The time is Now for all of us to realize the ability and the innate power that we all have.
The time is Now to realize why we are here in this time and place.
The time is Now to realize the children we have brought forth into this world.
Read the following great message by James O’Dea, Pres. of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
We are the People of the Great Shift
Peace is our destiny.
All of humanity's suffering and challenges are not to be considered pointless, for everything in our past gives birth to who we are and the possibilities we represent for the future.
So we thank all the ancestors, all beings of all nations who came before us, for they have given birth to us.
We are the people of the Great Shift, a time of massive transition on planet Earth when human beings collectively see there is no other road for us, or for the survival of life, but the road of Peace.
No other time has been more pivotal in human evolution, because we have been given the opportunity to choose life and to choose peace.
We have been given the opportunity to take the next leap in human development and end war, greed, and violence to each other and our beloved home in Nature.
That is why finally, a generation of peacemakers is being born as an expression of the long journey of human evolution.
Hold up your sons and daughters and honor them as the peacemakers we have waited so long for, and then look into each other's eyes with confidence and gratitude and say, "We are the mothers and fathers of the peacemakers."
Peace is our destiny.
A message by James O’Dea, Pres. of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, delivered to 10,000 people at the Symphony of Peace Prayers on Mount Fuji, Japan, on May 18, 2008
For OUR best and highest good, all ways... In every moment.
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
Continue the healing and empowerment... get "BEing The Titus Concept" at http://www.thetitusconcept.com/BEingEbookSalesPage.html
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Are you the dream catcher of your dreams?
Within this blog all I can do is offer guidance and plant a seed the rest is up to you... I know we all have different ways of interpreting what is told to us, some we accept others we discard. But in the end we choose what we will do. The following article by Keith Varnum is powerful and insightful, it reminds me of The Titus Concept, perhaps it may open your eyes and Heart even more so.
The Secret of the Dream Catcher By Keith Varnum
A Dream Catcher is a hoop—a circle of life—on which is woven a web. Adorning the hoop are feathers, bones, crystals and other sacred items that represent your dreams. The web acts as a filter. Good dreams are captured in the web, sliding down the feathers and into your life. Nightmares pass through the web.
A Dream Catcher can be a unique wall hanging. A good luck charm. … Or an effective manifestation tool!
Using a Dream Catcher as a tool can bring you what you want in life.
The difference in the power of your Dream Catcher lies in knowing the secret.
The Secret
The secret of the Dream Catcher is like all profound spiritual truths—it’s not really a secret at all!
Metaphysical truth is truth that’s beyond (meta) physical. It’s hidden from sight—that is, hidden from ordinary physical sight. Not concealed deliberately, but effectively.
Hidden by what? By the perceptual filters of our social upbringing. Our cultural programming. The beliefs passed on to us through parents, schooling and mainstream media.
The Good News
The Good News is that since all spiritual truth is only truth hidden from ordinary view, all you have to do is change your ordinary point of view to find it!
If you alter your perspective on the journey of life, you can easily discover all the “secret” truths that will make your life happy, healthy and abundant. A change in your perspective changes your perception.
That is, if you vary what you’re looking for—and therefore, how or where you’re looking for it—you’re more likely to find it.
For example, if you’ve been told that the secret to life is out there somewhere, you’ll look out there for it. If you’ve been taught that the power you seek is in a thing, or another human being, or organization, or belief—you’ll be searching for it in an object, person, group or concept.
Switch Your Viewpoint
You may or may not have found what you are looking for. If you haven’t, try modifying the perspective of your search.
For example, if you switch your viewpoint to seeking the secret within yourself, you may quickly find the gold you’ve been longing for.
Where Is the Dream Catcher?
Where is the Dream Catcher? … in the hoop and string of the spider’s web you have woven? … or in the weaver?
Who (what) is the Dream Catcher? … is it the physical Dream Catcher … or the maker of the physical Dream Catcher?
You Are the Dream Catcher
You are the Dream Catcher! You are the One you have been waiting for. You are the One you’ve been searching for.
Yes, I know, you’ve heard this before. You’ve read it countless times. You totally believe it. I understand.
Go Beyond Just Believing
It’s one thing to believe this. Yet, it’s another to experience it.
This is where making a physical Dream Catcher enters in. This is where the “secret” of the true Dream Catcher comes to the rescue!
When you construct a traditional Native American Dream Catcher out of reed, yarn, leather and feathers, you’re actually only creating a physical representation of the metaphysical Dream Catcher—you!
Here’s the Magic
With the right conditions and attitude, the physical Dream Catcher becomes you-the-metaphysical Dream Catcher. The result is that all your dreams show up in your life … on earth … in this “Dimension of Manifestation.”
When you build a physical Dream Catcher with the viewpoint that you are revealing the actual Dream Catcher, you then experience becoming the powerful Catcher of Dreams that you truly are.
When you make a Dream Catcher with the perspective of uncovering the hidden power in the Universe, you discover the truth—you are the source of the power behind the holy object, behind the group leader, behind the trappings of tradition, behind the sacred belief. You are the Holy Grail!
Go for the Proof
It’s one thing to know this. It’s another to do it. It’s still another to create the personal direct evidence of the enormous creative power of being the Dream Catcher in a real and tangible, provable way.
