Michael Sean Symonds:
Author, Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor ~ Chopra Centre for Wellbeing...
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Michael Sean Symonds: Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Spirituality; meditation; personal growth; inspiration.
- Best Sellers
- Spring 2008 ~ Zen Shredding: Insights, Questions and Confessions of a Meditator and Novice Snowboarder on the pursuit of dreams, inspiration, passion and change...
- Career Focus
- Author; Personal Growth Facilitator; Meditation Instructor...
- Affiliation
- Chopra Centre for Well Being, Carlsbad, Califo ia; Whistler Wellness Week; The Power of You ~ Whistler....
M Sean Symonds (michael) is a facilitator and self-published author of A Path of Relationship, 1998, and soon to be published Zen Shredding, 2008. Both books are about Personal Growth and Spirituality. His training includes Polarity Therapy/counseling [1989], and Rebirthing [1991]. Most recently [2001], he became a certified Primordial Sound Meditation instructor with Deepak Chopra/Chopra Centre.
Maintaining a private practice since 1989, Michael facilitates one-on-one and group explorations in personal growth, healing and consciousness. Michael has studied with renowned teachers Dr. Deepak Chopra of the Chopra Centre for Wellbeing and Leonard Orr, founder of the Rebirthing/Conscious Breathing movement. His present studies continue in the area of creativity and teaching based on the work of Deepak Chopra, more recent studies focus on the work of Steven Wolinsky and the late sage and seer Nisargadatta Maharaj.
In his work Michael invites us to see beyond the concepts of cultural, religious or moral conditioning, encouraging us to ground ourselves in the nature of our true Spirit and Self, which lies beyond the colour of our skin, gender, sexual preference and body/mind.
In 2004, Michael moved from Vancouver to Whistler, B.C., Canada, realizing that he had found the perfect environment to deepen his personal meditation practice. He also became very clear about his intention to mentor others through his creativity, teaching, speaking and writing and his desire to elevate and ennoble the lives of others by inspiring them to nurture the wisdom of their own Souls...
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When Love Hurts
So much has been said of friendship and love that it seems on one level redundant to even write about it. In my own life I have found insight, understanding, awareness and suffering, as I engage the pursuit of its experience and the never ending conversations that occur around the dance of its expression. Perhaps where there is loss and grieving around friendship and love, it is only then that we seek a deeper level of its understanding, meaning, expression, need and purpose in life?
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You Are, More Than Enough
From birth we are conditioned into believing we need to be somebody. We are taught and indoctrinated into the belief that we need to be somebody that does something, thinks something ~ to get something that will lead us to the promised land of happiness.
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Are You Ready For A Spring Cleanse?
I’ve just broken a 10 day juice cleanse and my body feels like a million bucks! The orange I ate for “breakfast” was an eagerly anticipated explosion of virgin, citrus flavours and texture; a pleasure beyond description when compared to the simplicity of 10 days consumption of organic apple juice that has been part of my cleansing regimen process.
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Depression ~ The Silent Killer
I'd like to dedicate this article to the short life of Kelty Patrick Dennehy. The impulse to write about my own past experience of depression and suicidal tendencies has been percolating to the surface of my mind for a while now. It's a subject matter that goes largely unnoticed and unspoken for most, until someone is directly or indirectly affected by it.
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The Mechanics of Depression
There is no entity who is separate from depression or for that matter any sensation or state that may arise in awareness ~ label it what you may. There is no one who is depressed, angry, jealous, afraid, confused, clear or joyful. To explain; a sensation arises in awareness that is captured by attention which also occurs in the field of awareness. An observer, who calls herself a person, arises simultaneously within the field of awareness together with the sensation, and labels the sensation as depression (fill in the blank).
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ON RELATIONSHIP...
The most important relationship you will have in life
is the relationship you have to your Self.
It is through the relationship you have with your Self
that you will create a relationship with life.
It is the level of intimacy you achieve with your Self
that will draw you into an intimate relationship with life,
and
it is through the internal growth and cultivation of your inner relationship
that you will find the inspiration, courage and success
to participate in all other relationships...
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* Life is an ete al initiation into relationship an opportunity to contribute and celebrate the colour and diversity of your own personal adventure...
* Life can provide you with experiences filled with growth, understanding, purpose and joy, as you learn to bring the gift of your own uniqueness into the world of form...
* Your entire experience is a purposeful journey that revolves around the evolution of relationship itself...
* You exist because the deepest desire of your Soul is to unite and express the value of relationship into your life experience...
* Your past, present and future subjective experience will be defined by your present definition of relationship...
* The dynamic of succesful relationship begins and ends with the relationship you have to your Self...
* In order for you to make any conscious change in the world you live in, there must first be a shift in the focus of your mind from without to within. There can never be an exte al change without first having an internal change...
* Since relationship begins with the Self, you must first be willing to embrace closely the content of what your presently know the small self to be. You must be willing to observe the nature of your present experience without judgment, without evaluation, without comparison, without conditioning ~ to know what is real and what is unreal...
* Relationship generated from the Self becomes the regenerative force that extends and projects its influence into the reality you call your life, restoring and rejuvenating your entire life experience...
* The Self that you seek, the Self that you hunger for exists before you began seeking, while you are seeking and after you stop seeking...
* Life is a web of relationship; One relationship with many flavours!
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There is a place within you
that is already whole,
already complete,
already perfect.
Dive into it,
Embrace it,
Become it!
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F o l l o w d r e a m s ~ n o t p o w e r .
C r e a t e p l e a s u r e ~ n o t p a i n .
L i v e f o r j o y ~ n o t s a d n e s s .
C e l e b r a t e s u r r e n d e r ~ n o t s t r u g g l e .
F i n d p u r p o s e ~ n o t d i s t r a c t i o n .
S e e k b a l a n c e ~ n o t d i s h a r m o n y .
E m b r a c e W h o l e n e s s ~ n o t s e p a r a t i o n .
S e e M e a n i n g ~ n o t j u d g m e n t .
Say Yes to life!
Contacting Michael Sean Symonds:
WEBSITES: www.zenshredding.wordpress.com
BLOG: http://zenshredding.wordpress.com/
EMAIL michael direct @ divinite@telus.net
OTHER RESOURCES:
The Chopra Centre for Well Being: http://www.chopra.com/home
Whistler Wellness Week: http://whistlerwellness.com/wellnessweek.php
The Power of You: http://www.thepowerofyou.org/
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Michaels work is accessible through a variety of mediums and venues...
A soon to be released book; Zen Shredding, will offer insights into the practice of successful living.
Websites and an active blog provide an abundance of free knowledge and wisdom to cultivate the inner wisdom of your Soul.
Too participate experientially, michael offers ongoing workshops throughout the year some of which include the annual Whistler Wellness Week and Whistler's Power of You seminar.
Planned Primordial Sound Meditation ( Learn how to meditate ) retreats, are also scheduled through out the year, for more information please refer to contact information below...