Here are our growth motivations published on social media in 2023:
How can I practise peace today?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 52 24.12.23
WHY do you give?
Do you:
Give to get?
Give to grow?
Give to generate?
If you GIVE TO GET, you are expecting something in return, whether from another person/s, your environment, or yourself e.g.:
· I give X a Christmas present as I want one back/I want their approval
· I volunteer to do things to be recognised as good and hard-working
If you GIVE TO GROW, you give naturally from your gifts and qualities, connected to your inner being, feeling it expanding as you give, and not expecting anything in return, e.g.:
· I give X a Christmas present and, while carefully choosing it, I experience my capacity to be generous and thoughtful. I feel more me
· As I give my time to someone, I feel connected to my love for them
If you GIVE TO GENERATE, you give of yourself organically to the flow of Life, generating NEW or MORE life, love, wisdom, harmony, connection, energy, flow, etc. for humanity, the planet or the Cosmos.
· In giving X a Christmas present I experience a flow and exchange of life, immersed in love and connected to all human beings
· I volunteer my time and skills to contribute to universal awareness, expansion and interconnectedness through the PRH vision
You can notice yourself in moments of giving….
– Are you expecting something in return, however subtly? (give to get)
– Is your giving contributing to you becoming more yourself? (give to grow)
– Is your giving expanding into the bigger picture, adding a “plus” to your human, material, spiritual, energetic environment? (give to generate)
– What has this given you?
PRH (Personality and Human Relationships) is an international School of life-long learning to discover and embody who you truly are and what your purpose is, both for your own deepest fulfilment and for the benefit of our global environment and for all of humanity and its evolution
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 51 18.12.23
Are you prepared to make the PRESENT a present?
At this holiday season of showing our care for those around us and exchanging presents (gifts), are you willing to make the PRESENT a present?
You can give the present:
· to yourself
· to others
· to the planet and humanity
– and to all three at the same time!
How? By:
· giving yourself fully to the now moment
· existing in internal order
· being mindful and aware of that internal order
· holding some core attitudes of
– curiosity
– openness
– taste for truth
– readiness to receive and accept
– trust in the process and the bigger picture
· etc.
This way the very best of you can emerge and materialise for:
· the benefit of your health, well-being, happiness and whole person
· better relationships, flow of energy, inspiration and service between you and others
· greater groundedness, respect, creativity, constructive innovation and harmony for the planet and our evolving humanity
Yes – the greatest gift you can give is of yourself to the present moment – for the benefit of all.
As André Rochais said:
“Be yourself, only yourself, all of yourself….”,
…. and he might have added … NOW!
– What present has this given to you?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 50 11.12.23
Where do you really live?
Do you live in the PAST, the PRESENT or the FUTURE?
What is your default?
We may think we live in the PRESENT:
· totally mindful, grounded, centred, aligned, and open to all that is happening in our inner and outer worlds,
· with little filter on “what is”
But very often we are actually living in the PAST, and tend:
· to act on our conditioning, our already received or self-formulated ideas, or on interpretations from the past
· to function through our previously established defence system, the programme that runs the show
Or we might be projecting into the FUTURE:
· foreseeing or imagining how things might be which, when not part of our creative energy or innovative potential, is often generated by fear or fantasy
– If you’re curious about this aspect of your reality, why not set a timer for 15 minutes and just keep checking in – present, past, or future?
You might be surprised to find out that where you truly live is not where you THINK you live!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 49 4.12.23
The world needs your openness!
The more open we are on deeper and deeper levels – the more we discover our truth, our inner stronghold and treasures, our humanity and our transcendent self.
The more open we are, the more life can flow in and through us, out and beyond.
My experience: “Being more open brings me more ease, vitality, creative energy, meaningful connection with others, a capacity for inclusivity and expansion, etc.
I’m less egocentric, more in touch with a natural altruistic dynamic, and I’m modelling what humanity needs. I’m drawn to offer myself to the world in a new way.”
Our human and material world need our openness.
They need YOUR openness now!
– Specifically, what can YOUR openness give to the world?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 48 27.11.23
Openness brings….?
Being open to our inner world is one of the PRH fundamental attitudes for growth.
In YOUR EXPERIENCE, what are the benefits of being open…
…on you, your fulfilment and happiness?
…on your growth journey?
…on those around you?
…in your environment generally?
– Choose 1–3 concrete examples of your openness and take time to note down all the benefits for each one….
