Abby Eagle's Workshop Feed

Welcome to Abby Eagle's Workshop Feed

abbyeagle@rejoiceinlife.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:31:36 +1000

In this RSS feed you can stay up to date on NLP and Zen Meditation workshops offered by Abby Eagle's School of Meditation.

SUMMARY OF WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS

Zen and the Art of Living is a course held over 7 consecutive monday evenings at Bond University Robina.
One day workshops for graduates of Zen and the Art of Living so that they can build upon their skills.
One day Zen Koan Meditation events.
Tuesday evening Deeksha Events are run by my friends in Crabbes Creek just 45 minutes south of the Gold Coast. There is also going to be a Deeksha event held in Kingscliff once a month on a Tuesday morning.

My intention is always to offer you cost effective courses to help you bring about profound personal change.

Workshops are available for both the public and the corporate sector.

If you don't have the money to pay for my courses but you are able to help market them in some way then email me or give me a call on 07 5576 4270. I am always open to doing contra deals. I specifically need people who can do some of the following:

encourage people to visit rejoiceinlife and enter the draw for a free ticket.
distribute fliers to organisations, health retreats, yoga, tai chi and martial arts schools, associations, hospitals, medical centres, nurses, naturopaths, breakfast clubs, business clubs, chamber of commerce, school P&C associations, and leave fliers on shop counters.
write an article for a magazine, newsletter, rss feed, etc.
give a talk to a group of people.
speak on a radio program.
post information on a Internet newsgroup or on a website.
organise good links from a website.

Get more info on the Zen and the Art of Living Course

Kind regards
Abby Eagle
07 5576 4270

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Book into the next Zen and the Art of Living asap

abbyeagle@rejoiceinlife.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:50:00 +1000

Hi,

Well another Zen and the Art of Living is complete and a new course commences on 21st May. In a few weeks i plan to post a Project Manual on the website for easy download. The Project Manual is intended to be used in conjunction with the 140 page course manual. The layout will guide you through each step of your goal setting with suggestions on which techniques to use at each step.

In addition i am going to set up a Forum on the website so that graduates of Zen of the Art of Living can share their ideas and experiences with other graduates. I might set it up so that only graduates can make posts while visitors just have reading priveleges. Email me with your ideas on this if you like.

The feedback from participants has been very heartening and it has been great to see the faces becoming more radiant each week as people drop their conditioning and get more in tune with their essential energy.

If you have yet to attend Zen and the Art of Living why not take the jump and book yourself in? Tell you what. If you phone me on 07 5576 4270 and tell me you read this post on Abby Eagle's workshop feed then you can bring a friend for free. How's that for a good deal?

To read more about the course please visit: http://www.rejoiceinlife.com/zen/semZenCourse.php

DATES AND VENUE
Bond University Robina on the Gold Coast
Seven Monday evenings: 6:45pm - 9.30pm
16th July - 27th August.
$490.00 or $420.00 if paid in full 7 days in advance.

If you would like more information about Zen and the Art of Living then feel free to give me a call on 07 5576 4270.

Kind regards

Abby Eagle

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Five Miles a Day: 'Shackleton'.

abbyeagle@rejoiceinlife.com — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:30:00 +1000

SUMMARY: A motivational story demonstrating extraordinary determination and leadership.

Extract: "The explorer Shackleton and his crew set out in 1914 to cross Antarctica on foot with a team of dogs. The ship gets trapped in ice and eventually sinks. The 28 men, many of whom who have never travelled over ice before, have to face the prospect of giving into feelings of hopelessness and eventually drowning when the ice melts or working as a team to achieve an almost impossible goal... If you want to develop your leadership qualities and motivate your team to achieve extraordinary outcomes then watch this film and practise identifying with Shackleton..." Read the article.

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God is always with you. 'Castaway'.

abbyeagle@rejoiceinlife.com — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:00:00 +1000

"If you want to get a better idea of the emotional resources that it takes to achieve a goal then you are encouraged to watch the film Castaway which stars Tom Hanks.

In this story the character Chuck Noland, a FedEx executive, is stranded on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific ocean. He manages to survive on fish and coconut and after 4 years he is in quite good physical condition except that he is very lonely. He attempts suicide but is unsuccessful then one day he gets the idea to build a raft and sail away from the island into a shipping lane some hundreds of miles away in the hope that a passing ship might rescue him.

If we look at his situation in terms of values what we have is a man who has hit rock bottom and is in emotional pain and wants to move towards love, relationships, people etc. Let's just call this love. Now when he first landed on the island he tried to swim through the surf which breaks on a shallow razor sharp reef and in the process he injured himself. So to move towards love he has to move towards the prospect of more pain and by sailing out into the ocean it is an all or nothing attempt at reaching his desired outcome.

So Chuck wants to move away from the emotional pain of just existing on the island towards the love that he can get from living with other people but to move towards love he also has to move towards more possible pain and suffering on his sea journey which could ultimately kill him.

It is a nice clear example of values conflict which many of us experience in life, but hopefully not to such a degree. We set a goal for ourselves, think about taking action towards it, then a negative emotion kicks in and we back off. We then rationalise our lack of action with a hundred and one excuses. But in reality we fail to take action for a number of reasons:..." Read the article...

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Are you ready to escape the cage of your conditioning? 'Water'.

abbyeagle@rejoiceinlife.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:30:00 +1000

The film Water explores the 2000 year old custom where the widow of a Hindu has three choices: 1. burn alive with her dead husband in the funeral fire. 2. lead a life of self-denial, or, 3. if the family permits, marry her husband's younger brother....

Kalyani a beautiful young widow falls in love with a Gandhi supporter who offers to marry her. When the other widows find out they curse her and lock her in her room. Once again when one of them is given the opportunity to free herself from her conditioning and lead a better life the other widows fight to maintain their model of the world. It shows how when we make progress towards what is true for us then friends, family and society may sanction us and try to put us back in the cage. When others try to improve their life then we may do the same. However it is only our childhood conditioning and lack of awareness that keeps us in the cage....

In the course Zen and the Art of Living we use a 7 step goal setting model - the SUCCESS model. Step 5 is the ecology check: "Is there any part of you or anyone in your life who may object to you achieving your desired outcome? If so then you need to deal with this part in order for you to achieve your outcome"

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Intense fear during meditation replaced by a felt presence.

abbyeagle@rejoiceinlife.com — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:30:00 +1000

A woman sent me the following email: "I had a scary encounter the other night when I was meditating. I did not ground myself and I live in a two story house and I am sure there was something else in the room with me that night. I was a bit scared but now I am meditating out side and looking forward to coming to Zen and the Art of Living again. N.T.

My response: It sounds like an experience of the right amygdala which is associated with negative emotions such as fear, depression, anger, rage, and experiences of demons and devil. (The left amygdala is associated with positive emotions and a felt presence of angels and God.) The felt presence is generated by your mind. It can feel very real and intense. Be courageous, sit very still and let the emotions arise and even though you feel scared just watch the experience with fascination. I had a very intense experience like that over three days once which shifted to a very beautiful experience. Read the reply.

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