Lent, Love, & Valentine's Day

Published: Wed, 02/13/13

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February 13, 2013


First, the Inner Life program, Karmic Relationships, begins tomorrow.  Please make a quick and self-empowering decision to participate.  Learn the karma you share with the lovers, friends, enemies, and strangers of your life.  I am certain you will see the value for your inner development and the karmic enrichment of all your relationships, past, present, and future, living in the program. Learn more and register here.

Inner Lent &  Your Relationships
 
Today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Will you ignore this time of a deep 40 day practice around meeting temptation because of the the old misinterpretation of this season of the soul by institutionalized Christianity? Would you pay attention to it if it was about more than giving up chocolate or TV?
 
Here's an Imagine Self/Inner Year suggestion on considering the three temptations of Lent and how they live in our relationships.
 
1. The temptation to turn stones to bread.  Do you spend your soul forces trying to turn a relationship made of "stone" into a vital soul nourishing "bread of love?" What special powers do you think you can conjure up to make that happen?
 
2. The temptation to leap off the pinnacle and let the angels lift you back up without your feet ever touching the ground.  Do you risk your evolving commitment to another by grounding your relationship in truth, harmony, and devotion by always wanting to keep your love magical. Do you think the proof of romantic love will always return you to the high, the rush, and the intensity of a peak experience?
 
3. The temptation to rule over all you see.  Do you fall into the selfish notion that you rule the relationship? Do you feel you are the one who defines what needs get met and how? Do you see the other as merely a supporting player in your story?
 
Can you spend 40 days facing these relationship temptations and vanquishing them?
 
Valentine's Day and Your Relationships
 
Valentine's Day is about the declaration and celebration of the bond of love. Declaration and the renewal of the declaration is a spiritual deed of the heart. Can you speak the love you feel for another?  How will you speak your love? Spoken word? Written word? The speech that lives in a gaze, a smile, a touch?
 
How will you celebrate your love? Celebration can be richly sensuous and earthly.  The cards, the flowers, the candy, the candles, the dining, the wine, the lovemaking.
 
I think it is so important to do both: declare and celebrate.  Love is earthly and sacred.
 
Share your Valentine's Day thoughts and experiences with comments here.


Again, do signup for Karmic Relationships.  You will find it a path to true devotion, real community, and the safety needed for the presence of love. BTW, if you cannot attend the live webinar, you will still be able to richly participate as long as you have the time and commitment to listen to the recordings, work with the content, and engage with your conversation partner.
 
Much, much love,
Lynn

Click here to learn more and register for Karmic Relationships.

 

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Would Sacred Listening Make a Difference?
Is This What You Need Now?
 
Especially for understanding the karma of a challenging relationship?
 
 
The first thing that must be established in a sacred conversation is a core sense of safety. You need to feel you can tell your truth and not be judged or critiqued, that your truth is respected and held sacred.
 
Are you living with questions about who you are and what you should be doing? Do you seek to find what meaning lives in your sorrows, struggles and suffering? Do you wonder how to develop a new relationship to your life so far that opens up desirable possibilities for your life to come?  
 
Do you want to approach your life from an understanding of resolving your karma and fulfilling your destiny?
 
You may want to give yourself the gift of personal coaching or counseling.  A good counselor will provide the elements of warmth, containment, encouragement and creative review and reflection.  Each of us needs a rhythm of sacred conversations centered on our own path of self-development. If you would like to have one or more sacred conversations with me, please schedule your fr^e 20 minute Listening conversation here. Tell me who you are and what you are seeking.
 
To learn more about these private one-to-one conversations you can read the description of this personal work here. Conversations with Lynn
 
 


announcing
NEW MONTHLY SEMINARS
Beginning in January
FINDING, KNOWING, BECOMING 
a monthly seminar
the 3rd Monday of the Month
3PM Eastern
 

I am launching a new monthly program of seminars on 
creative, practical, spiritual elements and aspects of being human and becoming I

a presentation of 30-40 minutes 
Q&A for another 20 minutes
&
valuable handouts supporting the content and 
guiding your application of the content

The seminars are recorded, so if you can't be live, you will still receive the recording and the handouts, the wisdom and the support for imagining yourself in new ways.

These seminars are a midpoint between my EVOLVING THOUGHT blogs and the IMAGINE SELF programs and courses. 

The topics I choose will challenge and enrich how you see yourself and live your life.  You will also find comfort and wisdom in the content.  The handouts will give you outlines of the content, questions for reflection and consideration, and suggested exercises to work with to deepen your sense of yourself.

Ideal for the technically anxious or doubting.  If you have wanted to take an IMAGINE SELF PROGRAM but are concerned about the technology of participating in an online program, these single sessions seminars will give you practice in the using the computer and the web as a sacred space for inner development.



WINTER, 2013
FINDING, KNOWING, BECOMING 
PROGRAMS

Monday, January 21   6PM EASTERN
INNER BUDGETING
 
a look at how you can value, manage, and fulfill your inner life resources and needs.  Learn ways to budget and allocate your time, your energy, your attention, your creativity, your money to mature and enrich your inner development.  What is inner debt? How do you increase your inner assets? Budgeting is a concept that goes far beyond our finances. It truly builds wealth in all parts of our sense of self.
 
This is such an important seminar I am offering it as a gift.

Monday, February 18th 6PM EASTERN
THE CREATIVE VOID & YOUR UNBREAKABLE HEART
 
imagine recognizing & releasing all limiting identities and finding the path to freedom and expressing your gifts without limitations from the creative void
 
imagine recognizing and releasing all defenses and prejudices
and finding the path to unconditional love and living in your unbreakable heart
 
 
 
Monday, March 18th 6PM EASTERN
RECOGNIZING THE THREE DANGEROUS I's of the Soul
 
intoxication, inflation, inflammation

I will be send the links to register for the February and March teleseminars in the near future.  For your inner development budgeting the cost of a single teleseminar including the recording, the presentation slides, supporting handouts is $27.  To subscribe to the 2013 series of 8 valuable teleseminars the cost is $160.  




 
 
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