I’m high-lighting all the upcoming classes right here front and center, with the links to register or find out more, since so many of you have questions. Skip on down below this list for the daily Grace Note!
- A Year Of Inquiry For The Addictive Mind: Life Support For The Compulsive Thinker. June 11, 2013 – May 20, 2014, Tuesday teleclasses 8 – 9:30 am * 2 in-person retreats Sept and March Seattle * Powerful Group work. Option to do teleclasses only for those living far away! Click here to read all about it.
- Earning Money: What’s Your Problem? Questioning Your Beliefs About Money, Work and Business. Thursdays, June 13 – August 8, 2013, 5:15 – 6:45 pm Pacific time. No class June 27. 8 weeks $395.Register Here.
- Horrible Food Wonderful Food: Investigating the Love/Hate Relationship with Eating And Food. Tuesdays, June 11 – July 30, 2013 5:15 – 6:45 pm Pacific time. 8 weeks $395. Register Here.
- Our Wonderful Sexuality: A Safe Place For Inquiry on Painful Thoughts About Sexuality. Fridays, July 12 – August 30, 2013 Noon – 1:30 pm Pacific time. 8 weeks $395. Register Here.
- Mini Retreats Seattle. Saturdays, 6/15, 8/10, 9/7, 10/12, 11/30, 2013, 1:30-5:30 pm. Goldilocks Cottage. $70 includes intensive, handouts, tea and snacks, $55 repeater rate. Click here to register for mini-retreats:
- Loving Your Body Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat. June 26-30, 2013.For all the information please click HERE.
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I got a wonderful note from an inquirer the other day with a link about recovering from the anxious mind.
I was laughing out loud as I watched!
The little news video concludes that the solution to an obsessively thinking, anxious, compulsive mind is to dive into the thoughts and investigate them from every possible angle.
The news clip is a total spoof, but in it, there are some powerful grains of truth.
The true idea inside this funny video is that “the way out, is the way in”.
In other words, when you’re trying to beat your mind, crush your mental chatter, eliminate, go to war, destroy, alter, radically change your thinking….then what you resist persists.
As we’ve all heard, from Star Trek, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
So given that, let’s go ahead and dive full head on into the swimming pool of stressful thinking.
Let’s swim and immerse ourselves in it, so we see it, identify it clearly, wallow in it….and then capture just one of the thoughts, one at a time, and start to study and investigate it, with all our heart.
The Great Relief, thank goodness, are the steps and structure offered by inquiry, the four questions and then finding the turnarounds.
Without the capacity to inquire, we just believe everything we think…and get tied up in a ball of stress and anxiety that is sometimes almost unbearable.
At least that’s the way it was for me. Chasing after one belief, then another, then another, going around in circles VERY confused.
The Good News….the mind actually likes inquiry. It’s like it finally has something to do with all those compulsive, repetitive stressful thoughts.
At least that’s been my experience.
When I feel anxious, or like I’m ruminating and re-visiting a situation at hand over and over, when I FEEL the stress, then I know what to do!
Ask the four questions! Find the turnaround! Really consider that thought from every angle!
Thinking about it real hard….can become thinking about it real easy.
Yes, even THAT terrible situation that plagues you, maybe for many years. Even that person who hurt you, or that difficult loss, or that weird confusing experience.
You can do it, you can question your mind.
If you need the support of a group and a facilitator, then check out the classes above.
I myself did not do inquiry by myself for about 2 years after reading Loving What Is. I had to schedule myself to go to The School…and then, I needed to partner with a great facilitator for two years every single week…and then, I had to connect with tele classes of people doing The Work.
It was not easy for me to just sit down and do The Work, unless I was feeling tortured.
Join us for inquiry, if it’s right for you. Find a partner. Put it in your calendar.
Make thinking easy. If that’s all you do in your entire life….you’ve done something amazing.
Click here to have a chuckle! And then go question one of your stressful thoughts.
Love, Grace
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