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Journal Writing

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In my experience, journal writing facilitates wisdom inspired personal change if:

(a) guidance is gently provided on how to write your words freely, without censorship, and how to ‘divine’ for wisdom that sits beyond;

(b) you have an opportunity to safely speak and hear your words that have unfolded from within; and,

(c) you have a structured opportunity to hear other people’s writing and heed words and phrases that resonate with you.

Powerful journal writing groups provide a ‘held’ space in which we hear something deeper in our own words and/or in the words of others.

In a nourishing journal writing group there is the writing, and listening. Listening to the words of ourselves and others, as against the words we have going on in our heads about others and ourselves, is the ‘soil preparation’ for a rich yield. When listening well, we drop the walls of thought about ourselves and others, about our stories, and we are left with openness and possibility. Here is where we find the seeds of something new. Tend them and life changes.

LifelinesBeginning Monday 8 April 2019 I will run a 12 week journal writing group, using immersive journal writing prompts from the CD learning course ‘Lifelines: How Personal Writing Can Save Your life’ by Christina Baldwin. Each session will be conducted from 10 am to 12 noon. Cost per session: $25. Location: Bibra Lake. For enquiries and registration, please contact myself, Georgina Mavor, at 0417 949 179 or georginamavor@hotmail.com

 

Love

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LoveDuring the week, I read ‘The Secret of Love’ by Lori Carpenos and Christine Heath. It weaves wisdom, stories of love and behaviours that can interfere with it.

A few very poignant understandings stood out.

There is only one ‘truth’ and that is that you are the thinker of your life. Every thought is like a dot appearing out of nothing. Sometimes they are created out of our natural state and sometimes they are created from our memory (learned). All of them activate neurological pathways and are experienced in the body and mind. Our perfect makeup brings thoughts alive. The fact that we are the thinker is the only truth, even though the content of our thinking can appear and feel true.

We are always (and only) in a relationship with our own thinking. Our thoughts are the medium through which we experience the external world. Our thoughts create ‘molecules of emotion’ (Dr Candace Pert) which we physically experience. Create negative thoughts and we will experience those, choose positive ones and we will experience those. Nothing outside us creates our personal feelings, although there are many, many low feeling behaviours and events now occurring in the world.

Everyone is thinking different thoughts, so everyone is having a different experience of circumstances, even the same ones. You cannot eradicate differences in any relationship.

When in relationship with another it is your thinking about differences that makes the difference in the quality of your relationship. All differences can be seen for what they are – innocent expressions of the thinking we are entertaining. Decide what differences you can live with and ones that you can’t. It is possible to love another and decide not to live or be with them.

When looking for an experience of love, whether on your own or with another, you are looking for a beautiful feeling, in yourself, and/or someone who wants to share that – above everything else. You are looking for someone who is willing to explore what’s possible when we drop negative thinking and interact only when reconnected with thought from our natural state.

Love is the natural state of Thought. Drop the dots of negative thinking and experience the warm feeling, the spontaneous eruptions of gratefulness and the wisdom that resides in the natural state of Love. Love is and can be experienced regardless of our external circumstances.

Falling in love, or falling out of it, are both an internal process of falling in the stream of thought called Love or entertaining negative thoughts that make their cheeky appearance and falling out of Love. Imagine sitting on a jetty, basking in the warm sunlight, luxuriating in the feeling on your skin and soul. A strong thought emerges to jump in to the murky water below and because you know nothing different, you follow that thought. Your mind panics, thoughts run wild and you cannot navigate the dark depths. You see a ladder beside the jetty and climb out. You resume your place on the jetty and begin to warm up again. In hindsight, you wonder why you followed that thought in the first place.

Possibility

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PossibilityWay back in 1993, John A. Wood brought the Three Principles understanding to Perth. Whilst his Centre closed its doors, John continued with his life journey and recently released his book, ‘Possibility … a state of mind’. It is an autobiography, one that draws out his more recent insights.

Whilst I found it overly ‘wordy’ (but which was deliberate for those for whom his words maybe foreign), I enjoyed my reading of it, and found his thoughts ‘fresh’. John refers to the energy that flows through us – Life, or Thought. Human beings turn that energy into thinking, moment by moment by moment. For most of us, and for most of the time, we use memory to turn Thought into thinking. As thinking is the mediator of all experience, thinking crafted from memory creates the same quality of experience, over and over again. The alternative, the ‘road less travelled’, is to let go of memory, and instead be open to Possibility.

Unlike the Three Principles understanding, John distinguishes only between thinking created from memory …. or Possibility. Letting go of thinking from memory, includes letting go of gender, our past, ethnic origin, religion, work, achievements, etc. etc. etc. They are all irrelevant.

The fact that Thought can be sculpted using memory or open to Possibility explains why viewpoints and behaviours often narrow as we age.

In the 3 Principles understanding, insights are recognised as the mechanism for personal change, whether that be in the moment or over time. Seeing Thought as either manifested from memory or Possibility expands our understanding of insight and allows us to ‘see’ our thinking more upstream.

Perhaps his greatest clarity is around innocence and compassion. When we can ‘see’ both ourselves and others as either operating from memory or Possibility, this immediately changes our stance both to ourselves and others. If we are unaware of Possibility, then we are stuck with what we have always used – memory.

John has posed Possibility workshops as a way forward. Similar attempts to bridge the divides in humanity that emerged in the 80’s from people like Scott Peck and Robert Theobald held huge promise but unfortunately ran out of steam. Maybe John’s offering provides a missing piece of the puzzle.

He, I and others are scheduled to meet later this week. I look forward to …. Possibility.