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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?

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Sitter på planet till Los Angeles och sista helgen av Supercoach Academy 2014. Tänk som tiden går. Utom just när man sitter på ett transatlantiskt flygplan så klart, för det är onekligen något av det segaste som finns. Testar Norwegians Dreamliners som flyger direkt mellan Köpenhamn och Los Angeles, vilket visserligen innebär en låååååång flygtur på dryga elva timmar, men i gengäld gör att jag slapp byta någonstans i Europa för fortsatt flygning över Atlanten. Den kortare totala restiden väger mer än väl upp för obehaget att sitta stilla så här länge i ett svep.

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I skrivande stund är det 52 minuter kvar till landning och det kryper av trötthet i mina ben. Närmast olidligt. Lite har jag mig själv att skylla för jag har inte sovit alls. Bidde inte så bara. För första gången någonsin flyger jag Premium (och det var ändå bland de absolut billigaste alternativen för överfarten) och har bred stol, som är ganska rejält tippbar, så jag har legat ner och vilat en stund, trots att jag aldrig somnade.

Planet lyfte vid tre-tiden på eftermiddagen och vi landar vid fem/sex-snåret på kvällen, så snart ska jag få gå och lägga mig ändå. Fast det där är bra underligt – här reser jag i ett halvt dygn, och ändå kommer jag fram bara ”någon timme efter jag lyfte” liksom. Nackdelen med det är ju just tidsskillnaden som är hela nio timmar. Det kan bli tufft. Och denna gången har jag bara en dag att acklimatisera mig innan det är dags för kursen, så håll tummarna för att jag lyckas hålla mig klar i knoppen på torsdag!

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(Lite tillägg: här redo för sängen, igårkväll, och nu när jag publicerar detta har jag sovit gott en hel lång natt! Bra start på min USA-vistelse!)

Har du någon huskur för hur man på bästa sätt klarar av jetlag?

Hjälp mig boka in 100 coaching-konversationer!

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Uppdatering 15 sept 2014: Alla 100 platser fylldes med ett halvt dygn till godo! Om du önskat att du också fått en plats så får du höra av dig så löser vi det med!

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Jag behöver din hjälp. Igen.
Jag har nämligen antagit en utmaning och kan bara klara den tillsammans med dig.

Här kan du höra mer om vad utmaningen består av och vilken hjälp jag behöver:

Anledningen till att jag gör detta är tvåfaldig (minst):
1) Jag älskar att möta nya människor, och lockas verkligen av tanken att träffa 100 för mig kända eller okända personer, att få lyssna till dem, och utforska en idé, ett tänkt problem, spinna på en vision eller bara ta ett riktigt djupt samtal om livet!
2) Det är en utmaning för mig. Under det senaste året har jag inte bokat in så många som 100 coaching-konversationer, och nu ska jag dessutom åstadkomma det på 30 dagar!

Håller tummarna för att du, eller någon i ditt nätverk, skulle vilja ha en av de 100 coaching-konversationerna. Om så är fallet nås jag enklast via epost på helena.roth at respondi.se, men du kan så klart skriva en kommentar här i bloggen, skicka mig ett DM på Twitter eller inboxa mig på Facebook också.

(Som om det inte räcker med utmaningen som så… Jag påbörjade utmaningen den 18 augusti, avslutar den 16 september och har redan en massa inbokat under den tiden, bland annat en tripp till Santa Monica för sista helgen av Supercoach Academy!

Inte utan att det trillar in tankar som AAAAAHHHHHGGGGGHHHHHH, hur i allsin dar ska jag nånsin kunna fullfölja detta!! Jag kommer ju aldrig kunna lägga tillräckligt med tid på detta! Det kommer aldrig att gå!

Men, sen landar jag i vissheten att det där är tankar, och inte nödvändigtvis Sanningen. Så jag väljer att inte agera på tankar som dessa utan kör mitt race ändå.)

