I have never felt, received and experienced as much on a one day course before (and I've been on plenty!) and today I feel GREAT!
I have just been to see my client who is chair-bound, has MS and ME, has had a stroke and suffers from depression and the most intensely negative outlook on life I've ever encountered. No, she didn't get up and dance, but I know, and she acknowledges, that we saw more transformation in the hour today than we have in months of seeing her three times a week. I didn't tell her I was doing anything new or different, but she loved it - and so did I!
I feel that I have found that thing that I've been looking for for years. I know I'm still new to it and have much more to learn, but the changes already are immense!
I could go on, but will run out of expletives and exclamation marks!!! So I'll just finish with a huge 'Thank You' to Paul and Vivien for their wonderful hospitality, thouroughly enjoyable company, delicious food and limitless generosity.
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Seriously glad you had such a great time/experience Derek & that it's had such a profound effect on you.
I would love to have this experience for myself but circumstances are not favourable just now - maybe someday
Well, circumstances were not favourable for me, either, until I intended them to be so
Don't wait for someday as someday, just like tomorrow, never comes - intend to do it now!
I went to see my chair-bound client again this morning and her legs that have not moved for well over a year, moved! Very small movements, but movement! Just as I intended
How have you (yourself) been developing in the interim, since Paul and Vivien's workshop. How about updating us? Your choice, of course .
Hola, WildStrawberry! I'm sorry I haven't replied to your post sooner, but have been away in Spain, which is why I can't stop saying Hola!
Anyway, for now I'm just letting you know why I haven't responed before now so you don't think I've ignored you, and I'll update you when I've got over the shock of going back to work!
How have you (yourself) been developing in the interim, since Paul and Vivien's workshop. How about updating us? Your choice, of course .
Well, at last, here goes!
I could say in a nutshell, that since my course I have become the sweetest, lovliest person you would care to meet, but you probably want more detail, I expect!
First, I'm glad you asked how I have been developing, Wildstrawberry, because since my Gaia-Now course, it is that aspect, rather than the healing, that has been developing! And really, most of that development has been in what I have learned about myself.
For example, previously, I have tried all sorts of goal setting systems, positive thinking regimes and read books galore about the law of attraction and became very frustrated when none of them worked for me. Since my course I have come to understand that it is my thoughts that create my reality, not what someone else tells me, and that those thoughts are based on my beliefs. Using what Paul has taught me, I have worked on some of these beliefs with amazing results.
Since the course, I understand, or rather feel, what it means to be one with everything and everyone, rather than just know it intellectually. One area, for example, where this has made a difference is when I am driving. I don't want you think that I was a monster on the road, but I did suffer the occasional bouts of road rage. Now, I don't. In fact, I rarely get angry as I used to, or, if I do, I deal with it much better.
I have tried just about every meditation system on the planet and never got very far. Now, my meditation times are easy, enjoyable and fruitful. (That's a nice word, isn't it? I'll say it again, 'Fruitful!')
I could go on and on with loads of examples, but I'm boring myself now, so will say that the most important changes or developments have been in my awareness and acceptance - of myself and others. And the changes this has brought about, whilst appearing, perhaps, minor and quite ordinary when witten down, have been, in fact, quite extraordinary and life-changing!
I'm sure some others on here will claim equal effects and changes from other courses and different spiritual disciplines, but for me, after more than 25 years of searching and trying out most of them, the Gaia-Now course was the single most important weekend of my life.
With regard to the healing side of the Gaia-Now modality, I have used it with some good results, but I need to work on that some more. Something I realised just this weekend, is that nothing comes without practice. And I have been so enjoying the personal develoment aspects, that I have not, perhaps, spents as much time as I should have practicing some of the things I learned on the course. And that's where I'm going now.
Reading this back, I feel I have not covered half of what has been happening with me, so, if I have said anything here that is unclear or you want to know more, or more specific, details, I am, of course, happy to answer your questions.
I could say in a nutshell, that since my course I have become the sweetest, lovliest person you would care to meet, but you probably want more detail, I expect!
Huh? Moi !
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Originally Posted by derekgruender
First, I'm glad you asked how I have been developing, Wildstrawberry, because since my Gaia-Now course, it is that aspect, rather than the healing, that has been developing! And really, most of that development has been in what I have learned about myself.
For example, previously, I have tried all sorts of goal setting systems, positive thinking regimes and read books galore about the law of attraction and became very frustrated when none of them worked for me. Since my course I have come to understand that it is my thoughts that create my reality, not what someone else tells me, and that those thoughts are based on my beliefs. Using what Paul has taught me, I have worked on some of these beliefs with amazing results.
Since the course, I understand, or rather feel, what it means to be one with everything and everyone, rather than just know it intellectually. One area, for example, where this has made a difference is when I am driving. I don't want you think that I was a monster on the road, but I did suffer the occasional bouts of road rage. Now, I don't. In fact, I rarely get angry as I used to, or, if I do, I deal with it much better.
I have tried just about every meditation system on the planet and never got very far. Now, my meditation times are easy, enjoyable and fruitful. (That's a nice word, isn't it? I'll say it again, 'Fruitful!')
