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Thursday, 2 February 2017

Angel of February is Truth

Move from a place of knowing within you rather than as a result of adaptation to outer experience.

Let go of your assumptions and need to control life's creative process.

It does not matter what spiritual path you’re on, an ultimate sense of peace comes down to one question: Can you let go of the need to control your life, and trust there is a benevolent force guiding all that ever has, is, and will happen?

Trust is the soul's way of attuning to the fundamental laws of reality. There is a deep rhythm that moves through all life that cannot be controlled by our will. When trust informs our experience, it allows our psyche to relax and our soul to be at peace with our situation. We can rest in unquestioned confidence that the universe provides, that we have and will receive what we really need. In fact, often beyond what we alone are even capable of imagining.

When we have a lot of 'basic' trust, we are courageous and take risks. We don't suppress our competencies. We engage in life wholeheartedly, doing what feels appropriate with the confidence that it will work out. Life becomes a story of creation not an obstacle course.

Without basic trust, we tend to react to what arises in accordance with our conditioning, wanting our life to go one way or another. We cling to predetermined assumptions and outcomes. We become tense and contracted and do all we can to manipulate the circumstances to fit with our desires.

Here is a suggestion for changing the automatic internal response to external signals. When a traffic light turns yellow and there is a safe distance to stop before it turns red, what do you tend to do? Do you accelerate to 'make it through'? If so, this is a metaphor for what happens inside when our yellow 'worry light' goes off — we accelerate; try harder, move faster, do more; all stress responses to our conditioning. Trust is the ability to stop and wait for the green light to signal the time to move forward again.

Why not, for the month of February, practice putting on the brake when the light is yellow and taking that moment to pause and breathe in the deeper rhythm of life while waiting for the green light to again signal you to go.

Rest and know that all is very, very well - the Light is about to go green ... till then - increase your capacity for loving thoughts and kind actions. We hope the Angels continue to inspire your life.

Warmly,

Kathy

P.S. If you worked with the Angel of Vision during January, take a few moments to release it with your gratitude before welcoming the Angel of Trust into your life for the month of February.

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Monday, 2 January 2017

Angel of January is Vision

Look at the world with soul sight. Use your imagination, inner sense, and peripheral promptings to see the bigger picture and shape the future you desire.

Vision holds within it the possibility of revelation - the realization of seeing a greater truth about life. Even a glimpse can alter perception in such a way that major shifts in our behavior occur because it changes the context of our world-view. A key to soul sight (what the soul sees and knows) is intuition.

Intuition is the appreciation of an aspect of truth that gives a level of foresight beyond our immediate five senses. It is the deeper sense of relational connection from small co-incidences to the astounding miracles.

Learning to navigate the phenomenal world, the world of soul, brings with it the capacity to interpret and act from a deep level of connected comprehension. To live in vision is to master the art of connectedness on behalf of the whole.

To consciously envision is to know what seeds you are planting and therefore what will grow. Be a conscious gardener; be patient, nurture, and cultivate each seed you plant with action appropriate intent. Appreciate and give thanks at each stage of growth as it unfolds into the next.

We hope the Angels continue to inspire your life. May your heart be happy and your vision clear.

Happy New Year - Blessing for deep fulfillment as we all hold each other with the intent to bring our Visions into reality........

Warmly,
Kathy

P.S. If you worked with the Angel of Love during December, take a few moments to release it with your gratitude before welcoming the Angel of Vision into your life for the month of January.

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Friday, 2 December 2016

Angel of December is Love

The essence of contentment and the foundation of serenity. Love is the activation of your spirit reaching out to make connections.

It overcomes grief, harbors no ill will and heals all separation.

If the experiences we have are a result of our selective perceptions, why not adjust our lens and look though the windows of love instead of fear, righteousness, loneliness or guilt?

Love is a vibrational frequency. It is the feeling nature of our soul and our direct connection to the Source. When we tune into this frequency, we nurture a closer relationship to our true selves.

Love is not something we have, but rather something we are. When we extend this essence to a person, group of people, a place, or an animal a luminous mystery forms in the depths of our hearts and extends out beyond ourselves with deep joy and passion.

We all seek a feeling of belonging; a feeling of being home connected with our Source. It is often easier to access this in relationship with nature or a pet. But it is in our relationships with one another that our love-ablity is most often challenged.

Giving space around experiences and interactions give us margins we can fill with love that contains the content -- rather than judgement that searches the content for where the love might be. This shifts our worldview and our interior orientation. We stop trying to manipulate the outer world so that our inner world can be at peace.