What’s the proof of this approach? … the love, prosperity, health and peace you’ll attract immediately into your life!
When you realize (make real) that you are the true Dream Catcher, you can re-dream your financial life. Love life. Body. Age. Relationships. Livelihood. ... anything you want! Your life immediately changes in front of your eyes.
Don’t Take My Word for It
Make a Dream Catcher yourself. Make your self into a Dream Catcher!
Catch Your Dreams
Create your own unique Dream Catcher—a power object that will help you "catch" your dreams
It’s easy:
Make a hoop (circle of life) out of a flexible tree branch or thick vine. Weave string into a web (of life) within the hoop.
For pointers, watch a spider spin its web. Go on a Vision Quest outside to find natural objects that represent the dreams you intent to attract with your personal power. Weave these symbols into your dream-catching web with love, intention and appreciation. Viola! Within minutes or days, your heartful wishes will come to you.
Dream, design and construct your Dream Catcher with the intention of "catching" what you really want in your life.
As you catch “Bright Energies”—love, health, happiness, peace, joy, wealth—you'll weave these Energies into your personal Dream Catcher ... and your everyday life.
Each person’s Dream Catcher will be unique to each person's unique desires and intentions.
Native Magic
In Native American lore, the spirit medicine of the spider is to remind us that we are the source of our life adventures. The spider’s message is that we are the weavers of our own web of life experiences. We are the creator of our own reality—the authors of our own karma.
If we want to change the life experiences that we’re attracting, we need to change the web of thoughts, feelings and actions that we’re sending out into our world. By the Law of Attraction, the vibration at which we’re vibrating will attract people and events vibrating at that same vibrational frequency. This is the magic of you being the Dream Catcher.
Heaven Is a Here&Now Vibration
The vibration of your Dream Catcher creates the reality of your dreams. The energy you’re in when you make the Dream Catcher attracts your dreams into manifestation.
Catch a Native American
Catch a Native American (or a student of one) to show you how to create the physical and metaphysical Dream Catcher. … Or catch the knack from your own Higher Knowing!
Learn how to weave a web that brings all your heart’s desires—and catches your life purpose and passion.
Catch Up with Your Destiny!
Grab an opportunity. Release the patterns that attract people and situations you don't prefer.
Catch a Glimpse!
Catch a glimpse of how bountiful your life can be! Seize the day. Catch true love, a heartful livelihood, lasting health and wealth.
Catch a Ride!
Catch a ride on your own Magical Mystery Tour! Discover the revitalizing force of "Bright Energies."
Catch Your Youth!
Grab another chance. Seize the moment. Feel, look and be young and vital again.
Catch the Past!
You’ve lived here many times. Retrieve the value from those lifetimes … the wisdom, clarity, hints, tools, discoveries. awareness, learning, knowing. Mine the treasures of your past to update your awareness, learning and knowing in this lifetime.
Catch Your Future!
You're the one who creates your dreams coming true. It's your energy! The vibration that you generate from inside yourself. Your energy is a magnet. The high quality of energy you're putting out attracts quality people, situations and a physical experience to match.
Catch the dreams that will make your heart and soul soar. Dream Catching is playful, practical and powerful! It works!
Weave a New Web of Joy
Spiders build new webs at dawn to catch the dew that catches the early morning sunlight.
You build a Dream Catcher at the dawn of your new awareness to catch the Spirit that catches the “Bright Energies” of joy, compassion, peace, delight, innocence and passion.
As with the spider’s web, your Dream Catcher captures the Bright Energies of life and filters out the Dark Energies of doom and gloom.
As the first rays of sunlight hit the dew in the web, the “bad” dreams dissolve. As the first rays of Your True Spirit hit the Bright Energies of your Dream Catcher, the nightmares of life dissolve.
Make a Dream Catcher
This Manifestation Magnet will remind you how to continue to Catch Your Dreams! Use this ancient tool of transformation. Live your life to the fullest. Share your beauty, compassion and inner talents to transforms the world.
As the Song Goes…
Catch a falling star (light, a piece of heaven)
Put it in your pocket (embody it, become it)
Never ever let it fade away (don’t allow it to diminish)
For love may come an' tap you on the shoulder
Some star-less night!
Just in case you feel you wanna’ hold her (the joy)
You’ll have a pocketful of starlight!
For our best and highest good all ways... In every moment.
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
Continue the healing and empowerment... get "BEing The Titus Concept" at http://www.thetitusconcept.com/BEingEbookSalesPage.html
You deserve it...
The Secret of the Dream Catcher By Keith Varnum
A Dream Catcher is a hoop—a circle of life—on which is woven a web. Adorning the hoop are feathers, bones, crystals and other sacred items that represent your dreams. The web acts as a filter. Good dreams are captured in the web, sliding down the feathers and into your life. Nightmares pass through the web.
A Dream Catcher can be a unique wall hanging. A good luck charm. … Or an effective manifestation tool!
Using a Dream Catcher as a tool can bring you what you want in life.
The difference in the power of your Dream Catcher lies in knowing the secret.
The Secret
The secret of the Dream Catcher is like all profound spiritual truths—it’s not really a secret at all!