Example: I was offered a job out of the blue and my first instinct was to dismiss it. But I took time to step back and be open to the opportunity. The benefits were a new horizon opened up for me, my curiosity was ignited, and I grew in self-belief.
– What do you discover about yourself?
– Does this call you to anything? If so, what?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 47 20.11.23
How open are you?
We may think we are open, but often detect a subtle resistance to opening and receiving…
– How open are you to…
…what’s new?
…what’s out of your comfort zone?
…what’s outside of your conditioning?
…other people’s perspectives?
…your own inner world?
…depth and breadth?
…etc?
– Are you open to journalling on this?
– If so, what do you discover about yourself?
– If you are open to the challenge TO BE MORE OPEN …
what do you feel called from within to do as your first step?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 46 13.11.23
Openness
– What does openness mean to you?
Describe what being open feels like in you in as much detail as possible.
Be careful to connect with your FELT SENSE so that you can describe the LIVING SENSATION.
– What have you experienced, and discovered, that was NEW for you?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 45 6.11.23
Ebb, flow and ocean
Recently we looked at 2 different movements in us – surrender or take charge.
Just like waves, and Nature herself, our constant rhythm is to ebb and flow – withdraw and move forward.
But do we tend to narrow our sense of identity to the experience of one, or the other?
What if we were to identify with the ocean that contains both of these movements….?
– If you DO identify with the ocean, or aspire to do so, HOW do you identify with it?
– Do you engage just your thoughts, or other parts of you, or your whole person in this act of identification?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 44 30.10.23
Surrender or take charge?
In the face of any event (whether global, relational, work, day-to-day, intrapersonal, etc.) we usually have the choice to respond in one of two ways:
- Give in, allow, surrender, do nothing or
- Take charge, act, try and change, fix, or resist etc.
What is your tendency?
– one?
– or the other?
–or both, depending on….
– To get to know yourself better, take 3 recent events and note whether your reaction for each one has been passive or active.
– Where has this reaction originated from in you? For example:
- an emotion e.g. fear or anger
- a habit – without thinking
- a principle or idea e.g. “They need to be taught a lesson”
- a value e.g. like trust or justice
Whether your response originated from a value, or not:
– are you motivated to evolve towards living more from your deepest values?
You might take some time to journal on this.
– Have you learned anything new from it?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 43 23.10.23
What is your ALLOWING about?
Just as with resistance, ALLOWING can be an ACT OF EMPOWERMENT or an ACT OF AVOIDANCE.
When ALLOWING is an ACT OF AVOIDANCE, we are:
- avoiding facing reality
- taking the ‘easy’ way out
- often co-dependent and
- colluding with dysfunctional behaviour
- keeping ourselves small
… out of fear or habit.
Examples of allowing as avoidance:
- I let X criticise me and I don’t say anything, to avoid confrontation
- I allow myself to get stuck in repetitive patterns as they keep me safe in my comfort zone
When ALLOWING is an ACT OF EMPOWERMENT, we stand up in our:
- inner solidity and sense of self
- autonomy
- capacity to think and feel and be within the bigger picture
- our connection to our higher or transcendent self
Examples of allowing as empowerment:
- I accept other people’s opinions or lifestyles. I let go of egocentric functioning and feel more autonomous
- Although I feel uncomfortable in a difficult situation, I actively embrace it with curiosity, open to what wants to live in me from my deeper self
– Why not take 3-5 recent experiences of allowing and note if they were/are an act of empowerment or avoidance…
– What do you notice at the end? Have you learned anything new from this?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 42 16.10.23
What is your resistance about?
Experiencing resistance may be an ACT OF EMPOWERMENT or an ACT OF AVOIDANCE.
When it is an ACT OF EMPOWERMENT….
… we are aligning with our true values, our autonomy, our capacity to be ourselves and our capacity to stand in our truth.
Examples of resistance as empowerment:
· I will not let X continue to treat me this way… I will walk away, find help, etc.
· I’m not going to eat meat any more… and enjoy acting from my deep conscience.
When resistance is an ACT OF AVOIDANCE (and therefore disempowering)…
… we are avoiding acting from our truth, true power etc. and take the ‘easy’ way out.
Examples of resistance as avoidance:
· I know I should call X and tell them I don’t want to go to the cinema but…. (I’m too scared/I don’t want to hurt them, etc.)
