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the key to self-mastery

If there's one thing I try to tune my clients into is the immense power they have in averting karmically seeded catastrophes in their life if only they pay attention to themselves across the quadrants of being.  For Anishnaabeg peoples (of which I am one: Nipissing), the quadrants of being are mental, emotional, physical, spiritual.  In sessions with clients, I usually keep them focused on Body-Mind-Spirit; three seem to be as nuanced as some clients can get.  They just don't know themselves in an intimate way.

People aren't really taught how to tune into their quadrants, and when they begin to realize that there are quadrants that have different "voices" and ways of being, that's usually as far as they take it.  The knowledge on how to go deeper with this is "lost" to them.  And they don't seem to know hearing these quadrants' wishes is a conversation, not a demand list.  They don't know it's okay, even ideal, to hear it all, contemplate on it, measure it against life purpose or goals, and negotiate best path forward for all involved (which is You and your Body-Mind-Spirit).  Most just go randomly along with what's being requested without much thought about it.  They hand the reins over to their subconscious selves.

The thing is, each one of "you" gets an equal say in what's happening, and each one of "you" is to balance the needs and wants for the best path forward for all involved.  For a long time, many clients just move from the You place, and then feel sabotaged by life events that seem to come out of nowhere.  The nowhere these events are emerging from are the other quadrants*.  People can't shake repeating patterns in their life until they begin to dialogue openly with the other parts of themselves, their Body-Mind-Spirit.  

Once the dialogue begins, it usually starts on a very gross level of Body-Mind-Spirit.  That is, body gets ill, like really ill, and people start to look at their life, where they may recognize they have not been living very well, that they may have already packed it in emotionally and their body is shutting itself down as a result.  Or mind gets messed up, anxiety ridden or patches of forgetfulness or worse.  Or spirit gets black hole-y, turning in and down on itself, causing a draining of pranic life force and a dulling of senses.  If we're very lucky, people start paying attention to themselves then, when it's all too close to the end.

Ideally, I work with clients to back this level of awareness up.  I get them naming, claiming, and recognizing patterns that lead to these gross level illnesses.  Our work over time gets more and more subtle.  More and more I hear "oh I thought I had already healed/resolved this".  I do my best to have them know themselves intimately, from tiny nuances of impulses to the larger coalescing vibrations that bring in their challenging life events.  This is where self-mastery comes from:  recognizing before execution the source of the drive propelling the movement/action/reaction.  How do you get to this place: meditation.

Boo, I know.  Meditation.  Sitting with yourself consciously paying attention to what you are doing and thinking and where it's truth and where it's story.  Meditation is key to all the good things:  self-mastery, empowered beingness, averting karmically seeded catastrophes.  I can't recommend it enough.  If you want to know yourself intimately, you gotta start staying with yourself 24/7**.  You gotta start seeing and hearing the lies you tell yourself and live within. 

Truth telling = authenticity, authenticity = integrity, integrity = empowerment.  One gate leads to another gate, that leads to another.  This life is about journey, and it's better to travel with your body, mind and spirit helping you along the way.  



* For those that see beyond Body-Mind-Spirit and You, yes I know, simplified.  

**Ok, for people just starting out:  waking hours/7. 



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