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When we need to understand something we tend to strive and dig for the answers. The mind is searching everywhere; we weigh and judge each answer and try something, then reevaluate and try again. When we instead feel the inner conflict and allow that to unwind, the answers simply appear in our world. Little to no effort is required and we return to a sense of rightness and balance. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” ― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within
It is our right to be happy and yet so many of us get lost on the path to having it be so. Feel, for as you do you will uncover the joy that is inside you and it will be as if you had wings to fly to the most amazing places. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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So what does it mean to BE? We so often hear about Being, as Ram Das says Be Here Now, Now Be Here, Here Now Be. So many words and really a simple thing to do. All it requires is the willingness to feel, to unwind the seeming limitations within us and in so doing arrive at Being. It is what is there when the internal conflict dissolves. The odd thing is most people will strive to obtain this and certainly some will achieve Being in this way. However almost anyone who is willing to feel will find themselves effortlessly in a Being state as the blocks are unwound and the striving and yearning drops away. The mind becomes quiet, understanding is present. Enjoy ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask, why? I dream of things that never were, and ask, why not?” – Robert Kennedy
And so the mind looks and judges and stops the dream. It holds to old ways and is afraid to let you dream beyond what is comfortable, what it is used to. Through feeling we break this habit and move into whatever we would choose to dream. Now we have set ourselves free and everything is possible. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”–Amit Ray
So often we hear this kind of suggestion and as everyone breathes, the opportunity to use it is there for all of us. Within it is the chance to discover sensations that lead one deeper into awareness than most would believe possible. It is so simple when we are willing to feel the breath. Feeling really is always safe and it will always lead us deeper into discovery. –Alain & Jody Herriott
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“if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.” —Nayyirah Waheed
Within us is a tumultuous ocean of feeling. When we are caught in these currents of mental unrest all we see is conflict. Through feeling those feelings and allowing them to unwind we return to calmness. This occurs naturally when we are no longer caught in our mind this is a natural state of being. —Alain & Jody Herriott
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
What we believe either sets us free or ties us down. That is the nature of beliefs for as we find the boundaries of what feels possible and impossible we can allow ourselves greater and fuller freedom. All it takes is the willingness to feel into these boundaries and we find we are again free to dream and be. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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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
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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
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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