Growing since Fall 2015, Mankind Project Japan now has a weekly men’s group on Tuesday nights. We have experienced significant growth since moving to an online format since April 2020.
I believe the group now has enough men who speak Japanese (I count at least 9) to staff a Japanese speaking open online group in a format analogous to MKP USA’s Open Online Men’s Group.
Growing since Fall 2015, Mankind Project Japan now has a weekly men’s group on Tuesday nights. We have experienced significant growth since moving to an online format since April 2020.
I believe the group now has enough men who speak Japanese (I count at least 9) to staff a Japanese speaking open online group in a format analogous to MKP USA’s Open Online Men’s Group.
No matter which side of any debate you are on, I want you to find your answers from within your Self, streaming in from your personal connection to God instead of from the chaos of (social) media.
Stop reading this email and just chill for a moment.
How long did you chill? Five minutes? One minute? One second?
Every second, 8+ hours worth of content is uploaded to Youtube. Trying to keep up with everything is literally impossible for a human. Let God filter through all the details of life and guide you in the best way.
You may ask, “how does God guide me?”
“Through your feelings,” I reply.
Follow your sense of joy; follow your sense of excitement. These are how you feel as you are following your calling, your optimal path.
Following this optimal path, led by following your joys, you take on bigger and bigger projects, more closely aligned with who you are.
When stepping up to projects closer to your heart, you may notice fear in the mix. This is due to your desire that the project comes out the way you hope. Fair enough. Move toward your excitement, stepping through that fear. It will likely turn out a lot better than you expected.
Living life with a sense of joy increases your level of happiness coming from within, allowing you to nourish yourself as times get tough and to be a symbol and model of joy for those around you. Partners, children, co-workers, employees, bosses, friends all love to be around you for the energy you bring with you.
Some of my greatest joys are walking barefoot and climbing trees. These help me stay connected to my physical body and connected to the natural world.
Another of my greatest joys is listening, whether it’s to let you get something off your chest, or to help guide you through the labyrinth of messages in your mind and emotions in your body.
Last week, using questions like “what parts of me are enough?” we discovered myriad ways even our minds can understand we are enough.
This week, looking from a spiritual perspective, our enough-ness is a given.
"Of course you are enough. I made you."
- God
Recognizing you are enough is sometimes a trick to the ego,
thinking "oh you didn't do this right, you didn't do that right,
you've got to do this or that," and yet on the spiritual plane
it's like a given that everything is perfect.
You are enough to such a point that that's not even something that
God talks about.
It's like "what are you talking about of course you're enough; I
made you." kind of kind of level.
So there's like a conflict between the ego trying to prove itself
and to keep its job versus the spiritual being living in a world
full of egos that are all trying to keep their prospective jobs.
How do we continue to recognize this truth of being enough despite
the ego saying we're not enough, tv saying we're not enough,
competition inadvertent or not, when different people have cooler
houses or you know longer you know selfie sticks so it's like all
these different competitions kind of happen and that is in a way,
that's the downfall of our belief or not even belief but downfall
of realizing that we are enough.
How does this conflict play out in your life? or What are some
ways that you notice the conflict? or How do you handle it? What
do you notice about this happening in your life?
I may have mentioned it before, that people love to see
vulnerability and hate to be vulnerable. This is coming from uh
uh what's her name? I have the book right here She did it. Brene
Brown. This _Daring Greatly_ book I think it's from this book
that she mentioned that maybe her other book that
You are compassionate for those people on the the podcast that are
experiencing whatever troubles in their life and sharing that with
the the podcast per who is what's the name of the podcast over
over and on with it so they're they're sharing their situation
with christine and in 45 minutes like really putting themselves
out into the into the open and seeing that benefit that it's
similar to something that you've experienced and just reminds me
that having the courage to be vulnerable helps other people maybe
more than we understand so yeah that's something that I want to
remind myself to be vulnerable to give permission and to model
being vulnerable to uh the public or I don't know what it may look
like in any different any certain situation but
I'm asking the question to get a sense of how to lead a meditation
type process for today.
