Regarding the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School I went through a roller-coaster of feelings..... from being in tears to being grateful, from feeling frustrated about the media to realizing that they play an important role in displaying all different angles you can look at this from, from feeling helpless to feeling empowered knowing why I am doing the work I am doing.........
Understanding that all those feelings come to life through the power of Consciousness shining a light on what I happen to think at the time, I was sailing through those feelings and never stopped being well despite the fact of feeling devastated and sad... It is like watching my own movie, I am a spectator of my own feelings rather than being at the mercy of them... As I was not trying to change my feelings nor get rid of them, they changed naturally to more positive. Being in the flow and not taking life too seriously allows our mind to clear
and then ...wisdom appears!

How else did it come that a 27-year-old teacher stayed calm and hid all her pupils in closets and lockers to face the murderer on her own telling him they were in the gym?!! Victoria Leigh Soto gave her life to protect those who she was responsible for........!!! Instead of listening to her own fear she stayed connected to what she could do...... This is what we could concentrate on.......... the positive within the horrible....... and concentrate on doing what we can do......... educate people about where our feelings are coming from and that we don't have to react to them......... Less tragedies would happen if we were more connected to that wisdom that naturally lies within us all!!

This is exactly why it is so close to my heart to share this understanding....... it not only makes a diffence for ourselves but also ripples out to all the people around us. For more information go to my website www.KatjaSymons.com

And please let me know if you have any ideas where I could give a talk or who would benefit from having a chat about this (whether in English, Spanish or German)...  Please help us to get this healing understanding out there!! Lets do what we can do!!

I wish you a peaceful time - the only difference we can make, comes from within ourselves... so enjoy the festive season and we talk further next year ;-)

Now today I got something to share with you which opened my eyes just that extra little bit further over the last few days....... I happened to have an epiphany yesterday, when a friend said to me "well if you saw that through the eyes of love, that wouldnt mean the same to you"......... It was one of those typical situations when we feel a victim of our circumstances and suffer a lot....... and here is what I realized:

What we see is what we get! If I see my partner through glasses of "you don't care for me" I will see everything he does through those glasses and guess what I see?? In all his actions I will find proof that he does not care for me.... He doesnt buy soya milk for me (although he knows I don't like cow's milk)?! It must mean that he doesnt care........... It is like a pair of dark sunglasses........ everything I see through those sunglasses appears dark. But is it really dark??????? No, it isn't!! It is just my perception!! Now...... is it really that he doesnt care?! Who knows!! How do I know what he thinks??? Most of the time I'm not even aware of what I think, never mind about other people!!! But if I saw the same situation through the eyes of love, I wouldn't probably even have noticed it and just got the soya milk while doing the shopping together anyway!!!

Now imagine the mix of different views as we usually wear more than one pair of different coloured glasses........ The diversity of glasses is endless......... They could be like "he doesn't love me", "he is always talking about himself" or "I am nothing more than practical for him"..........  Guess what kind of experience you perceive through those.....

Glasses determine everything we experience as a feeling..........  If it is a pleasant one, fine. But what if it isn't.... fears, doubts, defensiveness, all the stuff we suffer from comes from nothing more than just the way we see it................

So where do all those glasses come from and - more importantly - how can we take them off?!

Glasses are nothing more than accumulated thoughts which have formed beliefs, opinions and our perspective of life. From being born till we die we soak up what we learn, from our parents, teachers, culture, experiences etc.... Most glasses are unconscious, hidden and invisible; we would swear we don't wear them........  Now what happened to me yesterday was that I became aware of them....... in that very instant I was able to take those glasses off and my view cleared!! It happened automatically with no effort!! What was needed was the insight that I indeed wear glasses (like we all do) - whether we are aware of them or not............

What appeared in my sight afterwards is a much more pleasant perspective of the same situation....... I now see it in a much more loving way, with understanding instead of fury. And I'm shaking my head about myself laughing why I didn't see that before...... Well, we never stop learning ;-)

This is why I don't want you to miss out on the opportunity to learn about the three fundamental building blocks of our experience in more depth......  Join us this weekend in Torrevieja (see info further down)!!.......... The more we see (how it works), the more we get.........