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WEEKLY COACHING TIP #158
BLESS YOU On Saturday I had the good fortune to be in a whole day seminar with Neale Donald Walsh. For those of you who dont know him, he has written many books, the most famous are the first 3 books called Conversations with God. I highly recommend them as they are excellent. Neale was one of these people whose life was not working on any level and he was in danger of falling into a bigger depression than he already was experiencing. One night he got up and he was just desperate and he asked God to give him some answers if there really was a God. The answers he received from God became 3 books, translated into 27 languages and sold millions. He has also written 7 more since then too. It doesnt really matter what name you give for knowing there is a higher power, it could be Source, infinite wisdom of the Universe, Love, Higher Being, Inner Self at the end of the day it is a summation of everything that is love and good. This is not religion; it is not a dogma, though obviously if this works for you, great. It is more about your spirituality. I have found over the years working with clients that often people feel disconnected, and are somehow floundering in their lives; however, as soon as they begin to really look for the answers inside themselves and understand that they are connected to a higher source, that is unconditionally loving them, the transformations can be amazing. Of course, it can be slow process too and not many people are up for that because we live in times of quick fixes. Ultimately you either walk this life consciously making decisions from a deep place inside of you, from being connected ultimately, or you really go about your life sleep walking, just getting up and doing what youve always done, with very little conscious awareness. Most people are giving their power away continually, leaking it out, when they get stuck in a traffic jam, when somebody snubs them, when they hang out with people who rob them of their energy or try to make them feel inferior. What usually happens then is we get into blame and/or allow our esteem to plummet. This then becomes a vicious circle and it can be difficult to get out of it by oneself. Neale told a true story which I am going to paraphrase here. He was in Zurich giving a talk and a reporter who had interviewed him asked him if he knew about sister Rita (Neale couldnt remember her real name). The reporter then told him, apparently on Zurich station, for the last 4 years, sits sister Rita, and all she does is sit there, she sleeps there too, she only gets up to go to the toilet and people bring her food to eat. So a reporter was sent down to interview her. The reporter sat down next to the sister and explained that she had been sent by her boss to interview her. She asked why she sits there everyday, what is she doing? The sister didnt reply. The reporter asked again but still no reply. As she was still not getting any answer she said she would wait until she answered her question. So this reporter sat herself down and waited for 4 hours, after which she asked her the questions again, she also invited her to write it down if she wanted (she thought she might be mute). Eventually the reporter reckoned she would stay the night, and just join her in sitting there. The outcome of this story is that after 4 days, the sister said, You really arent going to move are you? The reporter said Thats right. The sister then said, Okay if you really want to know what Im doing, Im blessing the people, each one as they go by. It turned out this sister had had a perfectly normal happy family life and one day just decided shed had enough of doing the same things, she wanted to be a bit more useful, so she took herself down to Zurich station and started to bless the people, and has been doing so since that date. It turns out the regulars on Zurich station really want that blessing and if they manage to walk past her it makes their day. The reporter then asked if there was anything she could do to help. The sister immediately said yes, you can sit on the other side of the station and bless the people from there! The reporter did this, and she did it for four weeks! At the end of it, she was, as you can imagine, feeling completely changed inside, she got it. It became more about her journey than that the sisters. I think that is such a lovely story, to think that people are giving up their time and lives to do something which seemingly has no reward, but of course it will have massive rewards. The really scary thing is that most people would think she was mad, when in fact, its probably most of society that is mad. So what if you were to get your attention off yourself just for one day or if you are really up for it, one week, forever!, who knows! Begin blessing people, everybody you pass on the street, in the tube, at work, even when a colleague or boss has just had a go at you, bless them anyway. You can even bless the trees, flowers, birds. What you will be doing is sending a wonderful, loving energy out and giving it back to yourself. Because everything you give out comes back! It is such an easy and wonderful thing to do and know one even knows you are doing it, so you dont have to plump up the ego about it either, just do it and receive it back. There is a book called The Gentle Art of Blessing by Pierre Pradervand I havent read it but it is about this very thing. Wouldnt blessing be a nice thing to do, instead of becoming angry, frustrated or unhappy about people? If you do it (or pass by Zurich train station), let me know how it felt. Well I have to go now Ive got some blessings to do! Have a blessed week! Until next week Onwards and Upwards! 2005 INSPIRIT & Denise Bosque All Rights Reserved Related Tips 106 - YOUR VERY OWN PERSONAL BANK (part 2) 101 - YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
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