“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”  If the Universe asked you this question,  how would you answer?

Walking out of the movie theater after seeing “Eat, Pray Love” with Leslie on Friday night, I found myself thinking about the main characters unique journey of heartbreak and discovery as Eddie Vedder’s great song about awakening, ”Better Days” played in the background; a simple question came to me….”What would people do if they knew they could not fail?”

Honestly, the first and rather shallow idea that jumped into my head happened to be “arrange a tour with Eddie Vedder and Leonard Cohan  and call it the Soul-Spirit tour!” I laughed and blew it off.

Later on when I shared the idea with Leslie, while pointing out how far fetched it was;  her immediate response was that she could totally see it happening; or at least getting them both on a radio interview together and see where it goes from there.  Now this, I could imagine! Can’t you?  If I never asked the question AND never shared it with another, this idea would not be alive and have no possibility! I think the “secret” might be the one-two punch of  having a concrete answer and sharing it with someone who can see the possibility with you.

What if the evolution impulse of the Universe, which I call love, desires  you and I and others to ask this very question, share our answers with others and see what happens? What would be the harm? What could be the possibilities? Whether Leonard and Eddie go on tour together or not, the question and the sharing of its answer seems to be consistent with the evolutionary impulse of love in action!

So, What would happen if you asked yourself the question RIGHT NOW and shared your answer with at least one other?

“What is one thing that you would do if you knew you could not fail?”

So far…

• I’ll go first so you get the idea of the range from the global to the personal to the quirky idea:   “Teach the the whole world how to remove the blocks to WHOLENESS in my lifetime; Write and perform a relevant song that causes tears, laughter and passionate-compassionate action; Oh-yeah; Have Leonard Cohen and Eddie Vedder  go on tour and perform together.”
• Collin Tipping has said “A world of Radical Forgiveness by 2012.
• Leslie said;  ”A world of inner of inner peace and outer aliveness through body awareness.”
• Ellie Harold said; “My oil landscape paintings are showing and selling successfully in galleries in New York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle and San Juan by the end of 2012.  My book “Painting Outdoors” on every outdoor painter’s bookshelf inspiring a spiritual approach to landscape art.”
• Goran said; “I would be in my spiritual commune/poly family and we would do workshops and retreats and such.
• Bob said; “Solve all to the world’s problems.”
• Janice said; “Through dancing, dancing, dancing we would all experience heaven on this earth.

• Others have said;
• “Walk on water” ( why not if we could, right?)
• “Be a successful author.”
• “Have  my dying mother of 78 live to 108.”
• “To have the body of a god…,not Buddha
• Robert, an attorney and businessmen said  he’d compose great-non commercial music.

What is one thing that you would do if you knew you could not fail?

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Thanks!

To your Wholeness!

Michael

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Face it, Embrace it, Express it, Listen for the message

Our emotions are the source of our experience of the love, passion and aliveness! They cause us to feel  all of these wonderful expanded feelings that we live for. Yet , they also cause us to feel hurt, sadness, fear and anger. Emotions in their most basic state are energy - energy intended to be in motion. I use the term E-motion as a tool to remember this concept.  When you are feeling an E-motion, energy is moving through your body. Anytime you notice yourself feeling stuck or disconnected, you’ve stuffed an E-motion. Energy that is intended to be in motion has been stopped. In psychological terms, you’ve suppressed a feeling that needs to be felt.

E-motions are gifts that allow us to be fully alive and engaged with our lives. The healthy use of E-motions can give us valuable messages, keep us safe, help us connect to others and experience great joy. However, when we allow our ego to repress or suppress our emotional state, we separate from our essence and lose our connection to wholeness.

When we suppress our E-motions, they become lodged in the cells of our body causing tension and stress reactions.  If the E-motion is not released and forced to remain trapped in our body, physical pain and illness result as well as emotional pain. The unconscious mind will continue to create self sabotaging circumstances that reinforce our emotional pain. It is as if the stuck energy has a gravitational pull that attracts people and circumstances into our lives for the purpose of the hurt being experienced and finally released.

