests a specific rhyme in his article, there is nothing stopping us from adopting a wide variety of rhymes for this purpose. Plenty of room for imagination here.

by Don White


Hi Gary,

I am a taxi driver in Perth, Western Australia. I originally learned EFT from your Manual and I have bought all your brilliant videos.

My reason for writing does not follow the usual format, but it hit me like a ton of bricks, and, if my intuition is correct, it could, with some refinements, be very important for children.

With such a build-up I hope my idea has some merit. It came from the belief (correct or not) that the children's nursery rhyme and game - Ringa ringa roses, came from, and helped the children cope with, the trauma they experienced, during the Plague of London.

My theory is that if children are taught to tap with a simple rhyme, then they will teach others, as kids do, and their game will help spread the word among our younger citizens.

During the day - between fares, in the taxi I jotted down a few ideas:

Name of the game: Happy Tapping! The rhyme:

Happy Tapping is lots of fun
You can do it on your own - or with anyone!
Tap tap tap on the top of your head,
Tap tap tap do just what I said!
Tap on your eyebrow just near your nose.
Then the side of your eye where the hard bone grows.
Now on the bone - under your eye,
Don't poke your eye or you'll make yourself cry!
Now under your nose - but over your lips
Tap tap tap - with your finger tips!
Now under your bottom lip - but over your chin,
Just on the bit where your chin goes in.
Now under your collarbone - but over your chest,
Under the bump of the bone is best!
The last on the list is under you arm,
To make sure you get it right - slap with your palm!

If you still don't feel good - don't go to bed,
Start tapping again on the top of your head!

Kind regards Don.

Join Us for the Reiki Peace Meditation

From William Rand:

World Peace Card Meditation
Wednesday, April 1, 7:30pm
(based on local time in your time zone) You are invited to take part in the fourth World Peace Card Meditation. Please mark your calendar and forward this email to all your friends. Thanks for Your Help! Because so many of you forwarded this email to your friends, there have been over 62,000 downloads of the World Peace Cards. This is a tremendous increase in the number of people using the cards. So far the total number of World Peace Card sets downloaded, received from our free offer and from our magazine has been over 87,000! I hope you have been using your peace cards as their use brings blessings to the world as well as to you. A fourth World Peace Card group meditation has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30pm. This is local time in your time zone. This method has been chosen because of the special effect it produces. As people meditate in each successive time zone the energy builds like a wave which gets stronger and stronger as it circles the planet. Because of the higher dimensional nature of consciousness, the energy of peace will be transmitted for a full 24 hours and continue long after this. Reports from those who took part in the previous meditations indicate many had powerful spiritual experiences. As they united with those taking part in the meditation a feeling of peace developed within that stayed with each for a long time. Some saw beautiful golden light surrounding the planet and others felt that a web of fear was dissipating and being replaced with trust in others and for our future. All those who have received the cards are being asked to meditate on world peace at this time. By taking part in this group meditation, you’ll be joining thousands of people who will be using the cards to bring peace to the world. By joining together, the affect we have will be greatly multiplied. This powerful experience and will help shift the vibration of our wonderful planet into a higher state of consciousness. As you use the cards to meditate on world peace, you will be a beacon through which peace will spread around the planet which will have a positive uplifting effect on all people. Please set aside this time to meditate with the cards. The suggested meditation period is 15 minutes, but of course you can meditate longer if you’d like to. The technique I’d like you to use is based on allowing yourself to be a beacon of peace. The World Peace Cards hold the vibration of the World Peace Grids which have been placed at spiritually significant locations and are relay stations for higher consciousness. By simply opening to their energy, you’ll become a channel for their love and peace which will flow through you to all the people on Earth. To do this, hold the cards in your hands or place them in front of you. Then simply meditate on peace. We are entering a new era. Our entire planet including all the people and living things are moving into a place where it will be much easier to solve our problems and to create peace, prosperity and happiness for everyone. The World Peace Card meditation will quicken this process, making it easier for people to experience this new quality of higher consciousness and will provide great benefit for all people. Since this benefit will be flowing through you out to everyone on the planet, you'll be blessed by this experience as well. Many have received the cards in the mail or in the Reiki News Magazine while others have downloaded them from our web site. If you would like additional copies of the cards, please download them using this link and print as many copies as you can use. Please feel free to give them to your friends. Also, forward this email to anyone you feel would like to take part in the meditation. World Peace Card Download Additional World Peace Cards
http://www.reiki.org/WPCM.html When printing the cards from this file, print page 2 first, then place this page in your printer and print the image of the peace grids on the back. Thank you for taking part in this group meditation. Sincerely,
William Lee Rand
The International Center for Reiki Training

So What Is Reiki?

