Spring Break in Jamaica

‘Clearing’ is a lifestyle that supports your living in the now. Being present to respond rather than reacting based on your past

Leave the winter blues behind, soak up some sun and at the same time, clear away obstacles to your personal happiness.

This week will introduce those new to this work to the many benefits of ‘Clearing’ self, others and the environment. For those already experienced, renew and deepen your own abilities to be present in the moment regardless of the energy that surrounds you.

One Week of Personal AND Space Clearing

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If you are familiar at all with Buddhism, in particular Zen Buddhism you will have heard the saying “Before enlightenment chop wood – carry water, after enlightenment chop wood carry water. (Not as I have said on occasion, “before enlightenment Chop Wood – Carry Water, after enlightenment get someone else to do it for you”!!!)

For  years I don’t think I really understood what chop wood – carry water really meant. Little did I realise, in the past, that while there was someone asking the question there could never be a real understanding of the question. I am not claiming to understand now, just offering my experience. There is another similar Buddhist saying, “It is not what you eat – it is who is doing the eating.” Again, who is asking the question is the challenge here, not the understanding of the question itself.

Through my years of teaching ‘Clearing’ and putting into practice all that I teach I hope I have come to a better understanding (? knowing) of the meaning of these two phrases.

Essentially the ‘who’ is doing is the issue, who is chopping wood, who is carrying water, who is eating? This can best be understood by reflecting upon certain tasks that you need to do either on a daily basis or even infrequently. Tasks that you do not particularly enjoy but are often necessary in your life, (cooking – washing the dishes – cleaning the car – visiting the dentist – exercising – getting out of bed on a Monday morning, etc.). As you think about having to prepare a meal, or go to work, anything in fact that you do not look forward to, you mentally create lots of excuses to put the job off. You create a huge amount of resistance, all sorts of reasons and excuses not to go ahead and complete the task.

Is this ringing any bells with you?

As you allow the excuses to build, the task seems even more unattractive and impossible, justifying your original resistance. We are, most of us, experts at justifying our resistances. It is only when we are confronted with a task that we find uncomfortable, challenging or downright distasteful that we can see that we still have resistance in the body.

Resistance is something that we may have been born with. Perhaps carried over ancestral stuff that has not been worked through, or we may have been indoctrinated into certain beliefs by our parents, relatives, peer groups, schooling simply because of when and where we were born. We will, depending upon that early conditioning, develop a ‘personality’. We tend to get lost in the personality, because it is, or so we believe, who we are. Any change, from within this perception of personality, is by its very nature, doomed to failure. For we have been taking ourselves seriously for a long time, we believe that we are our personality and it is from that place that we try to manipulate the world, and those around us to conform to our expectations.

We should be able to see now, that the ‘who’ who is chopping wood, the ‘who’ who is carrying water, the ‘who’ who is eating is personality based. The personality, that has acquired likes and dislikes, for’s and against’s, is in charge. So, when something arises along the path that the personality has resistance to, for whatever reason, we immediately go into a conditioned response that leads to excuses and judgements around doing the particular job.

All the time we remain a victim to conditioned personality, the ‘who’ will be in resistance to many tasks, feelings, emotions and situations. Resistance it is simply a product of an internal state of polarised values. We can see that alternative points of view exist, and many people hoping various beliefs different from our own cope with life quite well, yet we maintain our own point of view, only because we are habituated to do so.

Chop Wood – Carry Water

the litmus test of a liberated soul

When, through ‘clearing’ or any other process we feel comfortable with, we begin to face up to the limitations those personal points of view impose, we are more inclined to begin the process of detaching ourselves from a point of view, even if only temporarily, to observe what would happen IF.

As we train ourselves to notice points of view before they become manifest in our lives, it gets easier to observe and, for the moment, let go of that point of view (i.e. not energise by giving in to it, not allowing our thoughts to dwell upon it). We may need some ‘device’ to help us as we start this, because this process itself is not exempt from the old patterns of resistance, but given practice this does get easier.

If there is anyone at all chopping wood or carrying water the ‘who’ can be evaluated by the amount of resistance the ‘who’ has to the task. The more resistance the more uncomfortable the task. When there is no more resistance, then ‘who’ is left to chop wood – carry water?

A common misconception here is that if there is no one to judge, to protect the self from external forces, then one has weakened oneself and put oneself at the mercy of others, or the more negative experiences the personality imagines to be ‘out there’. Not true, a ‘negative’ experience is only something that we hold as a belief pattern, the stronger we hold onto such a thought, the more likely it is to show up in our lives, simply because we have the ‘buttons’ that are triggered by such an event. When we no longer have the buttons, because we have accepted those aspects of personality, then the situation is much less likely to present itself before us. Even if it does, then because we no longer have the buttons we are no longer affected by whatever it is.

So, who is there to chop wood – carry water in your life?

Tonglen – the Buddhist practice of embracing the pain and suffering of others

Westerner have developed many ways to take away the pain and suffering of others, all of these approaches require someone to do something to or for the ‘suffering’person (medical intervention; allopathic or wholistic and all the other therapies that are so prevalent today. For anyone to ‘do’ anything for another, they must first presume to know what the problem is, and secondly, they must know what to ‘do’ about the problem.