We hope the Angels continue to inspire your life.

May your heart experience love with ever increasing 'frequency'.

Warmly,

Kathy

P.S. If you worked with the Angel of Play during November, take a few moments to release it with your gratitude before welcoming the Angel of Love into your life for the month of December.

Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Angel of November is Play

Maximize every moment of aliveness. Experience pleasurable involvement in all your activities and enjoy what you are doing.

Have Fun!

Play is at the heart of our creativity and animates our being in our most carefree moments. It helps us live with absurdity, paradox, and mystery. It feeds our childlike joy and wonder. It keeps our search for meaning grounded and on to earth.

There is so much going on in the world, and within us, that our stress levels have adjusted upwards to a new 'normal' creating a hidden epidemic of fun deficit disorder (FDD). Play is an antidote to stress. It can totally absorb your attention and cause a cascade of feelings that greatly impact your happiness quotient.

Play engages us with the imaginal realm and supports and enriches our metabolization of life. It is integral for generating insights and effortless realizations. Play literally gives us a 'breather' – restoring our vitality at a core level.

This month find a fun activity that totally captivates your attention to the point where time seems to slow or even stop, and the voice inside -- (the one giving constant commentary on what you’re doing, have done, or will be doing) -- ceases. Laugh heartily at jokes, situations, and yourself.

Wishing you playful, joyous moments throughout November!

And, transformed FDD to F:):)....

Warmly,

Kathy

P.S. If you worked with the Angel of Abundance during October, take a few moments to release it with your gratitude before welcoming the Angel of Play into your life for the month of November.

Monday, 3 October 2016

Angel of October is Abundance

Cultivate an attitude of generosity and act as though there is plenty for you and for everyone, everywhere. Give freely and generously.

One of the biggest fears held within humanity is the fear of loss. This may be of a job, partner, image, youth, life style (especially money) or finally - death of the body. But, fear can also be healthy and serve us as it calls our attention to gratefulness and reminds us to take steps to care for what we have been given.

Holding tightly to what scares us produces heart-quakes and moves us out of the universal flow causing us to live in 'scare-city'. The energy of wanting; things a certain way, circumstances to change, feelings to be different - is an ineffective approach because we can only want things to change according to what we think we know.

The essence of abundance is rooted in dynamic openness and wonderment that infuses our desires with the optimizing force of Being.

We lack acceptance of what is and this leads to a lack of gratitude. Holding fast to particular identities and predetermined decisions fuels our conditioned selves and habitual behaviors. As a result, we can't experience wonder or abundance. We can only at best feel sameness.

Wonderment arises when we open to something that is new, fresh, and mystical, completely letting go of all we know in that moment.

This experience is exhilarating, prosperous, and freeing; inwardly turning us towards a sense of fulfillment. It offers a grander, more expansive vision of reality and relieves the restraints to generously offering ourselves allowing us to give to everyone, everywhere.

We hope the Angels continue to inspire your life and move you out of scare-city. May you be filled with wonder and abundance and offer it freely.

Warmly,

Kathy

P.S. If you worked with the Angel of Synthesis during September, take a few moments to release it with your gratitude then welcome the Angel of Abundance into your life for the month of October.

Monday, 26 September 2016

Mary Inglis and Process Skills Training

Mary Inglis is an independent trainer, facilitator and coach who works internationally with courses and trainings in personal and group development, leadership, creativity, and transformational change processes.

At the start of next year (January 23-27.,2017) Mary Inglis will be in Riga with her program "Process Skills Training". Organizer of this training is ICF.LV- Latvia chapter of International coach federation and invites to participate everyone from consulting area, of course also coaches. In cooperation with trainer we found out, that there will be significant work with coach core competencies, that`s why every one participant will get CCEU. Due to increase awareness of potential participants about this training, we ask Mary some questions. And now happy to offer Mary`s inspiring answers. Just read below!

How you decide to develop such kind of training- Process skills training?

-There were two things that influenced my decision to develop and offer this kind of training.

-One was that I became interested in finding a way of integrating and synthesising my experience with various approaches I have worked with and trained in – primarily Incarnational Spirituality, Process Oriented Psychology and the Transformation Game, although there have been other influences such as Gestalt, Psyschosynthesis, Constellations, Appreciative Inquiry and Technologies for Creating.

