Letter #12: Consequences
Longtail taxi boat, Ko Phangan in Thailand, 2024
Dear Friend
Bonus Extra!
I’m a day late in getting this Letter out… I was getting ready to send it to you last night when we had a power cut; that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!
However, it means I can share with you an extra something that you would not have got had I sent it out on Monday. I’ve woken up to my 60th birthday, but thanks to me getting on my own path of wellness many years ago I still feel nicely young! I have tonnes to do yet in my life, and so I better aim to reach at least 100…
So I just wanted to share the message I just sent out on my friends on my Facebook feed with you, and after that the Letter will be what I previously wrote.
See if you like the message…
Numbers... and a Message of Love Peace and Understanding for Humankind
When I was at school the subject that came most naturally to me was maths. I loved numbers, and I often topped our class at the end of each term! When I was 12 or 13 I came third out of about 100 kids.
So, here are some numbers today on this most strangest of days that all young people will not really be able to comprehend, at least I didn't when my passport indicated I was young...
60 today
720 months old
3120 weeks old
21,915 days that I have experienced in this life
525,960 hours old or thereabouts
31,557,000 minutes or thereabouts
The figure that makes me feel the youngest is 720 months. Doesn't seem like a lot! However, it resonates with the fact that my mind seems to not carry any particular age.
But the most useful figure for me is the nearly 22,000 days I've lived. I consider that we don't have one life, we have one life for each 24-hour cycle.
In this way, if we screw up our life, we've only screwed up one day, and we can simply resolve to make the next life a better one...
Peace Love and Understanding for Humankind
Train yourself to live consciously, to engage your own mind by your own free will and thinking. (I find this easiest in nature or a cool funky art-filled building, and on my own.)
Observe your mind to see how it works, do everything you can to know and understand your mind. Then you know you. And when you know you you understand life.
Everything that is good in life will come to you from this approach to life.
Everything that is bad in life you will be able to overcome by this approach.
Who are we?
By nature, by the choice of creation, we are the 3I creatures: we are Intelligent Interconnected Individuals.
We are not separate. We are not all as one. We are both of those wrapped up into one being.
Conscious living enables us to live in health and harmony, by being that 3I person.
Celebrate your Uniqueness, choose to live in Unity, and be liberated by the ensuing Understanding.
Understanding empowers us and enables love to infuse our whole being. This is the very essence of being human.
Uniqueness in Unity for Understanding for liberation and love. The 3Us.
Then our human essence flowers, flourishes, and thrives. All we need to do is nourish it every single life we have, that is, every single day!
Claim your birthright to be a 3Is by putting the 3Us into your life.
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Another Monday hits you in the consciousness…!
This particular Monday that I’m sending out Letter #12 is my very last day of being 50-something: I will be 60 tomorrow!! But I’m not resisting ‘aging’, I’m riding with it: as ever I’m fully focused on making today as fun and joyful and healthy as I can. What else is there to do in life that is more important?
This week there is no pre-reading task, but there will be a post-reading task for you.
Perhaps there is a sort of reading task, though. I ask you to carefully notice your inner reactions to what you read, and postpone judgement (of what you read, or of me!) until you come to the post-reading task, because…
… I have a feeling this will turn out to be a hard-hitting Letter!
In my view—one which I don’t think is popular, but which I do think people appreciate—if we want to live a life marked by health and wellbeing, reward and fulfilment, we have no choice but to face up to some home truths.
Such truths can be bitter pills to swallow.
Yet, for me, swallow them we must. Because that sets up our path for self-healing, which in turn leads to the healing of humankind. We humans find it so easy to see fault in others, but much harder to look in our own mirror. Yet, when we aim to live with wellness we need to learn to not see fault in anybody at all, rather, we want to gain understanding.
It means looking at the darkness within our own self, to understand it with the light of our perceptiveness, not to judge it or flee from it.
Whatever stage each of us are personally at, we all need healing to some degree. And once started, the journey can never stop until our final day! Wellness, and true learning, is a lifelong journey.
I am talking in this Letter about both the collective level of humankind, and of the individual level of us ordinary human beings. The two are interconnected and intertwined. I feel this is so important for us to take on board and live by its understanding:
if I hurt you, I hurt myself; if I hurt myself, I hurt you.
Swap ‘love’ for ‘hurt’, and the message is the same.
My understandings in life are derived from looking at the bigger picture of humanity, and then seeing where I, as an individual member, fit into things. In this way I have the context to help me make wise choices for myself, which impact positively on me AND all of humankind.