So, why do people suppress their E-motions? Why be afraid to experience these contracted states?

1. The mistaken belief that the pain connected to the E-motion will be greater than is actually so.

2. Fear that the E-motion will overtake them and they may not be able to recover, remaining stuck in the discomfort.

3. Fear of being or appearing week, causing damage to their self image.

What’s to do?

No worries, help has arrived!

I created the Just FEEL It process for the healthy release of E-motions.  Whatever we resist persists. Whatever we have the courage to fully face, feel and embrace heals and becomes grace.  The healthy way to move the E-motions through your body is to allow yourself to be fully present with them, experience them, hear the messages they are sending you, and then releasing the energy.  What remains is your Essence.

Step One- Face It

Notice what is actually happening with you, in your physical body right now.

When you are either feeling stuck or experiencing an uncomfortable emotion the first step is to Face the the E-motion with compassionate awareness. The best way to do this is to stop the internal dialogue about what is happening and why it’s happening and see if you can discover where you are most experiencing the sensation of this E-motion in your body. Then, bring awareness to that area without judging, analyzing, blaming or trying to fix the cause.

Here’s how? Ask yourself this the question: What is actually happening with me in this moment? You may or may not know what to name what you are feeling and this is okay. Bring your attention to the actual physical sensations of the E-motion in your body. For example, If you are feeling sad, notice the physical expression of this sadness. Notice where in the body this E-motion seems to be most present.

Step Two- Embrace It

Embrace this feeling as fully as you are able with compassionate attention.

Breathe into the E-motion and visualize your breath going to that area of your body. Imagine becoming the most loving and nurturing parent that you can imagine to this innocent E-motion. Continue to provide compassionate attention by sensing as much as you can about this feeling.

* If this E-motion had a shape, sense what it might be.

* If it had a size, sense what it might be.

* If it had a color, sense what it might be.

* If it had texture, sense what it might be.

* If it had another mood, sense what might it be.

* If I recall an earlier time that this feeling was around,  about how old was I?

*  imagine this younger version of you either in your heat or in front of you. Now, ask: What did you most need in this situation?

*  Become aware of all of those that you know and don’t know who have this desire.

Step Three- Express It

*Sense for a moment, If what you’re feeling right now could make a sound, what might the sound be?

* Be honest, curious and playful.

* Now,  make the sound that you have discovered, with no attention on getting it right, on your next three exhales; either out load or silently.

Step Four -Listen

*  Take at least one full minute to witness and deeply listen to what you are most needing and wanting  now. Do this by asking the following , silently or out loud:

” What is my body most needing/wanting right now…..”  “What  need or want was not met around around this upset?”

” What are some creative ways that I can  get these needs/wants met if I choose to?”

” How could I contribute this universal need/want to another, if I choose to?”

Return to wholeness.

Take a moment to honor yourself for being a good steward of the energy that’s nature was to be in motion and simply required your attention . You Faced, Embraced, Expressed and Listened. Notice that you have returned to the expanded state of wholeness.

So, to summarize the process, here are the steps:

1. FACE it by noticing what is actually going on in your body.
2. EMBRACE it by holding the E-motion in your awareness with compassionate attention.
3. EXPRESS it with a sound
   
4. LISTEN for the unmet needs that were the source of the upset. See the energy associated with the upset as a basic form of pure energy, returning to wholeness

Whatever we resist persists. Yet whatever we have the courage to fully face, feel and embrace heals and becomes grace.

Do we actually  hide from the very thing that we most seek, intimacy?     In-To-Me-See.

During early childhood, you learned to bond with your caregivers in ways that felt good to you. This is where you learned many of the bonding patterns that continue in your adult life as the foundation for all of your relationships. No matter how satisfying those early relationships may have been, you also had certain perceived unmet needs. These are the same needs that you seek to get met today particularly in your romantic relationship. Cosmic Joke is, we try to get these needs met from the same energetic match of the people that couldn’t meet them in the first place.  And, unless the relationship becomes conscious of this, they wont be met in your present romantic relationship.  When you can give your partner what s/he most emotionally needs,  s/he heals and becomes more whole and you grow to become more flexible and whole yourself in the process. Not a bad deal!  We all get to choose; conscious essence based love or unconscious ego based false love.

