Listening to those Voices

[Rain Fordyce]

Okay, I admit it! Sometimes, I doubt the universe will provide. As I continue to move forward and I do what I love, every once in a while a voice pops into my head that says,

"You are living in a dream world! Life is not a dream and you have to be rational and practical."

Do you know that voice? When you begin walking on your authentic path, this voice is LOUD! There is a real fear of the unknown.

However, as I have been on my true authentic path for the past 3 years, I have actual evidence that living a life that is from your heart and spirit can and does work, although not always as we first might believe it should. Lol!

So when that voice continues to whisper in my ear and flashes of doubt soon fill my head, I can immediately go into "hopeless."

However! I have discovered a beautiful trick that works and I want to share with you today.

When the voice is talking to you with fear, simply listen and sit with the discomfort without judgment. The most important thing is to let the voice be HEARD as you would hear a child.

As I continue to work with The Peace Treaty, I am becoming more conscious of these voices being children. They are us as children, who have become quite bossy and think they know best. However, they speak out of fear and as we all do when we are feeling fear, they just want to be heard.

So next time you hear the voice telling you, "You are foolish and living a dream!" don't fight it or try to put it out of your mind. Decide to listen fully as a kind, loving and wise adult without judgment.

When the voice is done talking you might say and say with gratitude in your heart, "Yes, I hear you. It does seem scary. I am the brave adult now, who is ready to take that risk!"

Courage and joy,
Rain

[Rain Fordyce]

Thank you Monica so much for sharing your thoughts!

Instead of thinking of "defending" your choice to unschool, maybe just talk about what you LOVE about it. Tell others, "Yes, I hear your concerns. We just love our life!" You can decide to share more if they ask.

I love how everyone is thinking their own thoughts! This is how we grow... Listening to others is a way for them to be heard, which is what they really want... When we attach to what they say, we suffer and worse, they suffer as they do not learn or have an open space to question their thoughts or ours.

There is no us against them, it is a whole world where we learn to get along while we attempt to live authentically in our own journey.

Thank you for allowing me the space to learn!
smiles and joy,
Rain

[Monica Manzano]

"Right on!" I am living a foolish dream, but it's mine. Perhaps it is situational, with all of these new "knowledgable people" in my life. My fear is that these "so called helpers" stear us away from our bliss. This current situation has caused me to snap awake. There are well meaning people out there that could cause us to slip into non-academia. These people could get us off of our path.

It is time for me to be the strong adult. Stand up for myself and my kiddos. To tell the truth words aren't my strength. I still don't know my strength. I have a clue though, the only way I can describe it with words is 'intuitive teaching'. The knowledge and experiences over the past 8 years are in my head. I just have to use this clumsy mechanism of blog and computer writing to give it to others. If only I could plug myself in and viola pass it on. It would be so nifty to pass on experiences. The good, bad, ugly, and brilliant ideas could just be passed on to others. Until that sort of technology exists I'm stuck using words.

We have new needs and I acknowledge them, but I've been stumped by them. You may call it a road bump or a hurdle almost. But it's past time for me to say: what next? how do I climb this hurdle? how do we climb this hurdle?

I fully agree, this is a dream, and I've been rudley spooked awake. Now it's time to go back to our dreamy state of creation and learning. However, I have only a few clues as to what to tell these 'helpers'. I'm not clear how to defend our unschooling, if I had to.