Inspired Momentum September 2011 - Newsletter

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Moving forward with inner learning - Midlife: A Call to Passionate Engagement
As our sunny days are making way for autumn, we can appreciate the shared moments of summer which served to deepen our relationship with loved ones and with nature. Perhaps you too felt the joy of discovering yet more beauty in the majesty of nature in the past weeks? (The photos included here were taken by my 16 years old daughter Natasha Samorodin).

On the threshold of fall time, many of us seek moments of introspection and new opportunities to learn. If you value life-long learning you may set your sights on new horizons of personal and/or professional development. For those who are meandering through the middle passage of life, consider attending the workshop Midlife: A Call to Passionate Engagement which I will lead through Hollyhock - in Vancouver on October 22nd, and 23rd.

Designed for men and women from early 40's to 60's, this workshop will engage you in processes of exploration enabling you to:
  • Give voice to what has remained unsaid at this pivotal point in your life.
  • Discover covert, unspoken agreements that may interfere with your progression towards the fulfillment of your dreams and greater destiny.
  • Release internalized messages that hold you back and then ignite new insights which free up creative energies and increase your personal power.
  • Gain strategies and insights that will augment your happiness and the quality of your life.
  • Heed your soul's orientation to reconnect with your inner source of life energy and retrieve your creativity and passions.
  • Integrate a more expansive and positive life's narrative that enables you to reset the course of your life and better navigate the dynamic tensions between your fate and your destiny.
For more info or to register look up www.hollyhock.ca

Your Happiness Set Point.
In recent years a body of research on happiness and the brain has revealed strong evidence for a genetic inheritance towards a particular set point or level of happiness. However, what is being further understood is that although you may have a genetic susceptibility to a particular range of happiness, this propensity requires certain circumstances in order for that gene to be triggered into expression. Such circumstances can include financial loss, a painful divorce, too much stress at work, etc. Although you may have a somewhat unchangeable set point of happiness, you can still cultivate the circumstances, the mindset and the habits that are, for you, conducive to experiencing a greater happiness flow - like the river here. I will address this as part of the workshop program mentioned above. Meanwhile, to learn more, you can read about the research in the book The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life you Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky.

If fall time lends itself to more reading for you , perhaps by the fireplace, look at other recommended reading I've included below.


Reading Time
As part of my summer reading selection, I discovered two great books that truly inspired me. Being an author myself, I particularly enjoy the feeling of being drawn into a writer's mind, knowledge and fresh insights.

Having attended Michael Meade's evening in Vancouver earlier this year I have truly appreciated reading his book: Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul.

The other book I recommend is Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment by David Perlmutter M.D. and Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.

 

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