Whatever is not healed in your relationship now will repeat, in your current relationship and/ or a future one. The time for healing is now.

A conscious relationship can take many forms, ranging from  monogamy inside a life long relationship with another to a creating  conscious community with others.  Yet a relationship with our most intimate partner can be one of the most profound spiritual paths available to us. Romantic relationships are dramatic teachers of wholeness, showing us where we need to heal. Problems with our intimate partner can be an opportunity to grow in to greater wholeness, both personally and as a couple.

Our soul seeks real love. Our ego often creates false love. False love is ego based and concerned with protecting our vulnerability and getting what we think we want.

Real love…, Essence based Love desires to fully see the soul of their beloved and takes the risk of being fully seen by this beloved, in all its vulnerable glory.

In Wholeness!

The Enneagram is one of the most profound transformational tools available to assist us in uncovering our
deepest motivations and fears that lie at the core of our ego personality or “false self” and transcend to Essence or the “true self”. It’s a psycho-spiritual tool that provides much more than personality profile.

What is it exactly? The Enneagram is a geometric symbol that maps the nine fundamental personality types of human nature as well as the very complex interrelationships between the various types. Every one is a mix of these fundamental types, although one type, in particular, is your “home base” or the best description of your personality as a whole. Knowing your Enneagram type is extremely valuable in bringing instant awareness of your ego’s core fears and desires and a direct path towards Essence.

Here’s how it works: Each Enneagram type has a core fear, core desire, favorite strategy or vice, as well as a principle virtue. The more your ego engages in vice to avoid fear and gain its desire, although providing temporary relief, ultimately brings a person closer to their core fear. The more you determine to be present with your fear and engage your virtue, the closer you come to your core desire. Your ego tends to choose a quick fix resulting in a protecting or grasping strategy. This is either inflating or deflating and always causes separation. The virtue is always grounded in love and wholeness and therefore, brings an individual closer to their Essence.

Within the nine types, three are more body-centered (8, 9 &1), three are more heart-centered (2, 3 & 4) and three are more mind-centered (5, 6 & 7). What does this mean? Both your greatest strengths as well as your favorite defense strategies originate from your particular center.

Here is a personal example from my life: My ego’s personality type is Seven, the Enthusiast, Epicure or Adventurer. My personality center is the mind. Through the mind, when I’m at my best (integrated), I’m able to think quickly, provide insight and ingenuity and offer creative and practical solutions to solve problems. Through this same mind, when at my worst (un-integrated) I can allow charm to replace substance, allow ideas to distract me from the real work that needs to be done and let my spontaneity, playfulness and head-in-the-clouds interfere with keeping commitments. It is hard to admit these things. Yet, I’ve learned that either we  own our “shadow” or our shadow owns us. I most humbly choose the former.

If I can find a way to see my ego’s shadow, accept these tendencies as the ego’s way of attempting to protect me from my pain and vulnerability, I can change. For me as an Enneagram Seven, I’ve made the conscious choice to replace gluttony of the mind through escaping into future planning to what I call “sacred groundedness”. This is about practicing grounding in present moment awareness with a background sense of the beauty, abundance and preciousness of the life that I’ve been given.

Here’s a brief history of the Enneagram: The Enneagram of Personality Types is a modern synthesis of a number of ancient wisdom traditions. The person who originally put the modern system together was Oscar Ichazo. Ichazo was born in Bolivia, raised in Peru, and as a young man moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina to learn from a school of Inner Work. Thereafter he journeyed in Asia gathering other knowledge before returning to South America to begin constructing a systematic approach to all he had learned.

After many years of developing his ideas, he created the Arica School as a vehicle for transmitting this knowledge, teaching in Chile in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. He then moved to the United States where he still resides.

