BEST WISHES FOR A PEACEFUL, JOYOUS, & MINDFUL 2009!
 In this edition of Mystical Scuttlebutt:

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****2009 CALENDAR***Musings For The Coming Year
• Winter Offerings
• A Practical Tip
• Dilemma Of The Month
• Reflection
• Testimonial

  **FREE DOWNLOAD** 2009 CALENDAR **FREE DOWNLOAD**
  Musings For The Coming Year

Enjoy this gift from Facticity Trainings for 2009. Original poetry/prose from Ragini accompanied by lovely images of the Nautilus and the Fibonacci Spiral. Thoughtful and sweet musings of a marketplace mystic refining the art of balancing being both divine and human. Each month will fit into a regular 8.5  x 11 frame or can be cut down to fit an acrylic 8 x 10 frame. Beautiful images and heartfelt words that will echo your own private thoughts and experiences. Click here to view and download.

No More This Or That:
Learn to navigate life’s dilemmas, opposites, polarities and paradoxes with wisdom and comfort. Highly experiential, deeply personal, and based on the Psychology of the Mystics. Can foster a profound shift in the way you relate to your outer and inner life. One Day Workshop – Feb.28. For more details & registration, click here.

Paradox Management Certification Training: 6-day Certification Program dedicated to the art of evoking Leadership Beyond Polarization. This training is designed for Coaches, Corporate Consultants, Educators and Therapists. Enter a growing international community of Paradox Management Consultants - pioneering individuals who have the practical know-how to help others navigate the paradoxical realm of Unresolvable Dilemmas in both professional and personal life. March 28 - April 2. For more details & registration, click here.

Paradox Soiree: Beginning February 20th, the Paradox Soiree will once again meet every 3rd Friday of the month through June. To attend you must have participated in a No More This Or That Workshop, or receive a personal invitation by an on-going member. The purpose of the Soiree is to deepen your ability to think in opposites and to perceive from a paradoxical perspective. The intent is to create community and support for the development of Leadership Beyond Polarization, and to more closely align your mind with the Psychology of the Mystics. For further information, please contact Ragini at 425 462 4369 or ragini@facticity.com.

    
As this new year begins, your thoughts have probably turned towards the future, setting up goals, making resolutions, creating commitments and vows. As time passes, these very efforts to move your life in a positive direction can begin to create stress, causing your mind to run faster and faster. When it gets to the point where you can’t find a gap or a space between your thoughts, you can be sure you are moving in the direction of more stressful times.

To find and consciously breathe into the silence between the sounds, whether inside or outside, is a quick way to redirect your attention to the steady, ever present background of life’s activities and move that background into the foreground of your awareness. Witnessing the partnership of sound and silence inside your own mind is a profound and direct arrow into the mystery of Presence and your ability to hear it, feel it, and relax into it’s waiting arms.

Take a moment or two and identify for yourself three sounds that soothe your soul. Whether it’s the cry of a seagull, the wind whipping around a corner, drops of rain on the roof of your car, the dog barking down the street, the giggle of a child’s delight, or the turning of a door knob signaling the arrival of your beloved, be aware of its effect on your deepest Being – like a soothing, quieting caress. Once you can hear this silence that cradles all sound, you have the ticket for a quick trip Home - any time – any where – if only for a moment! But it is these very moments of touching the Beyond that will sustain and nourish your heart and soul throughout each day.

With the arrival of 2009, you may be looking back and then looking forward, taking your lessons of the past to prepare for a better future. You may begin to sketch desired outcomes, strategize for their fulfillment, and courageously set out to face your fears and resistances. This can be a joyous experience, full of fun and challenge, or it can be a stressful experience, full of trepidation and angst. Either way, it is about gaining what you want or think you need, to make life better – for yourself, and perhaps for the world, It is also about avoiding as much loss and unpleasantness as possible.

The glitch in this process is the unconscious (and often conscious) belief that if you are able to ‘gain’, reach your goal, or receive a desired benefit or improvement, the acquisition will somehow improve your social status, your perceived level of intelligence, frequently, even your financial state, and most importantly, your sense of identity.

This highly influences the way you relate to the possibility of ‘loss’. Loss naturally feels unpleasant, but it has also come to reflect something negative and unpleasant about who you are! So what to do? Go for the ‘gain’ and feel somehow you’re not being spiritual unless your goal is selfless and altruistic? Or settle for things as they are, feeling good about your spiritual choice of ‘acceptance’, and simultaneously feeling a sense of loss at not working to fulfill your human potential?

    
In a culture as highly polarized as ours toward the experience of gain, there is bound to be an equally strong unconscious drive against the experience of loss. This atmosphere makes it doubly hard when wisdom offers the option of ease and peace with whatever has arrived in your life – be it gain or loss.

With the desire for gain comes the automatic fear of loss. As a human being, you have no choice but to experience both. If you are to live in your inner world with peace and ease, you must honor the reality of gain and loss as an interdependent polar pair while simultaneously embracing the notion that the results of this harmonious dance between the two is not the final word on your life, your destiny, or your identity. Rather, it is merely the flow of life moving from one shape to its polar opposite, and back again. This is the rhythm, the pulse, the cycle of existence on this plane. The ‘peace that passes all understanding’ rests deep inside this mystical wisdom.

Gain and loss are both yours to embrace. Relaxing into this Unresolvable Dilemmas as simply ‘the way things unfold’ brings a sense of peace and ease joyously bubbling up in the heart. Paradoxically, it also gives you all the energy, commitment, and focus you need to jump into the fray of living with amazingly mindful abandon as to the outcome.

    
To visit this month’s new Reflection highlighting Deepak Chopra, please click here.

    
“I believe integration would be the key word to describe Facticity. . . . this training took all the loose ends of my journey and weaved them into a new Mandala of my relationship to the universal force – And, it has deepened my confidence not only as a spiritual being, but as a human being.”
  G.M., Teacher

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