Desert Mandala: Life In Central Australia

Amanda September 30th, 2007

Most of you know that I (Amanda) have been practicing yoga for a number of years. My introduction to yoga came in a roundabout way, via the Les Mills program, Body Balance in 1999.

When I trained in Body Balance (on release no.5, which had the awesome Delerium song ‘Silence’ featuring Sarah MacLachan’s voice), I’d done very little yoga in my life. The experience was an emotional one: the training was difficult -I was so incredibly sore doing things I’d never done before- and the master trainer conducting it was very intimidating. It’s the only Les Mills training I’ve ever gone to where I’ve cried.

I didn’t really take to Body Balance until I’d been teaching it for a year … and had started going to both yoga and Tai Chi classes.  And then my interest took off in a big way. When I came to Alice Springs, I found a community buzzing with Iyengar, Ashtanga, Satychananda, and more general styles, with Kirtan and meditation. It was all I really needed to deepen my interest.

For me, yoga practice is not just about doing the asana (the postures) - downward dogs, warriors and headstands. To be truthful, I couldn’t do a headstand until two years ago … after about 5 years of practice! Even now, I’m still perfecting it. The pranayama (breathing), pratyhara (withdrawal) and dharana (concentration) as well as studying the philosophy underlying the system are more meaningful to me than being able to stand on my head for 5 minutes. More than anything else, the pranayama and dharana have been incredibly helpful in dealing with stress, hurt, loss and most especially, depression. 

It is this experience that I will share. The small practices that I do in the morning and before going to bed are simple. I am not talking about asana, just about the breathing and meditation practice - about 20-25 minutes. (I do 30-40 min of asana several mornings per week, which is additional). But the focus, the calm, the sense of equinamity towards others they give cannot be measured.

I am happy to share the sources of my practice:

http://swamij.com/index-yoga-meditation-meditation.htm

Swami Rama’s meditation tape was the first one I ever bought back in 1987. Swami Rama has passed away, but his website contains his teachings, which are especially useful for beginning meditators and yogis/yoginis.

http://www.yogastudiesinstitute.org/?ind&PHPSESSID=38ec5707a0288e91f78232750931608e

Geshe Michael Roach and the Yoga Studies Institute have a truly powerful path for those who dare tread it. It is not easy -it’s Tibetan Buddhist yoga- but it is all that it promises to be. No, you don’t have to be ‘religious’ to take this path or give up your beliefs. You simply have to be prepared to do the work. 

Just like anything else in life.

Namaste.

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gadget September 30th, 2007

Rather than write a lot of what’s been written elsewhere over the past few days. I’ll list a few more good websites for news of what’s happening in Burma:

http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/

This website is continually updated and even during the internet blackouts was still being updated.

http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/

This is another website with regularly updated news and photos.

Apparently, the internet coverage is still patchy. The Burmese government is selectively blocking some overseas news websites as well as blogs from Burmese citizens:

 Internet link remains shut amid Myanmar crackdown… (chat quote from ko-htike blog).

Other blogs I have been checking like Nyein Chan Yar and Dawn_109 (I hope she’s alright) have not been updated for several days.

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Amanda September 28th, 2007

Both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian are carrying disturbing photos and stories about what’s happening in Burma. The military are rounding up Buddhist monks in trucks and taking them away so they can’t come to the city to protest. They killed a Japanese photographer who was capturing the unrest on film, and apparently went searching for more foreign journalists in a nearby city hotel. The Australian reports that 11 people at least have been killed and that this tactic of letting people protest for a few days and then cracking down is to enable to military junta to identify those who are protesting.

(photos from moemaka’s blog)

Today, please wear a red t-shirt in support of the Burmese people’s demands for democracy and peace.

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Here are some of the Burmese blogs posting photos and info:

http://dathana.blogspot.com/

This is from dathana’s blog: 

As the peaceful protests spread to all cities and large towns since three days ago, there were no clashes in these towns except MyitKyiNa. I heard, military troops entered the monasteries and beat the monks in Myitkyina Yesterday. When the monks fall down, all monks were arrested. It happened the same thing at Yangon last night. The troops entered the monastery at south OkeKaLar, beat up the monks and arrested them. In yesterday clashes, most of the people arrested were monks too. I wish this movement goes on successfully in all towns and Yangon until SPDC fall down.By the way, as I cannot access Blogger website anymore and my blog banned here, I added a blogger friend of mine, Ancient Ghost, to my blog as a contributor.

