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Rebirthed from and to love – graduation day of SCA2014

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So, it’s time. The nine months of Supercoach Academy are up, and I just woke up to the last and final day of this last weekend, entitled Integration & Expansion. It’s been a journey that has me in awe of the gifts of human beings, because my classmates here – and there’s like 70 plus of us – are just amazing.

Some of them I have barely talked to, this being such a large group, but I love them anyway. Some of them I’ve shared a talk or a break out session with, and I’ve gotten to know a little something of them. Then there’s the rest, that have actually touched my heart, and will forever be held close to it.

But you know what, I love them all, regardless of how close to my heart they have come (I have let them?). In fact, this whole weekend has me feeling like I am being reborn, and this time honey, my heart and my love for all that is is coming out first. This love for all is the outermost part of me, it’s my new skin, it’s the cornea of my eyes. Hence, it’s the filter that will tint the way I perceive the world, putting the rose-tinted sheen of love on my experience of the world, which is how I’m creating my reality.

I love U

Strange. Out there. Nutty.
I know. I could easily label this feeling with words to that effect, and my experience of the world through the filter of love as being insane, as if I’m seriously loosing it, somehow. I could feel that way, if I try to make sense of it, and put a label on it.

But then again, why should I? I don’t have to make sense of this, I can just do what I am doing, and that is to go with it. Going with the sensation of looking at each and everyone of my classmates and just feeling the love of the universe flowing through me, out into the world.

And you know what? This would not be possible if I hadn’t first remembered what it’s like to love myself, something that has gradually awakened within me this past year or two. That process started before Supercoach Academy, but it sure got a kick into overdrive from this experience. I could not extend my love for all, if – at the center of this – I didn’t have my love for me.

I am curious about today, really looking forward to it, but even more so, I’m dying to go home to my family to look at them through my new cornea. I have no idea what difference it will make, I just know it will. I feel it already, and it’s like I’ve gotten a taste of something I know I’m gonna love to have more of.

That said, it’s time to make myself ready for today, and it has the feel of getting ready for my spiritual rebirth! I’m wowed. This is an amazing place to be, and I’m ever so grateful for getting to this state of mind on this particular day. I’m also really curious to know if anyone else has ever had a similar experience. Have you?

I guess I never stopped

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While flying Norwegian to Los Angeles I was browsing the inflight magazine, and stumbled across an article about Sverker Johansson, the worlds most prolific writer, having published more than three million Wikipedia articles. Or rather, he’s done a bunch, but then he created a bot that scans databases, creating articles on the go.

Anyway, this Swede seems to be one of those people with a mind that expands in all areas at once. He has degrees in multiple fields, and said: ”From the age of five, I was curious about everything – I kept asking ‘Why?’, and I guess I never stopped.”

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I just love that, and to a certain degree regret that I did stop. Because I did. Somewhere along the line as a growing child, or a young adolecent, I stopped asking why. Luckily, I started asking that question again a few years ago, and it’s taken my life on a ride I never dreamed of.

But what can I do to get my kids back to question-mode? Because, although it pains me greatly, I think they have stopped, to a large extent… at least it seems to me as if much of their natural curiosity have disappeared (or perhaps retreated within, to a safer place, ready to come out if and when the time and setting is right?). And even though I am asking…. I really know the answer, which is for me to be my curious self. That’s the only thing I can do!

I also have a feeling it’s actually very unnatural for humankind NOT to ask questions of why, how, what for and so on. Would we have evolved as far as we have otherwise?

Oh! Wondrous thought: Would we perhaps have made an even better job of our human evolutionary endeavors if more people had kept their question-mode alive and kicking?

Listen/Read/Watch – Sept ’14

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Read a beautiful post on Born Happy the other day, and got inspired. Figured why not create a playlist of the month just like Lian did, and let you in on what moves me this month, when it comes to listening, reading and watching! So here it goes:

Listen
Last year and the previous 5 or so were my blog reading years, but I’ve not followed a single blog continously during 2014. Instead, 2014 has been a pod-year for me, when I’ve listened to more pod talks than ever before! This month I’m heavily into The one you feed, and three talks stand out especially for me. I’ve listened to them all more than once, and hear different things each time. The episodes with Lama Kathy Wesley, Timber Hawkeye and Jonathan Fields are all great choices to get yourself acquianted with The one you feed.

