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<!--Generated by Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.166 (http://www.squarespace.com) on Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:43:09 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>News</title><subtitle>News</subtitle><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/atom.xml"/><updated>2013-06-15T21:52:45Z</updated><generator uri="http://five.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.166 (http://www.squarespace.com)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Going Beyond The Three Dimensional World While Still Living In It</title><category term="Asking For Help"/><category term="Illness"/><category term="Meditation"/><category term="accidents"/><category term="asking questions"/><category term="going beyond the 3d world"/><category term="media"/><category term="three dimensional world"/><category term="train wrecks"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/6/14/going-beyond-the-three-dimensional-world-while-still-living.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/6/14/going-beyond-the-three-dimensional-world-while-still-living.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-06-14T07:59:47Z</published><updated>2013-06-14T07:59:47Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>Most people on this planet accept without question communication that is fed to us through the media, be it on the nightly news or in the daily papers or through advertising. They believe what our leaders tell them &ndash; be it political, corporate, religious or otherwise - even though corruption and lies are being exposed more and more.</p>
<p>There are some however (and their numbers are increasing) that question what they are told and there are those who just don&rsquo;t believe it at all.</p>
<p>These are the ones that are waking up and seeking a deeply reality. These are the ones that need to find a way beyond this realm in order to understand a different way of thinking and living.</p>
<p>These are the ones that are changing the world, one person at a time.</p>
<p>If you have read this far, you are one of those brave ones who are attempting to journey onto what M. Scott Peck called &lsquo;The Road Less Travelled&rsquo;.</p>
<p>If you are one of the ones that find themselves asking more and more questions, the lesson is do not worry about the disorder in the world; you cannot directly change it. But what you can change is YOU.</p>
<p>How can we then wake up and to look more deeply into life? Some of course awaken after a &lsquo;train wreck&rsquo; - a shattering accident, a life-threatening illness, the loss of a loved one. Something big that changes everything and turns your world upside down. Such events can shift and shatter your way of looking at life.</p>
<p>After such events some people try to contort themselves and go back to who they were before &lsquo;the train wreck&rsquo;, or lament in depression for what was. A better way is to look forward, find some silence and begin to ask inner questions. What you&rsquo;ll do, subconsciously, is begin to spur change around you.</p>
<p>Of course, you can avoid the train wreck before it happens by beginning to look within at yourself, by taking time to find the silence, meditating, by asking questions. By finding a way to go beyond the three dimensional world, in order to live in it in a more honest way. We all wish to find peace but it isn&rsquo;t &lsquo;out there&rsquo; - it can only come from within. Once you&rsquo;ve found your inner peace, THEN it is &lsquo;out there&rsquo; for you project it and create it around you.</p>
<p>In this three dimensional world, we function from a beta brain wave pattern; we are largely operating from the left-brain, thus we work from logic and reason. In order to find the balance and harmony in life that we all seek, we need to open our creative self, our right brain. By regularly accessing the silence through a meditation process, we can go beyond our limited left-brain and engage a different brain wave (alpha) or right brain function. We will then find our selves with the best of both worlds where we will be grounded (left brain) but still reaching for the sky (right brain).</p>
<p>Experiment with different methods of meditating; be bold enough to go beyond the world that you find yourself in, for this is a world that you have been given through the influences that you have encountered along life&rsquo;s path.</p>
<p>Stop, reassess, find the silence, ask for help and live life in an entirely different manner with awareness. The peace happiness and fulfilment will then come.</p>
<p>Blessings,</p>
<p>Peter.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Asking For Help: How It Works</title><category term="Asking For Help"/><category term="Gratitude"/><category term="Guides"/><category term="Universal Laws"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/5/27/asking-for-help-how-it-works.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/5/27/asking-for-help-how-it-works.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-05-26T23:56:08Z</published><updated>2013-05-26T23:56:08Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>There will be times in your life when you are in desperate need of help. In order to receive help, you need to actually ask for help &ndash; something many people neglect to do. You should not be attached to how the help comes to you - only that it comes - and then you must receive it with gratitude.</p>
<p>The following is a story from my early journey into the spiritual quest, which some of you may remember from my recent podcast about our spiritual helpers on &lsquo;Guides&rsquo;.</p>
<p>I arrived in what was then Calcutta, India when I was in my early &lsquo;20s. I came off the plane to discover someone needed my baggage more than I did (it was stolen) and I walked out of the airport with only the clothes I stood up in, no ticket home and about $50 dollars in my pocket.</p>
