the big you and the little you

Think of your life as a rich tapestry of many colours. In this story, there’s a  “big you” and the “little you.”

The big you (your higher self) has made thousands of tapesties before and can draw on universal wisdom. (He/She is always connected to source.) She can see the bigger picture – the pattern that you’re exploring – at all times.

The “little you” is the one making this particular carpet. She’s the one who has to go under the carpet to push the needle back through to the other side or to tie knots underneath the carpet.

The tapestry couldn’t be made without her going under the carpet and tying knots (having difficult life experiences) .

When the little you is under the carpet tying knots, she’s in the dark, everything feels and looks like the exact reverse of what it should be; of what it whould be on the sunny side of the tapestry. Also, she feels disconnected from “the big you” (her higher self and source). This is her personal version of hell on Earth.  Low on energy, she can’t see her way out and she ends up staying under there a lot longer than necessary.

The trick is to get her to see the pattern.

As soon as she can see the pattern, this means she’s back on the sunny side, reconnected to her higher self.

How do fingerprints tie into this?

Fingerprints show the exact pattern of the tapestry you’re working on.

The lines and shape of your hand show the different coloured threads you are using to make the pattern. (Which archetypes or subpersonalities are dominant and whether you choose to focus on the lighter or darker shades of the qualities you’ve selected.)

There are 3 stages in the process of shifting your view from the little you to the big you.

We’ll be discussing these stages in Earth School.
Earth School starts on 23 September 2010.

The first 6 months I’ll be interviewing Richard Unger, founder of the International Institute of Hand Analysis,  on hand markers and fingerprints.

You can register for the calls here.

Fingerprints and conscious evolution

Knowing what your fingerprints say is the quickest way to:
- transcend the ego
- manage your emotions and therefore your vibrational state
- turn a close relationship into a sacred partnership for spiritual growth
- take ownership for everything that happens because you can see how you are collaborating.
- see how your inner world creates your outer world.

What has this to do with helping humanity evolve?

As Richard Moss says, the greatest service you can do for this planet is learn to manage your own thoughts and
emotions. We are all part of a collective energy field and the more we raise ourselves, the more we raise not only
those around us but also the entire field.

This is why I call this work is your “sacred work” and not “life lesson”.
You are not born flawed, with karmic wounds. Rather, you have taken on a responsibility for the collective whole to
explore/to help humanity evolve around certain themes. These themes are visible in your fingerprints.

Starting 23 September 2010, I’ll be teaching you how to work directly with your own fingerprints right here on this site
in ” Earth School.”

There will be 2 sections:
A free lecture auditorium where we explore topics seeking solutions from experts in the field under discussion.
Then there’s a paid section for people who want to go deeper, working more closely with hand markers and
fingerprints.  Starting 23 September, for the next 6 months, fingerprint guru, Richard Unger will be joining us.

You’ll be able to ask Richard any question you like about hand markers or fingerprints during the calls

Register here  for the free calls.
Subscribe to Earth School Updates below.

What you need to know:

There are no good or bad markers in your hands.
You can use any marker in your hand to empower yourself or to disempower yourself.

What is the story you are telling yourself about yourself and why?

When other people give you a new story, from your hands or any other source, ask yourself:
Does this information empower me or disempower me?
What does it do to my energy?

Do I feel expanded or contracted?
Accept only what expands you.

The trick is not to recognise resistance as blocking you but see it as helping you in some way.
How can you go around it? Or rise above it?

First see resistance for what it is.
The natural knee-jerk byproduct of action. Not a force outside of you.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

More about this?

Think like an airplane.

The faster you go the more resistance you face. Then suddenly whoosh!
You’re airborne. On a totally different plane.

Without facing resistance you can’t get to a higher plane.
Trust that it’s helping you fly rather than holding you back.

Resistance is the soft underbelly of action. You can’t have one without the other.
First it feels like its stopping you. Then its the air under your wings.

As soon as you see resistance as a force outside of you, you’re in danger of stalling.

Why?
Whatever you resist (in thought, word or action) you give your life force to.

But what if your airplane is a lousy design?

You cannot afford to have that thought in take off.
You’ll never know unless you try 100%

If you hesitate half way down the runway you won’t make it.
You’ll crash at the end of the tarmac.
Or you’ll find yourself sitting in a rocker one day wondering “What if…”

So what to do?
First take the plane (or plan) you have right now. Point it into (not with!!) the wind and commit fully.

But what if it crashes?
Learn from it.
Be glad you can finally move on.