· I keep putting off starting my new exercise regime/clearing my room/going to the doctor (what am I REALLY avoiding?)
– You can take 3-5 recent experiences of resistance and note if they were/are an act of empowerment or avoidance.
– How do you feel at the end of this? What new insights do you have?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 41 9.10.23
Do you tend to allow or resist?….
Here are 2 ways of interacting with life’s circumstances….
1. ALLOW and EXPERIENCE go deeper and expand
2. RESIST and CONTROL inhibit growth and reinforce life-limiting patterns
– Which tendency do you mainly identify with?
– What are the results of generally reacting like this?
– Do you know WHY this is your MO?
– Since when have you been like this?
– Has the tendency changed in any way throughout your life? What’s your story here?
– What are you left with at the end?
– What’s appeared new for you?
– Did you allow this self-enquiry, or resist it? Haha!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 40 2.10.23
Honouring your pace….
Our pace of doing things is as personal and unique as each one of us.
What “relationship” do you have with your own pace?
Whether you are a slow-and-steady person or fast-and-productive, or a bit of both according to circumstances your relationship with your pace can be a real help, or a hindrance, to your unfolding into your true nature.
– Do you accept, cherish, and honour your pace as a unique part of you?
If so, what is the sensation that arises in you now?
If not, why not?
– What is preventing you from having a loving relationship with your pace?
– After exploring this, what’s appeared new for you?
Have fun getting to know yourself better!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 39 25.9.23
WHO do you want to be by the end of the year?
Naming our intention focuses our whole person.
It also allows for our closer collaboration with Life.
Let’s look at our growth intention for the next three months.
Want to give it a go? Follow these steps…
– Step 1
I connect to my present reality and anchor myself in my life force and determination to evolve.
– Step 2
Mindful of my time frame, I listen deeply to what I’d like to be living by the end of that time.
– Step 3
I name this intention clearly in writing. e.g.
- A greater capacity to pause before I respond to my partner
- more confidence in myself in my work
- clear the clutter in a room in my house
- write a chapter of the book I’ve always wanted to write
- get closer to my true purpose in life
- etc.
– Step 4 What is my motivation to live this?
– Step 5 What are the resources that will help me get there?
The PRH FPM (Methodical Personal Growth) programme offers a structure to guide and personalise your growth plan. You can always ask for details.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 38 18.9.23
What commitments or activities are you prioritising in your life & why?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 37 11.9.23
What motivates your desire to learn?
Once you know what you would love to learn (see recent post), you can explore the motivation behind it.
– Ask yourself: Why do I want to learn X?
– Take time to gather the sensation that arises and, with an open mind, write down what arises fully and simply.
– Then read it back to yourself.
– What is new for you through this exercise?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 36 4.9.23
Back to school –
what do you want to learn?
As we transition into a fresh season and new reality after the holidays, for many ‘back to school’ plays a big part in that.
Every human being is endowed with a capacity and desire to learn.
Unfortunately that sometimes gets thwarted through the educational system imposed on us; lack of understanding of our learning styles, strengths and limitations; distractions we might have, etc.
– Whatever your experience of school, what, at this time, would you WISH TO LEARN?
– Let your mind float free with no restrictions of time, money, circumstances, etc. and listen to what comes up for you from within.
– Staying as close to the sensation as you can, write down 1, 2 or 3 things that you would LOVE TO LEARN.
For example, how to:
- dance the tango
- write calligraphy
- stop procrastinating
- say “no” politely, but firmly
- make a decision
- harness your full potential
– What sensation are you left with at the end?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 35 28.8.23
When it’s time to move on… (integrating transitions)
Here in Europe the summer holidays are coming to an end, and we transition into a different phase of life. How can we make this change growthful?
A simple way of integrating any transition is to ask yourself “How do I feel at the different levels of my person?
At the end of the summer (or whatever):
– how do I feel in my sensibility (feeling centre)? e.g., sad at the loss of the greater freedom in summer… or excited at the new structure or focus coming my way….or a bit of both, etc.
– how do I respond at the level of my “I”? e.g., I know all good things must come to an end…. I’m ready for something new….. why do I hate change so much? etc.
– how do I feel in my body? e.g., relaxed and at ease, or energised, or I have a knot in my stomach, my neck hurts, etc.
– how do I feel at the level of my inner being? e.g., I aspire to accept, I feel a deep sense of being part of the flow, I am determined to face it.
