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Rowena,

 

I just felt the need to reply to you because some of what you wrote didn't

"feel" right. I think that much of it is a reflection on work that you may

need to do on yourself. I don't take any of it personally, rather I

recognize it as a reflection of your own feelings and beliefs. Read what you

wrote and understand that I'm in no way attacking you, I'm hoping that

you'll see what I saw in your words and pay attention to it for your own

spiritual journey towards Self:

 

"You could become a teacher (not a yoga teacher -- that doesn't

pay enough to live on)"

 

You couldn't really believe that, could you? What would you say to all of

the people in the world who ARE making enough to provide for themselves by

working as a yoga teacher? Perhaps the amount of money one needs to live on

is relative to the amount of material goods he/she feels the need to aquire.

It just struck my how un-true the above statement is. To discourage anyone

from being a yoga teacher with that sort of advice is an injustice.

 

or a forest ranger or any job that fits your

interests. You like cats? You could become a vet tech or, if you had

good grades, go to vet school. You could work at an animal shelter or

a shop that sells pet supplies (NOT live animals).

 

"The people who are corporate dropouts have usually done the corporate

grind long enough (10-30+ years) to have made enough money that they

can afford to quit their jobs. At 23, you are just starting out.

You'll have to put in another 15 or so years of corporate drudgery

before you can begin to think about quitting and becoming a corporate

dropout."

 

Again, to me this sounds like your ego talking. If you really believe that

people need to work 10-30 years in a corporate position before they can

leave their job to do something else than it's unfortunate. That's saying

that people are stuck, that there is no way out. That we don't have choices.

That people have to "pay their dues" before they can pursue their passion.

My hope for you is that you don't honestly believe that, whether it's

consciously or in the depths of your Being.

 

"Most jobs that are interesting (like teaching yoga) don't pay enough to

live on so you have to do them as a hobby... For instance, you can't make a

living as a

writer but there are jobs that involve writing and editing. You can't

make a living as an artist but there are jobs that are

visually-oriented. A lot of people who can't afford to do what they

love teach it and then do it in their spare time (e.g., an art teacher)."

 

To this I would suggest that you read a book called "The Artist's Way" by

Julia Cameron. I'm so sorry that you believe that people can't make a living

being yoga teachers, writers or artists. What do you say to the people in

the world who ARE yoga teachers, writers and artists? Would you sit down to

dinner with them and tell them that it can't be done despite them doing it?

It would seem that you're pre-conditioned ideas, ideas you've been taught by

no fault of your own (society, your parents, etc.) are slightly narrow

minded. It's no way to exist. Read, read, read and expand your awareness.

Meditate. There's no need to limit yourself by those sorts of beliefs.

 

I do appreciate you taking time to respond to my post. I just had to point

out what I saw in your reply. I guess it's because you replied to someone

regarding their spiritual journey and it raised questions in me about your

awareness level of your own spiritual journey/connection with Self. I hate

to see people looking at the world with fog clouding their eyes. That's not

to say I'm Self realized and have transcended ego, far from it. I just hope

for you to be on the path to light, as I hope for all of us at some point or

another.

 

An inspiration to prove the above points would be my mentor: she's a Dean's

List graduate of Vassar College (Latin, Psychology), earned an IBM-sponsored

M.B.A., holds a D.R.S. (Doctor of Religious Studies, with a concentration in

Spiritual Healing) AND a Doctor of Divinity Degree, is a former Fortune 500

executive (Vice President, McGraw Hill), a successful computer company

entrepreneur, computer wizard, co-founder and first President of The

Association of Personal Computer Professionals, co-founder and first

Chairperson of The Society for Grateful Living, co-founder and first

Executive Director of the National Reiki Association, and founding treasurer

of the Tri-State Holistic Health Association. For decades, her career was

in the computer industry, where she won many performance awards from

companies including IBM, McGraw-Hill, Datapro Research and Auerbach

Publishers. She was the only employee in IBM's history to win every award a

competitive analyst can win. While serving at IBM, she was an award-winning

co-designer of the prototype architectures (CP/67, TSS, TSO, Arpanet) now

known as the Internet. She holds a fascination for peak performance and high

accomplishment and is a graduate of Tad James' Creating Your Future seminar

and a 1995 graduate of Anthony Robbins' Mastery University. She is published

author (5 books), published poet, commercial artist whose work history

includes line-art covers for IBM marketing magazines, singer who performed

once at the Academy Ball at the prestigous Academy of Music in Philadelphia,

PA, NY-certified interior decorator who in 1989 embraced Feng Shui,

award-winning ballroom dancer, and choreographer whose credits include two

award-winning operas, Der Vampyr and Faust.

 

Her fascination with the Divine, connection to and with the Divine, all

paths leading to the Divine and expressions of the Divine, first evidenced

at a very early age and has continued throughout her life. She has been an

animal communicator since birth and was very blessed in that her maternal

Uncle was an animal communicator and hands-on healer long before those words

were even in the public domain. Languages have always been a passion for her

and she had strong family influences: her paternal grandfather spoke 7

languages fluently. She is fascinated by all languages, whether they are

spoken languages, unspoken languages, or ancient languages of the wisdom

literature. As of this writing she has some skill in 14 languages and has

served as a sought-after translator. Her skills with Latin, Greek, French

and German helped her immensely in her work with Oxford University's Greek

New Testament and she easily finished her first Ordination as a minister in

the 1970's. She subsequently earned a D.D. in Comparative Religion and now

also holds a Doctor of Religious Studies (D.R.S.) from American World

University (her dissertation on energy & prayer healing was judged

"excellent in every way"). She received her Ordination as a Spiritual Healer

through internationally-renowned Spiritual Healer Ron Roth's Celebrating

Life Fellowship in 2002.

 

Her accomplishments are chronicled in dozens of Who's Who books nationally

and internationally, including: International Leaders in Achievement and The

World Who's Who of Women, published in Cambridge England; and in the United

States, 2,000 Notable American Women, Who's Who in the U.S., Who's Who in

the East, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and many more.

 

She realized she is a healer as a result of a near-fatal boating accident,

during which a miracle witnessed by 7 other people saved her life and

revealed to her a deep understanding of healing and self-healing for people

and animals. At the time she was the CEO of a computer consulting company

specializing in the design and installation of computer networks. The

'accident' and the epiphany she experienced changed her life dramatically.

She has subsequently studied and become an expert in the Energy Therapies of

multiple cultures, including Prana (India), Qi Gong Breathwork (China),

Reiki (Japan), Neuro-Associative Conditioning (U.S.) and Huna (Hawaii). As

an intuitive advisor, lecturer, workshop leader, and spiritual healer, she

specializes in helping people feel healing Grace.

 

She is only one example of what people can do with their lives. You cannot

read about this woman's accomplishments and then truly believe that you

couldn't teach yoga, or write, or be an artist. You could do all of those

things!

 

Good luck to you on your journey. Namaste.

 

 

>rowena28

>ashtanga yoga

>ashtanga yoga

>ashtanga yoga Re: Life/career changes

>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:50:50 -0400

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Dear Cheryl,

 

Your mentor certainly sounds fascinating & Highly achieving. Are there some

books or a website about your great mentor that I can read about?

 

Amy

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