<p>I had come to India in search of truth and a spiritual teacher. I had no idea what I was to find in India but what I saw certainly wasn&rsquo;t what I had expected. The first person that I encountered as I walked out of Calcutta Airport was a person sitting quietly in a corner just before the outer doorway. He had no arms or legs and no eyes, and was dressed in rags. He had a battered harmonica attached to a piece of wire around his neck and what looked like an old baked bean tin hanging around his neck.</p>
<p>&ldquo;May I play for you sir?&rdquo; he asked in clear English.</p>
<p>I turned and stared in disbelief. He too was staring at me, and although he had no eyes he seemed to see me.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Yes that would be nice,&rdquo; I mumbled placing a few coins in his tin, later realising that they were Australian coins and were of no use to him.</p>
<p>I have no idea what he played nor how well he played; it didn&rsquo;t seem to matter. He played, I muttered thanks and stumbled out into the heat ravaged Indian day.</p>
<p>I had really arrived in India.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Do you need some help?&rdquo; a soft voice asked. A tall Indian man and his brother offered to assist me to find some accommodation. I must have looked as stunned as I felt.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have much money,&rdquo; I said.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry neither do we,&rdquo; replied the man.</p>
<p>He introduced himself as Tamil. He explained that he and his brother were travelling to Kerala in the south and if I would like some help, they would me find my way to the railway station the next morning. I accepted. I was on my way to Madras also in the south of India and was grateful to have some assistance getting there.</p>
<p>Some time later the dilapidated taxicab pulled up in a slum area that looked like it was from an ancient era. I opened the door and found I had to step over a bloated dead body lying in a deep ditch in front of our lodgings. To say that by now I was deep in culture shock was an understatement; this was my first trip outside of Australia and my native New Zealand, and I was in total shock.</p>
<p>The next morning, under the guidance of my newfound helpers, I arrived at Calcutta Railway Station and boarded the train to Madras. The station was home for thousands of homeless people, who all seemed to be living in cardboard boxes on the many platforms. There were thousands living like this, all claiming a patch of sheltered space. They surged toward my white western face in anticipation of being given money, but little did they realise that I wasn&rsquo;t that much better off than them.</p>
<p>My culture shock deepened.</p>
<p>By now I was gripped with fear. I was on the verge of panic. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to lose my mind,&rdquo; I thought. It was as if I was having a nightmare but one from which I couldn&rsquo;t awaken. I felt I had been transported back hundreds of years into another era in which I was stuck.</p>
<p>The train finally departed several hours late, as do all trains in India, and so I began my trip further into the unknown. As I stood in line waiting my turn to visit the bathroom, it all became too much. I began screaming inside myself for help.</p>
<p>Almost immediately, I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. I turned and looked in to the clear blue eyes of an immaculately dressed Indian man in khaki shorts and long socks. His long grey hair fell down around his shoulders.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Why are you here?&rdquo; he asked quietly.</p>
<p>I mumbled something about searching for my guru and for the truth of life. The man then squarely locked his eyes to mine, looking at me deeply and intensely. It was like he grabbed my soul. Everything went completely still. Suddenly I felt safe, my fear subsided.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I am glad that you have come,&rdquo; he said, still holding me with his deep blue eyes. I blinked and briefly looked away. When I looked back around to focus on him, he had vanished.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Where did that man go?&rdquo; I asked the young man next to me in the queue.</p>
<p>&ldquo;What man, Sahib?&rdquo; he asked.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The Indian man that was just here&hellip; the one with long grey hair and blue eyes,&rdquo; I replied and continued to rattle off a detailed description of him.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We Indians have brown eyes Sahib. There has not been anyone here that fits that description.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I couldn&rsquo;t believe it. I searched that train up and down, and asked many people but no one had seen him. There was no trace of the longhaired Indian man with the bright blue eyes. Yet to me he was as solid and real as I was. And he brought me back from the edge of madness and fear.</p>
<p>I never saw him again, but I knew I could go on now, and I did.</p>
<p>My call for help had been heard and was answered. I was the only one on that train who saw that man. It was years before I related this story to anyone else; when I did most rolled their eyes in disbelief. But he was there. He was my reality and my help when I needed it most. All you have to do is ask for help and receive it - in whatever shape or from it appears - with sincere gratitude. The Universe and your helpers are always there to assist you.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Blessings,</p>