Look for a plane you admire that’s already flying
And copy it exactly.
(In other words, find a mentor and positive role model.)

The danger most people make is to look at 20 different models and try to put
all the bests bits of all 20 into one plane. Chances are you’ll have a fabulously strange contraption in the end.

Remember that old classic – Those incredible men and their flying machines?
Some rather crazy inventions got dreamt up.
This is what happens when people dont yet know what works and what doesn’t.

I’ll be putting a new plane in the sky starting September 23rd.
Circle this day in your diary (I originally said 28th but this has changed.)

Will you be on the ground watching or will you be up in the sky flying with me?

Fasten your seatbelts and remember
if you’re facing any resitance right now
it’s there to support you.

You create resistance whenever you take action
and if it’s not the wind under your wings it means only one thing:

You’re facing the wrong way!
You’ve got your tail into the wind not your nose.
(Waiting for God-knows-who to help??)

Turn around and face the resistance full on.
Love it for the opportunity it brings.

If you’d like to pre-book your seat on my new plane
Go here early bird.

Its a delicate process and its happening now.
And your help is needed.

Look at it this way:
What would happen if you put a worm on this flower?
And then another and then a whole handful?

Every negative thought you have is a worm eating your delicate flower.

What to do?
Think like a gardener. Be vigilant.
Remove every single negative thought the minute you spot it.

It’s your job
1. To hold a vision
2. To Protect yourself. Your flowering.  And Earth’s
by monitoring and managing your thoughts moment by moment.
Whenever you have a negative thought about yourself or the future, remove it immediately.

What has this to do with palm reading? Palmistry? or even hand analysis?

Only buy into an idea or belief or theory if it supports your highest vision of yourself.

There’s a lot of old, negative information floating around. If you go searching for it, then hammering yourself with it, that’s like going looking for worms to put all over your beautiful flower.

Use hand analysis only to support your highest vision for yourself and others

How?
You’ll learn how to do this right here on this site.
It’s called Earth Shool. And it’s starting right here in September.
Stay in tune. Sign up for my feed or newsletter.

Or join Earth School now for early bird bonuses

Re-dreaming the planet.

What’s your highest dream for Mother Earth?

What’s your highest dream for yourself?

Hold the vision with all your senses. Feel it, see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. love it.

Is this my view or yours?

Sometimes thoughts go round and round in your head and you can’t find a way out. When this feeling really stresses you out it eventually shows up as a line formation in your hands. I call this marker ‘The washing machine’ because this is how my hand anlysis teacher, Richard Unger, describes the thought process.

This marker looks like a bubble or diamond on the end of your headline. To see a real life example of this (confused thinking) in a palm print, scroll down to the end of this blog.

What to do?
Find other people to discuss this problem with. You can’t be your own sounding board. As Einstein once said, a problem cannot be solved by the same thinking that caused it.
(If you know the exact quote please post it below!)

Starting September 23rd 2010 I have invited Richard Unger to come and teach you how to read your own hands right here on this site.

Who is Richard Unger?

Richard Unger has been reading hands as a professional hand analyst for over 40 years. He is the founder of the International Institute of Hand Analysis (IIHA). Over the years, Richard has developed several other ground breaking systems, such a gift marker identification, attack lines, the chakras as well as his most famous work: decoding fingerprints for life purpose.

His most recent work is on hand shape identification. He has identified about 30 career archetype hand shapes.

Richard’s massive body of work is always expanding. If you learnt from Richard more than a year ago your data base is out of date.

The good news:

You can now learn directly from Richard right here for only $37 per month.

Sign in now and you will get lots of bonuses starting in August.

If you try to contact me and don’t get a reply,
I’m on holiday in Corsica for the next 2 weeks. I’ll get back to you in August.

What a bubble on the end of a headline looks like in real life:

Of what?
A family. An idea. A new dream for the planet.
Your own inner child?

Sometimes this side of you gets put on the back-burner.
Until something shocking happens to make you stop and reflect.
And re-prioritize.

What really matters most in your life?

A friend of mine here in Zürich died recently causing me to rethink everything in my life.
Rachael had everything most people dream of (love, looks, youth, wealth, friendship…) but the one thing she didn’t have was her health.

Without your health, nothing else matters.
Are you caring for your own and your family’s health?
(You can read a blog post about this here:

http://handanalysisonline.com)

The other thing that matters is spending time with your children and loved ones.

Did you know:
Children measure your love by the quantity of time you spend with them. Not the quality!
Or the stuff you shower at them to make up.