Update news from Ancient Ghost:
This morning, I read news from The Australian News, and BBC that security forces raided several Buddhist monasteries and arrested hundreds of monks. They arrested Up to 500 monks from the Mogaung monastery in Yankin Township and another 150 detained at the Ngwe Kyaryan monastery in South Okkalapa Township. Since curfew has been imposed, I remebered the midnight violence liked 1990’s. Now the Conditions are worse than my imagination.

http://moemaka.blogspot.com/2007/09/blood-shed-in-ngwe-kyar-yan-monestery.html

Please look at the most recent pictures posted here.

http://www.xanga.com/dawn_1o9

The blog of a very brave young woman. Pray that she isn’t taken away by the military.

http://generation96.blogspot.com/

These pictures are from generation96 blogspot:

The man lying down is apparently the Japanese photographer that was killed yesterday. 

Please spread the word. Keep sending these sites and photos to your national newspapers & media outlets.

Pray that the violence stops and sanity prevails.

Namaste

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gadget September 27th, 2007

Here is part of an online article from Time Magazine:

The battle for Shwedagon began in ferocious noonday heat. The authorities had locked the gates of the pagoda, Rangoon’s most famous landmark, by mid-morning to prevent the monks who had led the weeklong demonstrations against Burma’s military rulers from gathering. Police and soldiers guarded the entrances. The eastern gate of Shwedagon is where thousands of monks would otherwise exit to start their march into downtown Rangoon. But today, hundreds of soldiers and riot police blocked their way.

By 12:30 p.m., hundreds of monks, students, and other Rangoon residents approached the police, stood in the road and began to pray. Then the soldiers and police began pulling monks from the crowd, targeting the leaders, striking both monks and ordinary people with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded and the riot police charged. The monks and others fought back with sticks and rocks. Many others ran, perhaps four or five of them bleeding from minor head wounds. A car was set alight — by the soldiers, some protesters claimed — and then there was the unmistakable crack of live ammunition: the soldiers were shooting into the air.

“They are not Buddhists,” cried one student, who clutched half a brick in his hand, running from the smoke. “They are not humans. We were praying peacefully and they beat us. They beat the monks, even the old ones.” An 80-year-old monk stood with the student, bleeding from a baton gash on his shaven head.

However, after this confrontation, the monks regrouped and surged forward again. Shops along the road were shuttered, but people threw down water bottles from their balconies to aide the protesters. Minutes later, the arc of a tear-gas canister looped through the air toward the pagoda’s east entrance. The air was full of dense black clouds from a burning car and motorbike. Running monks retreated through the smoke, many armed with clubs of scavenged wood, one armed with a riot shield snatched from the police. They were shaking and incandescent with rage. “The United Nations must know about this!” cried one. “They beat the nuns too,” cried another.

Suddenly there was what sounded like an enormous explosion: a clap of thunder. Monks and people cheer and applaud. A sign of cosmic solidarity.

One monk raised his hands to the heavens and shouted, “The rain is coming! The soldiers will be struck by lightning!” But, a woman retorted, “Lightning is not enough. They deserve more.” A cheer goes up with each subsequent clap of thunder.

A pause came upon the battle. The monks regrouped at a nearby monastery to march downtown. But first came a chilling display of the people’s anger — and the monks’ moral influence. A man on a motorcycle rode up. Motorcycles have been banned in Rangoon for years, ever since — the story goes — the paranoid generals fear being shot by assassins riding one of them. Most people on motorcycles are therefore assumed to be spies.

Thus sensing an enemy, the mob pounced. The man was pulled off his bike and set upon by students and people armed with wooden sticks. “Beat him!” they cried. “Kill him!” Quickly, the monks intervened and ushered him away to the safety of a nearby monastery. The mob, however, set upon his motorbike with clubs and rocks, smashing it to bits.

