A While ago I ran across Julia Rogers Hamrick. When I first found her it was through her site: http://www.iliveineasyworld.com/
I'm getting onto a call of hers tonight called Being of Authentic Spiritual Help to Others. We'll see how it goes. I appreciate her desire to help people like myself, people in the healing/health professions, to get a better grip on our place in this world, and our role in other people's lives. Having been a massage therapist for 16 years, and now a counselor/life coach, I have on countless occasions come up against situations that have left me wondering things like, "Does this person really want any help or support? Is it possible to really help anyone? How much of an effect do I really have on someone else's well-being? And how should I ideally behave and act in order to have the most significant effect on someone else's growth?
Today I journeyed from one of her sites to another, and found this article (it's actually the introduction to her book). I like how she describes why it is that we feel 'addicted' to the variety of things that compel us. Here are a couple paragraphs from it:
Why do we crave intimacy and closeness? Because at our core, we know what real oneness is and we are programmed to seek it. Why do we strive for money and status? And why do we steal from others in large ways and in small, or dis-empower others with our thoughts, words and deeds? Because we yearn to feel truly empowered and have forgotten where true power comes from and how to receive it. Why do we seek to get high from drugs? Because we know deep down what true ecstasy is and we’re trying to achieve it—but in a fashion that will never provide it for us in any authentic or sustainable way. Why do we try to escape from stress by numbing ourselves with alcohol or food or television? Because we were not designed to live in stress and we are trying to recreate the state of no pain and no stress we are so desperately missing. Why are we lazy—or tempted to be—expecting something for nothing? Because we know at a very deep level that we are, simply by the fact of our existence, supposed to be perfectly provided for without struggle the way we were in the Garden and we have forgotten how that really works.
We have forgotten that we can only experience what we are truly longing for by aligning ourselves with Source the way we were designed to be, and were in the beginning, so that we can have it all. Continue reading....
From Recreating Eden: The exquisitely simple, divinely ordained plan for transforming your life and your planet by Julia Rogers Hamrick
©2004 New Realities Publishing
To read the whole introduction go Julia Rogers Hamrick's site at: http://www.juliarogershamrick.com/RecreatingEdenIntroduction.html
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