Metaphysical truth is truth that’s beyond (meta) physical. It’s hidden from sight—that is, hidden from ordinary physical sight. Not concealed deliberately, but effectively.
Hidden by what? By the perceptual filters of our social upbringing. Our cultural programming. The beliefs passed on to us through parents, schooling and mainstream media.
The Good News
The Good News is that since all spiritual truth is only truth hidden from ordinary view, all you have to do is change your ordinary point of view to find it!
If you alter your perspective on the journey of life, you can easily discover all the “secret” truths that will make your life happy, healthy and abundant. A change in your perspective changes your perception.
That is, if you vary what you’re looking for—and therefore, how or where you’re looking for it—you’re more likely to find it.
For example, if you’ve been told that the secret to life is out there somewhere, you’ll look out there for it. If you’ve been taught that the power you seek is in a thing, or another human being, or organization, or belief—you’ll be searching for it in an object, person, group or concept.
Switch Your Viewpoint
You may or may not have found what you are looking for. If you haven’t, try modifying the perspective of your search.
For example, if you switch your viewpoint to seeking the secret within yourself, you may quickly find the gold you’ve been longing for.
Where Is the Dream Catcher?
Where is the Dream Catcher? … in the hoop and string of the spider’s web you have woven? … or in the weaver?
Who (what) is the Dream Catcher? … is it the physical Dream Catcher … or the maker of the physical Dream Catcher?
You Are the Dream Catcher
You are the Dream Catcher! You are the One you have been waiting for. You are the One you’ve been searching for.
Yes, I know, you’ve heard this before. You’ve read it countless times. You totally believe it. I understand.
Go Beyond Just Believing
It’s one thing to believe this. Yet, it’s another to experience it.
This is where making a physical Dream Catcher enters in. This is where the “secret” of the true Dream Catcher comes to the rescue!
When you construct a traditional Native American Dream Catcher out of reed, yarn, leather and feathers, you’re actually only creating a physical representation of the metaphysical Dream Catcher—you!
Here’s the Magic
With the right conditions and attitude, the physical Dream Catcher becomes you-the-metaphysical Dream Catcher. The result is that all your dreams show up in your life … on earth … in this “Dimension of Manifestation.”
When you build a physical Dream Catcher with the viewpoint that you are revealing the actual Dream Catcher, you then experience becoming the powerful Catcher of Dreams that you truly are.
When you make a Dream Catcher with the perspective of uncovering the hidden power in the Universe, you discover the truth—you are the source of the power behind the holy object, behind the group leader, behind the trappings of tradition, behind the sacred belief. You are the Holy Grail!
Go for the Proof
It’s one thing to know this. It’s another to do it. It’s still another to create the personal direct evidence of the enormous creative power of being the Dream Catcher in a real and tangible, provable way.
What’s the proof of this approach? … the love, prosperity, health and peace you’ll attract immediately into your life!
When you realize (make real) that you are the true Dream Catcher, you can re-dream your financial life. Love life. Body. Age. Relationships. Livelihood. ... anything you want! Your life immediately changes in front of your eyes.
Don’t Take My Word for It
Make a Dream Catcher yourself. Make your self into a Dream Catcher!
Catch Your Dreams
Create your own unique Dream Catcher—a power object that will help you "catch" your dreams
It’s easy:
Make a hoop (circle of life) out of a flexible tree branch or thick vine. Weave string into a web (of life) within the hoop.
For pointers, watch a spider spin its web. Go on a Vision Quest outside to find natural objects that represent the dreams you intent to attract with your personal power. Weave these symbols into your dream-catching web with love, intention and appreciation. Viola! Within minutes or days, your heartful wishes will come to you.
Dream, design and construct your Dream Catcher with the intention of "catching" what you really want in your life.
As you catch “Bright Energies”—love, health, happiness, peace, joy, wealth—you'll weave these Energies into your personal Dream Catcher ... and your everyday life.
Each person’s Dream Catcher will be unique to each person's unique desires and intentions.
Native Magic
In Native American lore, the spirit medicine of the spider is to remind us that we are the source of our life adventures. The spider’s message is that we are the weavers of our own web of life experiences. We are the creator of our own reality—the authors of our own karma.
If we want to change the life experiences that we’re attracting, we need to change the web of thoughts, feelings and actions that we’re sending out into our world. By the Law of Attraction, the vibration at which we’re vibrating will attract people and events vibrating at that same vibrational frequency. This is the magic of you being the Dream Catcher.
Heaven Is a Here&Now Vibration
The vibration of your Dream Catcher creates the reality of your dreams. The energy you’re in when you make the Dream Catcher attracts your dreams into manifestation.
Catch a Native American
Catch a Native American (or a student of one) to show you how to create the physical and metaphysical Dream Catcher. … Or catch the knack from your own Higher Knowing!
Learn how to weave a web that brings all your heart’s desires—and catches your life purpose and passion.
Catch Up with Your Destiny!
Grab an opportunity. Release the patterns that attract people and situations you don't prefer.
Catch a Glimpse!
Catch a glimpse of how bountiful your life can be! Seize the day. Catch true love, a heartful livelihood, lasting health and wealth.
Catch a Ride!
Catch a ride on your own Magical Mystery Tour! Discover the revitalizing force of "Bright Energies."
Catch Your Youth!