If you want to know yourself, you have to know humankind; if you want to understand humankind you have to understand yourself. It’s a two-way pathway to wisdom and wellness.
In the world humankind has forged for itself for centuries, leading to us all alive today, we have no choice but to face up to these darknesses if we want to put light into our life, a spring into our step, clarity into our mind, and effusive energy into our consciousness.
We have fled the scene at the first sign of uncomfortable feelings and thoughts for far too long, and it’s led to the total mess and meltdown that is our human world today.
The elephant in the room just gets bigger and bigger; making it harder and harder to remove once we finally accept it’s there.
I am going to use what I saw on my holiday in Ko Samui, the previously mindblowingly beautiful tropical island in the south of Thailand, add it to my understandings of life and health and wellbeing from all my experiences, observations and reflections, and share with you something that has bubbled away within me for some years now:
that we are the architects of our own state of being in life, and that while we blame others, we block our own solutions (whether individually or from within a group).
Karmic law is incorruptible
All actions have consequences, some can be felt instantly (put your finger in a flame) and others may take years to manifest (smoking a pack a day).
Humans have created tens of thousands of laws, bylaws, statutes, orders, rules, edicts, mandates, all clearly aimed at controlling us and our behaviour. Such laws and rules certainly do have their effect on our health and wellbeing, and our daily lives.
Not, generally speaking, for the good of us. Not at all.
(But since education, the other great way for influencing our behaviour and actions, is so terrible and so against our life and health, perhaps going the law route is not too surprising. Yet it’s suffocating and leads to more and more intolerance, less and less freedom and heart and soul.)
By contrast, nature sees fit to run its affairs using one law, the law of nature: karma, karmic law. It’s breathtakingly simple and beautiful, and unhappily for the control freaks within the power structures of humankind, and unlike human-made laws, karmic law is totally incorruptible.
They can steal money, harm and kill others, and avoid prison, but they cannot avoid their karmic dues which is a ruined conscience and zero happiness and wellness in their life.
And I reckon without wellness there is little to no freedom, nor love, inner peace, kinship, connection, joy or happiness.
Karma takes place and governs us whether we like it or not, whether we believe in it or not. I describe it in the simple and practical terms it merits:
it is the flow of energy from here to there, from this moment to a future moment, from a past moment to a now moment; karma is cause and effect, sow and reap, action and reaction.
And that’s it. That’s karma. You can transmit, transfer and transform energy, but you can never get rid of it.
Look how complicated humans have made life by way of comparison.
And we’ve done this by separating ourselves in our psyche from nature and ignoring the law of nature, and have come to believe we are more powerful, more intelligent and more important than the rest of the natural world.
But that’s not going to cut the mustard with karma… nobody can corrupt karma, not even emperors, presidents or tyrannical rulers.
This cocktail of arrogance and ignorance is now coming back to haunt us. Big time.
Either we carry on as before, making the same mistakes time and time again, writing more and more laws, and digging ourselves into deeper and deeper trouble (it can’t get much worse than our collective meltdown in 2020, even taking into account all the brutalities of the 20th century)…
… or we take heed of karma, learn and understand it, and then live by it.
Personally speaking I was lucky to have a mum who grew up in Kenya, in the midst of the amazing, wisdom-filled African spirit, and only moved to England when she got married. As a boy, she frequently used to exclaim, upon reading her daily paper, that ‘the law’s an ass’. She also filled our lives with nature and so we grew up with an awe of, and respect for, nature.
Perhaps that’s the reason that most of my life I have preferred to live by the law of nature, and generally speaking if I consider this or that rule or law to be an ‘ass’, and harmful to me or others, I do my utmost best to ignore it.
As a leader, in my own teaching, I only ever had three rules for my students, and they could see these rules were not to control them, but to facilitate their learning and the group dynamic. If I set a rule and everybody ignores it, then this makes a mockery of my leadership.
(Curious about the three rules?! Be on time for each lesson, do the homework, and sit in a different seat at the start of each new lesson - I have them sat in a U-shape so all can see all, and this last rule was to stop cliques forming early on in a group’s life. Respect and value life-affirming education, respect and value each other.)
Our wellness is OUR responsibility
Early on in our Letters I related to you my story of how I came to discover natural healing, and that this then set me off on a path of pursuing health and wellbeing as the central objective of my life. That was over 15 years ago.
I learned the crucialest (not a word, but I like it!) life lesson ever: my level of sickness or wellness is not an accident: it’s up to the decisions I make and the actions I take in my own life.
