Reference Point Therapy Los Angeles

Life is a Process - The Value of a Group

Transforming is a process.

To me transformation is a process, just like life is a process.  As I write this sentence I see the pictures in my head of the "instant aha", the instantaneous enlightenment, the sudden stardom.  Behind all of those happenings is usually a process of growth and development. 

Think of a seed nestled hidden in the dark earth. One day the conditions of soil, temperature and water are just right to encourage germination. This "beginning again" may take a while, too.  I've let plants go to seed in my garden, and as the seeds dry and fall or blow away, they don't immediately just germinate and come up again. In the winter of 2010/11 I had the most beautiful mustard greens in a raised bed.  I let many of the plants go to seed to see what would happen.  Last winter there was a plant of mustard that sprang up at the far end of the garden.  And just a few weeks ago, in the bed where I had the original mustard planted, now a new single plant has sprung up.  Left on it's own, 2 out of literally thousands of seeds have found a way to grow.  

There is a different way to grow mustard greens though.  I can harvest the seeds and re-plant them, till, feed and nourish the ground in which I put them, and make sure they are watered regularly, fed, weeded and loved.  There are a lot more greens that way and it's a much surer process.

What if it's the same for us?  For our growth? Our Transformation?  Our enlightenment? What if we grow better in group, where we can be nurtured, fed and ..... I think you get my meaning. 

The Spring Ahead Teleclass.

I've been part of and had the privilege to lead just such a group over the last 5 weeks -- my Spring Ahead Teleclass.  It's been a growth-full, nurturing experience for me and I've had the opportunity to see transformation in the group as well.  Some of the people in this group have been doing teleclasses with me for years, some are newer than that.  All have verbalized receiving value from the class. Some have encouraged me to continue the class. 

I see our work in the group as a weeding process.  Weeds stifle the growth of the plants in your garden.  The past traumas in our lives are the weeds, stifling and stunting the potential of each of us. Sure, just like plants, we can grow around the trauma, or contort our behaviors to get what we need and avoid the trauma.  But the fullness of our potential is realized when we clear out the weeds and just let the fullness of who we are come into full bloom.  The new changes to Reference Point Therapy have made it an even more powerful way to clear the effects of trauma, even very old trauma, easily. 

For me, I've found the group process to be very effective because sometimes trauma is hidden.  Someone else may bring up an issue that triggers the awareness of similar trouble spots in other members of the class. As a part of the group, you can participate in everyone's clearing and then there is the opportunity to look at further layers that may exist with your particular issue.  If you can't make a particular class, then it's recorded.

A new Teleclass -- Transforming, A Process.

At the suggestion of at least 2 members of the class, I've decided to offer another series of 6 Teleclasses, starting on May 14, Monday evening at 6 p.m. pacific time. 

Purchased by April 30, this series will cost $95.00.  You can register by clicking here and entering the amount.  After April 30, the series will cost $125.00.  Special offer:  Private session plus the class for only $195.00.  Click here and enter that amount. 

 

 

 

Letting go of Sugar and Food Cravings

Ever had those late night food cravings? Maybe it's the ice cream, or the cookies, the candy stashed in the back of the drawer, the bag of potato chips -- whatever the brand of craving, we almost always find ourselves looking at the empty container wishing we'd not eaten "the whole thing."  Sometimes we vow never to do that again.  And then, we find ourselves right back there with our hand in the cookie jar/potato chip bag, again. 

When do those cravings occur for you?  Is it when you are emotionally upset?  Or is it when you have pushed yourself to your last bit of energy and feel the need to nurture yourself?  Is it when you feel alone?  There are many "reasons" for our attachments to food.  Almost all of them boil down to instinctual desires to stay safe, feel nurtured, to survive and sustain ourselves in some way.  Those instinctual drives are powerful, and wired up in many ways with who we think we are.  Breaking a habit like this takes willpower and work.  With associations that tell a deep part of us that this is how we can feel nurtured, stay safe, survive -- letting go of these habits is very difficult.  Clearing the deep emotional/instinctual drives associated with food cravings allows us to have a much easier time letting go of the habit. 

I've been working with clients with sugar cravings lately with success.  One client started with a huge resistance to not having sugar (even though they knew it was not a healthy choice for them).  The resistance was at a "20" on a 0 to 10 scale.  When we completed our session it was a "0". 

Tomorrow night I start a 6 part teleclass and in it I'm going to work with sugar and food cravings -- as well as the other ways we sabotage ourselves. Here's the info about this class.

Spring Ahead Teleclass:  There will be an upcoming 6- evening Teleclass starting on Monday March 26 at 6 p.m.  Each class will cover clearing patterns in different areas. (All classes will be recorded and you will receive a copy.)

    Class 1 -- Introduction, intention setting, hidden gain and general emotional work.

    Class 2 -- Trauma patterns

    Class 3 -- Food Cravings and addictions

    Class 4 -- Food Cravings and addictions  (this is an intense subject, so I've alloted 2 nights)

    Class 5 -- Fears, Phobias and Opening to the New

    Class 6 -- Wrap up, setting intentions for new growth

I will be integrating the new RPT concepts in my work with you in these classes. 

Want to know more, call me  818-590-0062. 

 Tuition:$135.00.

 Want the class and a 60 to 70 minute private session, sign up for $195.  Savings of $35 on the class and $25. on a session = Savings of $65.00. 

This is a credit card payment link (you just need to fill in the amount.) 

It's Mercury Retrograde (and Mars Retrograde, Venus goes retrograde in May) so it's a great time to clean out past patterns that may still be in your way.  What are they?  All the astrology forecasts I've seen seem to forecast more of the same intensity, change, and unsettling energy.  Are you ready for a new and probably intense summer, fall and winter? Or are there patterns that are still holding you back?  Places you feel stuck?  Habits or fears that make going forward difficult?  A major source of these patterns is past trauma.  RPT clears trauma with ease because it gets to the core of the issues without having to re-experience it.  

Now it's your turn.  Through the month of March I'm offering several of my amazing Spring Cleaning Packages

•     The Basic - 3 private appointments (60 to 70 minutes each) for $335.00.  
•     Four for Four Special - Want more, you can do 4 for $400.00
•     Spring Clean-up - or if you have a ton of stuff you'd like to tackle, then 5 for $475.00. 

Continuing Coaching.  I have one client who wanted my on-going availability for coaching throughout the year, so I gave that client a special package 10 sessions for $800.00.   I'm offering the same option to two of you through March 15. (Note:  It's limited to the first 2 who contact me.)  This package can be used at any time throughout 2012.  (Also note that sessions that go for more than 70 minutes are charged according the the time they take  e. g. 90 minutes = 1.5 sessions.)

 Call me to learn more -- 818-590-0062.  I love talking about the power of the new RPT.  If one of these packages is something you want, I'll send you a link so that you can pay via credit card.

