Forgiveness Walks » Self Discovery

Healing Family Issues

Regina — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:17:40 +0000

Colin Tipping http://www.facebook.com/#!/RadicalForgiveness?ref=ts, creator of Radical Forgiveness, had it right – I can have MORE ENERGY, BETTER RELATIONSHIPS, AND FREEDOM FROM THE PAST using the tools he teaches. I led one of my sisters in the 7-Steps Satori tool with noticeable results. The process is a verbal meditation and visualization that takes the “victim” through the five stages of Radical Forgiveness: Telling the Story, Feeling the Feelings, Collapsing the Energy of the Old Story, Reframing the Story, and Integrating the Energy Shift. This process can be done in 20-45 minutes in person or over the phone. She lives 500 miles away, so this time we talked by phone. In addition, when I did it with her she was walking!

The walking really helped her tell her story and touch the pain of it, which are Steps 1 and 2 of the process. For several of the steps the participant imagines holding the hands of the person they’re forgiving. My sister kept walking, visualizing our mom walking with her, holding her hand in her mind. Step Six involves an energy-shifting and integrating breathing called Circular breathing. The participant breathes in rapid breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth for two to three minutes. My sister slowed her pace during this breathing as it takes a bit of energy and focus to do it effectively. As we completed this 7-Step process with the Radical Forgiveness Invocation, I could tell that my sister was feeling lighter, more hopeful about being with our mom again, and one her way to being free of her pattern of upset with our mom.

And Mom didn’t even have to BE THERE for this healing to occur. Radical Forgiveness purports that “we only get upset when someone resonates in us something we’ve disowned, denied, repressed, and projected onto THEM”. It’s about US! Something for us to heal or learn. So, we can step away from the “perpetrator”, get help from a friend, and free ourselves from old patterns of anger, blame, and hurt, without needing to hash it out with our enemy. Isn’t THAT great?!

Come join me in learning how to use the tools of Radical Forgiveness. You’ll be glad you did! http://forgivenesswalks.com/radical-forgiveness/ http://forgivenesswalks.com/radical-forgiveness-invocation/

It’s Time!

Regina — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:52:37 +0000

I just got off the AT having completed my Ridgerunner position. Those eight weeks on the inspiring, motivating, and scintillating Trail crystallized my commitment to creating and offering coaching and guide services for women to walk through our limiting beliefs and physically empower us to step confidently and knowingly into our joyful purposes.

My head is spinning with a tantalizing array of ways to do this! What I need now is some real women who can’t wait to go on a hike and have a list of “buts” blocking them. They’re ready to begin the inner journey that can free them to take their outer journey. I have the tools to facilitate that and want to have a dialog with women to create the programs and services to address this need.

Do YOU want to go hiking and think you CAN’T?

Contact Regina and let’s talk!

http://forgivenesswalks.com/contact-regina/

What do you wish for your Creativity?

Regina — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:05:18 +0000

My new friend, Jamie Ridler http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/ asked me this question today.

Here’s my answer:

What I wish for my creativity is time whenever I want to walk on a trail in a wilderness area.

I wish for my creativity to be brave enough to share my gifts – to invite and encourage others to come outside!

What do you wish for your creativity?

In joy,

Regina

Satori: It’s a Miracle to me!

Regina — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:02:37 +0000

The board game, Satori: The Radical Forgiveness Board Game, never ceases to surprise its players. New insights, energy release, and even new friends are results that participants regularly have when they play the game.

I even play the game by myself to work through problems, often gaining a new perspective that other ways of addressing an issue didn’t bring.

Here’s what a participant had to say about her game this week:

Satori: It’s a Miracle!

Learn how you can play Satori at http://www.forgivenesswalks.com/satori

Making a Difference

Regina — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:14:27 +0000

Regina,
I think of you often and hope you are well. I believe that your Walks will be a valued service for people in need of closure, or just in need. Here’s to your success! RN

I read this email while making it up that I can’t make a difference for people. You see, I get scared to put my work out in the world, thinking that it’s not big enough, that I don’t have a huge “tribe”, that my message isn’t clear.

