Self-Respect fosters Self-Love

This week for the 4 agreement Wisdom Group,

On Wednesday at 3pm we will be considering the quote:

"I agree to respect myself for what I am. With self-respect, the self-judgement ends, and the self rejection ends, too. With self-respect, my self-love grows stronger every day."

~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

peace and love

Ask Questions For Heaven's Sake

Dear All,

The topic for the 4 Agreement Wisdom Group is the quote:

"Assumptions are made so fast and unconsciously most of the time because we have agreements to communicate this way. We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions we have agreed that if people love us, they should know what we want or how we feel."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements

peace and love

Accepting what you Are

This week, on Wednesday afternoon,
I will once again start hosting a Living the 4 Agreements Wisdom Group.
It is open to anyone wishing to have support in integrating the 4 agreements into their daily life.
This week's topic is:

"There is wisdom in accepting what you are.

Its difficult to try to be what you are not. Being what you are doesn't require any effort.

When you become wise, you accept yourself the way you are, and the complete acceptance of yourself becomes the complete acceptance of everyone else."

~From The Mastery of Love, by Don Miguel Ruiz

Following each Wisdom Group, those who wish to stay, will be led in a short
guided meditation focused on retrieving lost energy in the past.

So that's Wisdom Group from 3~4pm
and then Stalking from 4~5pm

peace and love

Toltec Wisdom Group

The 4 Agreement Wisdom Group will meet most Wednesdays for a session in the Art of Stalking.

Stalking:
"The process of hunting, following, and observing our weaknesses for the purpose of transforming them into our strengths. A Warrior will stalk her own mind to break her obsession with the thinking of the rational mind and the Tonal."
~from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Toltec Wisdom by Sheri A. Rosenthal

Stalking:
"The Warrior stalks the jungle of his mind like a jaguar. His prey is the parasite, and the fear created by the parasite. He stalks for places where he is leaking his energy because of his belief systems. Important skill in the mastery of awareness."
~from The Everything Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Allan Hardman

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More Grad Shots

Class 2008

I hosted the Grad party in my beautiful meadow.
My, they are all so handsome.
My son is Graduating!!! Yeah!
I got to meet a lot of his classmates at the party. There were close to 200 kids in my field. It was very wild. I am so glad that they all were safe and had a good time.

Mount Everest

My brother Brian and his team summited Mt Everest!

One of his team who he was guiding has an interesting story. The 1st Canadian with diabetes to summit Mt Everest. His website is here:
Sebastien



A group of Vancouver climbers, led by Brian Jones and John Furneaux of Canada West Mountain School

For Brian, 47, and Sebastien Sasseville, 28, the ascent caps their bid to climb the Seven Summits - the highest peaks on each of the seven continents - a distinction held by less than 200 climbers in the world. It is also the first time a Canadian climbing company has led expeditions to the tops of all Seven Summits.

Brian Jones, John Furneaux, Then Dorje Sherpa, Minga Sherpa, Pasang Sherpa, and Chedden Sherpa, reached the top of Mount Everest at approximately 9:30 a.m. Nepal time on Sunday, May 25th (8:45 p.m. Saturday, May 24, 2008 Pacific Time), some 13 hours after setting off from Camp 4.

All returned safely to Camp IV where they will spend the night before descending to Camp II tomorrow morning and back at Base Camp on May 27th.

About the team

Brian Jones is the owner of Canada West Mountain School and a Certified ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide. In addition conquering Everest, Brian has also led successful expeditions to the other six of the Seven Summits - Denali (Mount McKinley), Aconcagua, Elbrus, Vinson Massif, Kilimanjaro, Carstensz Pyramid and Mount Logan. He has also worked as a Mountain Safety Guide for several Eco-Challenge expeditions in BC, Australia, Morocco, Argentina and Fiji.

John Furneaux is a Canada West Mountain School instructor and a Certified ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide. An experienced climber, John has led expeditions to Cho Oyu, Mount Waddington, Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and Mount Logan.

Sebastien Sasseville is a Vancouver climber diagnosed with Type One Diabetes in 2002. He has now become the first Canadian with Type One Diabetes to reach the top of Mount Everest and to climb all Seven Summits.

