Peace – Spirit Bear Coaching

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Dec 28, 2022Dec 28, 2022spiritbearcoach

The very best wishes for an ‘uplifting’ and wonderful Christmas and New Year through all the changes we are being offered at this time.

The trick to remember that whenever there is upheaval that is going on in our lives, is not to focus on the drama of the situation, easier said than done when partner is having an affair, economic recession, redundancy, artic winds of -50c, burst water mains, but ask yourselves, “What is the opportunity that is being shown to me right now?”

Unfortunately, global changes are in process and as old belief systems want to cling onto old structures, pain ensues. If we want new structures, we will need new beliefs. The first step maybe to ‘accept’ the situation as ‘is’ before moving on to the opportunities being offered to you/us right now.

The opposite of war (control) isn’t peace, but it could be ‘acceptance’ (let go), which then ascends to Peace. Teilhard de Chardin the great Jesuit geologist wrote “What converges ascends” (Brooks, 2010). Where the two opposites meet at the halfway point between them (War >Neutral< Accept), has a neutralising effect and therefore creating a new possibility to ascend to, such as Peace.

“This structural model used in Psychosynthesis again seems a useful framework for understanding how the releasing of blockages and redirecting the flow of energy can lead to the achievement of goals and positive outcomes.” (Brooks, 2010). Read published post-grad research paper here: The Performance Solution: A Research Journal of Coaching, Mentoring, Supervision and NLP, p63.

Walk in Peace;

Walk in Beauty

until we meet again…

BIO: Johnathan Brooks MA, PG Dip, MAC is an experienced Executive and Personal Coach with 1,800+ hrs in the field, who has trained in a wide range of personal development methods including CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming, has a Postgraduate Diploma Degree in ‘Coaching and NLP’, which he passed with a ‘Commendation’, a Master of Arts in ‘Applied Coaching’ and certified Career Coach. He is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Bio Trivia: Johnathan is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe and whose godfather was Yul Brynner who won an Oscar for the ‘King and I’ film (1957).

He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), full Master member of the European and Mentoring Council (UK) and a professional member of the Association of NLP.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR

Dec 24, 2021Dec 24, 2021spiritbearcoach

and a change in our belief systems so that healing, peace and abundance will become our ‘reality’ in 2022.

Walk in Peace;

Walk in Beauty

until we meet again…

Bio Trivia: Johnathan is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe and whose godfather was Yul Brynner who won an Oscar for the ‘King and I’ (1957).

He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), full member of the European and Mentoring Council (UK) and a professional member of the Association of NLP.

Click here for Johnathan’s L inkedIn profile

Rioters: Destroy The Buildings In Your Minds, And Not Your Cities

Dec 11, 2018spiritbearcoach

“If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth” [African proverb]

France strength and unity — How you judge the rioters is a reflection of you

Unfortunately, in our society there is no ‘initiation’ from boyhood to manhood. Even our young that go to university they are still ‘Taking’ and it still takes a few years before they ‘Give’ back, so they are already quite old compared to other societies. The rioter’s burn as it gives them a lift because of their lack of self-esteem. The looters are also stuck in ‘Taking’ they have not moved onto the ‘Giving’ level.

This is all a reflection of our society where our Government ‘Take’ power and our banks and corporations ‘Take’ money by amassing wealth, and we as individuals loose faith in politics and feel poorer but strive for the same. I would prefer people destroy the buildings in their minds but what would be interesting is how do we start a modern initiation practice to go from the Taker to the Giver who takes responsibility? Without painful practices of the past like Sun Dancing involving piercing or teenage circumcision.

How you judge the rioters or looters is a reflection of you. If you see them as an angry mob then unconsciously there is anger in you. The reason being is that we’re One with the Source, which is perfect including rioters or looters. So we have to take responsibility for what we project outwards. Peace from within spreading out. #YellowVests

“Sit, be still, and listen,

For you are drunk,

And we are at the edge of the roof”

~ Rumi

Christmas Message: Visions Of Hope

Dec 24, 2015Apr 10, 2018spiritbearcoach

At Christmas time we light candles to hope and look forward expectantly for the rebirth of goodwill between all men. But then we read or hear the world news.

The visions of Christmastide show no signs of becoming reality in the New Year, rather, there seems to be an increase in divisiveness. But there is still hope.

Even while candles are still burning on our Trees of Life, and daylight hours are lengthening, the news of a new shadow of darkness, of deprivation, greed and hostility appears to be separating us further from some of our fellow men.

In earlier epochs it was understood by mankind that prosperous, peaceful communities were created by women using their intuitive wisdom and inspirations, while men, providing qualities of physical strength and focus could turn those inspirations into the practical realities of daily living. Both were necessary in the creation of meaning for authentic lives, but if one quality became devalued (as those of womanhood still are) then mankind could not prosper, and wars initiated by males seeking to demonstrate or prove the superiority of their strength and dogmatic ideas compared with the wider less fixed viewpoint of women ensued.

But now we are at the very beginning of a new 21 hundred year cycle of a new era – the Aquarian Age who sign is that of female nurturing water being poured onto a thirsty earth. In the culture of some First Nation Americans, understanding this ancient scenario, after years of infighting between some tribes (including my own Northern Cheyenne) The Great Law of Peace was written.

This is called the Iroquois Constitution (around 1142 AD), and the Chiefs declared that in future leaders of tribes will be decided upon by women, for two reasons:

The first was that only women could decide with detached selflessness that which was best for the tribe – men often being influenced by the power of their personal egos; and secondly, because women were the ones who suffered the greatest pain of giving birth and losing loved ones in battle only they were the ones who can decide if war was worth dying for.

Today we have to ask ourselves if the influence, of women is going sufficiently to bring the visions of Christmas closer to manifestation. Hopefully, the time is approaching when both men and women are able to demonstrate the qualities of both, and lead integrated whole lives, able to overcome the distortions in the heart and minds of our sick presently seemingly separated brethren.

’til we meet again,

Walk in Beauty;

Walk in Peace.

‘Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth & Harmony‘

Johnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’. And is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP and a full member of European and Mentoring Council (UK).