As always having your pen handy pen and paper handy to write down
any insights. Great. and starting with last week's recognition
that you are enough in many different ways remembering in what
ways am I enough what are some ways I am enough recalling those
answers you may want to write down any new answers if they come
now and while you're feeling the enoughness as given from the
universe and the higher highest connection to to god or spirit as
you know it stay within that feeling of enoughness and maybe just
remember a little bit of the messages that you may have heard in
the past allow them to be very faint just so you can remember what
they were while you remain in this clear awareness of enough just
as you are simply be in this awareness of I am noticing the very
faint old messages that try to say otherwise you should or you
didn't or whatever they may be trying to say remain grounded and
fully immersed I am energy of enoughness notice your breathing
breathing smoothly flowing with energy of enough being here in
your full spiritual glory within this human experience fully
recognizing you are enough breathing into your chest notice the
glow of enough and perfection emanating from your heart like a
golden light that blesses everything around you those old voices
becoming a distant memory as the heart grows and smiles.. fills
the room around you with its love and its knowledge you are a gift
from heaven in this body on earth continuing to breathe fully into
your heart allow the energy of your heart to spread to others who
also recognize they are a gift from heaven in these bodies allow
this glowing heart of love to expand beyond the city until it's
covering the entire country blessing all that it touches around
the world until this giant glowing essence of enough spiritual
perfection is enveloping the entire earth entire planet. Expand
even larger allow this essence to reconnect with the sun who is
absolutely enough. It shines onto everyone every day blessing all
parts of the earth as it turns.. The sun is absolutely enough.
We see that every day. Allow your light to shine as brightly as
the sun, sharing your heart sharing your being knowing you are
enough. Simply resting in this knowledge resting in this fact of
enoughness. In a moment we'll begin to consolidate energy back
into our bodies recognizing now we're containing the entire sun
with our heart energy. Begin to call your heart back into your
physical body, offering your blessing to the sun as you begin to
bring the heart toward your body. Let your heart and the sun
shine on each other from afar, continuing to bring your energy
back into your physical body, wondering how it can possibly fit?
Recognizing the magnitude of who you really are. Continue to call
in your energy until it's the size of the planet; keep breathing
and call your energy into your body. Let your heart become the
size of the country, slowly breathing it in to be the size of the
city, and gently gently as if a feather coming down to rest, your
heart gently fully reconnects in your physical space as it
naturally emanates about a meter outside your body. Just welcome
your heart back home, remembering what it felt like with your
heart as large as the sun connecting across the solar system,
Begin to reconnect with your mind. Notice how the other messages
pale compared to the brightness and the beautiful intensity of
your heart, of your spiritual being. All the should haves and
could haves and didn't do's become meaningless. and they all
become good enough. Recognize the enoughness of each one and
bless it with your heart. Recognizing the items on your to-do
list, which ones truly deserve your attention? and which ones are
already good enough? Allowing your heart to decide, your heart to
know and share that information with you on the moment-to-moment
basis as you move forward so you know clearly how a being with the
heart the size of the solar system is already here already enough,
and simply engages just as needed spontaneously as conditions
arise remaining at peace remaining in stillness responding with
love and grace as needed and no more. until the entire life
becomes like a play playing in joy as each and every event comes
onto the screen and goes off the screen living in joy no matter
what is on the screen recognizing that everything is perfect and
we simply respond as needed in the moment the heart knows the way
rests in the heart allowing it to guide the way in a moment we'll
begin to reconnect with our shared space and in doing so remain
connected with the heart space. Recognizing your heart energy
balanced, glowing, emanating from your body: always there always
available. Always reminding you you are enough. Breathing into
the blessings coming from your heart, just let them be a constant
reminder of your enoughness. As you're ready begin to open your
eyes back into our shared space,
Feel free to take a moment to jot down anything you noticed.
It was beautiful allowing it to come through in real time.
I look forward to listening to this recording next year and be
like hey wow you know noticing the expansion that will have taken
place by then.. "This staircase is a lot smaller than I remember
it."