I pause and detach from all levels and anchor myself in a neutral space within me. Here in my deep conscience, I listen.
– What potential, or expansion, am I being called to live in these circumstances? g., My flexibility….my joy at change… my acceptance of reality, my trust in Life, etc.
Why not give this a go, get to know yourself better and surprise yourself!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 34 21.8.23
The holidays – what an inspiration!
Whether the holidays mean unplugging, or increasing your activity and connections, they can serve as a precious resource for your ongoing growth and expansion.
All you have to do (and no effort required!) is ask yourself:
– What have the holidays spontaneously inspired in you e.g. your desire for greater balance, your sense of self-worth, your social side, your determination to paint, write, travel, etc.?
– What 3 things have NATURALLY come alive or increased due to your holidays? Give yourself time to note them down e.g. enrol for a class, follow a growth programme, organise more family visits, etc.
– What, from within, do you feel called to do to materialise each inspiration into your life?
Be inspired! Have fun!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 33 14.8.23
What is growing, or has grown in you, due to your holidays?
For me it’s:
- a sense of spaciousness
- my aspiration to take extra care of my sensibility and body
- my capacity to look deeper into myself
- my openness to my daily natural world
- my appreciation of old friends
- and my capacity to indulge in my passion of reading!
– What has grown for you due to the holidays?
– Do you feel closer to your true self as a result?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 32 7.8.23
What do the holidays mean to you? Your pivotal centres #2
When we take a holiday break, whether long or short, at home or away, we are creating around us A NEW ENVIRONMENT, different from the usual.
What effect does this welcome change have on each of our pivotal centres (mind, body, feeling centre, inner being)?
In order to gain more from this new environment, why not ask yourself – and take time to journal your responses….
– How does my mind (“I”) benefit from holidays?
– How does my body benefit from holidays?
– How does my feeling centre (sensibility) benefit from holidays?
– How does my inner being benefit from holidays?
– What sensation are you left with at the end?
HAPPY SUMMER (OR WINTER) HOLIDAYS!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 31 31.7.23
What do the holidays mean to you? #1
In the Northern Hemisphere it is the season for holidays. It’s a time for doing things differently, away from our normal routine.
– What are the different elements you wish to have in your holidays this year?
- A break from work or routine? Yes!
- More time to spend with family, friends and loved ones?
- More time to spend away from family, friends and loved ones?
- Time to:
- discover more
- read more
- play more
- rest more
- learn something new
- visit unknown places
- connect more to your inner world
- ?
– In other words, what do you feel drawn to ENGAGE WITH more?
– What do you feel drawn to DISCONNECT FROM more?
– What is your DEEPEST INTENTION for your holidays?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 30 24.7.23
What does this image awaken in you?
– Name your sensation.
– Step back, ponder, and ask yourself, “What can I learn about myself from what it awakens in me?”
– How can this help me to grow?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 29 17.7.23
Smile – a life-giving process
One way we can contribute to a better world, and an evolved dimension of humanity, is through a conscious practice of a simple smile THAT ORIGINATES IN OUR INNER BEING.
Here are 3 possibilities of how to do it….
AT LEAST ONCE EVERY DAY:
- Pause and smile at YOURSELF in a warm, loving, tender way
- Pause and smile consciously at ONE OTHER PERSON (or more!)
- Follow a high vibrational SMILING PRACTICE such as….
Here is a suggested morning SMILING PRACTICE, connected to your inner being and deep conscience:
- STEP 1: start your day with a pause and a smile as you ponder that you are alive (the essence of your human reality).
- STEP 2: extend that smile to all you are grateful for in your life, now and in the future (personally conditional).
- STEP 3: extend your loving smile even further to the whole of life and humanity as you sense it today, regardless of conditions (unconditional).
Allow your smile to be TRANSCONDITIONAL!
Allow your smile to be TRANSCENDENT (see recent post).
- Experiment with your own smiling practice, tailored to you, and notice and note down the benefits….
The world needs your SMILE!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 28 10.7.23
How deep is your smile? PART 2
A SMILE can originate from different depths in us.
Let’s go deep! …
If you’re connected in depth to your inner being, your smile is a gesture of GIVING WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN.
It is unconditional.
You can generate a smile:
- Intrapersonally – e.g. connected to your ability to appreciate humour
- Interpersonally – e.g. connected to your desire to express positivity to another
- Transpersonally – e.g. connected to something that takes you beyond you, it’s like there is a “plus”
What is a transpersonal smile?