<p>Peter</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Understanding Control Issues: Who Or What Is In Control Of You?</title><category term="Control issues"/><category term="being controlled"/><category term="the controller"/><category term="the neat freak"/><category term="the perfectionist"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/5/16/understanding-control-issues-who-or-what-is-in-control-of-yo.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/5/16/understanding-control-issues-who-or-what-is-in-control-of-yo.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-05-15T14:01:05Z</published><updated>2013-05-15T14:01:05Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>How often do you run into control freaks? Those individuals who have to be in control of everything in their lives? You need to be aware that they will control you if you give them half a chance. And look out, if you let them - they will be telling you how to think and act and before you know it, you will be doing things that they want you to do and not what you want to do.</p>
<p>Controllers are disempowered individuals who seek their lost power through controlling and disempowering others, or controlling situations in their lives. If controllers are able to recognise that they have become a controller and look back into their life, they will find a situation or an individual that was, or has been, controlling them. Once they are free of the influence of that situation, they will then subject others to the unpleasant feeling of being controlled or &ldquo;getting even&rdquo; without realising, by subjecting others to what they had been given.</p>
<p>Whatever the extent, it is not appropriate to be controlled, nor is it appropriate to be a controller. In the first instance, you are violated by another; in the second, you are the violator.</p>
<p>The key is to be aware of which side of the fence you find yourself on. If you are able to look at yourself objectively and can see where you sit in the control/controlled spectrum, then you have a chance to set yourself free and be neither the controller nor the controlled. With awareness, you will become free and no one will be able to control you. You will be aware of the damage of being a control freak (or the violator) and you will not go there. If you can relate to this, you may find some regression therapy helps you to understand your pattern and also to release the embedded emotion that sets the whole cycle up.</p>
<p>Control issues can show up in many different shapes and forms. One example is the neat freak. Neat freaks are those people who try to control their space with neatness. While there is nothing wrong with order - in fact it&rsquo;s positive and shows an ordered state of mind &ndash; it naturally becomes a problem when it becomes an obsession.</p>
<p>The obsessive neat freak builds his or her entire world around neatness and order. If you fit in here, look back and you will find either a parent who was a neat freak and you learnt from them, or someone around you was so messy that you became the opposite. Investigate your history and emotions around those situations, and the story of the control behind it will start to become clear.</p>
<p>As with all of life awareness is the key and the ability to laugh at yourself - even a simple &ldquo;Oh there I go being a neat freak again&rdquo; - can help to break the pattern. With this awareness, change will come; you will see what a pain you are to yourself and to others.</p>
<p>Another similar example is the perfectionist. Perfectionists are those individuals who set the bar impossibly high for them selves. Because what they aspire to be is either impossible or near impossible, they create tremendous stress within. If not checked and sorted, this stress will lead to continual disappointment and ultimately condemnation of themselves. In time, sickness can manifest with depression leading the way. If these individuals look back in their life - the only way to understand yourself - they will find their self-worth was wounded somewhere back in time.</p>
<p>Case in point is Joe. What ever Joe attempted as a child, it was never good enough in his dad&rsquo;s eyes and his dad had no difficulty in trying to control the situation by telling Joe that he must do better. While this strengthened Joe&rsquo;s resolve and he went on in life to achieve a great deal, it was never good enough for Joe and no amount of people telling him how well he had done would convince him that he was a success. Joe was still trying to prove himself to his dad. He had become a perfectionist. Joe had a lot of stomach cramps and digestive issues (i.e., he had difficulty digesting life).</p>
<p>I am reminded of the Japanese tradition when building a house; they always leave some small part of the building crooked just to remind themselves that on this earth nothing is perfect.</p>
<p>As you travel into ever increasing awareness on your journey, you will be shown many indicators of the issues that you carry. If you find yourself running into control freaks and they really bother you, take a look within - you will find that you too are the thing you dislike in them.</p>
<p>Blessings,</p>
<p>Peter.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>How To Tame The Monkey Mind To Find Inner Stillness</title><category term="Meditation"/><category term="Over Thinking"/><category term="chatterbox mind"/><category term="inner peace"/><category term="left hempisphere of the brain"/><category term="logic"/><category term="monkey mind"/><category term="racing mind"/><category term="reason"/><category term="right hemisphere of the brain"/><category term="stillness"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/5/2/how-to-tame-the-monkey-mind-to-find-inner-stillness.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/5/2/how-to-tame-the-monkey-mind-to-find-inner-stillness.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-05-02T02:24:56Z</published><updated>2013-05-02T02:24:56Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>The monkey mind is the name given to our mind not only when we over think things, but the majority of our daily thoughts. The following are questions I&rsquo;m frequently asked:</p>