 

Spring Ahead! Now is the Time! New Changes to RPT make it easy!

It's spring!  I love seeing the signs all around me, green grasses, brilliant yellows, reds, blues and purples of the flowers.  Something new to be seen and enjoyed every day.  In my garden I have garlic sprouting, young onions, chard, arugula and cabbages.  In several of my raised beds, I've prepared the soil, cleaned out the weeds and they are ready for more planting and new growth. And, there are a couple of beds that need work -- weeding, digging, adding new compost and worm castings, etc.  

What about you?  Is your internal garden ready for planting of the new? Are you ready for a new and probably intense summer, fall and winter? Or are there patterns that are still holding you back?  Places you feel stuck?  Habits or fears that make going forward difficult?  A major source of these patterns is past trauma.  RPT clears trauma with ease because it gets to the core of the issues without having to re-experience it.

I've not written for a while because RPT has been undergoing more changes and I've been waiting till I understand these changes so that any work I do with you reflects the newest and latest updates.  I've been watching videos provided for teachers from Simon's new work, being a part of telephone conference calls, discussing these changes with a fellow teacher and using them with my continuing clients with great success. 

Now it's your turn.  Through the month of March I'm offering several of my amazing Spring Cleaning Packages --

•     The Basic - 3 private appointments (60 to 70 minutes each) for $335.00.  
•     Four for Four Special - Want more, you can do 4 for $400.00
•     Spring Clean-up - or if you have a ton of stuff you'd like to tackle, then 5 for $475.00. 

Continuing Coaching.  I have one client who wanted my on-going availability for coaching throughout the year, so I gave that client a special package 10 sessions for $800.00.   I'm offering the same option to two of you through March 15. (Note:  It's limited to the first 2 who contact me.)  This package can be used at any time throughout 2012.  (Also note that sessions that go for more than 70 minutes are charged according the the time they take  e. g. 90 minutes = 1.5 sessions.) 

Call me to learn more -- 818-590-0062.  I love talking about the power of the new RPT.  If one of these packages is something you want, I'll send you a link so that you can pay via credit card. 

Spring Ahead Teleclass:  There will be an upcoming 6- evening Teleclass starting on Monday March 26 at 6 p.m.  Each class will cover clearing patterns in different areas. 

    Class 1 -- Introduction, intention setting, hidden gain and general emotional work.

    Class 2 -- Trauma patterns

    Class 3 -- Food Cravings and addictions

    Class 4 -- Food Cravings and addictions  (this is an intense subject, so I've alloted 2 nights)

    Class 5 -- Fears, Phobias and Opening to the New

    Class 6 -- Wrap up, setting intentions for new growth

I will be integrating the new RPT concepts in my work with you in these classes. 

Want to know more, call me  818-590-0062.  Sign up for the class by March 15 and it's $95.00.  Sign up later and its $135.00. Want the class and a 60 to 70 minute private session, sign up by 3/15  and it's $175.00 and $195 after the 15th. This is a credit card payment link (you just need to fill in the amount.)

New Testimonials: 

Lately I've been working with couples and relationships between individuals. As an aside, I taught communication skills in the corporate arena and that's been a powerful addition to the clearing work.  Especially in understanding why what your friend or lover said is not what you heard.  And in learning how to be heard.  Here's what one couple has to say. 

Suzanne has a gift for working with couples.  We have been able to bring her a problem that we are dealing with, and often just by clearing it in one person, she has been able to clear the problem for the both of us.  She gets to the root what is really blocking us instead of what we think is blocking us.  Instead of us getting bogged down with who is right and who is wrong, she clears the old feelings out so that we can be happy and successful as a couple.  R & M

 Another interesting client sent me their testimonial below. 

My name is Magdalena; I have received a very profound healing therapy by Suzanne Peters. I had multiple personalities that were caused by the abuse I suffered as a child. I had one session with Suzanne she was able to integrate them. I highly recommend her, she has the knowledge, compassion and understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving -- Gratitude and Thanks to You!

I was in a workshop recently and each of us received a small stone with a word on it.  My word was "gratitude".  The stone seemed to me a message from the universe -- a watch word if you will.  "Look around you and see all that you can be grateful for."

There is so much in my life that I'm grateful for -- wonderful friends, a great place to live, a car I love and enjoy, great food, a life that has me continually learning and growing, people around me that inspire me and sometimes "kick my butt."  There are many things present now in my life that were not present 2 years or so ago.  I feel as if I am a totally different person, more present, more loving, more self-motivated (as opposed to being motivated by fear or anger), happier even when life has its ups and downs (as it always does).

Please receive my gratitude, my thanks to you for being in my life.  I appreciate you and appreciate what you have brought to me.

One of those gifts from the universe for which I feel tremendously grateful is Reference Point Therapy.  It has changed my life and given me a tool to handle the ups and downs that the tumultuous energy of the times seems to generate on a continuing basis. I use it on myself all the time. 

What do I use it for?

I use it when:

•     I'm angry or feeling treated unfairly
•     I just can't get something out of my mind (better known as obsessive behavior)
•     fear is keeping me from moving forward
•     relationships (family, friends, or romantic) are trigger fiery or depressed emotions
•     the holidays trigger feelings of being lonely or abandoned
•     somethings out of balance in my life
•     my internal critic is outdoing her self with advice, judgements and general nagging
•     there's something I'm afraid of
•     I'm procrastinating
•     I'm stalling
•     an old trauma from childhood or before surfaces (I've used it on clients for PTSD)

These are just a few of the ways I use reference point therapy.  And since I know that it's made major changes in my life and in the lives of my clients, I wanted you to have a chance to experience it for the first time, or have it in your life in an ongoing basis.  

So, in keeps with all the Thanksgiving Black Friday sales, I'm having one too.  Here's my Thanksgiving Black Friday Specials.

For First Timers:  My normal 1-hr appointment is $125.00.  If you want to try out an hour, through the weekend (thru November 27) 1-hr (60-70 min.) will be $97.00. (Save $28.00)

Buy it now, you can schedule at your convenience.

 Often major issues take more than one appointment.  Many times in life things come up that trigger us. For me I've found that while I've cleared a lot of the major issues, from time to time there are still things that trigger me.  Relationships, health, lack of support etc.   In keeping with Black Friday, I'm offering you the opportunity to get 5 1-hr. sessions for .... wait for it....

$400.00.  This will be good only Thru Friday, November 25, midnight.  This is a savings of $45.00 on every 1-hr. appointment.  (NOTE: if a single appointment goes 2 hours, then I deduct 2 sessions.  This is not refundable, but it is transferable - meaning you can give a session to someone else. ) I won't be offering this again this year, so if it's something you want, take advantage of it now.  I'm limiting the number of these packages you can buy to 3.  That breaks down to a session a month over the next year at this phenomenal price.  

Click here to buy 5 1-hr sessions for $400.00.

