Most of us believe that it is the external events in our lives that are the source of our reactions. This is simply not true. It is the illusion that the masters have told us about for millennia. The fact that we share this illusion with most of mankind does not make it less of an illusion

We know to be upset by various triggers, because we have learned emotional meanings of and responses to those things by our experiences in the past. We then hold onto to our meanings and emotional reactions, usually forever. They harden into attitudes and points of view.

The effect of our attitudes is shown in the stress they generate in our bodies. All thoughts generate energy. Certain thoughts generate energies that are harmful to us and lead to disease and suffering, while other thoughts lead to health and well-being. Acceptance, tolerance, mercy and forgiveness have a calming and strengthening effect on the body, while hate, envy, fear and condemnation create stress and distress in the body.

Stressful reactions have their impact on the body slowly. Think of the fabled “Chinese water torture”: the effect of water slowly dripping on your forehead can drive you crazy. Our tendency to respond to various situations and events in the same way over and over gradually influences the energy of our being, distorting it or calming it depending on the nature of the thoughts we think.

Eventually the distortions in our energy system become increasingly discordant, we become “stressed out”, and experience physical and emotional discomfort or “dis-ease” Long term, or intense stress causes an exhaustion of our natural healing energies, and we succumb to disease. Stress reactions are always and only the end result of interpreting the world in ways that are harmful to us. All illness, physical or mental, is a product of the mind

In the first half of this 3-hour workshop you will learn about the eight ways of looking at the world that cause stress and ultimately lead to illness. You will learn which of the eight ways you tend to use most. You will learn which attitudes can be used to truly make stress and suffering unnecessary.

In the second half of this workshop you will learn how to activate a sequence of meridian points that activate the healing power of forgiveness (Remember the old saying: To err is human, to forgive is Divine) so that you can defuse any stressful reaction that you currently experience. You will leave with a simple yet robust tool that gives you the power to reduce anxiety, anger, jealousy, shame, rage, guilt, hurt grief and more no matter what the external trigger is. The bottom line is you will be empowered to not be a victim of anything outside of yourself. Join us and learn what “optional” is all about!