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Conscious Journey™ 2009 Program Menu:

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Coaching and Intuitive services:
CoachingNow™ coaching in the moment that meets you where you are in life
 
CoachingNow™ Mentoring Group with Anya Sophia Mann
 
CoachingNow FREE Monthly Telegathering
 
FREE mp3 recording: CoachingNow with Anya Sophia
 
Personal Coaching with Anya Sophia
 
Private Intuitive Sessions with Anya Sophia Mann
 
Soul Astrology with Ruth Hadikin
   
The following courses and programs are in the form of telegatherings held over the telephone using teleconferencing technology. You don't need any special equipment to attend. You dial in using a normal telephone. You don't need to use a computer or the internet.
Programs, Workshops and Telegatherings:
Developing Your Intuition
 
Conscious Journey™ Program
 
Soul Astrology - monthly telegatherings
 
Soul Astrology - reports and consultations
 

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CoachingNow

resolution, transformation and evolution for your individual situation

CoachingNow is a pay and be coached-in-the-moment service using PayPal.

Masterful intuitive coaches get to the core of a matter in minutes. A Coach who specialises in personal and professional development is ready and waiting for your individual situation to be presented for coaching.

This type of coaching has a profound effect on issues that present in the moment or have been lingering without a decision being made to act on them for resolution.

Only masterful, expert coaches have the unique ability to coach with this magnitude of insight, inspiration and effectiveness.

Check this out as a way of being supported to resolution, transformation and evolution for your next situation that would benefit from CoachingNow with extraordinarily gifted intutive coaching interactions that will change your way of dealing with lifes challenges and opportunities.

Our experience shows us that this coaching is most effective in short, intensive, 10 minute sessions.

Pay and Go - only $33 USD

1. Click on the Paypal button below, make your payment of $33,

2. Call 617-233-2581 Leave message with name, phone and email and continue until connected. 

This is a US number: UK callers dial 001 before the number. If you experience any difficulty connecting please let us know by e-mailing Ruth@consciousjourney.com You can check international dialling codes by clicking here

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CoachingNow™ FREE monthly telegathering:

Musing in the Moment with a LifeCoach

Join us in a regular monthly telegathering with intuitive coach and master facilitator, Anya Sophia. This is an opportunity to witness masterful coaching from a highly-gifted intuitive and coach.

"This work is really something else. It's called coaching but it's far beyond that. It goes very deep in a short time - I'd love to learn it. It's fascinating how Anya Sophia pays attention on the verbal level and emotional level at the same time so she hears what is needed to move... it's like a double attention - reading energy and listening at the same time. So she is able to respond to changes of energy as the person is talking. I give my full support to what I observed. Go see for yourself." – Javier Rodriguez, Group Leader, Therapist, Coach

All are welcome so tell your friends and invite them to join us! If you have never attended a telegathering before it is really easy. Just dial the number from any telephone and listen.

Every 3rd Friday: 12noon to 1pm ET (5-6pm UK)

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FREE mp3 recording: CoachingNow with Anya Sophia

Register for the CoachingNow monthly telegathering by adding your details to the email list below, and receive a full-length CoachingNow telegathering, recorded live on mp3, as Anya Sophia demonstrates 'laser' intuitive coaching with real participants.

REGISTER for CoachingNow monthly telegathering: 

Enter your details below and join our Email list to receive the bridge number in time for this month's call. You will also receive a FREE mp3 recording: CoachingNow with Anya Sophia.


Help support the work that goes into offering all these free events, with the kind gift of a donation. Thank you.


   

What happens in these gatherings?

Participants bring their questions to the call: about life; love; living; career; health; wishes; hopes; dreams; what you want more of; what you want less of; how do I tap into my purpose? my passion?


Anya Sophia then demonstrates how she is able to get to the core of the matter in minutes to create the space for something to be different in your life. You can step up and be coached or sit back and listen to others being coached to witness this powerful process.