 

Watering, Weeding & Feeding Your Garden

I'm betting the above headline seems pretty strange to see on an RPT website.  And if it were really about gardening you'd be right.  However, our lives are really our most intimate gardens.  How well do we tend them?  Pruning, and weeding and feeding and making sure there's enough energy flow (water) to ensure vibrant hydration? 

This comparison came to me as I was sitting in my organic vegetable garden this morning realizing that there were some plants that were getting droopy, thus indicating their need for water. As I watered I noticed new weeds.  Someone once defined weed for me as anything that is growing where it shouldn't be.  After watering and chatting with some of my plants, I spent some time sitting quietly just being with the whole garden.  The analogy between my life and the garden just popped up as a part of this quiet presence. 

Our lives require constant care, love, nurturing, weeding and pruning.  Our weeds are our negative emotions, the triggers that lead us down reactive paths we would prefer not to travel.  And just like weeds, they are in the wrong place.  Fear and anger are good examples.  Fear can be appropriate.  It can also be cripling, preventing growth and accomplishment.  If it's appropriate, because there's a snake in your path, or a warning sign then it's not a weed.  If on the other hand, fear keeps you home when venturing in the world would be to your advantage, it's a weed.  The same for anger.

There are many modalities that assist us to feed, nurture, weed our gardens including Reference Point Therapy.  I'm offering a teleclass class that will allow us to do just that. the teleclass is called Clearing the Way and It starts on Monday, August 1 at 6 p.m. pacific.  Right now the cost is $127.00 but on Sunday at mightnight it becomes $147.00.  Here's the details.

What is it you'd like to clear the way for?

• Feeling loved and nurtured
• Satisfying and Fulfilling Relationships
• Spiritual enlightenment
• Fuller Ascension Energy
• Luxuriant Abundance
• Steady Flow of Money
• Vibrant Health
• Career change or expansion
• Or something else?

Let's clear the way together in my upcoming 6-part teleclass.  We'll start on August 1, the beginning of Mercury Retrograde which is always about revisiting and clearing out the past. As we emerge from Mercury retrograde we'll be ready to move forward and harvest the fruits of our work.  What if having what we desire is about our relationship with the universe, with reality?  Is your universe a strict parent from whom you are continually begging for what you want?  Or, is your relationship with the universe that of a friend, a companion, a loving partner that provides for you in all situations? 

6 p.m. Pacific for 1.5. to 2 hrs -- 5 consecutive Mondays -- August 1 through August 29 and Monday, September 12

Class 1 -- Feeling Loved and Nurtured -- We start here because how you feel inside often determine our outer reality.  What do you associate with love, with feeling nurtured?  Many of us went through a barbaric birth process that included pain, separation from our support system with no immediate replacement of that support, feeling abandoned and alone (down the hall in a box in some sterile hospital room).  And yet we survived.  Maybe shortly after that ordeal we experienced the nurturing love from our mother.  Guess what?  There's a possibility in that scenario that nurturing is associated with pain, aloneness and abandonment.  What does that mean to you?  It means that every time you focus on feeling nurtured, up comes the energy to create what leads to it (at least in your internal wiring) -- aloneness, abandonment, pain.  That's an energy you might not want to be generating into your reality.

Once the associations are cleared, we'll be experiencing a meditation to allow the deep, full, complete knowing and awareness of feeling loved and nurtured to be present in each moment. 

Class 2 -- Satisfying and Fulfilling Relationships -- What do you always get instead?  Is it abandonment?  In spite of the desire and longing for belonging and being a partner in a full joyous relationship, do you often end up alone and disappointed?  Are there patterns that repeat over and over in your relationships? We are going to be clearing out the associations that are creating this reality. 

In this class meditation we'll create a vision of you in fulfilling and satisfying relationships.

Class 3 -- Spiritual Enlightenment and Ascension Energy in this Reality -- What is enlightenment or better yet what are the feelings of enlightenment?  Bliss?  Peace?  Stillness?  Happiness?  Joy?  In my work I've found over and over again that these enlightenment feelings are often associated with something negative like anger, rage, fear, pain, disappointment, emptiness, aloneness, feeling trapped, feeling unsafe and on and on.  When that kind of association exists, then every time you take a step toward, attempt to achieve one of the above states, then up comes the negative as well.  We'll be exploring how these associations are made, and allowing them to dissolve. 

This night's meditation will expand us into the fullness of our spiritual beingness and the feelings of bliss, peace, happiness, joy and love that are who we really are.

Class 4 -- Your Purpose, Passion and Career Expansion --  Do you feel like you are on purpose?  Have you always thought that your purpose was something you had to DO?  What if it's the energy with which you BE here in this reality.  In this class we'll be exploring the ideas and illusions of purpose and clearing the associations we've attached to being "on purpose."  The meditation will allow us to re-experience our purpose in the context of beingness and to see, feel and know the expansion we desire.

Class 5 -- Vibrant Health -- What is vibrant health?  Feeling and being pain-free, having an abundance of energy, being free from illness, or just waking up feeling great and ready to embrace the day?  Almost always the concept of health includes the body.  And, many of us feel that the messages (pain, disease, illness) from the body have an emotional component.  Yes, we could do a whole teleclass series on this.  For this evening we are going to explore what creates body/mind, or body/ heart conflicts and how we can resolve them.  We'll work on it in class and there will be worksheets in your workbook that allow you to continue the work on your own.  In the meditation we'll clear psychic or emotional energies that may be clogged in the cells and connective tissue of the body.

Class 6 - Alignment and Abundance -- If our mind is directing us logically and reasonably in one direction and the heart longs to go in another direction, and the body feels unsafe with either option, what do you think happens within us?  If you said something like, paralysis, feelings of being stuck, conflict, mixed messages to the universe you would be right on target.  By this point in the class we will have cleared a tremendous amount.  Tonight we will be focusing on creating the "one-mindedness" of the alignment of mind, heart and body.  We'll clear associations in the way, and the meditation will allow us to experience this alignment in a powerful way. 

Then we'll use the power we feel to communicate a reality of luxuriant abundance and a steady abundant flow of money to a reality that is our companion and friend.

Your Workbook:  There will be worksheets for every class.  You will have the opportunity - after the first class (which will include information on how to use the workbook and worksheet) -- to fill out the worksheets ahead of time, so you know what associations need to be cleared.  Clearing associations in a group environment is very powerful.  Almost always the negative way one person is wired creates a powerful clearing for the rest of us as well.  There will be a beginning workbook and then as we learn and grow together and make changes, you will get the changes in a revised workbook after the end of the class.

Class Starts, Monday, August 1 at 6:00 p.m. Pacific. - goes for 5 consecutive Mondays, skips Labor Day and the last class is on September 12.  

Each class will be from 1.5 to 2 hours.  There will be general information, some individual work and time for questions.  Every class will include a powerful meditation.  All classes will be recorded.

