Dear Yogis,

I was tempted just to say ..YOU ARE ALL PERFECT, and leave it at that.

You forget that, and run around trying to be all things to all people, forgetting that you are perfect as you are.  There is nothing missing.  You may not believe you are perfect, you may think you need this or that, but the truth is  WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT YOU WILL SEE IT.  You don’t have to be something else to be loved.

When you reside in your own skin you can feel it.  You are holding it.  You are stronger and braver than you think. If you want to see change, you have to be that change, keeping in mind that you need to change for yourself.  There are some situations in which you believe you will never be able to be whole.  Change. You don’t need anything.  If you make a change part of you,  Part of you may be sad, but the other part will say to you – you are OK, you will survive.  It is always a process of rediscovery.  Covid is making this level of introspection possible.  Use the time wisely.

If you get unfortunate or unpleasant things in your life, from my point of view it is because you have attracted these things into your life through your negative thoughts. If anything is the LAW OF ATTRACTION, this is it! You get what you give.  If you live negatively, that is what will return boomerang like to you. If the cup is always overflowing for you no matter the circumstances, you have brought that fullness to you.  It is not magic – it is how it works.

For myself I wish I was braver, but I am what I am.  Someone asked me yesterday… “What is the source of your strength – How come you are so strong”.  I hadn’t though of that and was surprised at their perception. I am not strong – I just expect the best….

My age helps.  I like being older.   Your age is not chronological, more spiritual, more attitudinal.  Your attitude determines your life.  First know who you are.  Find your own narrative, and to do this you have to know your parents.  Go looking – you have time.  Force yourself to figure out who they were.  I was stunned when I investigated my mother (and recently my father and grandfather) and found out who she really was, then I could understand myself better.  Like your parents, my parents couldn’t give me what they didn’t have.  It wasn’t about me! Lesson to self – It is never too late to start again.

I have a daughter and a son, and they are like me – difficult. I am so proud of what they have achieved in their lives because they never “settled”.  They strove to be the best they could be.  I have always been “difficult person”, and influenced them at a distance because of the person they thought (think) I am.  I hope that they have forgiven me. I like who I am, and I have always been on a mission in my small way to change the world one yogi at a time. I learned early on that this (mostly unconscious) drive came from my mum – she used it in the direction of the material, and I am happiest striving for the spiritual (keeping in mind I still need to pay the rent).  I didn’t and don’t need to prove anything to anyone.

Trying to be perfect is a toxic journey. We have to love our shadow.  Perfection is not required. 

Have a picture in your mind, and on your vision board of what you want – and spend a few seconds many times a day re-inforcing those visions… Vision Boards are a great project for you and your children during covid.  They are not a waste of time.  Try it and see.

Have a great (cutting and pasting) “Vision Boarding” day.

NAMASTE – JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Yesterday, after a very problematic start, I was told that Telstra was hacked.. whatever happened we only got the internet back 15 minutes before our zoom teacher training, and some other folk didn’t get theirs back until after class finished! Sorry guys.  However, everyone had such a great time that we have determined to have teacher training every Sunday fortnight at 10am in the morning.  The first to be on Sunday the 16th August.  Be there or be square as they used to say!

LETS TALK ABOUT BIRTH. We talked about yamas and karma yesterday, let’s tackle BIRTH.  Let’s say you were one of two children born from the same set of parents. Let’s say one child is a great artist and the other can’t even write a clear signature.  One is confident, and the other fearful. They have different personality traits, but they have the same eye colour and skin colouring as the parents.  This scenario is repeated over and over millions of times a year across the planet, and no-one thinks it is unusual

Science tells us that when we are born we automatically inherit certain skills from our parents.  OK, I know that is true, but what about the other stuff?  What about the child that is radically  different from his siblings and parents and perhaps becomes a musician (like Mozart).  Where do the positive and negative traits come from that were not exhibited in the parents.  Birth after birth, child after child, we can tell that there is something else happening here.

