The Terrorist Within - Your Thoughts
Welcome to September’s Connections Newsletter. I hope you all had a great summer wherever you were and whatever the weather! You might have noticed that Connections didn’t come out in August – two reasons for that – I was on holiday for two weeks and I also went to do a nine day retreat with Byron Katie called The School of The Work. Nine days questioning my stressful thoughts – WOW, one of the best things I have ever done, and this month’s newsletter is about that and the terrorist within - our thoughts. A few notices too and as always some great fun and inspirational stuff I have come across on the web. Enjoy – and please if you feel you have any friends who would relish this newsletter please do pass it on or mention it in your blog if you can – the more the merrier, thanks.
The Terrorist Within – Your Thoughts.
As I said I have just spent nine days doing self-enquiry on my thoughts. Byron Katie – who wrote the book Loving What Is – holds a nine School of The Work in which you get to look at and question any thoughts that give you stress. These can be about people who you judge or blame, or who simply those that niggle you. You can question your beliefs about yourself, money, the world, your body, death – the whole myriad of where you mind goes.
It was very interesting because I decided to be in silence (other than in the course itself) for six days and I really got to see just what a terrorist my mind is! Constant snipping at myself as well as others. However what was lovely was that when it began to see how it was being watched it did calm down, and I could begin to catch the thoughts before they started to give me grief.
The main concept of Katie’s work (and I encourage you to go to her site and download the Little Book which is an excerpt of her work) is that all suffering is caused by what we think about something rather than the thing itself. Now many of you may have already heard and agreed with this idea – as did I. However in all my travels through life I have never found such a powerful and profound tool as The Work to really question the thought and help me see what is giving me pain in a new light.
Katie talks about here being three kinds of business; my business, other’s business and God’s business. Most of the time when we have stressful thoughts we are in other’s or God’s business. You do not do The Work to change anyone else; they are absolutely fine as they are, they are in their business. You do The Work to get out of their business and to change the thought within you so that you can find a place of peace around whatever is happening.
That being said it is interesting to see just how the world can change when you truly change inside. I did the Work on my sister because it always bugged me because I thought that I was the one who always wrote and made phone calls and kept in contact. Now the first question of The Work is “Is that true?’ and in all honesty I couldn’t really claim that it was:-). Immediately the tightness that arose from that thought began to loosen. After going through the whole process I came to see that it wasn’t her not contacting me that gave me grief but what the thought made me think and feel. The thought was my stuff. And as I said although you do not do The Work for anything outside to change it can, as I found out when I got back to a great long newsy email from my sister!
So why am I sharing all this with you? Because I think we are all at the mercy of our terrorist mind at times and as one of my clients said to me as we finished working together – the best thing she had learnt was that she didn’t have to believe her thoughts. It was her choice. That in itself was such a huge shift for her and gave her a new way of being in her life. Her life truly did turn around and even things she had not changed felt different because she thought differently about them.
When we do the Passion Test we teach The Work process because we believe it is the most powerful way of ensuring that you don’t let your limiting thoughts stop you choosing in favour of your passions. As I have said before, the secret of living a passionate life is whenever you are faced with a choice, decision, or opportunity always chose in favour of your passions.
What thoughts are you believing right now that is stopping you living your passions, stopping you fulfilling your potential? What thoughts about yourself or your body are giving you pain? What thoughts about others are clouding your perception of the world and those people close to you? What thoughts are stopping you going for what you truly want in life or what you want to give? What thoughts are causing havoc in your relationships? Is now the right time to stop thinking them? If so take a look at The Work or you can give me a call now on +442032396155 or drop me a line and lets discuss how you can learn to question these thoughts and disarm the terrorist in your mind.
September Offers and News
Passion Test for Coaches
Many of the 500+ Certified Passion Test™ Facilitators are Coaches and many have reported that being a Passion Test™ Facilitator has helped them attract new clients and dramatically expand their business. Others have told us of the remarkable experiences that their clients have had discovering their Passions and aligning with their life’s purpose. It makes sense that Life Coaches would have a significant impact in helping us turn the passion statistics upside down
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We want to help more coaches to ignite their Practices with Passion!
If you are a coach you can learn many of the most effective tools that our Certified Passion Test™ Facilitators have been using to expand and deepen their Coaching practices from their home - in our new 3-part live Tele-seminar series over 3 weeks entitled “Passion in Coaching” starting Monday September 13th. The ICF will even grant you 4 1⁄2 Continuing Education Credits.
Visit our Offer Page to learn more the details of this exciting new Tele-seminar.
Here are just a few of the benefits that you will receive:
Learn how to help clients discover their passions
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Each seminar is only $25 and the three part series is just $60 if you sign up for all three in advance.
You will not only receive a wealth of knowledge, but can also receive 11⁄2 credits towards your continuing education requirements for each seminar that you complete. You will also receive four wonderful gifts from Janet and Chris as well a growing appreciation of the value of becoming a Certified Passion Test™ Facilitator.
And especially for those of you who are in Europe (as the calls are late at night in Europe) these calls will be recorded so that you can listen to them at your leisure.
Check it out visit the offer page now.
Humanity Unites Brilliance
There is a weekly global virtual igniter where you can call in from around the globe and find out what HUB is all about and how you can do good whilst doing well. If you love the idea of creating sustainable funding for the developing world projects including clean water projects, micro credit and education then take an hour and listen to how you can join HUB and make a different to both your world and yourself through a clever network marketing for humanitarian project. Drop me a line to find out when the next one is.
Fun and Inspirational stuff
Qantas, service as ever.
WALKING THE DOG
A WOMAN was flying from Melbourne to Brisbane. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sydney along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.
Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind. A man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her Guide Dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.
He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, 'Kathy, we are in Sydney for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?' The blind lady replied, 'No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs.'
Picture this:
All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a guide dog! The pilot was even wearing sunglasses.
People scattered.
They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!
True story... so remember...
..... THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR!
Good friends – however unlikely
A little inspiration to keep on going
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