Grab another chance. Seize the moment. Feel, look and be young and vital again.
Catch the Past!
You’ve lived here many times. Retrieve the value from those lifetimes … the wisdom, clarity, hints, tools, discoveries. awareness, learning, knowing. Mine the treasures of your past to update your awareness, learning and knowing in this lifetime.
Catch Your Future!
You're the one who creates your dreams coming true. It's your energy! The vibration that you generate from inside yourself. Your energy is a magnet. The high quality of energy you're putting out attracts quality people, situations and a physical experience to match.
Catch the dreams that will make your heart and soul soar. Dream Catching is playful, practical and powerful! It works!
Weave a New Web of Joy
Spiders build new webs at dawn to catch the dew that catches the early morning sunlight.
You build a Dream Catcher at the dawn of your new awareness to catch the Spirit that catches the “Bright Energies” of joy, compassion, peace, delight, innocence and passion.
As with the spider’s web, your Dream Catcher captures the Bright Energies of life and filters out the Dark Energies of doom and gloom.
As the first rays of sunlight hit the dew in the web, the “bad” dreams dissolve. As the first rays of Your True Spirit hit the Bright Energies of your Dream Catcher, the nightmares of life dissolve.
Make a Dream Catcher
This Manifestation Magnet will remind you how to continue to Catch Your Dreams! Use this ancient tool of transformation. Live your life to the fullest. Share your beauty, compassion and inner talents to transforms the world.
As the Song Goes…
Catch a falling star (light, a piece of heaven)
Put it in your pocket (embody it, become it)
Never ever let it fade away (don’t allow it to diminish)
For love may come an' tap you on the shoulder
Some star-less night!
Just in case you feel you wanna’ hold her (the joy)
You’ll have a pocketful of starlight!
For our best and highest good all ways... In every moment.
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
Continue the healing and empowerment... get "BEing The Titus Concept" at http://www.thetitusconcept.com/BEingEbookSalesPage.html
You deserve it...
Monday, June 30, 2008
A horse that will show you who you are
The following article is filled with so many insights that I felt it had to be shared and posted. If what you are doing is not working, then you must DO something else... because on the other side of whatever "chaos" your going through is the "flow" you deserve.
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
It's Not About the Horse
by Wyatt Webb
If you want to deal with your demons, it's appropriate to make a pit stop at a place as hot as hell -- Tucson, Arizona, in the summertime. It's 100-plus degrees right now -- with dark, ominous clouds erasing the Santa Catalina mountaintops in the distance. It's the monsoon season, which means big storms. But for the five women and two men sitting on hay bales in front of Wyatt Webb, it appears that there are bigger storms brewing.
A sweet, musty smell of horse lingers in the air, and for no reason at all, a 1,300-pound chestnut gelding fittingly named Monsoon rears and tears off in a farting, sweating gallop. This is his way of welcoming people to a new form of therapy that blends horse sense with common sense. Monsoon's massive body, thick mane, and tail fly through the air as he releases a high-pitched scream that rips into your eardrums and rattles your insides.
Wyatt's just as much in awe of this beautiful animal as everybody else is. He tells the group, "That's sheer joy. It's also an emotion that's somewhat foreign to most of us humans on a daily basis."
Perhaps it's time for an introduction.
"My name is Wyatt," he says to the seven people in front of him. "Welcome to the Equine Experience."
By the looks on their faces, these people are ready for an experience. They don't appear to have felt joy for some time. But they miss the feeling, so that's why they're here. They could clearly be elsewhere, but they chose the Equine Experience, which is offered every day of the year at Miraval, one of the top resorts in the world. Even though the people gathered in front of me certainly have the means to be doing something else at this particular point in time, they wouldn't prefer a seat in first class, or a velvet-covered cushion in the lobby of the Four Seasons -- they're right where they belong.
Wyatt starts the session by telling these folks that he's not here to change anybody's life. "I don't have the power to do so," he says. "I don't have your answers. To allow you to think that I do would be a complete lie and a total disservice to you.
"Now I'm certainly not here to argue with or discredit traditional therapeutic modalities. I'm not accusing anybody of doing a shitty job or saying that traditional psychotherapy isn't helpful. But I certainly hope that we can add to whatever already exists in the therapy world as you know it."
Wyatt then shares with them what was told to him by Logan, the counselor who, 22 years ago, helped save his life, his mind, and his very soul. What he said was this: "If you're to achieve the peace, joy, and spiritual fulfillment that you want so badly, it depends upon one thing and one thing only -- your willingness to simply do something different."
So to those clients who have spent half a lifetime in therapy with minimal results, Wyatt smiles and states the obvious: "If the practice that you've been involved with hasn't produced definitive changes, then guess what? It's not working. Maybe what you're doing could be remedied so that you can discover what does work."
Now, even though Wyatt has been a practicing therapist for a number of years, his tools don't involve a leather couch and his helpers don't arrive in suits or high heels. Of course, they wear shoes -- but not the kind they sell at Bloomingdale's.
"You're going to clean some hooves," he tells the group, "and you're going to groom the horse. How you relate to this animal will tell us what you've learned over the course of your lifetime concerning how you relate to all living things. Your basic training has come from learning how to treat people." He pauses and adds, "Remember one thing: It's not about the horse. I mean, sure, I can teach you a few basic skills that will keep you safe in any barn in the world, but what we're here to look at is what you've learned over the course of your lifetime that either works for or against you in your relationships."
