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		<title>SOUL LOSS &amp; SOUL RETRIEVAL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soul Retrieval is very much on my mind, because I just finished conducting a 5-Day Professional Hypnotist Training in Sedona, AZ. One of segments was on Soul Loss &#38; Soul Retrieval. I shared some of the following information with my &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/04/soul-loss-soul-retrieval/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Soul Retrieval is very much on my mind, because I just finished conducting a 5-Day Professional Hypnotist Training in Sedona, AZ. One of segments was on Soul Loss &amp; Soul Retrieval. I shared some of the following information with my students and most responded with, “What?”</span></p>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">They’re not alone. Just when I feel I have retrieval fully understood, I run into a new twist, such as the revelations of Dr. Millett described below.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Parts of your soul can “split off” or “fragment” and go to other realms so that your physical body can survive a trauma or loss. With a fragment of your soul gone, you can suffer a physical, psychological, or spiritual loss of power.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">The idea of Soul Retrieval is to make contact with a lost fragment and reintroduce it to your soul so your totality can heal and thrive. According to Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., Shamen see these lost soul parts as beings that we can engage . . . and speak to . . . and heal . . . and rescue.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Soul loss can occur as a result of trauma. When a child is abused or traumatized, a fragment of the child’s soul breaks off and returns to the archtypical domain of the Great Mother for protection her real mother cannot provide. Adult sexual assault can also generate soul loss. Even a bitter divorce can cause this loss according to some therapists. A surgery, or an auto accident can also be a cause. Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome may simply be soul loss.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Jill Kuykendall, RPT, says, “Soul loss is a life-coping mechanism in which the dissociated soul parts leave, carrying the burden of the pain, shock, or extreme emotion, or the memory of the trauma which may be simply unbearable to the sufferer at the time it occurs.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Symptoms of soul loss frequently manifest as feelings of being fragmented, of not being all there; blocked memory or not being able to remember parts of one’s life; a sudden onset of apathy or listlessness, or a lack of joy in life; the inability to feel love for others or receive love from another, often resulting in the sense of being emotionally flat-lined. The loss of these parts of the self manifests frequently as despair, as suicidal tendencies and/or addictions, or most often&#8211;depression.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Those experiencing soul loss may sleep a lot, or feel that they’re “not all there.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">But each fragment always maintains a connection with the soul via a thread&#8211;a fiber of the silver cord that attaches your soul to your body. Because this connection exists, it makes retrieval possible.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Dr. Michael G. Millett adds another dimension to this concept: He claims soul fragments, if not retrieved, can continue to be connected to each other by the silver threads, even after the physical death of the soul they originally shared</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">“A fragment can separate and follow the person like a balloon on a string,” says Millett. “It can remain in some distant location or structure, it can also attach to another living person. A fragment of the mind of a living person can be attached to one or more other living persons. The condition of fragmentation is not healed by death of the fragmented person. The newly deceased spirit, the discarnate entity, is also fragmented. This fragmented entity can then attach to still another living person. Thus a discarnate entity can be attached to two or more living individuals.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Another aspect of this situation provides an interesting twist to the classic condition of spirit possession in which a living person is considered to be influenced by the spirit of a deceased person. If the living mind fragment remains connected to the spirit of the newly deceased person, then a deceased spirit is being possessed by the mind of a living person.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">And if this doesn’t complicate the understanding, “the traumatic incident which originally caused fragmentation might be located in another space, time or lifetime,” according to Millett. He also claims fragments can literally be “floating free” although the soul-loss incident occurred in another era.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Thus, a child could be born with a condition in which a free-floating fragment, prior to birth, attaches and becomes an influence to a child. For those of us accepting karma as the basis of reality, this would have to be a karmic situation.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">Or, in theory, one of these fragments could attach to an adult who is causing holes to appear in their aura through excessive anger, hatred, or use of alcohol or drugs. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Following is a script, to be used as a general guideline. You will have to be creative when working with Soul Retrieval. A good understanding of the mystical and paranormal will certainly be of value.</span></div>