Please view the whole article here: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665607,00.html?imw=Y

Facebook Group to join: Support the Monks’ Protests in Burma http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24957770200

(note the correct use of possessive plural apostrophe!)

And tomorrow:

Wear a red t-shirt in solidarity with the people of Burma this friday!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18267307704

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Amanda September 27th, 2007

I don’t usually write about political issues on the blog, but I’m feeling concerned and powerless to do anything about the situation in Burma which is becoming uglier by the moment. Despite the peaceful protests led by 1000s of Buddhist monks chanting prayers, overnight the Burmese military has reportedly killed at least three monks, arrested a number of poets and actors, and has used tear gas to break up crowds. 

More photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/niknayman/Burma

They are also limiting access to the internet and preventing people from telling their stories to the rest of the world. For example, here is a direct quote from a blog written by a group of Burmese activists yesterday:

Note: They started to block access to Blogger. I have to post through email. They banned my blog too!!!!!!!!!

This blog is: http://dathana.blogspot.com/

Mostly likely, wherever you are reading this blog (note: most of our visitors come from Australia and Germany), the government doesn’t care if you read it, and won’t do anything to stop me writing it. I can say anything I like about the Australian government: John Howard is a neo-liberal nazi chimpanzee and his policies are fascist conspiracies aimed at making us dumb consumers and slaves to big business … And nothing will happen to me.

The illegal (see below) military government are stopping people from accessing the internet and from criticising the government’s human rights abuses. 

I am not particularly experienced as a social activist (I’ve avoided a lot of the ‘trendy’ social protests at uni and elsewhere). I have, however, been in countries where people have been fighting for what we take for granted: the right to chose our political leaders. In Nepal, I ended up in the middle of a protest that shut down Kathmandu for four days. I never came under any threat of harm (in fact, the army were happy to pose for photos whilst dodging protester’s rocks and watching piles of burning tyres). The people protesting weren’t interested in hurting tourists, they wanted the right to vote.Which they now have. After many years and thousands of deaths.

However, Nepal wasn’t ruled by a bunch of military generals. It was (and still is to some extent) ruled by a bumbling king and a few wealthy elites. They permitted protests and even when they didn’t, they didn’t stop protests by killing, disappearing and torturing protest leaders and their families. Nepal doesn’t have a massive army, and furthermore, its main sources of GDP – foreign aid and tourism- bring the watchful eyes of the world inside its borders.

Burma is different.

In trying to figure out what people living elsewhere can do to help, I have done a little bit of research on Burma. Here is some alarming information:

• Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948, but has been under the rule of military generals (called a junta) since 1962
• In 1988, unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression led to widespread pro-democracy demonstrations throughout the country. Hundreds of people were killed by security forces. This led to a new military government taking complete power.
• In May 1990, the government held free elections for the first time in almost 30 years. The National Democratic League, lead by Aung San Suu Kyi won 392 out of a total 489 seats, but the election results were annulled by the junta. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest and is still under house arrest.
• Burma has the 12th largest army IN THE WORLD (nearly a million conscripts)
• Burma is now one of the poorest nations in Asia. Under British rule, it was previously one of the wealthiest and most literate.
• The price of cooking fuel went up by 500% last year
• Last month, the military government put it up another 900%. Reportedly, this is to fund pay rises for public servants.
• Burma’s biggest exports are opium and illegal timber (most of the timber goes to China)
• China and Russia have refused to discuss the issue of Burma in the UN Security Council

Basically, people are poor and starving and it’s going to get worse. The army is so large and powerful (and, dare I say, gobbling up much of the country’s illicit income), that it can put down just about any protest that arises. People are now saying if the army starts killing monks, then the entite nation (who are 89% Buddhist) will rise up and there will be massive bloodshed.

If you think: so what? Well, Burma is not far away. It’s right next door to Thailand and India, where many Aussies go for holidays. It will effect those countries: refugees, health issues, economic and political relations.

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I haven’t really worked out what to do other than share this information and my concern. I have signed an online petition:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/9848/

There is also this website:

http://www.witness.org/index.php?option=com_rightsalert&Itemid=178&task=links&alert_id=53

Any ideas? What can we do to help?

