Weekend with Richard
I just spent a delightful – literally full of light – weekend with master teacher and mentor, Richard Moss. A private session on Sunday was sandwiched between workshops on Saturday and Monday. Each experience was an inspiration, a healing, a heart-opening expansion of spirit. Here's a small sample of the teaching, as I've incorporated it.
Most of us have become masters in the art of poisoning ourselves over and over with a limited number of suffering stories that take us away from the center of being into judgments about ourselves, about others, about the past, or about the future. To the extent we get caught up in these stories, our aliveness is diminished as we shrink into smaller versions of ourselves.
The stories may feel true, but they're fictional in nature, an artifact of ego. Don’t believe them. Don't identify with them. The only thing we know for sure that's real about these stories is the effect they have on us right now, the damage they do us.
With mindfulness and the techniques of "relaxed readiness" and "focused spaciousness," we can choose to let go of story and stay alive in the richness of sensation, feeling and creativity in the present moment. "Spiritual muscle" is exercised by the discipline of gently and persistently bringing awareness back to our bodies and our immediate experience in the now. As Richard says, "Who I am begins now."
Presence in the now is a gateway to an inner spaciousness, the realization that we are much bigger than any story or problem we can have. In compassionate spaciousness, we can create a "holding environment" for any human feeling or experience – observing it, making room for it, allowing it to move naturally within us and through us toward integration and transformation. Thus, we become friends with ourselves, comfortable in our own skins, available for deeper connection with others and with all of life.
Along with insight, compassion and a personal embodiment of these teachings, Richard offers practical methodology and tools for healing and expansion. His teaching is uniquely accessible and powerfully relevant. I encourage you to check out his website: www.richardmoss.com
Maybe with a book, retreat or free e-course, you too can have a weekend with Richard.