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<div><strong>SOUL RETRIEVAL SCRIPT</strong></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">SOUL RETRIEVAL SCRIPT: Instructions for hypnotherapists are in (“quotes”) (“Chakra Balancing Hypnotic Induction, followed by moving client(s) into Higher-Self and making contact with their Spirit Guide, Guardian Angel, Master teachers and those they once loved in life, but are now in Spirit.”)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Those who love, teach and guide you are now here to assist us in obtaining awareness. And I’d like you to begin this exploration by looking back over your life. Can you recall any traumas that may have resulted in soul loss? Think back, and know that those in Spirit will be helping you to remember. Be aware of all thoughts, feelings or visualizations. When you locate something, speak up and tell me.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">All right, remember all you’re perceiving, but it’s now time for you to use your inner-eyes to scan your body in search for any missing fragments. And I’m asking those in spirit to assist. Watch for any shadowy areas or empty places. If you find anything speak up and let me know.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">If you are noting traumas or what appear to be missing portions of your totality, remember them. But it is now time to regress back in time to the original wounding. If you have suffered more than one trauma, you will now explore the primary missing fragment. So imagine yourself in a tunnel leading back into your past. I will count from five to one as you move through the tunnel &#8230; back in time &#8230; back to the event that caused your soul loss.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Number five, you’re letting go and beginning to move back in time. Allow it to happen. Feel it happening. See yourself moving through the tunnel back into the past. Number four, moving back to the event that caused your soul loss. Number three, you’re moving through the tunnel toward a light way down at the end. Number two, on the next count you will step out of the end of the tunnel and you will perceive as an observer, without pain or emotion, what happened to cause your soul loss. Number one, you’re now there. Step out of the tunnel and allow the impressions to begin to come in. ///// Are you outdoors or indoors?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">(“Begin questioning what happened and when it happened as you would in Past-Life Regression. Keep in mind, your client may now be in his present life or a past life. Once you have discovered everything you can about the situation, bring your client back into Higher-Self.”)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">On the count of three you’ll be back in the present remembering everything you just experienced.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">(“If your client is resistant to what they experienced, you may have to regress them back to what they did in a prior incarnation that set this conflict into play. Once they accept they acted in a way that generated a reaction, they will be more likely to accept the justice of the situation. Upon returning to Higher-Self you will want to obtain a “karmic overview.” If the soul loss took place in a past life, you will want to find out if any of those who played a role in the soul loss are playing roles in your client’s life today. We tend to reincarnate over and over with the same people until we resolve our issues.”)</span></div>
<div><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></em></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">All right, it’s now time to seek out your missing soul fragment. We all have a silver cord that connects our body to our soul &#8230; and even when a fragment of your soul breaks off to seek shelter elsewhere, it remains attached to your soul by fibers&#8211;silver threads of the cord. / / / / So all you have to do to find your missing fragment, is to follow the threads into the spiritual dimensions until you reach this part of your totality.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">So go ahead now. Perceive your silver cord. / / / / / / / / / and if you look closely, you’ll notice that there are fibrous silver threads leading away from your main cord. / / / / / And it’s time to begin following the threads. Those who love, teach and guide you will accompany you on this search.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">When you find your missing soul fragment, speak up and tell me what is happening.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">(“Respond appropriately.”)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">It is now time to communicate with your fragment. Express your sincere desire to have it rejoin the whole. Address all of it’s concerns. Find out what would have to happen for it to feel secure enough to return.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">(“NOTE: As the hypnotherapist, you will most likely get involved in the dialoging and helping to provide assurances to the fragment.”)</span></div>
<div><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></em></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">If the fragment is willing to rejoin your soul, embrace each other and allow this merger to take place.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">(“NOTE: Guide this process, which can be lengthy and emotional.”)</span></div>