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Amanda September 25th, 2007

Have you ever had the experience of ’something whose time has come?’ Like an idea, a new start in life, a new job, or something you’ve been planning for a while which doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, and the energy feels really clogged and stuck up, and then BANG!! all of a sudden the blockage shifts and things start moving. Not just around the ‘thing’ you’ve been focussed on, but all around it as well?

Well, something like this is happening for me and Gadgetman at the moment. 

Over the past few days -and today especially- lots of things we’ve been waiting on have started to fall into place, and fall into place altogether at the one time. I am too scared and excited to say too much more for fear of jinxing what’s happening

… so I’ll leave you with a picture of me doing Bakasana on top of Mt Zeil instead!

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Amanda September 23rd, 2007

I came across this concept today when I was reading: mono-tasking. In a strange case of synchronicity, I then received an email from Yoga Journal about the same thing.

Quite simply, mono-tasking is doing one thing at a time. If what I have been reading is right, it is the art of doing less and actually achieving more. It’s quite antithetical to the world most of us inhabit. You know what I mean: the more is good world of stuff. Stuffing your life, your house and body full of … you guessed it, more STUFF.

But I guess mono-tasking is not just about consuming stuff. It’s also about focus and intent. Being focussed on the task at hand, so focussed you enter the flow state and time ceases to be. Just doing one thing at a time with focus and intent and excellence.

(BTW: intent is my word of the week)

Hmm… I am banning multi-tasking from my life. I don’t really think it works for complex tasks. (Gary says it depends on the task, which I kind of agree with … I mean you can drink coffee and read at the same time).

Anyway, given that my life has been so hectic lately, mono-tasking sounds blissful.

Mono-tasking. The art of doing less things at once to achieve more.

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Amanda September 17th, 2007

Wednesday September 19 is not Red Nose Day.

Not Daffodil Day.

Not Pink Ribbon Day.

Not Save the Cute Furry Threatened Species Day and not even a UNICEF appeal.

Wednesday is INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!

Ahhh! Maties, hope aboard ye landlubbers, bring ya parrot and grab some rum!  

 http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

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Amanda September 14th, 2007

I’ve just been cooking (chocolate banana bread) for tomorrow night’s camping expedition to Owen Springs. As I was following the recipe, some dim, dark and unpleasant memories of Year 7 Home Science (home economics or cooking) surfaced in my mind…

For a tomboy like me with an aversion to frilly dresses, barbie dolls (make that any dolls, actually), high heels and acrylic nails, high school Home Science was pure torture. Run by teachers that were uptight, repressed 1950s housewives whose sole purpose was to make girls’ lives miserable, these classes stick in my mind as being about as much fun as having your eyeballs seared with hot pokers. Being forced to make a well in the scone batter, for instance. Why was it the end of civilisation as we knew it if you didn’t make a well in the scone batter? What was going to happen? The sky would cave in? Pestilence? Plagues? Famines?

I can tell you what happens if you DON’T make a well in the scone batter.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The sky does not cave in. The bubonic plague does not break out in your armpits. Civilisation does not collapse.

In fact, the scones even turn out fine WITHOUT a well. (For my entire life, I have purposely NEVER made a well in scone mix and I’ve never had a failure yet).

Why traumatize a generation of children over a bloody hole in a pile of flour? Why, teachers, why?

And then there’s sifting flour… But don’t start me.

Do not start me…

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Amanda September 11th, 2007

Saturday, we launched the new choreography for Body Attack and Body Balance (sorry, no photos were taken after all). We’d been stressed and excited about this all week. We really wanted it to go well, we wanted a packed room, we wanted our choreography to be perfect, and ourselves to be full of life and energy so that we could give our participants a knock-your-socks-off class.

But the best laid plans of mice and men do stray… Rhiannon had been sick on Thursday and Friday; coughing and throwing up. Along with Emma and myself, she was scheduled to teach 4 tracks in Body Attack (the push-up, run, split room & high kick tracks). Rhiannon was adamant that she would be there, but I didn’t expect her to be able to teach at all. In fact, I expected to have to learn 2 extra tracks and for Emma to do the same. On Saturday morning, however, Rhiannon got herself out of bed, started practicing her chorrie, teased up her hair (we were having an 80s theme with big hair and fluro head bands). Then she went off to the gym and immediately took it on herself to decorate the room (15min before the class was due to start.).

