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July 2005 |
The Toltec Mystery School |
Issue #38 |
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| Five New Articles in this Issue of the Toltec Path! |
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| "Thank you for creating such wonderful newsletters packed full of treasures! I look forward to receiving each new edition filled with wonderful tools for my spiritual path." ~ |
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In this issue we have great articles and many questions and answers about growing on the Path!
Read the questions and answers section of the newsletter, Ask the Guides, where readers ask Kris and Kalyn questions about their path. You might find a question that you have! |
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The Toltec Path,
Offering you tools to support your Path |
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by Kris Raphael |
The following is a simple, yet powerful process to release trauma and memories of panic that exist in our body cells.
We all have had traumatic experiences, for example, being lost as a young child, being abused, or a being in a serious accident. This process utilizes the breath to release the cellular memory of trauma, fear and panic. It can be done anytime during the day, while driving, sitting at work or before a meditation.
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Become focused on your breath and your physical body. Breathe in slowly. When you lungs are full, hold the breath to the count of 7.
Slowly release your breath, breathing all the way out. Hold your breath out. As you do tune into your body. Continue to hold your breath out until you feel your body start to panic.
Then SLOWLY breathe all the way in until your lungs are full. When your lungs are full, hold your breath to the count of 7.
Release the breath slowly, emptying your lungs and holding until you feel the panic again. Do the full breath (holding out until panic, holding in to a count of 7) 7 times.
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Doing this process consistently, every day will reduce stress in your life. It will also make any traumatic or worrisome live events less so. When we have a fear, worry or traumatic event in our lives, it stimulates the body memory of similar events. Doing this process releases this memory so that it does not compound itself making things seem worse than they are.
This helps conserve energy needed for growth.
Love and Light,
Kris
This powerful process to release trauma and memories of panic that exist in our body cells was posted on the forum for the Mastery of Awareness and the Mastery of Transformation courses. Here are some questions that where asked by some students in these courses and responses which Kris shared.
Hello All.
Does breathing into feelings in general release them?
Hanging on to them and breathing them so to speak.
Be well All.
-Jon
Hello Jon,
First, we need to make a distinction between feelings and emotions. Feelings are natural and spontaneous. A young child's world is one of feelings - happy, sad, and so on. Feelings pass through us without a need for us to release them.
Emotions, on the other hand, come from "charges." Charges are build up around our wounding and are dysfunctional. One of the first steps on a spiritual path is to thoroughly "discharge" ourselves so that we can begin to function naturally again. The average person, due to their wounding, has lost their ability to feel, and can only emote.
Using the breath can be a way to de-charge ourselves. The Toltec technique of recapitulation uses the breath, for example.
A lot more can be said on this subject.
Love and Light,
Kris
Kris:
A couple of questions:
1.- The exercise you describe is very similar to the recapitulation I was taught, which consists of breathing in slowly while moving your head to one side of the body as well as intending to pull the thoughts/feelings of the events you are recapitulating and then while exhaling turning your hear 180 degrees and intending to get rid of the thoughts/feelings you are recapitulating. Are these the same? Same purpose?
2.- I am having a bit of a problem with my internal dialogue, can you tell me of a technique to stop it? Lately I have had quite a circus in my head and need something to stop it. Will this exercise work? Or do you have other techniques?
With affection,
-Francisco
Hello Francisco,
We will go into the recapitulation in more detail in Mastery of Awareness lessons that you will be receiving through the course. There are several levels of recapitulation - mental structures, emotional charges and energetic. Recapitulation decharges us and frees up valuable energy that we need for our growth.
The exercise here specifically deals with body traumas and fear that is stuck in the body.
As for stopping the internal dialog, there are some good suggestions here on the forum and your guide will also be assisting you with this.
Love and Light,
Kris |
Kristopher is an author and co-founder of the Toltec Mystery School. To learn more about Kristopher and information on classes and workshops, please click here
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| Dear Guides,
It is so hard for me to not judge people when I am amongst the company of certain of my friends. After the fact, I feel so guilty for talking bad about them. How do I stop, because I really don't like myself when I do it.
-Rosa
Dear Rosa,
Judgments are very damaging to our own lives and to the lives of others. It is beneficial that you recognize the urgency of stopping this addictive behavior.
When we judge another we are really trying to make ourselves look or feel better than the person we are judging. We are making up for an insecurity that we have within. The best way to stop judging others, therefore, is to focus on ourselves. To do this we must take advantage of the times when we wish to judge another and, instead of judging them, we must use the opportunity to see what it is that we are feeling insecure about. With this awareness we can then focus on taking the steps to heal our own insecurities, thereby removing what causes us to judge.
Work to heal your insecurities, Rosa, and you will also find the energy of your friendships improving.
Love and Light,
K2 (Kris & Kalyn)
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Please be sure to pose complete and clear questions, as these offer the guides enough energy for the guides to work with, and are more likely to be answered. Thank you.
Question for the Guides
Look for Q&As to the guides in next month's issue! |
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 The Toltec Mystery School is Growing! |
Join the School and be part of a unique community in which
a Dream of Heaven is being created! |
| The Toltec Mystery School is growing in order to be able to support more people on their spiritual paths. The School is expanding and now includes a free abundance forum for those who wish to work with School Guides and to meet and share their paths with others.