One consequence of this was that I’ve done tonnes of research in the books and online, and with things like my ‘food and feelings’ diaries early on (again, I have written about this in previous Letters) I have done loads of action research on myself.
(Doing action research means taking time out for observing, being aware, and reflecting (OAR), and practising and developing your skills in all three. OAR is a serious self-learning tool. The best one in fact.)
In addition, living in Chiang Mai has afforded me the opportunity to talk to many people from various countries who themselves are proactive about their health and wellbeing, and we share our experiences, our wins, our losses, our doubts, our questions.
In this way we can better build up our own ‘internal data bank’ of beneficial actions to take in our life.
These Letters are a consequence of me wanting to share my own ‘internal data bank’.
This is so important because, if we desire to live with health and wellbeing, there is no choice but to become responsible for our own wellness.
With illness we go to the doctor or hospital, but that’s not possible with wellness as they don’t do wellness. The business that employs them wants us sick otherwise we don’t buy their products, and that’s hardly any good for a business.
(Nobody can do your wellness except you. YOU have to learn how to do it for you.)
Therefore we need all the information we can get, and as experiencing wellness in life includes being in communities and cultivating sound relationships with others, it makes perfect sense that we should work together on building our understanding of how to live with energy, clarity and vitality. Experiencing such energetics in life is exciting, joyful, rewarding.
And we need, at least initially, all the inspiration we can get from others to stop treating our bodies like chemical garbage dumps; we’re supposed to eliminate waste, not feed ourselves with it!
With wellness, with a fully functioning immune system and a happy liver and clean blood, we find we have no need of pills and injections, doctors and hospitals, except perhaps on the rare occasion.
So let me highlight the macro-understanding that came to me almost immediately upon making changes to my diet and lifestyle 15 years ago, and I want to stress how so important it is. It continues to inform me, and guide me:
Wellness or illness is our choice. Not 100%, granted, because what others do can definitely impact upon us, and undoubtedly unwell people in powerful positions in society are consistently poisoning themselves, us, and our world; and I mean our mind and soul just as much as our body.
But to a very great extent it is what we ourselves put into (and on) our body, and what we consume with our mind, that determines the level of wellness or sickness we experience in our daily life, and as a default in our life.
This is such a key understanding, and it’s why I’m not going to beat about the bush in what I’m going to say next. I apologise in advance if it’s hard reading for you personally, but by the very fact that you are reading these Letters strongly tells me you can handle it!
It’s certain to me that if we want a better and happier world, we need to make it a better and happier world for ourselves and others, we cannot choose one or the other. We must act with collective responsibility, as well as personal responsibility.
If you are just setting out on this path of understanding, you may find it easier to consider that the universe has appointed you as an Ambassador for Planet Earth. Fulfil your duties, d’ya hear?!!
My good Thai friend—who may well be the best and most effective masseur on the planet!—once said to me that ‘pain is the only thing that makes people change’, and she may well be absolutely spot on, but what a pity if it’s true that we have to wait for this pain and suffering to make intelligent choices in our life.
That said, pain is definitely an evolutionary instruction, but I just think we should not need too much of it to make our changes! Prevention is better than cure…
I think this wisdom applies equally to individuals, the groups we belong to, and humanity as a collective whole. Upon that understanding, let’s proceed.
The developed ‘free’ Western world is in a serious mess
Without scrolling back to the top, can you recall the opening quote?!
It was one that my mum impressed upon me and my sister many times during our childhood (‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’.)
And it’s so true, yet this is not the way western people live (perhaps all people, not just western). We ignore karma; we want our cake, we want all the icing and we want to eat the lot. We ditched our accumulated wisdom and values in favour of our material urges.
Our way of life is filled with desires and cravings for what we don’t have, and our efforts to get what we want. But when—if— we get it we then find the pleasure is only ephemeral, fleeting, and off we go again looking to satiate our next desire, to get our next hit of pleasure.
It’s tomorrow-based living, and today loses out. However, today is the only place we will ever find life happening... meaning we are downgrading our experience of life.
But—and we know it at a deep level, even if we ignore it—so much metaphorical sugar and pleasure will make us sick. The evidence is everywhere:
addictions and harmful habits
selfishness and greed
loneliness and unhappiness
anxiety and fear, worry and despair
depression and suicide
conflict and intolerance in our relationships
huge, misshapen bodies
stiff, inflexible bodies
emotional pain and poor mental health; physical sickness, ailments, afflictions and diseases; spiritual emptiness
in particular: diabetes, cancer, strokes, dementia, heart attacks and other avoidable nasties
crippling self-doubt and self-sabotage
disconnected from nature
and that’s just at the individual level. If we look at the nation level then in comes war, terrorism, medical tyranny, toxic ‘foods’, a bent justice system, a lying media, corrupted science, and so on.