Your smile can be transpersonal if:
- It emanates from a place of wonder or awe in you.
- It is prompted by something absolute or infinite that comes from beyond you but that you can feel within you. e.g. Love, Appreciation, Connectedness, etc.
- It helps you break out of your familiar sphere, and you feel you are internally “inhabiting” a different space. e.g. sometimes felt through experiences of shared humour.
Notice yourself smiling this week.
- How deep is that smile of yours?
- Is there a “plus”?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 27 3.7.23
How deep is your smile?
– Have you smiled today?
If so, where did it come from in you?
Was it perhaps:
- purely PHYSICAL? e.g. for the dentist to inspect your teeth
- from OBLIGATION OR DUTY? e.g. for team photos or selfies
- from your FEELING centre? e.g. as a spontaneous sign of pleasure or amusement, or to appear more attractive, etc.
- from your DEEP SELF? e.g. your deep desire to communicate connection, appreciation etc.
- etc.
– Observe yourself this week and notice WHEN you smile and WHERE IT CAME FROM in you.
Note it down in writing.
– At the end of the week, what have you noticed?
Next time, we’ll look at your smiling experience from an even deeper level….
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 26 26.6.23
Dare to be yourself….
Dare you?
Trusting, and being naturally yourself, is easy for an innocent child or a discerning sage.
For the rest of us it can be harder because of:
· social contexts and pressure to conform
· our own painful past experience which leads to…
· a reactive defence mechanism or…
· an engrained pattern of keeping small because we SEE ourselves as small and powerless
· a reduced perspective which doesn’t take in the whole picture
· etc.
All this can change…by facing, and taking responsibility for, these difficulties as the adult we are today.
Let’s start…
– Take one recent, or present, situation where you find it hard to be fully yourself.
What’s your MOTIVATION to change? e.g. determination to live my life to the full.
– What QUALITY OF YOUR TRUE SELF cannot fully live here at present? e.g. my courage, my ability to express myself clearly, my capacity to set healthy boundaries, my Light.
– WHAT’S PREVENTING you from living it? e.g. fear of ridicule, fear of abandonment, etc.
– What ASPECT OF YOUR TRUE BEING can help you move forward?
e.g. my determination to be fair to myself, my openness to receiving professional help, etc.
– What’s new that stands out for you at the end of this?
Through both intuition and experience, the PRH approach holds the conviction that we are all called to be:
· OURSELVES
· ALL OF OURSELVES
· ONLY, AND NO MORE THAN, OURSELVES
and offers all the tools needed to achieve this.
Dare to take the next step to stand in your full stature and thereby gain dignity, purpose and fulfilment. You can become a discerning sage.
I dare you!
If you are drawn to further guidance on this, don’t hesitate to ask a PRH practitioner, or consult the book, “Standing up – the art of existing” (Authentic and respectful self-assertiveness), Theuwissen and Lamarche, (PRH International)
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 25 19.6.23
Trusting the process – part 3
So, how do we do it?
The benefits of trusting the process are clear. So how do we TRUST THE PROCESS?
Like so much of what is truly meaningful in our life, we can’t really make it happen by will.
It’s not voluntary – it happens at the level of our being
Therefore, we have to CREATE AND NURTURE THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT for it to happen organically, and with Grace.
First, why not take a moment to ask yourself:
– How do I practise TRUSTING THE PROCESS? (i.e. What happens inside me?)
– What helps me to TRUST THE PROCESS?
– What tools do I use?
In PRH our 3 primary, highly valued, tried and tested ways of expanding any gift or capacity are…
- Inspiration (life-giving connections)
- Exploration of our inner world through deciphering our sensations accurately (PRH analysis)
- Consolidation of our qualities through implementing them in action (living true to ourselves and our deep conscience in every moment)
– What do you feel called to do in order to TRUST THE PROCESS MORE?
After writing it down, be true to it, and witness the magic of TRUSTING THE PROCESS unfold!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 24 12.6.23
Trusting the process – part 2
Do you, don’t you…?
- If you DON’T TRUST THE PROCESS, what are the consequences for you? Here are some examples:–– anxiety
– stress
– hyper responsibility
– the need to control
– a feeling of empowerment - When you do TRUST THE PROCESS, what does it bring you into relationship with, or connect you to?