Read
OK, so I’m not a proliferent blog reader anymore, but that doesn’t mean I don’t read. I do. Books. Loads of books. I have been turning to fiction again lately, since my head starts spinning with new thought when I read non-fiction at bed time. A book that really made an impact on me was The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka. It’s a strange read, but it captured me from page one, and made me feel as if I had to keep on reading. A little bit like I have to keep on breathing. That urge to draw one more breath, when the air has left my lungs, was the urge I had while reading this book. I just wanted to read one more page, hear the voice of yet one more – anonymous – Japanese bride. The book opened me up to a moment in history which I have not given much thought before.

Watch
Watched the movie Pay it forward with my two children last Friday. The eldest was amazed that I had never seen it before, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Now I have though, and boy were we crying our eyes out at the end of the movie. It’s a lovely little film, because of the general message, which is paying it forward, meaning (in this film) to do something (big) for three other people, who in turn have to do something (big) for three other people and so on. It’s a concept I am fond of, and believe in, mostly because I see it as a way to jolt me into being human, rather than doing human. Why? Well, because what stops me from being human is usually just my thoughts. Thoughts of ”Oh, well I can’t make a difference, can I?”, ”What will this person think if I do something for them?” or even worse ”What might someone else think…”. Know what I mean? When I am being human, I connect to that which connects us all, all the time, and acts on it. Big or small, doesn’t really matter to me, but just being that person makes a difference.

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What have you been listening to, reading or watching this past month, that you’d like to share? Won’t you please write a comment (please write on on Lian’s original post as well, spreading your playlist to a larger audience as well!) and give us your best tips, ok?

Dare to ask!

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I’m discovering something new about myself as I’ve begun to play a game in my coaching, which also means I am pushing my edges by asking for things I’ve never even dreamed of daring to ask. And I discover lots of things as I do this.

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Firstly that the edge (within me, the one saying ”No Helena, you most definitely cannot ask for That!”) I perceive is a figment of my imagination, created by thought, but it is not and will never be the Truth, something real. It’s made up.

Secondly that I don’t die for asking. No matter how much my inner voice tries to tell me I must not ask for outrageous things. On the contrary actually. Asking makes me feel as if I live even more. And it makes me laugh, as the made-up-edge is pushed a bit further within my imaginary world.

Thirdly it’s a great way to collect No’s. That may sound very strange, but listen to this: Yes lives in the land of No. So if I go in search for the No’s, and even cherish them when I meet them, I’ll gladly go in search for more No’s. And you know what? Somewhere within all those No’s there will be a Yes. And the more No’s I collect, the more Yes’es I’ll encounter!

So, here’s to me asking and asking and asking some more, discovering where my edges are and challenging them, cherishing every No I meet along the way!

What are you afraid of asking for?

Who are you?

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I’ve been in a weird dream/awake-state during part of the night, and… really, it’s like I’ve been in that hightened awareness state for the past weeks or so. I’m living in a world where something pops now and again, it’s like a new bubble opens up to me, and life expands.

I can see the shift coming, I can hear it, smell it, feel it and almost touch it. Even though it most definitely is not something tangible. But it’s like Prince Ea stated in the video I wrote about, when he asked:

In the deepest sense possible – who are you?

Who are you?

 

That’s where those bubbles reside, within that deepest sense of me, the me that is not solely my Ego, but is also that. The me that is not limited by the physical boundaries that I perceive when I look at my  body, but is also that. The me that is a part of all that is, while at the same time bringing a unique flavour to that oneness. It is all of that and it is still more.

And I have to tell you, it is humbling to sense that larger me. It is not something I boast about, but rather I’d like to share with you, the wonder and marvel I feel about what it is I am experiencing.

A friend wrote about the special times we are living in since 2012, where the connection to ”who we truly are” in that deepest sense possible, is more accessible. As if the veil is thinning, as if the oneness itself is assisting in making a bigger shift possible. Perhaps it’s the shift Prince Ea also talks about, where mankind can finally turn into kind man, looking from the inside out, rather than the outside in.

I’m just gonna sit with that one for a while. Because, I fear I’m not making a whole lot of sense, I’m not even sure I grasp this myself. But I woke up just knowing I had to get this out of my system before going about my business of the day. That way this stepping stone is there, in print, making it possible for me to revisit it, and see what state of mind I was at, at this very moment. Or perhaps I’ll never allude to it again, who knows. And who cares, really?

And yet, the question remains:
In the deepest sense possible – who are you?