“In the CoachingNow group I experienced growth right along with those being coached, as if I were in their shoes, even though I did not speak once. This experience spoke to me of Anya Sophia’s unique ability to coach everyone in a group as if there were only of us in the room.”
-Jane Whitney Kimball, M.A, Educator and Coach


All are welcome with any situation wanting movement in your life. Anya Sophia loves her work and enjoys creating environments for shifts in perspective to happen, in the field of these gatherings that all of us co-create by showing up.

Try CoachingNow with Anya Sophia.

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CoachingNow™ Mentoring Group

Leverage the results of your coaching with the CoachingNow Mentoring Group. A unique opportunity to witness real people, in real situations, in real time, as they muse with highly intuitive, masterful, coach Anya Sophia Mann who excels in laser coaching.

Joining this group gives you the opportunity to witness coachees being coached live in the moment, in addition to having the opportunity to be coached on an ongoing basis. The group consists of three calls each month one of which is free to the public giving a forum for more coachees to be coached.

 

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If your heart calls you to coaching there is much to receive here.

You will witness and experience palpable transformational shifts happening in the moment. Unsolicited testimonials, expressed after the fact, are evidence that these shifts are sustained.

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“In the CoachingNow Group I experienced growth right along with those being coached, as if I were in their shoes, even though I did not speak once. This experience spoke to me of Anya Sophia’s unique ability to coach everyone in a group as if there were only of us in the room.”

-Jane Whitney Kimball, M.A, Educator and Coach

Try CoachingNow with Anya Sophia.

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Developing Your Intuition
with
Anya Sophia Mann


Developing Your Intuition
is a class for anyone who would like to develop their intuitive ability.  Whether for personal or professional purposes, discovering the nature of your unique style of intuition is a powerful gift.

More information....

 

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The Conscious Journey™ with Anya Sophia Mann

I vision a peaceful world where people transform consciousness by living their gifts, knowing their value and contribution to each other and the whole”.
~Anya Mann, Founder, Conscious Journey

Conscious Journey™ 18-month Program

This is an 18-month program to support the voyage of self-discovery resulting in more peaceful, conscious living with purpose, clarity and joy.

The personal and professional applications of the tools, insights and awareness from the Conscious Journey™ 18-month program can be transformational both at home and in the workplace filtering out into the world.

New eyes in which to see yourself and everything differently from a clear space within, causes shifting of attitudes to more personal responsibility, peaceful living and conscious co-creating.

The effects of this program grow exponentially as the individuals evolve, making personal and professional daily decisions with such powerful clarity that true peace is at the heart of all outcomes.

The 18-month program brings the best of the best of what is available to aid you in becoming such a crystal clear space within which to live, love, and work. That transformed consciousness creates a powerful new way of living and being in the world.

This is a program devoted to living each day with purpose, success and fulfillment; bringing awareness, clarity and focus to your personal and professional life. Conscious Journey™ deepens our inner awareness and brings consciousness to our personal journey.

The Conscious Journey 18-month program is 18 months in total and is taken in two, nine-month parts (phases one and two). These can be taken alone, together, or with years in between. Phase one prepares the way for phase two. In addition to telecalls and personal coaching, participants choose from a range of live gatherings as part of this program.

Phase One begins in October and runs for nine consecutive months in three trimesters (3 month sections). The telegatherings take place on the first 3 Tuesdays of each month at 3pm EST. (8pm UK) Participants are notified of live gatherings relevant to this program. Personal coaching for participants is scheduled by appointment.

Program fees:

The Conscious Journey 18-month program costs $ 3,600 US dollars in total. Fees are paid in quarterly installments. Each 9-month phase consists of three trimesters (3 month segments) with a payment of $600 due in advance of each trimester. Under special circumstances you may pay your program fees monthly.

Register here for the Conscious Journey Program™:
Quarterly Payments (preferred) $600 US dollars
     
Quarterly payments are preferred using the register button above. However, if you need a monthly payment plan, please use the register button on the right. $200 US monthly
   

 

. To check availability for later programs Email Jane@ConsciousJourney.com and put 'Conscious Journey 18 month Program' in your subject header. Please state your preferred start date in the body of the email.