<div><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></em></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">And it is now time to return to Higher-Self with your fragment having rejoined your soul. On the count of three you’ll be back in Higher-Self feeling relaxed and at ease, and fully integrated for the first time in a long time. Number one, number two, number three.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">(“Dialogue with your client who is still in trance. Do some intense “forgiveness processing.” To fully release the past, they will need to forgive themselves and all the others involved in the soul-loss traumas. Provide a releasing mantra. Awaken your client with positive suggestions to the effect that they are fully integrated, etc.”)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">(“NOTE: Once your client has recovered their soul fragment, they will want to nurture that part of themselves. If the fragment splintered off when your client was a child, the child won’t immediately grow up. Explain this.”) </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">(“NOTE: If your client has several missing fragments, you’ll have to deal with them one at a time, just as you would work with one past life at a time.”)                                                                                                </span></div>
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		<title>SEMINAR PROCESSES</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are processes/techniques Richard will teach in the upcoming 5-Day Professional Certification Hypnosis Training to be held in Sedona, AZ, March 25-29, 2013 at the PocoDiablo Resort. You will receive all the scripts mentioned below in your Manual which &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/03/seminar-processes/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following are processes/techniques Richard will teach in the upcoming 5-Day Professional Certification Hypnosis Training to be held in Sedona, AZ, March 25-29, 2013 at the PocoDiablo Resort.</p>
<p>You will receive all the scripts mentioned below in your Manual which you receive as part of the training. Professional Auditing fees available for graduates and Certification information at <a shape="rect">www.richardsutphen.com</a> and click on Seminars.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>How to Hypnotize Other People:</p>
<p>Choose your attitude and induction method.</p>
<p>Body Relaxation Script.</p>
<p>Chakra Balancing &amp; Energizing Script.</p>
<p>Spiritual Protection Script.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Basic Past-Life Regression Script:</p>
<p>Typical Directives.</p>
<p>Death-Experience Script.</p>
<p>Cross-Over-Into-Spirit Script.</p>
<p>Return to the Present &amp; Awaken Script.</p>
<p>Back-to-the-Cause Past-Life Regression Script.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Spirit-Contact Therapy:</p>
<p>Includes &#8220;Higher Self&#8221; and making direct contact with Spirit.</p>
<p>Soul-Retrieval Session.</p>
<p>The Ascension Technique: Past-Life Regression.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Soulmate Hypnosis:</p>
<p>The Primary Relationship Killers.</p>
<p>Positive Hypnotic Progression.</p>
<p>Parallel-Lives Transfer Session.</p>
<p>Earthbound-Entity-Attachment Hypnosis.</p>
<p>Soul-Group Regression.</p>
<p>The Chakra System: Removing Blocks from the Energy Field.</p>
<p>Automatic Writing.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Swing and Sway Hypnosis:</p>
<p>Acupressure Points for physical induction.</p>
<p>Divisions of Hypnotic Depth: Sutphen Regression Scale.</p>
<p>Optimizing Suggestion Examples.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>PLUS</p>
<p>More training details at <a shape="rect">www.richardsutphen.com</a> and click on Seminars.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>PLUS</p>
<p>A 48-Page &#8220;Master-of-Life Metaphysical Counselor Training Manual.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Peace and Light,</p>
<p>Richard</p>
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		<title>SUBPERSONALITIES, FRAGMENTS, ETC.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Subpersonalities&#8221; are an aspect of psychosynthesis (an Italian psychotherapy) that claims deep within you have many subpersonalities &#8212; a crowd of contradictions constantly resisting each other. One part of you wants to do one thing and another part, something else. &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/03/subpersonalities-fragments-etc/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Subpersonalities&#8221; are an aspect of psychosynthesis (an Italian psychotherapy) that claims deep within you have many subpersonalities &#8212; a crowd of contradictions constantly resisting each other. One part of you wants to do one thing and another part, something else.</p>
<p>Classic subpersonalities would be the critic, moralist, attention seeker, sympathy seeker, pleaser, brute, judge, helpless one, aggressor, dominant one, organizer, sadist, masochist, sexist, bitch, victim, manipulator, slut, martyr, nag, tightwad, lover, prude, provider, entertainer, star, rebel, inquisitor, skeptic, clown, braggart, etc. You get the idea.</p>
<p>To achieve an awareness of your True-self, you must face many facets of your personality, which includes all your subpersonalities. The goal is to detach from the undesirable aspects. Instead of being absorbed by the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and desires of a subpersonality, you become aware of them when they surface and simply observe them objectively, without judging or interfering. Over time, your awareness can result in detachment.</p>
<p>In my subpersonality seminar sessions, I hypnotize the participants and direct them to draw a subpersonality to the surface and perceive an image emerging to represent this aspect. After getting in touch with the feelings that emanate from the subpersonality, I direct them to have a &#8220;thought-language&#8221; conversation and give the personality a name. They then explore any fears associated with this aspect. We usually explore three subpersonalities in one session.</p>
