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  Sydney, Australia
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Wowser. I got up real early, and left MAZE backpackers with one main intention in mind, find somewhere to have a good long walk near water. As soon as Dolly and I headed out the hostel that monday morning we spotted a camping shop so I asked the guy in the doorway, where he'd reccommend to go camping. He said Cronulla so I got me ass to the train Station and hopped on a train. This one was a double decker, different to Melbourne, and the fair was way cheaper. Cool bananas, an older gentleman took a liking to me and came and preched next to me. He started talking about VOICE DIALOGUE which I believed was invented by DRs Hal and Sidra Stone. It is to do with a psychology of selves within us that have their own personalities and pipe up all the time. he explained how if we can pinpoint these personalities then we can question them and probe them getting to the real issue behind their fuss, once we get to the real issue we can make a change. Wow I was thinking this is remarkably similar to what I've spent the weekend doing, changing the meaning attached to events that happened way back in the past, even memories that are in the unconscious, learning how to obtain new EMPOWERING learnings about the situation in a way that DEEPLY penetrates and CHANGES our physiology. Smashing stuff. So there Dolly and I were sitting next to this guy who had lovely birdlike eyes telling us something he was extremely passionate about, this is marvellous we thought, our attention fully given over to this man, noticing his complexion the way his hair grew out of his skin the shade of colouring he had, the shape of his body and features, it's a new exercise I've been getting captivated in. It's awesome and totally fascinating, instead of eyeing someone up and having the brain make a quick calculation of who and what that person is, this method allows you to continuously absorb information and for me what is truly wonderful about it is that I am really perceiving peoples human nature.
For example, Old, bent frame, sad person.... That's my very quick assumption because they are old , have their shoulders slumped and have downwards wrinkles on their face....now continuing to Observe. Hairs protrude prominently, eyes rapidly moving, head leaning towards what they're looking at, new information coming in, keen interest, propelled towards what they're looking at...

Try it yourself it's fun. Here's a few things to observe.

Skin colour. Light................Dark

Skin/Muscle tone Shiny................Not Shiny

Minute Facial/body
changes in
expression Tight................Relaxed

Breathing Rate Rapid................Slow
Location High.................Low
Qualities Shallow..............Deep

Lower lip size Lines................No lines

Eyes Focused..............Defocused
Pupils Dilated.......Not dilated

I'd be very interested in hearing peoples comments on this exercise. Try it on strangers on loved ones. I promise you you will experience the world in a different way, you may even find people are suddenly a lot more comfortable around you. I'd love to hear any stories.
For example I have found people really relaxing around me just by me expanding my awareness, by making observations, I think it has something to do with people love other people taking an interest in them. EVEN shy people it is just a matter of being unobtrusive. for those of you who would like to share it wold be wonderful to use the comment section on this entry so that others can read it too, alternatively you could use my facebook page and make a reference to my Cronulla entry. What I would love to see happen in this Travel Log is an exchange of ideas and information.
One of the great things about sharing observation is that we all come from a completely different perspective and what might seem insignificant to one person might give someone else a really interesting perspective.
For example some of you may be thinking well I do that all the time, I always look at people that way, yet here I am writing about discovering it and about how remarkable I have found it as a new way to perceive the world. My natural way in is to sense peoples feelings, I'm very acute at that, other people will be remarkably observant on an auditory level picking up and noting
Voice tone/pitch
Tempo/speed
Timbre/quality
Volume/loudness
Rhythm of speech

Maybe like me you are more sensitive to one or two types of observation. For example auditorally I'm very observant with Tone, Timbre and Volume.

So anyway I was on this train, just having come from a spectacular free Seminar, where we did a lot of work on re routing the subconscious mind to areas in life in which we wanted to head, and there I am on this train chatting to a guy who is wildly intersted in things that I'm passionate about, he was also talking about how we are always communicating massive amounts of information that our conscious mind isn't aware of. When he asked me what I was doing what my thing was and I talked about my Improdance course and what inpsired me about it he gave me all his attention and was hugely supportive. I explained that I am fascinated in the different ways we can perceive the world and how I'll be exploring these through, sight, sound, smell, touch and awareness, how in each workshop the group will look at one particular area and study it from different perspectives and see how these different ways of perceiving make them feel and influence the type of interaction that follows. It feels great to get the thumbs up from our elders.
He ended up giving me his business card and a document he had written on sound and we parted ways. Once in Cronulla I spotted a sign to a YHA which Dolly and I headed to, it felt really welcoming and such a pleasant change up to the manic MAZE which was a money making machine where the staff didn't see too happy or buzzed up about their work, just a way to earn a few dollars, which incidentally is a hugely different approach than one suggested by Chris Howard and many many others who all state that the first thing you need to do is FIND YOUR PASSION and follow it with everything you have got, so much that you would do it for nothing. that's the first step, according to those who believe in the laws or recipricocity.
So yes the YHA was gorgeous I had a wonderful walk reccommended to me, lol I say reccommended actually he reccommmended I catch a train so I'd be closer but I jumped at the idea of a 15km Coastal path walk. YES that was exactly what I wanted to do. I left my backpack there got the key to this hostel which was basically a shack with beds and a kitchen an enviro loo outdoors and a rainwater tank to provide water. It was situated up a bush track at the back of GARIE BEACH. Spot on. I had a good hour to wait for a Ferry to Bundeena, in that time I ate lunch over looking a quiet harbour and mapped out a letter I had determined to write.
Yum yum the walk was amazing. I love barefeet, I love the texture of the land, it really makes me feel like I'm being interactive and it gives me a buzz that I'm strengthening my body. A photo Album will be up shortly titled GARIE BEACH. Dolly and I were out in the elements she even dipped her hair in cold refreshing spring water that was gliding, gushing over the chalky, sandstone rocks. I jumped in the sea a few times, it was pretty wild that day. It's funny how when I was a boy I was brave brave when it came to the sea. I rememeber Ruth and I diving into a stormy sea next to Sennen beach, it was choppy as. NO FEAR. Now when I'm naked and alone I get a sense of fear and foreboding, opening the eyes really helps as does spending a while in the water but this day I had limited time to find my hostel before sunset. I ended up floundering around in the dark praying that I was heading the right way. The hostel was a big Comforting reward. I cooked a great hot meal and slept like a baby.
I woke up in the morning feeling awesome. Outside the hostel I could see the sand and the sea peeping through the bush. Awesome my heart was gushing with pleasure. I have recently been introduced to The Attitude Of Gratitude. I'd kind of heard of it but there's always a new angle to be had on something.
Here is what I was introduced to

