"I have love but you resist. I have compassion and yet it confuses you for weakness. I have generosity of heart and yet you think it is my lost independence" From Sacred Love the book.....

We must be careful. Sometimes the most beautiful vision comes to you softly, in kindness. So easy to say there is no future without struggle and therefore what comes with love is too easy. Relax yourself, don't worry, it is here already. Just welcome it in the form nature created for you. The Soul of Simplicity is the Path of true heart. Have the courage to trust and worry will go and life and love will come to you. Sit in Zen - love nature and it will all be there. Avoid rejecting - it is just your ego fighting for supremacy. Inner strength comes from allowing - relaxing - trusting.

You haven’t dared yet lose faith – so how can faith grow in you?
You haven’t dared yet risk your heart – to what can you see of reality?
You’re obsessed – still! – with the carnal screams of your life.
How do you hope to step into the Mystery of the King?
You are a sea of gnosis hidden in a drop of dew,
You are a whole universe hidden in a sack of blood.
What are all this world’s pleasures and joys
That you keep grasping at them to make you alive?
Does the sun borrow light from a mote of dust?
Does Venus look for wine from a cracked jug?

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

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"WHY?

If your mind stays stuck but the world around you evolves, then you will be stressed. That stress will display itself in the form of relationship drama, mental health struggles (can't stay happy), business downturn, social issues, financial struggles and of course, the worst of all Spiritual stress which results in lost hope and vision for the future.

HOW?

Evolving means unlearning. We spend half our life following religious or cultural models all built out of fear. Those models are dysfunctional. There comes a time when those judgements we hold against people from the past get us bogged down in muddy, foggy water. Often we'll change everything, except our thinking before we realise that blame, anger, vengeance and jealousy don't work. Victims stay victims forever.

WHO?

All of us. Everyone reaches their level of incompetence where the old tricks just don't work anymore. We might struggle for a few years before the energy sags and our luck seems to run out. Then, EVOLVE is the answer or serious illness like retirement might be the only option. 

WHEN?

Ideally it's proactive. Before the mess starts it's wise to be challenged and move on from old thinking and beliefs. An identity crisis is best self imposed but rarely are we aware that we're needing one. Stress is a great sign from nature that some proactive intervention would help. Of course, if that doesn't happen, reactive intervention can also be a great help to get back up, clear the fog and move forward.

WHERE?

Do it in your privacy. Not a big group workshop or retreat. It doesn't happen in Yoga, meditation, tai chi, marbles, Church or therapy. All that is about something completely different. Evolving is about you and your contract with the universe, no one in between. That's why we suggest and teach you to use nature as your guide. So profound yet absolutely simple.

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The Back on Track 30 day Challenge is probably one of the world's more intense personal development programmes. It is designed specifically for those who want to use their life to make a global impact, global change, rather than self absorbed indulgence.

In Back on Track, if it doesn't result in a better world, improved environment or greater compassion for those in need, it isn't worth doing.

Our world has become too self absorbed. We read books, listen to tapes and follow guru's who advise us to be self aware when the real end to true self actualisation is to consider others.

Just for today, before you act, choose your bread or do your work, ask: will this thought, word or action result in a better world, better environment or greater compassion for those in need? if not, don't do it.

Sometimes the road gets bumpy. It's surprising how little it can take to get us off track or out of balance. It's a tight rope and for the most part we do great at dealing with the wobbles that happen.

But every now and then life can throw us a curved ball and put us on the back foot and cause us to revert to patterns of response that are unhealthy.

Here are a few things to be mindful about during those ugly times:

1. Nobody does to you more than you do to yourself. If someone puts you down or is critical they've done you a favour by doing on the outside what you are doing on the inside. Don't run and blame. Instead thank and grow (grow means to dig in a work out why you are doing on the inside what somebody is doing to you on the outside) - don't run, evolve.

2. Ugly things don't signal you are on the wrong track - often they mean you are on the right track but you are growing through a self set limitation. So, again, don't blame and run, stop, evolve and grow.

3. Time and space - have you noticed that the further you get away from a problem the closer you get to a solution. The more instantaneous your choices, the more likely it is that you are acting habitually and potentially in a repeat cycle. So, avoid making big decisions when you are in reaction, blame or anger mode, because the likelihood is, you are not thinking in a healthy way, long term.

4. Watch your diet. During ugly times and when we are in repeat cycles of stress or reaction, we revert to food and substances as a mechanism for self medication, whether it is good diet or bad a sudden over emphasis on food - too much or too little can be a big sign that we are in reaction ( includes alcohol and coffee). Such signals are warnings that our choices are not coming from a good place.

