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Lessons in Liberating Your Life Essence!
"God on a Leash" is a workbook about all the magnificent gifts and lessons my dog brought into my life.
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At God on a Leash, we are committed to liberating our life essence with heart-centered, open-minded, grounded human to dog relating.
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The Beginning
Preface
This is a workbook designed to help liberate your life essence, strengthen the relationship with yourself and harmonize with Life. A healthy mental/emotional diet is key to true healthcare. This text featured lessons from the relationship with my dog Scooby. If your not a dog person or don’t have a dog that’s totally fine. Perhaps you have someone in your life, or another pet, that is a teacher for you, but you don’t realize it, just like Scooby was for me. These are examples from my life that I encourage you to find ways to apply to your own life, even if your life circumstances aren’t exactly the same as mine. The most important part is that you examine the health of the relationship you have with yourself, others and Life.
One day while I was walking with my dog Scooby I was incredibly frustrated because he was acting all wily, disruptive and full of energy when I was wanting a calm relaxed vibe. In my frustration I was responding with more aggression and domination than I would like. After all, I made a promise to Life a while back not to pass on the dysfunctional relating I sometimes experienced growing up, where the ones who loved me the most were also the ones who hurt me the most. I had a loving family and we also had our fair share of dramas and traumas, where aggression, domination, and criticism were how people got their way.
I’ve always wanted to know what true love relating was and how to maintain boundaries without the use of aggression and/or domination. Then one day while walking with Scooby an intuition came. What if when I responded to my dog, I was responding as if God was on the end of my leash; after all, dog spelled backwards is god. How would my demeanor, attitude, patience, and perception be different if everywhere I went, I had God on the end of my leash looking up at me, hearing my responses and feeling my energy? If it were God on the end of my leash I probably wouldn’t be acting so disrespectfully toward him.
And when I say God I don’t mean the one steeped in fear, full of judgements, based on reward and punishment, twisted up by man, sitting on a cloud. I mean the all-pervasive love intelligence of the Universe, Inexhaustible Pure Perfect Presence, Immaculate Love, Light and Life that I am, I AM that I AM, that you are, that we are, together as One. When I look in Scooby’s eyes this is what I see, a reminder of what is in my eyes, and all eyes, God/Spirit/Love, insert whatever word you like best, I’ve used “Life” throughout this text as a placeholder for God/Ultimate Love/Great Spirit. It’s a fun exercise to interchange these words throughout the text and notice how it might change the tone of the sentence.
As the obviousness of Scooby’s death began to loom in the later years of his life, I wanted to prepare myself as best I could. I thought no better way to honor him, his teaching, and our life together than to document and integrate all the great lessons he brought into my life and continues to do even now in death.
Throughout my life I was often surprised with how differently people responded to my dog’s appearance. He was a golden colored staffordshire terrier, easily mistaken for a pit bull, and looked a bit like a muscular smaller version of Scooby Doo the cartoon character (even though I know Scooby Doo is a Great Dane). Hence his name, Scooby, or Scoobs for short. He could look very intimidating to some so using the name Scooby always seemed to bring a smile to everyone’s face.
Some people saw an adorable, lovable sweetheart and ran right up to him and said hi. Others saw him standing there in the exact same way and saw a scary attack dog ready to eat them. Exact same dog, exact same demeanor, exact same situation, and two totally different interpretations and therefore two totally different responses from Scooby.
I’m not saying he was perfect and never displayed aggression, he did. So have I over the years. I didn’t like that aggression when I received it as a child and I don’t like sharing that aggression as an adult either. Hence these lessons.
I couldn’t help but notice how his aggression reflected my own aggression. How I sometimes used aggression and anger with him to get my way. I started to notice early on how Scooby reflected an outward manifestation of my inner animal. I couldn’t help but notice how I might use my energy or demeanor to intimidate or keep people at a distance. I was becoming more conscious of these patterns as outward manifestation for me to see in my direct experience. I became more aware of how people would sometimes treat me different based on my appearance and also how I may have used my appearance in a purposeful way to intimidate and influence others, as a protective defense mechanism.
