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 Soul Talk News  Volume 19

 

"Most people don't think twice about taking a negative comment on board,
yet they so easily dismiss the positive ones."

-- Veronica Lim

 

Counsellor's Diary


By Roger King

Would you like to join a
"LOVE THE MIRACLE YOU ARE" Workshop?

A vision from a counsellor's diary!

I had a waking visionary thought on a cold and beautiful Monday morning. This is, if life is like a mirror, then anybody we blame, hate, love, criticise or feel we want to manipulate or change is a reflection of what we reject or value in ourselves.

What do you reject and value in you that you may judge or experience in others? So often I ask people about their early life to find what they started believing about themselves from family, school and in their teenage years. If I listen well, not just to the words, but the way it is said, so much unexpressed fear, guilt and angry criticism comes pouring out. This gives me some clue to what messages went into this miracle of energy before me and I understand a little of what life was really like for that person.

There is something so encouraging to me when we stop rejecting others and ourselves by ceasing all criticism of self and others and quietly go within and tell our soul story, as honestly as possible by sharing verbally or even writing our story to somebody who will really hear us.

I have a vision of creating "Love the Miracle You Are" workshops first in the UK and then in other countries by training others.

The main aim is to help souls share their honest stories while people listen and don't judge.

Then I believe we slow down enough to contact an inner power of truth, which helps us, heal with less and less fear. When we have hope and faith with a self-respecting inner and outer love, a miracle of the real you and me is reborn. The more honest we are in wanting to learn and feel we are worthy of love something in our soul stirs us to go within and share more honestly into the mirror of life and we make a deep commitment to change and grow without pointing fingers of blame at others or ourselves.

I believe this so much, I am applying to the Rowntree Visionary Trust in York UK to finance "Love the Miracle You Are" workshops, so I can work in institutions of despair like prisons, poor schools, mental hospitals and train other facilitators who may take the vision workshops to other places in the world. Very simply I just want to plant seeds of love and creative forgiveness that day-by-day sets souls free to think and see clearly their meaning and purpose in this life.

The first workshops went so well over the past few months, so I would like to invite you to join me in this vision? If you cannot physically come, remember your thoughts of love will connect to this vision. If you can come, do contact me for times and dates at roger@soultalkstories.com


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Let me quote a story from Steve Goodier

NOT JUST A PIPE DREAM

Are your dreams and beautiful ideas just pipe dreams?

According to Webb Garrison in his book WHY YOU SAY IT (Rutledge Hill Press, 1992), the term "pipe dream" has its origins in the 19th century. The drug opium was imported into Europe from Asia and was widely used in certain literary circles in Britain. Opium was smoked in a pipe and, once under the influence, people had hallucinations that were referred to as pipe dreams. So today, an unrealistic or impractical idea may be quickly discounted as a pipe dream.

But not all seemingly impossible or far-fetched ideas are merely pipe dreams. A case in point is the dream millionaire Eugene Lang gave to high school students in the impoverished neighbourhood in which he was raised. Addressing a class of eighth-graders in the South Bronx, Lang threw away his prepared speech. The empty eyes of the students in attendance told him they were not interested in his "motivational" talk. Their neighbourhood had become a battlefield of poverty, drugs and gangs, and a breeding ground of despair. About 80% of them would not complete high school. Few would ever leave the neighbourhood. Fewer still would climb out of poverty. That is why Mr. Lang tossed aside his speech. The students didn't need a speech; they needed a dream.

Then, the words that came from Eugene Lang's mouth may have even astonished him! "If you graduate from high school," he told the youth, "I will send you to college." Send you to college!

For the next four years, he worked with the school and kept the dream alive. And the results were phenomenal: all but two of the 60 teenagers finished high school! True to his word, he sent them to college. "He gave us hope," one student said, no doubt speaking for the majority. Another one of the students, upon meeting Lang later, said to him, "Mr. Lang, we did the impossible."

Not every seemingly unrealistic idea is a pipe dream. When that beautiful dream is combined with hard work and great expectation, then the impossible can be achieved. For when you believe enough in that magnificent dream, most anything can happen.

 

This reading is found in Steve Goodier's popular book A LIFE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE 60-Second Readings That Truly Matter

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Now Your Weekly Inspiration from www.innerthinking.com

There's only one thing stopping us from having heaven on earth:
that we can't believe it can be.

                         -- Patricia Sun

 

The quality of our results depends on the questions that we ask.

Yet many people don't ask enough questions in the first place. It could be that you were told not to ask questions of your elders, when you were at school, or it is not considered to be part of the culture within your organisation. Another key reason is that many people feel afraid of asking a question, for fear of looking stupid.

Here's a question for you - Are there any stupid questions?

Consider this. Isn't what you think as 'stupid' only relative to where you are at in your thinking? The questioner may be less experienced than you, or they may have seen a perspective that you haven't as yet, perhaps.

For example, many of those who had Ted Turner (the founder of CNN) ask them in pre-cable TV days if they thought cable TV was a good idea may have thought Turner's question to be a stupid one. In fact, most people didn't think cable would work. Yet today, Turner is a media mogul.

Consider also the story of a dog food company. At the end of their annual convention, it was time for the CEO's speech. They had heard great reports over the last few days - from extraordinary targets for the coming year to great marketing and sales plans - and the CEO had just one question, 'If everything is going so great, why aren't we selling any dog food?'

A lone voice came from the back of the room, 'Because the dogs hate it'.

What was the question that no one had asked before the CEO's question at the convention?
The 'stupid' question may well be the question that is needed. It is often the simple and obvious things that get overlooked.