<p>&ldquo;How do I turn off my mind?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I wish my mind had an on off button!&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;My mind drives me mad, I wish I could stop it!&rdquo;</p>
<p>These are feelings most of us will be able to relate to.</p>
<p>In order to better understand the mind, perhaps we can divide it into three categories:</p>
<p>1) Instinctual mind or simple consciousness</p>
<p>2) Thinking mind or self-consciousness</p>
<p>3) Intuitive mind or cosmic consciousness</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Instinctual Mind:</span> The instinctual mind is best illustrated in tribal societies. In these groups, there is a great connection to the whole; these people work with the interests of the group, not their individual selves. People who have this type of mind operating don&rsquo;t have monkey minds. Indigenous cultural groups, such as Asians, Native American Indians and Pacific Islanders can often be great examples of the instinctual mind in action.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Thinking Mind:</span> this is where most of Western people find themselves; these individuals have become aware of themselves, aware of the self. These societies are focused on developing the left hemisphere of the brain, which means that they become very good at logic and reason, but often at the expense of the right side of the brain, where vision and creativity reside.</p>
<p>Without the right hemisphere operating these individuals get trapped in the left side of the brain. This is the home of the monkey mind, which they cannot turn off; it won&rsquo;t stop, it only knows how to keep going. This means people keep thinking and using logic and reason in order to stop feeling how they really are. They become over thinkers.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Intuitive Mind:</span> The intuitive mind begins to develop when the right hemisphere of the brain is activated. This mind is beyond the thinking mind and if expanded will lead to the opening of cosmic consciousness, which is an understanding of all things. This is the awakened and enlightened state we all seek and to which we will all one day evolve.</p>
<p>Can you see that in order to get free of the monkey, chatterbox mind, all we need to do is to develop the right hemisphere of our brains?</p>
<p>Here are some handy hints:</p>
<p>1. Be aware of where your mind fits into the above.</p>
<p>2. Understand how modern society encourages left sided brain development at the expense of the right intuitive side.</p>
<p>3. Develop creativity and expand your right brain.</p>
<p>4. Meditate! This will open a door and allow your intuitive mind to begin to activate. The chatterbox monkey mind will then slow and you will begin to have balance in your life. The monkey mind will no longer control you.</p>
<p>The monkey mind, dominated by the left hemisphere, cannot be stopped - it can only be distracted or deadened with medication and or recreational drugs. But when the right hemisphere is awakened and a more expansive consciousness comes into the individual, then the left hemisphere takes it rightful place in a balance with the right side and the monkey mind is tamed.</p>
<p>You hold the key to it all. If you haven&rsquo;t learnt the art of meditation, learn it and practice it. Develop your creative self. Become the master of your mind so it will find its place within you and not as the master of you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Many blessings,</p>
<p>Peter.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>The Ways Of The Mystic: Spirituality In A Modern World</title><category term="Modern Spirituality"/><category term="Mystics"/><category term="Spirituality In A Modern World"/><category term="The Council Of 12"/><category term="The Soul And The Ego"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/4/18/the-ways-of-the-mystic-spirituality-in-a-modern-world.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/4/18/the-ways-of-the-mystic-spirituality-in-a-modern-world.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-04-17T22:37:59Z</published><updated>2013-04-17T22:37:59Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>The mystics of old lived lives separated from the world, seeking out places hidden from the masses, sacred places often far away from the hustle and bustle of crowds. The modern mystic, however, needs to live in real life, raise families, work and interact with other - these are the situations that provide the challenges and the lessons that enable modern day seekers to grow and develop spiritually.</p>
<p>When I was in my early teens, I found myself always searching for something other than what was in front of me. At first I thought that &lsquo;something&rsquo; was outside of me. So I began to travel and seek holy places and holy teachers. I found many wise people, although few true holy ones, and as time passed I found myself searching for the next &lsquo;thing&rsquo; that might hold within it what I longed for.</p>
<p>As my knowledge deepened, I came to realise that the key actually lay within ME. This meant I didn&rsquo;t have to travel out &lsquo;there&rsquo; - all I had to do was to go within. My next challenge was to come to understand how I was going to do that. I found meditation helped, yet that didn&rsquo;t seem to do the job completely either, even though I did find myself a lot more at peace.</p>
<p>It was then that I realised I carried a huge weight of unresolved emotion, which I had accumulated as I travelled along my journey of life.</p>
<p>These realisations came to me over many years of searching. I realised I needed some tools to help me to clear my baggage and unravel my hidden self. I needed to be free of the embedded emotion that was stored deep in my unconscious mind.</p>
<p>I realised if I could clear this old dysfunctional energy then I would have an opportunity to uncover my true self, hidden within.</p>
