Hi. This is Neale again. Here we are again in your house again with
more of this wonderful seven-week course. I'm excited about this course and I hope that
you are too. It's really fun to do this, it's fun to create it with you, and it's fun to
watch you involve yourself in this extraordinary process. At the end of all of this, we're
going to give you an opportunity to have your own conversation with God and to really understand
what it means to connect with the divine, to live your life as a divine being. That's
the whole point here. So again thanks for joining us for Lesson Number 4. The title
of this lesson is "Completion": Identifying Your Unfinished Business." This is, by far,
the most powerful aspect of creating a new relationship with life, which is what I hope
that every one of you is going to be able to do. This powerful aspect is completion
of one's unfinished business. This takes enormous personal courage and the willingness to be
totally transparent and utterly visible to one's self. It involves the letting go of
past disappointments, angers, frustrations and resentments, and lack of forgiveness of
both yourself and others. Often, people find that unconsciously, they don't want to release
these negativities because who would they be without them? Who would you be without
your story? How would you justify your reactions and your behaviours? How would I justify mine?
When we finish with Lesson 4, I intent that you'll be able to be adept at identifying,
without hesitation, without shame and without any guilt, all emotional incompletions, or
hurts in your prior life, including hurts that may have been imposed on you, or hurts
that you may have imposed on others. I hope as well that you will see more clearly than
ever before the true goals of your life, including not only the goals of body and mind, but finally,
and for many people, at last, the goals of your soul. I want you to fearlessly be able
to identify the fears that have driven your life to this point, and learn how to dissolve
those fears one-by-one using the wisdom of the soul as well as the mechanics of the mind
in a dual process. I hope you will learn what the soul seeks to experience, what the soul
seeks to achieve, what you seek to create through your soul during this, your present
lifetime. For many students, completion brings them to a place where they identify their
soul's reason for coming to the body in the first place. Such identification of the soul's
agenda for many people produces or rush of new enthusiasm, new excitement, and new inspiration
for the living of life itself. Suddenly, life has a purpose, with which their heart and
soul can at last agree. So let's get to it. Let's get to the teaching points of Lesson
Number 4; and the first teaching point is identifying emotional incompletes and hurts.
Now, when I mentioned or when I talk about emotional incompletes, what I'm talking about,
of course, is any item, issue, event, occurrence, happenstance, anything that's gone on in your
life that you feel incomplete about, that you wish - let me give you an example. I'll
just give you one from my own life. I had some things happen with regard to my father,
but not terrible things. It was nothing -- no terrible abuse. I was lucky in that way. I
had a wonderful father and a wonderful mother, but there were just some items hanging out
there and one was, and I wrote about this in my book, Friendship with God, which was,
as you know, autobiographical. I wrote about what my father did concerning my piano. I
was a piano nut as a kid. I loved the piano. And it turned out that I had perfect pitch.
I could go to the piano and play any song without ever seeing a note of music, not that
I could read music, or was being instructed on how to find the keys. I could just go there
and find them. So the - my early, early piano teachers or music teachers in school said,
"He's got perfect pitch. He can do that." And it was a nice gift to have so I would
go -- and my mother bought a piano for us. She went out and bough a little twenty $25
upright. In those days, $25 was a lot of money. It was a used, used piano. We brought it into
the house, and I plunked on that piano. I was just doing one or two fingers at first,
but I was finding those songs, right? Well, my father put up with that for around four
weeks, and I loved the piano. I didn't have a lot of friends in school. I was kind of
a wimpy, skinny guy and I couldn't do the football thing or the baseball thing or play
a lot of sports, and so the piano was my best friend. It really became my refuge and my
best friend. I would sit there for hours after school. Well, it was more than four weeks,
but it might have been three or four months, but finally my dad said, "I can't handle the
banging on the piano fit this kid is doing every night." So one Saturday, it was during
summer vacation, as I recall, I woke up on a weekday morning and I heard banging and
pounding downstairs in the dining room where the piano was, and I didn't understand what
was happening. So I ran down there and my father was tearing the piano apart with a
crowbar, and he was going to get it out of the house. Well, I, of course, was devastated.
I couldn't believe that he was doing this. He didn t ask me, he hadn't said anything,
because I'm nine years old. I guess fathers don't ask their 9-year-old sons whether they
can do something, but I didn't even know that it was going to happen. I started crying,
went to my room, didn't come out for a couple of days, my mother was bringing food up there.
My father finally forbade her to do that. I finally had to come out, but my father came
in first before I came out. He came in. I guess my mom talked to him and said, "Alex,
you've got to go talk to your son here. This isn't going down to well." So my dad came
in to the room and he said, "Son," he said, "I didn t think it meant that much to you."
