A talk about healing and personal development. What causes our emotional problems, and how can we solve them? Answer - trauma is what causes almost all our problems, and healing trauma solves them. And healing trauma can be fast, easy, and fun!
Hope you didn't get too seasick watching it! I'll try to keep future videos a little more 'stable :)
I was an actor once. A terrible actor. I made audiences cringe. I myself cringed inwardly on stage. I had no confidence. I was in a play at the National Theatre once (just the once) and my parents got in the elevator with Neil Kinnock (head of the opposition party at the time). That's my claim to acting fame. That's how bad I was. Thank God I don't have to act anymore; I found my real purpose in life.
Then there's Mark Ruffalo. He's a great actor. I could watch him all day. There's an openness and an integrity about him that is very attractive. I've seen a few of his movies and I always felt like he's the kind of guy I'd like to get to know. A good guy.
Then there's Occupy (Wall Street). I love that movement. I put the brackets around the Wall Street part because I don't feel it's really about Wall Street any more. It's about... no, wait.
Occupy has become a global movement and it's only going to get bigger. It's going to get bigger and bigger because more and more people are awakening to the simple truth of who they really are. More and more people are becoming conscious of their own innate power. We are not sheep. We are not here to be herded around like cattle, victims of a system that is based on greed and fear, so that 1% can prosper and be free while 99% live without dignity...
We are human beings: perfect, beautiful, powerful expressions of pure consciouness. We are free already, and as more and more people awaken to that simple truth by letting go of survival based fears, the system in which we live is changing. Occupy is a sign of that change - and I for one am overjoyed to see it happening.
So what's Occupy about? I'll let Mark Ruffalo explain it much better than I can:
And an equally intelligent, even more eloquent 'call to arms':
After my unwitting
incursion into the world of child prostitution - part
1 - and my adventures with amphetamine crazed truck drivers and Thai
gangsters- part
2 - I was feeling pretty lost.
I’d been traveling
alone for about a month and I was lonely.
One day I was
driving through town on my motorbike and I started to feel ill again. The fever
wasn’t quite gone yet. I pulled over to the side of the road and found myself
sitting at a table outside a small bar. I ordered a drink and before it arrived
I realized I was outside some kind of brothel.
There were about 5
or 6 girls in the bar, lounging around and leaning over a couple of Dutch
sailors.
The sailors were
about 50 years old, heavily tattooed. I really wish I could remember my
conversation with them because it was both hilarious and very interesting.
The expression on their faces (and the faces of all the men I saw in
that bar) stay with me though. They were like young men ‘on the pull’ – that
strange kind of desperate intensity in their eyes (sexual desire) and a kind of
assumed (false) arrogance. They were trying to look confident and self-assured.
In short: they wanted to be found attractive. I recall finding this very
amusing: they were in a brothel. They knew they only had to pay for what they
wanted, and yet they still went through the suffering of the ‘chase’.
Many people (including many doctors!) view HEALTH like this: "we are healthy when there is nothing wrong".
You know what? When you look at health like that, you are really just waiting to get sick!
I'm going to share with you some information that not many people know, and fewer understand.
I want to tell you WHAT HEALTH REALLY IS.
I'm also going to give you 5 practical tips which, if applied intelligently, will transform your life!
Health is not a lack of disease. It is not the absence of sickness. It is not a negative anything. But many people (including many doctors!) view it like this: "we are healthy when there is nothing wrong".
You know what? When you look at health like that, you are really just waiting to get sick!
Dear friends, the other day I wrote this post on my Prem Center facebook page: “When we TRUST the world around us, we align ourselves with the natural order. We experience abundance! But when we WORRY, we hold on, and become tense, blocking that natural flow of abundance. Let go. Don't worry. You have always had everything you needed, and always will. Trust, and be truly joyful”
And an old friend of mine from L.A. asked a great question. I always love questions(especially such good ones as this!) because it opens up a channel of communication from which not only the two of us learn, but also anyone else who is listening. This is how we can grow and evolve: IN RELATIONSHIP. To me that is what questions and answers are – communication; relationship.
So, here is my friend Joyce’s question: " what do you mean by "natural order"? i'm asking because i (think) i understand what you mean but then, upon reflection- i'm not quite sure what 'natural order' means beyond being born (been there done, that) and dying (eventually, hopefully a ways off)... i'm being simplistic but i really am curious about understanding what you mean by this... moreover, can a 'natural order' be pursued in an environment immersed in industry, consumerism, and avarice? a place, like say... los angeles? i think it's possible, but it feels like a struggle at times..."
The theme of my original post (the one quoted above) was about Trust versus Worry. For me, the natural order is what every animal, vegetable and mineral experiences… faith. It is a silent knowing, a deep trusting - that everything in life is just as it is meant to be. Even when things go ‘wrong’, there is always a reason. We may not immediately know what that reason is, but we can always look back later and say, “aha, that experience had a positive effect”.
In English, we have the saying: “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”
And one of my favourite singers, Beth Orton, has the wonderful lyric: “regrets are just lessons you haven’t learnt yet”...