Everest from the South Side in Nepal

Base Camp - 17,500 feet (5350 meters)

This is a picture of the popular South Col Route up Mt. Everest. Base camp is located at 17,500 feet. This is where climbers begin their true trip up the mountain. This is also where support staff often remain to monitor the expeditions and provide medical assistance when necessary. Many organizations offer hiking trips which just go to base camp as the trip is not technically challenging (though you must be very fit).

peace and love

Toltec Tradition of Stalking

The Tuesday evening Wisdom Group will be moving to a new location.
The new hosts will be responsible for getting the topics and then I can pass them on here.

On Wednesday, we will be meeting down in the field. We will be continuing with my Introduction to Stalking. Using our breath and our intent, we will be recovering our precious energy from any unwanted beliefs and agreements we may be unconsciously holding on to.

peace and love

Don't Believe and Transformation

On Tuesday evening we will be looking at the "5th" agreement:

" Don't believe me, don't believe yourself and don't believe anyone, but Listen."

~Don Miguel Ruiz

On Wednesday afternoon. we will continue with the introduction to Stalking which is a tool in the Toltec tradition to increase our awareness in order to transform unwanted agreements.

peace and love

Namaste from the Himalayas

My brother, Brian Jones, is presently climbing Mt. Everest.
He has a blog where he is keeping his friends and family updated.
For those interested please check out his blog Mountain School
I am thrilled to be able to follow a family member on such a huge undertaking.
I feel like I am getting a taste of a great adventure, though it is not one that I personally feel drawn to go on.

all my love. Brian.

For Tuesday evening the moderator picked the card:

"Love is Kind and Just.

When you are in love, a smile is always on your face. You feel good about yourself and because you are happy, you are kind.

Love is also just, when you make a mistake, you pay only once for that mistake."

For Wednesday afternoon. we will continue with our Introduction To Stalking; which is a tool the Toltec tradition uses to increase our awareness and to recover our energy from memories.

peace and love

Respect and Love and Our Heart

On Tuesday evening the topic of the 4 Agreement Wisdom Group will be the quote:
"Create new agreements based on respect and love.
Take the responsibility to make new agreements with those you love.
If an agreement doesn't work, change that one and create a new one. Use your imagination to explore the possibilities."

~from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

On Wednesday afternoon, the moderator will lead us through a Heart Meditation and through an exercise of Stalking our past agreements in order to transform them.

peace and love

The Real You and Surrender

On Tuesday evening, the 4 Agreement Wisdom Group will be discussing the quote:
"Don't take anything personally.
See other people as they are. When you see other people as they are without taking it personally, you can never be hurt by what they say or do, even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect."

~from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruix

On Wednesday afternoon, the moderator chose the card:
"Surrender to the real you.
Surrender all those ideas about being what you are not, and become what you really are.
When you surrender to your nature, to what you really are, you no longer suffer. When you surrender to the real you, you surrender to Life, you surrender to God."

~from The Mastery of Love by don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Happiness and Unconditional love

Dear All,

The topic for Tuesday evening at 7:30 is the quote:

"Play like a child. The happiest moments in your life are when you are playing just like a child, when you are singing and dancing, when you are exploring and creating just for fun. It is wonderful when you behave like a child, because this is the normal human tendency."

~from The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz

On Wednesday afternoon. we will re-visit the imagining:

"Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved in return. You are no longer afraid to be rejected and you don't have the need to be accepted."

~from The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Awareness and No Fear

On Tuesday evening, the topic will be:
"It's my nature to make up stories, to interpret everything I perceive.
Without awareness, I give my personal power to the story, and the story writes itself.
With awareness, I recover the control of my story. I see that I am the author, and if I don't like my story, I change it."

~ from The Voice of Knowledge by don Miguel Ruiz


On Wednesday afternoon, the moderator chose the quote:
"Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved in return. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted."

~from The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Magic and Acceptance

The topic for Tuesday evening's 4 Agreement Wisdom Group is:

"Accept others the way they are. You cannot change other people. To try to change them to fit what you want them to be is like trying to change a dog into a cat, or a cat into a horse. They are what they are; you are what you are."
~ from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

The topic for Wednesday afternoon is:

"You are what you believe you are. Humans are powerful magicians.
You have the power to make yourself what you are right now, but it's not your reasoning mind that controls your power; it's what you believe."
~ from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruis


peace and love

Spirit and Space

Spirit and Space was the name of this most incredible concert that I attended with friends. Thanks to Terry for these amazing photos.