He stops for a second and then continues. "Keep in mind that you've been conditioned to be externally focused in all of your relationships. This is one of the true impediments to our being able to learn anything about ourselves. Let me ask you this: How much time do you spend during the day wondering what others are thinking and feeling, and concocting stories about why they're behaving as they do? See, as long as I'm focused on you in such a manner, it will be impossible for me to connect with you because I'm not present with myself.
"So, what I suggest you do is pay attention to what you're thinking and pay attention to what you're feeling. Know that these two things dictate the way you live your life. By focusing your attention internally as opposed to externally, you'll be able to be present enough to connect with any other living thing, which will also cause you to take responsibility for your life and how you live it. Will I judge you? Of course not! But I will observe."
Wyatt promises these people that today he will pay attention. "Ask me for help if you need it," he tells them. "I pledge to tell you the truth, to be kind, but sometimes to be blunt. Together, let's examine the stories you're making up to see how many of them are based in reality. Personally, prior to the age of 36, almost every story I had was based in a lie. But I'd like you to remember that it doesn't take nearly as many words to tell the truth as it does to bullshit somebody."
Here he switches gears, for it's time for a few specifics. "The horses are the same for every person who chooses to be with them. Whichever horse you choose will serve as a mirror to your energy system -- what you think, what you feel, and every move your body does or doesn't make."
He makes it clear that the person dealing with the horse is the one who tells the whole story. And most of the stories he sees have one thing in common: pain. Most of this pain is rooted in self-doubt and fear. For instance, one man in the group says, "I can't remember when I didn't hurt. I think it's the world that messes us up."
"Well," Wyatt asks him, "whose job is it to clean up the mess?"
Then he turns to the audience and says, "We've been imprinted. We're born being called 'bundles of joy.' Well, that's true. Babies generally are full of joy -- they're born happy and remain so unless they're hungry or experiencing some discomfort. Once that's alleviated, they're right back in the joy state. They're at one with everything when they arrive on the planet. They run on pure emotion.
"They don't know what it means to doubt themselves or to be afraid until about five days into the trip, when they begin to soak up the energy of the adults," Wyatt says. "Then they feel the inconsistency. At this point in time, welcome to a world full of scary people.
"Every culture I've ever been subjected to appears to be frightened," he explains. "I've been working as a psychotherapist for 20 years, and if I could boil down every problem that ever walked through any office that I've occupied -- and this includes when I've been alone in the office -- every human being suffers from two things in varying degrees of intensity, two things that are taught to us. They're called self-doubt and fear.
"There's the fear of physical harm and of emotional harm. There's the fear of not being good enough. There's the constant fear of being discovered. In fact, I've done a lot of team building with corporate systems, and what do you think the one thing that CEOs, presidents, and vice presidents of companies don't want the people working for them to know? They don't want anyone to know that at any given moment, they're completely clueless about what they're doing. I've been privy to and a part of this phenomenon by watching everyone run through the world 'bluffing it.' It seems that most people truly aren't aware of what they're doing."
Wyatt's next words take the concept to a deeper level. "Anyone who really wants to grow, expand, and know who they are has to travel uncharted territories all the time. So that kind of person has to live in a world of 'I don't know,' which is scary, but that's the only place where you learn anything. What you always find on the opposite side of fear and self-doubt is joy. Joy is our birthright -- we're born with it. But it gets taken away from us and we have to go back and reclaim it.
"So, what we'll do today is not about discovering who you are. It's about remembering who you are," he says. "End of story."
Wyatt gives the group some things to think about. "Why do we continue to fight with each other? Thousands of years ago, we began with hand-to-hand combat. Then we picked up some stones, which was followed by the fashioning of weapons. Now we have the means to eradicate ourselves from the planet. We even have the audacity to call this 'progress,'" he says. "The problem is that we're afraid, and that's the reason we fight each other. We keep making it about other countries or religions, and it's not. Why can't we sit down and talk about what we're afraid of? We're afraid to tell the truth."
Wyatt shakes his head and mentions that Monsoon solidified this theory for him about a year ago. "One day I was riding him, and I was transitioning from the walk to the trot to the canter. It's called 'changing gaits.' The walk to the trot -- no problem. But even after ten years of riding, the power of that canter still scares me. I tried to push Monsoon into a canter twice, and both times I miscued him. My fear had me off balance -- literally and figuratively. So, I eased back to the trot, and I got frustrated. Like I had done 10,000 times before when things weren't going my way, the tail started wagging the dog, so to speak. I was the friggin' dog, and here we were in a mess again.
"I was about to move into a canter for the third time, and again I felt that I was off balance. This time, I was determined to win. I said, 'The hell with it,' and cued him anyway. Monsoon shifted his massive frame, and I felt his power ripple underneath me." Wyatt pauses and takes a look at his audience, who seems to have forgotten about the prickly hay bales or threatening storm clouds.