Changes are already being implemented into the school, and many more changes will be coming soon:
- This year the school has been growing and several of the students have advanced to become guides themselves!
- We invite you to meet our School guides:
- K2, Kris and Kalyn, the founders and Lead Guides for the Mystery School
- Meet our Jaguar Guides, students chosen by K2 to lead new students in the Mastery of Awareness course
- Our new Sol Guides, students who are starting groups in their areas to create support in their communities
- Read about our School guides and if you want more information on how to work with one of these guides locally or how to start a group in your own area, please contact Kelly, our School Administrator, by completing and submitting this Sol Guide/Informational Request form.
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by Makayla Sadamori |
 Having needs is an important aspect of being human, and consciously or not, a big part of our lives is spent trying to get our needs met. We all have needs – needs for love, for interaction and communication with others, for personal fulfillment, for intimacy, happiness and many others. When in a relationship we may find that while our own needs feel perfectly natural and acceptable to us, our mates may not always offer understanding or cooperation. Since this is a major source of friction in most relationships, we want to look at what creates the problem and how to avoid it.
To begin with, we must distinguish between authentic needs and neediness. Both look very similar but their source is different. While authentic needs originate in our true Self, neediness is a product of our wounding. When we were children and one of our basic needs for love, approval and acceptance was not met by our caregivers, that created holes and wounds in our essence and part of it became missing. These holes make us needy for love, approval and attention and we often grasp at our partners to fill them up. We may find ourselves in a constant tug of war with our partners about whose needs are more important and should be met first. To have a balanced, healthy and wholesome relationships we must be healthy and whole ourselves or we must meet those childhood needs self to self through extending to self what we grasp to receive from others.
Still, people may complain that even looking after their legitimate needs causes friction in their relationships. The problem is not in having needs and expressing them but more in how we express. Many tend to push with their needs at their partners. No matter what the need is, we can't push with it at the other. Once we start pushing we lose our center and begin to control. Our needs are our sole responsibility and it is we who are responsible to take care of them. For example – when on a spiritual path, even if taking time to meditate or recapitulate or go to a workshop may be a legitimate need, we can't tell our perhaps not so supportive partner, "You must support me and you should allow for this to happen, you should not protest ". We can only state the need and then quietly do what is necessary to meet it. We could say for example, "I am sorry if this inconveniences you but it is a true need, something I have to do for myself and I hope you understand!" Needs are about us, not about the other. Meeting the need should not lead to trying to change the people around us.
Even if a need can only be met by another, like intimacy for example, we still can only state the need but we can't demand from our partner to meet it. If not having the need met is not acceptable to self then we should look at our priorities – what is more important to us – having the need met or other aspects of the relationship. If a correction is needed, that should be made only in self and our circumstances, we can't push at the other.
People seem to often push for their needs to be met or sacrifice their authentic needs while instead grasping at others in neediness, but both of these approaches are out of balance and are based on ego and fear, not on strength. In contrast, when we express a true need without pushing or pulling but from our center, that has great power. When we come from the heart this may touch the heart of the other too and make them respond to us. Once we start pushing, one of the first things we push is their issues, and the chance is we may get a heavy reaction and a conflict.
Needs are a very deep and important subject and here we broached just the most common problems related to them. But even if you follow the simple suggestions given above you will find a shift happening in your relationship. Be aware of you true needs and do what is needed to meet them while releasing the people in your world of the obligation to make your needs theirs. In this way, you will feel fulfilled and will enjoy a happy and harmonious relationships too.
Love & Light,
Makayla
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Makayla spent many years of her life trying to change her outside world to find love and happiness. That exhausted her and showed her that if change was to come and fulfillment to be found, the change should begin with her own self. Makayla is now a Jaguar Guide, helping students become aware of and heal what brings pain and suffering so they, like her, can experience and appreciate fully the beautiful wonder life is. |
If you would like to read more about Makayla or any of the other TMS guides, click here. |
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Manifesting Using the Powerful Energy of Your Sexual Center |
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K2 have created a special process to support those working to increase their abundance using the sexual/creative center or chakra!
Manifesting Using the Powerful Energy of Your Sexual Center is a process that focuses specifically on manifesting abundance using the power of our creative sexual center, our second chakra. This is our divine energetic channel for creativity, the chakra of our sexual power. Creating life is not the only thing we are able to manifest, of course. It is, however, the key to our manifestation so in this process we focus on using this energetic center in manifesting abundance into our lives.
Testimonial: "Awesome process, Kris! I have so much to say about it I do not know where to begin. What was funny about this process is that I did it after my girlfriend had gone to bed so when I got to the part where I spoke what I am manifesting out loud, I was afraid of waking her up. But then I said 'So what. Go for it!' I figure for manifesting an abundance of money in my life, and by consequence hers, she can afford (no pun intended!) to lose a couple minutes of sleep.
I had some difficulty letting thoughts and pictures of what to do come to me. At first what was coming to me was not making any sense. I guess I was judging it and not allowing it to be there. In the end I got clear on what to do--cut up all but one or two of my credit cards and begin a process of paying them off.