Cost:  $147.00.  Register NOW to SAVE!!!
From July 24, thru July 31, $127.00, July 25 and after $147.00.  Click this link and fill in the amount and the class name under description (Clearing the Way).  SIGN UP NOW

Don't Miss this class and the amazing workbook that you will be able to use over and over again.  Sign Up Here.

http://www.referencepointtherapyla.com/paymentrpt.html

Call me to learn more!  818-590-0062

With love and blessings,
Suzanne


About Suzanne Peters: 

Suzanne's personal growth journey has taken her on a 30-year quest – exploring many change and growth modalities.  Her background is as a management consultant, business leadership trainer, and entrepreneur, as well as a certified coach and practitioner of several change modalities including reference point therapy.  Currently she teaches and practices in Pasadena, CA.  For more information, go to www.ReferencePointTherapyLA.com/about.

 

 

A Butterfly in my Garden

It's been very hot in Pasadena -- triple digits projected as a high today -- so I was watering my garden this morning before any of my little plant friends experienced the "droopies" from the heat.  All of a sudden I spied a monarch butterfly on a lilac colored oregano flower.  Just yesterday at my yard sale we had been discussing a Monarch Butterfly photo of mine that was taken in Maryland. That discussion included Monarchs on the West coast and of course mentioned the groves of butterflies up the coast.  Wow, now I was seeing one in my garden. 

I didn't even argue with myself about whether it would be there when I got back, I went immediately into the house to get my camera.  When I returned of course it was no longer perched on the oregano.  A little voice within me said, "It's still here, just look around."  I listened, looked and there it was behind me and to my left on a cucumber leaf.  Thus, the above photograph. 

Why am I telling you this story? 

Because there was a time (not so very long ago, before RPT) when I would have argued with myself about making the effort to get the camera.  That voice inside would have said, "It'll never be here when you return."  "It's no use, you can't get close enough."  "Are you sure it's a Monarch?"  "Oh it's gone.  I told you it was no use." And on and on -- until the butterfly did indeed fly away, or the opportunity that had presented itself vaporized. Has this ever happened to you?

What I noticed this morning was that there was no argument, no hesitation, I retrieved my camera and listened to the voice that said, "Look around."  And there is was, as witnessed by the photo above.

In Reference Point Therapy logo the Monarch is a symbol of the transformation of our DNA.  I call that transformation "moving molecules around" so the energetic biological blueprint is different. 

Why do I call it a blueprint?

Metaphorically, I see that we have an internal set of plans from which our physical reality is continually building and re-building itself.  I call it a blueprint, though probably that's not a totally correct use of the term.  As I see it this blueprint is responsible for our automatic reactions and responses, for our feelings and ultimately for our beliefs.  It determines the structure, function and actions of our biology in the physical reality. 

Safe versus Unsafe

It's the reason we feel unsafe when there's no logical reason to feel unsafe.  Our biological blueprint holds the plans for our unconscious wiring -- the key associations to many reactions we don't understand.  Keeping the physical biology safe and providing for it's survival are two very important instinctual drives programmed into most if not all living things on this planet.  You can see it in fish, mammals and even in plants.  Why would we be different? 

When the blueprint's wires get crossed...

As little children we make meaning in ways that have little or nothing to do with the reality of the situation.  For example, last night I was working with a client who had an association of being present with someone wired to a threat to survival.  This association was created when the client was very young, and it was coloring all social interactions including friendships and relationships.  Of course there was more, but I think you get the idea with this example.  Associations that run (or ruin from our point of view) our lives can be created before we are born, when we are very young and experience trauma or during traumatic situations (spousal abuse, war, hazing) in later life.   If you want to know more about how early associations may be affecting you, call me at 818-590-0062.

Reference Point Therapy allows us to dissolve the associations, thus changing the blueprint.  I notice the changes in my life on a frequent basis - which is why I told you the story above.  My clients call me up just to tell me about how situations in their lives have changed and they are sure it is the result of our RPT work.  I'd be happy to talk with you about what it might mean for you. 818-590-0062

 

 

 

 

RPT and the Stressors of Life

Finding Peace on the Sometimes Rocky Boat of Life
To find RPT classes, scroll to the bottom.

I just read an amazing book -- Power Up Your Brain, The Neuroscience of Enlightenment.  Much of the science discussed in the book is about the ways that our instinctual drives and desires get wired in and dictate our responses/reactions to the events of life.  In it the authors define stress in general as the amount of resistance a material offers to being reshaped and reformed.  They divide stress into acute and chronic, with acute being those short-lived situations that involve responding in a new and creative way.  These are the situations that lead us into growth and learning. 

Chronic stress is both physically, mentally and emotionally debilitating - the kind of stress where difficult situations occur over and over.  A few situaitons might be financial stress, relationship difficulties or physical stressors (when your cells are continuously burdened with eliminating toxic wastes and heavy metals acquired form a polluted environment and now stored within the cell wall).  Reactions to this kind of stress become wired into our neural pathways.  These associations can be wired in before birth or all the years after. 

Two quotes about this seemed vitally important to me.

Chronic stress can lead to a rut in which the wiring of our neural networks keeps us repeating the same dysfunctional behavior and hoping for a different outcome. ... Because of the way our brains have been wired by stress and trauma, we're unable to think or feel our way out of personal crisis.  (Power up Your Brain, pp.61)

As I thought about this, I realized that there are few of us in today's modern world that do not often experience situations that could cause chronic stress. For example if I look at my own life -- I have a wonderful house I love, in a very noisy area with construction going on about a quarter of a block behind me and a ceramic tile retail outlet that is often cutting time (terrible grinding noise) on the northern side of me.  I know that there are toxins in the air from the construction and from the tile cutting.  And, the noise level during the day is high.  So it would stand to reason that from this situation alone I am in a position to experience chronic stress.  So too is someone who commutes in traffic, or is in chronic stress from their business or the health of a loved one.  What are the chronic stressors in your life?

Why am I taking the time to write about all this? 

Well, stress causes the body to go into "fight or flight" and when that happens it releases cortisol and adrenaline - steroids which on a limited basis allow us to respond successfully to the immediate stressors.  Chronic stress means that we get stuck in the fight or flight position and thus the body is releasing these hormones all the time.  Constant release of adrenaline depeletes our energy reserves leading to extreme exhaustion and cortisol over time destorys the hippocampus defined by Wikipedia as A peninsula-shaped structure in the middle of the brain that is crucial for learning as well as for consolidating long-term explicit memories.

So if our learning from past experience is limited, what happens.  We repeat the same behaviors over and over again and each time it becomes more difficult to break out of this "behavioral rut."  And, often each time we repeat that behavior it gets wired or connected with our continued survival or safety and sometimes even more positive feelings like happiness, joy, aliveness, peace, etc. 

Of course, the authors have their own way of dealing with this potential continuing damage to our brains involving nutrition and daily meditaiton, both of which are very important.