Humankind is poisoning the earth, the soil, the rivers, the seas, the air, the skies, ourselves, our bodies, our minds, everything. Yet, ‘humankind’ is just a word; the reality is that it’s human beings who are doing this. We may point our finger at those in power, but what is our own role in this?
We have gone completely bonkers!
The three biggest and most profitable industries in the corporate Western world are toxic food, toxic medicines and the machinery of war, and all three maim and kill human beings, and destroy ecosystems. Why??? Because it’s in our nature or our nurture?
For me it’s the latter.
There’s probably nothing wrong at all with capitalism per se, but we have chosen to base it on a death economy.
This is completely unacceptable, but we’re all in it together, so it’s up to each one of us to make our own changes in life so that we support life instead of supporting sickness and early death. It’s my observation that many people do the latter inadvertently, unintentionally, because of a lack of proper information in the mainstream media and society.
You have probably heard of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the world”.
Well, there’s no other solution for us, and we have to BE it and DO it.
I conceived of A Spiritual Revolution and wrote my book on it as the total guide for all human beings to put this into practice in their own life.
We can wait for others to fix things, we can hope, pray, or we can act now.
And for you? Congratulations on receiving these Letters, for taking action in your own life.
(And much gratitude from me to you for being a reader of them.)
Body size and shape has gone haywire
If you look on YouTube for the famous free Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park in 1969 (here it is), which attracted about a million people, you will notice that all people in all the crowd shots and close-up shots are thin and have proportionally-shaped bodies. Same for the TV series and shows of the time.
That began to go wrong during the 1970s, with the advent of a busier lifestyle, and the fast foods, junk foods and processed foods that began flooding the more developed nations, courtesy of the food corporations.
Uncoincidentally diseases, as well as our body weight, have been skyrocketing in recent decades - for the duration of my own lifetime.
I went to Thailand in 1991 - I noticed all people were thin and proportionate. Since about 2000, a generation on from Western countries, the Western processed and refined foods began hitting Thailand, so more and more Thais piled on the pounds. Meanwhile an obesity epidemic was growing in the West.
I went to Burma a few years ago, all thin people. Will they follow on, another generation later? Is this ‘progress’ sweeping the world from developed to developing to third world countries?
This is not to be judgemental of overweight people, not at all, but undoubtedly quality and quantity of life decrease with obesity. I am in observation and reflection mode here.
And the question is begged: if we can’t care for our own body, how can we care for our life? And if we don’t care for our life, will we care for the lives of others? Will we feel any commitment towards our planet’s health?
Not caring for ourselves leads to unhappiness, despair, intolerance, conflict, and war. Or, to the extent we experience conflict, division, separation, hatred, intolerance, simply reflects a non-caring attitude towards life.
Ko Samui island on my holiday was really busy with Western tourists, as it’s high season there now. Living where I do in Chiang Mai—a healthy, creative, productive, happy city—most people are of a proportionate shape, including western tourists and travellers, so I was shocked at what I saw holidaying on this island.
I sat and observed. I walked along the beach and observed. It didn’t look good, oh no!
I estimated, generously, one in five people were thin and proportionate, and in the four out of five most did not look healthy at all. Some struggled to walk, even the young-looking.
This is from the rich nations of the world, where we (think we) are educated, free, developed and civilised.
But not well, not healthy, not filled with the spark of our innate human essence.
Perhaps, after all, we are not properly educated.
(We are not, it’s a dreadful, harmful education, and it’s my view as an educator that herein lies the root causes of all our woes… but also the solutions we all need.)
It’s heartbreaking to me, seeing human beings being misled, poisoned, and having their health taken from them, picking up this disease or that one, losing their mind, losing the use of their body, living with a suffering, a loneliness, an unhappiness.
Yet, ignorance being an excuse or not (and I was effectively ignorant about it until 15 years ago), it’s our choice what we put into our bodies.
However, if our mindset is screwed and disempowered (by our schooling), and we lack proper information and understanding, then it’s all downhill from there.
We start to see where the solutions lie. Consciously adopting the right mindset is the crucial starting point for our healing.
I’d like to share another observation, one that I’ve been seeing for 30 years: people from Western nations exhibit a far lower level of tolerance towards other people.
