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  • Deepening Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (The Work of Byron Katie Part II)

    Deepening Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (The Work of Byron Katie Part II)

    Inquiry Based Stress Reduction process (The Work of Byron Katie) works with enquiring into stressful beliefs that we have about ourself, others, situations, our body etc.
    We look forward to supporting your freedom through Byron Katie’s 4 Questions and turnarounds throughout these two days.
    There is a lot of opportunity to do your own work throughout this weekend.
    Part II looks at:
    • Saying “No” or “Yes” – Who is it I have difficulty saying “No” to or saying “Yes” to? What are my stressful thoughts?
    • Inquiry using The Worksheets
    • Doing The Work of Byron on Myself – “I”, personal stories of self, body illness etc
    • Stressful Events – What were my motives? Why don’t I say “No” or “Yes” to myself?
    • Wants – Why I think I can’t get what I want? Practice asking, beliefs that stop us….
    • The Gift of Criticism – Taking it deeper, How to receive. What was it like? Beliefs appearing and enquiry.
    • Turnarounds: Meeting life as it is, my thinking, shoulds, how I drink in my thinking and much more

    Facilitators:

    Co-facilitated by Tammy Reid (Certified Facilitator of The Work) and Brenda Sutherland (Founding Director of The Awakening Group)

     

    For more information:

    The Work of Byron Katie: Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR)

  • Rethinking Attachment

    Rethinking Attachment

    We are wired to our environment

    Modern attachment theory points to attachment towards a primary caregiver but what if we are missing a massive attachment piece? What if we contemplated a more indigenous perspective of attachment? What if we were actually hardwired to our natural environment? The weather, seasons and the food that is produced throughout those times of the year from the earth? Water and the waterways? The elements? Culture, language, rituals?

    What if our perception of attachment has become one of reduction and we are bodies are really hardwired to the environment and we need to develop a more expansive conceptualisation of secure attachment that connects us to something larger than yourself, and a parent?

    Who feeds us, shelters us, breathes us? Mother Earth, Life itself.

    Who holds both our parents and ourself?

    Rethinking attachment brings us back to being soothed, nourished and regulated by nature and water. Both Florence Williams (Nature Fix) and Wallace Nichols (Blue Mind) highlight in great scientific detail how we are hardwired to nature and the benefits of connecting to water and natural surroundings. Therefore when addressing attachment isn’t essential to then address our lack of connection, or deeper connection to nature and how we are moved, breathed and continually supported by the environment?

    What changes in our body, in our consciousness, when we contemplate this level of expansive attachment?

  • Create Your Day

    Create Your Day

    Creating Your Day the moment you wake up changes neurological pathways
    You are that powerful!
    Create Your Day is a powerful technique that not only changes the brain but changes your experience of the world around you daily and what you attract.
    In an environment where many of us are trying to regain hope, humanise the digital age and stay connected with the true nature of oneself and to each other, “Creating Your Day” gives you hope brings about changes. It creates bigger changes the more you practice the technique.

    Have you noticed that from the moment you wake up your brain searches for old memories, the list of what you have to do, how you feel about yourself, family, your work situation; in other words old neurological pathways. What if the moment you woke you changed what your brain thought? How do you think your day would be if you changed your thoughts the moment you woke?

    How to Create Your Day

    The moment you wake up take a moment to connect to what you really want from your day. What would make you happy having experienced at the end of the day looking back? Feel into how that would be if you experienced this. Then create announce to the day: “Today I will experience…..(add your order here).” ie ‘Today I will be meet new people”, “Today I will experience abundance like I have never known it, and all along the way I will be delighted by the day”.

    Remember to only create what you are prepared to live!


    This is not about changing habits as such rather it is about honouring that life says “YES” to our intentions from the moment you wake up, so let’s change our thoughts then get on with living.

    “Today I will experience…….”