In 1970, while Ichazo was still living in South America, a group of Americans, including noted psychologists and writers Claudio Naranjo and John Lilly, went to Arica, Chile to study with Ichazo and to experience first-hand the methods for attaining self-realization that he had developed.

This group spent several weeks with Ichazo, learning the basics of his system and engaged in the practices he taught them. The Arica school, like any serious system of inner work, is a vast, interwoven, and sometimes complex body of teachings on psychology, cosmology, metaphysics, spirituality, and so forth, combined with various practices to bring about transformations of human consciousness. (The authors are not affiliated with this school, and therefore cannot describe it with any justice, but those seeking to learn more about it can do so through Arica Publications).

Among the highlights for many of the participants was a system of teachings based on the ancient symbol of the Enneagram. The Enneagram symbol has roots in antiquity and can be traced back at least as far as the works of Pythagoras.

The symbol was reintroduced to the modern world by George Gurdjieff, the founder of a highly influential inner work school. Gurdjieff taught the symbol primarily through a series of sacred dances or movements, designed to give the participant a direct, felt sense of the meaning of symbol and the processes it represents. What Gurdjieff clearly did not teach was a system of types associated with the symbol.

Gurdjieff did reveal to advanced students what he called their chief feature. The chief feature is the lynchpin of a person’s ego structure—the basic characteristic that defines them. Gurdjieff generally used colorful language to describe a person’s chief feature, often using the Sufi tradition of telling the person what kind of idiot they were. People could be round idiots, square idiots, subjective hopeless idiots, squirming idiots, and so forth. But Gurdjieff never taught anything about a system of understanding character related to the Enneagram symbol.

For these and other reasons, many early Enneagram enthusiasts have mistakenly attributed the system of the nine types to Gurdjieff or to the Sufis because of Gurdjieff’s use of some Sufi techniques. This has led to the widespread and erroneous belief that the Enneagram system has been handed down from the Sufis or from some other ancient school as an ongoing “oral tradition.” While it is true that Ichazo drew on his knowledge of a number of such traditions, the actual combination of those traditions connected with the Enneagram symbol is purely his creation.

Thus, the modern Enneagram system only goes back to the 1960’s when Ichazo was first teaching it, although the philosophy behind the Enneagram contains components from mystical Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and ancient Greek philosophy.

AUM. You’ve heard it, chanted it or meditated to it. Yet, do you know what the sound really means?

The oldest known spiritual text, the Upanishads from ancient India, says that AUM is the sound of God. That’s a pretty bold statement, isn’t it? The ancient text goes on to explain that it also represents the three types of consciousness that we experience each day: waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep. These states correlate with the birth, life and death cycle as well as our body, emotions  and soul. In Christianity, this corresponds with the Trinity.

To make this sound properly, start with the “A” in the back of the throat. If done properly, you will notice the vibration is strongest in the soler plexus, representing the strength of the physical body.  The “U” is made in the front of the throat. You might notice that the vibration of this sound is strongest in the chest or heart region, representing love, passion and energetic aliveness. With a long, slow, exhaling breath, bring the two vowel sounds together and end with the hum of the “M”. You may notice the energy shifting to the forehead or third eye region. This represents presence, mind, essence or soul. That’s how you voice it. Now let’s talk about the symbolism.

AUM is said to have four parts:

“A” is  the realm of awake consciousness and things, including the physical body.

“U”  is the realm of dream consciousness and symbols, including emotions and the energy body.

“M” is the realm of dreamless sleep and  unmanifest consciousness, including the mind and soul.

The silence surrounding and including the sound of AUM is Spirit itself, the non-dual source and container of the miracle and mystery of all creation.

The “A” represents waking consciousness and physical matter. This realm makes up our perceived reality of physical objects governed by the laws of cause and effect. Something happens and there is a result.

The sound “U” represents a dream state. This realm is the birthplace of myth, archetypes, religious and spiritual symbolism and non-ordinary states of consciousness. The non-ordinary states are realized through deep spiritual practices or drug-induced spiritual experiences. In the dream state, things appear to be separate from us, but we know that isn’t real. In our dreams, the things we see are all being created by our sub-conscious mind. The most common way to interpret dreams is that everything in the dream represents an aspect of you. In the dream state, there are no rational laws of cause and effect. Everything is a symbol of something in your mind.

