Make My Day

Had a wonderful weekend. My parents came down from brissy to babysit BlueBelle while we went out to have a bit of a farewell party, and an early birthday celebration for Bessie. Thanks to all of you who came along.
Also thanks for some really encouraging comments on our posts. One thing I have learnt is that inspiration is very much a 2 way street.

So something I have been considering since we started this is the fact that by YOU getting out and bringing a little spontaneous inspiration into someone else’s life you get it reflected back in spades.
You don’t have to be a guru, or know everything about the universe to change someone’s day, and hence your own. It seems there is literally a magical property to brining a little light to others.
Im quire interested in exploring this further. Love you to do the same and see what our results are.
Takes so little effort to verbally make someones day better. Not like you have to help them move house. Just open your mouth and tell them something you have learnt or noticed about them that might make there day better :-)

By the way did i mention - 'You look MARVELLOUS today' -  haha

MIGHTY MOMENTS!

This came to me this morning after a long meditation. So in the spirit of sharing the 'wealth', i am urged to pass it on to you.


Every MOMENT, if we let go of our distraction for a second, there is a quite awareness of something tiny you could 'DO', in that moment, that would resonate with your 'soul'.

It may not appear to be part of a big hourly or daily or weekly picture. You may not see its relevance.
It may seem insignificant, or appear to be an annoyance to the pressing matters at hand, like getting the kids to school!
But when you feel it, don’t wait, don’t second guess, don’t dismiss, or say, ‘ill do that right after I’ve done this’!

DO IT NOW in that moment it belonged in.

And each tiny step of congruence, that maybe as small as picking your socks of the floor to save your partner, or calling a friend, will unravel before you a hidden trails, your own secret path. Like cookie crumbs through a forest, brining you one clue at a time closer to an ultimate sense of daily fulfilment.

Think about it. If we don’t act on our intuitive sense of purpose in the moments, how can we ever expect to experience it over the period of a lifetime?

What is your core trying to tell you in this moment? Mine was to write this down for me to remember.
Now I am quietly excited about what’s next. I don’t have to look for big meaning or perfectly thought out master plans.

I don’t even have to know where I am going. I just have to do the tiny little things I feel congruent to do, as and when they pops up in that moment.

My mission today is to notice the little voice and catch myself from submitting to the argumentative and demanding conscious distractions.

WOW I wonder what my life would be like now if I had acted on every one of those quiet intuitive thoughts. I guess it’s never to late to find out

HELP:- Let us know how your life has been affected by a tiny intuitive thought you stepped out of your destractions to do! Today or in the past!

What are we MISSING

You may have seen it but well worth repeating!
Washington DC Metro Station on a cold January morning.

He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace.
He collected $32.1 hour:He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

• No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world.
• He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written,
• With a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.
• Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston
• where the seats averaged $100.
  

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities.

The questions raised: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour,

do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ....

How many other things are we missing?

The Real Self Help Guru - YOU!

A very wise women came to my house today. I have been working with Gaz for years now in my quest to ‘distil’ the ‘meaning of life,’ for want of a better phrase.

She reminded me of an often forgotten fact. Everything we need to know is all around us all the time. Your whole life is one giant self development seminar, and you are the ultimate Guru. Seriously who knows more about you than you. So why do we defer our power to others out side ourselves?

The reason is because we don’t trust ourselves, and we don't really want to know the truth!

Our bodies have the most amazing and profoundly accurate system for getting us completely congruent and into the flow of life, without the aid of a single self help book. It’s called ‘PAIN’!

Every time we feel pain, fear, hurt, anger, indignation, worry, criticism and all those other ‘negative’ emotions that throw us out of whack, it’s like a great big hazard warning light going off in your head.

BEEP BEEP – LOOK – HERE – LOOK – HERE – THIS IS WHERE IM UNBALANCED!!!!!!

The amount of pain or discomfort you feel is directly proportional to the distance your life is, (at that moment), from the one your true core is trying to focus you on living.

This is very much the reason we took the leap and started the Life Change Experiment. To address our pains front on and realign our actions with a more natural flow!

Unfortunately most of us run the other way when we sense some form of discomfort!
How well do you think your car would run if every time the brake light went on you drank a bottle of wine and burried your head in work, cursing the stupid warning light for being rude!

