The Radical Benefits of Staying Present

N.B.  I woke up in the middle of the night with a couple of extra things I thought were helpful or have noticed and have added them in this morning (Monday 15 April) - like reminding myself of God's Truth (even intellectually helps).

I have experienced for more than just a moment recently the benefits of staying 'present' or being in my body. This is a whole new experience and it is awesome, so (if you have a tendency to go out of body) I really want to encourage you to practice, pray and desire to stay present/in your body no matter what comes your way. Also to pray for and/or grow the desire for courage*. To practice courage to become courageous - this is my personal prayer at this time (especially when the fear come up which is still when I want to and do vacate).

The following are some of the things that happen when I am present, in my experience so far:

• I want to know more about God and I actively go about finding that out for myself rather than wanting someone else to do it all for me
• I actively go about a lot more things than when I am out of my body
• I remind myself of God's Truth about the situation (even intellectually helps, or with what I know in my heart at this time), and see how it differs to my feelings and thoughts and what's happening in my life that is in error or painful
• I enjoy meeting people and getting to know them
• I enjoy the little souls in our care, they are SOOOOO fun
• I enjoy my man
• I like myself more 
• I can identify places that need healing and refining within myself without as much judgement
• I can distinguish my desire for self punishment more easily and not engage in it
• God's universe is SOOOO amazing and I see things that I have never seen before
• I am excited about possibilities and even feel that feeling my own pain could be possible (The Truth: God has made me perfectly to feel all my personal pain and I am totally capable of doing so.)
• I am more able to relate to people without judgement and criticism as I am not trying so hard to avoid all the darkness within myself
• I make/take time to reflect 
• I am more likely to take a little more time and space than I usually do if a feeling does come up (I still like to avoid feeling and be 'busy' instead - but when I am present I notice in the moment and go 'okay, why do you want to be so busy about this Eloisa?')
• Life is so much better
• I am not so worried about what the whole world thinks of me ALL the time and am less conscious of myself for moments
• I am just not so worried period.
• I genuinely laughed the other day and think I experienced a moment of joy

When I am present I am more able to feel when I am afraid and when I am wanting to live IN the fear.

When I am present the whole world looks different.

It is so much better and all I have done is choose (not sure how to explain that as I have realised that my heart and head desires don't match up often and so when people talk about choosing, I often 'think' I have chosen one thing but it is proven that emotionally I have not done so. I will tell you more about this as I learn and understand it as at this time I can only say I have noticed that my head and heart do not match up).

The things I have done differently which I feel have helped me to stay Present:

• Prayed more 
• Reminded myself of God's Truth or how God feels on the matter (this is mostly intellectual for me at the moment but it really helps to remind myself)
• Asked God, amongst other things, to show me what is blocking me giving love to God and receiving love from God
• Asked God to help me grow sincere desires (for the things I want to know about or am avoiding)
• I remind myself I am a Celestial in training and that I am in a process of refinement
• Asked more sincerely to know about who I really am
• Been more honest with myself 
• what I see in others I am seeing in myself, instead of judging it look at WHY I want to be that way or take unloving actions
• Have drunk heaps more water**
• Actually breathed. breathed into my tummy(diaphragmatic breathing)
• made time and space to self reflect on issues that are coming through the Law of Attraction
• Listened or Read Divine Truth even just a snippet on the loo each day
• Read more information on subjects including: faith, love, truth, courage, connecting to God, wholeheartedness, the Padgett messages and stories of people with these qualities or at least exploring these qualities 
• Asked for guidance as to what Divine Truth's I would benefit from hearing or focused on listening to Jesus' Seminars on topics I am feeling challenged by or that are coming up in the Law of Attraction
• journaled and honestly answered the following questions (not my own)***:

1. What events are currently happening in my life that demonstrate I am out of harmony with God’s Love and how have I attracted these events to my life?

2. What emotions within me are triggered by these events and are those emotions in harmony

with Truth and Love?

3. Do I feel any emotional or physical pain? If so, what reasons within my beliefs,emotions, desires or passions could there be for my experiencing this pain?

4. How do I portray myself to others, am I being emotionally truthful and open?

5. Am I still doing things that God or a Celestial angel would not do?

6. How do I really feel inside, and what tools am I using to deny my feelings?

7. Have all my actions been moral and ethical? If not, what is the emotional cause for my being immoral or unethical?

I realise that you may already have heard this information and if so this will merely be a reminder (which I always find helpful and hope you do too, smile).

I just thought that as it has made such a difference just to stay in my body I would like to share things that I feel have helped me out a little.