What if there's a way to quickly release both the reaction and the original trauma that is triggering the reaction? 
By releasing the orignal trauma and the associations that have accumulated over time, we can much more easily find a neutral and peaceful place in the face of chronic stressors. 

Just becaue the stessors are there doesn't mean we have to stay in chronic stress. 

I just had a very stressful occurance just last night.  It is one that would have debilitated me in the past.  One where I might have gone over and over the situation thinking about what I could have done differently -- fretting and worrying.  This time I used RPT to locate where this situation was triggering my deep instinctual tones or vibrations of survival and safety -- fight or flight.  It took an hour or so, and I was able to find a more balanced peaceful place inside myself.  The situation is still out there in my world -- how I'm reacting to it is totally different.  I credit Reference Point Therapy with this ability to allow my reactions to be rapidly neutralized.  Without the calming from the RPT work, writing this article would have been difficult, if not impossible.  Learning RPT is one of the best things I've ever done, and teaching it is the next best. 

RPT classes coming up. 

The level one RPT class teaches you everything you need to know in order to practice bringing balance to incidents like the one I describe above.  You get to practice the RPT 3.0 Head, Heart, Gut technique, ask questions, see demonstrations and learn other uses.  As a graduate of LEVEL1 (2-day course) you will be able to work on yourself and friends and family.  Learn more about LEVEL 1 here.

LEVEL 2 (3-day course) is currently the Practitioner level.  Learn more about it here.

LEVEL 3 (a 12 day course) puts you on the road to becoming an instructor.  By the way, Level 3 is going to be in Los Angeles in late August.  (Levels 1 and 2 are required for Level 3.)

Level 1 Reference Point Therapy in Los Angeles -- June 4, 5.  The early bird is alread passed for this workshop, but if you respond to this email by Thursday, May 26, you can still get the $350.00 price. This is available only on my web site.  Go here to get this now.  There will be another Level 1 class on June 11. 12.  Go here to register for that one.

There'll be a Level 2 on June 24, 25, 26 in case you want to be on the fast track to becoming a practitioner. Go here to register.

With love and blessings,
Suzanne Peters
818-590-0062

Interested in a private appointment, call me to get a special rate.

Level 2 - Wow! Vacation and Special Offer

Level 2 - WOW!

Just finished teaching Level 2.  What a special workshop.  What a priviledge and honor to be able to teach this life transforming class.  I am so grateful to have had the opportunity for all the growth and learning as my students were also my teachers this weekend.

Vacation and Special Offer

On Thursday I'm leaving for the East Coast and some play time with an old friend.  In order to have some extra play money, I'm offering several specials.  There are only a limited number of these opportunities available and then the package will go back to the regular price.   A session is 60 t0 70 minutes and can be done in person, on the phone or on video skype.  If you know one of these is for you, act now because the availability is limited.  Go to this link, writing in the description and price listed under special price.  You can schedule the sessions at your convenience when I return on May 19.

Special Prices Available through Friday, May 13.

Act Now by clicking here.

Sessions	Reg. Price	Special Price	Availability
1 session (60 to 70 min.)	$167.00	$137.00	5 available
3 sessions*	$375.00	$325.00	2 available
5 sessions*	$575.00	$500.00	2 available
10 sessions*	$1100.00	$997.00	2 available
Declare Your Freedom Package	$1297.00	$997.00	1 available
Become Your Own Miracle Maker	$1797	$997.00	1 available

Awakening, Spring and Reference Point Therapy

Awakening is all around me.  It's been a rainy time in our Southern California winter and now the sun shines bright and warm.  With it comes the sprouting of many surprises -- for example I have "volunteer" lettuces in almost every bed in my garden, and arugula and mustard greens as well.  Dandelion greens and their brilliant yellow sun blossoms abound.  Apple and cherry trees full with the flowering that announces the birth of new fruit, scent the air. Bees are buzzin and doing their pollen thing.  I looked into my backyard and was surprised at the life (bugs, bees, butterflies) could be seen alive and vital in the morning air.

What is already present is awakening, allowing the seeds to spring from the Earth, grow and blossom into the fullness of each potential.  We, too, started as a seed, a follicle really. Our existence began as a tiny little cell that would eventually become an egg and the largest type of cell in the human body.  Out of over 2 million eggs anywhere from 1 to X (usually 2 or 3, but sometimes 10 or 12 or more) actually joined with a sperm and made it through an often harrowing adventure to become you, me and our siblings. 

That journey has the power to affect who we are and how we react or respond to all the twists and turns, bumps and potholes, and surprise roadblocks of life. Have you ever wondered about all this.  If so, listen to the audio in the left hand column or call me, I'd love to tell you more about it. 

The amazing thing is that we can allow the energetic occurrences of our pre-birth existence, and the traumas of our birth to dissolve and lift away from who we are, thus allowing more of the magnificient multicolored flower of our potential to emerge.  Reference Point Therapy is one way to accomplish this. 

Want to learn more, call me 818-590-0062.  Want to learn how to do Reference Point Therapy for yourself, there's a class on April 16, 17.  Go here to learn more. 

And, whether you call me or not, stop for just a moment and ENJOY!  Listen for the bird song, notice what colors are around you, feel the vibration of life as a bee nuzzles his way into the heart of the nearest source of pollen nectar.  Take a moment and ENJOY! Let me know what you see.

If you want to take the class, and let me know you read this email - it's worth $25.00 to you.  Call me at 818-590-0062 for a special link for $25.00 over the standard tuition.

Comment on my blog and Tell me what you see when you take that moment and be eligible to win a free 45 min. private rpt session with me. 

 

New Reference Point Therapy Level 1 Scheduled

Spring is here and with it time for new growth.  In keeping with that, I'll be teaching the updated Reference Point Therapy Level 1 class in Pasadena on Saturday and Sunday, April 16, 17.

In the Level 1, we focus on the "how to" of the RPT process which allows you to make personal changes in patterns and situations which may not be fully working for you now.  We also show you how to truly "Be" your magnificent "Beingness". This is a powerful course in "instant transformations". The focus is on truly getting to the bottom of things, and teaches a whole new model of personal change.

    Day 1 Covers:

• "being" instead of "connecting"
• "allowing" instead of "healing"
• a new way to do Body Scans that is much less invasive and much, much easier
• truly getting to the bottom of things - why the new triune brain model completely replaces "belief work"; and
• one full supervised healing swap (about 1 - 1.5 hours each) so that you can make a massive transformation under our supervision.

    Day 2 Covers:

• finding the hidden instinctual drives that often cause patterns to return after they clear
• understanding how our ancestry contributes to our limiting patterns and how to clear them
• healing pets from a different perspective;
• energy clearings (people and land);
• opening up to "intuitive guidance"; and
• a second healing full healing swap under our supervision for even more significant life changes.