5. Go back to purpose - the difference between living from ego reaction and living from your true self, your heart, is the amount of emphasis you place on feelings. It's hard but feelings are driven by ego and ego will make decisions based on pieces of incomplete data. Do you know your purpose? How does this ugly period like back to your purpose - Do you know your values? How does this ugly period demonstrate that you are not living according to your true values? Remember, nature destroys anything that is not fulfilling its purpose so the ugly time might just reveal that you were off not linking what you were doing to your purpose and values. This can be a great and positive way to approach any healing.

With spirit

Chris

The Back on Track - 30 day challenge is a city retreat designed to work you through any ugly patch in your life, resolve it and teach you the process of getting Back on Track quickly for the next time.

I love the way nature guides us, contraction is not an option.

Sometime we hook our purpose onto fixtures hoping to create something special. But nothing in nature is fixed.

Sometimes we invest in something that fails to live to our expectations but in nature our expectations cannot halt the evolution of our master plan - where there is conflict between our expectations and nature's destiny, expectations lose.

We sometimes think that we are off purpose but we are never off purpose always learning lessons, if we are thankful for that we don't always need to repeat the same lessons, bitten by the same dog twice isn't essential.

Sometimes we invest in possibilities that don't manifest. This is the heart of the visionary and he or she has to get ised to the fact that some dreams do not manifest as they were hoped. The visionary can see what others can't and therefore sometimes the visionary sees the future while others resist. In nature there is a vision and those who tune to it create with a good heartedness.

Stress reveals a conflict within. That stress is 99% intuition arguing with hopes and dreams. In nature, intuition is the whole art of survival. It is wise to hone this art of intuition and save yourself wasting time, effort and resources and getting stressed.

The Back on Track 30 Day Challenge focusses 100% on your intuitive natureteaching you the skills to trust it, and understand nature well enough to hone that intuition (inspiration is a higher form of intuition) into vision and purpose.

Five things you need to know about intuitive awareness:

1. Pragmatism kills it
2. Disobeying it leads to physical and mental health problems - grave illness.
3. Doubt and fear are the result of following intuition (fearless is not a good sign of intuition)
4. Emotion is not intuitive - gratitude shifts emotion in the right direction (elation and depression shift it in the wrong direction)
5. Love is the only true space where intuition can rise to inspiration

With Spirit

Chris

Bondi beach is a hectic place it runs at a hectic pace. What happens emotionally at bondi beach would take months or years out in the isolation of the countryside.

It's easy to get left behind at Bondi Beach. Information blasts across the streets, people run to and fro, emotions are triggered at every angle.

The lucky ones go to the city to work. They find offices and companies that create routines and boundaries, expectations and grounded performance targets. But there are those who don't leave the pace and who will be accelerating, stimulated by the environment itself, to go faster, do more and feel like the world just doesn't understand.

In every environment there is a pace and if we live slower we get overwhelmed and if we live faster we get ahead of the curve and people don't get us.

Finding the right pace to grow and evolve is a big clue for a happy healthy loving life.

The true mark of the spirituality of a person is not how they feel nor how they act when times are good, this can be faked even with a pill. The true mark of an indidual's spirituality and integrity is what they do, how they react and how far they run when times are not good - this is the mark and those who love natures law know it well.

You have no doubt experienced the dark side of clutter. You know that feeling of too much to deal with, not enough time and some damp feeling that you have finally been overcome by a noxious gas that's stolen your brain and turned it to muck.

There are four classical responses to this overwhelming sinking feeling that ultimately leads to a closed heart. 

1. Cry ... I tried this and it helps a bit because people come to your rescue when you cry.

2. Become stubborn and persist - and like banging your head on a brick wall, eventually the wall will show signs of fatigue.. you just may not be around to enjoy it.

3. Complain and Blame ... This works too because for some unknown reason we feel better when we are right and someone else is wrong. So, blame makes us right, them wrong and although it doesn't solve anything much, we feel better at least for a while.

4. Go to Yoga ... This works too because if you meditate and do Yoga you feel much better. The trouble is that the stuff still exists and now it's highly likely that you will be even more disturbed by turbulence because you've become attached to peace and harmony etc. So, not the best result.

I'd like to present a fifth option...

5. Sit back a bit.... the further away from something you get, the less of a drama it is. So, for example, your drity dishes are no problem at all if you are on the other side of town but unlike dirty dishes, worry, overwhelm and nervous tension can evaporate before you get home because they are only a construct of your mind. 

THe further you get away from a problem the simpler that problem becomes and that is why breaks, exercise, walks in nature, fun in the sun and good outdoor activity is so vital in a working day. In fact, with my clients I often suggest they make getting out of the office, compulsory for each person at least three times a day in decent weather.

Clutter and overwhelm depend on how you see it. If you can just step away a few meters and try to see a bit of order in that chaos, you'll be doing yourself and those around you, a big favour.

Enjoy the week

Chris

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With recent advances in genetic testing technology and brain stimulation techniques, scientists are uncovering new and surprising truths about what exercise is really doing to our bodies, and why we all respond to it differently.

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