I know this is true first-hand:
I, as a Westerner, still sometimes see such intolerant thoughts arise in my mind (from my conditioning), but I’ve long since trained myself to just see such thoughts in a detached manner and not act on them; yet they still have not disappeared completely!
I see how Thais (and other Asian peoples) accept things they don’t like in life so much more readily than Westerners; they let go and move on.
I think all the rules and laws have made Western people more intolerant, and intolerance leads to tyranny and loss of freedoms. This definitively impacts negatively on our health and wellbeing.
When I first came to Thailand, at age 27, and then began living here, I constantly had cause to feel a real level of freedom and joy in my bones and in my consciousness that I had not experienced while living as an adult in England. I was left to my own ways so long as I caused no harm to others. Brilliant!
I did have to frequently question myself on this, because as an Englishman I had been brought up in a country which prided itself on being democratic, free, and which lauded freedom of speech, and which we were always reminded of by those in the media and government.
Yet, in the mid-late 1990s on my trips back to England I remember seeing the beginning of what increasingly looked like a police state to me. I’ve watched it deteriorate in the years since, same in Australia, which I know first-hand from 21 visits (my sister and her family live there, and I love the country, just as I love England, but not the millions of rules and laws!).
I also read a lot about America and have many American friends, so I can confidently say that when it comes to freedom in life, respect and tolerance, then in our day and age I find much more of it in the Thai mindset and psyche than the Western one.
So what to do?
Blame is a futile game, yet unless this is all spoken about in the open, and discussions are had, and not left alone like an elephant in the room, what can change? What spurs change? Waiting for others, or acting ourselves?
When will we change? Tomorrow? Tomorrow never ever arrives (when you wake up each morning it’s not tomorrow, just a new today). Will we continuously find excuses to put things off until tomorrow?
Realisation, conscious awareness, people speaking or writing about it ,and us really hearing and reflecting upon their message, rather than being ‘offended’, is what leads us to making changes. But still, we need to act, and it has to be today.
Most of all we need to see and accept the elephant in the room. Only then can we see the darkness that is within all of us, and the light of our conscious perception is going to carry us along towards our personal solutions, which then manifest out into the greater human world.
We need to embrace ‘today-based living’.
It means making the health of our body and our mind paramount, the #1 objective in life. From a sound basis of health and wellbeing, then we can decide what we will do with our life, and make it one of purpose, passion, enthusiasm, and action. With vitality of body and clarity of mind we can and will be creative, productive, reflective, and this COMPLETELY EMPOWERS US!
Thing is, our physical and psychological unwellness is the consequence of harmful school systems, and of societies which have had their food and medical systems, and their media, hijacked by the monolithic corporations which act like swarms of locusts.
I read in my research years ago about Codex Alimentarius, which was/is a truly frightful charter drawn up by control freak maniacs working in the food corporations declaring they wanted to gain full control of the growth, production and supply chain of all foods, herbs, pills, medicines in the whole world. That’s what’s been going on.
At the expense of our lives and our wellbeing.
But not a word of it in mainstream media.
“I’m alright Jack” is not good enough. We all sail in the same good ship of humanity. Our bodies may be separate, but individual physical ill-health impacts back into our mind negatively, and then this energy flows into the collective arena of emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing of all.
We’re in this together: if I’m sick and unwell, waddling around like a corporate-fed duck instead of a human being, how does this affect those who love me? If I’m full of joy, vitality and generosity of spirit, how does this affect those who love me, those who know me, those who I work with?
I can tell you this for sure: when we feel joy and an inner peace in life, we most certainly want to share this with others and want to help others achieve it for themselves. And when we come across our fellow human beings who carry beautiful energies and who are connected with their souls and who smile and laugh and enjoy good health, it rubs off on us, we want it for ourselves.
We are, by our birthright and by nature, intelligent interconnected individuals.
It’s a huge fight to get our health and destiny back in our own hands, for humanity to heal itself, and to stop living in perpetual conflict.
It can only happen one by one. This is the only place it can start. That’s me, that’s you.
It’s why I’m writing these Letters, and promoting a spiritual revolution, and building my new venture to get empowering education out there for all adults. Education is everything, and since the school system’s version is so damaging, all adults really do need to learn the skill of self-education to undo the negative consequences we all carry from our schooling, which make us sick and our societies sick.
It is only through proper, self-education that we empower ourselves.
What could be more important than health? What could make us more miserable and depressed than losing our health? Can we be happy, creative, productive and energetic when we are struggling with our health?
