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WHAT’S NEW? How To Forgive Someone Who Has Hurt You (see below!)

Last call for Bali if you need a quick get-away! 

Akashic Records Intensive & Consultant Training – Sacred Wisdom for Transformation in Magical Bali
September 15-30th, 2015

This life changing tour combines the Akashic Records Intensive facilitated by Ernesto Ortiz and other Certified Instructors for Journey to the Heart in a place that is not only dedicated to beauty but with a very unique spiritual essence.

Our Akashic Records training program is designed to engage the serious spiritual seeker, the one who knows he/she has a greater mission in life. The one who knows that by sharing this oral tradition they will live his/her life dedicated to making a difference.

Explore slope gardens tasting tropical fruits, swim in hot springs, bathe in sacred waters, walk to great waterfalls, get a papaya massage… And we promise you’ll have lots of time to rest, play and explore on your own. Of course, we have reserved for you some Balinese surprises to make your trip unforgettable!! Trip cost: $2544 USD based on double occupancy, Single occupancy: $3044 USD – many meals included. Email Sheri for more details!

Blessings and love, Sheri Rosenthal xox

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EVENTS, JOURNEYS + WEBINARS!

From Geysers to Glaciers: Tap into the Sacred Soul of New Zealand
November 3–13th, 2015

 

Spiritual journey to Queensland New Zealand

Open to the sacred magic of your soul as you uncover the wonders of majestic and magical New Zealand. Experience the breathtaking beauty of the country nicknamed “The God Zone” while immersing yourself in meditations and spiritual activities aimed at heightening your intuition and unlocking your spirit.

Make no mistake: this will be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, one that will rejuvenate your senses and set free your playful and powerful inner child—all while having loads of fun in one of the most magnificent places on the planet! Surrounded by diverse natural wonders, from lush rainforests and sandy beaches to spouting geysers and steaming volcanoes, this journey will pull you into your own vast wonderland of spirit.

Imagine exploring the splendors of unspoiled New Zealand, a jaw-droppingly beautiful country that is home to vibrant cities, volcanic landscapes, peaceful fjords, and whimsical wildlife. Picture yourself cruising through the magnificent, unspoiled wilderness of Doubtful Sound; gazing at playful penguins frolicking on the ice or at a colony of New Zealand fur seals at Ohau Point; strolling through the Waipoua Forest flanked by giant kauri trees; gawking at the world-famous Pohutu Geyser, which shoots up 70 feet into the sky every hour; or marveling at Mother Nature’s light display as you glide silently through the starry, cavebound wonderland called Glowworm Grotto. Trip cost: $5,597 USD per person double occupancy, Single occupancy supplement: $1000 USD – many meals included.

Details for New Zealand on Gayle’s website!

 

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OUR FEATURED ARTICLE

“How To Forgive Someone Who Has Hurt You: In 15 Steps”
by Wayne Dyer
Part Two this week…

Forgiving others is essential for spiritual growth. Your experience of someone who has hurt you, while painful, is now nothing more that a thought or feeling that you carry around. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will dis-empower you if you continue to let these thoughts occupy space in your head. If you could release them, you would know more peace.

Below I share how to forgive someone who has hurt you in 15 steps:

Step 8: Let Go of Resentments

forgiveWhat causes annoyance and anger after a dispute? The generic response would be a laundry list detailing why the other person was wrong and how illogically and unreasonably they behaved, concluding with something like, “I have a right to be upset when my [daughter, mother-in-law, ex-husband, boss, or whomever you’re thinking of] speaks to me that way!”

But if you’re interested in living a Tao-filled life, it’s imperative that you reverse this kind of thinking. Resentments don’t come from the conduct of the other party in an altercation—no, they survive and thrive because you’re unwilling to end that altercation with an offering of kindness, love, and authentic forgiveness. As Lao-Tzu says:

Someone must risk returning injury with kindness, or hostility will never turn to goodwill.
— Lao-Tzu

So when all of the yelling, screaming, and threatening words have been expressed, the time for calm has arrived. Remember that no storm lasts forever, and that hidden within are always seeds of tranquility. There is a time for hostility and a time for peace.

Step 9: Be Kind Instead of Right

There is a Chinese proverb, If you’re going to pursue revenge, you’d better dig two graves, which is saying to me: your resentments will destroy you.

The world is just the way it is. The people who are behaving “badly” in the world are doing what they’re supposed to be doing. You can process it in any way that you choose. If you’re filled with anger about all of those “problems,” you are one more person who contributes to the pollution of anger. Instead, remember that you have no need to make others wrong or to retaliate when you’ve been wronged.

Imagine if someone says something to you that you find offensive, and rather than opting for resentment, you learn to depersonalize what you’ve just heard and respond with kindness. You are willing to freely send the higher, faster energies of love, peace, joy, forgiveness, and kindness as your response to whatever comes your way. You do this for yourself. You would rather be kind than right.

Step 10: Practice Giving

ForgivenessIn the midst of arguments or disagreements, practice giving rather than taking before you exit. Giving involves leaving the ego behind. While it wants to win and show its superiority by being contrary and disrespectful, your Tao nature wants to be at peace and live in harmony. You can reduce your quarreling time to almost zero if you practice this procedure:

Wherever you are, whenever you feel strong emotions stirring in you and you notice yourself feeling the need to “be right,” silently recite the following words from the Prayer of Saint Francis:

Where there is injury, [let me bring] pardon.