<p>In his book, &#8220;Avalanche,&#8221; W. Brugh Joy, M.D. claims that within our unconscious are aspects of our multiple selves that operate independently, have a life of their own, and seek fulfillment that may run counter to our conscious desires.</p>
<p>At first I thought he was speaking of subpersonalities. Not so.</p>
<p>Joy says these multiple selves are patterns which can determine much that happens in our lives. As an example, he explained how a talented psychic would tell him about one of his past lives. Then another psychic would tell him what appeared to be a different life, but the patterns were the same. &#8220;West Side Story&#8221; and Romeo and Juliet&#8221; are different stories, although the patterns are basically the same.</p>
<p>This could simply be a matter of working through a theme, but Joy believes the key to understanding and appreciating such information &#8220;&#8230; is to reinterpret &#8216;past-life&#8217; anecdotes in terms of their being active, current patterns in the multiple selves of the Unconscious, rather than events in the past. There is, in fact, nothing in a past-life reading &#8212; no character, plot, or theme &#8212; that cannot be understood as a force presently acting in the Unconscious. When this is recognized, one can ferret out the key unconscious patterns that are operating in one&#8217;s life.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Pattern Level of Reality&#8221; is key to Dr. Joy&#8217;s communications. He sees the personal self as an &#8220;illusion of consciousness with only limited resources and options in relation to the forces that are actually manifesting us.&#8221; He views individuals as a unique combination of immortal patterns, which are manifested anew with each generation and have nothing to do with the personal self. &#8220;Life incarnates us and needs us,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Our only spiritual responsibility is, to the best of our ability, to fully live out those patterns that relate us to the wholeness of Life.&#8221;</p>
<p>We could further explore the multiple selves concept by considering &#8220;parallel lives,&#8221; &#8220;past-life fragments,&#8221; &#8220;archetypes,&#8221; &#8220;entity attachments,&#8221; and even &#8220;soul retrievals&#8221; all of which seem to relate. But I&#8217;m out of space. Hope I have not given you a headache.</p>
<p>Peace and Light,</p>
<p>Richard</p>
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		<title>CONTROLLING OUTCOMES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you live with expectations and desires, it follows you want to control outcomes. You want things to unfold in your favor. But you can’t control outcomes in life. The best you can hope to do is increase the odds &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/02/controlling-outcomes-2/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you live with expectations and desires, it follows you want to control outcomes. You want things to unfold in your favor. But you can’t control outcomes in life. The best you can hope to do is increase the odds through wisdom.</p>
<p>If you desire a particular outcome, step back and ask yourself, “What’s the fear associated with the outcome?”</p>
<p>Explore the fear, including the worst that might happen if things did not turn out in your favor. If you’re committed to an outcome, the fear will be related to loss: The loss of love, loss of control, loss of finances, or the loss of self-esteem. Which applies to your situation?</p>
<p>Then ask yourself, “What if I could take the fear out of my desire?”</p>
<p>If there were no fear, the outcome would not matter. Logical.</p>
<p>So we’re back to resolving fear, a subject I write about a lot, because I’m working on it all the time.</p>
<p>As New Agers, we believe we can create our own reality, and I know this to be true, when we’re talking about finding happiness and fulfillment and living an abundant life. Reality is created by the way we view and accept what is. But don’t confuse this with controlling outcomes that in any way affect other people.</p>
<p>In other words, if you want if you want Leigh to fall in love with you, that is not within your power to control, no matter how many hypnosis mind-programs you use. The same is true of winning the pageant, getting your book accepted by a major publisher, or desiring a beautiful sunset.</p>
<p>Expectations and the desire to control do not work. Both are fear-based emotions, which we incarnated to rise above.</p>
<p>Many New Agers believe in controlling their thoughts. But it can’t be done. You can catch yourself when you’re thinking negative. You can use thought-stopping techniques, which condition you, over time, to reduce fearful thinking. But out-and-out control of your thoughts isn’t an option.</p>
<p>What you can control is your behavior&#8211;your actions.</p>
<p>Mystics have always said a wise seeker learns to live without desire. Easier said than done. Probably not going to happen in this lifetime, but finding a self-actualized balance seems to me a worthy goal.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>February 9th SNOW!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It began snowing sometime in the middle of the night and hasn&#8217;t quit since. Sedona is absolutely beautiful in the snow, but cold&#8230; &#8230; I&#8217;m thinking a winter condo in Florida!  roberta I realize people in the Northeast are going &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/02/february-9th-snow/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://richardsutphen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Started-snowing-today4.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3079" title="Started snowing today!" src="http://richardsutphen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Started-snowing-today4-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>It began snowing sometime in the middle of the night and hasn&#8217;t quit since.</p>