-The other was that people in the seminars and programmes I was running began asking me to teach them how to do what I was doing. I was running various Transformation Game programmes and facilitator trainings, as well as seminars on leadership, creativity, and following your calling, all of which involved a significant amount of personal process work with people. People in the programmes, many of whom were themselves workshop facilitators, coaches and counsellors, became interested in learning more about how I worked. I would refer them to the sources and approaches that have shaped and influenced my work, but they continued to be interested in my running a training myself. So in response to an invitation from a group in Kazakhstan, I ran the first Process Skills training there in February of 2013.

-Since then I have offered it 10 times, in the UK, Japan, Russia, Lithuania and Kazakhstan, and I have plans for another 3 in the next year or so.

What is your main reason to offer this training?

-Over the years I have found myself drawn to approaches that encourage us to connect with our own authenticity, to honour all aspects of ourselves, and to engage with something essential in ourselves. They enliven me, and I see how they enliven others.

-Incarnational spirituality is one of these; another is Process Oriented Psychology or Process Work, the approach pioneered by Arnold Mindell. Neither of these approaches is prescriptive; neither of them has a template of what we should do or be or look like or aim for. They are not about aligning with an image of what a spiritually or psychologically healthy person should look like. Rather, they are about aligning with an inherent self-organising sentiency or spirit that holds our patterning and that seeks to create wholeness, both internally within ourselves, and externally in relation to our environment.

- For me, it’s an exploration into what it means to be human, and what it means to be ourselves. In some ways it’s an approach to spirituality – a holistic, embodied spirituality that honours and embraces all aspects of ourselves. It’s a way of finding our own path and calling, engaging with our essential patterning and our own generative source – and bringing that into the circumstances and challenges and aspirations of our everyday lives .

What you wish for all potential participants to receive from this training?

-What I hope for participants – and what I think is of value for them – is that they will have a deeper experience of wholeness, of feeling at home with themselves, and of the value of the uniqueness and difference each person brings – and that they also expand their capacity to foster and encourage that experience in others.

-We will also of course be exploring some principles and practising some specific exercises and processes, that will hopefully expand people’s skill sets and give them conceptual and practical tools to integrate into their work.

Thank you, Mary, for your answers. They are inspiring. We are waiting for this event more and more :)!

Register for PROCESS SKILLS TRAINING!

More about Mary Inglis:

Born in Scotland, Mary grew up in Nigeria and Lesotho, and went to school and university in South Africa, where she worked as a journalist as well as training in experiential educational approaches. For the last 40 years she has lived at the Findhorn Community in Scotland, where she is a long-term faculty member of the Findhorn Foundation. The Findhorn Community is a holistic and spiritual educational centre exploring new approaches to spirituality and sustainability, as well as collaboration and partnership with all of earth’s ecologies, both physical and non-physical.

Mary is also managing director of the UK branch of InnerLinks Associates, which researches and develops Transformation Game products, programmes and trainings; these offer playful yet substantial approaches to exploring and transforming issues in life and work. Mary has been involved with the Transformation Game since its beginnings in 1976. She has designed, developed and facilitated some innovative programmes, processes and trainings, including several custom-made large group processes using the Transformation Game in conferences in the UK, Europe and Korea.

Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Angel of September is Synthesis

Act with a win-win attitude.

Use your creativity and sensitivity to blend all the diverse parts into a unified whole.

We inter-face with the world in numerous ways; as a partner, a family member, child, parent, pet pal, neighbor, customer, and community member both culturally and nationally to name a few. Who is the 'one' that is behind the many faces — who is the 'one' inner-face?

The world we live in does not always appear to support the experience of essence living and this creates pressure. To protect our core expression we build defenses. The tension is felt as a suffering that closes our hearts, contracts our spirit, and limits our creativity.

A state of synthesis is a seamless presence. There is no gap; no space that gets filled in with misconceptions of who others or we think we are. It is from this one presence that we can reach out in our many expressions. It is in this blending all the diverse parts that returns us to the unified whole that existed before the perception of separation.

So, what is the practice this month? Lets call it 'apexing' - going to the highest midpoint and holding the apparent paradoxes of life and duality. And interestingly, it is not a point of non-duality, it is the point of Synthesis. Open to letting the truth you hold be replaced by a greater Truth. Synthesis allows a larger awareness of the whole to blend and fuse.

We hope the Angels continue to inspire your life.

May your inner-face shine through every experience.

Warmly,

Kathy

P.S. If you worked with the Angel of Faith during August, take a few moments to release it with your gratitude then welcome the Angel of Synthesis into your life for the month of September.