“M” is dreamless sleep. Consciousness is present but with no awareness of any separateness. The experience of this state is called unmanifest consciousness. It is the goal of true spiritual yoga to achieve this completely stilled mind with no thoughts while being awake. This experience of a completely quiet mind is merged with Source and is the closest we can come to being with God.

The fourth and most important part of the AUM recognizes the silence that transcends and includes all of the former states. Pure consciousness is the ground of all being from which everything arises and into which everything falls back. With the recognition of the silence that surrounds and includes the sound of AUM, we move beyond the three realms and realize all is one and all is God.

To sum up:

“A” starts in in the back of the throat to the count of four and vibrates near the soler plexus stimulating the third chakra and stomach, liver and spleen.

represents:

• The physical body
• Birth
• Waking consciousness and present moment awareness
• The beta brainwave frequencies (12hz-38hz)
• Within the Christian trinity, Jesus living as a man on earth as the Son of God

“U” is made in the front of the throat to the count of eight and vibrates near the chest stimulating the fourth chakra and heart.

Represents:

The emotional, energetic, subtle body

• Dreaming, intuitive and symbolic consciousness
• life
• Alpha-theta brainwave frequencies (3hz-12hz)
• The Holly Spirit within the Christian trinity

“M” is made with the mouth and lips to the count of twelve and vibrates near the forehead stimulating the Sixth chakra and pineal gland.

Represents:

• The  mental realm, soul and causal body
• Deep dreamless sleep, psychic phenomenon and intuition
• Physical death
• Delta brainwave frequencies (0.2hz-3hz)
• The Father within the Christian trinity

“The sound of silence” to the count of 16 with a subtle awareness on the seventh chakra.

Represents

• The non-physical
• Non-dual and ever present awareness
• Eternity
• The element of Spirit
• The mystery  and intigration of the Trinity itself

With this new awareness, I invite you start your day with three AUM’s in the morning upon awakening, during your morning shower, or during your meditations. Then take three before going to bed. You can do them silently or say them out loud. Be aware of the realms or states of consciousness as you voice the sounds and let your mind flow from one state to another until you meet the perfect silence that surrounds the AUM. That’s where you will find the experience of God.

As always, your comments are welcome and you are welcome to pass it along to anyone

Yet, it is the best of times. Why? More people on the planet are waking up than at any other time. The evidence is in the popularity of Eckhart Tolle’s New Earth and the research done by Arjuna Ardagh and reported in his book The Translucent Revolution. People seem to be genuinely interested in making the shift from a fear based ego driven life to one more grounded in spiritual essence. It’s the necessary shift that the world must make in order to change our direction from the destructive path that we are headed down to a path that honors the evolutionary impulse of life to grow towards greater consciousness and wholeness.

This article is intended to:
Provide you with my understanding of the benefits to making this shift and give you the practical and doable steps to do so.

let’s begin by defining ego and essence and making some important distinctions between them. I love to go right to the dictionary to see how close or far away my own, sometimes abstract, understanding of a word matches the one in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster offers the following definitions:
Ego: The self especially as contrasted with another self or the world.
Essence: The individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing especially as opposed to its existence.

Simply put, our ego is the part of us that recognizes our separate, finite and temporary bodies. Because of this identification with the limited self, the experience is one of fear with the focus of attention is on protecting this self and getting ahead. This leads to all of the ego’s protecting and proving strategies. And, if taken to far, prevent us from the experience of intimacy and wholeness that we seek and is the source of all the violence, wars and destruction of our beautiful planet.

Why make the shift? Short answer is more Peace, Power, Purpose, authentic Power and Presence in your life, the 5P”s of Radical Wholeness. When we are connected with our essence, the experience is one of being in touch with Spirit. When the core of our identity is more aligned with the whole of life than our finite ego self, we relax and become more interested in expressing our authentic uniqueness for a purpose that in some large or small way serves life. This identification with Essence leads to the expressing and connecting behaviors that provide us with the deep intimacy and the experience of wholeness that we’ve been seeking all along.

