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Welcome to Our Newsletter
Welcome to an exciting newsletter with lots of goodies for everyone. We have a new Corporate section and Leader Effectiveness training program, a new Relationship section: "Eat Play Love" with things to do together and retreats commencing in October, as well as information on Family Constellation Training programs and articles plus new books and articles.
As a counselor over the past months I have noticed a number of people being challenged by what they call depression.
It seems that we are being asked energetically to step into the more of who we are, the new energy that is there, to give up our emotional addictions to the "No's" we have and invite the "Yes" into our bodies, minds and hearts. Tricky if the No's have been around for many many years and if we do not have the tools or are trying to figure out the whys? So here are some resources that may help:
- Create Your Day excerpt from Create Your Day by Ramtha
- When you wake up in the morning, before you remember who you are, in that moment of wordlessness remember who you want to be. Create your Day.
- Remember to create a day that it is so astounding, that it will add to my experience of my life, reframe your neuro net.
- Create your day in that moment before any identity is formed and your experience of your day will be very different.
- Create a day that you would call at the end of: hope for living, one that brings to you adventures, meetings and occurrences that would never have existed in your life prior to this.
Say:- Today I will know extraordinary people and have encounters of the unusual.
- Today I will know wealth in a way of which I have never known and all along the way I will be so excited about today that I shall never feel the illness that I dread everyday.
- Say these words slowly in your mind, hold them, be present with them, so that you are present with everyone of them. And when you have finished you would have been present with creating your day, and your day can get on with bringing you hope.
- The more present you are with the sentences the more excitement grows in your body and the thrill of the day can hardly wait.
- Helping You Manifest: Here we talk about how to give up emotional addiction, that is addiction to a particular feeling that occurs over and over again feeding the pain body
- Exercise: Yep despite how you feel emotionally, move the body and include any form of exercise as a daily routine, it gets that energy, old and new, moving through your body, relaxes you and de-clatters the mind. Let it be spontaneous too.
- Do something differently daily. We watch ourselves habitually doing the same thing daily. Choose one thing and do it differently.
- Honour You: stop and choose what you would like to do for you today. Something little, something to take time out for you, to connect and increase the energy in your being
- Question those thoughts: Is it true? Who would I be without this story? Turn it around.
- Seek Help: Reach out and ask for help, that is why we are here. Often we can help using Family Constellations whereby we take the symptom and see what it is pointing at in a system, homoeopathics, Belief work and much much more. Facilitators look and work with you to find a new way, a new you and to experience the freedom within.
2010
Date Claimers - Queensland
The Work – with Rosie
Staves
Dates: 23rd & 24th October 2010 Sat & Sunday 9am - 5pm (Part II)
Where: Junjarina, 1260 Wynnum Rd, Tingalpa
Effectiveness Training –
Personal Empowerment (using Linda Adam’s ‘Be Your Best’ program) – with Cate
Crombie 19th May 2010 - Wednesdays 6pm - 9pm
2010
Date Claimers -Victoria
The Work – with Rosie
Staves
Dates: 9th & 10th October 2010 Sat & Sunday 9am - 5pm (Part II)
Where: Australian Shiatsu College 103 Evans St, Brunswick
Effectiveness Training –
Personal Empowerment (using Linda Adam’s ‘Be Your Best’ program) – with Judith Richardson 25th August - Wednesdays 6pm - 9pm
Australian Shiatsu College, 103 Evans St, Brunswick
Family
Constellation Training
Training - Queensland
Family/Systems Constellation
There are still places available to join us in Maleny. The course is designed for people who are already working within the therapeutic field (e.g, psychotherapists, counsellors, teachers, social workers etc).
