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March 15, 2012
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The Beginning of 2011 – Synergy
Compiled by Laurie Jerva
Note: I am compiling my notes this year to share. I hope that they will help fill in the holes for those that have missed class, or perhaps explain something that someone just didn’t fully understand. As I work to compile my notes I am finding holes in my own understanding and as I clarify our topics for myself, I hope to provide clarity to others.
“Synergy is the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements’ contributions.” The Greek root synergos means working together. In our practice, the idea here is that everything, absolutely everything, works together in some form; so spiritual growth and regeneration is the effect of creative cooperation between human will and divine will. In the chakra system, this corresponds to the heart chakra.
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March 30, 2011
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Tags: integrated life matrix, synergy · Posted in: 2011 Classes, Laurie Jerva
Summer Wrap-up
Well, we had a full and lively two sessions over the summer. Â Here’s what we covered:
SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCT
We started by reviewing the four primitive urges–food, sex, sleep and self-preservation–and drew our attention specifically to the self-preservation (SP) urge.
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September 6, 2010
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April Review-Working with Resources
As we started April and our second quarter, I asked everyone to reconnect with their year long vision and check in with the first set of milestones. Â I suggested that the places where people were consistently hitting their targets were related to how much they actually feel connected to the value of those targets. Â Often we have a target in life that we think we want but don’t go after. Â I think this is a function of not really emotionally understanding the value of reaching it. Â Getting emotionally connected to the target means really knowing why I want to reach for it, personally. Â What does it mean to me, specifically? Read the rest of this post »
April 27, 2010
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March Review-Wood Element and Self-Esteem
Wood Element
We began the spring session talking about the wood element, which predominates in Nature during this time of year. Â Aspects of the wood element are similar to what we experience in the dawning of spring, including:
- strength and flexibility (like bamboo)
- a return of warmth, generosity and fecundity
- a strong seeking to grow and expand
- budding of ideas (as opposed to the seed of ideas, governed by autumn’s metal element or full flowering governed by summer’s fire element)
- a turning outward after the introversion of winter
April 26, 2010
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February Review: Leadership and rubberbands
We began February further clarifying our vision for 2010. The first three rounds of visioning involved three criteria which I supplied:
1) What is nourishing to me?
2) What is inspiring to me?
3) What is realistic for me?
February 24, 2010
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January 24: Visioning, Next Round
1/20/2010 Yoga Notes (thanks, Laurie)
Third criteria – Is my vision realistic?
How do I know if it’s realistic? Having a realistic sense of myself, my world, my gifts, my limitation–these are loving assessments, not wet blankets that I’m throwing on my creative dreams.
1. I am not in denial of the reality of my physical conditions. I am clear about what actually can grow in my garden (i.e. We can’t grow tropical fruits up here in CNY, but we grow great apples. Similarly, I’m too old to realistically have a vision of becoming an Olympic gymnast, and am too short to play in the WNBA.)
2. I’m clear about what would I have to pay for it.
I’m clear about the resources that will be required (time, energy, money, people’s cooperation and support) and have a plan for how to gather and disperse those resources.
3. I have taken into account pre-existing commitments that are important to me (for example, commitments to children, jobs, etc.)
4. I am clear about what I can and cannot control in the process, the things that can and cannot be changed. My vision is grounded in this wisdom.
5. I am not expecting myself or someone else to become a completely different person.
6. Because of forces beyond my control, it’s possible that I can do everything right and still not get the result I want. Accepting this reality in advance, I practice non-attachment to results.
7. Finally, I am clear that my vision doesn’t rely on magical thinking. I can see that my vision will materialize as the outcome of my own planning and actions, not metaphysical voodoo or any kind of wishful thinking.
January 24, 2010
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January 14: Visioning Questions
Courtesy of Laurie Jerva’s great note taking:
1/13/10
January 14, 2010
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Ever wonder about your classmates’ notes?
Here are mine.
 These are my notes from the session that ran from 9/16-11/4 of this year. A glimpse into the kinds of notes I take during class. Any thoughts? Laurie
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November 18, 2009
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Tags: 4 primary emotions, anger, elements, fear, grief, hurt, joy, metal, sadness, stages of grief, sympathy · Posted in: Laurie Jerva
After the Storm
Leaf detached
from Tree today;
a powerful 5 a.m. storm
set her free
Gentle Wind carried Leaf
in fanciful flight;
released from its
summer home,
Sky,
cradled by Wind,
Leaf
looped/tumbled/rose/fell
Earth waited,
ready to catch her;
a snowfall
of crimson, russet, gold
also came to rest
in a colorful, patchwork carpet
for Earth
Leaf creates soil;
nourishment for Tree
Winter:
hibernation
preparation
restoration
Spring, once more;
variations on green
Leaf appears
Tree lifts Leaf
to Sky
SKS
October 2009
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November 14, 2009
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Tags: peace, poetry, yoga · Posted in: Sue Scolaro