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Living an Exhilarating Life

Keywords: darren eden, heart myth, heros journey, imagination, intuition
Categories: Health, Lifestyle & Living, Self-help, Personal development & Spirituality
Published on: Feb 10, 2009
Last updated on: Feb 10, 2009
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Do you recognise that feeling of wanting so much more in your life – that amazing moment of asking yourself ‘Is this all there is?’ You probably wouldn’t be on this site if you didn’t have that sense anyway. I remember getting this notion that there had to be ‘more’, many, many years ago, in fact I was under ten years old at the time. My father was a great story teller and I loved bedtime, when he sat on the edge of my bed and made up the best stories. They weren’t always nice as he was prone to weaving themes of loss in to them but I loved them nonetheless. It was a paradox that this man who was so good at creating stories was also the man who told me I had too much imagination, and tried to squash my desire for the hidden magical land of Narnia to be a step through a wardrobe away. My life’s journey has been one of searching for my magical land.
You can imagine how many workshops and seminars I’ve been on to find this place of magic and I have had glimpses too – some bigger than others. And yet I always maintained a feeling that I wasn’t quite good enough to ‘get’ the technique to make a real transformation. I have had many a partial transformation but pushing through to completion had been an unreachable milestone. This resulted in feelings of irritated frustration with myself and a consistent need for external validation. Armed with a clear understanding of our own sourceness I still felt this inner uncertainty and didn’t feel comfortable claiming my own power.
What a refreshing change to discover the simplicity and effortlessness of Darren Eden’s magical work, using the hero’s journey as a base for transformation with symbology as a guide to our intuition. I have accessed my intuition for years and yet have rarely felt confident in basing my decisions upon it until an eight day residential training with Darren. I have at last come home to my inner knowing.
I arrived back at my flat last night and started afresh this morning using my daily life as fodder for my intuitive exploration and my imagination is having an absolute ball. The concept that my imagination is my intuition has totally transformed my life. I even find spaces where the endless chatter of my mind quietens without effort. My hearts myth, my magical land of plenty and my wonderful imagination have combined together for me to see the possibilities available and I am riding a wave of exhilaration.
What is becoming clearer is that we can choose to generate/create an exhilarating life at any moment, wherever we are and whatever we’re doing. A lot of this is perception and much of it is in what you choose next.You can find some of Darren Edens workshops on in.spired.us – The Awaking and the Initation as well as many other diverse exhilarating experiences. We’ve sourced workshops for you to help you build your business, explore your spirituality or sexuality or firewalking or learn to cook on a Turkish sailing experience!
Please come and visit and let me know what you think. If any of you have experienced a workshop you feel is of value please let me know. I am looking for volunteers to help me find a wide range of workshops, seminars, courses, conferences, trainings, retreats all around the world. Your help will be much appreciated.
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ian russell wrote at 05:43:47 PM on Feb 12, 2009
Are you saying that some of the workshops didn't work for you, Francesca? How would you choose a workshop? Not that I'm thinking of doing one right now, I'm just curious.
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ian russell wrote at 05:51:49 PM on Feb 12, 2009
...mind you, I like the sound of those Art holidays, Franji.
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Francesca Cassini wrote at 06:17:44 PM on Feb 12, 2009
Hi Ian

In my opinion all the workshops have value, some more than others depending on the faciliator and the nature of the work. I believe that people resonate with different disciplines if you like. However its like doing a language course - the teaching can be fantastic but it doesn't mean you'll learn the language well and maintain it. Personal growth is also inherently challenging in a way a normal study training probably isn't, so there is often an element of overcoming resistance to change.

What does seem to be interesting though is that I meet very few people who have actually fully transformed their lives particularly with the 'wealth' training courses I know about as well as attended. I don't know why that is because I know that many of the facilitators are excellent and walk their own talk. I do think there is a breed of workshop junkie too who loves all the energy and bonding which develops.

I have been to some fantastic wealth trainings and yet the one which gave me the most change is Lisa Pearsons Finance Breakthrough. She said our income would increase if we did the exercises we were given and she was right!

How would I choose a workshop? A lot depends on what type of course you're looking to attend but as a rule of thumb I would try and talk to the workshop leader and see if you feel they live what they teach and communicate with previous participants and see what they say 6-12m down the line. Many testimonials are requested at the end of a course when everyone is on a high so its a valuable exercise to see what long term gain people have experienced. For example Cindy Eve did the Demartini Breakthrough over a year ago and she feels it was absolutely worth the quite high financial investment.

What Yasmin and I are exploring is encouraging our workshop leaders to use the whole Copperstrings network in order to offer this support. Lisa once again is a prime example as she has Groups with other Demartini participants and so there is ample opportunity to get well rounded feedback on which to base a decision.

And don't those Art Holidays look wonderful!

I have to say that we are developing a really exciting and inspiring range of experiences as well as events to check out with something knew all the time.

I hope this answers your question :-))
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Francesca Cassini wrote at 06:49:32 PM on Feb 12, 2009
I just had a thought Ian - what events, workshops, courses, trips would inspire you? As a Copperstrings member what would you like to see on in.spired.us?

And anyone else reading this.....
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ian russell wrote at 11:33:50 PM on Feb 12, 2009
I'm not sure. I like the sound of Art holidays because I like both holidays and art. Is it as simple as putting two things you like together? I think it might be! Photography and walking; Cooking and foreign travel; Beer and humour; Sex and the city..? well, three out of four ain't bad.

To answer your question truthfully, I'm quite a knowledge junkie. Any course which improves my skills base could sound appealing.
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