3 blocks of 3 days
Block 2 – 25th -27th June
Block 3 – 20th - 22nd August
Block 4 – 1st -3rd October
Held at Maleny on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
To enroll call Brenda on (07) 5471 1205 or Margarete on (07) 5494 2778
Family Constellation – with Margarete Koenning
22nd & 23rd May 2010 9am- 5pm Sat & Sunday Junjarina, 1260 Wynnum Rd, Tingalpa
10th & 11th April 2010 9am- 5pm Sat & Sunday Australian Shiatsu College 103 Evans St, Brunswick
Albrecht Mahr
The following link will take you to a paper written by Albrecht Mahr which he presented to the Collective Wisdom Initiative Conference held in 2004, titled “Family Constellations – Failure, Evil, and Guilt as Sources for Loving Dedication and Compassionate Strength. Please click here for full article.
Corporate Corner
Welcome to one of our new sections of Awakening News.
Leadership Effectiveness Training (Based on Dr Thomas Gordon’s work) with Paul O'Donovan
Bringing Effective Communication Training into the Corporate and Business sectors
5th & 6th June 9am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday
Australian Shiatsu College 103 Evans St, Brunswick
Cost: $1100 GST incl. Includes workbooks
For more information email: info@awakening.com.au
Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.)
Leaders know that it takes more than technical ability and business savvy to be successful in today's business environment. The ability to communicate and deal with conflicts effectively is equally if not more important.
Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.) is the foundation of our People Productivity Process (TM). L.E.T. teaches a concrete, actionable set of tools and skills that reduce conflict in the workplace, increase time on task and measurably reduce the costs of people problems. The People Productivity Process incorporates 360 assessment, coaching and follow-up so that L.E.T. becomes an on-going learning experience, rather than a one-time workshop.
"What Every Leader Should Know" is an article by Dr. Thomas Gordon, founder of the Gordon Training Institute which specialises in training effective leaders. Effective leadership requires specific relationship skills. Just because someone has "made it to the top" or "arrived" at higher rungs of the corporate ladder, does not mean they are effective leaders. An effective leader is both task-centred and people centred. To read the full article please click here.
Eat Play Love Relationship Section
Welcome to one of our new sections of Awakening News.
This is an opportunity to bring you Tantric and many other teachings we have gathered over the years to practice together at home.
The Beginnings of Meeting in Love:
Week 1: Make a date with each other for example: dinner, lunch, a walk on the beach, movie and then drinks, a weekend away....make time for the both of you to connect.
Week 2: Try going to bed at the same time with each other and simply hold each other and look each other in the eyes. Now to start with this maybe difficult if there has been has been alt of hurt, or needs of each other not being attended to. There maybe the feeling that this leads to sex, and I am not ready to open. Remember it takes time for our bodies to open to each other after hurts, conflicts, or neglect. Take the time to be patient with this ritual and each other - come to it with no expectations, just innocence. If there are negative withholds, then take the time to say them with ownership ie I feel neglected and unsupported when ....(see Effectiveness Training for more skills), there is no need for discussion, just deep listening and sharing how it is. Dropping into what you are saying and feeling this in your body allows your partner to do this also. Then the positive withholds, this includes all the things that you love your partner for, what they did during the day, and how they have been (even if small) with you.
Week 3: Initiation of the Senses: Close your eyes and simply allow your partner to touch you all over, with no agenda (this is not a prelude to sex - although it feels like it) breathe the sensations in, allowing them to move you, surrendering to each movement and touch. This is not an opportunity to "turn" your partner on, but an opportunity to love their body, explore in an innocent way. This week you can also introduce the Nadabrahma meditation to move into deeper connectedness with your partner. It is an old Tibetan technique which was originally done in the early hours of the morning. It can be done at any time of the day, alone or with others, but have an empty stomach and remain inactive for at least fifteen minutes afterwards. This meditation lasts 1 hour and there are 3 stages. Nadabrahma by Osho Active Meditation (Series) and Deuter (Audio CD - 1992) – Enhanced
As a couple this meditation can be done facing each other, and to enhance the amount of energy try naked with a white sheet over the top of you both, to create a cocoon.