At one point the music was so beautiful that all I could do was weep like a baby.
A happy baby.

There is a didgerdoo, a cello. a classical guitar and an African harp.
wow.

They will be performing again April 3rd up in Courtenay.

Road Trip!

Unconditional Love and Authenticity

On Tuesday evening, the moderator chose the topic:
Unconditional Love.

For Wednesday afternoon, the card was picked with the quote:
"The best moments of your life are when you are being your authentic self.
When you are in your creation and doing what you love to do, you become what you really are again. You are not thinking in that moment; you are expressing. Your emotions are coming out, and you feel great."
~ from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Self Love, Faith and Personal Power

On Tuesday evening we will be studying a portion of the prayer, "Prayer for Self Love" which is at the end of the book. "Mastery of Love" by Don Miguel Ruiz.

On Wednesday afternoon, the card was picked,
"The way to transform what you believe about yourself is to unlearn what you have learned.
When you unlearn, your faith returns to you, your personal power increases, and you can invest your faith in new beliefs."
~ from "The Voice of Knowledge" by Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Holy Big Webcasts!

Wow, did you guys hear about Oprah's webcast with Eckhart Tolle?

It was so big that it shut it down for alot of North America. Including me. I missed it.

I will be able to watch it later today when they put it up on her website.

Pretty exciting that aproximately a Half a Million viewers went on the net at the same time to talk about this book.

Miracles and Forgiveness

On Tuesday evening we will be looking at the quote:
"Be aware of unconscious assumptions.
Assumptions are made so fast and unconsciously most of the time because we have agreements to communicate this way. We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions. We have agreed that if people love us, they should know what we want or how we feel."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements

On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 we will consider the subject:
"Miracles happen when you forgive.
You are born with the capacity to forgive, but you learn the opposite behavior.
You learn not to forgive, you practice not to forgive, and you master not to forgive. When learn to let go of your pride and ask for forgiveness, miracles start to happen in your life."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

peace and love

One Life and emotional poison

On Tuesday evening at 7:30, the moderator chose the topic,

"What I am is something incredibly magnificent.
I am life, and life is the only truth. Every animal, every flower, every rock is life, because everything if full of life. All of us are only one living being, and we come from the same place."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Voice of Knowledge

And on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 pm the card was chosen:

"Don't take anything personally.
Refuse to eat emotional poison. Taking things personally makes you prey for predators. They can hook your attention with one little opinion, and feed you whatever poison they want.
Refuse to eat poison!"
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements


peace and love

Courage and Being Truthful

On Tuesday evening, we will be contemplating the quote:
"Be truthful with yourself.
When you are truthful with yourself, you start to see everything as it is, not the way you want to see it. The wounds in your emotional body are covered by the denial system. When you look at your wounds with the eyes of truth, yo can finally heal those wounds."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

On Wednesday afternoon the card was picked:
"Don't make assumptions. Ask for what you want.
Find the courage to ask for what you want. Others have the right to tell you yes or no, but you always have the right to ask. Likewise, everybody has the right to ask you for what they want, and you have the right to say yes or no."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements


peace and love

Magic, Faith and an Open Heart

On Tuesday evening, we will look at the quote:
"Faith is the power of creation that all humans have. If we believe we are not good enough, then thy will be done ~ we are not good enough. If we believe we will fail, we will fail, because that is the power and magic of our faith."

On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, the card was picked:
"Your heart is like a magical kitchen . Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. Open your heart, open your magical kitchen, and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need."

peace and love,

A NEW EARTH

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A New Earth Video
I read this book last year and I have the audio book.
I feel set to start the on line course with Oprah.
Anyone want to join me?

