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Author: Alain Herriott

Learning to Heal

Posted in Thought for the Week.

So what does it mean to heal?  Healing is about physical well being, emotional balance and a sense of presence and balance in all that we do.  This is surprisingly easy to attain when we learn to let ourselves feel.  Feeling is more basic than the emotional gamut of the particular drama that we find ourselves in.  It is about the sensations that we call our feelings and when these are allowed to be experienced and naturally evolve as they are experienced, balance is what we get.  This now leads to greater emotional harmony and that in turn leads to greater health.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

balance, emotions, feel, Heal, health

Lives to change

Posted in Thought for the Week.

Generally people want their lives to change but are afraid of how it might come about, how it might change their world.  When we allow ourselves to feel and unwind our fears about change, we realize that change is always happening.  We also realize that we will open to change in such a way that it will bring us joy.  We will have the experiences we crave through opening as opposed to pushing. In so doing life becomes balanced and satisfying.  Alain & Jody Herriott

change, fear, feel, freedom, Lives

Getting by in Life

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It is easy to fall into the lazy habit of avoiding feeling, just getting by in life.  When we choose to open to our feelings the fog that has been hiding who we are lifts and we discover the blue sky of clarity and understanding.  This is an ongoing process because cruising through life is so seductive.  When we spend even a little effort each day in feeling, life becomes surprisingly worthwhile.  Enjoy the journey!  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

discovery, feeling, Getting by, Life

Feeling everything

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It is a fabulous experience taking a day to feel everything that we can. The most mundane task takes on new meaning and we begin to see what it means to “be as a little child again.  So, we encourage you to feel as much as you can and to rediscover wonder in your world and joy in your heart.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

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Life, rules and regulations

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As we go through life we are taught that there are all kinds of rules and regulations.  These restrictions reduce our ability to BE.  Each rule creates a stop in us, a holding or limitation.  However the way to be creative and comfortable in our life is to move beyond the rules, to see limitations as opportunities to break new ground.  In essence we learn to give ourselves permission to be amazing and in harmony with a world that others won’t even let themselves imagine.  Feeling creates the bridge from holding to openness, from limitation to creation.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

feeling, freedom, Life, regulations, rules

Life and belief

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“We live in the world we made up.” —Jim Paul, Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

Our life is built around our beliefs and this sets the stage for what we will allow ourselves to do and what we won’t.  This means some of us will allow ourselves excellence and others of us will only allow mediocrity.  To free ourselves from the prison of mediocrity, we feel everything that seems to hold us there.  In so doing we realize we can be excellent too, all for the willingness to set ourselves free.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

belief, feel, free, Life

The Lightest Touch

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The lightest touch is accepting, it opens the firmest door.  Feeling is like that.  It shows us the closed doors of our past and through the most gentle acts helps them to open, ushering us into a whole new world of possibility.  We invite you to feel, not in a pushing way but in a welcoming unfolding way.  Welcome to a path that never really ends, for each seeming difficulty is an opportunity to feel and heal.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

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Complete and Whole

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As we continue to process our emotions, there comes a point where we realize that we are complete and whole.  Yes, life continues to evolve. Change is a constant in our lives, but these changes serve to open us further, even as they challenge us to step ever further down the road of awakening.  So we become. Whatever we choose to do in life unfolds before us and we know we are enough to meet any challenge.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

awakening, Complete, evolve, whole

A complete world

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Each of us thinks of ourselves as a world, complete unto ourselves. We see this world as separate, contained, and often judging the other worlds that seem to have it better or worse than we do.  As we process our emotions around these limiting thoughts and feelings we realize we are really a universe, connected and interacting with all the other worlds.  We are not separate, we are intrinsically linked.  As this realization occurs we become whole, compassionate and balanced.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

Complete, feeling, universe, whole, worlds

Feelings

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What do we do with feelings that feel out of control?   Most of us have been taught to push them aside, to bury them even though it feels wrong to do so.  We are told to rationalize and are told things like, “everyone feels bad once and a while, with time you will get over it.”  The first few times we do this it even seems to work.  But eventually we become overloaded with stuffed feelings.  To change this pattern, we can choose to let ourselves feel our feelings, so they can transform.  This begins the journey back to feeling whole, complete and at peace with ourselves.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

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