It changes the entire Conversation!!

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Rod's World

I’m an one on one English tutor at Darebin Intercultural Centre in Preston, Victoria, Australia. My student didn’t turn up this morning and I had printed her a lesson called Making Contact. I put this in Google Images and it brought up hundred of quotes on making eye contact, transfiguration by another name.

My friend Chris runs these amazing transfiguration events where you share eye contact with 20 different people over the evening and you finish with a I Love you Circle. This was not what I expected when I typed the words in so let’s have a look at some of these quotes and how they can be interpreted:

1. Kids get it, but adults have had the joy and imagination beaten out of their imagination.

2. Making eye contact with a total stranger was how I met my first true soulmate, on a railway station of all places: Soul on Fire.

3. I heard about living your highest values from John Di Martini the other night but what I will remember most is the friendly single mum from Tasmania I met in the line when our eyes crossed.

4. If you want what you say to land with the person you are speaking to make sure you have grabbed their attention: Don’t Look Down.

5. I make Chai at Mojo dance once a month, I dance with a women who I have screamed at, we have serious trouble looking into each other’s eyes, I hope she reads this.

6. This has happened to me three times in the past month, one of them was 22 years old. What is my soul trying to tell me: Friends.

7. I love the word lovely, Yummy.

8. Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American thinker and Pushcart-nominated poet, whose work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. To date, is the author of 4 well-received books, in 4 different genres: Signposts to Elsewhere (aphorisms), Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (essays), Fever Dreams (poems), and most recently, The Artist as Mystic (conversations): Heart’s on Fire.

9. I just had too because it is so silly.

10. I have always had trouble reading Dostoyevsky, Hahaha: S.E.X.

11. When you eye gaze with 20 different people it helps take this habit away, thank you for your ceremony , Chris.

12. One of my best friends met his life partner on a bus to Sydney when this happened: I’m Into You.

13. And, Yes I love Ram Dass, check him out. It’s not the christian God he is talking about.

14. Sarcasm is a beautiful thing, shit women have to put up with all the time: Stop staring at my Boobs.

15. And then there are times this has to be the next action.

Well, Eye contact, AKA transfiguration is a very powerful tool for connecting with your fellow human beings, practice it as often as you can.

Namaste until next time, my dear friends.

Life will love you Back!!

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Rod's World

You may not have heard of Marc and Angel Chernoff, yet they are two of the greatest list writers on the net, their book 1,000+ Little Things Happy Successful People do Differently is a gem, their internet site http://www.marcandangel.com is amongst my top ten sites at the moment. I opened the book today and a list about loving what is came up. Byron Katie is probably better known for this phrase but for me Marc and Angel run a close second.

Let’s have a look at some of the copious quotes that exist on this empowering subject:

1. Freedom and Happiness, I’ll take a dose of them anytime.

2. Do you keep your promises in this area, not easy to do sometimes: Keep your Word.

3. Are you following the where the love is path?

4. How much do we love the art of Vincent van Gogh: Vincent van Gogh.

5. It is hard to love your life without loving all stages of it, the past, the present and the future.

6. Not what you would expect from a Rugby League coach, but gets to the point: If it’s lovin that you want.

7. I’m part of a Facebook group called The Daily Gratitude Space, if you need a pickup or a place to express what you are grateful for , join us.

8. Would a list on Loving what you love be complete without Wayne Dyer, I don’t think so: How deep is your Love.

9. Anger is the root of misunderstanding between people, nations and species.

10. When we have lost contact, this is a way to recall loving memories that we have experienced in our life: Photograph.

11. My friend Tanishka finishes all her writing with blessings on your day, a beautiful practice for expressing loving what is.

12. How do you continue when your mind and body want to toss it in? Your heart is still there rooting for you: Listen to your Heart.

13. Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is well known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937) which is among the top 10 best selling self-help books of all time. Hill’s works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one’s life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve “success”.

14: The queen of Love What Is, Byron Katie has given love to countless people through her magnificent work: Relationships and Love

15. My friend Vic used to say to his staff, Love what you do, and you will never work another day in your life, sage and healthy advice.

Marc and Angel Hack Life, get a daily dose of positivity from their site: link to website.

Namaste until next time, my dear friends.

It’s not easy being a Goddess!

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Rod's World

What is a mere male doing writing about goddesses? A story, in 2013, after getting over my latest mental health episode I saw that my friend Sun was having a Kirtan with a Kundalini dance session. I ended up doing the door for the event and met Nemone, the Kundalini Dance facilitator and signed up for her eight week course because I sensed it was a way to heal faster.

During this process Nemone mentioned she was going to a retreat in Byron Shire and that I should come along. With $50 in the bank this seemed an impossibility. On the night of the heart chakra dance we had to do it blindfolded and dance to fulfil an intention which seemed impossible, I choose, I will go to the retreat. Imagine my surprise when the sixth email I opened that night was the payment plan offer for the retreat. So I was off to the retreat.

I arrived in the shire and was introduced to the workshop leader, a woman named Tanishka Tantrika, I felt like I had known her for lifetimes. Over the next 7 days my DNA was transformed. My favourite memory was one participant asked her to repeat something, Tanishka answered not really, her output was so fresh each time. I became and elder and took on personal vows over this period of time,

What I did not know about Tanishka was that she was The Moon Woman who had a 500,000 person following on Facebook. Two online courses later I find her knowledge of god and goddesses unique. She has just released a book on Hay House entitled Goddess Wisdom: Where to get the book.

So I have chosen 15 goddess quotes, let travel down the path:

1. I think this is one of the most powerful things that taking on being a goddess allows women: The right to not have to apologize for it.

2. How you treat a person is how they will relate to you: I hear you Calling

3. I know many women who have reached this discovery. Thanks for the power you bring to womanhood.

4. Pretty much sums up the goddesses I know, has anything been left out?: Shake It Off.

5. And the people who know her knows that too, or face her wrath.

6. Both men and women can do this as we both have masculine and feminine sides to our soul: You Sexy Thing.

7. Goddesses can go from Femme Fatales to completely butch, there is no goddess look, it’s who you be.

8. Written sometime in the 1700 or 1800’s by Goethe acknowledging the power of the goddess to empower the present moment: Song of the Goddess.

9. Reading Tanishka’s beginning to her journey you would never imagine that she would end up writing a book called Goddess Wisdom.

10. Goddesses know this to the bottom of their heart’s, the power of the circle: The Earth is my Mother.

11. Frida knew that these people exist, it sometimes takes a while to find yours.

12. I woke up like this, booya!: I am the Goddess.

13. The role of the goddess; to empower people and the planet.

14. Goddesses see the big picture, for them not the chauvinistic desire to rule the world, she knows better than that: Beltane Fire dance.

15. Goddesses realise there will be scars along the journey, they triumph over them.

I have a lot to thank my friend Tanishka for, without having met her I would know little of the goddesses and how to recognise one. You have expanded my life tremendously.

Namaste until next time , my dear friends.