Week 4: Meeting in Love. Take your relationship to new levels of awareness, intimacy and enhance the depth of love and openness as you meet in love without goals, simply letting the spirit of your connectedness move you, without following or suppressing pleasure. For more information see the article: http://www.awakening.com.au/meetinginlove.php
Relationship and sexuality retreats will be offered in Victoria and Queensland from October 2010 onwards. For more details Click here
Opening to Love & Trust in Relationships by Brenda Sutherland
Striving to simply connect in our relationships often gets entangled in trying to fix, change and get our needs met, missing the simplicity of connecting. To get out of our own way and cherish life and each other in our magnificence allows us to see and experience what we have been yearning for- letting life roll in ecstasy at our feet. Here are some headings of the article found http://www.awakening.com.au/openingtolove.php Click here.
- Steps to Personal and Relationship Transformation
- Whose Business Am I In?
- Active Listening
- From Man to Woman: Your anger, nagging, rejection just closes me more.
- From Man to Woman: I love the way your body moves
- From Woman to Man:
- From Woman to Man: When you fuck me, I close....
- Let's honour our relationship daily.
- Taking time for me.
- My way is not your way,
- Exercises to open my body and heart:
- What is my addiction?
- I will walk in your moccasins so that I may have compassion for you.
- A Balance of Giving and Taking
- Respecting you again
- Clearing the way to Meet In Love
- Dear Lover:
- I Am What I Am Looking For
- Granting a New Beginning
Book Special - The following John Payne book can be bought on special from the Awakening Group.
Were $41.00 reduced to $29.95 each.
Order from info@awakening.com.au
"The Healing of Individuals, Families & Nations" by John L. Payne
This book bridges the gap between the healing of an individual to the healing of family, ethnic and national souls through the unveiling of the orders of love. "The healing power of this book comes from stating simple truths and acknowledging what is without pretenses or masks...John Payne highlights how hidden loyalties and our need to be right are at the heart of many of life's challenges and how the stories we create are the cause of much illusion, pain and dysfunction in our lives. His refreshing take on forgiveness will take you on a journey where judgement will fall away and being authentic to who you are will once more come to the fore, relieving the burden of guilt, shame, resentment and anger. Click here to review book.
Nadabrahma by Osho Active Meditation (Series) and Deuter (Audio CD - 1992) – Enhanced
Nadabrahma meditation lasts for one hour and has three stages. It is a sitting method, in which an old Tibetan technique of humming; and hand movements create an inner balance, a harmony between mind and body. Suitable for any time of the day. "So in Nadabrahma, remember this: let the body and mind be totally together, but remember that you have to become a witness. Get out of them, easily, slowly, from the back door, with no fight, with no struggle." Osho. Can be purchased at Amazons.com. Click here.
Junk Food Addiction
NewScientist Health website released an article by Aria Pearson (2010) titled, "Junk-fed rats have 'drug addict' brains." To read the full articled please visit their website at www.newscientist.com/article/dn18706-junkfed-rats-have-drug-addict-brains.html or click here.
"The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program" by Kathleen DesMaisons. A complete, new dietary and lifestyle regimen to help sugar sensitive people overcome their dependency. “Potatoes not Prozac” defined the problem of sugar sensitivity and set us on our way to freedom from it. But readers need to know more to be able to stay on the Potatoes not Prozac programme and to have specifics on how to get out of the fog of sugar-induced confusion, poor concentration, and depression and lethargy.
Available for purchase at Amazon.com. Click here.
"Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Do" by Candace B. Pert Ph.D. Do you want to know why we feel the way we feel? Are you curious how your thoughts and emotions can influence your health? Does our brain work apart from the body? Or they all part of one big system? Dr Candace Pert has spent most of her life studying chemicals and how they work in our bodies. By establishing a biomedical basis for emotion, and explaining how our feelings, emotions, and bodies are connected -- through our mind -- we can begin to understand our lives like never before.
Available for purchase at Amazon.com. Click here.
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Brenda Sutherland
Course Principal
