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, looking from a spiritual perspective, we saw our enough-ness is a given.
"Of course you are enough. I made you."
- God
This week, we had a chance to converse with a body part in pain, and expand the vision of our heart’s gifts to the world.
As always, I started us with a grounding, starting from 0'0" in the recording:
So, I'll just lead us in a grounding for for a moment while people are joining.
So allow your body to sit firmly in your seat. And with each breath,
let your muscles relax.
Allowing your sit bones to be comfortably stable.
Whether you're sitting down or standing, still allowing that grounded
feeling to reach all the way up through your hips and your sit bones.
Continuing to breathe. Allow the grounding to come up even further in your body.
Allowing any concerns from the day to simply drop off of your
shoulders. Let your shoulders sink down into this groundedness.
Let them share the support coming up from the ground and coming up
from the chair.
As you find your center of balance, your spine settles beautifully
into place: each vertebra relaxing on the one below it.
Your head, fully supported by all the musculature of your body,
balanced and in place.
Just rest in this moment of being in your body.
Fully supported by your seat which is fully supported by the floor,
fully supported by the building which itself is fully supported by the
earth.
Earth fully supported in gravity within the solar system.
The Solar System beautifully in its place in the galaxy.
Allowing yourself to be fully supported by the universe.
In this moment, bringing your consciousness back into your physical
body knowing you are in the perfect place. This time moment of now.
I invite you to rest in this awareness of knowing and trusting
yourself to know when it's time to move.
Begin to settle into the idea of opening your eyes into this space we
are co-creating, allowing your body to breathe itself,
and expressing gratitude to your body for continuing to support you as
you begin to open your eyes into our shared space.
Welcome.
The first meditation offered a chance to recognize a part of our body feeling pain or in some need of attention, starting from 7'13" in the recording:
Allow yourself to get settled in your body. If you need to stretch
or move, you can feel free to do that. Before getting settled down
and just again, come to an awareness of your body and awareness of
your breathing.
Allowing your body to breathe itself, and allowing your
consciousness to move down from the mind, allow your consciousness
to settle within your body, noticing how your body is feeling.
There may be some aches or pains. Simply noticing those in this moment.
Take a moment to guide your breath to that part of your body,
really giving it oxygen giving it some attention.
Breathing deeply into your lungs, send that energy to the parts of
your body that may have an ache or pain.
Take a moment to check in with that part of your body.
What is that part of the body telling you?
What need is not being met?
What message does this part of your body have for you?
What types of things can you do to support the ease and proper
functioning of your body, including this part?
Feel free to capture any insights you hear from your body part,
from your body, as it lets you know what it needs.
Take a moment to thank this part of your body.
Thank it for its support. Thank (it) for the insight.
and thanks for letting it know how to give it proper support. So
you can have a mutually supportive relationship with this part of
your body.
After having a healing conversation with our body, this meditation expanded our vision of providing our inner qualities to the world around us, starting from 13'40" in the recording:
Returning your consciousness to your breath, notice your body
continuing to breathe itself.
Allow your focus to center on your heart, your heart chakra.
With each breath, allowing the heart chakra to deepen, and
allowing the heart chakra to expand, wherever it needs to move or
grow.
However it needs to settle and feel grounded.
Give your heart chakra permission to move as it needs to energize
as it needs and as supports you.
The Heart Chakra is described as rotating energy going through
your body on both directions. Something like a lotus flower
emanating from your body.
Imagine the energy pure, bright, clear, functioning and
functioning optimally. 100% beautifully.
Recognizing the truth of who you are as a spiritual being, as a
spirit in this physical body,
You have innate qualities, innate skills and abilities we call
superpowers. These are your superpowers.
Breathing into the energies that you love to perform for the world.
Breathing into the way you feel joy in your life.
All the different ways you feel joy.
Breathing into the excitement of new possibilities in life.
Notice how simply you can invoke your superpowers.
Positively sharing your gold with the world.
These are your gifts for the world.
Those activities that heal you and bring you joy.
Notice ways you can do these more often.
Imagine taking more time, more of your precious time in the day
for enjoyment for sharing your gifts.
Imagine how expanding the time spent on your enjoyment in the
world has a ripple effect, both in the gifts that you share and in
the modeling of sharing gifts with those around you.
These gifts come from the infinite spring of the universe;
everlasting unlimited joy is available for you and for you to
share.
Imagine expanding your reach by sharing with more people. What
does that look like?
What might that look like as you share your gifts with more and
more people?
What might you learn about yourself or confirm hunches you already
know about yourself?
Breathe into your gifts and imagine bringing them into the world,
expanding your vision, expanding your reach.
Touching more and more people with the beauty you offer in the
world.
Allow this infinite wealth and spring of energy from the universe
to nourish you as well. Bring your body energy through the love
and excitement of sharing your gifts.
And recognizing the need to take care of your physical body as a
vehicle, this lifetime for sharing these gifts.
You're fully in touch with your body, knowing what it needs,
allowing yourself to take care of yourself as you share your gifts
with more and more people.
Taking a moment now to draw that vision. Write the insights you've
had come to you how you can share your gifts.
(Write) what it looks like to expand your reach expands your
connection with more and more like minded people who love you and
love your gifts.
What does it feel like, sharing your gifts with more and more
people?
How do people react around you when you share your gifts?
Take a moment to create this vision for yourself in a way you can
keep in front of you, so you remember your gifts that you offer.
And allow yourself to take the opportunities presented, where you
can share your gifts.
