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COURAGE
Courage isn't overcoming
fear.
It's distinguishing the
machinery
of
fear
ie it's noticing
fear,
and acting anyway. The opportunity created by
participants
in
Werner's work
to distinguish the
machinery
of
fear
(to distinguish any human
machinery,
actually) provides an access to acting even when you're afraid to
act. This is courage. Being afraid and acting anyway is courage.
Said another way, courage is knowing
who you are
in the face of
fear.
It's choosing to be
who you are
in the face of
fear
and acting anyway, regardless of
fear,
unstopped by
fear.
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CONFIDENCE
It's not easy walking on slippery ice. It's not easy crossing a
stream on wobbly stepping stones. Similarly it's not easy being
confident without a firm foundation of
Self
on which to be grounded. Having an in depth experience of
Self,
having an in depth experience of
who you really are
(and being able to tell the difference between who you
think you are and
who you really
are),
grokking the enormity of it (as Robert Heinlein may
have said), and realizing it's available
24 / 7 / 365,
is the bedrock of confidence. Confidence isn't a matter of
psyching yourself up for living. Confidence is a
function of the certainty which comes from being
who you really
are.
Participants
in
Werner's work
have an opportunity to realize this, and to step into this way of
being.
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FREEDOM
Freedom is freedom to create. Freedom is freedom to choose. Freedom
is freedom to invent possibility. Freedom ie real
freedom is a function of being unfettered by who I think I am and
it's self-imposed significance. It's the significance
I impose on Life which in turn imposes on my freedom. Once I'm
clear I'm the
source
of the significance in my life, then I'm free.
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<aside>
Notice in this case the "significance in my life"
equates to the "meaning in my life". One of the
last vestiges of an untransformed life, one of the last hold
outs to be disempowered before Life
transforms
is ascribing significance and meaning to Life itself. Life
itself has no intrinsic significance and meaning other than
that which you and I ascribe to it.
But that's the topic of another conversation for another
occasion.
<un-aside>
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I'm free when I grant space to the significance I ascribe to Life.
Why? Freedom isn't a function of eliminating
ascribing significance to Life: given our nature as significance
making
machines,
that's not an option. Instead, I can give space to the significance
I ascribe to Life, to be what it is. Therein lies my freedom to be
and to express my
Self.
It's comes as no surprise to me when people who have participated in
Werner's work
over the last forty years report freedom to be one of its
magnificent seven results.
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PEACE OF MIND
With a subtlety so sublime it can be completely missed at first,
Werner's work
paves the way for enduring peace of mind not by taming the mind,
not by silencing the mind, not by reprogramming the mind, and not by
finding ways to avoid its
tyranny.
The secret to peace of mind is simply to distinguish the mind, then
let it be without interfering with it, without getting your fingers
in the
machinery.
Man! Do we have a temptation to mess with the
machinery,
or what?!
Once distinguished and allowed to be (as opposed to
being fixed, trained, treated, deprogrammed etc), it still
chatters. But it isn't as distracting any more, given the
emergence of the authentic
Self.
The radio playing in the background isn't as distracting any more,
now that Life itself has spontaneously come forth and
presenced
itself and is
extraordinarily
attractive.
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THE ABILITY TO FULLY EXPRESS MY LOVE
To be able to say "I Love You" when I do, is an
awesome freedom. "I Love You" is a statement of truth
and acknowledgment. In it's pure expression it's not an indication
of dependence. To be able
"to allow people to be
the way they are and the way they aren't, so they can change if
they want to - and they don't have to"
is what love really is. To be able to fully express love this way
as an acknowledgement of peoples' beings is one of the most
remarkable and heartfelt results
Werner's work
produces for people - regardless of age, sex, culture, country,
creed, and social standing.
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THE ABILITY TO MAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT DOUBTING MYSELF
For me, just this one result is worth ten times the registration
fee alone. How often have you made a decision, and then immediately
doubted it was a good decision? How often have you wanted to be
able to make a decision with no doubt it's a good
decision? When realized, this one result returns the registration
fee tenfold, a hundredfold, and more. It's this particular
result
Werner's work
produces for people (or if you prefer, you could say it's this
particular result people produce for themselves in
Werner's work)
which leaves people clear to choose freely and confidently without
doubting themselves later. You're clear about
who you are
in the matter of what you decide. There's no doubt.
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HAPPINESS
As trite as it may sound (the greatest truths for human beings
always appear trite at first ... then later they appear profound
after their enormity is fully grasped), things are only and always
the way they are and the way they aren't. Aren't they? Tell the
truth about it. A thing is never the way it isn't. Nothing
is ever the way it isn't. Things are only the way they are
and the way they aren't. Yes?
Accepting things the way they are and the way they aren't (which is
the only way things ever are anyway) is the access to happiness.
Acceptance is a created state. It's an act of will.
It's an act of intention. This is key in realizing happiness itself
is a created state. It's an act of will. It's an act of intention.
People who participate in
Werner's work
have the real opportunity to test this idea and try it on for size.
There's an occasion to claim back the
source
of happiness from haphazardly balanced hormones, from the
good side of bipolar disorder, and from the blind
luck of getting out of bed on the right side
in the morning. True, authentic, thrilling, real,
alive happiness is way simpler than that. It's far
more deliberate than that.
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