The Conscious Journey 18-month program consists of:

  • Three live quarterly gatherings to include, a workshop, seminar and retreat
  • Monthly hosted telephonic global group gatherings for inquiry, discovery and support
  • Private coaching session once a month

During the program you will learn:

  • Conscious Presence
  • Meditation
  • Intuition and Intuitive Living
  • Energy Awareness
  • Somatic experiencing
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Quietening your mind
  • Experiencing inner stillness
  • Building and Maintaining a Strong Personal Foundation
  • Multi-Dimensional Listening

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Soul Astrology with Ruth Hadikin

"Astrology is the science of wholeness, unity, non-duality"

- OSHO, Indian Mystic

We are currently updating these pages so call back soon and read our new Soul Astrology website! You can also read the NEW Soul Astrology feature at LifeCoachingMagazine.net

The Energetics of Soul Astrology - Join our FREE monthly Telegathering

Knowing Your Soul's Purpose - Monthly: Personal Development through Soul Astrology

Private Telephone Consultations with Ruth (recorded on mp3)

Personalised Soul Astrology Reports

Soul Astrology Program. Learn Soul Astrology with Ruth.

Listen to (or download) a FREE Soul Astrology Telegathering

Follow Up Coaching with Anya Sophia

If you’re wondering why your life is the way it is, why it is, and what makes it so, Consider the energetics of soul astrology as an idea to make sense of your world....

 

You And The Energetics of Soul Astrology

The 3rd Friday of each month 1-2pm ET (6-7pm UK)

CLICK HERE to join in time for this month's call.

Astrology is a tool for understanding both our personality and soul type, and more importantly, the relationship between the two. The science of Soul Astrology helps us to understand both sides of our ego-based personality through our sun and moon sign (our self-identity and our shadow–self), while our soul-type or personality is represented by our rising sign or ascendant. The path of our personality, with its unique joys and challenges, is our own individualised pathway to spiritual awakening.

"Esoteric astrology concerns itself primarily with the unfoldment of
consciousness, with the impacts which awaken it to the peculiar ‘gifts’
of any particular sign and ray endowment; with the reaction of the
individual and consequent enrichment through response to the influence
of a sign, working through the esoteric planets from the angle of
humanitarian awareness, of discipleship and of initiation." - D.K.

Each sign of the Zodiac contains a deeper spiritual truth and teaching hidden deep within its' symbolism. If, like many people, your only experience of Astrology has been the daily horoscope in the newspapers, you might like to join us and unlock the secrets of your Soul Sign. Discover why eminent psychologists, and mystics alike, such as Carl Jung and Pythagoras valued Astrology as a tool for deeper personal and spiritual development.


This is a tool for personal and spiritual development that can:

  • Assist deeper systemic change whether it be your work or family
  • Be taken back to your coaching relationship for deeper exploration
  • Give a sense of where you fit in to the bigger picture
  • Give you a frame of reference to be used in your daily life.

" I highly recommend Ruth as an interpretor of esoteric astrology and her unique way of weaving its relevance into our daily living. It gives light to why we partner with the people and situations that we do. Many clients that I have referred to Ruth in this way, still to this day seek her service and value the insights and application of the information they recieved with wit, wisdom and soul." - Anya Sophia

FREE mp3 recording: The Energetics of Soul Astrology.

Add your name to our Email list below to receive your FREE mp3 download of 'The Energetics of Soul Astrology' with Ruth Hadikin.

JOIN us for this month's free Telegathering! 

TO REGISTER: enter your details below to receive the bridge number in time for this month's call. You will also receive a link to download the free mp3 recording 'The Energetics of Soul Astrology'.

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COMING SOON: Soul Astrology Program

 

Knowing Your Soul's Purpose Through Soul Astrology

Every 2nd Friday 1-2pm ET (6-7pm UK)

A monthly 45-minute telegathering exploring the meaning of your sun, moon and rising sign from a Soul Astrology perspective.

