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This is a news addendum to the Update Newsletter of the Joy2MeU web site of codependency therapist, inner child healing pioneer, Spiritual teacher Robert Burney - who is the author of the Joyously inspirational book of Spirituality: Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls.
In February of 2009 I am updating the copyright on all my Update Newsletter pages and removing the code that blocks search engines from indexing these pages. The message on the top of this page originally was: “The search engines are blocked from indexing this page so I am not including the left hand column with all the identifying info and graphics. The first paragraphs are the text of my e-mail message to the mailing list. If you already read that you can skip right down to the newsletter portion.”
Joy to You & Me and Joy2MeU Update
10-20-2000
To all the Magnificent Spiritual Beings on my e-mailing list,
I am trying something new with this update. Instead of e-mailing it out to you all, I am posting it online and just sending the address out in the update announcement. There are several reasons for this. One, is that I don’t especially like receiving large e-mails - which these update announcements invariably become - and I am sure that some of you feel the same. Two, is that with the evolution of the New page ( /New ) the purpose of these announcements has evolved also. It is no longer necessary to send these announcements out as a way of announcing new pages and additions to the site. Anyone who is interested can bookmark the New page and check in whenever they feel like it. (Or sign up with the Net Mind service at the bottom of the New page to be notified anytime it changes - that service ends in March 2001.) The initial purpose of update announcements was just that, to update anyone who was interested about what was new on the web sites - and I would wait until I had all the pages I was going to add ready at the same time. With the New page I add pages and any other news anytime. Three, is that the other purpose that evolved for these update has been to share my process with you. With my original Joy to You & Me site the Newsletters I sent out became a process sharing space because my recovery was so intimately connected to the evolution of the web site. As I state in several places on the site, I believe in sharing my experience, strength, and hope. I also believe that sharing my fear, anger, and pain is an invaluable part of my role as a teacher. The core of my work is to get across the message that it is not shameful to be human. In order to do that, it has been necessary for my own recovery, and for my mission to be open and willing to: be vulnerable, to share embarrassing Truth, to demonstrate my own humanity - with it’s resistance, fear, and procrastination. In my opinion, as long as the teachers and so called experts (in healing, Spiritual enlightenment, recovery, whatever) are “keeping up appearances” they are giving power to the disease. Without role models that tell us they are human and that it is OK to be human beings involved in an ongoing healing process - then it is possible to interpret their messages of how wonderful their lives have become as validating that there is a destination to be reached and that anybody who hasn’t reached it yet is doing something wrong, is somehow shameful. My life is indeed wonderful compared to what it was. I am very grateful and full of wonder at how free I am of the old programming - and at the capacity I have to be happy and peaceful in the moment now, no matter what is happening in the outer circumstances of my life. But my life doesn’t feel wonderful all of the time. There is an ongoing process that involves new levels of surrender, new insights, new changes in perspective, etc. Having the choice to view the part of the glass that is full and be grateful, happy, and peaceful in the moment - at the same time we can have a consciousness, without shame and judgment, that there are still areas where growth is necessary - is what integration and balance are about in my opinion. The goal of this dance of recovery is to have the capacity to dance with Joy and Love for as many of the moments of today as possible - and also to have the capacity to be Loving and nurturing to ourselves when we are dancing with the fear, pain, and anger that are an inevitable part of this human experience we are having. So, anyway, my vision at this point is to use the online Newsletter portion of these updates to share my process - which will at times include discussion of the newest articles, additions, and/or news on the web sites - with those of you who want to take the time to go to the web page that this update Newsletter will appear on; and to point those of you who do not have the time or interest in my process at the New page for news of the web sites. I do want to mention that one of the new pages I just added to the web site, is a special offer on multiple copies of my book and/or tape set for anyone who is considering giving them as gifts this Holiday Season. In this update Newsletter I am going to be talking about opening to receive good stuff - Love, abundance, Joy - and how much resistance the disease can throw up to try to sabotage things.
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