Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2009
This is the true story of suffering that led to The Alchemy of Love and Joy™, a simple practice anyone can do that will create a life full of constant joy.
“Massive grief overwhelmed me as I curled into a sobbing ball, and intense wave after wave of pain and suffering racked through my shaking body. A voice not my own welled-up, and wailed-out from some unknown place within. My poor father, unable to bear his hellish burden any more, had shot himself.”
Come to life in ecstasy Good news—and more good news! Your experience has been dulled-over by thoughts and beliefs about how it “is.” You are capable of experiencing so much greater sensual and joyful heights. How good something can feel, how vibrant something looks, how flavourful something tastes, how fantastic something sounds, how ecstatic intimacy can be, and even how your body feels just being alive! The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ awakens all the senses and enhances your experience of life. It’s the tendency to label—it’s thought that distances you from your life. You then experience the label, not life. In The Alchemy of Love and Joy™, the intense practice of just feeling brings you to life. Practice allowing. …
There are no problems After The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ came to me, I could so clearly see where I “went wrong” in relationships, or better put, where I could have done better. Of course, we always do the best we can with what we have, so I could not have done better. Yet at the time, I was conscious of not wanting to respond in the ways I did, of wanting a different outcome, however I was not in the state I needed to be in. I sensed that if I could be so radically different, so opposite, that things would be so opposite. But I did not know how. When you are feeling bad, or separate, or …
Pain is mandatory suffering is optional – The Mechanics Pain is a function of the body, to guide you away from something not beneficial, like a hot stove. Keeping your hand on the stove will keep hurting. Once the body has been hurt, it will continue to hurt until you remove the source, and give it rest long enough to heal. That is not optional. The pain of suffering guides your attention away from thinking that is painful and not beneficial. Keeping your attention on the pain will keep it hurting. Emotional pain stops the moment you move away from it, when you move toward something better feeling. That is optional. (Or just don’t even create it.) Any feeling, thought, …
What happened to the Author It was during intense suffering that amazing and eternal joy came to me, and by practicing The Alchemy of Love and Joy™, you don’t need to suffer again. My father suffered severe depression, and shot himself. There was intense suffering, his, our families’, and mine. It was my promise to him that this “would not be for nothing.” That was six or seven years ago. What I found last April was far beyond what I could have imagined. It was like I backed myself into a corner. I loved someone more than my “self,” (truly, I loved love more than my “self”), and I refused to blame anyone or anything outside of myself for the …
Does suffering serve a purpose? Suffering causes you mental and physical anxiety, raises your blood pressure, makes your heart work harder than it needs to, triggers inappropriate and extended adrenaline production, exhausts you, negatively effects the chemistry of the mind, drives you to behave in ways you may regret, and can lead to depression. Suffering strains the body and causes illness. Suffering spreads energetically to other people. It could be called the worst disease, perhaps even the cause of all disease. Does suffering serve a purpose? Yes… The only purpose for suffering is to make you aware of where you are putting your attention, and to point you toward peace and joy. (related article: Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional) …
There were really two main reasons to creating this blog website, one so that readers can have their say and leave comments about the book and share their experiences with their practice. The other was so that I have an outlet to share my everyday experience as the joy within that I am emerges. Although words can never capture reality, I will attempt to share, to put into words my experience and to use words to point toward joy, which is what the practice does. This is all still new to me also, and I recognize the value of my shifting experience for others, so I look forward to sharing as best I can my (sometimes ecstatic) experiences as they …
“Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.” ~ Dalai Lama “Pain is mandatory suffering is optional” is often quoted, and it sounds reasonable, but how is that so? How is it lived? Pain, like physical bodily pain, is part of life. Emotional suffering, for psychological “reasons” or in addition to physical pain, is a practice, a habit that can be changed. These are the mechanics of how pain is mandatory suffering is optional. Suffering is something done habitually, something that has been handed-down, inherited through the ignorance of simply not knowing anything else to do. It had become so deeply ingrained as to become beliefs, or worse, part of your identity (also a belief). You know it’s gone this far when …
Be Happy for No Reason You don’t need a reason to be happy—and even with a “reason” to be unhappy, you can be happy! by C. Teevens I was driving down the road, and the thought, the memory, that a client owes me a lot of money came to mind. Then some negative feeling tried to bubble-up. When The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ came to me May 2009, I was compelled to drop everything else and only do this, and when I did so, my income dropped as well. My life turned-on-a-dime. So I could really “justify” the anxiety and fear that tried to arise, and the frustration and anger that could have also followed. But instead, I began …
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