<p>Sedona is absolutely beautiful in the snow, but cold&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking a winter condo in Florida!</p>
<p> <img src='https://richardsutphen.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  roberta</p>
<p>I realize people in the Northeast are going to think Richard and I are wimps, they are dealing with much, more snow than we are.</p>
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		<title>New Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>RELATIONSHIPS DO NOT WORK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My communications are a combination of grounded metaphysics and street-wise Zen, so study of both subjects is an ongoing quest. On the Zen side, Charlotte Joko Beck is a favorite teacher from the Zen Center in San Diego, CA. In &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/02/relationships-do-not-work/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My communications are a combination of grounded metaphysics and street-wise Zen, so study of both subjects is an ongoing quest. On the Zen side, Charlotte Joko Beck is a favorite teacher from the Zen Center in San Diego, CA. In her book “Everyday Zen” she claims relationships do not work. “There never was a relationship that worked,” she says.</p>
<p>Why? Because with any relationship we want something. There are expectations—some subtle, some not-so subtle. We try to figure out our relationships—try to find a way to make them work so we can get what we want. The problem is “wanting something” and the resulting expectations. Even to avoid a relationship is to want something, so conflict is built into the equation.</p>
<p>Beck says, “.  . . We often misinterpret what marriage is about. When a relationship isn’t working, it means that the partners are preoccupied with ‘I’: ‘What I want is . . .’ or ‘This isn’t right for me.’ If there is little wanting, then the relationship is strong and it will function. That’s all life is interested in. As a separate ego with your separate desires, you are of no importance to life. And all weak relationships reflect the fact that somebody wants something for himself or herself.”</p>
<p>Beck uses a house analogy to make a point about rigidity in marriage and life. There are new designs for beachfront houses that protect the structure from the occasional big storms which flood such residences. In the new designs, when flooded, the middle of the house collapses and the water, instead of destroying the whole house, rushes through the middle and leaves the structure standing.</p>
<p>Flexibly structured relationships function in much the same way, allowing them to absorb shocks and stresses and continue to function. When a relationship is based primarily on “I want” or “I demand,” the structure is rigid and will be unable to withstand the pressures of life.</p>
<p>Life will test all relationships like a strong wind beating at the union. If the relationship can’t take the beating, then it will have to grow stronger so it can take it, or the couple will be forced to part so that something new has an opportunity to arise from the ashes. From a soul-level perspective, whether the relationship survives isn’t as important as the karmic lessons learned by the two individuals.</p>
<p>Relationships offer abundant gifts in the form of opportunities to learn, although the lessons may not feel like a gift during times of testing. But that’s what we’re here to experience. We incarnated to learn about the futility of expectations and to rise above all the fear-based emotions, including those fears that cause us to want to control those closest to us. Even your ideals are expectations in disguise. When you’re attached to the way you think someone else should be, you’ll be unable to appreciate life as it is.</p>
<p>In my “Soulmate Workshop,” I point out that strong relationships are ones in which two people 1) express love and compassion, 2) grant each other freedom, 3) have few expectations of each other, and 4) commit to each other (commitment is the essence of love).</p>
<p>A weak relationship always mirrors someone wanting their lover to be the way they want them to be—someone wanting control.</p>
<p>So if you’re experiencing a relationship conflict, or the next time you find yourself in a relationship conflict, here are some key questions to ask yourself:</p>
<p>“Am I seeking my lover’s approval or am I trying to control him/her?”</p>
<p>“Am I being rigid?”</p>
<p>“Am I learning the lessons this conflict is generating?”</p>
<p>“What do I need to do to detach from the conflict without detaching from the relationship?”</p>
<p>Simply by asking yourself the questions, you’ll be taking a major step toward resolving the conflict.</p>
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		<title>LIVING SPIRIT IN 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Richard and I resumed our free webcasts using a whole new platform: USTREAM. Our friends, who were with us during our first season, had wanted to view the webcasts when they couldn&#8217;t join us live, but now everyone &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/01/living-spirit-in-2013/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week Richard and I resumed our free webcasts using a whole new platform: USTREAM. Our friends, who were with us during our first season, had wanted to view the webcasts when they couldn&#8217;t join us live, but now everyone can.  You can view our webcasts at USTREAM on our channel, <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/richard-sutphen-webcasts">Richard Sutphen Webcasts</a>, or go to our website and click on <a href="http://richardsutphen.com/freewebcasts/">WEBCASTS</a>. We also have a YouTube Channel, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ3VDX1GyJK5wGg1PABU49A">Richard Sutphen</a>, where all our videos are posted. GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the title of our first free webcast and is about incorporating Spirit into your daily life, and how Spirit uplifts you, especially during difficult times.</p>
