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September 2021
The Feeling of Happiness in Togetherness
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| | This month we invite you :
to take some time for love, to give expression of love a chance, to give togetherness a chance,
to feel this warm feeling in your heart. |
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| Our Zoom open guided meditation is back ! |
| The Brofman Foundation team invites you to another Zoom meditation.
We are looking forward to being back with you.
Don't hesitate to invite your friends to join !
Just click on the link and you will automatically join the meeting.
Date and time : Wednesday 15 Sept. 2021 06:00 PM Paris |
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| The feeling of happiness in togetherness
When was the last time you really took time for someone who needed you without expecting or benefiting from it?
When was the last time you visited someone who was sick, brought them flowers, a cake or just love? I don't mean a close family member, loved one or friend, but unknowns and strangers.When have you asked someone who was crying if they needed someone to talk to? When have you carried an elderly person's bag, helped them to get on the tramway, let them go first with the car or at the counter, or simply greeted them in a friendly way? Or given a gift to someone stranger who seems lonely and abandoned?
I could go on with the list and maybe it seems like a moral lesson or educational issue to you.
However, these are the simplest questions that you also ask yourself when you are in a situation that makes you wish for support and help.
Someone who brings you a tea in bed when you are sick, or gives you a loving hint or just listens to you.
Many are lost in the stress of everyday life or in social networks, or driven by the hope that a divine being is watching them and handing out praise. The media, politics and the market are vying for your attention and want to move you or get you to do something. Everyday stress we have, the hunt we make for the things, and activities we should do.
The media show you what's happening at the other side of the world, and so you are absorbed again and don't notice that your neighbor is perhaps becoming more and more lonely, or someone dies in the house and no one notices for days.
Many people let themselves be manipulated, guided by selfishness and greed, and are thus also stingy with time. This does not mean that you have to be like them in order to be connected or friends with them.
If we understand and describe ourselves as creators, then it makes more sense to honestly say, "I decided not to take the time." You are aware that you created the situation this way. Then you take responsibility and you can change something.
If you assume that you create your reality yourself and describe yourself as the creator of it, then you have created the stress and also time as a linear quantity yourself. Time is artificially accelerated and seemingly scarce. But if you consciously stop time and take time for someone - unexpectedly, without calculation, without looking at the clock - call him, ring his bell to ask how he is or if he wants to buy something because he is sick or in need of help, then a feeling of happiness arises, a meaning in life that is greater than just fulfilling material desires, ambitiously following ideals or role models. Then your heart opens and the whole universe flows into you. Intuitively you feel that it is exactly right and nothing in this world is more important at that very moment. Find it out for yourself.
It is helpful to put yourself in the other person's place without feeling sorry for them, just ask yourself the question: What would do me good in this moment?
I don't mean a control action here, where you are expected to help someone now, who may devour your energy because of a consciousness of lack, or to let yourself be eaten up by a misunderstood charity.
There is a lot of talk about unconditional love and compassion, but the deep question remains: How do I implement this in everyday life without feeling overwhelmed or stressed?
It all starts with self-love, to respect and love oneself and others and to be free inside.
This is a learning process from my experience. For example, I have curiously observed what those who radiate wisdom and healing energy do. With them, I have perceived a natural connectedness with others and the environment. In our healing seminars, I have experienced and learned in a free light-hearted way exactly this connectedness myself. When I teach the workshops myself, I observe how the participants ingeniously enter into this energy flow of free giving and receiving in a relaxed and joyful way, taking time naturally for themselves and others. Healing yourself and others is a gift we give ourselves and has a strengthening effect on your whole energy system and likewise on your environment. When inner blockages are released, we become open to each other (again).
If we describe it in the language of energy and chakras, at that moment you are open at the level of the crown chakra in the deepest part of your being. You feel the all-encompassing connection and that there is basically no separateness. You don't control or expect anything.
Everyone has experienced this, this carefree caring or being there for each other, taking time for each other without expectations. Most know it with their own children or loved one. These moments are beautiful, but still limited. Having this experience with a stranger or even someone you dislike is the fine art of the spiritual school.
It becomes a higher pleasure, deeper bliss, tantric ecstasy and endless energy flows to you. You realize how uniquely divine this moment is - when we exchange, freely give and accept this energy without expectations. You can learn it like meditation and mindfulness. It is not done with a single gesture.