"I was so off that most of my weight shifted forward, which in the horse world is called 'throwing the horse on the forehand.' This was his cue to stop. And he did. I flew over his head about 20 feet onto the ground. If I hadn't had a helmet on, it would have killed me. I hit the ground with a bang! People heard it all the way back at the barn, some 40 yards away.
"Somehow in my daze, I managed to get up, checked to see if I was dead, and brushed the dirt and muck off. Meanwhile, Monsoon was looking at me as if to say: 'What the hell are you doing down there?'
"In that humiliating, spirit-crushing, bone-aching, ah-ha! moment, a light bulb went off in my head. I thought to myself, I finally get it. Anytime I'm in a relationship with any living thing and I have the need to win, the possibility for connection and closeness is over. All I ever wanted was that closeness and connection. In fact, I think we're all homesick for it.
"At the time, I wish I'd just been able to get honest enough to back off and go, 'Wyatt, you're off balance. Pull up or you'll get hurt.' But do you think I could even go to that place? I had to damn near kill myself to figure it out. I had this lesson to learn, and my spirit was saying, 'Yes, it's going to be a tough one. So let's go.'
"Thankfully, my spirit also said, 'Put your helmet on, you damn fool, so you can live through it and we can learn it," Wyatt says.
He goes on to explain that he's never had that same issue with Monsoon ever again. "I've had that problem with a few people," Wyatt laughs, "but I've been able to reign it in because when I find myself trying to win, it's time to stop. Because somebody has to lose. This whole culture is set up this way. We've got to win, which means we're going to lose. It means that we cannot even hope to connect with each other." As he gazes at the crowd of onlookers, it seems like they finally get it.
For Wyatt, it's all about connection, and the first step to healing is connecting with a horse. Those who want to connect have issues that include mental, physical, and emotional abuse not limited to marriages on the rocks, parent-child relationships gone bad, and much worse concerns including rape and abandonment.
Now it's time to get to work. The group is brought into a large arena and each person is told to choose one of the six large, inquisitive horses waiting for them. Next to each animal is a small bucket with tools to clean the horses' hooves, and various other grooming utensils associated with preparing a horse for saddling.
Wyatt tells everyone to approach their horse and greet the animal at its shoulder. He takes aside one young man and suggest that he stop rubbing the horse for dear life.
"Try to leave a little fur on the horse, because the sun is gonna come out and I don't want him to get burned," he says quietly to the young man. "You also don't need to sweet-talk him."
"I'm trying to get him to like me so he'll cooperate," says the man.
"So," Wyatt asks, "is this one of your learned behaviors? Is your motto: If I'm nice to you, then you must be nice to me back?"
"I guess I always try extra hard to get people to like me," says the young man. "I figure if I'm the nicest person in the whole room, people will have to be nice to me back."
"Let me suggest to you the fallacy behind that one," he explains. "You're not really being nice to anyone. You're being manipulative. You're only acting nice in the hopes of preventing people from rejecting you. True kindness comes with no charge. Later on, the universe just pays you back."
The mini-dramas being played out on this sandy desert floor can easily become much more serious, though. For example, Katie, a young lawyer whose parents abandoned her and sent her to live in various foster homes is afraid of her horse because she's scared to death of being rejected again.
"If you walk through your fear that something must be wrong with you, then what you always find on the other side is that there's nothing wrong with you. And there's nothing to be afraid of," he tells her.
"What happens then?" the woman asks, sobbing.
"When you get to that other side, there's only one thing waiting -- joy."
Those wanting that feeling are looking for some help -- and God, does Wyatt understand how they feel. After all, it's impossible for him to forget his very first client. This guy was the toughest bastard he's ever worked with, and he almost made Wyatt give up on everything.
That man was Wyatt himself. . . .
For our best and highest good all ways... In every moment.
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
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Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
It's Not About the Horse
by Wyatt Webb
If you want to deal with your demons, it's appropriate to make a pit stop at a place as hot as hell -- Tucson, Arizona, in the summertime. It's 100-plus degrees right now -- with dark, ominous clouds erasing the Santa Catalina mountaintops in the distance. It's the monsoon season, which means big storms. But for the five women and two men sitting on hay bales in front of Wyatt Webb, it appears that there are bigger storms brewing.
A sweet, musty smell of horse lingers in the air, and for no reason at all, a 1,300-pound chestnut gelding fittingly named Monsoon rears and tears off in a farting, sweating gallop. This is his way of welcoming people to a new form of therapy that blends horse sense with common sense. Monsoon's massive body, thick mane, and tail fly through the air as he releases a high-pitched scream that rips into your eardrums and rattles your insides.
Wyatt's just as much in awe of this beautiful animal as everybody else is. He tells the group, "That's sheer joy. It's also an emotion that's somewhat foreign to most of us humans on a daily basis."
Perhaps it's time for an introduction.
"My name is Wyatt," he says to the seven people in front of him. "Welcome to the Equine Experience."
By the looks on their faces, these people are ready for an experience. They don't appear to have felt joy for some time. But they miss the feeling, so that's why they're here. They could clearly be elsewhere, but they chose the Equine Experience, which is offered every day of the year at Miraval, one of the top resorts in the world. Even though the people gathered in front of me certainly have the means to be doing something else at this particular point in time, they wouldn't prefer a seat in first class, or a velvet-covered cushion in the lobby of the Four Seasons -- they're right where they belong.
