http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/03/30/gates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gates Wayne C. Allen - a simple Zen guy - writes about living and relating elegantly Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/03/30/gates/#comment-357 10 Things Your Mommy Forgot to Tell You « Wayne C. Allen’s Phoenix Centre Blog Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:26:30 +0000 http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/?p=254#comment-357 [...] Gates [...] […] Gates […]

]]> http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/03/30/gates/#comment-336 wayne Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:35:42 +0000 http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/?p=254#comment-336 Hi Colleen, Thanks for your elegant comment. The idea of "gates" sort of just clicked with me recently. It seemed to me that an extra "push" was necessary moving from the physical to the heart, and then again to the actual living out of a new focus. And for me, some days, it seems like a revolving door! I notice a tendency to want to "hold on" to people who get it, for example. Learning to let go and to move on (the latter is the part I make difficult) continues to be one of my learning points. The key here is to remember that this is "self" work, and bringing along a chorus isn't necessary. So, I continue to gently work on that. Same with what you are talking about. If you resist the urge to hold yourslef in, you let yourself go - into the experience. and into a fuller manifestation of who you are. I'm working with this in the next few articles, so feel free to keep me posted on your progress! Hi Colleen,
Thanks for your elegant comment.
The idea of “gates” sort of just clicked with me recently. It seemed to me that an extra “push” was necessary moving from the physical to the heart, and then again to the actual living out of a new focus. And for me, some days, it seems like a revolving door!
I notice a tendency to want to “hold on” to people who get it, for example. Learning to let go and to move on (the latter is the part I make difficult) continues to be one of my learning points.
The key here is to remember that this is “self” work, and bringing along a chorus isn’t necessary. So, I continue to gently work on that.
Same with what you are talking about. If you resist the urge to hold yourslef in, you let yourself go — into the experience. and into a fuller manifestation of who you are.
I’m working with this in the next few articles, so feel free to keep me posted on your progress!

]]> http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/2009/03/30/gates/#comment-335 Colleen Cuggy Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:32:40 +0000 http://www.phoenixcentre.com/blog/?p=254#comment-335 Some times, Wayne , you are so right on that I can't believe it. I have been reading your blog for a long time now and today I just have to make contact. I have probably read the same principles before and today they all came together. The idea of having blocks in my growth has been an accepted fact to me. when I look at them as 'gates' there is a resonance that speaks to my experience in my life. For a long time I struggled to 'create' stability in my life. I was controlling, orderly, decisive, rigid...you get the picture. People didn't do what I said and so my life wasn't secure. I could find no lasting happiness. Then I started this work. It has taken me years to open my heart, it didn't seem like a safe thing to me. I had lots of old rules and past experiences that kept me locked in the past. I knew I had a loving heart, expressing or living in it was out of my experience. I remember an experience in Phase 2 at Haven of "feeling" my heart open during a bodywork session. I started to live with love. I felt awesome. Quietly living a loving acceptance of everything and ever one( mostly). Not really opening my mouth to express my feelings I was just grateful to feel love in my life-it was a welcome change from the constant struggle for security. Let it all go and live in acceptance-perhaps just the other end of the pendulum. Speaking my truth, sharing who I am and what I think became the next level of growth. I wasn't ready to take the risk, to upset the peace that I had in my life. And yet I was not living a full life. I had a sore throat and got Strep throat several times during the winter while I was trying to' come out'. I am happy to report that this winter I have not been stricken with any throat infections. I recognize a tightening in my throat as a need to express. some times I do...sometimes I don't.I know that my growth will continue and that things come up over and over. I feel more connected to the universe and to myself than I ever imagined possible. Your article this week, put my experience into words. I still like order- I just don't need it!I have a trust and faith in the universe and in myself- which I believe would correspond to your 6th chakra . Thank you for your article this week. And for listening to me-(reading). I just wanted to share this with you.Colleen Some times, Wayne , you are so right on that I can’t believe it. I have been reading your blog for a long time now and today I just have to make contact. I have probably read the same principles before and today they all came together. The idea of having blocks in my growth has been an accepted fact to me. when I look at them as ‘gates’ there is a resonance that speaks to my experience in my life. For a long time I struggled to ‘create’ stability in my life. I was controlling, orderly, decisive, rigid…you get the picture. People didn’t do what I said and so my life wasn’t secure. I could find no lasting happiness.
Then I started this work. It has taken me years to open my heart, it didn’t seem like a safe thing to me. I had lots of old rules and past experiences that kept me locked in the past. I knew I had a loving heart, expressing or living in it was out of my experience. I remember an experience in Phase 2 at Haven of “feeling” my heart open during a bodywork session. I started to live with love. I felt awesome. Quietly living a loving acceptance of everything and ever one( mostly). Not really opening my mouth to express my feelings I was just grateful to feel love in my life-it was a welcome change from the constant struggle for security. Let it all go and live in acceptance-perhaps just the other end of the pendulum.
Speaking my truth, sharing who I am and what I think became the next level of growth. I wasn’t ready to take the risk, to upset the peace that I had in my life. And yet I was not living a full life. I had a sore throat and got Strep throat several times during the winter while I was trying to’ come out’.
I am happy to report that this winter I have not been stricken with any throat infections. I recognize a tightening in my throat as a need to express. some times I do…sometimes I don’t.I know that my growth will continue and that things come up over and over. I feel more connected to the universe and to myself than I ever imagined possible.
Your article this week, put my experience into words. I still like order– I just don’t need it!I have a trust and faith in the universe and in myself– which I believe would correspond to your 6th chakra . Thank you for your article this week. And for listening to me-(reading). I just wanted to share this with you.Colleen

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