When you overcome the laziness and your comfort zone in your brain, it is a healing feeling and indescribably beautiful.
A lot has already been done if you take it as a small daily exercise and in the evening, free from bad feelings, simply ask yourself: How much time have I taken for myself and for someone else who is important to me, and how intensively have I filled this time?
I decide for myself, so for example also to question imposed rituals and to change lovingly to create time-outs for myself. In addition, it does not take much time to kindly let someone go ahead or to offer help in the house or neighborhood - all this in a free flow, if it offers itself and lets you be free and carefree.
Feel inside yourself and take the decision to do something good for someone today and to take time for each other. You will see, something wonderful will happen, especially if you do not expect anything.
Viola Schöpe
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| A little reminder : Alternative Realities |
| To begin with, we must get away from the idea that there is only one way that things work, just one thing called “reality.” We will explore here the idea of alternative realities in which things happen in different ways.
We are each a consciousness in a body. We each decide what to think and what to feel. We choose our perceptions, and our perceptions create our reality.
Our perceptions are the subjective way we interpret all of the information coming into our consciousness from the world around us.
It is as if there is a bubble around each of us. Some of the information coming through this bubble is filtered to the surface and presented to our conscious attention to be noticed. The rest does not register consciously, but travels through the bubble and is stored at deeper levels of our consciousness. Our ideas, beliefs, desires and feelings color the bubble filtering our perceptions, such that people with different bubbles looking at the same thing can have different perceptions of what they are watching.
A person in a red bubble, for example, will see the world as red, while a person in a blue bubble will see it as blue, and we can imagine the conversation between these two discussing the color of the world. From a certain point of view, they are both correct about what they report, and all of their perceptions affirm their truth. Yet from another point of view, perhaps neither perception represents objective reality. Perhaps the world is neither red nor blue. All that we know to be true for sure is that one person sees it as red and another as blue, so we have a sense of the nature of each of the bubbles, each of the filters. In this way, we have a basis for communication and exchange of ideas.
While we each may see the same events in the outer world, our respective bubbles color our interpretation of these events. Looking at our interpretation can give us an idea of the nature of our own beliefs and perceptions, since it is these that “color” our bubbles. Someone believing that competition and conflict are universal will see only that, while someone else may just as clearly see that the world is full of people motivated by love and expressing it, and sometimes reacting to the perception that it is not there.
It is easy to see how our perceptions can then predispose us to acting in certain ways that not only play into the apparent scenario we perceive, but actually create and continue it. A man insecure about his lover, for example, can actually drive away that lover with his insecurities, justifying his perceptions, proving that he was right, yet at the same time, having created the scenario in the first place.
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When we talk about our perceptions creating our reality, we are talking not only of our perceptual filters, but also the way things happen. This means that even apparently physical cause-and-effect relationships are different in different realities, in different paradigms.
For example, those wanting to become thinner may believe that to do so, they must be aware of the calories they take in with their food compared to the calories they burn through their activities. If they take in more calories than they burn, they will put on weight, and if they burn more calories than they take in, they will become thinner. One way to become thinner, then, is to eat foods that provide fewer calories than is needed to consume them. Grapefruit is such a food. Within this reality, then, if we eat grapefruit, we can expect to become thinner.
Within a different reality, calories have little to do with weight, since calories are consumed immediately. We must be aware of carbohydrates since they are stored in the body as fat. If we want to become thinner, we must reduce our intake of foods high in carbohydrates. Since grapefruit is high in carbohydrates, within this reality, if we eat a lot of grapefruit, we will put on weight!
Both realities are true, and people believing in each reality can easily prove that they are both right. One reality does not preclude the other. One does not have to be wrong for the other to be right. Both are right, and yet things happen in different ways within each reality.
What will happen when you eat a grapefruit? Will you put on weight, or will you become thinner?
First, it depends on what you believe will happen when you eat the grapefruit. If you believe you will put on weight, you will. If you believe you will become thinner, you will. If you really don’t know what will happen, you must eat the grapefruit to find out. Then you can identify with one reality or the other and know what is true for you. At the same time, you can now know that something else may be true for another person.
Whatever you believe to be true is true - for you!
Where do your beliefs come from?
When you are presented with another person’s beliefs, you are free to accept them, or reject them. If you choose to accept somebody else’s beliefs as true for you as well, you then adopt them as yours. You can decide for yourself that since an expert says so, it must be true that eating grapefruit makes you thin. Or fat. As you decide.