Hur kan du hjälpa mig uppnå mitt mål?

Why aren’t we awesomer?

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Michael Neill participated in TEDxBend and I just got a hold of his talk. I laughed, and figured that I no longer have to ponder what to post today. Here it comes:

As a student on Supercoach Academy 2014 I have the pleasure of spending time with Michael, and I have to say, this is the best investments I’ve ever made! And you know what really rocks my world? That I’m investing in me. That’s a fab feeling (stemming from a thought!), let me tell you!

Have you ever given any thought to thoughts (yours or in general)?

Where do thoughts come from?

Can I control what thoughts I think?
(Spoiler: No you cannot! Thought come, thoughts go, and that’s all there is to that!)

What do they result in?

If thoughts lead to a feeling (Spoiler number two: My feelings comes from thoughts. All of them. All.), do I have to believe in that feeling?

Do I have to act upon it?
(Spoiler number three: No you don’t. And acknowledging that what I feel – which is genuine, the feeling is there – stems from a thought, makes it much easier for me to act, rather than react! Try it out and see for yourself.)

So, why aren’t we awesomer? What’s your take on that question?

Creation weekend of SCA2014

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So, third out of a total of four weekends with Supercoach Academy 2014 has just begun, first day today. I stay with an Airbnb-host off Kensington Gardens, woke up this mornibng to sunshine, chirping birds and absolutely no traffic noice. Magnificent. Walked through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park to get to the Washington Mayfair Hotel on Curzon Street which is our venue for the weekend, and got into a hugging frenzie. Really nice actually!

I am very pleased with the day, especially with a few choice moments, so I want to give an extra thanks to Kirsty, Peter and Patrik – you helped me zoom out and jump a few levels in conciousness today. For that I am very grateful.

And I mean, look at this, how can life be anything but lovely when this is the way London greet us all:

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Kate and Wills palace

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Kensington Garden, panoramic view

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The Isis-statue in Hyde Park

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Saw an egret sitting on a dock

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Big fish in the Serpentine (also a whole bunch of swimmers I kid you not!)

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Magnificent rose, if I could I’d pass along the smell of it as well!

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Iris in full bloom

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Helena in front of Helenae-roses (at least I think that’s what this was!)

Hope you had a lovely day as well?

Happy as only a dog can be!

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On Thursday I am meeting with all my Supercoach Academy-colleagues again, for the third of a total of four long-weekend sessions. This time we’re headed for London, which makes for a nice change, since it means a slightly shorter flight than having to hop across the Atlantic.

During the SCA-weekends we’ve had a playlist shuffling during breaks and such, and Happy with Pharrell Williams has been a given song on that list. And here’s just about the greatest video for that song ever:

I don’t know what you’re made of if you aren’t sitting there with a huge fat grin on your face at this very moment! Right?

Pizza to die for

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20140415-215714.jpgOn my final day in New York, I went with my friend Rachel to Grand Central Terminal to see her off on her way home. It’s an amazing building, finished in 1913. Walked back to the hotel, and after attending my podcall for Supercoach Academy, I got ready to head out for the last hours of New York City of that specific trip, that is.

I decided to go for lunch at Tavola, the Italian restaurant close to our venue, where we had our pod lunch last week. I had the best pizza of my life then, and I felt like taking a raincheck. Chose a different pizza this time around though, but boy, was it good!

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As you can see, I’m not the only one writing about Tavola, However, I’m pretty sure my blog post won’t cause such a crowd as the WSJ-article apparently did. The place was jam smacked, but I managed to get a spot at the bar.

20140415-215013.jpgI am not the best at eating out by myself though, I get kind of self-concious, and feel a bit awkward and disconnected. But at least I didn’t let that feeling stop me from having a great NY-send off lunch! At my house it’s not an issue, eating alone, but having people around in a restaurant… I guess this is a great example of how my feelings are a direct result of my thinking. Since I start to think all kinds of weird thoughts like I am probably the only one eating lunch by myself, or I bet the other people here think I’m a strange and weird person not having any lunch company, or Haha, look at her, she’s having lunch all alone, poor thing.