<p>In a prayer, I asked for some tools to help guide me on my journey into myself. What came to me is what I have called the 12 Qualities of the Mystic.</p>
<p>I list them for you here and hope that they will help you, as much as they have helped me.</p>
<p>1.&nbsp; The mystic knows that he must honour his truth.<br /><br />2.&nbsp; The mystic seeks the stillness, for his intuition tells him that it is the stillness that will speak to him and guide him.<br /><br />3.&nbsp; The mystic honours nature.<br /><br />4.&nbsp;&nbsp; The mystic learns to master his emotion. He understands guilt and fear and has found freedom from both.<br /><br />5.&nbsp; The mystic inspires himself and others; he uplifts the consciousness of those around him.<br /><br />6.&nbsp; The mystic understands that thought creates his reality.<br /><br />7.&nbsp; The mystic has clear vision. He has freed himself from victim consciousness, has become a student of life, and knows that there is no good or bad - there just is.<br /><br />8.&nbsp; The mystic hears the voice of his soul and has learnt to trust it.<br /><br />9.&nbsp;&nbsp; The mystic understands that death is a doorway and is not possessed by the fear of death.<br /><br />10.&nbsp; The mystic understands that the thing he seeks lies within him.<br /><br />11.&nbsp; The mystic follows signs and omens, and he communicates with his guides, guardians and angels.<br /><br />12.&nbsp; The mystic has purpose.</p>
<p>This framework has since been expanded into The Soul and The Ego workshop series we facilitate today with The Council Of 12 - an inspirational series of workshops that teach modern day spirituality. We no longer need gurus and holy men to give us the answers we seek; everything you need is inside of you and with the tools and processes we share, the wisdom of the Universe will begin to unfold before you.</p>
<p>Many blessings,</p>
<p>Peter.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Which Side Of Your Brain Controls You?</title><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/4/5/which-side-of-your-brain-controls-you.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/4/5/which-side-of-your-brain-controls-you.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-04-05T04:36:01Z</published><updated>2013-04-05T04:36:01Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>When we are born, we operate exclusively from the right side of our brains. This side of the brain is about vision, imagination and truth.</p>
<p>As little people, we are open to the world around us - both the visible world and the invisible world. This continues until we reach the age of approximately seven years of age. At that time, the doorways to the invisible world begin to close and we become more anchored into the earth. A child knows the truth, so if you tell them a lie they know. At first this confuses the child. They can&rsquo;t work out why you would not tell the truth and thus begins the seeds of mistrust.</p>
<p>Another problem most of us encounter very early in our lives is that no one talks about the invisible world we see around us; most adults speak only of the visible three-dimensional world, for they lost their own insight into anything beyond it long ago.</p>
<p>Then we are introduced to the education system. Western society mostly functions from the left side of the brain, with structure and logic as our gods. Our schools are structured to produce left-brain dominant individuals. They even attempt to teach children left-brained logic before the age of seven, when young ones have little chance of having a clue what we are on about; you cannot fully comprehend left-brain thought when you operate from the right side of your brain.</p>
<p>It isn&rsquo;t until we are 12-14 years old that we can fully grasp the left-brained stuff. By this stage, we are being taught firmly to study in a way that only the left-brain operates. We are programmed to be controllable and obedient. We end up as part of the crowd followers, not free imaginative right-brain thinkers. Our halls of learning produce conformists that can be easily fed opinions and end up believing that those opinions are their own.</p>
<p>There is however a change taking place, and more and more people are seeking to open and develop the right side of their brains.</p>
<p>Years ago, these ones were in the minority and were regarded as fringe dwellers by the masses. We would find such ones huddled in quiet places, often shunned and ridiculed by the masses.</p>
<p>Now there is a ground swell of those who are awakening the right hemisphere of their brains. The beauty of this is that the creative side cannot be controlled, for it functions from the source of all wisdom. When this side works in us, we find inspiration. We have ideas that change our lives, often in the twinkling of an eye.</p>
<p>When we have our right brain operating, we can change the world. It has been calculated that there only needs to be 5% of the worlds populace connecting to the Universe through their right brain hemisphere to change the mass of programmed thought.</p>
<p>Those who control things, of course, don&rsquo;t like this; they don&rsquo;t want the unpredictability of right-brained individuals wandering around the place. It undermines their power and they hate that.</p>
<p>Despite all of this, there does still need to be a balance between the two-brain hemispheres. For while we need inspiration and spontaneity, we also need some reason and structure.</p>
<p>Very few are balanced, including those who believe 100% only in structure and logic. These are the non-believers and the atheists of the world. These are the ones whose only security is in the left-brain story. They will rubbish right-brained visionaries and what they don&rsquo;t understand or can&rsquo;t establish with fact and reason. They want to destroy right-brained people and ideas, as they feel they threaten their existence.</p>
