Welcome to the Inner Year...

To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3.1.



The Inner Year relates personal soul development to the festivals of the Christian Year and to the cycle of Nature. I work with an esoteric spiritual understanding of the festivals. Esoteric perspectives reveal the deeper universal mysteries of things.

Whether or not you are Christian in your beliefs and your practices, you will find personal and spiritual relevance, insight and possibility in these posts.
Showing posts with label self. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self. Show all posts

Saturday, November 27, 2010

What a difference a year makes?

Your year made a difference - to you, to others, to the world and to the future. What was the difference? 
It was not just the same routine, the same gestures and activities, the same rhythms of sleep, meals, work, relationships. It was different and it was powerful. If you don't believe it, register for the Inner Advent teleseminar and do the work.  If you don't discover the powerful difference, I will give you your $47 back and include a one-hour private session with me to talk about why your year didn't make a difference.  
This is my third message and final message about Inner Advent and it is my strongest.  I really want you to participate in my Inner Advent teleseminar series.  It will make a difference in your life, both of your lives - the inner and the outer.


If you have decided you want to participate in Inner Advent, register now.
http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/Inner-Advent-IYIA10.htm
The Sunday afternoon (4PM Eastern, 1PM Pacific) sessions begin tomorrow and the Thursday evening (8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific) begin in five days.

Remember you do not need to be on the calls or be on every call. You will receive recordings of all the sessions and all the written materials within 24 hours.

Inner Advent
  • shows the differences this year made
  • makes sense of your year
  • gives you a feeling of completion
  • provides a surprisingly objective awareness of your truth.
  • liberates you from limiting identities, stories and reactions
  • reveals the lessons of the year
  • increases your ability to creatively design your future
  • celebrates who you’ve been, who  you are and who you are becoming
http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/Inner-Advent-IYIA10.htm



“My soul and the world are but one.”

There are seven billion people on this planet who have lived another year.  How many of them will do the inner work of recollecting, reviewing and releasing their inner past so their inner future can be met with real possibility and real responsibility? In our increasingly challenging world with the growing difficulties of our political, economic and environmental crises, self-knowledge is the first step to resolution. Self-knowledge leads to freedom and love - the freedom to make new choices and the love for others, the planet and the future.


Inner Advent is an embrace, a conscious embrace, of your unfolding life. It’s a responsibility to your self, maybe even a spiritual or moral duty to your self. 
We are different from animals in that we have the moral ability to be self-conscious and self-creative. We are not just about drives for survival or desires for being happy, we are about freedom and growth.

Freedom comes from knowing yourself. Self-knowledge is a spiritual practice.  Rudolf Steiner teachings guide me to a right relationship to my self.  He writes in his book, How To Know Higher Worlds, “You can only sacrifice that which you have fully possessed.” Self-knowledge is self-possession. Possess your year so you can let it go.

Know how you survived this year. Know how you emotionally experienced the year.  Know how you grew and evolved over the year.

Know your year to know your self!

Possess your year so you can let the stories go and find the meaning, the sacrifice of your 365 days, your 29000 breaths, your efforts and struggles, your dreams, your joys, your sorrows.

How do you begin to do this? How do you organize your recollection of the year? How do you analyze what happened? How do you intuit the meaning? What are the questions that will lead to the insights, the self-knowledge, to a new you, a wiser you, a freer you?

I want Inner Advent to be a relaxed and aware experience for you. I will guide the process, but you will do the work.  No one can do it but you. This is the gift you give your Self.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Imagine self/SELF

As I reflect back over my work over the last 21 years, I recognize the thread that weaves all the counseling, writing, speaking and teaching into a meaningful fabric - supporting each of us in imagining our own individuality. I've been discovering and sharing tools, insights, inspirations and encouragement for forming a sense of self/SELF that heals, liberates and strenghtens from many directions both within and without. 

Yes, we are two in one.  The small self and the immense SELF.  I use lower case when I am referring to the small self that wants a linear life without complexity, with simple answers, clear choices and no confusion or ambivalence, yet finds instead endless dilemmas, wounds that resist healing, longings that never seem to be fulfilled and dreams that never die. I use all caps when I am referring to the immense SELF that contains endless paradoxes, contradictions, and riddles while remaining whole and integral and always has room for more.

My clients, readers and audiences are brave, creative and evolving.  They embrace light and dark, the internal and external, (self)love and (self)hate, the constant and the ephemeral, matter and spirit, growing young and growing old, exuberance and restraint, stillness and movement, humanity and individuality and ultimately, dying and resurrecting.  And they want to make sense of everything and find the right relationship to everything. They want to mature and ripen their thinking, feeling, and willing in finding deeper and often painful truths, forming more beauty and harmony and manifesting goodness unselfishly.

They are willing to devote time to imagining self/SELF - creating the image of the human being and the image of the constant and ever-changing "I." Being willing to devote time requires a discipline, particularly in our demanding and distracting times. Ideally, everyday you have a time to reflect, to engage, to ponder and wonder, to write, to study, and to converse on this imagining.

The benefits are worth the efforts of time and attention. Imagining self/SELF is the only way to know self/SELF. Little steps will get you there and sometimes the little steps , on reflection, will be giant leaps. It's fun and scary - like an outrageous rollercoaster ride where gravity intensifies and then disappears, where up becomes down and left becomes right and suddenly returns to a new normal.


Please send me your thoughts on self/SELF and let me know how you set aside time for   nurturing and cultivating your imagination - for celebrating you. Email me.
 
Six Ways To Celebrate All of You!
 

Almost seven years ago, I began writing the Inner Christmas messages - a guide for a path of twelve small steps to take between Christmas and Epiphany during the Twelve Holy Nights.  Two years ago I wrote my book, Six Ways to Celebrate Christmas & Celebrate You! describing how we can consciously and creatively experience the holiday and ourselves.   I knew I was decribing the six ways we can celebrate every day. Six ways we can find and honor new personal meaning in our lives within every twenty-four hours. Each way of celebrating is a dialogue between self and SELF.

Beginning next Sunday, I will bring your attention to each of the six celebrations and offer some creative guidance on making every day meaningful. Here's a list of the six celebrations for you:

Nature - celebrate your new awareness of the natural world.
Divinity - celebrate your new experience of the spirit
Riches - celebrate new material and sensory delights
Relationships - celebrate new feelings about your many relationships to other human beings
Childhood - celebrate new insights into your personal history
Selfhood - celebrate your growing self-knowledge

This will take us through the first Sunday in November.



(I really want to encourage you to order the Six Ways to Celebrate Christmas & Celebrate You! now as it gives real examples/questions for each celebration - it is a wonderful book to use in a book club or study group. Between now and Christmas there are no shipping charges! Order here. http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/Six-Ways-To-Celebrate-Christmas-Celebrate-You-111CCCY.htm)
 
Michaelmas - September 29
 
I will be sending out a special message on Wednesday about this very meaningful festival - the celebration of the courageous human heart.
 
Much Autumnal Warmth...
Lynn