Yet that’s exactly what we tend to do when we are confronted with problems in the real world – Blame the symptom rather than the cause, as Frankenfurter so aptly pointed out in Rocky Horror. The truth is! Your pain Your Problem!

After all if you looked in a mirror and saw a mark on your face you would be mad to try and rub it off the mirror right!

So my mission today is to START NOTICING! What ‘gets my goat’, frightens me, worries me, annoys me, angers me!! What am I criticizing, dismissing, disliking, avoiding, begrudging etc

What do I see in ME that makes me reacts like that to them! And how might that incongruence be affecting my quality of life in other areas

The world is one big life change seminar if you care to learn the lessons – You are your own guru, with everything and everyone around you reflecting little pieces of who you really are ,(or are not) being, like it or not!

It’s our choice to blame the mirror or address the mark where it is. ON US!

Thankfully now we have you guys as wonderful additional mirrors on our journey. I hope we can return the favour here in our own little way :-)

LIKE YOU MEAN IT!

I LOVE THIS STORY!

A student of a wise master asked him one day, “Master when will you teach me about enlightenment”, and the master said, “Tomorrow when your ready.”

The next day the student asked the same thing and the master replied, “Tomorrow when you are ready.”

This happened for a number of years – Finally the student was fed up and said, “Master I want to know about enlightenment NOW”

So the master takes him down to the water and says hold your breath and put your head under water. The student complies.

As he holds his breath the student waits for the answers he has been seeking.

Slowly his air runs our and still no enlightenment so he starts for the surface only to find his master holding his head underwater.

Panicking now he struggles and tries to reach the surface, but to no avail. His lungs are bursting and every part of his body is screaming for air.

Suddenly the master releases his student and he burst into the air taking an almighty life giving breath.

“What are you doing?, are you crazy”? The student said, “You nearly drowned me”.

When you want enlightenment as much as you want that breath you are ready for me to teach your! Said the wise master.
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I think about this story everyday. It’s a great reminder that no matter how much I think I'm tring I am never as fully committed to it as I would be to my last breath.

Yet that power resides inside us at anytime we want to apply it.

How easy would your life change be if you acted like your life depended on it!

Falling out of Flow

Must admit I felt a bit overwhelmed yesterday. So much has been going on! The huge quantity of people in need, the inadequacy of our ability to help and the logistics of our future have really hit home.

It’s reminded me how hard it is to stay in the flow when you are bombarded with 'practicalities', other people’s opinions, distractions and fears.

Of course this is clearly the next lesson on our journey and I accept that.

How do I know? Because it seems all really worthwhile lessons come, at what we would consider, the most inappropriate times.

And right before we have to decide the next step in our journey, is about the most inappropriate time I can think of, to not be able to feel the flow! So I take some form of perverse comfort in this fact, haha

A good friend of mine who is a little too psychic for her own good, Rang me tonight to say she was sensing that I was disconnecting, and to remind me to re centre. She was right! As she usually is.

Why am I sharing this with you? To become accountable!
It would be easy to always write upbeat, ‘we are so enlightened, take our advice’ blogs. But that’s not what this is about. It’s an experiment. Which means:-

1 It MUST be truthful else the results are flawed
2 It will go wrong and it will go right – Both are equally valid lessons
3 It is all about dealing with the warts and all of reality, not detached Ideas in a book.

I have worked amongst many of the most well known personal development people in the world, and my biggest gripe is that few ever admit to having bad days.
It was a huge weight of my shoulder when I realised that ALL of them did, and not just a few! So ‘perfection’ was not the goal.

So today my mission is to start to reconnect, and listen to the flow again. There is too much at steak to let my ego or fears screw things up now.

See now I feel better already. Wow you guys are great – Thanks for the talk :-) – (the power of reflexion )

Poem from Bernita

THE ODYSSEY
Geoff and Bessie are to be free,
Of super ?fic- ia- lity.
With little BlueBelle they will flee,
Embark upon their odyssey.
　
　
?WHAT INSIGHT!? ?DARING!? ?CLARITY!
?HOW BRAVE!? ?HOW BOLD!?- we?ll all agree.
　
　
Bar all the ?plastics? of Sydney (fingers moving manically),
Whilst ?Googling? your page with glee!
　
　
?Safe journey? is the wish from me,
As you find what is your destiny.

(Sent to us by Bernita - Thanks Bernita :-)