I believe there is a system.  When we are born we have the following things “gifted” to our DNA.

THE HEREDITY OF OUR PARENTS BIOLOGY.  This is the 3D part of the DNA double helix. Hair, skin, and eye colour talents etc.  The parts that carry over from our parents and grandparents.

OUR KARMIC IMPRINT. The unfinished Karmic load we carry from our various lifetimes.  This can be positive or negative. Depression, guilt, fear all can stem from a continuing process started in past lifetimes. The individual works on these for several lifetimes to find peace and self worth within.  This is karmic.  It is information.  It is not chemistry.

ASTROLOGICAL IMPRINT A snapshot of the solar system at the time of birth.  We could have a big discussion about magnetic imprints and inductance, but suffice it to say that this patterns the sun’s quantum imprint into the magnetic grid of the planet which overlays your magnetic DNA, then patterns a portion of your DNA at birth.

THE AKASHIC RECORD . This carries a record of you from when you came to life until your death. It is (as far as I believe) within the DNA and able to be accessed in meditation through the cerebrospinal fluid, which is why we activate this fluid in every one of our restorative yoga classes.

THE SACREDNESS OF GOD.  The so-called “God-Gene”.    Apart from the first item above which is linear and can be observed scientifically, everything else is a multidimensional energy  which science is only now coming around to acknowledge (the 97% of the DNA not yet accessed by science which has referred to it as “junk”).   When we start to think about non-linear, we do not do well.  The linear mind is firmly based in 3D.  Lots of yoga theorists talk about activating our DNA.   When you do this, when by sound or breathing you activate your DNA what is being activated? Answer – whatever the DNA wants to activate.

The real SYSTEM is the energy of you, your culture, your alphabet, your learning and choices made by the people in your culture.  DNA is at the crossroad of God and man.  A mixture of quantum and non-quantum, and it vibrates with the essence of truth in the Universe.  DNA contains the creator energy, your energy – the human transformation energy of all your lifetimes.

HAVE A LOVELY DAY THINKING ABOUT THIS.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

Dear Yogis,

Seeing it is Sunday, and there is a condition among us that requires a new point of view, I thought I would talk about healing, and a book which talks a lot about it.  I have not resolved how I think about the Bible and Healing in relation to Covid, but it certainly talks a lot about diseases and healing.  The key to the expression of healing in the Bible is to be found in Exodus 15.26 which records what the Lord said to the people of Israel in the Desert of Shur.

“If you listen to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you”.

It is interesting to note that in nearly every instance of healing in the Bible the first qualification is wanting to be free of the disease or condition.  Jesus in the New Testament always, always asks  “Do you want to be healed”, and the second requirement is OBEDIENCE.  We know that many of the statutes are designed to promote and maintain health (Proverbs 3,7-8; 4.22)

It is often understood by those who read the Bible that they would have no need of Doctors in the treatment of illness or disease. In general, healing in the Old Testament is provided or mediated by secondary sources, however it is interesting to note that these sources do not included priests although in Egypt, priests were often physicians able to examine and treat sick people.  By contrast in Israel, the priests were “the custodians of public health”. They were diagnosticians of ritually unclean conditions and situations, but were not expected to treat or remove them.

In Ecclesiaticus 38.1-3 the people are told “…to give doctors the honour they deserve for the Lord gave them their work to do…”

There are a number of cases where healing did not happen, and the Bible says that the cause of this was sin. As yogis, we could interpret this as karma.  In my own practice, when there is a karmic involvement healing may happen but there are lessons to be learned along the way. It is up to the person to take a hand in their own wellness.  They cannot expect to give the responsibility of healing to others although they may want to do this.   When Jesus called out the demons, it could be that he was driving out Karma.

 

In terms of Karma, we cannot “dodge the bullet”.  We have accumulated this weight, and only we can put it down.  It is time to get straight with your spiritual self. Read the Yamas and follow them. No excuses….

NAMASTE – JAHNE