Be a giver of forgiveness as he teaches: Bring love to hate, light to darkness, and pardon to injury. Read these words daily, for they’ll help you overcome your ego’s demands and know the fullness of life.

Step 11: Stop Looking for Occasions to Be Offended

When you live at or below ordinary levels of awareness, you spend a great deal of time and energy finding opportunities to be offended. A news report, a rude stranger, someone cursing, a sneeze, a black cloud —just about anything will do if you’re looking for an occasion to be offended. Become a person who refuses to be offended by any one, any thing, or any set of circumstances.

If you have enough faith in your own beliefs, you’ll find that it’s impossible to be offended by the beliefs and conduct of others.

Not being offended is a way of saying, “I have control over how I’m going to feel, and I choose to feel peaceful regardless of what I observe going on. When you feel offended, you’re practicing judgment. You judge someone else to be stupid, insensitive, rude, arrogant, inconsiderate, or foolish, and then you find yourself upset and offended by their conduct. What you may not realize is that when you judge another person, you do not define them. You define yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

Step 12: Don’t Live In the Past – Be Present

When we find it difficult to forgive, often it is because we are not living in the present, and instead, we assign more importance to the past. We assign a good portion of our energy and attention lamenting the good old days that are gone forever as the reason why we can’t be happy and fulfilled today. “Everything has changed,” “No one respects anyone else like they used to…” This is assigning responsibility to the past for why you can’t be happy today.

It’s doubtful that other creatures waste the present moment in thoughts of past and future. A beaver only does beaver, and he does it right in the moment. He doesn’t spend his days ruminating over the fact that his beaver siblings received more attention, or his father beaver ran off with a younger beaver when he was growing up. He’s always in the now. We can learn much from God’s creatures about enjoying the present moment rather than using it up consumed with anger over the past or worry about the future. Practice living in the moment by appreciating the beauty around you now.

Step 13: Embrace Your Dark Times

forgivenessIn a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did. Every spiritual advance that you will make in your life will very likely be preceded by some kind of fall or seeming disaster. Those dark times, accidents, tough episodes, break ups, periods of impoverishment, illnesses, abuses, and broken dreams were all in order. They happened, so you can assume they had to and you can’t unhappen them.

Embrace them from that perspective, and then understand them, accept them, honor them, and finally transform them.

Step 14: Refrain from Judgement

When you stop judging and simply become an observer, you will know inner peace. With that sense of inner peace, you’ll find yourself happier and free of the negative energy of resentment. A bonus is that you’ll find that others are much more attracted to you. A peaceful person attracts peaceful energy.

If I’m to be a being of love living from my highest self, that means that love is all I have inside of me and all that I have to give away. If someone I love chooses to be something other than what my ego would prefer, I must send them the ingredients of my highest self, which is God, and God is love.

My criticism and condemnation of the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of others—regardless of how right and moral my human self convinces me it is—is a step away from God-realization. And it is God-consciousness that allows for my wishes to be fulfilled, as long as they are aligned with my Source of being. I can come up with a long list of reasons why I should be judgmental and condemnatory toward another of God’s children and why, damn it, I am right. Yet if I want to perfect my own world—and I so want to do so—then I must substitute love for these judgments.

Step 15: Send Love

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast—which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others—then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

Now I know that we are all human: you, me, all of us. We do occasionally slip and retreat from our highest self into judgment, criticism, and condemnation, but this is not a rationale for choosing to practice that kind of interaction. I can only tell you that when I finally got it, and I sent only love to another of God’s children whom I had been judging and criticizing, I got the immediate result of inner contentment.

I urge you to send love in place of those judgments and criticisms to others when you feel they impede your joy and happiness, and hold them in that place of love. Notice that if you stay steadfast, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

A Meditation to End on Love

Picture yourself at the termination of a quarrel or major dispute. Rather than reacting with old patterns of residual anger, revenge, and hurt, visualize offering kindness, love, and forgiveness.

Do this right now by sending out these “true virtue” thoughts to any resentments you’re currently carrying. Make this your standard response to any future altercations: I end on love, no matter what!

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~SOUL-STIRRING SEPTEMBER SOJOURNS~

Ayahuasca & Ayni in PeruA Spiritual Adventure to Machu Picchu + Sacred Valley
Peru
Trip Leader: Carol Cumes
September 10th-19th, 2015

Spiritual Journey BaliAkashic Records Intensive & Consultant Training – Sacred Wisdom for Transformation in Magical Bali
Trip Leader: Ernesto Ortiz
September 15-30th, 2015

Spiritual Journey to ScotlandHighlands and Mystical Islands: Sacred Scotland + Orkney Islands Mysteries Revealed extension
Scotland
Trip Leader: Cameron + Glenn Broughton
Sept 17-25 + 25-27, 2015

~BOLD OCTOBER EXPEDITIONS~

Spiritual Journey to SedonaAmplify Your Energy: A Woman’s Journey into Sedona’s Sacred Vortexes
Sedona
Trip Leader: Julie Lewin
October 18-24th and October 25-31st 2015

Spiritual Journey to NepalRe-Discover the Treasure Within” A Spiritual Journey in the Himalayas of Nepal
Nepal
Trip Leader: Sharee James
Oct 28–Nov 6, 2015

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Visit our Trips at a Glance page.

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