Brainwashed on all levels

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Michael Neill just shared a video clip on Facebook, I watched it while brushing my teeth and I just knew I had to share this with you all, because it sent goose bumps (or God bumps, as a friend calls it!) all down my body. Talk about wisdom, deep deep wisdom ringing oh so true, speaking to me, all of me:

Prince Ea talks about opening to new possibilities, about a mankind brainwashed on all levels, beliving what our culture has told us, forgetting that we create that culture, each and every day, and hence, it’s within each of us to change it, to transform it. He speaks about war and violence perhaps creating short term results, but never, NEVER, getting to any lasting solution.

And he says something else as well, something filled with hope, something that sent shivers down my entire body. He speaks about the chance I have, and you have, and we have, of making a real difference, if we just stop, question that which we have been told to be the truth, and start to look within, looking for that which is looking to the outside. Look for the answer to the question of who I am, who you are, in the deepest sense of the word.

And with hope he states that when more of mankind find the deepest answer to that question, we can transform into kind man.

I’m floored. I’m wowed. And yet, this is not new to me. This is what I believe, and have believed for a couple of years at least. But sometimes a message is delivered in a way that just cuts to the core of me. And this was one of those times. I will carry this with me today. And tomorrow.

And so – the question remains:
In the deepest sense possible, who are you?

Panic attacks?

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Just checked out the Three principles movies-website and watched a short clip with Dr Bill Pettit talking about panic attacks. Now, seriously, during the 6 minutes of the clip, I learned a lot of things I had no clue about. But it does make sense to me. Not least, because I know how successful Dr Pettit has been with clients. But honestly, listening to him it’s almost as if it can’t be this easy. Surely there has to be more hard work to it, I start to think, and then I remember that humans are equipped with both a physical and a psychological immune system, so why should it be harder? No reason really!

Interested yet?

Watch for yourself:

Did you learn anything new?

Miracle

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I’m beat. I want to go to bed. But first, I want to share a tidbit on the subject of miracles with you, before hopping into bed. I found this in the feed of a Facebook-friend, and here it is:

I believe in miracles and the miraculous.
I expect miracles and the miraculous.
I create miracles and the miraculous.
I experience miracles and the miraculous… and so can you.
You are the miracles and the miraculous…. and so am I.
– Steve Hardison

imageDo you believe, expect, create and experience miracles and the miraculous? And can you feel that you are all of that? Can you see the miracle that is life? Each breath I take, each heartbeat, each blink of an eye. It’s all a miracle, and it is part of me. So yeah. At this moment, I am awestruck by the miraculous life within me, that IS me. That IS you. Do you see the miracle that is you?

Playground!

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Sydney Banks said:
Life is a playground

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Since life is a playground, that means we don’t have to take life so seriously. And you know what, getting that insight has made a huge difference in my life. Because that also means I don’t have to take my self so bl**dy seriously either! I no longer have that burning urge to prove myself right (except once in a while. Hey. I’m not perfect! Or rather, I am, with all my imperfections. And so are you!). I get to feel what I feel, full out, but at the same time, I know where those feelings come from. They come from my thinking in the moment. And a new thought is just a moment away. And playing actually means that new thought has a much better chance at popping into my consciousness than it would if I was stuck in the feeling of the moment.

Play is light hearted, curious, bubbly. It’s laughter and adventure, make belief and new experiences. Discoveries and spur-of-the-moment-decisions.

Play is life. Play is love. All of life is a playground – and I get to play full out. Question is, am I? Are you?

Got a new coach!

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Yes!

Finally, I got a new coach, and we’ve sealed the deal (which means I paid the full amount for 3 months coaching up front). And you know what? I am so excited to start this agreement. I am curious as to what lessons I will learn, what insights I will get, and what might come out of this relationship.

My new coach asked me, during our intake session, what I wanted from her, and I replied with these two things:
1) I want you to ask me the questions that I don’t think to ask of myself.
2) But more importantly, I want you to ask me the questions I am afraid to ask of myself.

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She listened to what I said, heard where it came from within me, exhaled and then hummed a bit, before saying ”I love that!”. I am very eager to start, and soon I will, in person, whereas the rest of our sessions will be done over SKYPE mostly, and email if need be.

It’s definitely a hefty investment to make (and don’t for a second think that an investment has to be a monetary one!), but you know what? It’s an investment in me. And I’ve definitely gotten rid of my formerly very strong belief, that I am not worthy of making any kind of investment in my, let alone one this significant. Because I am worthy of it. Absolutely! And so are you. So in what way, and how much do you invest in yourself?