That's BRILLIANT Derek, I am deeply, deeply, deeply and sincerely happy for you (in a completely un-patronizing way, I hope you know)
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Originally Posted by derekgruender
I have tried just about every meditation system on the planet and never got very far. Now, my meditation times are easy, enjoyable and fruitful. (That's a nice word, isn't it? I'll say it again, 'Fruitful!')
...it is. I can see fruit blossoms.
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Originally Posted by derekgruender
I could go on and on with loads of examples, but I'm boring myself now, so will say that the most important changes or developments have been in my awareness and acceptance - of myself and others. And the changes this has brought about, whilst appearing, perhaps, minor and quite ordinary when witten down, have been, in fact, quite extraordinary and life-changing!
Transformational, hey ?
(it's frustrating isn't it, for me at least, that experiences so profound and life changes can't adequately be expressed to others (or they overlook it, or try to brush it of as something small), or so it seems - because you want everyone to know about it, and experience the same).
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Originally Posted by derekgruender
I'm sure some others on here will claim equal effects and changes from other courses and different spiritual disciplines, but for me, after more than 25 years of searching and trying out most of them, the Gaia-Now course was the single most important weekend of my life.
Good stuff ~ I bet Paul and Vivien are beaming!
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Originally Posted by derekgruender
With regard to the healing side of the Gaia-Now modality, I have used it with some good results, but I need to work on that some more. Something I realised just this weekend, is that nothing comes without practice. And I have been so enjoying the personal develoment aspects, that I have not, perhaps, spents as much time as I should have practicing some of the things I learned on the course. And that's where I'm going now.
...all in good time, I expect
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Originally Posted by derekgruender
Reading this back, I feel I have not covered half of what has been happening with me, so, if I have said anything here that is unclear or you want to know more, or more specific, details, I am, of course, happy to answer your questions.
Thank You ~ I'll probably come back to this at another time, if that's alright with you?
Thanks so much for the update, Derek - I love to hear about these things .
Much Love x
(and, I hope the loveliness continues - I'm sure it will....)
That's BRILLIANT Derek, I am deeply, deeply, deeply and sincerely happy for you (in a completely un-patronizing way, I hope you know)
...it is. I can see fruit blossoms.
Transformational, hey ?
(it's frustrating isn't it, for me at least, that experiences so profound and life changes can't adequately be expressed to others (or they overlook it, or try to brush it of as something small), or so it seems - because you want everyone to know about it, and experience the same).
Good stuff ~ I bet Paul and Vivien are beaming!
...all in good time, I expect
Thank You ~ I'll probably come back to this at another time, if that's alright with you?
Thanks so much for the update, Derek - I love to hear about these things .
Much Love x
(and, I hope the loveliness continues - I'm sure it will....)
Thank you, WildStrawberry - I feel the love! Come back any time!
I usually smile at Derek's posts WildStrawberry, we have a similar sense of humour.
But yes I agree that it is very nice to get some feedback from the people who have attended our courses, especially when it is phrased in such an open and sincere way, such as Derek has been doing quite eloquently on this thread.
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I have just read your post again, you seem to be perceiving personal development as being a separate thing to healing, the reality is that they are synonymous with each other, which is why when we perform a Gaia-Now Breakthrough day, a fair proportion of the day is spent on the personal development aspect of the modality, but it also includes life force healing and transformational healing, they all come together and work synergistically.
Healing into wholeness requires there to be a change. The personal development creates inner transformational changes (as opposed to the transformational healing which is given to them), which will enforce and maintain the healing and wholeness.
Personal development is an integral aspect of the Gaia-Now meditations, your healing journey which is happening through your personal development will help you to guide others who will embark upon a similar journey of personal discovery into wholeness.
As you rightly commented, you do need to practice, practice and then practice some more so that you can become that which you are doing, but you also need to develop self simultaneously, which is what you have been doing.
Gaia Holistix A Gaia-Now transformational healing and personal development practice, school and retreat centre. Gaia-Now practical healing solutions and empowerments, global healing circles on Fridays.
I have just read your post again, you seem to be perceiving personal development as being a separate thing to healing, the reality is that they are synonymous with each other, which is why when we perform a Gaia-Now Breakthrough day, a fair proportion of the day is spent on the personal development aspect of the modality, but it also includes life force healing and transformational healing, they all come together and work synergistically.
Healing into wholeness requires there to be a change. The personal development creates inner transformational changes (as opposed to the transformational healing which is given to them), which will enforce and maintain the healing and wholeness.
Personal development is an integral aspect of the Gaia-Now meditations, your healing journey which is happening through your personal development will help you to guide others who will embark upon a similar journey of personal discovery into wholeness.
As you rightly commented, you do need to practice, practice and then practice some more so that you can become that which you are doing, but you also need to develop self simultaneously, which is what you have been doing.
Thanks for that clarification, Paul.
I did try to say something like that when I was writing my post, but it sounded too confused! I suppose the distinction I am making (or was trying to make!) is between healing myself and healing others, and also self-healing at a consciousness level, rather than a physical level.
But you are right, because what I am experiencing and feeling IS healing, however I worded it!
Anyway, I now have a really sore knee on which to practice
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