The Awareness Weekends are about discovering who we really are and supporting people to stand in that truth.
Our story separates us from who we truly are. Who we really are is here now, at peace, totally perfect, wise and clear. It is undisturbed by our story.
To realise this fully it has to be experienced. It cannot be learnt. The weekends give this opportunity. As our story is uncovered layer by layer, we can see that it is a story woven of imagination, creativity, love, fear and conditioning. It is a wonderful structure to experience life in so many ways.
Experience has grown us and given us insights but it has become a protection strategy to focus on this story as truth, to avoid the difficult painful feelings. We have believed the story to be the truth. It is not.
The story has the capacity to open our hearts through experience. But until now our story has been one of escape, and comfort; escape of pain or discomfort, and moving towards comfort or whatever makes us happy.
Do we have the courage to include everything and stop this war? Fighting pain and discomfort is suffering and what a war we have fought!
The Awareness Weekends show you how to include everything you have run from consciously or unconsciously. If we can do this, we can finally let our story go. We see it has done its work, and we can stop looking outside ourselves for fulfillment. We can simply stop and discover what is here now below the story, that has always been here, that will always be here. We are no longer hiding. We are here! When we don't have a story, we are life itself!
The weekend is a focussed enquiry about who we think we are.
Our stories are woven of experiences, conditioning, cultures, fears and imagination. The past influences how we see things as do our hopes for the future.
But what is already here untouched by the past or the future that is a treasure that gifts us beyond imagination?
When we unpick our story we see what we avoid or resist and what we run to.
Come and discover!!
What if all our old patterns of behaviour are signals to us to STOP?
What if the patterns we have maintained, cover what we have avoided?
What if the change is to open to what we have avoided?
What if what we have avoided is the cause of suffering, not relief from suffering?
What if, when we are willing to change and be courageous enough to STOP, we discover what had been here all along...?
What if this change opens us to something so precious, it is beyond our imagination?
When stop and open to what is here now, we discover what is already perfect, at peace, clear and unaffected by our dramas of life.
The weekend is for small groups who are wishing to explore how to change. In the safety of a small group it is possible to open and discover what is here and has always been here, but been covered over by our story. When this is discovered it is possible for a huge change to takes place that gifts everyone.
Day 1 is an intense inquiry to discover what you have covered over and hidden from.
Day 2 is opening to what is below the story we have created, to see what is here when we have cleared a space and feel emptiness? What have we avoided that holds something so precious?
This weekend is a focused inquiry about who we really think we are, so that we discover the truth for our self. When we investigate, we see that who we think we are, and how we have defined ourselves, is based on learnt behaviour and conditioning. It becomes our story. The thoughts that make up our story defines us.
This weekend we aim to discover what is always here and already perfect, but is simply covered over by our story... the precious jewel within.
In our story, we avoid feelings that we do not like by repressing them, distracting from them, or moving away from them. There are innumerable strategies that we operate to protect us from feelings we dislike or are uncomfortable with. We often blame others for the feelings we do not like. Then of course, we want certain feelings and go out to experience them.
So a war takes place where we push away and fight some feelings and hold onto other feelings. This war creates suffering. When we learn to receive everything as a gift and open to receive it all we discover a priceless gift and peace is here... I invite you to stop and discover this gift.
The weekend is working with a small group of people so that intimacy is more easily reached and opening feels safer. Such a group can come together anywhere in New Zealand or Australia.
When we fight the present in any form, we make war with our Now. The fighting is the resistance to our situation or people who cause us problems or stress.
Stress is the result of fighting feelings, or situations we don’t like. Rather than acknowledge those feelings we move away from them in many ways.
Most of us know repression! We seem to relate the cause of those feelings as someone’s fault! We know what we want and what we don’t want, and it isn’t our present!
To make peace it is important to know what it is we fight and why. What do we think it will give us?
This weekend is about investigating what we fight and discovering why we fight.
Most of the time our focus in our lives is on our on going drama or story. But what if we stop that story and see what feelings it covers? What are the feelings we are fighting that we need to make peace with?
I invite you to stop and discover for yourself what happens when you make peace with your feelings and stop running from yourself. Discover what is always here and needs nothing and is totally undisturbed by your story.
When we receive our present as a present we stop the fight and are peace itself.
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