Get in Touch with your Heroes.... Now!!!

Really sorry to hear that my friend and colleague Peter Gerlach passed away at 77. I had the pleasure of interviewing him 4 times for YouTube, sadly one of the interviews did not record and was lost forever, but I was told that our last one included 'a lifetime of takeaways.' I was looking forwards to collaborating more when I finished my current projects... Silly me for waiting. His wisdom lives on in his work. I honour you Pete thank you for all you taught me. funnily enough look at my facebook status from the 12th of October: Hey if you like or admire someones work or writing or whatever they do you should send them an email before they croak. I have exchanged emails with most of the people who really influenced my thinking that were alive during my lifetime. Alfie Kohn, Warren Farrell, Stefan Molyneux, Pete Gerlach.... Nathaniel Branden, another hero, died December of last year - I had never bothered to even try emailing him. Marshall Rosenberg died this year. For ages I wanted to tell sci-fi author Brian Aldiss what I thought of his writing, and how much I loved his ability to build rich worlds - even just for one short story or a novel. He is 90 now! I finally emailed him today, almost 10 years after the thought of wanting to tell him first crossed my mind. Perhaps he is too busy to reply but at least I put it out there, we'll see. Get emailing your heroes they might croak like Nathaniel Branden and Marshall Rosenberg. Talk about timing!

the value of therapy

In the unconscious = ruining your life. In the conscious = unlocking your gifts.

I was born

I was born with the umbilical chord wrapped around my neck. If I had died when I was born then I wouldn't have had this fucking amazing weird, terrifying, exhilarating, frustrating, educational, unspeakable, paradoxical life. So I am grateful to be alive. Thank you.

Confirmation Bias

Idiots can convince themselves that they are extremely smart and well informed by reading erudite people who agree with their already existing views.

Helping

The best forms of therapy, in my opinion, are the ones where the clients are enabled to have most of the revelations themselves, rather than deferring to the insight of the practitioner for "wow"ing.

From someone who follows my work:

"I am honored to be a husband and the father of two wonderful girls, ages 14 & 4. I work full time while my wife works part-time and grows an online business. We really like your work. Your interview with Bonnie Harris has changed our lives. Thank you! "

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A Touching Testimonial

"I'm very grateful for how things turned out last night. I absolutely enjoyed the conversation and I felt a very strong connection. It amazing to think about that I have known people for decades, and never even been close to anything like this with them.

I also enjoyed going outside, and looking at the stars. It was a great thing to do, which I will certainly remember. Anyway, I would love to talk to you more, and I see it as a great investment.
I`ll initiate the payment now, so please let me know when you have received the payment.

Also, I will be going on a weekend trip leaving tomorrow so I wont be available for another session until next week.

Looking forward to talk to you soon.

And, thanks a lot for your help Antony."

Avoiding Unpleasant Emotions

If you are always trying to avoid unpleasant emotions you will not be an honest person and you will probably not create anything fantastic either. Face up to your anxiety and deal with it now - make it fun! This is what you have to do now if you want to have a fulfilling life in the now to come.

Robin Balsiger: 'How do you mean "Make it fun"? Isn't that just another way of not really facing up to it and trying to make it into something else, because you wanna avoid the unpleasentness?'

 hmmm interesting what I mean is get into the spirit of the challenge , and see looking at your anxiety as part of an adventure of self knowledge. Sometimes when you do great things there are difficulties, but part of what makes those things so great is that the difficulties sharpened you for the challenge. Something like that, it's hard for me to put clearly. Great question!

"I Want to Break Free" - an article by yours truly

My article I Want to Break Free has just been published on Waking Times

Check it out here!

on The Healing Power of Attention

My article The Healing Power of Attention has just been published on Waking Times

Check it out here!

Evidence

It has been said, and I thank Gillian for originally bringing this quote to my attention although it is no longer her profile, that "for those who believe no proof is necessary, for those who do not believe no proof is possible,"

I have found this to be rather a genius quote up until this moment when I realised it is a contortion of the truth, rather it would be more accurate to say, "for those who believe proof is in everything, for those who do not believe proof is in nothing."

Clearly, I find myself in the former category.

being good

Antony Sammeroff · 5 September 2009 ·
so i don't know what being good is but i'm trying to learn how to be and i feel very scared confused and hurt a lot of the time and by the looks of it most of you feel the same so maybe we can try and help each other and teach each other what we've learned about it but I think the most important thing is to have these kind of thoughts, be honest with ourselves and try and fix ourselves first then we will share
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Antony Sammeroff I should have said by the looks of it all of you feel the same, and I also love the fact that to post that I would press the share button smile emoticon happy coincidence
5 September 2009 at 03:05 · Like