<p>We call Spirit our own thoughts on God or a Higher Power, along with your Spirit Helpers. Spirit Helper are your Spirit Guide or Guides, Masters, Loved-Ones who have crossed into Spirit, Members of your Soul Group, and the Angelic Realm to whom you call or have planned to surround and protect you in this lifetime.</p>
<p>To gain peace and understanding in any situation, it is the White Light of God’s love that will give you strength, and your Spirit Helpers who assist you to find the meaning. It is your Spirit Helpers that I see and converse with when you are in a private session with Richard and I. It is your Spirit Helpers who give you your answers and clarify issues in your life.</p>
<p>Each one of us came here to test how we will react in different circumstances. These situations are sometimes positive and sometimes we refer to them as our problems. It’s the problems we address in our webcast. It’s the beginning of a brand-new year, giving you an opportunity to change your old patterns of handling your problems. We encourage you to work with Spirit more closely than you have in the past so that your problems are lightened and thought of as opportunities to learn, experience the emotions, then rise above the situation by seeing the positive in them.  Even if you only ask for the White Light to surround you when you are caught up in the emotions of your problem, this will change your feelings about them.</p>
<p>As an example, we have someone who strives to cause us problems. Instead of reacting emotionally, which their behavior may warrant, we first surround ourselves in the White Light and then call in our Spirit Helpers to assist us. We want to know our Soul’s purpose in this situation and how best to go through it without getting stuck or being negative. Spirit assures us this will end quicker and with less pain if we react positively and live in the Light. (And you probably want to get it right, just as we do, so you don’t need to come back with them again!)</p>
<p>Richard and I don’t continually talk about the perpetrator in this situation because this makes their presence in our lives bigger. Just like us, you’ll always run into individuals who enjoy bringing chaos to your order and talking about your problems reinforces you <em>have </em>a problem.</p>
<p>Understanding your Soul wishes you to go through these situations to gain knowledge, then completely trusting Spirit to assist you and give you answers will speed the process along.  (Richard’s “Wisdom Erases Karma!”) You don’t have to be STUCK in your problems when you incorporate Spirit into your day-to-day life. You can go THROUGH your problems and come out better on the other side.</p>
<p>We hope you can join us Thursday, January 24<sup>th</sup> for our next live-webcast that will build on this topic of living Spirit. Richard and I have posted our free webcast schedule, both on USTREAM and our website.</p>
<p>We both wish you the best for 2013.</p>
<p>Roberta Sutphen</p>
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		<title>“TUM-MO” NAKED ON A WINTER NIGHT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of winter in the Himalayas, yoga adepts sit outside naked practicing a technique called “Tum-Mo” to generate body heat. Through visualization and breathing exercises the adept imagines a small fire burning at the base of his spine. &#8230; <a href="https://richardsutphen.com/2013/01/tum-mo-naked-on-a-winter-night/">Read More</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the middle of winter in the Himalayas, yoga adepts sit outside naked practicing a technique called “Tum-Mo” to generate body heat. Through visualization and breathing exercises the adept imagines a small fire burning at the base of his spine. He then concentrates this energy to fill his body with heat.</p>
<p>To test an adept’s ability, he is required to remain naked on a mountainside throughout a winter night. And if survival were not enough, the adept must dry sheets that have been dipped in icy water, then place them around their body. Not one sheet, but one after another. With each new sheet, the adept turns on a burst of psychic heat.</p>
<p>Some who have witnessed this feat have reported that there is often competition among novice Tum-mo adepts to see who can dry the most sheets.</p>
<p>Quantum physicists say our world resembles a thought form more than anything else—a reality we have dreamed into existence. Matter is energy, and there is no physical basis for matter. So it follows that we all have powers beyond our present imagination. Tum-mo may be only a faint glimmer of our powers within.</p>
<p>No wonder hypnotic mind-programming techniques are so effective.</p>
<p>Some reporters of the new physics say consciousness should be able to create matter. For years we have read about Eastern mystics manifesting objects and demonstrating an ability to bi-locate. But such feats are not limited to gurus. My friend Patti Conklin has been reported to be healing an individual in one city while teaching in front of a group of people in another city.</p>
<p>Einstein’s discovery, E=MC<sup>2</sup>, tells us that matter is highly condensed energy. The same concept is reported in ancient Tantric texts, but is called “chit,” or consciousness itself.</p>
<p>I am energy. You are energy. The objects surrounding you are swirling molecules of condensed energy and we’re all vibrating within a frequency we have chosen to experience. So the mystics and scientists are in agreement. We’re living in an illusion.</p>
<p>In “Tales of Power,” Carlos Castaneda said Don Juan “had already made the point that there is no world at large but only a description of the world which we have learned to visualize and take for granted.”</p>
<p>Maybe so, but it sure feels real.</p>
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