Blog entries

Supporting Children's Acts of Power

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:08:44 +0100

I have a four year old boy and while he stopped wearing nappies for the most part ages ago, he was somehow terrified of sitting on the toilet for a number 2. I questioned and probed but couldn't get exactly what the fear was. I joked and cajoled but nothing worked. Things got a bit tense between us until one day he pronounced that he would poo on the loo when he was 4.

I was instantaneously struck by the intention in his voice. I have worked with acts of power before and I saw that he could beRead More...

Pregnant? Then think twice about the birth..

dkoubovec@wsimarketing.com — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:04:54 +0100

Did you know that how your baby is born can have a significant effect on her emotional and psychological makeup as an adult? Everything she registers and feels during her initial entry into the world will be memorised and can influence the rest of her life. Elena Tonetti, an advocate of conscious birth, refers to this as “limbic imprint”. Leslie Temple-Thurston, a teacher of enlightenment, refers to this as “negative or positive imprinting”. The greater the birth traumRead More...

Processing FEAR of CHILD ABDUCTION during World Cup

praline1@telkomsa.net — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:17:53 +0100

Thanks to ANGELA PHILLIPS for collaborating and sending in this piece of work.

Angela said:

“Please find attached a square I have been working on for some time regarding information that has been circulating on email re: child abduction during the World Cup. I have also receRead More...

the SA motto - Unity in Diversity

ruth@actionappointments.co.za — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:41:18 +0100

A group of us in Johannesburg met for a processing session this last Saturday and looked at some of the dynamics playing out in South Africa at the moment, and those that are "threats" on the horizon - there seems to be something in the collective consciousness about being tolerant over the World Cup soccer period, after which this will be put aside. We did a list of polarities and then a square on acceptance/intolerance of differences - this seems to be a globRead More...

DEPRIVATION - At the Root of all Evil?

dkoubovec@wsimarketing.com — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:03:19 +0100

When we feel deprived inside we feel easily threatened when resources appear limited and we naturally want to compete, fight and kill to ensure our future needs are met (possible cause of xenophobia etc). If we don’t run the deprived child programme much we probably won’t know what destitution really feels like, or believe in it for that matter. We are therefore likely not to manifest lack in our lives. We know how to live creatively and abundantly as a result. I suppose we only creaRead More...

Going Green

ruth@actionappointments.co.za — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:54:24 +0100

In the last couple of weeks we've seen quie a bit of murky stuff surfacing around race and culture - which on some levels is probably good, as it's been lurking under the surface for many years, and better for it to come out so that we can all look at ourselves and work towards becoimg a less polarised society.

This initiative seemed quite refreshing - esp the part about making it cool to love other cultures and etnic groups, though still the question is how do we bring about a more balRead More...

Processing for South Africa

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:22:39 +0100

Perhaps if you have read some of my other post you will have resonated with my increasing unease with the socio political situation in South Africa.

http://www.2ndmiracle.co.za/web/blog/where-are-we-heading-.html

http://www.2ndmiracle.co.za/web/blog/south-africa.html

Last week I had a stange encounter with a policeman. Clearly we were both very wound up although I realised straight away that it would be best if I did everything I could to unwind the situation.&nbsRead More...

A Bank you can Love?

dholroyd@wsimarketing.com — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:12:35 +0100

I recently read about a great idea, which has been implemented in the UK over the last few years, called Time banking.

Here’s a summary of the article:

Have you always wanted to give something back to your community through volunteering but simply haven’t got the time to spare? Or would you perhaps like to learn a new skill but find that lack of time or money is barring your waRead More...

Stop Proposed Ivory Trading

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:14:11 +0100

https://secure.avaaz.org/act/index.php?r=act

Avaaz are campaigning to stop a proposal that would allow ivory trading to start up again in Africa. Please sign the petition if you agree.

Where are we heading?

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:54:27 +0100

I recently read this brilliant article called ‘South Africa and The New World Order' by Leonard Gentle. http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/421.1 I think it provides an excellent big picture perspective on what is going on in the corridors of power, in South Africa and the world.