I would also like to note that I do not stay in my body all the time yet and I am noticing that I still disappear when I feel frightened, or feel that I could be potentially be afraid, when topics I want to avoid, am in denial about or feel uncomfortable about are discussed like sex or family, and under other circumstances. 

Things that happen when I choose to not be present and out of body and or living in fear:

• Chunks of my hair get chopped off and I don't even notice
• The children have heaps more accidents
• I hurt myself more
• I self punish 
• I punish others
• I can't remember conversations, events, experiences
• I feel disconnected and alone
• The house is a mess in two minutes
• The kids get more demanding and needy
• The kids start literally hanging off me, pulling me, whinging at me non stop
• I get really angry about 'nothing'
• I can no longer think, or feel
• it gets dangerous for both me and the kids - physical harm, spirit influence, harmful actions from me towards the children
• I loose the children in the supermarket and they scream to find me
• I can't feel the beautiful man in my life
• I get self absorbed and selfish
• I no longer want to talk to Pete about anything
• I want to be angry at Pete
• The kids hurt and attack each other or me more
• Animals attack us and chase us
• The kids fall over out of the blue like someone has just knocked them down
• Sometimes I go numb and if it is really bad I want to curl up avoid the world and go back to the 'soulbank'
• And many many many more things could be added to this list

I suppose you could say that going out of body for me is intricately linked with my desire to avoid my fear and terror. 

I feel that staying in my body is so worth while. I feel that often I 'practice' doing so and reminding myself to do so but even that helps!

I encourage you to experiment and try it for yourself, or to grow a desire to do so! It is SO worth it!!

* Brene Brown on 'Ordinary Courage'
** Mary has a great post on staying connected to your Guides and Guardians and the things she mentions also help to stay present in your body

*** These questions come from Jesus' paper 'Facing Personal Truth'

The Beauty of God's Creations

I hope you enjoy these little pieces of nature as much as I did.

This plant looked like some that live under the sea. It was growing literally out of a rock. I am constantly amazed by how things just want to grow and that God has designed such beauty. 

spiky fruit

spiky leaf - This plant was seriously amazing, seriously armoured and the prickles were soft unless touched straight on where they left a stinging sensation

orange grub - this had a series of orange grubs in this 'bean' like 'pod' created out of a host Euclypt.

Glowing nettle

Thank You!

We just want to thank the people who turned up on Saturday for your intention to come and clean chairs or give to the land and us. We appreciate it.

We hope you enjoyed the change of plan and thank you so much to Fabio for a mini singing workshop, and running the karaoke for us all. Thank you also for some great songs amongst all our 'trying' smile.

Hope you enjoyed yourselves and we look forward to seeing you all again soon!

Love

The Lytton-Hitchins

The Chairs stayed in their places

Fabio gifted us with some great singing
and we all had fun joining in!

CHANGE OF PLAN to the March weekend project

March Weekend Project Update:

Go to http://kyabra.blogspot.com.au FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Hi Everyone,

It began raining last night YAY! and it looks to continue over the weekend.

We have decided that we WILL go ahead with Saturday and cancel Sunday this weekend.

If it is raining tomorrow (Sat) we will be in the woolshed doing some inside projects in the morning and have some singing, dancing and a shared meal in the afternoon if you would still would like to join us. 

If we have been in the woolshed all day the evening programme will be cancelled. This will not be decided until 8am Saturday at the morning briefing.

If it clears at all during the day those who desire can go up to the waterless garden and help out.

If it is sunny then some of the outside paddock projects will be going ahead as described on the events page. This will be decided at 8am tomorrow morning at the woolshed briefing. The Sunday projects are cancelled.

Please bring: 

• wet weather gear, 
• a towel if you want a shower,
• tools
• any snacks you want 
• a plate of vegan or vegetarian shared food for late lunch/early dinner 
• Water (enough bottles to take to the field in case it is sunny)
• dancing shoes

For any more information or if unsure of any of the details please contact Eloisa on eloisalh@gmail.com or phone 04 3411 2585

We look forward to seeing those of you who are coming.

Learning Project at Kyabra Learning Centre, Kentucky

We are pretty excited about an up coming project at the Kentucky Learning Centre over the first weekend of March.

Check out: 

http://kyabra.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/march-weekend-project-2nd-3rd-march.html  

for more information. 

Inspiring People: Darren & Jasmine

Darren & Jasmin at The Little Ladybird Nursery 

We would like to introduce you to Darren and Jasmine.

