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"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
-- Agnes Repplier
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
-- Denis Waitley
February 2007
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to the February issue of Higher Vibrations for 2007. I hope you enjoy this month’s article Finding Authentic Happiness Part 1. Part 2 will follow next month.
Be sure to check out this month's tip it might just change your life.
Later this month will be the first of three appearances on a local San Francisco radio show called Seeing Beyond KEST 1450 AM.
Here are the dates and times:
Monday, February 26 from 7-8 a. m.
Tuesday, March 20 from 8-9 a. m
Wednesday, April 11 from 8-9 a.m.
All times are PST and the show can be heard over the internet live. If you live outside of the bay area go to www.seeingbeyond.com click on the listen now link at the top of the page.
In April, I will be sharing the airwaves with my friend and co-founder of the MindBodyZone Michelle Robinson. See events below.
As always I send you love and blessings.
Namaste,
Tim
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Thank you for your support,
Tim Custis
Spiral Release Bodywork
Practitioner, Teacher, Founder
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FEATURE ARTICLE:
Finding Authentic Happiness - Part 1
Long lasting happiness had been illusive in my own life for many years. Oh yes, I had moments of happiness -- we all do. But does it last and is it meaningful?
I think the main reason for my lack of happiness was... Continue ReadingThis article was written by Tim Custis and edited by Elaine Baskin
Developing mindfulness triggers
I often talk about being mindful and developing your awareness. Below is a brief article reprinted from wildmind.org that will help you on this journey.
A mindfulness trigger is something that will remind you to break out of "automatic pilot" so that you can be mindful, spontaneous, calm, and free.
The Vietnamese Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh suggests posting little notes that will remind you to smile and relax. You can post notes so you will see them first thing in the morning, helping to set the tone for the day. You can stick a note to your computer screen or wherever you work, in order to remind you to detach yourself from the flow of habitual thoughts and emotions for a few breaths.
Mindfulness triggers can also be ordinary actions or objects in your environment. You can learn to associate those actions and objects with being mindful, so that they act as reminders to be aware. I find that what I call "transitional events" make the best mindfulness triggers. A transitional event is an action that involves changing from doing one thing to doing another. So walking through a door can be a transitional event that acts as a mindfulness trigger, as can getting into your car, or stepping onto a train, hearing your phone ring, or putting down a briefcase. One of my students told me that he spontaneously started using the act of walking through a tunnel on the way to the train station as a mindfulness trigger.
You can cultivate mindfulness triggers by choosing a particular transitional event, and consciously reminding yourself to be mindful whenever that event occurs. For example, when the phone rings, you can remind yourself to take your awareness to your breathing, to smile, and to breathe deeply three times before we reach for the phone.
Mindfulness triggers can be very powerful "wake up calls". We might be in the habit of grabbing habitually for the phone as soon as it rings. This tends to add to stress, since the compulsive nature of the grabbing suggests that the phone is in charge of our lives -- since we can't control when the phone rings we're not in charge of our own lives, which is inherently stressful. That small gap that we produce after the phone rings and before we pick it up reminds us that we have choices. We can choose to calm ourselves by consciously taking a few deep breaths, and we can choose to pick up the phone in a friendly state of mind by smiling.
Any other mindfulness trigger can be used in a similar way. We use mindfulness triggers as opportunities to wake up from automatic pilot and to be more fully alive in the present moment. We let go of thoughts of past and future, and in doing so we let go of some of the emotional turmoil that those thoughts engender.
You can even associate a phrase or image with a trigger - for example you could say to yourself "opening my heart" as you open the door to your house, and take your awareness to your emotions as you do so.
EVENTS:
East West Bookstore
324 Castro Street, Mountain View
phone: 800-909-6161
http://www.eastwest.com/
Free Talk: March 22 . 7:30 pm
Whatever you RESIST will PERSIST and INTENSIFY
Tim Custis founder of Spiral Release® will talk about the effects of resistance in our body and life. Resistance is a creating energy; this creative energy reinforces the very pain we are trying to avoid, giving it strength to continue in our life. This is not confined to our physical body but all aspects of our being. Tim will be facilitating healing and teaching new ways of working with resistance.
MindBodyZone
327 Seldon Court Unit#1, Fremont
phone: 510-813-4700
http://www.mindbody-zone.com
Free Talk: April 14 . 7:00pm
The Healing Powers of Pain and Fear
Tim Custis, founder of Spiral Release suffered with emotional pain, alcoholism and a severe back injury for over fifteen years. His doctor said he would live in pain for the rest of his life with no hope of recovery. Listening to his own intuition, Tim used his pain and fear to begin healing. He will share his story, facilitate healing and introduce you to powerful tools for change and healing.
Spiral Release®
tim@spiralrelease.com
888-546-9496 • 408-736-5136 • Sunnyvale, CA
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