So yeah, recognizing what you just said, this state of your
expansion now *is* enough. We are living in a 3D reality that
includes a time component on the side or mixed within somehow. So
living in the 4D is part of the program. So we're experiencing
linear time as part of life part of the existence and While
consciousness is free to move
through time and through space, day-to-day living is in this time
and this space. Just allowing that to be enough, allowing the
universe to open before you, as you move. So yeah that's the
blessing for today; the memory I want to leave with allowing this
moment to be enough and bless yourself on the journey. I bless
you on your journey and look forward to continuing the journey as
we go. Yeah absolutely thank you.
(The above transcript was extracted from our live interactive Weekly Alignment on Thursday night.)
Join us for Weekly Alignments online Thursday nights 7pm JST.
take a moment to get yourself settled and feeling your feet flat on the floor and your body comfortably seated in your chair
just notice your breathing as it comes naturally and imagine you’re standing at a doorway that goes into a building
and when you open the door you see a staircase going down and as you look inside you notice the air feels warm and has a nice fragrance
it smells very inviting and feels very calming
so you begin to walk into the staircase stepping down each step
noticing the smooth curvature of the wall of the staircase feeling the firm, clear, flat steps gently leading you down deeper and deeper into a calm beautiful space
and as you move down, step by step you notice a deeper feeling of peace coming into your body with each step
continuing to move down the stairs one by one you notice the light becoming dimmer and yet still clear enough you can see you are safe
until it’s a nice smooth ambient light, you’re not sure where it’s coming from.
Continuing to move down the stairs one by one you notice your breathing has become clear and smooth and soft as you feel completely comfortable in this space
after a while you notice a little bit more light coming down from below
and as you continue curving slowly down the steps you see the last step before it opens into a room and step down the last five, four, third, second and the final step
step into this room where the light is lighter and yet diffuse so you cannot see where it’s coming from looking around the room you see it’s completely secure completely safe
and you see a very comfortable chair it looks like a beautiful ornate antique chair that’s been refurbished and made beautiful and waiting just for you
you love the colors; love the pattern and you decide to have a seat in what could only be your chair that’s just perfect for you
you go up to the chair feel the surface feel smooth and comfortable soft and firm just what you’d want in a chair
so you take a minute to look at the chair and just admire its ornate beauty the fine craftsmanship that went into making this chair
once you’ve admired the chair walking all the way around it feeling all of its surfaces
let yourself settle down into the chair feeling how it completely and perfectly supports you your body
perfectly custom fit for you
the arms are at the exact right height
the seat is at the perfect height and softness
the back of the chair perfectly supports your back and your spine and the head rest is amazing
just allows you to sink back fully supported fully comforted by this perfect head rest on this perfect chair
you just enjoy sitting in this perfect chair designed for you
feel yourself perfectly supported and perfectly safe enjoying this beautiful room beautiful light wonderful fragrance with a deep quiet stillness
allow yourself to relax in this chair as long as you like
recognizing you feel more and more refreshed more and more supported and more and more calm simply being in this space in this chair
once you feel completely refreshed completely supported completely calm
you recognize it’s time to begin moving again so you begin to stand up
you feel yourself easily able to stand up from this perfect chair you turn around thank the chair for its safety, support, and comfort
and you notice very small circle on the side of the wall opposite the chair
walking over to it you recognize it’s a button and feeling safe and calm and secure you press the button and the wall opens up and you recognize it’s an elevator
you step inside the elevator and it indicates you’re on the ground floor the very bottom and there’s one button to go back up to the surface
So you press that button and the doors close gently and you’re smoothly quickly brought all the way back up to the surface noticing the light getting brighter and beautiful sunlight
As you step outside to enjoy the rest of your day feeling refreshed feeling supported feeling calm happy that you found your perfect chair that you can go back to anytime.
You begin to enjoy the rest of your day
2021 is starting well, especially so if I allow my brain to chill out and just flow with my heart.
