Dear Friends,

Mark your calendars for April 20!

That’s when we will be launching an incredible Amazon.com promotion for our book Why We Do What We Do: Four Pathways to Your Authentic Self.  If you purchase a copy of our book on Amazon.com that day, you will be able to access some amazing bonuses that you can’t find anywhere else.

We’re especially excited to tell you that you will be able to download an ebook The Psychology of Success: Awakening the Loving Father Within, with 100+ pages of teachings on the Loving Father. These teachings will revolutionize your life. They will help you to anchor the extraordinary energy of impersonal protection in your life, tailored to your specific archetypal pattern.  So even if you already have a copy of Why We Do What We Do, you may definitely want to consider buying another for yourself, a friend or just to help us out. That way, these new teachings on the Loving Father will be in your hands.

There will also be gifts from other authors and teachers who are joining us in promoting our work, gifts like accelerated learning material, coaching techniques and valuable self-help courses.  All of these gifts will be free when you purchase a copy of our book on April 20 so mark your calendars, look for our email and let your friends and family know. If you would like to help us by purchasing multiple copies, these will be available through BarnesandNoble.com. There will be special rewards for this too. We’ll keep you posted.

Boston tea party

Revolutionize how you relate to others. Therese will be offering a three day seminar on the inner family archetypes in Boston April 29-May 1 in Waltham, Mass. The price for this introductory weekend is only $100 so don’t miss out if you live in the Boston vicinity. For more information, please contact Marie Patrice Masse, 978-579-0897, or click here.

Calling all facilitators

Our next facilitator training leading up to our summer retreat near Banff National Park will be scheduled in May. If you would like to help facilitate this retreat, please plan to attend this training which will be held in Emigrant or in Bozeman, MT. The dates we are looking at are May 20-22, with Memorial Day weekend as a back-up. We will keep you posted if things change. For more information, please contact us by clicking here.

Link for New Age Retailer review

If you would like to read the review about our book featured in New Age Retailer, it is posted here.

Summer Retreat

There’s still time to register for our summer resort retreat at the reduced price of $1295 which includes room and board. For more information, please visit our website here.

Teaching of the Month

(taken from our e-book The Psychology of Success that will be available as a bonus on April 20)

A great spiritual teacher once said, “How would you like it if some great powerful spiritual being came and put a negative label on you? What affect would it have?”

Everybody responded, “Oh, we mustn’t do that.”

“But all of you are powerful spiritual beings and you’re doing it to yourself and to each other all the time,” he said. “So stop it.”

We must stop holding ourselves and other people hostage to critical opinions that do not do justice to the magnificent potential hidden in each of us, waiting to unfold as a life mission. When we are confronted with the not-self in ourselves and in others, we have to choose a higher road.  We have to make room for our Loving Father archetype.

Our Loving Father is unbiased. He does not engage in tit for tat.  He does not take sides.  He does not argue.  He observes.  Then, he provides solutions that are impersonal, that transcend our sense of polarity and division, and redirect us in a constructive way.  When we fall short of the mark, he does not humiliate us or beat us to a pulp.  He corrects us in a fair and loving way. He gives us a place of honor to stand on while his discipline comes through, so it is easier for us to change for the better. He can be trusted, because he always looks out for our best interest. He has no hidden agenda, no selfish, ulterior motive.

Our Loving Father holds the key to our success because he teaches us to be impersonal. He helps us avoid getting down in the mud to wrestle with other people’s negative opinions about us, or with circumstances that challenge our ego. He is not moved by Unloved Boychild’s negative control strategies, Unloving Mother’s aloofness or Unloved Girlchild’s victim consciousness.

Our not-self knows this. That is why it seeks to thwart our ability to express our Loving Father archetype at every turn.  It knows that when the Loving Father takes charge of our life, its days are numbered.

Learning to become impersonal through the Loving Father revolutionizes our life.  The energy we formerly spent on taking offense is redirected into our newfound ability to be impersonal. We can be truly dedicated to fulfilling our life’s potential with a certain joie de vivre that eludes us when we are besieged by internal and external criticism.

Our Loving Father keeps us from caving under the pressures of life.  He gives us a code of conduct that makes us impervious to internal sabotage or outside attack. Without this code of conduct, we fall prey to our not-self. We are tempted to take a lower path and then when our choices backfire, we become victim to all of the unfairness of life. We do not take into account that somewhere, somehow, we set the cause in motion.

Our not-self wants us to ignore the spiritual law of cause and effect that says that we must reap what we sow. It tricks us into thinking we can lie, steal, cheat or do things we shouldn’t do by convincing us that this cause isn’t related to that effect. Then, when the karmic boomerang delivers its payload on our doorstep, we buy into the yarn of injustice it spins.

Our Loving Father is not fooled by our not-self. He does not let us get caught off guard.    He knows that what goes around comes around and he tells us flat out, “You do this and you’re going to get that, and when it comes, you’re going to know because you were told.”