We are teaching Usui Reiki Ryoho and Karuna Reiki.
Our students are asking us to recount the real story of Reiki. "There are so many different forms," they remark "where did they come from"? "Which is the real Reiki?"
Remember that Dr. Usui called the technique that he channeled Reiki Usui Reiki Ryoho, as the word Reiki was already in use in Japan. Several other Reiki techniques with different symbols and different vibrations have been introduced in the West. The list includes: Karuna Reiki, Tibetian Reiki, Rainbow Reiki, The Radiance technique, Saku Reiki, Jinlap Reiki and Satya Reiki among numerous others.

I quote William Rand's (my Karuna Reiki Master's) definition of the four unique qualities of Reiki that identify the class of healing techniques he believes to be appropriately called Reiki:

"These four qualities of Reiki are:

The ability to do Reiki comes from receiving an attunement, rather than developing the ability over time though the use of meditation or other exercises.

All Reiki techniques are part of a lineage. This means that the technique has been passed on from teacher to student through an attunement process starting with the one who first channeled the technique.

Reiki does not require that one guide the energy with the mind, as it is guided by the higher power and knows where to go and how to act all on its own.

Because of this, Reiki can do no harm.

Reiki 1 Class March 19th with Reiki masters Marion Ross & Tracy latz

Come and join us and learn simple techniques for self healing!
Check out our website at : http://www.12keystoshift.com

Color and Sound Class with Tracy Latz M.D. & Marion Ross Ph.D

6pm on Tuesday , March 17, join us to learn how to use color and the vibration of music and toning for rebalancing , de-stressing and healing. Email: info@12keystoshift to register

Radio Interview with Dr.'s Latz & Ross

Be sure to tune in to our radio interview at 7:05 am on Monday, March 16th on WTBQ am.

Shifting In The Workplace

I was recently questioned on the use of SHIFT techniques in the workplace. These are excellent and very practical questions to ponder! Especially during these stressful economic times. Work groups can take on the role of second 'family' in our life... they can be loving and fun or they can be quite dysfunctional at times. (I immediately think of the t.v. series 'The Office' and all of the dysfunctional antics that go on there with the resulting anger, guilt, shame, sense of unworthiness, abandonment issues, etc. that get fueled so readily with the insensitive comments or actions of others.)

"How does someone in an assembly unit/line deal with an obstacle when their performance is based on production and they can't stop to tap, or meditate, or Connect heaven and Earth - in fact, they can't step away for a moment until the designated break period?"

The most important thing for SHIFT-ing an issue is to get into your heart. It takes little time to picture your Compassionate Benefactor standing in front of you - I do this all the time no matter where I am or what I am doing if I feel an obstacle rearing its ugly trickster, shadow head. Once you have practiced this exercise or meditation, it can easily be done even with eyes wide open (again, I do it all the time to get into my heart for a patient overwrought with sadness or grief... or for an abusive patient who is angry and in pain over some issue going on in their life but verbally attacking me as they lash out... to prepare for radio interviews... to have heart to heart conversations with someone that is insensitive... or just if I am feeling alone, unworthy, etc if someone pushes an old reactive button of mine). Then I picture this Loving Benefactor standing just behind my left shoulder as I go about addressing the issue at hand or just to feel the love and peace and worthiness of the Loving Benefactor. it really can help with dealing with dysfunction in the work place or in life in general... standing in line at the grocery store... during meetings that seem senseless, etc.

"How does someone maintain enough energy to block and/or transform the negative energy of co-workers for 8, 10 or 12 hours on-stop and then still have energy to enjoy their time away from work?"

