Join me for the Inner Lent Teleseminar
Published: Mon, 02/09/09
Dear ,
I am so happy that so many of you wrote to say you wanted to participate in an Inner Lent teleseminar.
As I meditated and contemplated on the meaning of why Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness immediately after the Baptism in the River Jordan and what Lent inspires in the human soul, I realized it was the awakening of a conscious experience of "NO!" "NO!" as in restraint, limitation, boundary, discipline, etc. Even Jesus had to suffer the "NO!" of human existence, had to confront and master hunger, attack and temptation.
We cannot fully say "YES!" in freedom and love until we have a healthy, responsible, and active "NO!" Lent gives us a yearly time to renew our relationship to all the ways we meet and say "NO!" in our lives.
Most of us don't have a very conscious relationship to "NO!" "NO!" is how we set boundaries, deal with attack and rejection, manage our instincts and drives, and create a healthy expression of our Self in the world. Not easy to always do in a wise way.
The great and wise mystic, Meister Eckhart, in the 12th Century said "The true Master is self-limiting." All limitations are an expression of "NO!" The more conscious and free our relationship is to "NO!" the greater our freedom and our self-expression.
Spiritually and practically, we need to master self-restraint and self-limitation. This is the soul development work that Inner Lent supports.
Please join me on this four part Inner Lent teleseminar. Cultivate your sacred relationship to "NO!" and establish a new empowered "YES!" to your sense of self, and strengthen your ability to integrate "YES!" and "NO!" into your life (relationships, work, children, spiritual practice, etc) in a healthy productive and creative balance.
I am so happy that so many of you wrote to say you wanted to participate in an Inner Lent teleseminar.
As I meditated and contemplated on the meaning of why Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness immediately after the Baptism in the River Jordan and what Lent inspires in the human soul, I realized it was the awakening of a conscious experience of "NO!" "NO!" as in restraint, limitation, boundary, discipline, etc. Even Jesus had to suffer the "NO!" of human existence, had to confront and master hunger, attack and temptation.
We cannot fully say "YES!" in freedom and love until we have a healthy, responsible, and active "NO!" Lent gives us a yearly time to renew our relationship to all the ways we meet and say "NO!" in our lives.
Most of us don't have a very conscious relationship to "NO!" "NO!" is how we set boundaries, deal with attack and rejection, manage our instincts and drives, and create a healthy expression of our Self in the world. Not easy to always do in a wise way.
The great and wise mystic, Meister Eckhart, in the 12th Century said "The true Master is self-limiting." All limitations are an expression of "NO!" The more conscious and free our relationship is to "NO!" the greater our freedom and our self-expression.
Spiritually and practically, we need to master self-restraint and self-limitation. This is the soul development work that Inner Lent supports.
Please join me on this four part Inner Lent teleseminar. Cultivate your sacred relationship to "NO!" and establish a new empowered "YES!" to your sense of self, and strengthen your ability to integrate "YES!" and "NO!" into your life (relationships, work, children, spiritual practice, etc) in a healthy productive and creative balance.
I am offering the teleseminar twice: on Thursdays, 1-2PM Eastern and Sundays, 7-8PM Eastern. I chose these times to make the seminar available to as many of you as possible. Europeans can comfortably participate in the Thursday series. All participants are welcome to attend both series - they will be similar in content but not identical. Every session will be recorded and available for download the next day.
Inner Lent is the first of a series of The Inner Year teleseminar. I have just written a rather long post to The Inner Year blog describing how important working with The Inner Year and developing an intimate and personal relationship to the major Christian festivals are to cultivating self-healing, self-development, self-liberation and self-restraint. Click here to read the post. Please leave a comment with your thoughts and question.
Invite your friends and family to join you on this teleseminar. You
will benefit from having someone to share your Inner Lent with.
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Saying "YES!" to your Inner Life,
Lynn