The Loving Father’s code of conduct is really the golden rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”  It takes down Unloved Boychild’s greedy materialism that wants more for less—maximum return for minimum effort. With the Loving Father, people stop riding on the efforts of others to reap where they have not sown.

The Loving Father expects maximum effort for maximum return, but his returns are infinite.  They are drawn from our superconscious treasure house, from the countless abundance that can funnel to us when we manifest our real self.   Unloved Boychild’s returns, on the other hand, are drawn from a finite pool of energy poisoned by negative competition that ties into the collective not-self.

The Loving Father does not count beans. He expects us to give our all and he gives us his all in return. “Withhold nothing from me and I will withhold nothing from you,” is his motto.

He justly sees to it that we ultimately receive what is rightfully ours. By following his standards, we end up reaping far more than we ever could have by trying to beat Unloved Boychild at his own game.

When we decide to follow the course set for us by our Loving Father, the universe will test us to help us burn off our addiction to Unloved Boychild’s ways, and to see whether we can be trusted with maximum returns.  We may be required, for a time, to pay our dues by giving maximum effort for minimum return. This soul initiation is described in all of the world’s spiritual traditions. Once the individual proves his unwavering determination to do good against all odds, he is blessed many times over for his faithfulness.

In the Boychild culture that we live in, we find few good role models of the Loving Father. Just think of the many television shows where Dad is the dummy and male characters are abusive.  Most of us still find it hard to access our Loving Father, to reconnect with him and to practice his presence in our lives. When we run into his impersonality and stern code of conduct, we become uncomfortable, and the boundaries and discipline he sets for us can be challenging to enforce.

It is important for us to get used to our Loving Father again, to get his vibration back into our system, to feel comfortable with it and even love it. Otherwise, Unloving Father’s criticism will continue to drown out the voice of our Loving Father and prevent us from experiencing the protection and direction we need to excel.

When you decide to become one with your Loving Father archetype, you must be honest and ask yourself the questions, “Am I really willing to become autonomous and self-correcting?”  “Can I embrace the Loving Father’s discipline as much as his protection?”  “Can I surrender my Unloved Boychild’s need for immediate gratification and follow my Loving Father’s direction?”

An example of someone who knows how to successfully bring out the Loving Father is Dr. Phil, who has challenged America to “get real” and lose weight. His no-nonsense approach can at times seem quite harsh, but it cuts through to help people overcome their inner criticism and achieve results they never dreamed possible.

When the Loving Father awakens in you, it happens quietly.  There are no bells or drum rolls.  You usually make note of it in retrospect: “I did this but it was another ‘me’ that I experienced, in a different way.” If you do not pay attention, you will miss that it ever happened, because the shift was impersonal.

Your other loving archetypes touch you in a personal way. If, for example, you engage in a sport match and perform at your best, your Loved Boychild comes on line and you feel elated, competent, and victorious. That is something you do not forget. If you are spending time with a loved one and you experience the deep, nurturing, intimacy and connection of the Loving Mother, you will cherish the memory of that event. At the birth of your child, when the presence of the Loved Girlchild engulfs you, you are profoundly moved.  All of a sudden, everything else that seemed important to you—your business, your bank account, your schedule—dissolves and the only thing that matters is the burning love of your heart.  It transforms you tangibly.

When the Loving Father touches your life, the experience is not dramatic. You do not get emotionally charged.  If you do not keep track and stake a flag by the event, your not-self will be out there with an eraser board fervently brushing away every last trace of it. Your not-self does not want you to acknowledge the Loving Father and the fact that he is impersonal makes it that much easier.  Later, when another difficult situation comes along and you want to remember how your Loving Father protected, directed and disciplined you, your not-self has erased the files and you have lost momentum.

The more you remember how to engage your Loving Father and practice his presence, the more you can stop yielding to unloving archetypes in yourself and in other people.  You can sustain a loving inner family and leave footprints in the sand. Aligned with his guidelines, your Loved Boychild will drive you to real success. Empowered by his firmness, your Loving Mother will provide the wisdom you need to navigate each turn in the road. Protected by his might, your Loved Girlchild will bring inspiration and hope to everyone you are destined to touch along the way.

Recommendation of the Month

Pentecost is coming up on May 15. That is the time that commemorates, in the Christian tradition, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples of Jesus. Oftentimes, people prepare for Pentecost with fasting and prayer.  In our work, Loved Girlchild is the archetype that connects us to the presence of the Holy Spirit. This may, then, be a wonderful time to commune with your Girlchild and even engage in some physical “Spring cleaning.” You might also consider reading Good Morning Holy Spirit by Benny Hinn, which provides an interesting account of creating a relationship with the Holy Spirit.

I look forward to writing to you on April 20 and wish you a wonderful month.

Therese, with Brian and Caroline