Every one of us has two core drives: One is for our individual separate self to survive and thrive in a world. This is the proper and necessary function of a healthy ego. Dr. Richard Moss calls this the first miracle. Think about what an absolute miracle the ego is. For the first time God, Spirit, The Universe, Life can be aware of Itself!

Along with the birth of the ego comes more suffering and more love and possibility than the Universe has ever known. I’m not a parent, but for those of you who are, is the birth of and raising of your own child a fitting parallel? Dr. Richard Moss has written about this in his book “The Second Miracle.” While the ego and it’s birth of self consciousness may be the first miracle, we can make now create the second miracle. How? With our own personal commitment to consciousness, together we can realize our deepest collective purpose, creating haven on earth.

The second and deeper drive within each of us is for wholeness. It’s the universal desire within the individual soul to merge with the whole. I’m referring to the experience of unity, love, connection with spirit, oneness, peace beyond all understanding…by whatever name, it’s the experience of being finally and deeply at home. The Sufi poet, mystic and spiritual philosopher Rumi would likely call this the insatiable longing to reunite with our beloved.

So, what does it mean to make the shift from ego to essence to living a life of Radical Wholeness? Simply put, it’s appreciating the value of the ego while recognizing its limitations. It’s allowing your ego to be a vehicle to help you get to where you are going on time and knowing all the while that you, in your essence are in the drivers seat. This is in contrast to a life dominated by the ego with it being in the drivers seat with little or no awareness of his essential nature. He is the one blowing the horn for you to get out of the way so he can get where he is going because he is more important than you.

How do We Make the shift?
It’s important for me to emphasis here that there is no simple formula that is true for everyone and it’s seldom a linear journey. In my own experience it’s actually more of a spiral of transformation that grows from rigid ego dominated thinking spiraling upward towards wholeness with greater degrees of flexibility, consciousness and present moment awareness.

Here are the steps that I have experienced both on my own life and with numerous clients.

1. Recognize and release your Core Wound. At the root of every ego is the fear bast thought: “I’m not enough and wont have enough.” Each of us has our own different version this one limiting belief. Common examples are: “I’m bad”, “I’m unworthy” “I’m unlovable”, “I’m flawed”, I’m weak.” Somewhere during our early conditioning we made this limiting conclusion about us by comparing ourselves with others. This created what I call a core wound. Many of us have spent a large portion of our lives attempting to hide from, cover up or overcompensate for this one wound, at the root of our ego. This takes a lot of energy and moves us away from our Essence. When you stop running from and are willing to fully face, feel and embrace this core wound on a mental, emotional, physical(somatic) and energetic level, it is finally released.

2. Recognize and let go your ego’s proven strategy designed to compensate for this core fear. At opposite of the ego’s fear based thought of not being enough is the compensatory desire to be more than or better than others in some way that makes us extra special. For example, if some has the core wound of feeling unlovable, they may have an inflating ego strategy of going out of their way to be loving, helpful and pleasing while pretending to have no needs of their own. Someone with the core fear of not measuring up may have a proving strategy of always needing to be seen as superior. They are driven more by looking successful and gaining acquisitions than truly connecting with others and being of authentic value. Once the core wound has been released, the ego’s proving strategy has to go as well, if this liberated state is to remain.

3. Discover and contribute the authentic talents, skills, strengths and passions that naturally emerge from your Essence. Now that your focus of attention is on expressing your gifts for a purpose that serves Life rather than your ego trying to prove that you are somehow a little extra special, you experience your essential specialness. This is a real, yet humble kind of specialness. It comes with the realization that you are being a good steward of the gifts that Life has entrusted in you with a kind of surrendered purpose. This may feel like a merging of your individual uniqueness with the universal whole.