<p>On the other end of the spectrum, you have the exclusively right brainers drifting along in dreamland. Have you ever been with musicians or artists who are exclusively right brained? Nothing balances and nothing actually gets achieved. They float about. They aren&rsquo;t grounded.</p>
<p>So while the right brain is essential to help us have vision, the left side of the brain is necessary to ground us and carry out the steps to achieve that vision. In short, we need a bit of both operating in balance.</p>
<p>Do you know where do you fit in?</p>
<p>This is what we try to teach at www.soulandego.com.au and in Soul and Ego Workshops - a balance between the soul (right brain) and the Ego (left brain), as per the teachings of The Council of 12.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Setting Your Inner Child Free</title><category term="Emotional Baggage"/><category term="Higher Self"/><category term="Inner child"/><category term="mHealing meditation"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/3/23/setting-your-inner-child-free.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/3/23/setting-your-inner-child-free.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-03-22T23:53:46Z</published><updated>2013-03-22T23:53:46Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>Within each one of us there is an inner child, and in most of us this child self is trapped in unresolved emotion locked deep in our unconscious mind.</p>
<p>If you wish to be free and whole in your present self, then this child must be set free and you are the only one who can do this.</p>
<p>The following article shows how I was able to do this within myself. I hope it helps you.</p>
<p>Try to find the child at seven years of age as this is a point of change and conflict.</p>
<p>During a recent meditation, I found the seven-year-old child inside of me, and for the first time fully understood him.</p>
<p>What follows is a letter I wrote to him&hellip;</p>
<p>"Dear Peter,</p>
<p>For the first time I understand you why you were such a frightened seven-year-old boy.</p>
<p>You were so confused. You were always told you can&rsquo;t do this or that but you were never were you told you could anything. Your parents always put up stop signs in front of you instead of a green light. They always said &lsquo;you cant&rsquo;, &lsquo;don&rsquo;t&rsquo; and &lsquo;you shouldn&rsquo;t&rsquo;. They never taught you to believe in yourself did they?</p>
<p>I see how your Dad taught you the importance of winning; what he didn&rsquo;t show you how to lose with dignity and honour. When you won, all was well in your world, but when you lost (as all winners must do), you felt you weren&rsquo;t good enough. When you did have wins, you wanted your Dad to be there, but he never was. When you lost, you wanted your Grandad to be there - he understood about loss as he had been in the War - but he never came either.</p>
<p>When you reached your teen years, you became rebellious. You stopped trying. Better to say you weren&rsquo;t interested than having to deal with failing.</p>
<p>They never showed you how to lose and therefore you didn&rsquo;t know how to win properly.</p>
<p>This pattern then continued throughout your life - you won&rsquo;t let yourself become too successful for you have learned that the down side of success is failure and you don&rsquo;t know to do that with grace and honour. So you have only ever allowed yourself to be successful to a modest degree (at least that is safe) but you hold yourself back; your potential is never reached.</p>
<p>No one got you. No one understood. Your family (except for your Grandad) made you feel like a little kid, didn&rsquo;t they? Kids are seen and not heard. How often was that said? You knew that you were as big as they were. You knew that all souls were the same size. Their lack of proper teaching stopped you from being confident. You ended up shy and withdrawn and not feeling good about yourself. You felt confusion and despair. You were stuck.</p>
<p>Your parents never taught you about living your truth because they didn&rsquo;t know how to live their truth. They were brought up in an era of confinement and restriction. They taught you what they had been taught. That&rsquo;s why they always struggled, and they limited their success as well and passed the same pattern on to you.</p>
<p>I know now that the key to life is to learn to live your truth. But the only way you can do this is if you are taught to do so, otherwise you don&rsquo;t know.</p>
<p>So don&rsquo;t worry - we are together again, Peter, little you and me. I am sorry that I left you. I didn&rsquo;t understand that I had grown older and you saw that as me leaving you. I need you to forgive me. I just couldn&rsquo;t wait to grow up and get away from all those rules. I got a bit lost, but now I have found my way back and understand you and me much better. So let&rsquo;s help each other. Together we can do anything. We can walk without fear and live a life of truth and love. Together we can allow ourselves to succeed and be the best we can be and deal well with the down times. Now that we understand the value of losing, we can succeed in a way that we once could never have envisaged.</p>
<p>With much love, your older self,</p>
<p>Peter."</p>
<p>Connecting with the seven-year-old self has helped liberate me from a restriction I never realised I had. I have reconnected and feel a wholeness I have not known before.</p>