Accept your gift
Say Thank You
And then Wildly Celebrate.

This wild celebration floods your physiology with endorphins. And heightened emotional states have a huge impact on our memory.

This attitude was introduced to me at the Breakthrough To Success Seminar where we had two thousand people wildly celebrating and shouting and whooping it felt pretty good, highly charged and automatically changed the energy of the people in the room, especially after you have to go and get something like ten or twenty double high fives and hugs.
Does that sound Scary or fun to you? I'll let you into a secret there were many challenging tasks over the weekend that felt great after having accomplished them. I bet each and every one of you can think of a challenging task that ended up rewarding you.
There is a difference between working out and breaking ones leg.

I had a deliriously delicious morning, a warm breakfast, a couple of pots of tea. shade from the sun, even a rope swing to play on. I wrote the letter that I had mapped out the day before, climbed a tree with soft soft bark, cleaned up the hostel and by noon I was heading back for my 15 k walk which must have ended up way further the amount of times I got lost. "DON"T STRAY FROM THE FOOTPATH" then only challenge to following that instruction was when you came to a place with five or so options and no signpost, then you would be heading down a very clear path with no Diversions and there'd be a sign telling you which way to go. Interesting.
I wore Sandals that day made it back five minutes before the last ferry, chatted to a couple of fishermen who were after squid. Got to have my first sighting of Squid and Whiting swimming about, the water was so clear. That night I chatted to an Italian guy Demian who got me really inspired to do a Scuba diving course. He had such a great way of describing the feeling of having new ways of perceiving the environment around him.
Had another great sleep, my body feels marvellous after having that work out, I ended up having to run most of the last ten km because I had got sidetracked in the special environment, when the fishermen told me it was the last ferry coming in I felt very glad I had run. My drive had been to get there before sunset so I Could see.
Yes Flew back to Melbourne....My New Buddy Jamie rang me up as soon as I was at the baggage Carousel he wanted to know what Action I had taken since the Seminar, we had a great chat, I felt very inspired by it. After the seminar in Melbourne I hadn't had any communication from my buddy but I really clicked with Jamie...he reminded me of Paul Sugar who I am going to write to. Yes so that call was wonderful I feel like a snowball picking up momentum ready to launch into the air and fly into an ocean of wonder.
Last night was my blindfold dancing night where we looked at the concept of Aloha, Living Unconditional Love. there you have it that's evidence that I've tipped right over the edge. Lol I can see myself reading this thinking that person has lost it, boy do I know what it's like to be a cynic.
It is perfectly ALOHA to discern what is and what is not appropriate for you in your life and to act upon this (which is very different from judging) www.tiddagirl.com If you'd like to read up on a bit of Hawaiian wisdoms then check out the Hawaiian Huna llink on that website. It was due to the first BTS seminar in Melbourne that led me to Mia Snows work, that and Araleena who mentioned it. It was the fact that she was influenced by Hawaiian stuff that got me going. Hawaii has popped up so much in the past few years, from authors I've been reading, workshops I looked at in bristol..felt the glow in my heart but didn't go to, I probably went and smoked a fag instead. time to Celebrate I'm 100% smoke free. Wahoo. Chris kept going on about Hawaii too he has worked within their shamanic tradition.

Thank you to all you folks who have made it this far. I'd welcome any comments. was it easy to read, are there other things you'd like to hear about. Oh and if you'd like to tell me it was fun and wacky then hey I can handle that!! If you got bored, well I don't expect you made it this far.

Books I've read since getting hear

Slowing down to the speed of love.
Developing Intuition (Shakti Gawain
The Dalai Lama's little book of wisdom.
Ki in daily Life (Koichi Tohei)
The Magicians Way.
Passions for Profit.

All of which I have found something wonderful.

A three word summary

Love thyself
Listen...act
Love..compassion ..Kindness
Plus Ki
Clear goals.
Action...Curiosity...Model

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