Dear Dani & Darran,
 Welcome to the April Issue of the newly named, The Bridge Clearmind Newsletter produced by Ian Haycroft. |
| The Beliefs That Limit Us |
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In the work I do, I often speak to people about the beliefs they hold on a subconscious level that limit what they achieve in the present. Very often the beliefs they "hold" subconsciously are the opposite of what they consciously believe. For example, many women got the message in their families, in their schools and in their experience, that women are just not quite as good as men, and they really don't quite deserve the best opportunities. I have yet to meet a woman who consciously believes this, yet many of the emotional responses they experience within themselves indicate a different belief system beneath. How can this be? The key to understanding this is to realise how the subconscious mind works.
Our subconscious mind faithfully records all the experiences of our life, and files that information away on a cellular level. Our cells, and the energy that animates them, are the filing cabinets of our life. The power and strength of any cellular memory depends on some key factors: firstly, the emotional attachment with which is it filed; secondly, how often the experience occurred: and thirdly, who gave us that experience. Let's look a little more closely at these three:
- The emotional attachment: When dealing with your conscious mind, if you really want to remember something, take the information you want to remember and connect it strongly to an emotional experience. The same principle works in the subconscious. If you are a girl who experiences your brother getting something you felt you deserved, that can be a powerfully disappointing and painful experience. So the file of "boys get more than girls" has an attachment of a strong emotion connected to it. Similarly if an experience of water is one that involves almost drowning in it, then the emotional content of the file "head under water" may have a powerful attachment of fear or panic. Often for that person, taking a leisurely dip is not on the cards, no matter how safe the conscious mind assesses the situation to be.
- How often: If a message is repeated often enough in our childhood it creates quite a large subconscious file. The message of girls are not as good as boys is something that even today pervades many girls' lives.
- Whogave us the experience: If we experience something with our parents, parent figures or siblings, it so often has a much greater impact than with a stranger. This is hardly a revelation, but if the experience of not being good enough as a girl is learned from a mother or father the cellular memory can be profound.
So if I have absorbed this limiting subconscious belief on a cellular level, how can I hope to change it?
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Guidance from The Committee |
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My wife Kim Vreeland-Haycroft, received some beautiful words of guidance and inspiration over the years, especially when we lived in the United States. The ones she received the information from called themselves "The Committee". We will feature some of this guidance over the coming newsletters.
Gratitude Is The Key
Gratitude is the sum total result of all that you have learned in your relationship with God and the servants of higher learning. Gratitude is the key element in the relationship between God and all who would aspire to reach for an understanding of God's heart, for it is the nature of love to recognize and appreciate that which is given in love. Therefore, from God's side, it is essential that you come to know intrinsically, to know without question, that the universe is given to you in love, as a gift of love, creatively designed to meet your every need, want and desire, entrusted to your loving care to nurture and protect. It is God's expression of trust in you that He has given this gift to you. It is the expression of the certainty and the truth that you are capable of mollifying the unstable characteristics of self-centered desire and live interdependently as a beautiful and harmonious body of God, body of humanity, and reach within yourselves to pull out the essence of what is good and right and of benefit to all. It is not for us to identify what is good and right, as in the sense of directing you to do this or that, making your decisions for you. We come not to direct you, but to guide you into the use of your conscience. Your conscience is given as your own personal link to the God-center. When you follow a spiritual path, you empower your conscience, until it becomes a golden highway upon which you may journey into the deepest, most sensitive and private parts of God's heart. The existence or non-existence of an abundance of gratitude for all that is part of your daily joys and strife is a useful means of evaluating your own personal relationship with God. It is a mirror reflecting back to you the state of your internal affairs. Trust is the guide, the path, and gratitude is the natural result.
© Kim Vreeland-Haycroft, 2007
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| Upcoming Workshops |
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I am excited to announce the following upcoming workshops (Click on the headings to gain more information):
The Heart Codes™ Workshop
Day One - Saturday 5 May at Cudgerie Homestead
Day Two (optional) - Sunday 6 May at Cudgerie Homestead - Note this is an advanced workshop of the Heart Codes™.
Open Heart - Clear Mind : Evening Meditations and Healing with Ian
Tuesdays 7pm to 9pm at Wallace House from 17th April | |
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Quote of the Month |
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"The winds of Grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails."
Ramakrishna
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Recommended Reading |
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I have just finished reading an absolutely beautiful book by Philip Simmons called Learning To Fall, The blessings of an imperfect life.
At thirty five years old Philip was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, and was told he had only five years to live. Over these years he wrote the essays in this book, and each illuminates his journey to death, and the incredible understanding about living he received as his body slowly deteriorated. My wife was born and raised in Massachusetts not too far from the rural landscapes of New Hampshire from where Philip wrote this book. It is filled with beautiful images of that landscape and just breathtaking insights into the lessons life brings us.
Here is an brief excerpt. I recommend this book to you all.
"Our first act upon entering the world is to draw breath, to take some of its substance into ourselves. And with our first exhalation we give something of ourselves back to the world. The world moves through us as we move through the world, each breath a response, a renewal of that original promise. To choose the world is to return to where we began, to follow love to its source, to rest in the ground of being that has no beginning and no ending. Moved by love of the world, we venture all to enter the sacred circle, to cross the threshold of the invisible, to draw closer to God. When at last we find ourselves there, inside the world's holy heart, we discover we have been there all along. Born of the world, we give birth to the world in every moment. Beloved of the world, we are every moment in its embrace. Choosing the world, we discover that in the end the world has already chosen us." | |
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Thank you for taking the time to read The Bridge. I hope you enjoyed it and look forward to seeing you at the clinic or one of the upcoming workshops.