The hours are from 9:20 to 5:30 ish.  There is an extensive manual that comes with this course.

For lunch there are several nearby restuarants and on one of the days "weather permitting" we will have lunch on the lawn with organic greens fresh picked in the morning from my garden ($5.00 donation) and other things class participants bring to share.Our lunches are a great time to continue the learning and informally discuss and ask questions about the process.

Want more info, call me, Suzanne Peters, 818-590-0062

 

The Joy of Movement and This Moment

Last night Jo Cobbit, 5-Rhythms free expression dance teacher, came to Alta Dena to the IAM Jam and I was once again reminded of the joy of movement, of dance that is without constraint (read steps) and all that is required is to be present with the music.  There's no judgement, at least from outside you so that means any judgement is from within -- which it always is anyway and this is a great place to see that.  For any piece of music, if there are 30 dancers on the floor there will be 30 different ways in which bodies express to the music.  There's no right or wrong way to move.  It's just you and the music and your body.

Jo encouraged us to dance our feelings about what's going on in the world -- whether it's saddness, fear, pain, compassion, love -- whever the feeling, just allowiing our bodies to have the freedom of that expression in the moment without suppression or stifling or hiding the feelings there.  There's no certain way this is supposed to look or feel -- it just is -- in each moment.  Right now I'm struggling with words to express the freedom this allows. Today my body feels lighter, younger, and more at ease.

So often in myself and my clients I find that we edit, filter, hold back, hide, stifle, suppress or just plain deny these deeper body/biology feelings and triggers or responses to the trauma we see around us.  David Bercelli, who works with trauma and PTSD victims all over the world says that the body stores the memory of past events as much as the mind does.  In my work with trauma and abuse victims I have found this to be true.  The body, the biology is much more concerned with deep instinctual responses such as survival, safety, sustenance, continuation of the species to name a few of our instinctual responses. It is these drives that often re-create beliefs and emotions that we work so hard to change.

As I watched the videos of the tsunami that engulfed the Japanese villages, tossing about cars and fishing boats like plastic toys in a bathtub, moving a whole village including burning buildings, I was stuck by the power of the water and the powerlessness of a single individual or even a group of individuals to obstruct it.  Watching this triggers our own experiences (whether from this life or inherited) of disaster, loss, powerlessness, threats of our survival and feelings of being unsafe.  It's pretty well impossible to avoid the chaos of what's happening around us -- whether in our own country or abroad. 

If you are feeling anxious, unsafe, threatened, powerless or just plain scared by what is going on right now, Reference Point Therapy is a way to release these feelings and move to a more neutral and balanced place.  Can it change what's happening?  No.  The road in the world right now is very rocky and rough.  What RPT can do is change our suspension system -- like a vehicle with exceptional shock absorbers -- the ride is much easier when the deep emotional reactions are allowed to release. 

As I was dancing last night, at some point I began to feel gratitude for my own existence and a realization that as long as I was here, I had a purpose and that purpose was to be as balanced as possible and to be the example, the contributor, of that energy in the world.  Each of us contributes to the energy around us in every moment.  What are we contributing -- joy?  or fear?  peacefulness? or feelings of flight or attack?  We may not have a choice about where the next natural disaster will hit. We do have a choice of how balanced we can be throughout that process whether it's next door or around the world. If you have past memories of threat or trauma or associations with anxiety and survival, worry and survival, with fear and survival, then it will be much more difficult for you to maintain balance.  How does one make these associations? Call me if you want to know more and we can discuss this -- 818-590-0062.

When people ask me why I love RPT, this is the reason.  I have found that the work I've done on myself -- the 20 plus Key Developmental Points that I cleared during and after the Level 2 workshop (offered to you in the Declare Your Freedom Package) and the work durng 2 Level 3 workshops (offered to you in the Be Your Own Miracle Maker Package) has given me a peaceful, quiet mind even in the midst of chaos.  Earthquakes and tsumani's are happening all around - those that are pictured on the news and our own personal ones like the loss of a loved one, health  or financial difficulties. 

Special Introductory Offer.  If you've been thinking of trying RPT, here's a special offer just for you and only good this week.  If you've not worked with me before, then your first 1-hr (60 to 70 minute) appointment is only $97.00.  That's a savings of $70.00.  I work by phone, skype or in person. Call me for a link to sign up -- I'm not putting this one on my web site.  818-590-0062. 

Procrastination & Reference Point Therapy

Is procrastination something you wish wasn't a part of your life?  I know people who have that facility to decide on a project, and follow it all the way through easily and quickly, each step just seeming to emerge with flow from the last.  And, lately I've had that happen for me as well.  I attribute that to my work on myself with Reference Point Therapy (RPT) In the past, however, I would get things started and then either not finish them or delay for a long time before completion. I know how debilitating procrastination can feel.

Over my years as a leadership development trainer in business, I've become familiar with a number of personality type indicators that are designed to understand how a person functions. Probably one of the most famous is the MBTI Personality Test (Myers and Briggs Type Indicator). One of the four continuum's is an indicator of how you like to structure your outer world.  In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options?  Often called Judging (quick decision makers) or Perceiving (always wanting new or more information), our tendency to procrastinate usually finds us typed on the "P" side of the scale.  Maybe the letter "p" used in this scale is a coincidence and maybe not.  

Knowing that you are one of those folks who delay or wait or hold out for more information, insight or awareness can be helpful knowledge.  Sometimes when you are aware of something you can recognize and navigate through it more easily.  When this tendency becomes personally annoying or actually impedes our forward movement and success it is time for more than just information.  It is time to consider action. 

What actions can you take that effectively lessen or dissolve the tendencies toward procrastination.  Traditional analysis and therapy is one option, and it takes a long, long time.  Another might be work that changes beliefs about delaying or acting.  When the procrastination is at the mental or ego level, then this work can be effective as well.  Procrastination is usually at a much deeper and more instinctual level, thus rendering belief work ineffective or only partially effective. (Also, changing beliefs at the neocortex level of the brain while leaving associations at the more instintual level in place can create great interal conflict and even more paralysis.) Reference Point Therapy is the fastest and most effective modality for change at the instinctual level, that I've ever found and I've searched for 40 plus years.  

What do you mean by  a deeper or instinctual level?  At the level of our biology, the instinctual or r-complex brain often drives our behavior.  Stated simply, procrastination is a type of paralysis.  And freezing or paralysis is a safety and survival mechanism.  In my clients I have found the connection/association of delaying action with safety and survival.  Another way this can be wired is that taking action or completion is associated with danger, loss or emotional or physical pain of some kind.  Of course, each case/individual is different. 

I've had some amazing success with various types of procrastination using Reference Point Therapy.  One client wasn't finishing business proposals because it meant ending the relationships with the client and it was keeping the relationship active that gave my client a feeling of connection.  At the end of our session completing the four proposals that were hanging out, seemed easy and doable and actually inviting where before there was a feeling of great resistance. 