When older people get asked “If you could change one thing about how you lived your life, what would it be?” The most common answer is, “I wish I had spent more time with my children while they were growing up.”

I’ve been trying to apply this in my own life.
Giving 100% attention instead of just half an ear.
Stopping mutli-tasking to be fully present, so ther other person feels heard.

Richard Moss says we heal ourselves and others simply by being fully present.
It means you have to become a lot more organised on the work front, be ruthless with how you spend your time and letting go of projects that aren’t absolutely essential.

This is called mothering yourself.

How does mothering show up in your hands?
It can show up in a number of ways and will be expressed differently depending on your basic personality type.

For example, are you an Earth, Water, Fire or Air type or a combination of 2 or more?
An Earth type would show mothering through practical support. A water type through empathy and feeling an Air type through objectivity or fairness.

It could also be expressed by your communication style – perhaps you’re a “Big heart”, nurturing and expressive mother type -with a long sweeping heartline that goes right up towards the index finger.
Or it could show up in your thinking style: as a curved headline – an “emotional brain”. Someone who always sees the otherside of the story.
Or it could show up in the vertical lines: a strong line under the middle finger meaning you’re reliable and carry through on your word.
It could also show up in your soul contract. perhaps you have three or more whorls on your fingertips and are always putting other people’s needs above your own.

Whatever kind of mother you are, the main thing is kindness.
Be kind to your inner child today. Put your feet up. Play.

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Are you killing your family with kindness?

Is the fork a deadly weapon?

I met a manufacturer of insulin recently who said: more people on this planet die each day from overeating than from starvation.

This may sound shocking and unbelievable (my first reaction) but actually its true.
Most illnesses and deaths are self inflicted through misinformation.

The problem is, with so much conflicting information out there, how do we know what’s good and what isn’t?
And, even more confusing: What’s good for one isn’t necessarily good for another! Which is why one should never force children to eat their food. It could well be good for you but toxic for them.

One person's food is another's poison

So how can you tell what’s good for you and what isn’t?

The body knows. You just have to find a way to ask it.
The most effective way I’ve ever come across is “Gansheitliche kinesiology” this is a system developed in
Switzerland that allows the body to choose solutions across a broad range of techniques, but any simple form of tuning into the body and asking should work.

Can hand analysis diagnose illness?
I steer away from health diagnosis. Even though your hands are an accurate mirror of how your body, mind an spirit interact, hand analysis is designed to solve emotional health issues (relationship and life meaning, purpose and career) rather than physical health. Even though all are interrelated.

“Your biology reflects your biography” Carolyn Myss

Many people have made the study of physical health, and how spirit and emotions impact on it, a life work.
For example, Norm Schealy and Carolyn Myss. Follow your inner wisdom to find the right system for you.

Richard Moss says there are three spiritual teachers that we learn from.

One is the body.
Sooner or later this is a teacher we all must meet.

“the body will humiliate every idea you have of yourself” until you see that you are not your body.
More than anything else, the body brings us into the present, which is where we connect with the divine.

If you would like to learn how to manage deep-rooted emotions, that illness stirs up, or vice versa, then hand analysis can help you understand the broader picture. You can manage your emotions very effectively using EFT but then you won’t necessarily understand the dynamics of what keeps triggering you. The combination of the two together is very effective.

The body as a portal
Many spiritual people totally ignore or neglect the body but it’s how we connect with the divine.
A daily practice such as tai chi or yoga or dance helps you do this.

Transcending the body
The person who has made this study his life work is Michael Murphy, author of The Future of the Body.
I find this subject fascinating.

Our health is our most precious possession. Take good care of yours.

I’m posting here my summary notes from the call.  Basically what I see is an awakening to the African concept of “Ubuntu” (a human is only a human because of other humans). I’ll explain what this has to do with your hands and more specifically your fingerprints at the end of the post.
(It was 4am in the morning here so forgive me if there are massive gaps in the info. zzzzzz ; )

Here’s a brief summary of what was said on the call:

1. Every tradition has its own wisdom.
If we string these pearls together, could we get something beyond this?

2. What’s the next step? Might it be true that this generation is the first where the stringing together of this
string of pearls is possible?
As never before, it is now possible to come directly into contact with the living expression of the tradition (text) and with living masters (teachers) of each tradition.

3. This is an urgent invitation to everyone to participate. Its more necessary than ever before.
Classical religion, thru various challenges, has lost its power to form a home for 10s of millions of people.
Secularization of society occurs when millions of people are unable to find their home in their native traditions. The result is they are left without oars to steer the lifeboat to shore.

