Recognizing Love
Tai
Chi is practiced using what's called "Forms", which are
sequential, choreographed series of movements. There are many Forms
including those in which basic Tai Chi movements are used as well
as many forms that use weapons such as Swords, Sabers, and Spears.
Traditionally,
after a student has studied all the Tai Chi Forms, the very last
one they are taught is the Partner Form. Typically, the Partner
Form is taught first as a solo Form. Both A side and B side of this
form are learned before the student practices with a partner.
Then
an amazing thing happens. The Form becomes an entire new Form, unknown
and unrecognizable to the student.
The
reason for this occurrence is that practicing the Partner Form as
a solo Form doesn't allow for the interaction of another person.
The focus is entirely on the student's own actions during their
solo practice of the Form - where they're stepping, how they're
moving their hands, which way they're turning. When another person
is introduced into the Form, suddenly there is someone in front
of the student performing their side of the movements, each of which
require some an appropriate response.
The
same is true of many aspects of life - recognizing and responding
appropriately to an action of another person. This is espeically
true when it comes to recognizing love.
Many
years ago a friend and I were talking about our search for true
love when we were of a much younger age. She told storeis about
going to bars on weekends, picking up a guy, and having a one-night
stand with him. As she so eloquently put it, "Hey. It looked
like love to me." Through the years she learned to recognize
it for what it truly was. Not-love.
For
one women, love looked like the actions of a man who was protective
of her. A man who held onto her hand or kept his arm around her
looked like he was showing love to her, in her estimation. However,
that protective demeanor usually escalated into overprotection.
The man would become dominating and controlling. He'd begin answering
her phone and showing jealousy toward her friends. These are the
beginning signals of the abusive relationship they eventually evolved
into. But in the beginning even though it looked like love to her,
it was not-love.
One
couple was going through marriage counseling. She wanted a divorce
because she said her husband didn't love her anymore. She complained
that he was always working and never spent any time with her. From
that behavior of his, she determined that he didn't love her. She
believed that he was using work to escape from her company. He was
aghast when he heard her tell this to the counselor. He thought
he was showing her he loved her by all the money he was making to
buy her their fancy home that she had wanted, the beautiful clothes
and jewelry she loved to wear, and the expensive car she drove.
What she really want was for him to show his love for her by spending
time with her, enjoying her company.
How
can you recognize love... real love? First, by identifying and defining
the qualities that mean love to you. Generosity, kindness, honesty,
caring, romance... these are just a few examples of what might another's
actions
might include so that it's recognizable to you as love. Everyone
has their own list of qualities that define love for them.
Next,
take each quality and imagine that someone who loves you is demonstrating
their love to you. What are they doing and saying? How are they
acting? What about their actions tells you without question that
they love you?
When
you've identified what love looks like to you and how you can recognize
it as it comes from another person, the next step is to define what
not-love looks like. Take each of your qualities of love and repeat
the imagining exercise. Only this time, imagine that the person
is showing you the opposite of those qualities. This is what love
ISN'T for you.
Now
you've got valuable information with which to identify the signs
and signals of love and not-love. using that information you can
easily follow the path to real love.
Love,
Kathy
Become
a Master of Your Beliefs
and NOT
a Victim of Their Consequences
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in your subconscious direct your actions, choices, and behaviors.
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Omnidimensional
Symbol of the Month
Filtering
An
excerpt fromOmnidimensional
Oracle,
the book
of channeled wisdom from
the Omnidimensional Beings
as received by Kathy Wilson
Filtering
is without doubt one of the most overlooked and unused abilities
you have available to you in your search for truths. It is for this
reason alone that very often your ability to discern truth from
all the rest is difficult for you.
Filtering
is, simply put, the ability to recognize that which is dross and
thus unimportant and unnecessary to the subject at hand.
This
is not to say that certain elements are not important. It is to
say that they can be unimportant to the subject for which you are
wanting greater truth. At another time, in another circumstance,
those elements deemed unimportant or worthless for the current subject
would be of vital importance and extremely necessary to a different
search for truth.
To
be most effective, the filters used should be carefully considered
before applying them to the subject in order to screen out all but
the truth as it applies to the subject. This can mean that the filters
themselves must be carefully filtered in order to be pure and clear.
For it is only with pure, clear filters that you can see truth clearly.
Suggestions
for Using the Symbol
Take
a few moments to connect with the energy of this symbol. Then follow
the energy, either with your eyes or by drawing it with pen or color
crayon on paper. As you do so, you can more easily understand the
higher wisdom that may be received in meditation with this symbol.
Other
suggested uses:
- Draw
the symbol over your heart or appropriate part of your body with
a pen, body paints, or henna tattoo.
- Using
a colored felt pen or paint, draw the symbol on paper and hang
it on your wall in an area of your home where you meditate and
could use the energy of the symbol
- Place
the image on your Treasure Map to help you awaken to your highest
potential.
I
invite you to play with this beautiful symbol and discover what
it has to offer you.
Omnidimensional
Oracles - 66 symbols given to me by the Omnidimensional
Beings whom I've been channeling for a couple of years now. These
symbols contain specific energy which is explained in the accompanying
channeled messages from the Omnis.
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