Thank you to Candy Minx for the idea!

peace and love

Speak Openly and Honestly and Have Fun

On Tuesday evening at 7:30 we will re-visit the topic:
"You are here to play and have fun. You are the force that plays with your mind and uses your body as its favourite toy to play and have fun with.
That is the reason you are here: to play and have fun.
You are born with the right to be happy and enjoy life. You are not here to suffer."
~Don Miguel Ruis from The Mastery of Love

On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 we have a new topic, a card picked be the moderator:
"Don't make assumptions. Speak openly and honestly.
When you speak openly and honestly you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly and achieve impeccability with your word."
~Don Migeul Ruiz from The Four Agreements

Both meetings we also have the option of watching a few minutes of the DVD lectures.

peace and love

Love, No Expectations and having Fun

This Tuesday evening at 7:30 we will look at the quote:
"You are here to play and have fun.
You are the force that plays with your mind and uses your body as its favorite toy to play and have fun with. That is the reason you are here: to play and have fun. You are born with the right to be happy and enjoy life. You are not here to suffer."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

The following Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, the moderator picked the card:
"Love has no obligations or expectations.
When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, its like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen, whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

peace and love

The Four Agreements

On Tuesday evening, the Wisdom Group will be discussing the quote:
"Our emotions are real, the voice of knowledge that makes us suffer is not.
Our suffering is true, but the reason why we suffer may not be true at all."

~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Voice of Knowledge

On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, we will be watching a small portion of a video of Don Miguel speaking and then there will be a discussion time to follow.

peace and love

The Dream of Heaven

On Tuesday evening, the Wisdom Group will consider the quote:

"Heaven is here, but we need to have the eyes to perceive it.
When our spiritual eyes are open, we see heaven all around us ~ we experience truth, love, and joy. When lies hook our attention, all we see are lies. Our spiritual eyes close, and we fall from the dream of heaven."

~from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

The next meeting, on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, we will watch a small portion of a DVD with Miguel and Jose speaking and then we will spend some time discussing what was brought forth for each of us.

peace and love

Don Miguel and Don Jose

On Tuesday evening, the 1st day of 2008, the Wisdom Group will be viewing a portion of the DVD of Don Miguel and Don Jose speaking.

For the Wednesday afternoon meeting we will do the same.

The meetings will probably run a little longer than usual to accommodate the DVD times.

Happy New Life,

peace and love

Love and Art

The topic for next Tuesday evening's Wisdom Group is:

"Every human is an artist, a storyteller with a unique point of view.
When we see ourselves as artists, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. We know that every artist has the right to create his own art."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Voice of Knowledge

On Wednesday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic;

"Always do your best. Love and nurture your body. Your own body is a manifestation of God. And if you honor your body, everything will change for you. Practice giving love to every part of your body. This will plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor and respect your body immensely."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements

peace and love

Yellow Point Country Christmas

This weekend, I was part of a Christmas Artisan Tour.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, folks followed a map in my area to all the little home-based businesses.
This year we had the most participants ever.
25 artisans took part.
I was very happy with the all the wonderful friendly customers that came to my door. I drummed on my djembe as they browsed my "store".
Loads of fun.

Happiness and Self-Love

On Tuesday evening, the moderator chose the card:

"You are responsible for your own happiness.

Happiness never comes from outside of you. If you put your happiness in someone else's hands, they can always take it away.

Happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love."

~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Mastery of Love

On Wednesday afternoon,

the topic will be the quote:

"Emotional pain is a symptom of being abused.

Every time we lie to ourselves, judge ourselves, or reject ourselves, our emotional reaction isn't pleasant. The pain is letting us know that we have to do something to stop the abuse."

~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Voice of Knowledge

peace and love

ASSumptions

On Tuesday evening the 4 Agreement Wisdom Group will discuss the thought:
"All of the drama humans suffer is the result of believing in lies, mainly about ourselves.
The first lie we believe is "I am not the way I should be; I am not perfect." It's just a story, but we believe it, and we stop being ourselves and start searching for an image of perfection."
~ don Miguel Ruiz from The Voice of Knowledge

On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, the support group will ponder the Agreement. "Don't make assumptions."

"Assume nothing. In any kind of relationship, we can make the assumption that others know what we think and we don't have to say what we want.
We assume they are going to do what we want because they know us so well. If they don't do what we want, we feel hurt and think, how could you do that? You should know."
~ don Miguel Riuz from The Four Agreements

peace and love

Shine Edgar Shines with the Didgeridoo

We had a small but very keen turn out for Shine Edgar's Didge lessons.
We were treated to some amazing didging that dug into my soul.
Shine explains how he uses his didge-playing as a channel for the divine, and his upraised hand is like an antenna to assist in tuning in.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Thank you Shine and Edysha!

peace and love