Later on I read another article ‘On Protest Hotspots and Analytical Blind Spots' by Jane Duncan http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/439.1. It offers a sharp focus on the building tension in SouRead More...

Love, Surrender and Sexuality

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:42:31 +0100

Since doing some of the sexual shadow squares I have been getting some more insights into the issue.

I have known for a while that my own sexuality (feminine) is tied up with the notion of surrender. In order to have the feeling of being in love, happy romance kind of stuff, I have to feel surrendered and I have to let go into trusting my lover completely. That is the bottom line of what makes it nice.

This is however a treacherous place to be. The reason is that in order for theRead More...

Another Bid for Power

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:26:25 +0100

Reading Glenda's recent post, 'The Benefits and Joy of doing Selfless Sevice', http://www.2ndmiracle.co.za/web/blog/the-benefits-and-joy-of-doing-selfless-service.html and how that had been a bid for power for her, inspired me to share my own recent bid for power, actually two bids for power.

We recently bough a beautiful old house in Durban.

My first bid for power was to do with our actual move. Moving is generally considered to be highly stressful so I made a commitment noRead More...

Selfless Service Squares

dkoubovec@wsimarketing.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:53:12 +0100

This work was inspired while Glenda was writing her article – “the Benefits and Joy of Doing Selfless Service”

We are living in unprecedented times and many of us are on accelerated paths of transformation. Selfless service is becoming not just “a nice thing to do” but certainly a regular necessity as we trudge along on our paths. Some days feel really heavy and hopeless and one way to get some spiritual lift off is to be able to give unconditionally. How wRead More...

The Benefits and Joy of Doing Selfless Service

glendajoy@iburst.co.za — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:08:28 +0100

A few months ago I was given an opportunity to extend myself at work and make a bid for power. I took on a role I have never done before. It was an opportunity for immense personal growth and involved doing Seva. Seva, a Sanskrit word, is the spiritual practise of doing selfless service for altruistic purposes on behalf of and for the betterment of a community.

‘On top of this, the media in Zimbabwe recentlyRead More...

Ascension in a Family Group

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:09:51 +0100

A few days ago after doing a square I felt a very powerful energy release. It was so intense I felt like my whole upper body was restructuring. I was quite surprised because in many ways when I began the square it didn't feel so much like my stuff. It was this square:

http://www.2ndmiracle.co.za/web/blog/work-squares.html

Even in our discussion prior to doing this square I had related how my partner and I are in many ways polarised in this square, taking complementary roles but itRead More...

Sexual Shadow

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:24:22 +0100

In Jungian psychology, the “shadow aspect” is part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts (Wikipedia). By “sexual shadow” I am specifically referring to the negative characteristics that we hold in our unconscious minds around the topic of sex, during or after the actual act itself. Almost everyone has sexual issues – and these can range from mild to severe depending on childhood conditioning. Severe would probablyRead More...

Homeopathy - There's nothing in it

dholroyd@wsimarketing.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:26:22 +0100

Do you believe that Homeopathy works? Well at 10:23am on January 30th, more than 300 homeopathy sceptics nationwide will be taking part in a mass homeopathic 'overdose'.

Homeopathy has received a lot of negative press, especially since Boots the largest pharmacy chain in the UK, admitted that they don't believe homeopathy works. They said they stock it because "customers believe it works".

Most of the latest scientific trials have proven that homepaRead More...

Work Squares

barbara.a@iburst.co.za — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:22:13 +0100

linking on from this blog piece:

http://www.2ndmiracle.co.za/web/blog/is-our-working-world-making-us-blind-to-the-world-around-us-.html

If you are unfamiliar with the squares process and would like to know more, please read up about it here:

http://www.2ndmiracle.co.za/web/innerwork/process/squares

I'll start with the first square and we can take it from there:

Using my/the current work system to stay unaware, shut down emotionally and disconnected from the Read More...