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Dear Ian,
Happy New Year!
| A Message from Ian Haycroft |
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Welcome to the first Clear Mind newsletter for 2007!
This year is going to be an exciting year for the
Clear Mind family. To start off the New Year I have
implemented this new look newsletter and upgraded
the Clear Mind website (www.theclearmindway.com).
Don't forget to forward it on to a friend if you
think they could be interested in the information in
it (see special link at bottom of page).
This year I plan to hold several workshops and
weekend retreats; start meditation nights and
produce new meditation CD's. Stay tuned for more
information and best wishes for a fantastic
2007.
Kind regards
Ian Haycroft
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| This Month's Reading |
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I am reading a wonderful book right now that I
recommend to anyone who either loves horses, or
wants insight into human beings entitled "Horses
Talking – How to share healing messages with the
horses in your life" by Margrit Coates. The author
is a British woman who has an amazing reputation for
healing horses. My daughters have horses and there
is no doubt that there is a spiritual connection
between them and their animals. Margit Coates goes
into some detail about the ways we humans can
connect to horses and what we can learn. I am not
really a “horsey” person, but I have been moved
again and again in the book to see the ability to
“be” that we can learn from horses.
Here is
a simple gem: "Horses spend no time at all worrying
about not being a horse". We humans spend so much
time in our minds wondering about our existence and
our “true” nature. If we could but accept our
natural being, we would have energy for so much in
our lives that is currently wasted in the “doing”
chatter of our minds.
If you get a chance
have a read of this book.
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| Forgiveness |
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I have been doing a bit of writing lately, prompted
by many clients who tell me I should write down some
of the lessons we discover together in our clinic
work and at our workshops. I have had a powerful
experience myself lately with forgiveness, and see
again and again the importance of it in our lives.
Though much has been said about forgiveness, I offer
these thoughts for your
consideration.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
comes first in the lessons along the way of life
because it seems to me to be the most important
lesson of all. Without it there is heart ache, pain,
ill-health, and a world full of war; with it the
opportunity for liberation.
In the Christian
tradition Jesus spoke so beautifully about the power
of forgiveness and asked God to forgive even those
who hung him on the cross. He included in that
forgiveness the need to love even our enemies.
Certainly we need to learn to forgive our enemies,
but we must also forgive those we love, our friends,
and ourselves.
When we are wronged, there is
pain. Some of those wrongs are horrendous acts of
war and injustice that seem to be unforgivable. Some
wrongs, though small by comparison with the
inhumanity of war, affect us deeply. Without
forgiving those who wrong us we are burdened with
the vibrations, the emotions, that lead to our own
demise. Hatred, resentment, anger, revenge and the
myriad other emotions that come with being wronged,
are a burden our mind-body system cannot easily
carry.
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Keeping Your New Year's Resolution |
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So far this year several clients have come to the
clinic discouraged that their resolutions for this
year are already in tatters, and they are struggling
to maintain their hope. You won’t be surprised to
know that studies show that most people struggle to
maintain their resolutions.
My own experience is
that so many of us set ourselves up for the “fall”
by setting goals that are too hard, too far out in
the future and fraught with difficulty. The syndrome
many of us fall into is, "I will be happy when”.
There is a great danger here that we postpone our
satisfaction and happiness and place it out in the
future where it may or may not occur. I think
because I am a simple guy, I found a simple method
for overcoming this syndrome. To feel satisfied and
achieve our goals we must concentrate on what we are
satisfied with in the present. This doesn’t mean to
pretend that nothing is wrong, but rather to focus
your attention on the simple and real things we
experience in every moment. “I am grateful and
satisfied with this great cup of coffee”, "I am very
glad I have this air conditioning in my car”, "I am
satisfied that I took this step towards my goal
today”. In any given day, if you choose to look for
what you are satisfied with, you will attract more
satisfaction, attract the energy to achieve you
goals, and surprise surprise, feel satisfied and
grateful at the end of the day. Though not rocket
science, this simple practice profoundly alters the
focus of your mind and emotions. Don’t stop planning
and making goals, but know that you will only reach
them on the pathway of satisfaction, not the path of
longing.
I have prepared a new one day
workshop, the first of which will be on Sunday March
4th. The title is “Connecting – Staying Connected to
Your Power Within”. In this day you will understand one
pathway to connecting with your true self, how the
subconscious mind is your friend, how you can alter
your connection to your self and to others. This can
be a life-changing experience.
Please book now.
Cost: $175 including lunch, morning and afternoon
tea, a workbook and two guided CD’s.
Find out more....
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