| My approach to spiritual retreats is to not manage | | | | During a session with client I heard myself say, |
| the retreat. On the surface it sounds strange, but | | | | "Give wisdom the benefit of the doubt!" Wow, |
| I continue to go deeper with this idea or non-idea | | | | that really made sense to me. If we make a |
| of non-management here in the Magic Kingdom | | | | commitment to "wait" for our low mood to pass |
| and in my own life. What does it mean? To not | | | | without trying to do something with it, our natural |
| do the work with clients out of a model but to let | | | | feeling of well-being will reappear, our wisdom will |
| go and open to Spirit or my own wisdom for | | | | speak to us. If we just give it a chance. But it |
| direction and guidance. To not respond to clients | | | | feels hard to wait, we want to figure out why we |
| questions from my memory but to open to my | | | | feel sad or angry, etc. We think that will make it |
| wisdom and let the response come from there. It | | | | stop; we want CONTROL! But it's truly an illusion. |
| takes patience and faith. | | | | Understanding our low mood will come when our |
| Sometimes when I sit in silence in front of clients | | | | level of consciousness rises, in other words, when |
| or stand peering into the distance in the vortex, it | | | | our mood rises. Then that nice feeling will open |
| feels like a long time. I am waiting for my wisdom | | | | the door to our wisdom. |
| to speak but with no expectation of when it will | | | | In the last few weeks, I feel clients really hearing |
| speak. I don't try and reach for it. In that | | | | that understanding comes through a nice feeling |
| moment, I deepen my trust in this great gift we | | | | not the other way around. This is major distinction |
| were all given:the gift of wisdom. And before I | | | | and if you can get it, your life will change |
| know it, an original thought comes out of my | | | | dramatically. Stop trying to figure out your |
| mouth and I smile in gratitude. | | | | problems in a low mood! Find a nice feeling first |
| Have the results been different with clients who | | | | then that nice feeling will automatically give you a |
| are here on retreats or for a vortex experience? | | | | bigger perspective about your problems. A bigger |
| Yes, most certainly! When I speak from wisdom | | | | perspective means more understanding |
| it fans a client's wisdom. And this is the goal: to | | | | compassion and common sense. |
| help clients remember or realize their own innate | | | | How does my non-management of retreats |
| wisdom. And it appears more and more of them | | | | translate down to your day to day life or mine |
| are finding their own wisdom quicker. | | | | for that matter? So many ways! Here is an |
| Syd Banks says "an insight is a moment when | | | | example: stop trying to manage your moods! Just |
| you touch your own wisdom." When I heard that | | | | let them be, it will shift. If you give your natural |
| it really penetrated me. One of my teachers 6 | | | | nice feeling a chance to return. What are the |
| months ago encouraged me to be teaching this | | | | components of managing? Assessing, analyzing, |
| fact more. To encourage clients to know that a | | | | explaining, projecting, comparing, worrying, |
| feeling of well-being is our natural state, living in a | | | | rationalizing, etc. You get the drift! |
| nice feeling is our natural state. That all the spiritual | | | | I am always circling around to these themes with |
| knowledge we are seeking is right now inside of | | | | clients. I see when they hear these principles at a |
| us. If we quiet our thoughts more (or what I | | | | deeper level,it makes major shifts in their lives in |
| refer to as "more waiting") that natural state of | | | | the quickest amount of time. |
| wisdom will come back. | | | | |