Fee: monthly subscription $33

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Group Description:

Once you know the importance of your sun, moon and rising sign, the energetic relationships between them, and their effect on your choices and daily living, you'll wonder how you came this far without such important information.

  • Are you choosing a soul-based life?
  • Are you dominated by your gremlins from past incarnations?
  • How do you know the difference?

This monthly call supports participants in identifying the distinction between personality-based vs soul-based action and aligning with their soul's purpose. Each month participants learn the meaning of their sun, moon and rising sign and the unique dynamics between the energies involved. We also explore the influence of the moon's cycles and how they afect our personal and collective evolution.

Join us to discover what Soul Astrology says about your Soul Purpose. (If you don't have your birth chart email info@SoulAstrologyWithRuth.com and we'll tell you where to get one)

On this call you could identify your soul path, discover your life purpose, learn how they are related, and understand how, and why, our lower ego often sabotages us.

"The monthly subscription calls are all about personal development and self-awareness - as participants move through the full monthly sun-moon cycles they are invited to deepen their own self-understanding and self-observation. It is a forum for self-examination first and foremost, and my hope is that as group members become more experienced I will talk less and they will share, and learn, more from their own experience!" - Ruth

 

COMING SOON: Soul Astrology Program

 

 

Soul Astrology:  How and Why You Really Are Unique

Do you know your Soul Sign?

The ‘rising sign’ (ascendant) in your birth chart represents your soul. So if you have Sun in Scorpio, with Libra rising, you are a Libran soul, with a Scorpio personality. Did you know it is called the ‘rising sign’ because it is the sign that was rising over the horizon at the exact time of your birth? This makes it the ‘dawn’ of your life, and the most important sign in Soul Astrology.

Soul Astrology, shows our soul's path, life purpose and past karmic patterns. 

Ruth uses your Sun, Moon, Earth sign and Ascendant to describe the energetic blueprint of your birthchart . From this you can see the difference between your soul path and life purpose, and understand the telationships between them. You can understand some of the challenges you are experiencing on your life path, and how they are often well-placed to serve your Soul Purpose.

You can understand past karmic patterns that are influencing you now, which patterns repeatedly get in your way, how to overcome them, and in which directions you are growing and learning. This unique service is a valuable tool that can enhance your personal and spiritual development. It gives you a sense of where your life fits in to the bigger picture, and supports your personal and spiritual growth.

Know the energetics of your Soul's purpose. Discover your Soul Sign. Learn the 'keynote' that your Soul resonates to, and understand the karmic patterns, carried over from past lives, that could still be affecting you today.

ORDER YOUR PERSONALISED SOUL ASTROLOGY REPORT NOW
 

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"I love this work because in a world that so often seems to reduce us to a replacable part, like a cog in a machine, it reminds us that we are all very special. Every one of us has a unique part to play in the big plan. Each of us brings something to the table that no-one else has: our unique contribution, and Soul Astrology tells us what that is! Who wouldn't want to know that?" - Ruth Hadikin

Order Your Personalised Soul Astrology Report

This comprehensive, personalised report tells you your Soul Sign, your Soul Purpose, and your Soul Keynote. It shows the distinction between your life path and your soul path and explains the relationship between the two. It describes some of the challenges you may be experiencing and how they may actually be supporting your Soul's growth. Ruth interprets each report individually explaining the relationships between qualities in your chart and your Soul's journey. Order your report now and discover why you really are special...

To order your report click on the Paypal button below and make your payment. Ruth will connect with you, through the email address you give. Please be patient, this is not an automated service, and our reports are not generated by a computer.  Ruth connects with each person personally. If you haven't heard anything within 5 days of making your payment please let us know at: info@SoulAstrologyWithRuth.com

Personalised Soul Astrology Report - $44

Arrange a Telephone Consultation:

To book your consultation make your payment using the buttons below. Ruth will connect with you through the email address you give, to arrange your appointment time and give you the number to call. (and tell you how to get a birth chart if you need one). Please be patient, this is not an automated service - Ruth likes to connect with each person personally. If you haven't heard from Ruth within 5 days of making your payment please let us know at: info@SoulAstrologyWithRuth.com

Mp3 recording. Your telephone consultation is recorded on mp3 and emailed to you, for use on your computer, iPod, mp3 player etc. It is important when paying though Paypal that you use the email address where you would like to receive your recording.