Here are some possibilities based on experience:
– a physical sensation of expansion
– a perception of the bigger picture
– a feeling of belonging to something bigger than myself
– closeness to a greater wisdom and /or loving presence
– the profound conviction that “all is well
– a lack of attachment to an outcome
– my transcendent dimension
– curiosity, and greater awareness of my part in the process
– patience and openness
– my adult, wise, even cosmic, self
– etc.
- On reading these slowly, in what way do they resonate with you, if any?
- At the end, what are you left with?
- Do you, or don’t you, feel more drawn to trust the process?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 23 5.6.23
Trusting the process – part 1
When we’re uncomfortable with what is “unknown”, our first valuable tool is curiosity, and our ultimate resource is TRUSTING THE PROCESS.
- What does trusting the process mean to you?
- First of all, what are your IDEAS or THOUGHTS about it?
Take time to write them all down. Yes, all of them! Interesting?
- What is your LIVED EXPERIENCE, if any, of deeply trusting the process?
- What were the results of that?
Get in touch with the SENSATION that trusting the process now brings up in you. Take time to write down in full sentences how it feels and resonates in you.
- What do you discover new here?
- Anchored in your desire to grow and expand, what does it call you to?
Next time we will look further at this deep wisdom resource.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 22 29.5.23
Cultivating curiosity
One of the most powerful tools we have in our relationship with the unknown is curiosity.
It is the first of the attitudes considered essential in PRH.
As a species, we are naturally curious.
Moreover, consciously using this fundamental attitude for our well-being and growth can change the quality of our life.
CURIOSITY IS THE ANTIDOTE TO FEAR.
If our mind and attention is focused on what’s interesting and new, any fear we might be feeling takes second place.
Are you interested in trying this for yourself?
- Think about anything you’re not sure of, a future event or possibility, etc. that brings up some discomfort, anxiety, etc. in you.
Then BE CURIOUS about what you’re facing and/or your reaction to it.
Anchored in your curiosity:
- What do you notice and feel within yourself?
- What does it connect you to?
- What does it stop you connecting to?
- Does your relationship to the unknown change?
- Does it help you to go beyond what you expect or know?
- What’s new for you at the end of this?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 21 22.5.23
Blessing the unknown
Many of us are familiar with the practice of appreciation and gratitude for what we already have, observe, and experience.
Maybe we use a regular gratitude journal or do it ‘virtually’ in our heart.
Some of us may also practice the transformative power of blessing.
From our positive inner wholeness, we wish unconditional good on people and situations around us in a simple, silent gesture
(from the book “The gentle art of blessing” by Pierre Praverand)
We can be grateful for WHAT IS…
We may bless WHAT IS…
But how much do we bless the UNKNOWN?
What is unknown can often bring up a sense of insecurity, so we tend to cling to, and prioritise, what we know.
But what if we were to be THANKFUL FOR, and BLESS, what we don’t know or can’t see, what is still not sure in our life, the uncertain future?
Have you ever considered doing that?
- What’s your experience of this?
- What do you need, or need to have in place, for you to be able to do it today?
- What’s new for you at the end of this exercise?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 20 15.5.23
Conditions or flow?
Do you tend to focus on the CIRCUMSTANCES around you and try and manoeuvre them, or yourself, to feel safe, recognised, important, fulfilled, etc.?
Or do you step back and resonate with the UNDERLYING FLOW OF ENERGY, life force, etc. that sustains all our material and relational conditions?
Are you fixated on CONDITIONS?
Happy when they go your way? Sad, angry or fearful when they don’t?…
…or do you drink from A DEEPER STREAM – a more comprehensive, unconditional, inclusive, wiser reality? Stepping back and sensing the bigger picture?
What’s your experience?
Take your time to consider a specific example of each approach in your life.
Then ask yourself: what are the concrete benefits here?
What are the disadvantages?
What is new for you at the end of this?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 19 8.5.23
The fruits of loving yourself…
how far do they reach?
Have you been noticing the benefits of loving yourself in the different ways mentioned in our recent post (comfort, dutiful, in-depth, transcendent)?
If so, what are they?
If you love yourself with comfort love or dutiful love, the results may in themselves be good, but also tend to be:
· short-term
· egocentric
· generating more lack and more need (comfort love)
· generating more rigidity and more stress (dutiful love)
· conditional
If you love yourself with in-depth or transcendent love the fruits tend to be:
· Life-affirming
· Life-giving and expansive
· beneficial for your whole person
· of benefit to more than you – those around you, humanity, etc.
