"…my
ability to focus my attention has increased."
Norm Smookler is involved in managing a number of hotel properties in British Columbia, running a training and consulting business and is one of the leaders of the Emissaries, a world-wide spiritual association which emphasizes the co-existence of spiritual and material values. Norm and his wife Judy, both Avatar® Masters, have recently moved to Vancouver.
I was quite skeptical about
Avatar's claims regarding its effectiveness. After all, I had been on a
high-intentioned and disciplined spiritual and personal growth path for 20
years before I had ever heard about the Avatar course.
The eight days were rather dramatic for me. I came
face to face with my tendency to think that I didn't quite have all that I
needed to live a free and wise life. Subsequently, I have called this my
"one brick short syndrome." I became aware that I was out of touch
with my feelings and thus I was unable to know what it was I was supposed to be
doing.
I lost a number of bad habits which have not
returned:
- I stopped striving for the missing piece of understanding.
- I stopped always thinking that someone else was going to give
me the answer.
- I stopped always thinking before feeling an experience.
- I stopped treating my personal wants and my deep spirituality
as mutually exclusive things.
When I returned home, I carefully assessed my
professional career and decided to make some dramatic changes based on what I
wanted to do (God forbid!). This has subsequently led to a change in location
and a simplification of life that includes the day-to-day work with which I
feel at home. My high success rate has increased because my ability to focus my
attention has increased.
I feel more included in life's whole because I am
more fully and freely contributing my part to the whole.