Podcasts from Manzanita Village: Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki
Caitriona Reed speaks of the unconscious mind as everything you are not currently aware of. How do you get to access what you’re not conscious of?
How do suggestion and hypnosis and NLP and invoke transformation at the deepest level to change deep seated conditioning and habits.
Michele Benzamin-Miki Aikido is a non violent martial art. On the mat we are constantly in situations of potential conflict within the safe container of training. We get check to our aggression from the minute we walk in the dojo; which means that you can’t just say, “You’re making me angry,” or “This situation is making me angry.” ….
A hidden agendaA talk given by Caitriona Reed on a three day retreat at Manzanita Village near Warner Springs in Southern California,
“I have to warn you that the teachers have hidden agenda … to change your mind.”
“I must also warn you that many things that we will be telling you on this retreat will be untrue, including, perhaps, this statement.”
The Buddha suggested we question and check everything before we accept it as truth.
How deep can you go with this?
Guided meditation from Michele Benzamin-Miki. Recorded on retreat at Manzanita Village.
Are you a robot or a psychotic? Robots do the same thing over and over again and respond to different situations and people in the same way – identically every time.
Psychotics, on the other hand, are unpredictable, responding to different people and situations in different ways, sometimes inappropriately.
In everyday life, if we’re functional we behave, hopefully, a little bit like the psychotic in that we have behavioral flexibility and can choose how we respond (rather than responding to everything in exactly the same way).
We can also, hopefully, distinguish between our imagined reality and the reality that is commonly held by those we are reacting with. That’s what makes us a functional.
The alternative would be to respond in exactly the same way to every person or situation you encounter. That would make you a robot.
Are you a psychotic or a robot?
This podcast of Caitriona Reed was recorded on a retreat at Manzanita Village.
Introductory remarks given on the first evening of a three-day meditation retreat Wild Mind at Manzanita Village near Warner Springs in Southern California by Caitriona Reed.
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“Do you have any idea how many people walk around kicking themselves everyday because they don’t meet their own best standards?”
“We can help you fix that!
“Picture a world in which the voices you hear inside your own head are expressing words of appreciation and inspiration, and you are feeling great about what you do.”
Intention and focus are central to meditation, and to live. It’s important to have both a big picture, an idea of our destination, as well as a sense of the smaller steps we will take in order to arrive there.
… My Japanese sword teacher taught non-violence. His movement looked so simple and fluid. But when I slowed down film I had taken of his kata movements I began to see the myriad deliberate subtle movements which together gave the appearance of simplicity and fluidity.
Clear Intention is More Important than you may Imagine [18:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
There are four “dignities’ or ‘noble postures’ in which it is possible to usefully engage in meditation: Sitting, Standing, Walking, and Lying Down.
Standing with your feet firmly placed, the body upright, balanced, aware of your breath and of the space above you, below you, and around you . . . .
This guided meditation, like the majority of these recordings was made at a Sunday morning meditation at Manzanita Village Retreat in Southern California.
… bring awareness to the subtle movement that you notice …
… the adjustments that the body makes to allow you to balance easily…
.. notice the fluidity in the joints of the the ankles, the knees, the hips …
.. notice each detail … and have awareness of the body as a whole, standing upright on the planet today …