This was one of my lessons throughout Scooby’s life; you can’t be responsible for what others see. Our only responsibility is our own mental and emotional data streams and that of your pets and no one else. Sometimes people express their right to judge a book by its cover, skin by its color, the breed of dog, or the will of a God. I’ve often seen how sometimes I can judge a book by its cover, make assumptions about another’s life, or jump to conclusions by the way someone looks or acts as well. So, I’ve taken these moments of judgment experienced from others as opportunities to be more open minded about others, their pains, and their Pure Perfect Purpose on display. Do I choose to see the Perfection/God/Life in others and myself or do I continue to perpetuate the outdated pattern that says others are separate, others are less important than I, others are too different, and I feel like I need to protect myself?
This is a great lesson in tending to my own vibration and the response I have to what arises in my awareness. We cannot control the emotions, fears or judgments that arise, but we can control our responsiveness to what arises through practice. Sometimes we instinctively react to what arises in our awareness, often due to traumas of the past and a subconscious protective mechanism that has been established since childhood. It’s this mental and emotional stress that I have found to be the biggest problem for most achieving true health. That’s why I have put together these lessons, because a healthy relationship with self is first and foremost to your health. Learning how to self soothe, heal yourself, and be your own source of loving kindness is primary before all else.
Through the experiences with my dear friend Scoobs/God I learned how to love myself again. If you’ve forgotten how to love yourself may this book serve as a guide to love you the way back to home. If you already love yourself, may this help to depend and strengthen the love and relationship with yourself. So you can love yourself in the ways the ones from your past couldn’t, and truly heal yourself from the inside out.
INTENTION:
(Each of the following lessons have an intention that you can read in the first person if it resonates with you. If some part or sentence doesn’t resonate, just skip that part, and fill in your own words that help to empower and give positive intentions into your life. Make it your own, this is my example for you to use as a template, not to copy exactly.)
May I see the beauty within myself first and foremost, so that I am able to truly see the beauty in others. May this text liberate, empower and bring total absolution to myself and all who read it. May these teachings help us feel tethered, magically leashed, to our internal guidance system called Life, an ever-present, inexhaustible river of liberation, thriving freedom and open intelligence.
May this book and these words be in honor to my dear friend and soulmate Scooby, and all sacred teachers who have blessed my life and will come into my life to bless me in the future. I AM grateful for the Life I AM, wrapping us up in these amazing characters named Scooby and Lyle, and disguising ourselves as the Godliness we are in such fun, unique, and obvious ways.
May Life in each of us continually shine forth in more recognizable ways as we witness the most magnificent Life Essence Liberation Migration of our time, transforming all time, Beings and the Cosmos. As the cosmic ascended sacred master I am, Liberator of Life Essence, Keeper of the Sacred Flame of Liberation, may my own liberation be in honor of all those masters who came before me and liberated their own mastery. May my life serve as a blueprint for the liberation of all souls seeking the sacred flame of liberation. May it be, Graciously.
DAYDREAM/RECEIVING MODE:
(Each section also has a “Daydream/Receiving Mode” exercise. This is meant for you to see, feel and experience your above intention in your imagination, being sure to elicit the feeling states and sensations that go with the images to really magnetize your dreams into reality. After creating this daydream allow yourself to shift into receiving mode, instead of doing mode, and energetic magnetize your dreams by your gratitude for your dream. Feel into it and let it really settle into and as your reality. Also, reading the words aloud assists in the empowerment.)
“I am fully liberated, expressing all my diving strengths, gifts and talents in my own unique way. I feel empowered and acting as my own best friend. Luck permeates my life as I align more and more with the truth and love that is my true nature. I feel at ease and surrendered as Life unfolds and surprises me with the magic and miracles that are everyday experience. I love how well everyone treats me, even people I don’t know. Places seem to light up by my presence. Life feels more alive and responsive to my energy. Magnificent opportunities abound that allow me to share who I truly am in very fun enjoyable ways. The blessings are building upon one another in exponential ways with lots of momentum launching me into the life of my wildest dreams and beyond.”
LESSON FOR THE DAY:
(At the end of each lesson you’ll find a sentence or two that summarizes the lessons and gives you a mantra, something short and easy to keep the lesson percolating in your awareness throughout your day).
“As I cherish and honor the relationship with myself, I am fulfilled, empowered and in Love with Life.”
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