He said. "I promise you we'll get you a small piano, a spinet, that you can put right here
in your room, and you can play to your heart's content, and it won't bother me so much, taking
up so -- making so much noise and taking op so much of my audio space in the house. I
said, "Okay." It's a long story isn't it? I don't even know why I told it except I wanted
to give you an example of what I mean by unfinished business or incompletion because my father
never got that piano. I know he meant to, but they never could afford it. I found out
years later that I waited until my birthday; it didn't happen. I waited until Christmas;
it didn't happen. I waited for every possible event that could be a gift-giving occasion,
and it never happened. So I realized that, oh, I get it. It was one of those promises
you make to get things to quiet down, but it never happened. And I carried that unfinished
business. I carried that incompletion for many years. When my father was 82 years old,
I brought that up to him. I, of course, by than was a grown man, and I felt I could talk
to my dad directly. And I said to him one day, "Do you suppose we can talk about something."
He said, "Sure." I said, "Let's talk about my piano; the piano that I never got." He
didn't know what I was talking about. I mean he remembered the piano, of course, but specifically, he
didn't remember having made that promise or having broken it. He said, "Really? Did I
promise that to you? And I never delivered?" I said, "Well, that's right." He said, "Well,
I'm really sorry." I said, "Well, I'm glad to hear you say that because I've held onto
it for a long time. Not just that I didn't get the piano, but the larger issue, which
was you made a pretty big promise to me, and you didn't keep your promise." And daddy's
not keeping promises to sons, when it really means a lot especially, is not a small thing;
because I learned more about life than I wanted to learn there. I learned not to believe promises
made by people who love you. I also learned in a reverse English way that maybe it's okay
for parents, for fathers, to make those kinds of promises to their sons; that they don't
mean it when they say it. But you say what you have to say to get past the moment. And
then if you don't keep the promise, well, you tried. You learn a lot of lessons; lessons
you learn at home. That's an example now, thanks for indulging me in that long story,
but that's an example of what I'm talking about when I talk about incompletions. So
what I'd like you to do now is to look in your own life. I'd like you to get out your
notebook, your course notebook that I hope you're keeping after these lessons, and I'd
like you to write down in your notebook, make a list of incompletions just like that. I
gave you a little long story there so you could really understand what I mean by an
incompletion. And it doesn't necessarily have to be childhood, by the way. It could be something
that happened in your adult life, in your relationship with your wife or a former spouse,
a former husband or whoever. It could be any kind of event, an occurrence that you don't
feel complete about. So I'd like you to make a list in your notebook right now. Just take
the time. Take a little moment to do that. Get out your notebook and write down. "Incompletions
In My Life." And make maybe a list let's say, three. I'm sure you can think of three -- I can think
of 30, but -- and they can be small ones. They don't have to be huge events like my
piano event. They could be small incompletions, but still incompletions. "Stuff I feel incomplete
about." Maybe somebody at work made you an offer to help but never came through. Maybe
the guy next door never returned your hacksaw. Maybe the lady around the corner said she'd
come over and play bridge with one day and didn't do it. Whatever it is. Whatever it
might be, big or small. Make that list now and it might even be fun to turn off the lesson
right now, put it on pause. Yes we're going to try that. We haven't done that yet in this
program, but now we're in Lesson 4. Let's use that device as well. I'm going to invite
you right now to hit the pause button, write down three incompletions in your life, then
come back and we'll be right here.
Good. Now, thank you for coming back. Now, here's what I'd like to do. I hope that didn't put you in too much of a bad mood, by the way.
Thinking of incompletions can sometimes not put us in the greatest mood, but it's okay.
It's good. It's growth work. Growth work, sometimes, can be a little bit uncomfortable. So we have
to go to the edge of our comfort zone. But that's okay. So now, in your notebook, I'd
like you to -- if you left some room to the right of that, on your page. I'm going to
ask you to write some things down. If you didn't, make a new list and make -- leave
some room on the right. I'm going to ask you to divide your page into three columns. Put
your three items in the column on the far left, then in the middle column, I'm going
to ask you to write something, and than in the far right column, I'm going to ask you
to write something as well. This is a process that I do a lot on paper I call the three-column
process; so you'll see me doing that a lot. It just helps us sometimes to organize our
thoughts, to just get our thinking together around something. Okay, now, in the left column
then, you've got your three items; your three incompletions, whatever they might be. In
Column Number 2, I want you to write down next to the first line what it would take
-- no, don't do that. I jumped ahead of myself. "Why I haven't felt it possible to complete
that issue so far?" That's what I want you to write down in Column Number 2. "Why have
I not felt if possible to complete that issue so far? What stopped me?" For each of those
three issues, just identify why is this still an incompletion in my life? Why don't I just
wrap this up and get it over with? Am I afraid to bring it up with that person? Am I afraid
of what's going to happen with me? Am I still so angry about it that I can't do it in a
civil way? Is my resentment so furious that I'm unable to deal with this appropriately?
Or am I afraid of them and what they might think? What is it that stops me? Okay? Write
those down. Hit the pause button, because it will take you 8 or 10 minutes, and we'll
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