I’d been out bush (you might note this from a previous post), and was incredibly stressed and exhausted from not sleeping. I was stressed because time out bush (as much as I enjoy it) means less time to practice chorrie. I was also stressed because whilst I had the Body Attack choreography licked, I was still learning the Body Balance chorrie. There was one track on the Balance release (the core abdominal) that I couldn’t get … and it was hard. The hardest abdominal track I’ve ever seen in 10 years of teaching Les Mills programs. Today, I am still sore from this track. Which is really saying something.

Well… after us building ourselves up for this day, and handing out special invites and talking to people … we didn’t have a packed house. We only had about 16 people. We were all disappointed. A big class means lots of energy: as instructors, we get energy from our participants and return it to them. To make matters worse, I couldn’t connect with the class. There’d been some negative comments about a smoke machine that had been set up to give atmosphere to the class, which I turned off after the complaints and that put a dampener on it. Also, I hadn’t rehearsed my introduction. I was just flying by the seat of my pants. Normally, I think about the message and focus of each class and rehearse mentally what I’m going to say. I’d been so busy and stressed, I missed this out. So for me, I didn’t feel fully prepared, I couldn’t connect and we all sensed the ‘flat’ atmosphere. At home after the class, Rhiannon commented on how disappointed she was with it all. I felt the same. Miffed. Upset that it hadn’t gone to plan.

And yet …

After the class, participants came up to Emma and myself (Rhiannon went home straight after her tracks) and said how much they’d enjoyed it, how they absolutely loved the music and had so much fun. Two people made a point of coming up to me to tell me how much they’d liked Emma’s teaching – Emma has only recently trained in Body Attack and is new to town. In other words, the participants’ perspective of the class was positive!

But what is really interesting is that I didn’t remember any of the good things that people said about Body Attack until Sunday morning, when I was writing in my journal about it. What I wrote there was: funny how you always remember the bad things over the good.

I’m sure there’s a biological reason for this, probably something to do with avoiding nasty things that could gobble us up back when we were running around the savannas. Learning to steer clear of deadly plants and sabre-toothed tigers had real benefits for our ancestors. Sure, it’s got it’s uses now …  like remembering not to test an electric fence with your bare hands!

But what does magnifying the bad things over the good do, really? Make you feel guilty and even worse?

I guess you could say it gives us valuable lessons: we learn from our mistakes. Ok, I can live with that. But that’s no reason to not remember the things you did right or that went well. But for some reason, we just don’t seem to remember those things.

There seems to be an awful lot of prompting from external sources, too. There’s the marketing and advertising industries that make us feel bad and guilty about how we look/feel/think and what we don’t have. And there’s a entire magazine industry devoted to gossip about celebrities and what’s wrong with them … and us.

And then there’s all the well-meaning lessons you get early in life: always wear a singlet under your clothes (GRRR!!!), take a warm jacket, a spare pair of undies (I always wondered how you’d have time to put a spare pair of undies on in an emergency) etc.

For me, the lesson is to let go of the bad things and move on. Not to avoid the lessons that ‘bad’ things bring. So I went to the self-help shelves and looked for some tips on how to drop the bad mojo and move my perky butt forward (those of us who do Attack, Pump, Balance & yoga always have perky butts!).

Tips for Letting Go of Bad Stuff

First off the rank is Fiona Harrold and her book: The 10 Minute Life Coach.

In this book, Fiona devotes a whole chapter to this behaviour, centering around the concepts of guilt and self-forgiveness. She says:

“You absolutely must get comfortable with the concept of forgiveness in your life. You need to become adept at spotting when blame and guilt are taking a hold, and deal swiftly and decisively with the issue. Right now it’s likely that you’re holding grudges against yourself. It would be unusual if you did not blame or resent yourself for pain that you were responsible for. Picking and scratching at yourself keeps the wound from closing and healing.”

