Have you ever wondered when you were lost, how you could find guidance? Find Guidance from Lost? Yes. Here is how. His Holiness the Dalai Lama encourages us, when we have an enemy, to “venerate” them. Why? Because of the opportunities this provides for our growth, health, and happiness. This attitude of choice makes all the difference. The same is true for seeking Guidance when Lost. If we change our orientation from Lost to Exploring, everything changes. Especially ourselves! And then our experiences shift from one of “moving away from something” to “moving toward something”…such as our dreams and hopes. For this is part of the unfolding story of your life.
If you feel lost and are seeking a life of meaning and purpose, this Guidance and its three Blessings can help. First, by changing how we label or think about what is happening and changing our orientation from Lost to Exploring. And by doing so we change our emotions, the way we feel, and the impact we have on our neurobiology. as well as the impact we have upon those whom we love. As we change our orientation we want to track how we are doing. We can do this on our life’s journey by…well, keep watching the sequence presented here and find out for yourself. You just might change feelings of being hopeless, to feelings of hope, and find yourself moving towards the dreams that are important to you. You won’t be alone. I promise.
Series One Part One: From Lost to Exploring
Thinking we are lost. Thinking we are exploring. How would you change if you came to know that as you are thinking you are lost, life is asking you to explore? Since we know life is asking this of us, it will affect what we Think-Feel-Do. Why does this matter?:
Because: What we Believe we Perceive we Receive.
This presentation provides an exercise to use when seeking to discern whether you are lost or if you are exploring, and the difference between the two in any situation.
If where I am is not lost, and who I am is not lost, and where I am is sacred, then I am to be exploring.
We cover what to do when feeling fear, anxiety, or dread. And when anxiety can become anticipation, then anticipation can become excitement, and everything becomes possible.
The four things about exploring: Observing; Extending ourselves to others and the world; We find Joy; now Expectation grows for the days ahead. I learn to “Induce” anticipation (just as somehow I learned to induce anxiety).
We now move from Blocked to Blessed, no longer Dreading but Dreaming!
Series One Part Two – Journal as Journey
A Journal can help you track the unfolding story of your life. It becomes our autobiographical expression of our life that is Bodacious in nature! It is how you find the golden thread in the story of your life as you ferociously and fearlessly are honest about your past and your experience of the present.
Four essentials: STOP. The Power of Pause. LISTEN. To the world around us. Listen to understand. PONDER all that you see. And then we ADORE. Finding aspects to adore in everything and everyone.
In our Journaling, we have a process of ACTION and REFLECTION. It is the harvest of all that we have done.
Series One Part Three: How to Help a Friend
Remember, with each Series there is an introductory film of Guidance to introduce the series of Three Blessings. The First Blessing, Part One, From Lost to Exploring. This was followed the Second Blessing, or Part Two: Journal as Journey. And now we arrive at the Third Blessing, Part Three: How to Help a Friend.
When we are asked to help a friend, you will find your changing your orientation from Lost to Exploring will help you greatly. The perspectives you gain by Journaling the Journey will make you an able helper.
Before speaking with our friend who needs help, we Stop; Ponder, and Adore the gift of the moment as a friend has asked us for help. And we are totally present, listening from the Orientation of Exploring (respecting how their Orientation is one of being lost. We listen to understand and sometimes that is sufficient in itself.
We are with our friend in exploring what being lost means for them and their own growth. Your friend is asking for your help, and the first and most important thing we can do is be present. So you have everything you need to be of service to your friend. You may become one to the other, a Helper, Hero, or Helper.
We are blessed to be within their Journal as they Journey.
If your friend asks for specific help regarding their concerns, we are careful not to rush. But to render reflection at its best. And then at their request, share parts of our own story and what has worked for us.
Remember in the reflection we, our friend and ourselves, become wiser. Perhaps you will invite your friend to consider the Orientation of Exploring, and if so, you become the Invitation for new possibilities. We share without expectation of what our friend does with what we share. We share and let it go and get back to listening to them as they seek their path. Like a smorgasbord before you both, you let them choose what they take, and leave the rest.