This is where the Self-Care techniques come in and are invaluable. Doing the 3 thumps daily followed by the 'zip up' can help immeasurably with this issue. The 3 thumps boost your own energy and then the 'zip up' keeps others form zapping your energy at work or anywhere else. If you know that a situation at work is going to be particularly problematic, then do the 3 thumps and 'zip up' before walking into it. Also, the regular stress-reduction techniques that you decide to do for your self in the Obstacle of Stress are a regular stress buster and rejuvenate you... that is why that is included in the book as an obstacle. When we do not take the time to de-stress, then we feel more vulnerable, feel overwhelmed and have less energy because we use up so much of our energy trying to 'hold it together' by tensing our muscles, worrying about what new stressor will pop up, etc. as we anticipate more trouble in our lives and harbor anger and resentment.

Regular PAR (Peace and Restoration) activities are crucial, making certain we take care of our self- mind, body and spirit.. which brings in the daily Dharma issue. When we keep the connection to awareness of who we really are (True Essence) and foster a sense of connectedness to all that is as these energetic, spiritual beings, then it makes us take situations at work or elsewhere much less personally. when we take things personally, we spiral down into various faulty thoughts and it drains our energy. We become harsh our selves and then contribute to the negativity in the workplace or wherever we are. Then we become part of the problem that we are battling... a cycle of negativity can be set up that will drain our life force out of us as we get so tied up in our egos.

The more you remove your own obstacles in your path, the easier holding the higher energy will become. We all struggle at first with falling back into the lower energies (we feel depleted when we do) at first, but each time we SHIFT back again into our heart, we are able to hold it there longer. Eventually it becomes almost second nature although we still have to keep an awareness of where we are choosing to live... in our heart in the moment or in our ego mulling over something in our past or coming up in the future. Where will you choose to live today? Tomorrow? At work? At home? On vacation? It is easier to hold our selves in our heart when we are less stressed.

"How do you deal with someone who has authority over you, who oozes with negative energy and disrespect, especially when concerns or complaints about that person are routinely ignored?"

This is a true test and challenge. It is important not to take their behavior personally although that can be a real test if they seem to target you as some people do, especially if they are intent in living in their negative, angry energy and they see that you are a Bright Light. They can sometimes want to make it their personal mission to put your Light out. It will be very tempting to step into your own abuser, angry energy to actually put your own Light out... this is what they want either consciously or subconsciously. It is best not to go there as the only person who will suffer the consequences are your self. (There is a lot more of this negative energy/trickster energy floating about recently since so many people are in fear, so be on the look out for it!) You could all band together (the Light Brigade) at work and throw a surprise party for this offensive person, letting them know how much you appreciate them for the role they play (there must be SOMETHING good about them, right?). Grin. This is what my mother-in-law would have called "killing them with kindness". It serves to suddenly get them in a state of surprise to be popped into their heart... a place they may not have been for some time. It is uncharted and forgotten territory for them... sometimes they need a little tour of that wondrous place. They might decide to SHIFT their energy there and move in for a while... who knows? Grin.

If they are truly abusive and it is detrimental to your own growth and well-being, then it might be time to put out some serious feelers and inquiries for a new position under a different supervisor or with a different company. You do not have to quit a job before you have secured a new one. (I wouldn't recommend it in these times.) Perhaps the job environment no longer serves to put a mirror in our face if we have SHIFTed our sense of unworthiness and lack of self-respect, if that is what the energy of the supervisor has been mirroring for us... and perhaps the new position in the job in the ethers has a new mirror to reflect dignity, self-love and self-respect back to us. After all, this is just another relationship that we have wittingly or unwittingly drawn to our self for us to learn by... who we are and who we are not.

If the new job is not feasible at this time or while you are looking for one (if the boss does not SHIFT with the wall of Love coming their way... grin), then the 'La Cucaracha' Technique in our book can be quite helpful and assist with not taking it personally on those days where you think that you are going to blow. The boss will start wondering why everyone seems to be humming or singing 'La cucaracha, la cucaracha.... la la la la la la la la laaaaaaa". Smile.

"Further still how can you share your own SHIFTing experience and knowledge appropriately in a workplace? With costs of living so high and so many people living literally from paycheck to paycheck so many can't afford a seminar, or a computer or internet access- even a book is a luxury compared to feeding the kids or putting gas in the car to get work. How can we share what we're learning and pass it on to those who so desperately need it?"