The funny thing is, I bet most people are so into their own experience they are not at all concerned about the other patrons at the restaurant. And if they are, why wouldn’t they just as easily be thinking That pizza she’s eating looks really good, I wonder which kind it is, or Look at her, how nice to treat herself to lunch at this great restaurant, or even I like the brown color of her cardigan.

So, if my feelings are a direct result of my thinking, which they are, and my thinking on eating out are make-belief thought about what others MIGHT be thinking about me, why don’t I make up the latter rather than the former, and skip the feelings of awkwardness and disconnection?

Well, because I don’t control what thoughts come into my head, that’s why. But having spotted these particuar thoughts might mean that they vanish faster next time I head out to dine on my own, to be replaced by the latter version of make-belief.

Do you enjoy eating out by yourself at restaurants?

The art of forgiveness

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On the art of forgiving by the way, inspired by Hector Black.

I’ve not been best friends with forgivness for a while. Or perhaps best friends isn’t the word for it, but there is something about the way we use it, that rubs me the wrong way. I think we abuse it, telling kids to Say you’re sorry! for almost everything, and brushing it off afterwards, as if that’s that.

The Swedish author Ann Heberlein wrote a great book on forgiveness (in Swedish alas, the title being ”It’s not my fault, on the art of taking responsibility”, and it is thought provoking. She tells a story of a kid being bullied at school. When the bullies wanted to say they were sorry, the victim of the bullying refused to accept their apology, and all of a sudden the tables turned. Suddenly the bullies felt like they were the victims, as their victim refused to forgive them. The original victim of the bullying was more or less ostracized by both kids and adults at the school because she would not accept the apology.

That story gave me a lot to think about, I tell you. There is power in forgiveness, that way we use it, and somehow I feel we might be misusing it?

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Who am I to tell someone to ”say you’re sorry”? And who am I to tell someone to accept that apology?

But I got some new insight into the concept of forgiveness during the first SuperCoach Academy weekend in Santa Monica, when Michael Neill said something like this:

To forgive means to make like it never happened. When you forgive, it means that you essentially go back in time to before what ever it is you forgive took place. If you are not willing to do that, there is no forgiveness.

That was a new take on forgiveness that I have not pondered before. It makes my thinking tumble along, doing a cart wheel or two on the way to more understanding and insight. Putting it into the Heberlein story on the bully and the bullied, I guess the victim of the bullying simply wasn’t willing to act like it never happened. And hence, forgiving her assailants wasn’t an option.

Have you ever thought of forgiveness in this way?

#blogg100 gav mig Rasmus visdom på pränt

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Och för det är jag oerhört tacksam och glad. Han hoppade på utmaningen att blogga dagligen under 100 dagar och det med besked. Rasmus är min coach, min vän och tillråga på allt Supercoach Academy-kollega, och oj vad han ger bra tankespjärn den mannen. Dessutom formulerar han sig väldigt väl, tycker jag.

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Under 100 dagar (från den 1 mars då #blogg100-utmaningen drog igång) kommer Rasmus skriva om hur det egentligen fungerar, det där med tankar och känslor. Så följ hans blogg på www.klarsikt.se – och gillar du hans sida på Facebook kan du enkelt dela vidare hans förståelse av världen med andra.

Har du nånsin försökt sätta ord på din förståelse av världen?

The Mandala of Love

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During the final day of Supercoach Academy Connection Weekend I was doodling, like I usually do, and the sum of the entire SCA2014-experience until that very moment came to me.

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It truly is all about love. Love is the answer. Regardless of what the question is. Love is it. Humans have unlimited capacity to love. However, I don’t use my unlimited capacity to its fullest, but I sure am working on it. And the funny thing is, the more I love, the better my life gets.

I feel love for you. Yes, You!
How does that make you feel?