Wyatt starts the session by telling these folks that he's not here to change anybody's life. "I don't have the power to do so," he says. "I don't have your answers. To allow you to think that I do would be a complete lie and a total disservice to you.
"Now I'm certainly not here to argue with or discredit traditional therapeutic modalities. I'm not accusing anybody of doing a shitty job or saying that traditional psychotherapy isn't helpful. But I certainly hope that we can add to whatever already exists in the therapy world as you know it."
Wyatt then shares with them what was told to him by Logan, the counselor who, 22 years ago, helped save his life, his mind, and his very soul. What he said was this: "If you're to achieve the peace, joy, and spiritual fulfillment that you want so badly, it depends upon one thing and one thing only -- your willingness to simply do something different."
So to those clients who have spent half a lifetime in therapy with minimal results, Wyatt smiles and states the obvious: "If the practice that you've been involved with hasn't produced definitive changes, then guess what? It's not working. Maybe what you're doing could be remedied so that you can discover what does work."
Now, even though Wyatt has been a practicing therapist for a number of years, his tools don't involve a leather couch and his helpers don't arrive in suits or high heels. Of course, they wear shoes -- but not the kind they sell at Bloomingdale's.
"You're going to clean some hooves," he tells the group, "and you're going to groom the horse. How you relate to this animal will tell us what you've learned over the course of your lifetime concerning how you relate to all living things. Your basic training has come from learning how to treat people." He pauses and adds, "Remember one thing: It's not about the horse. I mean, sure, I can teach you a few basic skills that will keep you safe in any barn in the world, but what we're here to look at is what you've learned over the course of your lifetime that either works for or against you in your relationships."
He stops for a second and then continues. "Keep in mind that you've been conditioned to be externally focused in all of your relationships. This is one of the true impediments to our being able to learn anything about ourselves. Let me ask you this: How much time do you spend during the day wondering what others are thinking and feeling, and concocting stories about why they're behaving as they do? See, as long as I'm focused on you in such a manner, it will be impossible for me to connect with you because I'm not present with myself.
"So, what I suggest you do is pay attention to what you're thinking and pay attention to what you're feeling. Know that these two things dictate the way you live your life. By focusing your attention internally as opposed to externally, you'll be able to be present enough to connect with any other living thing, which will also cause you to take responsibility for your life and how you live it. Will I judge you? Of course not! But I will observe."
Wyatt promises these people that today he will pay attention. "Ask me for help if you need it," he tells them. "I pledge to tell you the truth, to be kind, but sometimes to be blunt. Together, let's examine the stories you're making up to see how many of them are based in reality. Personally, prior to the age of 36, almost every story I had was based in a lie. But I'd like you to remember that it doesn't take nearly as many words to tell the truth as it does to bullshit somebody."
Here he switches gears, for it's time for a few specifics. "The horses are the same for every person who chooses to be with them. Whichever horse you choose will serve as a mirror to your energy system -- what you think, what you feel, and every move your body does or doesn't make."
He makes it clear that the person dealing with the horse is the one who tells the whole story. And most of the stories he sees have one thing in common: pain. Most of this pain is rooted in self-doubt and fear. For instance, one man in the group says, "I can't remember when I didn't hurt. I think it's the world that messes us up."
"Well," Wyatt asks him, "whose job is it to clean up the mess?"
Then he turns to the audience and says, "We've been imprinted. We're born being called 'bundles of joy.' Well, that's true. Babies generally are full of joy -- they're born happy and remain so unless they're hungry or experiencing some discomfort. Once that's alleviated, they're right back in the joy state. They're at one with everything when they arrive on the planet. They run on pure emotion.
"They don't know what it means to doubt themselves or to be afraid until about five days into the trip, when they begin to soak up the energy of the adults," Wyatt says. "Then they feel the inconsistency. At this point in time, welcome to a world full of scary people.
"Every culture I've ever been subjected to appears to be frightened," he explains. "I've been working as a psychotherapist for 20 years, and if I could boil down every problem that ever walked through any office that I've occupied -- and this includes when I've been alone in the office -- every human being suffers from two things in varying degrees of intensity, two things that are taught to us. They're called self-doubt and fear.
"There's the fear of physical harm and of emotional harm. There's the fear of not being good enough. There's the constant fear of being discovered. In fact, I've done a lot of team building with corporate systems, and what do you think the one thing that CEOs, presidents, and vice presidents of companies don't want the people working for them to know? They don't want anyone to know that at any given moment, they're completely clueless about what they're doing. I've been privy to and a part of this phenomenon by watching everyone run through the world 'bluffing it.' It seems that most people truly aren't aware of what they're doing."
Wyatt's next words take the concept to a deeper level. "Anyone who really wants to grow, expand, and know who they are has to travel uncharted territories all the time. So that kind of person has to live in a world of 'I don't know,' which is scary, but that's the only place where you learn anything. What you always find on the opposite side of fear and self-doubt is joy. Joy is our birthright -- we're born with it. But it gets taken away from us and we have to go back and reclaim it.
"So, what we'll do today is not about discovering who you are. It's about remembering who you are," he says. "End of story."