Is procrastination an issue for you?  Call me and let's talk about how RPT can help (818-590-0062).  Better yet, sign up for my new Spring Cleaning Package. Click here to learn more.  If you act by March 11, there's a bonus available.  Click here to learn more. 

Spring Cleaning With Reference Point Therapy

In Southern California spring is pretty much here -- fruit trees are blooming, red, yellow and orange iceberg poppies decorate gardens as do graceful iris in their many shades.  While I know there's still 3 feet of snow some places in the eastern United States, spring is not far away there either.  In Chinese medicine Spring is the season of greening and renewal. It is a time for stretching and movement. 

I remember the idea of "spring cleaning" from my childhood.  It is a time for cleaning out the old so the new can flourish and shine.  Whether it's your garden beds, your house or your inner being, now is an excellent time to allow old patterns to dissolve away freeing up inner garden space for the full flourishing of who you are. Perhaps you've already started cleaning out your office, or closets, or just giving everything in your home a thorough once over.  Now, it's time for cleaning your inner environment.

One way to begin the spring cleaning process is to spend some time focusing on the inner.  Where is it cluttered in your life?  Where are fears holding you back?  What is your vision of the coming year.  What do you see or hear when you focus on your vision?  If it's limiting or negative, these are the blocks.  Prepare for the newness of Spring by meditating or journaling about these questions. However, If these blocks have been reappearing every time you engage in a process like this, then perhaps it's time for something more powerful to open your journey into the emergence of Spring. 

That's where Reference Point Therapy comes in.  It is a fast, effective method of clearing away the cobwebs of our past, of preparing our inner soil for the emergence of new energy, and allowing the full emergence of the magnificent beings we are.  (Experience your amazing beingingness by downloading my BeingNess Meditation - look in the upper right hand column.)

So in keeping with the season, I'm offering a spring cleaning special of 3 sessions for $377.00.  You may schedule these at your convenience.

Would this package work for You?  How would you like to use your sessions? Check out the questions below. 

Are fears of failure keeping you from realizing your dreams?

Is the energy of your life choked up with clutter because of hoarding tendencies?

Does procrastination keep you from taking acting?

Are decisons difficult for you to make?

Are you tired of being alone and wish there was a special someone in your life?

Is the abundance you desire just out of reach?

Because of past abuse, do you constantly feel unsafe?

Do you often feel invisible in your career?

Have the same career or business difficulties come up over and over even though you've changed jobs? 

Do you find it impossible to think and feel positively, even though you know how important that is to creating your reality?

If you've answered Yes to any of the above, this Spring Cleaning Special is a great place to start. Often, the energetic occurrences that keep these patterns in play occurred even before we were born, and some of them are inherited.  Reference Point Therapy assists you to allow these constraints to lift away, to dissolve limitations so that you can move freely, take clear and decisive action, experience success without immediate blocks or disappointments. 

In the 3-session package, we set clear goals and intentions, and establish a base line of where you are now, so you'll be able to know and acknowledge the movement you've made. At the end of every appointment and in the last session we'll again revisit the intentions we've set to monitor your progress. To learn more or sign up now, click here.

If you have questions about what Reference Point Therapy can do for you, call me at 818-590-0062.

Limited Time Offer: The Spring Cleaning Package is a limited time offer -- through March.  The usual price for these sessions would be a minimum of $500.00. 

Bonus:  If you sign up within the next 5 days (by March 11), I'll include The Abundance Faucet - separate Process and Appointment as an add on (another $167.00 value). Sign up now and you save $290 over what you would pay normally.  To learn more about The Abundance Faucet, click here.

Now working in Video Skype for personal appointment

Just finished my first Video Skype session.  Thought I'd share with you what he had to say.

 

I hired Suzanne to work with me regarding issues professionally that I believed RPT would help me 'smooth out'. In our first session we got to the root of some personal relationship issues I had been wrestling with ... literally for years.

Our next session got to the foundation of some professional business dealings I have been struggling to push through. While there is still more work to be done, I am hopeful and confident that this is going to help immensely. She is worth the money, and I can happily say that the return on this investment is already being realized.

Suzanne is the real deal. No smoke, no mirrors. Just good old fashion hard work with an able bodied person who is both professional and personal. She cares about your success. For whatever reason you have found your way to her ... congratulations. I am hopeful she will be as successful with your concerns as she has been with mine. Good luck!

Anthony De Vito
President, CEO
www.GreenPowerSystems.ORG

Intro To Reference Point Therapy -- a downloadable talk

This is a talk I gave to an a group interested in understanding Reference Point Therapy.  Would love to hear your comments.

Click here to download. 

Welcoming 2011 -- Happy New Year!

May it be a year of many, many experiences in happiness.  I realized recently that we have thousands of years of experiencing fear and its many components.  What if we did that sort of exploration of the many experiences of happiness.  How many experiences of happiness could it be hundreds of thousands, millions, or could it be trillions or zillions. I'll go for zillions, how about you?

Loving you and wishing you magic, wonder, joy, happiness and fun in this new year. 

You're Invited Holiday Meditation - Visioning a Planetary Awareness of Our Grandness

Free Telephone Holiday Beingness Meditation --
Visioning a Planetary Awareness of the Amazing Grandness of Who We Truly Are 

December 23, 6 pm Pacific Time  30 minutes

Happy Holidays, or Merry Christma-hana-quanzi-kah -- which pretty well includes everyone at this time of year.  A friend offered me this greeting the other day and I thought it was great.

Whatever holiday you celebrate, it's a time of year for joy and upliftment - a time for giving and receiving.  So I wanted to add my own gift to you, a brief guided meditation visioning and celebrating the awakening of a planet wide realization of who we are - the amazing grand beings that we are -- perfect, brilliant diamonds, shining our light and unique gifts in the world.

Imagine being on a planet in which everyone was aware of their beauty and amazing uniqueness.  How different would it be?

This Meditation will be recorded, so if you sign up you'll receive a copy.  Click here to sign up.   You will also be added to my mailing list.  If you want to be a part of the meditation and don't want to be on my mailing list for future events, then email me directly and I'll send you the information.

Time:  6 pm pacific
DATE:  December 23
email for call-in Information or click here to sign up and get call-in info.

Looking forward to being on the call with you.

The Illusion of Communication

Recently I learned again, from direct experience, just how illusive clear and connecting communication can be.  When I speak of communication, I'm talking more about dialogue, connection, exchange.  Whether it's in a heart-felt shared moment or an advertisement that touches us deeply and profoundly, or something in between that connects, we all know those moments when the communication has been clear and deep.

Or do we?  What I've seen as I taught Communication Styles and Skills in many different venues throughout this country, is that often we assume that because what we are saying touches us as we say it that it touches another the same way.  Sometimes that is true.  Sometimes it is not true.  Mostly we assume that when we say something, because we understand what we are saying, that whoever we are talking to will understand it too.  And you know what they say about AssUME-ing. 

