Life Consequences – How We Create Both Wanted and
Unwanted Circumstances and How We Can Open to Spirit for Help.
The Pathwork Ottawa community is offering a series of free lecture discussions focused on how the unconscious beliefs about life and self that we form in our early years have ongoing consequences in the rest of our lives – until we unearth and examine them. We will delve into the arc of the human journey which can be thought of in four ongoing stages:
- The inevitable hurts and misconceptions of our young consciousness – ‘How it Happened’;
- The defenses we adopted and continue to use – ‘How We Coped’.
- The life happenings shaped by these defenses – ‘Life Consequences’.
- How we can open to the resource of our spiritual nature to help in our healing journey – ‘Help to Heal’.
Our fifth lecture of the season will be Lecture 190: Importance of Experiencing all Feelings, Including Fear – The Dynamic State of Laziness. The session will be facilitated by Janet Mullen, a long-time Pathworker and Pathwork Helper in training.
As humans, we may not arrive with an instruction manual, but we do come equipped with an internal guidance system: our feelings. They are meant to tell us what is really going on with us and point us to what is asking for healing. They are meant to be acknowledged, felt and expressed. We resist them at our peril.
Suppressing our feelings to defend against pain turns out to be very self-defeating. We become alienated from our authentic self and cut off from communication with the truest part of ourselves. The accumulation of unfelt feelings creates a toxic environment in our psyche. When feelings aren’t allowed the freedom to move and transform, they become stagnant, which in turn causes our energy to stagnate as well. As a result, our ability to experience pleasure and fulfilment is severely hampered.
In Pathwork Lecture 190, the Guide tells us “The only way out is in and through.” This commitment to fully feel the pain of our denied feelings will usher in the needed energy and guidance. We are asked to shed our defences, pluck our courage and dive into the abyss. We are also assured that our “spiritual self with all its joy, safety and peace is right behind the sadness and pain.”
Join us via Zoom Tuesday April 4th from 7 to 8:30 pm. You can find registration details below. The evening will include a short lecture teaching, meditation, a reflective exercise and group discussion.
The full Open Lecture Series is as follows:
Tues. Oct. 4: 7 pm
Mary Anne Bourque
Lecture 73: Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts
Tues. Nov. 1: 7 pm
Natalie Morisset
Lecture 101: The Defense
Tues. Jan. 10: 7 pm
Janet Mullen
Lecture 93: The Link between Main Image, Repressed Needs, and Defenses
Tues. Feb. 7: 7 pm
Jill Chitra
Lecture 197: Energy and Consciousness in Distortion: Evil
Tues. Mar.7: 7 pm
Natalie Morisset
Lecture #: To be decided
Tues. April 4: 7 pm
Janet Mullen
Lecture 190: Importance of Experiencing All Feelings Including Fear – The Dynamic State of Laziness
Tues. May 2: 7 pm
Mary Gordon
Lecture 126: Contact with the Life Force
We welcome you to join us as we work with these lectures to discover the wisdom and guidance they can provide as we search for a way to work with our ego and with Spirit to exchange false ideas for true ones.
For information about Pathwork and for free download of lectures
visit: pathwork.org/the-lectures/.
For information about Pathwork Ottawa: visit pathworkottawa.ca.
Donations would be welcome and would contribute to the providing of bursaries for those in need to attend Pathwork Ottawa programs and events. Donations can be made to the following email: info@pathworkottawa.ca
For the Zoom information for this month’s session, please email Jean Millar at jmillar@rogers.com indicating the session you wish to attend. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a week prior to the lecture.