Wyatt gives the group some things to think about. "Why do we continue to fight with each other? Thousands of years ago, we began with hand-to-hand combat. Then we picked up some stones, which was followed by the fashioning of weapons. Now we have the means to eradicate ourselves from the planet. We even have the audacity to call this 'progress,'" he says. "The problem is that we're afraid, and that's the reason we fight each other. We keep making it about other countries or religions, and it's not. Why can't we sit down and talk about what we're afraid of? We're afraid to tell the truth."
Wyatt shakes his head and mentions that Monsoon solidified this theory for him about a year ago. "One day I was riding him, and I was transitioning from the walk to the trot to the canter. It's called 'changing gaits.' The walk to the trot -- no problem. But even after ten years of riding, the power of that canter still scares me. I tried to push Monsoon into a canter twice, and both times I miscued him. My fear had me off balance -- literally and figuratively. So, I eased back to the trot, and I got frustrated. Like I had done 10,000 times before when things weren't going my way, the tail started wagging the dog, so to speak. I was the friggin' dog, and here we were in a mess again.
"I was about to move into a canter for the third time, and again I felt that I was off balance. This time, I was determined to win. I said, 'The hell with it,' and cued him anyway. Monsoon shifted his massive frame, and I felt his power ripple underneath me." Wyatt pauses and takes a look at his audience, who seems to have forgotten about the prickly hay bales or threatening storm clouds.
"I was so off that most of my weight shifted forward, which in the horse world is called 'throwing the horse on the forehand.' This was his cue to stop. And he did. I flew over his head about 20 feet onto the ground. If I hadn't had a helmet on, it would have killed me. I hit the ground with a bang! People heard it all the way back at the barn, some 40 yards away.
"Somehow in my daze, I managed to get up, checked to see if I was dead, and brushed the dirt and muck off. Meanwhile, Monsoon was looking at me as if to say: 'What the hell are you doing down there?'
"In that humiliating, spirit-crushing, bone-aching, ah-ha! moment, a light bulb went off in my head. I thought to myself, I finally get it. Anytime I'm in a relationship with any living thing and I have the need to win, the possibility for connection and closeness is over. All I ever wanted was that closeness and connection. In fact, I think we're all homesick for it.
"At the time, I wish I'd just been able to get honest enough to back off and go, 'Wyatt, you're off balance. Pull up or you'll get hurt.' But do you think I could even go to that place? I had to damn near kill myself to figure it out. I had this lesson to learn, and my spirit was saying, 'Yes, it's going to be a tough one. So let's go.'
"Thankfully, my spirit also said, 'Put your helmet on, you damn fool, so you can live through it and we can learn it," Wyatt says.
He goes on to explain that he's never had that same issue with Monsoon ever again. "I've had that problem with a few people," Wyatt laughs, "but I've been able to reign it in because when I find myself trying to win, it's time to stop. Because somebody has to lose. This whole culture is set up this way. We've got to win, which means we're going to lose. It means that we cannot even hope to connect with each other." As he gazes at the crowd of onlookers, it seems like they finally get it.
For Wyatt, it's all about connection, and the first step to healing is connecting with a horse. Those who want to connect have issues that include mental, physical, and emotional abuse not limited to marriages on the rocks, parent-child relationships gone bad, and much worse concerns including rape and abandonment.
Now it's time to get to work. The group is brought into a large arena and each person is told to choose one of the six large, inquisitive horses waiting for them. Next to each animal is a small bucket with tools to clean the horses' hooves, and various other grooming utensils associated with preparing a horse for saddling.
Wyatt tells everyone to approach their horse and greet the animal at its shoulder. He takes aside one young man and suggest that he stop rubbing the horse for dear life.
"Try to leave a little fur on the horse, because the sun is gonna come out and I don't want him to get burned," he says quietly to the young man. "You also don't need to sweet-talk him."
"I'm trying to get him to like me so he'll cooperate," says the man.
"So," Wyatt asks, "is this one of your learned behaviors? Is your motto: If I'm nice to you, then you must be nice to me back?"
"I guess I always try extra hard to get people to like me," says the young man. "I figure if I'm the nicest person in the whole room, people will have to be nice to me back."
"Let me suggest to you the fallacy behind that one," he explains. "You're not really being nice to anyone. You're being manipulative. You're only acting nice in the hopes of preventing people from rejecting you. True kindness comes with no charge. Later on, the universe just pays you back."
The mini-dramas being played out on this sandy desert floor can easily become much more serious, though. For example, Katie, a young lawyer whose parents abandoned her and sent her to live in various foster homes is afraid of her horse because she's scared to death of being rejected again.
"If you walk through your fear that something must be wrong with you, then what you always find on the other side is that there's nothing wrong with you. And there's nothing to be afraid of," he tells her.
"What happens then?" the woman asks, sobbing.
"When you get to that other side, there's only one thing waiting -- joy."
Those wanting that feeling are looking for some help -- and God, does Wyatt understand how they feel. After all, it's impossible for him to forget his very first client. This guy was the toughest bastard he's ever worked with, and he almost made Wyatt give up on everything.
That man was Wyatt himself. . . .
For our best and highest good all ways... In every moment.
Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz
Continue the healing and empowerment... purchase "BEing The Titus Concept"at http://www.thetitusconcept.com/BEingEbookSalesPage.html
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