I find the best way to share it is first to be a role model... walking what you talk about... practice what you preach. If you are living your life going from fits of anger as you go from your victim energy to your abuser energy and then back again, no one is going to believe anything you have to say about how transforming anything you are using is. In fact, they are going to want to stay as far away from you as possible. Can you imagine if your supervisor you are asking about came up to you and recommended a book they were reading that was having a powerful effect on them that they used daily and helped them behave as they do at the workplace? yikes! We should find such a thing and hand it out to all the armies in the world to get them into killing mode! Divide and conquer.... or just divide and to heck with the conquering! Chuckle. Get my point?

People WILL notice when you truly SHIFT and are walking with increasing expression of your True Essence in you life, whether at work or at play. That is when you share with them how it is that you came to live more in your heart and share a bit of your journey with them. There are teachable moments that are ripe for such sharing.... of a story... of a technique. That is how we Shine our Light into the world and then we leave a Trail of Light for others to follow.

As for budgets, this blog site is free (tell them to visit it) as is the on-going discussion of the book concepts and techniques on the Beliefnet website at the SHIFT group at http://community.beliefnet.com/index.php?page_id=1107&group_id=1168

You can also request that your local public library obtain a copy of the book for circulation so that your friends and co-workers can check it out of the library. Just a thought. Smile.
DocTracy


Posted by docmarion & doctracy at 6:56 AM

Abuser/ Victim Mirror

Sometimes we attract others to us to learn.  Other times we have SHIFTed and the others who are used to doing the dance (sometimes the family dance) are just doing the same pattern that they have been doing for years... it is a reactive dance that is second nature and just a "normal reaction" done without thought.  Why does the cockroach come out in the dark and run when you cut on the light?  It is their nature... it knows nothing different.

Some people are of a level of consciousness that they live almost constantly in their shadows and have limited to no awareness of their Light whatsoever.

It is important to recall that we are very powerful in our choices... our choices to allow people that have continuous abusive patterns to remain in our lives versus the choice to remove them from our life except for a limited basis or to limit them completely.  We are very powerful in our choices.  No one can take our power from us again unless we choose to hand it over to them.  Their behavior is a reflection of THEM and NOT a reflection of us.  We are responsible as adults for our own behaviors and they are responsible for theirs.

In childhood we have an imbalance in the amount of control we have over our lives.  Children can easily be manipulated or controlled unwittingly by adults and made to believe all sorts of things that we as adults (with more knowledge exposure and life experience) would be able to reason with clarity that the reality is distorted.  As adults, we no longer have to buy into the false realities that were perhaps painted for us by people who did not necessarily have our best interests at heart.

Sadly, there are many adults in this world that have little understanding of where their heart is as they have lived with it walled or closed off for much of their lives.  These adults live in a world of anger, fear, guilt or shame and are so wrapped up in their own personal issues, misperceptions and drama; they are unable or unwilling to feel compassion for others and just live to distract themselves with behaviors that may be addictive or compulsive in nature.  It can lead to them being in their abuser energy and cause them to attempt to prey on others whom they perceive to have less power than them.

It is interesting to see that the victim and abuser energies can be flip sides of the same faulty thought.  For instance, if we have the constant thought or belief "I will kill or be killed" or "I will be taken advantage of unless I take the advantage first", then we could either walk in the energy of the one who is "killed" or "taken advantage of" OR we could walk in the energy of the one who "kills" or "takes advantage of others".

DocTracy

Some general questions I would pose for anyone in an abuser/victim dilemma as an adult to open up some avenues for exploration....

Ask yourself, "Why do I continue to see those people in my life that are so negative?"

"Why do I allow myself to be hurt when I do have a choice?  Do I need to see myself as a victim of the world? Is that just my old identity and I haven't learned how to replace it with who I really am? Do I have a perceived need to suffer rather than be joyful?"

"Am I afraid of my power to create love, joy, abundance in my life?  Are there further lessons to be learned to keep me stuck with these issues in my face until I discover what they are?"

"Am I trying to change (consciously or subconsciously) others through my own 'good' behavior and have a relationship on my terms?"

"Am I stuck in not being able to make a choice or recognize that I do have one?"

"Is it time to let them go so I can have space for more positive and loving relationships?"

I hope that a couple of these questions give pause for reflection and can assist you.

DocMarion

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