I recently finished a short course on The Inspiration Process, which helps clients get in touch with their real higher power.
I feel grateful to have received a beautiful email from one of my fellow participants in the course:
This evening I attended Dive Into Darkness, a workshop about the basics of emotions:
Plus several pair work exercises to allow deep exploration of our emotions.
Dang, I could have led this workshop, except I didn’t.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Why do I keep attending training after training instead of saying “hey I can do this stuff!”
Part of the problem for me is knowing how to explain what I do. “I help people dive into their emotions and uncover the gold that’s been buried.” Yes, but it seems no one knows what that means.
“Take control of your life.” “Become the leader you were meant to be.”
Closer maybe, but too generic.. How do I find my language?
Hmm. I will just keep walking the path; keep following my joy.
Thank you for reading my rant.
By the way, if you want to take control of your life, and become the leader you were meant to be, contact me. I can help with that. ;-)
blessings
Thanks to my friend Hide for not being on Facebook when I wanted to invite him to my walking event. That was the proverbial push that got me to create an /events listing.
For about a month it has not been linked from my top page because the events publish dates were shown, in stark contrast to the event date. Here is an example of that. Notice how the publish date at the top of the event differs from the event date within the event.
https://5fe490b67b688d0008f7c403--www-robnugen-com.netlify.app/events/ (screenshot of date conflicts)
I added the event dates to each event entry and showed the event dates instead of the publish dates. Here might be a version of the site in that state. Notice how the Walking Meditation is happening after Your Art Matters, but it shows up first.
https://5feff4c06fac18000796a157--www-robnugen-com.netlify.app/events/ (screenshot of events out of order)
And then I got the indexing to work the way I want for now. Upcoming events are shown at top, starting with the one coming first, then Past events are shown in summary below that, starting with the most recent.
https://5ff566470ba77500076609e2--www-robnugen-com.netlify.app/events/ (screenshot of Upcoming events) (screenshot of Past events)
I got Hugo to show future events like this
https://github.com/thunderrabbit/barefoot_rob/commit/eabe44520fb8c906f7c4323f172134a9a10048dd
Great conversation tonight on the variety of things which inspire us and bring joy to life. Some of our callings are large projects while some are simple and can be done on a regular basis.
What lights you up? What brings joy into your life?
A couple months ago, I started attending Dmitri Bilgere’s course The Inspiration Process.
A few days ago I got to be the model being processed. Even though I “know” the steps of the process from taking the course, I had some great insights and felt inspired after completing the work. Coming out the other side, I had great realization of who I am and who I want to be in my life. This recording shows how effective The Inspiration Process can be. I hope you enjoy it. I certainly did!
This audio is Copyright©Clarity Communications 2020
In our Weekly Alignment last night, we practiced listening to our Self, as opposed to our chattering monkey mind.
Listen below to the recording of the meditation portion of the session.