This presumption leads to all manner of approaches to healing, all of which may have some benefit, but if they were as effective as we are led to believe, then why is sickness and suffering so prevalent among so many people?

Tonglen

can be seen as taking on the pain and suffering of others, not a very popular approach to healing, understandably, at least it is understandable from the point of view of someone who continually identifies with their own pain and suffering. Whilst we have, on any level of our being, attachment, association with, judgement of thoughts, feelings and emotions, we will do our best to avoid adding to our drama. While we see ourselves as separate from the rest of creation we will always try to do something to protect ourselves, to fix our world.

As we begin to see (? through ‘clearing’) that the thoughts and feelings that arise in our awareness are not ours but simply how the body has been conditioned since early childhood, and perhaps before that, our attachment to our personal drama lessens. When we cease judging ourselves, when we stop taking ourselves so seriously, when we can face our own ‘shadow’ without identifying with it, our heart opens. The heart expands in its ability to embrace all thought, all feeling, all emotion because it is not taking that which arises personally. If we do not take emotions personally we can relax into them, knowing that we do not have to take them home with us. This leads to tremendous healing of the self, for it is only old, accumulated imbalance that eventually leads us down the road of sickness (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual).

When we can truly love ourselves, then it is effortless to embrace the pain and suffering of others, because their pain and suffering can no longer harm us, for we have grown so compassionate, in the truest sense of the word, that all thoughts, all feelings, all emotions are welcomed into our heart where they are lovingly accepted. We can embrace the pain and suffering of others without any ill effects upon us whatsoever. And the benefit to the practitioner is one of the most profound gifts we can  give ourselves, for in the process of ‘helping’ others we have healed ourselves on deep, cellular levels.

Tonglen is the name given to this practice, yet Tonglen is not exclusive to Buddhism, in fact it is something that we all do, to some degree or other, already. For the most part we do this without awareness that we are practicing Tonglen, there are some things we can love unconditionally, we don’t have to think about it, others we judge without giving that any thought either.

Clearing is a safe and profound approach to developing your own practice, where you may imagine Tonglen to be out of your reach ‘Clearing’ will demonstrate beyond a doubt, that to some degree or other, you are already on the path of becoming and Tonglen practitioner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonglen

Entdecke, wie das unsichtbare Umfeld Dich beeinflusst, und wie Du schädliche Energien einfach und kraftvoll CLEAREN kannst.

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Arbeiten mit dem Erdmagnetfeld, Wasseradern und geologischen Störungen

Entdecken der unsichtbaren Welt der metaphysischen Störungen, CLEAREN von Energien

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Trainieren des Körpers, so dass er weniger durch die modernen Technologien beeinträchtigt wird

Medikamente, Gifte und Schwermetalle CLEAREN

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Ontdek hoe uw ‘onzichtbare’ omgeving effect op u heeft.

• Leer gebieden van stress te lokaliseren en neutraliseren in uw huis of op uw werkplek.

• Begrijpen waarom u zich ongemakkelijk voelt op bepaalde plaatsen, en wat  je kunt doen om dat te veranderen.

• Ontdek hoe u wordt beïnvloed door moderne technologie, en leer hoe je de negatieve bijwerkingen daarvan leert te “clearen”

Door ons gewaarzijn uit te breiden, reduceren we alle negatieve gevolgen die verschillende omgevingsenergieën op ons lichaam kunnen hebben & tegelijkertijd verhoogd het ons vermogen om een positief effect op onze omgeving te hebben.

NEW!!!

In my constant endeavour to create community I am now offering a tele-conference, “Let’s Get Together.

These 90 minute sessions will include some group clearing, meditations, chat time and small group clearings. The plan is to hold one of these a month, more if the demand increases.

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join us for a week of de-stressing, fun, laughter, good company, great food & excellent wine.

The opportunity to move through old, limiting patterns of behaviour is the strongest, and gentlest among a group of like minded people.

Open hearts + the magic of Tuscany = the recipe for deep, lasting change, a movement towards a more peaceful inner state, which then reflects in your outer world.

‘CLEARING’ is a unique approach to how we deal with life’s situations. ‘Clearing’ gives you the tools and awareness that, if practiced, will ensure stress is no longer a part of your lives.

Tuscany 2012 (68)

A week long retreat in Edenvale, BC. Canada

Sunday August 19th – Sunday August 26th

a long awaited return to North America, a chance to reconnect and reinforce your clearing skills, or make new friends and discover the many benefits of clearing for yourself.

Don’t have the time or money to attend a course you would really like to do?

Then Space Clearing Online with Eric Dowsett could be the answer.

If you have ever wanted to learn how to clear the energies of your home or workplace but didn’t know where to start, this low cost Introduction to Space Clearing video may help you decide.

Eric Dowsett has been teaching Space Clearing for over 21 years, all around the world, with the web the world shrinks, making it easier for you to study this fascinating, and empowering subject at home.

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