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Holding Center

So you have trouble staying centered. In touchy situations you loose your calm. You get scared, feel anxious and become defensive. You sometimes do and say things you later regret.
POSTED ON: May 3, 2016, 9:45 am BY Ross Bishop
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Your Private Hell

You know the place I am talking about. It is where you keep your sins. It is where you hold the self condemnation for your failures, your mistakes, your errors of judgment. It’s where you keep the pain from the people you’ve hurt and the lies you’ve told. It’s a dark, smelly, unpleasant place.
POSTED ON: September 13, 2016, 2:50 pm BY Ross Bishop
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Lose Your Mind

When you learn chemistry or Spanish, you start with the basics and then add more information (knowledge) as you progress. This is the Western/scientific way of acquiring knowledge, and although this approach is fine for many things, it doesn’t work for spirituality.
POSTED ON: August 16, 2016, 6:50 am BY Ross Bishop
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Why is Life so Difficult?

I do not have to describe your place of personal darkness. You know only too well the feeling of that dark place and the influence it can have over you. Whether formed by a powerful trauma or simply the painful struggle of growing up, your “shadow” as shamans call it, has the power to seriously disrupt your life.
POSTED ON: September 13, 2016, 4:25 pm BY Ross Bishop
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What Does It Mean To "Love Everything?"

I am asked this question frequently. People want to know what I mean when I urge them to “Open their hearts,” and “Love everything.” Most of us spend a good part of our days being closed down, and being open can feel pretty threatening. Some people have never really opened their hearts, and they honestly do not know what it feels like.
POSTED ON: May 10, 2016, 8:10 am BY Ross Bishop
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Who is Running Your Life?

This may surprise you, but you don’t run your life. You might feel in control because you make the decisions, but what is it that guides and controls your decision making process? Where do all those different voices and influences come from? Are they all yours? And in the larger view, who or what decides what’s going to happen in a life in the first place?
POSTED ON: July 12, 2016, 10:55 am BY Ross Bishop
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