<p>See if you can find your inner child and help him/her. Remember you are the only one that can help that child self. Reach out and you may feel a hand waiting to be held.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Finding The Key To Changing Your Life</title><category term="Abundance"/><category term="Emotional Baggage"/><category term="IIllness"/><category term="Spiritual Abundance"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/3/4/finding-the-key-to-changing-your-life.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/3/4/finding-the-key-to-changing-your-life.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-03-03T22:08:52Z</published><updated>2013-03-03T22:08:52Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>How do we go about changing from a place we don&rsquo;t want to be in? For instance how do you change from a poverty consciousness to one of abundance? If you have a life-sapping illness and want to be healed, how do you do this? If you are trapped in grief after losing the one you love, how do you change this? These are just a few of the many situations we find ourselves in on our journey through life.</p>
<p>How often have you heard people things like say &ldquo;life&rsquo;s a battle&rdquo;? How often have you heard someone say that they are &ldquo;battling cancer&rdquo;? People often say &ldquo;I will fight this, it won&rsquo;t beat me&rdquo;. Yet many die often after a long and debilitating battle, the sickness has &ldquo;won&rdquo;. Someone said to me the other day, about a person they were in conflict with, &ldquo;he may have won the battle but I will win the war&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Without realising we make life a battle and whenever a challenging situation arises, people go into battle. No wonder there are so many wars and conflicts going on around the planet. Remember, the outer world is a manifestation of discord within. So if you wish for peace on the planet, find it in yourself.</p>
<p>Jasmine attended my office the other day and informed me, in the course of my taking notes, that she had been &ldquo;battling&rdquo; cancer for three years.</p>
<p>&ldquo;That must mean that you are battling yourself, for isn&rsquo;t the sickness an expression of you?&rdquo; I asked.</p>
<p>&ldquo;What do you mean?&rdquo; she asked looking, bewildered.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Well, I believe as do many others, that we manifest everything in our lives and that all things in some way serve us, otherwise why would we manifest them?&rdquo; I replied.</p>
<p>I had to attempt to get Jasmine to view her life in an entirely different way - a way so foreign that she needed to look at her entire belief structure and decide if the way she had always thought was of any value to her in her present situation.</p>
<p>If we could realise that we create our reality and that there is a reason for all things. If someone has cancer or faces any great disaster in his/her life, it hasn&rsquo;t fallen on them from a great height; it has developed because the components that make up that person have combined to manifest the situation. That person will have received many many signs and indicators long before the situation became a &ldquo;disaster&rdquo;. It is only when we miss the signs that we are given the &ldquo;train wreck&rdquo;.</p>
<p>If what most see as a disaster strikes, we have three ways of dealing with the situation, you will note that the first two are the ones commonly used.</p>
<p>1. You shift up a gear and go into battle with the situation.</p>
<p>2. You drop down some gears, collapse, drop your bundle, and are swallowed up by the situation.</p>
<p>3. OR you accept the situation, and embrace it. You realise it is not the enemy; it is actually your friend trying to tell you something. It has smashed into you because you haven&rsquo;t been paying attention.</p>
<p>&ldquo;ACCEPT WHAT IS AND YOU WILL FIND THE DOORWAY THAT LEADS TO THE CHANGE YOU LONG FOR&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Stop fighting life! It is so much easier to develop trust and faith. These will replace fear and a way of ease will come. You will draw to yourself people and situations that will nurture and aid you. Life will become a quest for understanding, instead of a battle for survival.</p>
<p>When you finally accept and embrace where you are (and here&rsquo;s the KEY), observe what emotion you are feeling in your situation. GO DEEPLY into this emotion. Discover where in your past you experienced the same emotions. Keep GOING DEEPLY and release these emotions. Then you will find the path to freedom from your entrapment. This is the path of CHANGE. It will just happen without effort but with ease.</p>
<p>Last year I watched a friend of mine &ldquo;battle cancer&rdquo;. She was in hospital for 12 months. She became &ldquo;a million dollar patient&rdquo; (the cost of her medical treatment exceeded a million dollars), which she believed a small price to pay for a chance at life. She died. Her life sapped out of her by the cancer and the harshness of the treatment. She didn&rsquo;t win the battle - the sickness won. Some of you can identify with a like story. I can&rsquo;t say that if she had embraced her sickness instead of battling with it that she would have survived; it may have been her &ldquo;time to go&rdquo;. But if she had paid attention and listened to what her being was telling her and if she followed her intuitive voice and made the changes she was guided to do then maybe, just maybe, there would be different outcome.</p>
<p>Your situation, however disastrous it may seems to be, offers you an opportunity to learn the wisdom of the universe, a wisdom no book or guru could ever teach you.</p>
<p>Many blessings,</p>