In Reference Point Therapy we use the word acknowledge all the time.  Simon noticed as he was teaching all over the world, that people who speak English as a second language may not have a direct translation for the word acknowledge.  Recently in one of my classes a student reacted with some resistance to the idea of acknowledging and I noticed that for this student, English was not her native tongue.  I redefined the word to notice, recognize, be present with and we worked with that.  The thing is, she didn't understand why she was resistant, just that she didn't get how to make it work -- because the word actually had no meaning, thus there was no communication.  There were other issues fueling the resistance as well -- and once we had re-defined the word, then we could get to the other issues and use the magic of RPT to clear those as well.

Communication is so important to us, that there are many different models attempting to define and understand our preferences.  Many are labeled as personality models, some focus directly on our interactions with others without mentioning communication.  And, what they are all about is how we perceive, process and deliver information to one another.  Most of them revolve around a quadrant model that looks at the speed or pace and our orientation to task versus people.  All use differing words that usually mean about the same thing.  

In my journey I have either used or taught several of these models.  In giving it all some thought I realized we were really talking about communication styles. Without the awareness that there are differing styles out there most of us assume that everyone else thinks, talks, experiences just like we do.  There is an assumption that because we speak the same language, we understand what others are saying.  I found out the hard way, that is just not true. 

What does this mean?  If I talk too fast and the person to whom I'm speaking is slower paced, they won't hear much of what I'm saying.  If I tell someone a story, who needs to hear the bottom line first, they will become impatient, frustrated, and cut off listening.  Has this ever happened to you?  The frustration may take the form of the question, 'What's your point?" If I start telling someone what to do, without acknowledging them personally first, and they are a highly people oriented person, their hurt, feelings of being slighted, or other emotional reactions will very effectively block what I need to get done.  And, if I'd just said a few words of personal recognition -- like "Hi, How are you?" our whole interaction would have been much smoother.

Here's another analogy.  If I'm looking out a window, and you are looking out a window and I assume you are looking out the same window as me -- and I base all my communication on the assumption that you are seeing what I'm seeing that works well -- if we are looking out the same window at the same scene.  But, what if we aren't?  What if I'm looking out a window facing East and you are looking out the window facing West and the scenes are totally different?  What happens then?  I bet you can guess. Many situation comedy scenes are based on this premise. 

I'm sure that for some I'm written way too much at this point, and for others they want more information.  I have a friend that I ask to edit my marketing emails and she always wants to cut out the major portion of the introduction and put in bullet points.  I do put in the bullet points and then follow it with the information.  That way, she and others with her style can see the bullet points, skip the other info and go to the next set of bullet points.  Without taking the many possible views into consideration, communication can be iffy at best. 

How do you do that?  I'm going to be writing a series of article on communication.  And, I'm going to be doing a one-day class in Pasadena on December 11, and starting a teleclass in January so that more folks can acquire the skills to bridge easily and effectively between various communication styles, thus being heard, felt, and acknowledged.

Learn more about the class, here.

 

Being Present - Enjoying Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Someone just reminded me about being present in a lovely note I received. As I was reading it there were thoughts in "the back of my mind" about the blog article I wanted to write, the sauerkraut I cultured last week that is ready to put into jars, the dishes and remaining pots and pans from the Ginger-Blu natural sodas I made last night, an appointment, getting the laundry done, having breakfast, making a decision about Thanksgiving, just to name a few. I noticed that I was not fully present.  (You think?)

All responses to the internal question, what do I need to do today?   How many "to do"s are on your list for the day?  And how often does the list interfere with just "being present" in the action of the moment, in the now.  How often does internal criticism take you off to someone else's reality, rather than your own?  What else keeps you from being present? 

Thanksgiving can be a time when the focus is on gratitude and thanks giving to those around us and to the Earth that sustains us in so many ways.  What about being Thankful for this moment, right now!  For the feel of my fingers on the smooth hard keys of my laptop, for the laptop, for the thoughts that flow and are so enriched when I am just present -- not off changing clothes and mentally going down the street on an errand. 

How are you celebrating?  Are you cooking?  That's a question I've been aware of over and over this holiday.  I used to have these open TG dinners at my home with 20 or 25 folks. I had huge shoppinig lists and a time line -- at least in my head.  One of my favorite things was getting up early on Wednesday -- hitting the grocery store at 5 or 6 a.m. All the produce was freshly restocked - greens, yellows, reds, oranges of the season beckoning, enticing, exciting my senses.  I was present in the process, and now I can revisit it, be present with it again. I am grateful for those times.  And, I'm grateful for right now.

I stray from my point.  Are you focusing on the "to do's" to the extent that this moment is escaping never to be available again?  My thought is get present with the process -- not the end result.  Enjoy the shopping, the other folks -- yes, even if they are stressed, cranky, hasseled, etc.  Enjoy the time in the kitchen, chopping, mixing, baking, etc.  Even enjoy the tiredness that might be a result of all your efforts.  Enjoy what you are creating in each moment, and enjoy those around you that are a part of it.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

In this moment, in this time in my life there is so much more joy, so much more presence.  The critical voices in my head are mostly quiet, and almost never hounding or distracting.  I am grateful to Reference Point Therapy for that. Never have I known such peace. I worked with many processes, modalities, attempting to get that quiet internal space -- not in meditation -- but as I am in the process of my life. And so it is that this Thanksgiving, my heart is full of gratitude for the power of RPT, for the tool that is always at my fingertips and for the friends who have learned RPT as well and can assist when the distracting pattern of the moment is too deep for me to get to without help. Grateful too for the clients, and students who come to enjoy the results and learn the techniques (next Level 1 class December 4, 5 in Pasadena.)

What are you grateful for?  Stop right now, in this moment and just be present with whatever is in your life right NOW! If you are feeling resistance, distraction, scatteredness -- Call me:  818-590-0062 to learn how RPT can assist in allowing you to be more fully who you are.

Happy Thanksgiving -- Enjoy NOW! 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving or is it?

I love Thanksgiving whether I cook or not.  The chill in the air (slight in California, but still here), the rustic golden hues of autumn, the spicy smell of pumpkin pie or apple or sweet potato -- the amazing aroma of sage in the stuffing, the feelings of gratitude all around.  For me it's a pretty easy and enjoyable time.  I have very little family and great friends and right now not a lot to cause me stress.  The stresses that are here, I use Reference Point Therapy to ease into neutral. 

How about you?  What's it like for you? Is it a time of joy, connection, gratitude?  Or are there stresses in your family that make it more of a bumpy pot-hole filled ride that leaves you frazzled and a bit battle worn at it's end? 

Reference Point Therapy is a way to even out that bumpy ride and flow through the holidays with a lot more ease and joy.  Want to know more or schedule an RPT session, contact me at 818-590-0062.