Fiona’s tips are:

1. Tell the truth to yourself. Write it down. Make a list of what you blame yourself for. Then you know what you’re dealing with.
2. Show compassion. If a friend or loved one had made the same mistake, done the same thing, how would you act towards them? With compassion? If yes, then remember this and treat yourself in the same way.Do penance not punishment. Try to feel genuinely sorry for what has happened, show contrition (accept responsibility) and move on. But don’t dwell on it … don’t be a martyr!
3. Make amends. Demonstrate remorse. Take some action. But try not to draw attention to yourself. Do it subtly (i.e. Rhiannon and I taught an absolutely kick-ass Attack class on Monday afternoon following the launch in which we gave our all but no one knew).
4. Lighten up. Smile. Laugh. Let go.

Fiona says: 

“Don’t be at war with yourself. Please show the same kindness, compassion, understanding and forgiveness to yourself as you would to another person. Be reconciled to yourself. Draw a line under the past and move on. Guilt, blame and resentment will putrefy and poison your system. Left to fester, they’ll demand punishment. They’ll create conflict, confusion and war in you, about you. Happiness, contentment, joy and vibrant health find it hard to flourish in this environment.”

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I’m going to share (again) some tips from one of my very favourite books: Karen Kingston’s Clear Your Clutter. This is an amazing little book that almost jumped off the shelf in Dymocks at me at the beginning of this year. Without it, I would never have been able to afford to have four months study leave and a trip to Bali this year. So there’s got to be something in it.

If there was only one self-help book I could ever own, it would be this one.



Here’s Karen’s take on letting go of bad mojo:

1. Stop worrying. Make a list of all the things you’re worried about. Get it down on paper and out of your mind.
2. Stop criticising and judging. Basically, the things you’re criticising and judging in others are things you don’t like about yourself. In other words, these are beliefs about why you’re not good enough. Instead of criticising, silently send good vibes, thoughts (or even an inner smile) to others.
3. Stop gossiping. No surprise here. If you can’t say it to their face, why say it at all? It’s just more bad mojo in your mental mojo-bag.
4. Stop moaning and complaining. Ohhhh god…. I can’t write about this. It makes me want to whinge. (Actually, you should hear me every week when I have to go grocery shopping! I hate it and make sure everyone knows!) Focus on good things, not bad.(My strategy for dealing with shopping is to take Gary with me – he makes me laugh- or put on a podcast I’ve been saving up).
5. Stop mental chatter. Get meditating. I guarantee this really, really helps. Fifteen minutes a day is all you need to make a difference.

Actually, clearing out your physical surroundings is what this book is mainly about, and that is a really good place to start with letting go of any mental crap.When you’re feeling upset, or hanging on to bad stuff, Karen recommends you take to the nearest junk drawer and start hoiking stuff you really don’t need.

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The last book (I could go on and on but I won’t) is Lynda Field’s Fast Track to Happiness.



This book is a ten day course to work on getting happy. I used it at a time in my life when I was really unhappy and it made me feel good (but then, yoga & meditation were the things that helped me get santosha happening in my life again … so you do need to work at being happy). Anyway, what does Lynda Field have to say about getting rid of unwanted self-critique?

She recommends challenging negative thinking and says that the negative inner voice can be one of the most destructive and persistent little goblin stalking our mental worlds: “It reminds us of our weaknesses and past failures, and when we are about to take an assertive step it will question our right to do so with such comments as ‘Just who do you think you are?’ The inner critic is also very good at below the belt tactics; it knows our weak spots and works on our guilt by questioning what we ’should’ be doing and what we ‘ought’ to be thinking.”

Lynda’s recommendations for dealing with bad mojo are as follows:

1. Hear what it is saying and then challenge it.
2. Ask yourself if it’s speaking the truth.(and listen carefully to the answer. Chances are the negative inner voice is speaking crap with a capital ‘C’).
3. Replace the bad thought with a good one… a positive affirmation if you’re into those.

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In summary, we can learn from our mistakes and grow from them, but it’s not healthy to hold onto the bad mojo (I need to work on this). The point is that challenging negative thoughts and writing them down seems to be an effective way of dealing with them.

Well that’s enough blah blah from me. We’re going camping at Owen Springs on the weekend!  I can’t wait. Yeehaa!!

Namaste.

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