After you've finished writing I'm curious what you've noticed what
ways you can continue to expand your vision.
Have a couple minutes of silence for writing if you need.
(The above transcript was extracted from our live interactive Weekly Alignment on Thursday night.)
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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.)
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Tonight we dove deep into the ways that you are enough, breaking free from confusing affirmations, to opening up a flow of inate qualities through simple questions like “in what ways am I enough?” “what parts of me are enough?”
For today's program, more grounded focus as a starting point as
always, and then building the base to find who you need to be in
order to do the things you want to do.
Do you still have the list from last last time? okay excellent.
I like to have this as a continuing unfolding uh as we as we go
along.
So with your list available, take a moment to just relax.
Notice your breathing and allow your consciousness to settle into
your body.
When you feel yourself completely settled and in a clear space,
allow yourself to open your eyes and just look on the list.
Find one item that draws your attention.
One of your long-term goals or projects that you have in mind.
And we focused on imagining a future version of ourselves who has
already completed a goal, and it may be the same one, maybe a
different one that you choose today.
But given that the goal is already completed in a future version
of your reality, feel the energy that is in you already that will
help you achieve this goal.
Breathe into those parts of yourself that support you within this
process of achieving your goal.
These are the things that come naturally for you.
These may be things that other people admire in you.
They may be your super powers that we looked at in one of the
first calls.
Notice the things that you already possess that will support you
in achieving this goal.
And as you have these qualities coming to mind, maybe you can
create a mind map with your goal written in the center, and the
qualities outside which will branch out into different to do lists
that help support the achieving of this goal.
So writing on a new page, "I am enough" in the center...
Allow this phrase to roll through your mind a few times "I am
enough, I am enough," and it may begin to sound inauthentic "I am
enough, " and it's like what's going on?
So then we adjust the phrase a bit to be a question so the mind
can grab on to the answers here.
So rolling the question in your mind:
"What parts of me are enough?"
Allow your mind to grab into this question, to chew on this
question.
"What parts of me are enough?"
Let yourself write those down freely without thinking.
Just run that question "what parts of me are enough?" over and
over in your mind.
Let the answers begin to spill out.
To restart the cycle you may rephrase "in what ways am I enough?"
Look at those that come up from those questions in your mind,
recognizing the truth of each one.
Feeling in your heart the truth: this part of me is enough.
These are some ways I'm enough.
Allowing that knowing to sink into your body... and allowing the
knowing of your body to percolate up into the mind.
For the next week, allow yourself to practice this exercise,
rolling in your mind the question
"in what ways am I enough" and just write those down.
Write down the words that come, and it could be the same words as
the previous day.
I'm sure new words will come as well.
You may be surprised at the words that come.
Your body knows it. Your heart knows it. Allow your mind to know
it too:
You are enough.
You're absolutely enough.
Enjoy the discovery, finding the ways that you are blessed and the
ways that you bless the world around you.
Namaste.
See you next week.
My pleasure. Thank you. Absolutely.
(The above transcript was extracted from our live interactive Weekly Alignment on Thursday night.)
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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
Do you have plans, but not sure how to get started? Ask someone who has done it: your future self!
As you live in a holographic universe, your consciousness can tap into any point in time or space.
Use that to your advantage with the meditation below.
As we get started, just noticing how you're feeling in this moment,
just a casual check in about the transition you've experienced from,
uh, last year into this year, what goals or ideas you have within the
new year that we're starting now?
Recognizing all of those things that you mentioned and recognizing the
options that we have going forward in this year, allow yourself to
just recognize this present moment... and allow the idea of
possibilities in 2021 to come into your mind. Just take a few minutes
to write down the possibilities and the new year as you see them in
this moment.
So choose one of the items on your list, and you may want to do this
process for each different one.
Imagine the future version of you having completed this item, taking a
moment to really settle into the vision of yourself successfully
completing this item or completing this project, recognizing where you
are located. Noticing the people around you and feeling in your body,
how it feels to have completed this very important goal. Allow
yourself to see the version of yourself who has successfully completed
this task, completed this goal. Take a minute to sit down with that
future version of yourself, asking your future self for any insights
or ideas on just how they were able to accomplish this.
Make note of the replies that come.
Really allow yourself to connect with that part of you who has
finished this project.
Maybe asking what obstacles came up and how were you able to get
around them?
What type of regular cadence did you get into to finish this project?
What support did you have from people around you and the universe at
large?
What did you do to receive that support?
What things surprised you during the completion of this project
And thanking your future self for the answers so far, ask if there's
anything else that you should know about this project.
Again, thanking your future self for the time and for completing the
project successfully, allow them to go back into the future and allow
yourself to come back into this present moment.
I'm curious what insight you received from your future self.
Letting yourself tap into that resource at any time, with gratitude,
visualizing the positive outcome and tapping into that version of the
future.
Recognizing that as we are all one, there is only the now.
You can tap into any different version of the universe and move
yourself that direction with your intention and your focus, with your
belief and your trust.
And you're allowing the ultimate creative force in the universe to
move through you as you are creating your life in each and every
moment.
Expressing gratitude to those parts of yourself and to that ultimate
creative force, creative energy.
And I bless you in your adventure. Absolutely.
So, yeah, that's the, the beauty of this moment. We can tap into any,
any part of the holographic universe in the moment.
My pleasure, absolutely.
Good to see you tonight. And I look forward to seeing you next week
and we'll continue the the show..
I'll be downloading more channeled info, channeled content, each week
as we do this. So I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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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?