I really enjoyed activating my sexual center in this one. I really sensed the power that it brought. Thank you for making this process available.
Love and Light,
Brian"
For information on products in the Manifesting Abundance series please click here; To purchase products please click here
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Humanity Seeks to Connect with Something Higher |
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by Kalyn B Raphael |
This issue’s article is taken from Kalyn’s book, Seek Your Soul, which is a guided year-long recorder leading us to connect with our Souls in simple, effective and enjoyable ways.
 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 7:7-8
Most all religions and spiritual paths guide us to seek a concept of something greater, wiser and more powerful than ourselves, which we are calling our Soul in this recorder. The pursuit of something greater than us that creates most of our lives, watches over us and can guide us has been a pursuit for all time, all cultures and all paths.
As humans, we have the gift of being able to connect with our Souls, of being able to ask anything, to have anything we desire. All we need to do is pursue this. This is a gift intended to help us bring a divine connection into our lives. With divine connection we will experience guidance, understanding, and more fulfillment as we journey through life. Our lives will hold more love, enjoyment and happiness; we will also find ourselves being able to work with life, bringing us more power to change our lives, more abundance and success in all arenas in life such as work, relationships, friendships and so on. This begins to touch on what it means to seek something higher, to seek our Souls.
Love and Light,
Kalyn
Kalyn B Raphael is an author and co-founder of the Toltec Mystery School. For a list of her books or classes, please click here. Kalyn teaches spiritual courses in Santa Fe, NM, and on the Internet.
 Ask The Author:
While Kalyn was completing Seek Your Soul, she offered a web site where she posted selected parts of the book and encouraged people to participate in the book and on the site. This is an entry posted by a participant regarding "Seek Shades of your Soul".
Dear Kalyn,
I believe that we are to read his word over and over and seek and you shall find all the mysteries that are hidden only for us.
-Vrea
Hello Vrea,
Seek Your Soul is written to help us in the exact way you talk about – “seek and you shall find”.
Our Souls have laid before us help and guidance. It is up to us to seek these and our Souls out whether it is by reading “his word”, through prayer or any other way.
As the creator of all that is, God or our Soul connects with us and communicates with us in infinite ways, allowing each of us to connect in our own way. That is the power of being the creator of all that is – God or our Souls are limitless, giving us infinite ways to seek and find this connection.
Love & Light,
Kalyn
"Our lives will hold more love, enjoyment and happiness; we will also find ourselves being able to work with life, brining us more power to change our lives, more abundance and success in all arenas in life such as work, relationships, friendships and so on. This begins to touch on what it means to seek something higher, to seek our Souls."
That is well said! Reading it I remembered my own moment of 'enlightenment'. I used to meditate and pray with Buddhists. It was one of these more rational streams where the 'doctrine' is rationalized to a large extent. I read some of their books, but they did not feel too convincing. It took some two years for me to realize that their complicated 'doctrine' totally overshadowed the simple fact that we do not need any reasons to love this world. In fact, we have figured out many reasons not to do that. But these reasons are frail and weak and actually - they only exist in our rationalized minds. It only takes little daring to open ourselves...
-Mina
Hi Kalyn!
It is a blessing to read your new book. All my life I have wondered why we don't have understood more. It is all already written in the bible and the other scriptures. But only a handful of us seems to have recognized the message, that connection can be possible for all of us. "Seek and you shall find", but we hide for the light, the difficult painful truth and fall back into our constructed world.
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to make use of our new fresh eyes, and once again get inspired on our path.
-Jahn
Hi Jahn,
Thank you for your comments – it is wonderful to hear that this book is already helping people to connect!
Yes, having a connection with our Souls is a natural and simple. Unfortunately, humanity has a tendency to complicate some natural connections to nature, to ourselves and to our Souls.
A key to this book is the fact that we all have the birthright to connect with our Souls and we all have the capability if we choose to pursue this. All that is required is our willingness to take steps towards this seeking!
Love & Light,
Kalyn |
| Read more entries, like the one above, by purchasing Kalyn's new book and Seek Your Soul! |
You can now purchase Seek Your Soul, a year-long journal with weekly focuses to help you seek your soul through amazon.com. To receive Amazon's discounted price, click here. |
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Mastery of Awareness - AUDIO COURSE on CDs: An Alternative |
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| Unable to work directly with a Spiritual Teacher?
Kris and Kalyn have created an alternative, the Mastery of Awareness Audio Course on CDs. The CDs include not only lessons, but also energetic, meditative processes, and also live commentary from Kris and Kalyn. You can listen to the CDs in your car (not the meditative processes please) or in the convenience of your home.
TESTIMONIAL: "Hi K2! I love the Mastery of Awareness CD's! Kris and Kalyn, your commentaries have really helped. The lessons on tape put them in a different dimension for me (out of cyber space and into a voice)...one with more physical aspects. I love your voices too. Anyway, I listen to them in the car. . .so that makes me happy to spend that time in the car this way.
with Love and Light,
Mel" |
For more information go to:
http://www.masteryofawareness.com/ |
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