<p>Peter.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>A Message From The Council Of 12: Faith</title><category term="Asking For Help"/><category term="Faith"/><category term="Guidance"/><category term="Self-Belief"/><category term="TThe Council Of 12"/><category term="Workshops"/><category term="tThe Soul And The Ego"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/2/19/a-message-from-the-council-of-12-faith.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/2/19/a-message-from-the-council-of-12-faith.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-02-19T01:10:32Z</published><updated>2013-02-19T01:10:32Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p>This is a message The Council Of 12 gave to our workshop group in February 2013.<br /><br />&ldquo;We see confusion about FAITH. We see confusion about TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. We see some filled with trepidation and fear.<br /><br />FAITH can be grown; it can be started small and worked up to a sizable FAITH.<br /><br />You must understand that FAITH IN SELF is the most important thing.<br /><br />FAITH in your intuition.<br />FAITH in your judgment. <br />FAITH in the way you do and execute certain things in your life.<br /><br />We urge you to call upon us, for you do not often call upon us. We are at your disposal; we await your call. We will support you in every way we possibly can&hellip; but you need to be specific. That way we can move forward together. For as YOU learn, WE learn, for as YOU benefit so does the entire universe.<br /><br />We will support you in every way. We don&rsquo;t wish you any harm, we don&rsquo;t wish you any pain; we wish you the easiest path from where you are to where you want to be.<br /><br />YOU CHOOSE OTHERWISE. <br /><br />So step forward into the light, the light of knowledge. Step forward into your own intuition.<br /><br />Embrace FAITH...TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. <br /><br />Do not fear or doubt. Ask for assistance. Ask for guidance and it will be yours.<br /><br />Bless you all." <strong>The Council Of 12</strong><br /><br />A new series of Soul and Ego Workshops with The Council of 12 begins on the weekend of March 9 &amp; 10, 2013. There are still a few places available, so if you feel the urge, contact me on 07 54850955.<br /><br />Peter.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Why Is There So Much Injustice In The World? The Bigger Picture</title><category term="Cosmic Justice"/><category term="God"/><category term="Injustice In The World"/><category term="Lessons"/><category term="tThe Soul And The Ego"/><id>http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/2/11/why-is-there-so-much-injustice-in-the-world-the-bigger-pictu.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.soulandego.com.au/news/2013/2/11/why-is-there-so-much-injustice-in-the-world-the-bigger-pictu.html"/><author><name>Peter H</name></author><published>2013-02-11T05:28:44Z</published><updated>2013-02-11T05:28:44Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[<p><strong>If God exists and God loves us, then why is there so much injustice in the world?</strong></p>
<p>Many of you may have asked this question, which may have become quite personal. &ldquo;Why has this happened to me? This is unjust and I am a good person. I would never do that to anyone&hellip;.&rdquo;</p>
<p>There is a bigger picture and I will use Barbara as an example.</p>
<p>Barbara had led a life that had contained, in her eyes, a lot of injustice. As a result, Barbara had some muscular problems, affecting her right side and a great deal of anger. It seemed that this had been built from the many miscarriages of justice in her life.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Why is life so unjust?&rdquo; Barbara had asked.</p>
<p>I placed Barbara in a deep trance state and asked her to uncover a previous life that would assist her to understand the answer to this question.</p>
<p>Barbara entered her past and found herself in a medieval life. She was a young woman, tied to a tree, and her husband had been forcibly taken away by knights. She was powerless to do anything about this and although as her life went on she tried to help her husband, she found that whatever she did she couldn&rsquo;t free him. She ended up being burnt at the stake by the church, condemned as a witch (a title given to those considered to be agitators, those that the authorities couldn&rsquo;t control). She died in anger and frustration at the injustice of life.</p>
<p>She died with the question she had asked me: why is life so unjust?</p>
<p>I suggested that she leave that life and move to another life that might hold the key to the one she just left. Barbara then began to see a fat Roman merchant whom she immediately detested. The man was trader who traded woman; he sold them to the highest bidder. Barbara was horrified to realise that she was the fat Roman trader. This life had preceded her life as the disempowered woman fighting injustice. In this life, she (as the Roman trader) took away the choices of others; in her life as the young woman burned at the stake, she had her choices taken from her.</p>
<p>The life as the woman burned at the stake was more recent, therefore more deeply etched in her. Barbara didn&rsquo;t trust men, she hated the church (especially the crucifix), she detested injustice and all of this blocked the right&nbsp; - the masculine - side of her body with anger.</p>
<p>These two lifetimes illustrate how Barbara was given the lesson &ldquo;don&rsquo;t interfere with another&rsquo;s choice&rdquo;. She had seen herself disempowering others and she had felt how it was to be disempowered. Notice how the life as the perpetrator preceded the life as the victim? It is so much easier for us to see ourselves as the victim and much more difficult to see ourselves as the perpetrator. All victims have been perpetrators somewhere along the line of lifetimes and in my experience, one life as the perpetrator can be followed by dozens of lives as victims. Victims can stay stuck as victims.</p>
<p>Barbara has now been helped to release the emotions from both lifetimes and will no longer be bound and controlled by them in her current life. She now is free to make healthier choices in her life and will no longer attract situations of injustice. She has an opportunity to step free of being a victim. She may even have a more balanced attitude to the church.</p>
<p>When you experience what may seem to be an injustice, remember: there is always a cosmic justice and all things are really in balance. It is just that you don&rsquo;t see the bigger picture.</p>
<p>Blessings,</p>
<p>Peter.</p>]]></content></entry></feed>