We now need a world spirituality that transends native tradition.

4. transend = end the trance that religions traditionally held over their followers.
Virtually every great tradition before felt That its way was the only way. It was exclusive. We now need to move beyond this. The idea that one way is the only way to get there is known as “the scandal of particularity” and is a violation of the essential oneness of spirit.

The Center for World Spirituality invites you to explore this possibility with great thinkers of our era from all
traditions.

How?

Bring obligation back into your life.
Obligation is created when there is an authentic need
I recognise this need
I recognise that I am ony one who can fulfil it

The world needs our goodness.
We need to shift from doing what I choose, to doing what I must do.
This requires an awakening of the heart.

If you move beyond egocentric and ethnocentric obligation
you realise the world needs you.

It’s time to:
wake up into the “we am”
live into the revelation
live as if it were true.
To help form a divinity that is only love
This is an individual and a group commitment
in communion of doing a good thing.

Spirit is on the move
This is an invitation to you to
do the little things that need to be done.

What can you do?
realise there is something empty about living for our own pleasure
Its empty not to have that obligation.
an expanding of the circle of caring
and expanding of the definition of “your people”.

You are living not only for yourself but also for the sake of the whole.
If you open your heart it effects the whole.

My comments on this call:

The concept of broader “family of humanity” and social obligation to one’s family is Africa’s gift to world
philosophy and is called “Ubuntu”. The shadow side of “Ubuntu” is codependency. ( I once wrote an amusing story about this related to my own family and growing up in Africa. I wrote the story about my father because I was trying to understand his life through his fingerprints. This was posted on gaia/zaadz.com which was shut down 1 may 2010. I will re-post all my important work, previously on gaia as articles. )

What has this to do with your hands?
I have 2 comments to make here. One general and one specifc.

1. General: Your fingerprints show exactly what your work is for “the larger humanity” because they show you exactly how to transcend your ego. What pushes your buttons and how to manage your emotions around this topic.

This was figured out by Richard Unger over 30 years ago but the world wasn’t ready to hear his message.
Richard Unger calls this work your  “exalted life lesson”.
I prefer to call this your “sacred work” because it gives you specific instructions how to transcend your particular ego and how you are doing this not just for yourself but also for humanity in general.

Unfortunately this part of Richard Unger’s work was left out of his book ‘LifePrints’. Probably because he didn’t want to muddy the water. His student Ronelle Coburn author of “Destiny at your fingertips” also unfortunately leaves it out of her book. So does another very famous student of Richard’s called Baeth Davis. Baeth has done a lot to popularise Unger’s work online through the use of teleclasses and clever affiliate marketing. Baeth targets healers trying to get their businesses running or people hoping to make money online.

I talk differently to people about the same topic because more and more people are moving beyond the ego or are in the second half of life when one is trying to dismantle the ego rather than build it up.

2. A specific comment related to Ubuntu: There is a soul group, to which both my father and I belong, that Unger calls “school of Service.” These people already serve the greater good but to the point of doing so at their own expense. It is their task in life to learn to put the oxygen mask on themselves first before trying to help the entire aeroplane. find balance in service. Telling these people to shoulder the burden of obligation may not be in their best unless they understand that their obligation is to become conscious/not lose energy when they catch themselves over-serving.

Knowing what your fingerprints say is the quickest way to:
- transcend the ego
- manage your emotions and therefore your vibrational state
- use a relationship as a sacred partnership for spiritual growth

This affectes the collective. This is why this work is your “sacred work” and not “life lesson”.
You are not born flawed, with karmic wounds. Rather you have taken on a responsibility for the collective whole to evolve around certain themes. These themes are visible in your fingerprints.

For more information on how to work in this way with fingerprints, take the rss feed here or on twitter. I will put out a report in the near future. Or simply have ink sheets sent to you so your hands can be analysed.

Why?

The  farmers have come out of hibernation and are spraying the stuff at us from all angles. Even though, only the other day, we were all given heaps of high quality fertilizer from Iceland. Absolutely free, without even lifting a finger.

I think its called obligatory abundance.

Actually they let the cows back out to play on the same day aeroplanes were allowed back in the skies above. So, after 6 glorious days of silence, suddenly the sounds we normally take for granted all arrived back on our doorstep in one jangled tangle.

To tune you in to my wavelength,  I’ve made a recording for you. (See link on my previous post). Download it absolutely free and play it on your ipod or in your car so you can tune in to the pristine energies of the Swiss Alps.     (A word of warning: Listen to it at your own risk! : )) You might start thinking like me!)

