Soul Freedom Exercise (5): Better Than I Could Imagine
June 26, 2008 by Al Link
Filed under Relationship Happiness
Exercises To Do On Your Own
BETTER THAN I COULD IMAGINE
Time for Exercise: five to 15 minutes
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Have a conversation in which you help each other recall examples of synchronous events or meaningful coincidences in your life. In particular, identify the good things that both happened to you and in which you also actively participated. Scenarios of such events could unfold something like this:
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You were trying to accomplish something.
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Things didn’t go as you planned and you experienced what seemed like setback, defeat, or failure.
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Right around the corner, something came along that was even better than you could have imagined or have planned for. You received help from outside yourself, out of the mystery, from God or Goddess.
Here is an important example from Al and Pala’s lives.
Theirs was one of the first small business entrepreneur websites on the Internet, and so they decided to offer Internet training to other small business owners. Although Al and Pala paid thousands of dollars to reserve workshop facilities they had no registrations. To avoid complete catastrophe, they chose, at the last minute, to offer relationship and sexuality training instead.
Despite having only a few paying customers, as soon as they did the workshop day dedicated to sacred sexuality they knew it was their calling—this was it. Sacred sex had been Pala and Al’s private hobby for years. It was their passion and their greatest source of joy, but they never imagined they could earn a living through it. They now teach and write about sacred sexuality and relationships full time. They discovered how they could follow their bliss and earn a living doing it, and it all came out of what seemed to be a series of failures.
Variation:
Keep a record of these important happenings in your lives. Refer back to them over the years. Is there a pattern in your series of synchronous events?
Comments:
Both positive and negative stepping stones can lead to a happy final result. In other words, there can be value in having bad things happen to you. Many times, what seems like failure or defeat is really necessary to prevent you from going further down the wrong road. Some doors have to close so that others can open.
Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007
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Also available as an eBook in pdf for Adobe Reader, prc for MobiPocket, or on CD.
Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass
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