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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by shawnsmith[/i] [br]Dear all, There will be times, on your path towards recovery, that you will feel that you are making great progress, are filled with lots of hope and, with your mind's eye, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. There will be other times, however, in which you will feel discouraged and think that you are making no progress at all. In fact, you will feel that you are getting worse. It is during these times that patience has to be exercised so as not to fall into despair. It is important, as Ace says in key #18, "not to ever think of yourself as wronged or a victim," as "this only leads down the path of negative thinking, conflict and pain." Stay the course even when it seems you are not making any progress. As Ace also says in key #23, "Everything to your best should be done with peace, calmness, forgiveness and ease (WITHOUT STRAIN or WITH FUNCTIONAL RELAXATION," and in key #24 he writes, "Try to think of the big picture when applying these techniques and when trying to achieve relaxation. Most people with symptoms are too detail oriented and are intense in that regard. They also try to apply this detail orientation and intensity to their symptoms, to trying to get rid of them and to what is causing them. When one looks to see if they are emotionally uncomfortable or strained, it is better to look at it from a general/big picture sense than focusing and trying to find some tiny little detail. Then it is helpful to try to achieve ease in the big picture as well. Part of your cure is to stop thinking in this intense manner and to now be more laid back and think of the big picture." Be easy on yourself, and be patient as healing takes time. Yes, there will be setbacks, even Sarno noted this, but if you remain consistent in your daily practice of what it takes to achieve healing, you will succeed. And always remember, as Ace says in key #27, "This has to be undertaken as a major project for it to work, with consistent all day practice. Also the time needed for recovery must be given no matter how long it takes." In closing, reflect upon the words of Ekhart Tolle from his book "A New Earth," where he writes: "Form means limitation. We are here not only to experience limitation, but also to grow in consciousness by going beyond limitation. Some limitations can be overcome on an external level. There may be other limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only be overcome internally. Everyone will encounter them sooner or later. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means intense unhappiness, or you rise above them internally by uncompromising surrender to what is. That is what they are here to teach. The surrendered state of consciousness opens up the vertical dimension in your life, the dimension of depth. Something will then come forth from that dimension into this world, something of infinite value that otherwise would have remained unmanifested. Some people who surrendered to severe limitation become healers or spiritual teachers. Others work selflessly to lessen human suffering or bring some creative gift into this world." Regards, Shawn ************************* “The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.” [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.