So, the formula is….
- Ego’s core fear and inflating opposite
+ Contributing gifts from Essence
= RADICAL WHOLENESS

Last Friday evening I attended a unique spiritual process called Sozo. Sozo is Greek word meaning “to make whole.” Being the wholeness nerd that I am, I had to check it out. The two hour process was a powerful experience for me and ended with a deep SOZO meditation/prayer. My heart just broke open and what came through so load and clear was this:

“Give away the one thing that could provide others with the most value. Give away the ego to Essence Core Wound Release”

So in order to be a good steward of the insight that came through, during the month of May I’m giving away 20 one hour and fifty minute sessions to anyone who has not experienced this powerfully liberating process. No stings attached.

Each session will follow this format:

1. Discovering the Core wound process. This is the root thought of your ego and the source of all of your protecting and proving strategies that get in the way of your wholeness.

2. A complete explanation of the release process. Then, we will determine together whether or not to do the energetic release work at this time. If we can fully face, feel and embrace even our most negative emotions and limiting beliefs on a mental, emotional, physical (somatic) and energetic level, we are released from them. It’s quiet amazing, actually. I feel in awe each time I have the privilege of guiding someone through the process.

3. Conscious Integrative Breathwork to integrate what has been discovered and released.

4. Optional follow up email support process including daily reminders to do the Practice along with deepening questions (like earliest recollections of having this core fear, mask behaviors…) for three weeks.

Of course, some may want to do more individual work or attend a workshop at some point. Yet, be assured that there will be zero pressure to do so. This is me being a good steward of the insight that came on that Friday evening.

So, call or email to schedule your session. I will limit this to the first 20 people who schedule.

Please feel free to email or call me with any questions that you may have about this or the Sozo experience.

In Wholeness,
Michael
404 246 1036
michael@radicalwholeness.com

Dedicated to Helping Individuals and Couples Find and Live their Most Authentically Unique Expression of Wholeness

International, about the ego to essence to Radical Wholeness work that I

feel so passionate about.

First clip is a somewhat choppy six minute clip and provides a brief explanation of what I call Radical Wholeness.

Second clip is about nine minutes and offers an explanation of the SOULutions Radical Wholeness process itself and the different ways people can take advantage of this powerful work.

Enjoy and pass it along if you are inspired.

In Wholeness,

Michael

With Anger, the Joke’s In You!

It took me several years to figure this out: Blame and anger is Life’s way of saying “April Fools!” Every time I got angry or blamed some else, the joke was on me.

One day I woke up to the realization that my happiness and peace is an inside job. The joke was (and is) that anytime I felt that negative charge of anger, I was being “triggered”. Anytime I felt the impulse to judge or blame, this always pointed back to an unhealed wound within me.

It’s like walking down a hall and someone accidentally bumps into your arm, and says, “Oh, I’m sorry.” If your arm feels fine, you’ll most likely say “no problem.” On the other hand, imagine that you had a very deep, sensitive bruise on your arm. Your first reaction may very well be to feel angry and say something like “Watch where you are going, you jerk.”

Anger is always an “iceberg emotion” that is on top of a deeper need inside us that is not being meet. When you blame the other person for the some innocent accident that you would have completely and lovingly accepted without your bruise, you are really reacting to your internal pain and not the other person. When this happens, consider it a “wake up call” from your “shadow”. An opportunity to grow in both personal power and compassion awaits. I call this “trance- endence”.

It reminds me of the 70’s song by Roger Daltry of The WHO, “Won’t get fooled again …No, No, No!” None of us like to be taken for a fool and it makes us angry when we think we are. That is what we react to and not the offense itself. Next time you are tempted to get angry and blame, STOP (Stop Trance Of Past) and look inside because the joke’s in you!

If you want to explore this more, join us next Tuesday the 6th at 7:PM at our free monthly Essence Circle. This months circle will be held at The Body Awareness Studio at 5549 Roswell Road.

The focus of this month’s Essence Circle will be a discussion of the angry person inside of all of us. You will learn a simple way of quickly transforming anger into compassion and we’ll talk about how do we stay present in our daily quest to move from ego to Essence.

Until we meet again, In Wholeness,

Michael