Personally I think not.
When we create for ourselves a body we can be proud of, a mindset which is based on gratitude for our life (the universe specifically invited you to the party, so enjoy!), and when we activate our previously school- and society-suppressed soul, our life is transformed.
But we have to constantly work at it. Wellness is a journey, not a destination.
A final reflection on Ko Samui
This island, and her less-developed sister, Ko Phangan, looks dramatically different to the one I first came to in 1991, and which I still experienced throughout the 1990s. It’s been completely developed in the main beaches and towns (there were no towns before, just sleepy village areas), and the hillsides full of palm trees are now filled with concrete ‘luxury’ villas.
Sleepy village roads are now full of nonstop traffic and rows of buildings and shops and things, and the full-on tourist infrastructure has dramatically changed the landscape and whole environment. Beaches are filled with people, instead of the odd person who walked on by from time to time. Prices have gone up astronomically. Hammocks have given way to sun-loungers.
The goose that laid the golden egg has been cooked, and the egg has been cracked.
The outside corporations (from Bangkok and from Western countries) came in and bought up the resorts and land of the locals with tempting sums of money, and there began the ‘progress’.
It symbolises for me an out-of-control corporate mindset that most of the world is experiencing. The out and out pursuit of pleasure is a desperate attempt by humans to make something of their lives, in the absence of health, harmony and happiness. But it’s ruining our own health, and that of the environments and whole ecosystem.
We are trying to gorge ourselves out of our disconnection and disempowerment.
We must first learn how to empower ourselves, and then promote our own inner relationship with ourself, all our relationships with other people, and our relationship with Mother Earth to the forefront of 3rd Millennium living.
We need the right diet and lifestyle, and we need a life-affirmative mindset, and we need to exercise. We need to learn to live the REAL DEAL…! (Letter #5).
Here are some photos of Ko Samui, past and present to give you an idea of the changes that I’ve sadly (for me) witnessed.
Post-Reading Task and Weekly Task for Letter #12
Here are some questions for you to consider and reflect upon. As usual, if you do this alone, write your thoughts down in your notebook, or if you are with others set up a discussion, explore your ideas and compare your thoughts.
Generally speaking, can you think of ways in which the actions and words of others impact positively or negatively on your own life? And where your own actions and words impact on their lives?
Specifically speaking, can you think of things you’ve said or done in the past which some time later brought about either positive or negative consequences for yourself and/or those around you?
How does poisoning your own body poison the planet? How does humankind poisoning the planet poison your own body?
We hate pain and discomfort, and instinctively try to stay in our comfort zone. How does this lead to the very things we seek to avoid?
We all know we have harmful habits, say harmful things to those we love, and yet we find making change so difficult. Why do you suppose this is so?
I have observed how easily human beings get into conflicts by trying to avoid confrontation in the first place. I have seen how we hold things back, but at some point we ‘blurt’ them out, sometimes saying things that really do hurt others. Resentment builds. What do you suppose is the root cause behind this behaviour?
Word of the Week
compassion
What does ‘compassion’ mean to you? Write down your understanding, and then look it up in an online dictionary, and do a google search to see what others are saying it means.
Sentence of the Week
Don’t expect respect; don’t expect, respect.’
This is one of mine. How does the comma change things? If you follow this advice, what consequences can you imagine arising in your life?
Health Tip of the Week
Think of a negative emotional reaction that you are often triggered into by what others say or do. You know, like anger, frustration, envy, guilt, anxiety, whatever it may be, something that you know typically comes to you in your own life, and which may make you say something you regret later.
Now give it a name. I like to use the same letter as the emotion. So for example, Andy Anger, Annabel Anger; Eddie Envy, Emma Envy, that kind of thing. Now learn to notice the arising of this emotion in you as soon as you can.
As soon as you consciously notice it, you will realise it loses its power over you to some extent. At this realisation, ask yourself what exactly is triggering it. Reflect upon what changes you can make to stop being blaming others or yourself for this emotion.
What do you learn from this exercise?
Finally
Next week I have a special Letter with a difference lined up for you!
Interestingly, I just realised, it will be Letter #13 and I will be sending it to you on April Fools Day - how about that?! But it won’t be unlucky, nor will it be foolish, and we are certainly not fools!
Just the way it’s worked out.
Meanwhile, have a great week.
Oh, don’t forget to look up in the night sky tonight and look at the full moon, assuming you have a clear sky. Feel the connection between you and it. We are all galactic beings connected with each other.
All the best
Philip
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