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Rodney Whitehouse
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
some new info
I'm Baack!
This is the first thing I’ve written in a while. Since I’ve moved, certainly, but it’s probably been close to six months since the divorce started in ernest and I started working. Both occupied so much of my attention that there wasn’t anything left for writing. Now that my life is settled again, I realized that the job was still sucking up way too much of my attention and I had to quit.
That decision represents a milestone in my journey. I now have now chosen to fully commit to my hypnotherapy practice and this “alternative” health world for my income. That may not be as brave as it sounds, since I have saved quite a bit and I won’t be hurting for quite a while, if I’m careful. But it’s a big deal for me because of my insecurities around money. I am pretty uncomfortable without a steady income, no matter how much I have in the bank.
The thing is, I knew right away that job wasn’t right for me, but I went to work there anyway. Shortly after I moved here, I went to that store (It’s one of the big, national retail chains) to pick up a few things. I could tell then that the energy of the whole place was very uncomfortable. But, like we all do, I talked myself into accepting a bad choice because I “ought to.”
A big part of my spiritual journey has been the stripping away of all the “supposed tos” and waking up to what is really going on. I am not a fan of conspiracy theories. Mostly because pretty much everything I see happening in the world can be easily explained by greed, lust (for money, power, sex), and fear. Couple those drives with little knowledge or interest in the long-term consequences of their actions, and you get today’s world. I do monitor, to some extent, what conspiracy groups are up to, but I looks to me that, if there really was a global conspiracy, then these people would be playing into the conspirators hands. I may write more about this in the future, if I get inspired or have enough questions on the subject.
This was something I was discussing at my last MeetUp. I have been having meeting at my house, and it’s been fun. I have a regular and we have tea and snacks and hang out in the kitchen or living room talking about whatever. This time, I found myself struggling to articulate what I have managed to see about life, without having it sound just like another new-age platitude. And I couldn’t do it.
I see that there is what we need to get by, and there’s what want. But, what do we want, really? There’s what we are told to want, by you parents, friends, and all the ads you see every day, but how much of that desire is really yours? There are endless ads, everywhere I go, that all want me to spend money and buy stuff. And I see around me the message that successful people have lots of stuff. You want to look successful, don’t you?
What I’m seeing is that I’m supposed to buy stuff, then I have to spend more to take care of that stuff, to go out, take trips, have parties, raise kids, send them to expensive schools, and still save enough that when I won’t, or can’t, work any more I can continue to buy stuff and continue the same cycle.
Most of my life I have been trapped by the fear of not having “enough.” I could never do what I wanted, because it was a waste of time, unless it was one of the “sanctioned” consumer activities like going out to eat, partying, taking a vacation, traveling, shopping, etc.. And I never questioned the point of it all. Why bother? Especially when most of what I did seemed to be about how I looked to other people. I suppose it all fell apart when I realized that everything I did was to look good or get approval from other people. I wasn’t getting it, and I was embarrassed when I did get it. There is the paradox.
So I had to ask, what do I want? I do want to be like everybody else and just have the nice “stuff,” but there’s got to be more than that, surly? Thinking long and hard, and fighting through layers of conditioning, I’ve realized that I want to help people and explore the “forbidden” parts of our culture: The paranormal, the psychic, UFOs, the unexplained, all the stuff the “respectable” people don’t take seriously. And my gateway to exploring this inner world is hypnosis and hypnotherapy. I get to help people to gain understanding about themselves and what’s going on around them, and bring them a measure of peace. That is very cool. And, at the same time, I get to witness, first hand, fascinating excursions outside of this materialistic paradigm. That is also very cool.
That’s probably enough for my first day back on the blog. More later, bye!
If you have any comments, questions or topics you’d like to see me cover, send me a note: AQuestioningSpiritTherapy@gmail.com
That decision represents a milestone in my journey. I now have now chosen to fully commit to my hypnotherapy practice and this “alternative” health world for my income. That may not be as brave as it sounds, since I have saved quite a bit and I won’t be hurting for quite a while, if I’m careful. But it’s a big deal for me because of my insecurities around money. I am pretty uncomfortable without a steady income, no matter how much I have in the bank.
The thing is, I knew right away that job wasn’t right for me, but I went to work there anyway. Shortly after I moved here, I went to that store (It’s one of the big, national retail chains) to pick up a few things. I could tell then that the energy of the whole place was very uncomfortable. But, like we all do, I talked myself into accepting a bad choice because I “ought to.”
A big part of my spiritual journey has been the stripping away of all the “supposed tos” and waking up to what is really going on. I am not a fan of conspiracy theories. Mostly because pretty much everything I see happening in the world can be easily explained by greed, lust (for money, power, sex), and fear. Couple those drives with little knowledge or interest in the long-term consequences of their actions, and you get today’s world. I do monitor, to some extent, what conspiracy groups are up to, but I looks to me that, if there really was a global conspiracy, then these people would be playing into the conspirators hands. I may write more about this in the future, if I get inspired or have enough questions on the subject.
This was something I was discussing at my last MeetUp. I have been having meeting at my house, and it’s been fun. I have a regular and we have tea and snacks and hang out in the kitchen or living room talking about whatever. This time, I found myself struggling to articulate what I have managed to see about life, without having it sound just like another new-age platitude. And I couldn’t do it.
I see that there is what we need to get by, and there’s what want. But, what do we want, really? There’s what we are told to want, by you parents, friends, and all the ads you see every day, but how much of that desire is really yours? There are endless ads, everywhere I go, that all want me to spend money and buy stuff. And I see around me the message that successful people have lots of stuff. You want to look successful, don’t you?
What I’m seeing is that I’m supposed to buy stuff, then I have to spend more to take care of that stuff, to go out, take trips, have parties, raise kids, send them to expensive schools, and still save enough that when I won’t, or can’t, work any more I can continue to buy stuff and continue the same cycle.
Most of my life I have been trapped by the fear of not having “enough.” I could never do what I wanted, because it was a waste of time, unless it was one of the “sanctioned” consumer activities like going out to eat, partying, taking a vacation, traveling, shopping, etc.. And I never questioned the point of it all. Why bother? Especially when most of what I did seemed to be about how I looked to other people. I suppose it all fell apart when I realized that everything I did was to look good or get approval from other people. I wasn’t getting it, and I was embarrassed when I did get it. There is the paradox.
So I had to ask, what do I want? I do want to be like everybody else and just have the nice “stuff,” but there’s got to be more than that, surly? Thinking long and hard, and fighting through layers of conditioning, I’ve realized that I want to help people and explore the “forbidden” parts of our culture: The paranormal, the psychic, UFOs, the unexplained, all the stuff the “respectable” people don’t take seriously. And my gateway to exploring this inner world is hypnosis and hypnotherapy. I get to help people to gain understanding about themselves and what’s going on around them, and bring them a measure of peace. That is very cool. And, at the same time, I get to witness, first hand, fascinating excursions outside of this materialistic paradigm. That is also very cool.
That’s probably enough for my first day back on the blog. More later, bye!
If you have any comments, questions or topics you’d like to see me cover, send me a note: AQuestioningSpiritTherapy@gmail.com
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