I noticed the time that this email had been written. It was at the exact time that I was in the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program when I was doing what’s called “running my Act.” That’s when I’m putting up a front, resisting showing up as my powerful self. For me, that’s saying, “This is too hard for me, I don’t want to play this game.” I was resisting creating a community project as a vehicle for this training, claiming that the criteria are too limiting, too restrictive, not supportive of my life right now. Blah. Blah. Blah. All a cover for “I’m afraid to get out there and make a difference because I don’t believe I can!”

Well, guess what? I already have! Time to believe it – and get out and play!

Where are you not playing? Not contributing? Holding back? Being afraid?

Transforming Old Stories

Regina — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:48:57 +0000

Today, I had a coaching session with Thea Sheldon of http://www.theasheldon.com Our session of one hour and twenty minutes today was instantly transformational for me! Her coaching towards a New Money Story for me had immediate results. After our session, I went back to work checking emails, etc. I had received one from a Health Fair Coordinator inviting me to participate in two fairs in May. The email had been sent one minute after our call ended!

In my Old Story, I had claimed that I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time and that my idea is too weird to be accepted in the marketplace and that no one will pay for my service.

Here’s what the invitation read:
“I especially like your thoughts about offerings for folks in office situations, and think the settings below might be great for you.
We promise you an exclusive in your category:-)”

That’s my New Story, and I’m grateful for Thea’s expertise in helping me discover it!

Have you transformed any Old Stories today?

Walk With Me

Regina — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:29:08 +0000

It’s a rainy, work inside day today! Sometimes, even a thru-hiker like me is grateful to have the choice of sitting dry at my computer, remembering, dreaming, and planning hikes.

Today, I’m remembering my summer walk on the Benton MacKaye Trail, a 300-mile journey through the forests of the southern Appalchian Mountains.

Enjoy this short video, put to the music of Here II Here’s Walk With Me.

On this trip, I experienced a true solo hike – I walked alone most of the trip. In fact, south of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, I only saw three other hikers – going the opposite direction! Nonetheless, I learned that hiking solo gives me plenty of time to go within, a journey that’s worth taking.

Going In

Regina — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:23:44 +0000

“I only went out for a walk…………………
and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,

For going out, I found, was really………………going in.”

Thanks to John Muir for saying it better than I.

I’m considering which way to walk the Benton MacKaye Trail for my Spring Walk – north or south?

What do you think?

From Sandhill Cranes Overhead

Regina — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:48:52 +0000

That unmistakable warbling honk
Circling, moving in clumps and V’s
Hundreds of them overhead
Heading north – in general

Another season passed already?
Yet, it IS a season cycling around
Familiar pattern, thus consoling
Yet, new beginnings, new adventures call

Within repetition is the possibility of creation
And so go I
With gratitude for sandhill cranes living instinctually.

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Here’s a link to a site with info on Sandhill Cranes – and an audio!

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/sandhill-crane.html

Conscious Creative Energy

Regina — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:54:49 +0000

Yesterday, I joined Adela Rubio’s Conscious Energy Shift Inner Circle call – our first in this year-long program. Adela reminded us that these calls are focused on empowering us in using our Co-Creative Energy. “It’s not about healing energy”, she said.

I hadn’t thought clearly about distinctive forms of energy! I realized, though, that all the courses and programs I’ve been in this year have supported me in distinguishing between them.

Healing energy is that which dissolves stuck energy blocks, bringing my energy into the present moment. This energy is the experience of Radical Forgiveness, of Landmark Education’s Completing the Past, in Brenda Cobb’s colonics and detox at Living Foods Institute. This is wonderful, powerful, necessary energy to dissolve and shift blocks keeping me from recognizing my value, my health, and that of others around me!

Co-Creative Energy, however, is that which focuses this clear, high vibrational energy toward manifesting what’s in my imagination! It’s what inspires my pen to describe my Hiking Goddess Walks. Its the energy that inspires my actions for attracting clients to my programs. Its the energy that courses through me when I connect to others on Adela’s calls.

I need both levels of energy. And I’ll use them!

How about you?