Another way to create a belief in your own consciousness is to define it from the way you have interpreted your own experiences. You might start with no idea of what is true for you and no idea what to believe. You begin with an experience: you eat the grapefruit, not knowing what might happen.
Next, you examine the effects of the experience. You interpret your experience in a certain way, describing it to yourself with certain words. In doing so, you create a certain belief. You decide, for example, “Eating grapefruit makes me thin, because when I ate a lot of grapefruit, I became more thin.”
The words that you use to describe your experience create your beliefs, and therefore your reality.
After your experiences have defined your beliefs, your beliefs define and create your experience, so that you will discover that whatever you believe to be true is true for you. You will attract to yourself, and will have more of a tendency to notice, those experiences that affirm your truth.
Thus, someone believing something different can have something different that is true for them. Also, by changing your beliefs, you can change the way things happen within your paradigm, within your reality. Thus, if something has been not working optimally for you, by exploring different beliefs, you can discover a way to have things work for you in a different way, the way you would like them to. You can find a way to achieve what you want.
Within a reality of physical sciences, a person might be told that he has a grave illness for which nothing can be done. Within this reality, if nothing changes, he will certainly die. If he chooses to explore alternative realities in which there is a way out of his condition, there is a chance that he can continue to live, in health and harmony.
When the healing happens, it may happen in a way that seems to suspend or violate certain physical laws of chemistry, biology, or physics. These “laws,” though, are not absolute dictates, but just attempts to predict behavior on the basis of past experience and empirical data. They are considered laws only until something happens that makes it necessary to consider additional factors, and modify these “laws.”
For example, if you throw something into the air, it comes down. No matter how many times you repeat the process, the result is the same. You can decide, as a law, that “What goes up must come down.” This happens until you throw something with such force that it escapes the earth’s gravity, and you are obliged to change the “laws” to consider other factors.
When we look at the paradigm of healing, even though it may seem that we are breaking the “laws” of biology, chemistry, and physics, no laws are actually being violated. It’s just that other laws are being obeyed, since things happen in different ways within different realities.
Healing is presented, then, as an alternative bubble to the reality of traditional medical sciences. Any bubble can be presented and look as if it is the only reality that exists. If we release the idea that there is only one reality, we can then consider alternative realities that can exist either alone or in combination with other realities.
Some people choose to combine the different realities, taking elements of each that work best for them. Others, who have been told by the traditional sciences that nothing can be done for them, might prefer to dedicate themselves totally to the alternative paradigms.
What is of primary importance is doing what works best for you, and not rejecting any idea or method that may help you in some way.
This handbook is the presentation of the truths, dynamics, and cause-and-effect relationships that exist within the bubble that represents the reality, the paradigm, of the Body-Mirror System of Healing.
It does not invalidate any other realities, but simply provides an alternative.
Within this reality, we hold the perception that anything can be healed.
From "Anything can be healed" Martin Brofman Published by Inner Traditions |
| The symptom of the month : Carpal Tunnel Syndrome : |
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| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Nerves in the hand)
The area in your wrist where the nerve enters the hand is called the carpal tunnel. This tunnel is normally narrow, so any swelling can pinch the nerve and cause pain, numbness, tingling or weakness. This is called carpal tunnel syndrome. It is a condition in which there is pressure on the median nerve -- the nerve in the wrist provides feeling and movement to the "thumb side" of the hand (the palm, thumb, index finger, middle finger, and thumb side of the ring finger). While many people believe that carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by making the same hand and wrist motion over and over, for example by typing on a computer, using a mouse, or repeating movements while working or playing an instrument, we can look at the inner cause, the tension in the person’s consciousness.
The wrists and hands represent the person allowing themselves to have the fulfillment of what they want or what will make them happy, depending on whether it is the Will hand or the Emotional hand, and each finger can represent a chakra. Thus, someone experiencing difficulties with the thumb on the right hand can be seen to be experiencing tensions in their consciousness related to letting themselves have what they want (or what will make them happy) in relation to root chakra parts of their life (Money, home, job) Then, it is interesting to see how the symptom is related to something they are doing at work, and it raises the question of whether they are happy at work or would really prefer to be doing something different. The index finger would point to issues concerning the person allowing themselves to have what they want regarding food or sex, the middle finger to solar plexus issues of power, control, or freedom.
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