"The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites."
-- James Hollis
“No suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path, no cognition, also no attainment.”
-- Heart Sutra
When the world arises in me,
It is just an illusion:
Water shimmering in the sun,
A vein of silver in mother-of-pearl,
A serpent in a strand of rope.
From me the world streams out
And in me it dissolves,
As a bracelet melts into gold,
A pot crumbles into clay,
A wave subsides into water.
--Ashtavakra Gita 2: 9-10
September 2007
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the September issue of Higher Vibrations.
I have very exciting news! Beginning October 1st THE FIT ZONE will be opening in Fremont. This new business venture is in partnership with my good friends and owners of the MindBodyZone Michelle Robinson and Linea McPherson.
It will expand their current location from 3400 sq ft to 5000. We will be able to offer elite personal training, weight loss and other programs to change your body and life. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements about this new healing space.
Please check out the featured article this month The Need for Suffering below announcements.
I have two more radio appearances in September and I wanted to remind you about my talk at East West Bookstore October 1st. In addition, I hope you can join me for my new upcoming workshop called
“be boundless” on Saturday October 6.
As always, I appreciate your support, friendship and your presence in the world. May the miracles of everyday life fill your heart with joy, your mind with peace and may love abound in your life in these miraculous times.
Listen to one of my previous appearances on the Seeing Beyond radio show click here (http://www.spiralrelease.com/articles/index.htm).
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Love and Blessings,
Tim Custis
Spiral Release Bodywork
Practitioner, Teacher, Founder
Special Announcements
Workshops
be boundless
Join healing facilitator Tim Custis for an afternoon of healing through the wisdom and energy of Divine Creator. Come learn how to loosen the binds of the past and experience the peace you so desire. In this three-hour workshop you will:
- Develop a new understanding of the body’s role in your mental, emotional and spiritual state.
- Increase your body awareness to accelerate your spiritual growth.
- Become aware of how your past influences your present life reactions and choices.
- Learn how collaborating with your pain and fear will increase your healing ability.
Tim will be channeling source energy to enable your healing, demonstrating Spiral Release, teaching body scanning and sharing many of his insights and learned experiences.
Tim began his healing journey in 1987 after living with a severe back injury and alcoholism for more than 14 years. Told that he would live in pain the rest of his life, he experienced a spiritual awakening that led him into holistic healing and the work he does today. Tim founded Spiral Release Bodywork®, which has helped countless people change their lives.
“Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies. Our own inner-intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.” Deepak Chopra
Spiral Release Bodywork facilitates the permanent release of connective tissue in the body, enabling a wide range of changes throughout the body and spirit. SRB can release both physical and emotional pain. SRB has helped people with chronic back pain, sports injuries, carpal tunnel, headaches, digestion, fatigue, ovarian cysts and other ailments.
SRB also enhances recovery from accidents, injuries, surgery and other medical procedures. SRB has alleviated substance addictions, trauma and shock. Clients have experienced a reduction in physical pain, as well as an increase in personal empowerment and self-esteem, leading to a fuller union with their body and spiritual self.
Location: MindBodyZone
3335 Seldon Court
Fremont, CA 94539
When: October 6, 2007
Time: 3:00-6:00
Cost: $125
Register before September 15 for $100 and save $25
To reserve your space call 510-364-7570 or the MindBodyZone 510-813-4700
Free Talk
You Must Feel to Heal
When we repress emotions, store physical pain in the body and avoid feeling these energies, we become vulnerable to illness, chronic pain and other health related issues.
Tim Custis, founder of Spiral Release® Bodywork, will show you how to begin your healing through reconnecting with these emotions and stored physical pain. He will facilitate healing and demonstrate Spiral Release Bodywork at this session.
October 1, 7:30 pm
East West Bookstore
324 Castro Street
Mountain View , CA 94041
To reserve a space call:
phone: 800-909-6161
Radio Appearances
My next two appearances on a local San Francisco radio show called Seeing Beyond KEST 1450 AM.
Here are the dates and times:
Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 7-8 a. m.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8-9 a. m.
All times are PST. 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 to listen to archived shows.
In July, I started working one day a week, Tuesdays at the MindBodyZone in Fremont.
To book an appointment call 510-364-7570 or toll free 888-546-9496.
Mindbodyzone provides the best in yoga, pilates fusion classes, state-of-the-art equipment, unique workshops, and east and west healing modalities that are designed to inspire you towards personal growth and perfect health.
Set in a tranquil, clean, and supportive environment that inspires renewal in your everyday lives. The new 3400 sq ft facility opened July 2.
Find out more about MBZ: www.mindbody-zone.com
FEATURE ARTICLE:
The Need for Suffering
We are not made by that Great Intelligence that balances whole star systems, to suffer from the conflict that arises from an unbalanced understanding of our own essential nature! This is why if we ever wish to gain conscious control over our present nature -- along with what it attracts into our life -- we must… More
This article was written by Tim Custis and edited by Elaine Baskin
Please read this different perpestive on suffering.
Free Yourself From False Suffering
We may deny that we value our aches, but on the other hand, we think about them all the time. We have yet to recognize the fact that our thinking about any painful event as something real, solid and unavoidable is one of the conditions that perpetuate it. Take one thing out of the mix of elements that make up any moment in life, and it is no longer the same event. When we stop giving our life energy to any moment, which seems overpowering, it loses its illusion of power. In that moment is also lost our prior belief that we have to submit to its punishment.
This shows us that no negative state or event has any individual, independent existence. We can begin to free ourselves from the event when we understand the truth about its power over us. Until now, we thought from our suffering instead of toward our suffering. Now, however, because of our new understanding, we can see through our suffering instead of through its eyes. And what a world of difference this distinction makes!
What we see is that our perception produces what we experience, and our experience is made up of many different small elements that by themselves mean nothing. When our perception combines and organizes these events, and connects itself to them through an expectation or desire, the thing takes on a kind of life. It appears to us as a whole, dark, permanent entity that has the power to hurt us, but it isn't that at all. It's only a confluence of events that has conditional dependence, and the primary condition that gives it power is our perception. When all these conditions are stirred up and "baked in a cake," that cake has reality to us. But in fact, the cake is made up of individual facts that will simply pass if we let them.
Why have we not seen this for ourselves? Why have we not let those facts just pass by without grabbing onto them? It's because we have become so used to being in a storm, we aren't at all sure who we are without something to suffer over. As strange as it may seem, we welcome the painful experience because it makes us feel real. But who is it who feels real? It's the false self -- the intimate enemy.
Can you see what good news this is for those of us who wish to free ourselves from false suffering and find the higher life? It means that all those conditions that seemed so real and painful are just the creation of faulty perception. Our belief that the event had the power to hurt us is what made it so punishing and continued its existence, but now we understand that if the events are left to themselves, they must move on. The expression "This too shall pass" is now revealed in all its wisdom. Every temporary coming together of events must pass as long as we don't keep it going through our own thoughts.
The bitter cake can't exist if one of the ingredients is displaced. In our own lives, we have kept the achy cake baking; but now that we see the facts, we no longer need to be a victim of our own misunderstanding. We can inwardly say to that suffering state, "You are not a power. You only feel like one. The knots in my life that have me all tied up have no power over me outside of my own misperception. That misperception put the stone in my shoe, but now I will learn to see things as they really are."
Now that we know negative events are not powerful in themselves, we can turn away from what we perceive as permanent punishment toward what can be called permanent pleasure. This is the same thing as turning toward Truth.
-- Guy Finley
Spiral Release®
tim@spiralrelease.com
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