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Ann K Gryczan  There is almost nothing more painful than believing there is something wrong with you, as if you came with some innate, but undefined flaw hidden deep inside your soul. Exactly what the flaw is, you are not certain, only that it exists and that others can sense it too. As painful as this is, the flaw, if it exists at all, is not even the real problem. Believing oneself flawed – and more people feel this way than you might guess – is only a cover for the real problem, and that is why trying to fix it almost never works.
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Sometimes people think if the love in a relationship is no longer there, the relationship is over. This is not true! Love is a state of being and not dependent on anything outside of it – and that means we can all be love. If two people in a relationship are unloving toward one another, they are sometimes waiting for the other one to love them. Each person thinks he or she will be loving once the other person behaves well toward them, treats them kindly or somehow shows some love. But this never works and it cannot, because if we have closed the door on our love flowing out, it can’t flow in either. Ann K Gryczan  Maybe we have all done this: made a mistake, even a long time ago, that still seems so grievous and painful to our sensibilities that we can’t let it go. And yet, at the time, it made sense; it was what we wanted, or we were acting on automatic, unthinking and oblivious. Only later, do we realize the true consequences and harm that resulted. But it cannot be undone. The error part of our ‘trial and error’ life is the part that seems so hard! But this is also the part with all the richness, because inside every mistake is a stepping stone on the path to Self. Forgiveness completes the step, but how do you forgive yourself so that it is real? So that it sticks? Ann K Gryczan  Have you ever thought about what kind of glasses you wear? They frame the world and make “reality” seem real. Person A gets on a bus and passes by person B, who is on the bus already, looking out the window, sitting beside an empty seat. Why did person A not take the seat beside person B? That is a question only the ego would ask; Self knows there is no answer. Ann K Gryczan 
Welcome to part two of a Dangerous Topic: gender identity. (Here’s Part One.) Looking at the gender identity issue really does feel dangerous! Why is that? Because it is about us. Collective consciousness, or the world at large, will always be our mirror, and it will especially show us what we have suppressed and pretend does not exist. (And therein lies the danger.) We can always look at the collective scene to see what we’re hiding from ourselves – and when some aspect seems especially loud or unsubtle, that is when it is emerging out of the basement of our collective consciousness and into the light of day. The transgender issue seems pretty loud right now, so let’s listen and maybe we can find a deeper truth about ourselves. Ann K Gryczan  Saying grace is a wonderful tool for students of consciousness because it puts illusion and Reality in their proper places: illusion that the ego is the source of life, and Reality that it’s not. Ann K Gryczan  We are all one in the great flowing wholeness of infinite creative power that is the source of all life including our own. But we don’t see it that way – and that is why we have Out There! Whatever we don’t accept as ourselves and hide away in the darkness of our minds, life helpfully makes visible to us as Out There. Out There is not afraid of parading around in its worst behavior or going to the limits of excessiveness or insanity. Things we would never admit to and that we hide away deep inside ourselves are on bold display in the world of Out There. Ann K Gryczan  Do you know that even in horrible situations, the ego is having a great time? At our expense, I might add. And its pursuit of pleasure entices us in directions we don’t really want to go. Read on to find out how you can know what the ego’s pleasure is in any situation so you can take the power out of it and let it go. Ann K Gryczan  There is nothing better than marriage when it is going well, but almost nothing worse when it’s not. In this next post in the marriage series, let’s look at a few of the really awful faces marriage can wear and some possibilities for movement beyond them. One way to create movement is to see how a difficult situation is constructed and then pull out one or more of the supports that make it work. How do you do that? I’ll show you. In the following examples of awfulness I will suggest a question and an action to help you get started. Ann K Gryczan  Well, the last post, Marriage Tips, seemed to bring up a lot of angst, questions and ideas: What if I can’t act perfectly? What if my husband/wife has turned into a screaming Mimi? What if I did it all wrong and now it’s too late? The Alchemy of Marriage Remember the alchemy of marriage and the process of turning lead to gold? It may be that the whole point of marriage and life is to find the gold we are, and everyone is. But sometimes things get intense and seem hard or even impossible to get beyond. So in this and the next few posts let’s look at some of those hard times and what you can do when you’re in one. For each example I will suggest a question you can ask yourself and an action you can take to create movement in your life and relationship. Let’s start with Fire and Ice…. |
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This is a blog for those who travel an inner path, seeking truth, beauty and the source of being.
Here are ideas and practices to help and encourage the traveler, and to address the obstacles that we, as students of consciousness, inevitably encounter. Everything you find here you can do at anytime and take as far as you want.
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