And run out into the street naked, like Archimedes, shouting ‘Eyjafjallajokull. Eyjafjallajokull.’

So what does Eyjafjallajokull have to do with re-dreaming your life?

And what does it mean anyway?

Eyjafjallajokull means no man is an island

It sounds a bit like ‘Eye-a-all-full-a-your-coal’

and that’s basically what it means.

Eyjafjallajokull is a wakeup call from Mother nature.

Not a war cry but a tiny burp. A polite hiccup. Just enough to shatter our rose-tinted illusions.

Of what?

Our illusion that we are separate islands.

Our illusion that we are in control

Our illusion of permanence. that things will and ought to stay the same.

Our illusion that we are not of this world or in it.

Eyjafjallajokull means embrace the paradox:

We are separate and one at the same time.

We’re in charge and we’re not.

Change is what this planet is all about.

Expect the unexpected.

Earth is evolving and taking us with her.

We’re becoming more sensitive to our connectedness.

Our thoughts influence our emotions and our emotions influence the entire collective field.

It’s your and my responsibility not to contaminate the collective field.

Or as Richard Moss puts it: “The most basic form of service you can do is take responsibility for your own mind.”

That may sound very well in theory but how about some practical tools?

How do we deal with negative feelings?

Here’s some of the best advice offered:

1. Guy Finely: Just don’t go there!

2. Use EFT tapping

3. USe Byron katie’s 4 questions.

4. Use Gratitude as a simple and effective tool. Richard Moss: Every negative thought (jealousy, anger, aggression, fear) is a measure of our distance away from the present. Gratitude is a way of coming back into now. Feel gratitude even though you don’t know why. Moss says, we can’t escape feeling fear and we’re not meant to. But we can choose not to make fear-driven choices.

5. Here’s a practicle from David Richo called “the two handed practice”:

“I can hold my fear in one hand and my commitment to no longer act in a fear-based way in the other”. Actually you can use this technique in any conflicting situation. Holding cupped hands out, palms upward. I hold my problem in the one hand and my power to work with it in the other. I hold my unloved situation and all the pain of it in the one hand and breathe into it and in the other my ability to rise above it.

You can do this with any marker in your hand. The positive and negative sides of what I call your inner friends. You hold the light side in one hand and the shadow in the other. Knowing you can always choose.

(Zen master Genpo Roshi uses a similar technique. Acknowledging and then synthesizing opposites. So does my hand analysis teacher, Richard Unger, which he calls the Goldilocks principle: Too much, too little , just right.

The” just right” state of any quality is what I call an “Inner Friend”. The too much or too little states ar your inner enemies.

Eyjafjallajokull Fall out

Feeling dizzing, confused, sleepless?

If you’re highly sensitive you’ll be feeling the ramifications of mother nature’s upset tummy long before everyone else. You might want to read Tom Kenyon’s message on this plus access to his new sound track for bringing you in tune with the future. http://tomkenyon.com/evolutionary-opportunities-within-the-chaotic-node It’s a wonderful recording. Sounds a bit like whales humping volcanoes or vice versa. I’m listening to it as I write to you. I find it really helps me concentrate!

Online news?

I’m starting a new series of interviews and classes next week. Bringing you wisdom from teachers I really admire. Watch your mail box for more info.

Swiss news:

Kenyon will be giving a one day workshp in Switzerland next weekend in Aadorf (8 May). Contact Thomas th.landolt@bluewin.ch for more info.

15 May 2010. Join my monthly mastermind in Zurich to connect with others, get help and practical tools on re-dreaming your life. Predigergasse 19. This month we’ll focus on designing our own daily practice.

22/23 May Afropfingsten. I have a table. Come let your hair down and escape Switzerland for a few hours

25 May. hand analysis in Aarau. To book, contact Laurene Schaerer on 062 824 2221 or laurene@europe.com.

29 May. Short readings in Shanti bookstore. Winterthur. Contact Silvo on 052 202 57 00 or just arrive if you don’t mind waiting. It’s the 9th birhtday of Shanti so there’ll be lots of other activities.

12/13 June. Join me for a 2 day hand analysis intensive. On the first day I teach you as much as possible about how to read hands. On the second day we apply this information to your own life. You’ll learn practical survival tools to be on a spiritual path and in a close relationship/family at the same time based on the wisdom in your hands.

For more info, contact me directly.

Wishing you a relaxing Sunday, full of deep connection hopefully without an Eyjafjalla-someone-else’s-fallout !

; )