As a leader, do you ask questions of yourself, and of your team? And do you also encourage others to do the same? Is it OK for questions to be asked... including the 'stupid' ones?
Questions such as:

  • What is the purpose of our doing this?

  • For what reason do we do this this particular way?

  • What can be done to make this better, more streamlined?

Great questions make you stop and think. And the kind of question you ask also makes a difference. For example:

Question 1: What went wrong?

Question 2: What can we learn from this?

What difference would each of those questions make to the responses that you get? And your subsequent results?

I recently read about a CEO in conversation with a consultant. The CEO asked why he should employ the consultant, seeing as they had achieved growth in excess of 20% with no signs of a slow-down... to which the consultant asked, "How do you know that it shouldn't have been 34%?"

Questions focus your thinking. This is what coaches do with their clients, and what great leaders who coach do with their people. They ask great questions - questions that make people think, learn, grow and make changes.

Also, when you ask a question, stop and be silent, to allow the other person the space and time to think it through. Bite your tongue if you have to! This is one of the most powerful coaching skills that anyone can have in their toolbox.

The questions you ask determines the quality of your thinking, which leads on to the quality of your decisions and actions, and ultimately your results.

What are the questions that you haven't yet asked, that if you did, would make a significant difference to your results?

Coaching Action Points

Take some time out to review your year just gone. And also your year ahead.

    1. What would you like to be different this year?

    2. What will you stand for that will give you a sense of purpose and provide a guiding principle against which to make decisions?

    3. How can you allocate time to ensure that you have time to reflect and plan?

Show Me How to Play Catch

A little bit of creativity from the mind of a little boy :

Once there was a little boy who wanted his dad to teach him how to play catch. One sunny day the little boy's father was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer, while watching a baseball game. The boy rushed into the house exclaiming "Daddy, daddy, daddy, show me how to play catch!" The father, blankly starring at the television screen, replied " In a little while son, let me finish watching this inning, come back in five minutes."

"Okay daddy" said the boy and ran out of the room. Five minutes later the boy returned screaming "Daddy, let's go, let's play some catch now!"

The father turned to the boy and said "hold on son the inning is not quite over come back in five more minutes."

"Okay, daddy" said the boy as he shuffled out the room. Five minutes later the boy returned ball and glove in hand eagerly waiting for his father to play some catch. "Daddy, lets go, I want to be Ken Griffey Jr.!" shouted the boy.

By this time, the father had cracked open another cold one and another inning was taking place. Frustrated by the boy's constant hindrances, the dad scanned the room. While scanning the room, the father notice a magazine underneath the coffee table. On the cover of the magazine was a large picture of the world. The father, who was angered & annoyed, began tearing the magazine cover in to small pieces. After a few moments, of shredding up the magazine cover, the father placed the torn pieces on the magazine. Then, the father turned to his boy and said "Son, once you put this picture of the world back together, we can play catch, but do not interrupt me again until you are done!"

Apprehensively, the boy took the magazine and sulked into his room. As he sobbed "Okay, daddy I won't". A few moments later the boy returned and said, "I'm done daddy. Can we play catch now?"

Stunned, the father glanced towards his child, and there in his small hands laid the magazine with the world pieced perfectly together. Amazed, the dad asked his child how he put the world together so quickly.

"It was simple," stated the boy.  "On the back of the world was a picture of a person, and once I put the person together, that's when their world came together."

 

 


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Affirmations

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I can just be me and learn to trust my higher self


(illustrated by John Welding)

Remember affirmations work on you telling the subconscious mind with an emotional charge what you would like to experience in reality. Remember your subconscious mind cannot take a joke.

Humour

A Real-Life Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, told of a time when he climbed into a taxi cab in Paris. Before he could utter a word, the driver turned to him and asked, “Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?”

Doyle was flabbergasted. He asked the driver if he had ever seen him before.

“No, sir,” the driver responded, “I have never seen you before.”

Then he explained: “This morning’s paper had a story about you being on vacation in Marseilles. This is the taxi stand where people who return from Marseilles always come to. Your skin color tells me you have been on vacation. The ink spot on your right index finger suggests to me that you are a writer. Your clothing is very English, and not French. Adding up all those pieces of information, I deduced that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”

“This is truly amazing!” the writer exclaimed. “You are a real life counter-part to my fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes!”

“There is one other thing,” the driver said.

“What is that?”

“Your name is on the front of your suitcase.”

Compiling a Family History


The Smith’s were proud of their family tradition. Their ancestors had come to America on the Mayflower. They had included Senators and Wall Street wizards.

They decided to compile a family history, a legacy for their children and grandchildren. They hired a fine author. Only one problem arose — how to handle that great-uncle George, who was executed in the electric chair.

The author said he could handle the story tactfully.

The book appeared. It said “Great-uncle George occupied a chair of applied electronics at an important government institution, was attached to his position by the strongest of ties, and his death came as a great shock.”

 

Soul Talk Stories

Enjoy reading the stories, the affirmations and illustrations on this uplifting website. As you read this website and books like 'Love The Miracle You Are,' you may be inspired to share your story, of how you came to love the miracle of your life and any simple lessons you learnt on the way. Just go within and be guided by your soul, the higher self and share what is appropriate. You may just share particular affirmations that help you overcome your resistance to 'deserving all good in your life.' You have an opportunity to give healing love to this planet. Thank you.

You may submit your own story or you can view stories already submitted.

 

Please forward this Soul Talk News onto friends. I thank you for your time.

While you read this, I am on holiday with my son snowboarding in the French Alps. A time of sharing such fun is such a joy to our souls.

My Love.

      ..... Roger

Email feedback to roger@soultalkstories.com