30-minute intitial Soul Astrology consultation. Fee $88

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75-minute detailed in-depth Soul Astrology consultation. Fee $166

If you are new to Soul Astrology please allow one full hour and 15 mins for this consultation. The first 15 mins is an added gift in which Ruth gives you a personal explanation of Soul Astrology, and how it works, followed by a 60-minute personal consultation.

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Follow up coaching
Following your Soul Astrology consultation with Ruth, if you aren't currently in a coaching relationship, you can arrange ongoing coaching with Anya Sophia, to place everything in perspective, align with your soul's journey, eliminate those gremlins, follow your heart and further your personal development.

Email Anya@consciousjourney.com or click here for more information


COMING SOON: Soul Astrology Program

For those who wish to go deeper in learning Soul Astrology, we are developing a new program which will begin later in 2009.

Participants will be required to do their own personal development through participation in various self-development activities, one of which is the monthy 'Knowing Your Soul's Purpose' group. This will encourage participants to become intuitive astrologers. In addition to this are theoretical classes which are educational with specific teaching around the traditional and esoteric meanings of the signs, planets and houses.

Full details will be published soon.

To receive information about this forthcoming program CLICK HERE and add yourself to our mailing list

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The Conscious Journey Institute presents themed workshops quarterly that encourage interaction and stimulate growth. Let us know if you would like us to present a themed workshop in a location near you. Please e-mail: Jane@ConsciousJourney.com


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The CoachingNow™ Special of FREE telegatherings took place between MAY 12 - 16 2008

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Each month we offer this FREE telegathering so that you can experience a 'taster' of CoachingNow with Anya Sophia.

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What happens in these gatherings?
Participants bring their questions to the call: about life; love; living; career; health; wishes; hopes; dreams; what you want more of; what you want less of; how do I tap into my purpose? my passion?

Anya Sophia demonstrates how she is able to get to the core of the matter in minutes... creating the space for something to be different in your life.

Step up and be coached, or sit back and listen to others being coached, and witness this powerful process.


“In the CoachingNow Group I experienced growth right along with those being coached, as if I were in their shoes, even though I did not speak once. This experience spoke to me of Anya Sophia’s unique ability to coach everyone in a group as if there were only of us in the room.”
-Jane Whitney Kimball, M.A, Educator and Coach


All are welcome with any situation wanting movement in your life. Anya Sophia loves her work and enjoys creating environments for shifts in perspective to happen, in the field of these gatherings that all of us co-create by showing up.

If you have never attended a telegathering before it is really easy. Just dial the number from any telephone and listen.

Join our Email list now to receive details in time for this month's call

Behind the Scenes with Anya Sophia:

Are you curious how Anya Sophia works? How is she is able to 'peel the layers' and go so deeply with clients in such an unbelievably short space of time?

Anya Sophia shares her experience of how she works from behind the scenes in her weblog. This is a must for all those of you who would like to learn how to do what Anya Sophia does!

Read Anya Sophia's Musings

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“I vision a peaceful world where people transform consciousness by living their gifts, knowing their value and contribution to each other, and the whole.”

~Anya Mann, Founder of the Conscious Journey Institute™

“Suffering is pre-evolution because it is based in survival; pleasure is post-evolution because it is based in awareness”.

– Osho, Mystic from India

 

The Journey
by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
What you had to do, and began,
Though the voices around you
Kept shouting
Their bad advice ---
Though the whole house began to tremble
And you felt the old tug
At your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
Each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
Though the wind pried
With its stiff fingers
At the very foundations,
Though their melancholy
Was terrible.
It was already late
Enough, and a wild night,
And the road full of fallen
Branches and stones.
But little by litle,
As you left their voices behind,
The stars began to burn
Through the sheets of clouds,
And there was a new voice
Which you slowly
Recognized as your own,
That kept you company
As you strode deeper and deeper
Into the world.
Determined to do
The only thing you could do ---
Determined to save
The only life you could save.