First draft of transcript by https://otter.ai
Take a moment to breathe, just releasing any tension in your body,
nice deep breath and just let it out, let you know the tension
drop off of your shoulders, allowing your body to breathe
itself. Welcome brother, checking in with your body in this
present moment, similar to the being present. Without future or
past. How did that go for you during the week. Yeah. Sounds like a
new adventure in a way like starting the clearing process. So you
can begin the year a new. Very nice. for the program
today. Listening to the mind chatter. And being able to
distinguish chatter that's coming directly from mind and ego
versus information, which could be words could be sensations could
be feelings that are coming from a higher place a spiritual
source, as it were, that has our best interests in mind, and a
grander viewpoint than what we have been here in the middle of
life on the planet, and within this time dimension in three
dimensions of space. How do you distinguish between mind chatter,
and inspiration, coming from spirit. Like in your mind receiving
inspiration from spirit or higher self versus the background mind
chatter of this more basic within the 3d realm as opposed to
having this higher perspective. So we're going to explore that
tonight. Practicing distinguishing between mind chatter, and
insight from the, from a higher source in higher space. So, just
taking a moment. If you want to have a notebook ready, this is a
good time to prepare that good teen present in your body. Allow
yourself to tune in to that ceiling that you described associated
with information coming from the higher self. The
excitement. Allow yourself to tune in. Very simply being
connected. Simply and clearly to this feeling may feel like
love. You may feel warm. He may feel excitement, just tuning in to
this sensation, recognizing that this connection is always
available at any given moment, with the intention of connecting to
your highest self. Use your mind or your voice with your intention
to connect only to your highest self in your best
interest. connected to your purpose in life. In this
moment. Welcoming your connection. Clearly and simply allow
yourself to have a bit of a dialog. Very simple. With the answers
coming, even as soon as you can pose the question, how do you
connect most clearly with your higher self. What type of
questions. Can you ask of your hire So when is your higher self
available for you. Well now we, the answers to come very clearly
and simply write down any answers that you hear, as it best serves
you. recognizing this connection in a very clear way, asking your
higher self how to distinguish between the higher self insights
and other ramblings of the mind. Feeling that love warm open
connection. Thank your higher self, your own cell for creating the
connection. And we'll practice, keeping the connection open while
speaking with each other in keeping the connection open while
writing in your notebook. Take a moment to write in your notebook
any insights you received. Welcome to share with me as you
wish. For me, my higher self always uses positive language. So,
for me if I hear something like, do not do this. That's for me
that's not from my higher self, the phrasing is always
positive. Loving patient calm. These are words that I've used to
describe my, the sensations I get connected to higher so while I
was leading the meditation, I. It was my intention to just bring
it all down from from higher self so I don't remember all the
questions that I asked in that meditation, but I think there's at
least one or two more that were there. Did you notice any other
insights that came during the meditation. The mind is well versed
and offering things to think about. So, allowing awareness, step
back from the mind while it's busy chattering. Okay. Gavin Watson
notice that the mind is there, busily trying to keep control,
maybe a way to describe it. So yeah. The next thing I had planned
is very related to that and related related to last week, or maybe
two weeks ago, where we allowed the mind chatter to go down down
down into the worst possible scenario. And having done that
exercise already. Last week, we don't need to do the exercise,
again, but just notice what it felt like doing that, you can do a
very abbreviated version of that exercise, what might happen, and
noticing the downsides. But more importantly, noticing how it
feels when these types of thoughts are coming up for you. Notice
if there is a difference in your posture. Notice the difference in
your energy in your body. Is there a difference in the tension. Is
there a difference in how quickly your mind is moving. Simply
notice how it feels. For the mind to take over and go down the
rabbit hole. And now practice, releasing the mind coming back up,
as it were, into the feeling connected to your higher
self. Welcome in your focus your hero awareness back into your
higher self. Notice the difference in the texture of the
feeling. Notice the posture of your body. Notice the speed with
which your mind is moving. Notice the space between your
consciousness, and your mind. As your consciousness is more fully
present and aware with your higher self. And just as practice is
an exercise. Allow your consciousness to move back to your
mind. Connecting to one of the thoughts. Connecting to one of the
thoughts and just allow your consciousness to lock on to the
thought noticing how it feels. As your consciousness is locked
into a thought. Is there a difference this time. After being
connected to your higher self versus a previous time where maybe
you've been lost in thoughts all day. One type of indication, can
you notice that to become lost in thought. How can you remind
yourself to reconnect to your higher self. From inside this
state. Practice noticing yourself lost in thought, and use that to
bring yourself back into awareness of your higher self. No to
seeing your body, noticing your breathing reconnecting to the
space. The silence, in which your higher self rests. Notice this
way of noticing. When you've become lost in thought. So you can
more easily recognize in your day to day activities. Maybe setting
an intention for yourself. To quickly notice when you've become
lost in thought, allowing yourself to keep connection to your
higher self consciously. This will be our playful exercise, size,
during the week. Practicing staying connected to higher
self. Recognizing it's a process. The higher self is slowly
welcoming and accepting giving yourself time to practice this new
way of being. Thank you for practicing with me now.