We spent a day in their garden today and we felt so excited on our way home we wanted to share some of the wonders we discovered and tell you a little about our beautiful friends and what they are creating in a little country town in NSW.

We love spending time with these guys. Their passion for plants and seed collecting is infectious and it is so beautiful to see their garden changing as they do! They grow a lot of heirloom varieties and natives. 

Darren and Jasmine have dreams, passions and desires and they are living them and acting on them with all sorts of awesome results. They are creative and have so many different talents and we find out more wonderful gifts each time we see them. We really enjoy talking to them about their ideas and feelings for the garden and getting to know them more each time we see them.

part of the Garden, seed collecting paradise

The plants in their care are beautiful, they flourish and grow and the ones that don't they are looking to themselves about why they are not doing so well and it is always interesting to hear what is going on and how it is reflected in the environment around them. We feel the land is beginning to feel loved and cared for.

The garden is so different to a year ago. Now it looks like a seed collecting paradise with beautiful plants and their fruits everywhere. During the dry periods we have had lately, the gardens have retained moisture due to the gardening techniques that Darren and Jasmine have employed.

Darren and Jasmine began selling the plants they had grown on the side of the road by donation. Their love of plants and seed collecting and their desire to share it is beautiful! There is now a nursery run my Darren's mum and her partner (Julie and Nevel)*

Each time we go to visit their place there is a new invention often made out of the materials they have on hand or have found or been given. There are piles of woodchip maturing everywhere and all sorts of wonderful experiements. It always feels to us that they can grow anything, their love of seeds and plants is infectious!

An box to keep seeds from cross pollination.

There are nesting birds residing in the trees, insects of all descriptions, various methods including waterless gardening, back to Eden ideas (woodchip), permaculture principles, fibonacci principles and traditional gardening techniques as well as their own ideas and inspirations. They now have their own seeds - sown, grown and collected on their plot for sale in the nursery. They investigate, explore and experiment. 

Darren was recently asked to have an exhibition at the Uralla Show where he created a tomato tasting event, a rose out of a watermelon, and won all sorts of prizes for the beautiful produce he and Jasmine grow. They had an heirloom rock melon that was heavenly, it smelt amazing, unlike any supermarket fruit I have ever smelt. The wonder of God's flora is amazing, so many colours, shapes, variations, oddities, so much beauty and always wonder at how perfect each plant, insect, creation God has made is!!

Some Produce that was taken to the Uralla Show

Thank you Darren and Jasmine for your time and passion!  

If you want to contact Darren about seeds, native plants, etc his details are as follows or drop in to 'The Little Ladybird Nursery' 162 Bridge Street, Uralla, NSW (soon you will be able to buy his seeds online):

Darren's Seed collected off the property for sale in the nursery

A giant sunflower that towers over the front fence

Darren doing what he loves: seed collecting

Pete and Darren talking about various native seedlings

hail damaged gourd flower

gourds

a super tasty tomato 

this awesome pumpkin with lumps

a pretty fluffy flower

Globe Artichoke seed

Calendula seeds

the most amazing smelling rock melon ever!
it was so delicious I wanted to keep on sniffing
it again and again!!

the most amazing iridescent bug discovered in the garden. We also saw a bright blue insect. God is AWESOME at creating

Thank you Darren and Jasmine for so openly sharing your love for plants,  your passions, your selves and the garden with us! We are so grateful!

* Darren's mum and partner (Julie and Nevel) run the 'Little Ladybird Nursery' in Uralla, where Darren and Jasmine have their seeds and help out too.

Kyabra Learning Centre, Kentucky NSW

 'Kyabra Learning Centre (Kentucky, NSW)'

Hello!

We have a new blog site that is specifically related to 'Kyabra Learning Centre, Kentucky NSW'. Our intention is for the new blog site to be our 'website'. A place you can go and see what we are up too, events that are or will be happening at the learning centre and also a place that will be a resource for projects happening at the Learning Centre and that you can do yourself at home.

This new site is now our 'official' site and all information will be updated on it including events etc rather than on this blog site.

This blog 'Dear God' will still be in use but will be used for more personal posts and emotional discoveries specific to us rather than what is happening on the Learning Centre. Our emotions impact everything we do, but the intention of the Learning Centre site it to be more instructional with more specific information and 'how to' information.

We hope you enjoy the new site, we look forward to seeing you and 'meeting' those of you we do not know yet sometime in the future.

Love the Lytton-Hitchins Family

Go to the link below to get to: 

'Kyabra Learning Centre, Kentucky NSW, AU'