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come up this way. I have learned a deep respect for Goethe’s couplets:
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
"

- W.H. Murray in “The Scottish Himalayan Expedition"

 

'The Awakening' by Sonny Carroll

"Every time I read 'The Awakening' by Sonny Carroll, I find myself hearing advice that is specific to my life in the moment. For example, I just read it again before having it posted on the website, and what jumped out at me was: 'You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind'.

I was reminded of the wind that I have loved so much even as a child. It reminds me of the perpetual motion of change that moves us all. I think of a particular situation in my life right now, and I listen to the wind chime that we just hung that I bought for my 15 month old grandson. As I listen to it, thinking of this particular challenge that has presented, I am reminded that: "this too shall pass". This poem has served me for many, many, years through reading and contemplating it. So I share it with you here, as with all these quotes and sayings, in the spirit of being inspired in the moment."

- Anya Sophia

The Awakening

A time comes in your life when you finally get it … when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out – ENOUGH !

Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening.

You realize it’s time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change … or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon.

You come to terms with the fact that you are neither Prince Charming or Cinderella and that in the real world there aren’t always fairy tale endings (or beginnings for that matter) and that any guarantee of “happily ever after: must begin with you and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance.

You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are … and that’s OK.

They are entitled to their own views and opinions. And you learn the importance of loving and championing yourself … and in the process a sense of new found confidence is born of self-approval.

You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you (or didn’t do for you) and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected.

You learn that people don’t always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you and that it’s not always about you.

So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance.

You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties … and in the process a sense of peace and contentment is born of forgiveness.

You realize that much of the way you view yourself, and the world around you, is as a result of all the messages and opinions that have been ingrained into your psyche.

And you begin to sift through all the junk you’ve been fed about how you should behave, how you should look, how much you should weigh, what you should wear, what you should do for a living, how much money you should make, what you should drive, how and where you should live, who you should marry, the importance of having and raising children, and what you owe your parents, family, and friends.

You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. And you begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for.

You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you’ve outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with and in the process you learn to go with your instincts.

You learn that it is truly in giving that we receive. And that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a “consumer” looking for your next fix.

You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a bygone era but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life.

You learn that you don’t know everything, it’s not your job to save the world and that you can’t teach a pig to sing.

You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO.

You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake, and this is not honorable.

Then you learn about love. How to love, how much to give in love, when to stop giving and when to walk away.

You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them to be.

You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes.

And you learn that alone does not mean lonely.

You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs.

You learn that feelings of entitlement are perfectly OK and that it is your right to want things and to ask for the things you want and that sometimes it is necessary to make demands.

You come to the realization that you deserve to be treated with love, kindness, sensitivity and respect and you won’t settle for less.

And you learn that your body really is your temple. And you begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin to eat a balanced diet, drink more water, and take more time to exercise.

You learn that being tired fuels doubt, fear, and uncertainty and so you take more time to rest. And, just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul. So you take more time to laugh and to play.

You learn that, for the most part, you get in life what you believe you deserve … and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen is different than working toward making it happen.

More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance.

You also learn that no one can do it all alone … and that it’s OK to risk asking for help.

You learn the only thing you must truly fear is the greatest robber baron of all: FEAR itself.

You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the right to live life on your own terms.

And you learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom.

You learn that life isn’t always fair, you don’t always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people. On these occasions you learn not to personalize things.

You learn that God isn’t punishing you or failing to answer your prayers. It’s just life happening.

And you learn to deal with evil in its most primal state – the ego.

You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you.

You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls.

You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about: a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower.

Slowly, you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never, ever settle for less than your heart’s desire.

You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind.

And you make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting, and to stay open to
every wonderful possibility.

Finally, with courage in your heart and God by your side you take a stand, you take a deep breath, and you begin to design the life you want to live as best you can.

~ Sonny Carroll

There is a beautiful version of this poem online HERE

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