· unconditional
Is this your experience? Note your concrete examples and you will see.
Have you found any further results or benefits?
After observing and noting your experience, what sensation are you left with? What insights? Any inner invitation for going forward?
Enjoy the fruits of your deep love for yourself.
Allow others to benefit from them too!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 18 1.5.23
Loving yourself….
– at what level?
If you recognise your ability to love yourself, what kind is it?
- Comfort love?
- Dutiful love?
- In-depth love?
- Transcendent love?
Comfort love:
- fulfilling your need to feel loved and special
Dutiful love:
- fulfilling an obligation to love yourself
- “I should love myself because I know it’s a good thing”
In-depth love:
- able to love yourself from a potentiality alive deep within you
Transcendent love:
- able to feel your Love for yourself as not only in you, but bigger than you. It feels Absolute and infinite and expands you beyond you
If interested, note down some instances when you catch yourself ‘loving’ yourself. Which type of love are they?
After a time, note down, what’s new, what you learn about yourself, and also if it calls you to anything.
Be curious, be loving!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 17 24.4.23
A passport to life’s biggest adventure?
– falling in love with myself!
Does this surprise you? What ideas, judgement, interpretation do you have around ‘falling in love with myself’?
Then, consider this interpretation:
· Falling in love with myself is a DAILY PROCESS
· It involves a DEEP MOTIVATION TO KNOW MYSELF, both in my ultimate truth and in my limited reality
· It is accompanied by a WONDER at what I discover and at the unfolding mystery
· It involves EMBODYING MY TRUTH step by step in the here and now
When we make falling in love with ourselves and our unfolding self-revelation our priority, we hold a passport to our biggest adventure.
What is your experience of falling in love with yourself?
Does it open you to EXPANSION or to CONTRACTION?
What is your sensation at the end of this self-enquiry?
What have you learned new about yourself and your life?
And, if you are called to a next step, what is it?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 16 17.4.23
What’s your BIGGEST ADVENTURE in life?
To answer this question, take time to pause and get in touch with your sensation before writing down what comes up in response.
Here are some further questions to guide you to greater self-knowledge……
- Is your biggest adventure external (e.g. doing) or internal (e.g. being?)?
- Is it closed or open? In other words, does it have a finite ending, or is it continuous?
- Does it involve part of you, or all of you?
- Is it a personal or collective adventure?
What is your sensation at the end of this self-enquiry?
What have you learned new about yourself and your life?
If you are called to a next step, what is it?
Please feel free to share anything you wish that comes up for you so we can all be witnesses to, and part of, your Adventure!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 15 10.4.23
A little adventure – or a Great Big Adventure?
Every day we take part in a new adventure (see last growth motivation post)
We enter into this with differing degrees of awareness and proactivity.
Some of us put all our energy, focus, inner resources into this meaningful unfolding through our personal growth journey
This is already expansive and exciting…
…but how much is your personal adventure part of an even bigger Adventure?
Do you feel you are part of a Great Big Adventure – for example, the evolution of Humanity, A Divine Plan, the unfolding of Cosmic Consciousness, etc.?
If so, what is the part of your adventure in the Great Big Adventure?
What does this call you to? What is your first concrete step?
If not, what do you experience in this area? Does it call you to something concrete? If so, what?
After this, you might like to take a time to pause and be still, and feel the present sensation alive in you. Allow it to be and expand in you
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 14 3.4.23
Are you ready for today’s adventure?
Facing each new day from a place of conscious collaboration with Life (see recent posts), also means entering into its unknown adventure.
How do we prepare for this?
It requires our SOLIDITY and FLEXIBILITY:
SOLIDITY involves our rock of being – our inner qualities, values, and in-depth bonds. In other words, what we know and feel about our positive core that’s accessible and alive in us.
e.g., my capacity to survive, my courage, my trust in the Bigger Picture, my enthusiasm for life.
Our FLEXIBILITY is enhanced by owning and mastering some core attitudes:
· a curiosity and willingness to learn
· an openness to my inner reality and to the Bigger Picture
· a taste for truth
· an acceptance of what is
· a determination to move forward
· trust in the process and in the Beyond of me
What are YOUR tools to face each new adventure?
At the beginning of each day, you can notice what is solid in you, and what is flexible, and note it down.
What do you observe? What helps YOU to be ready for your daily adventure into the unknown?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 13 27.3.23
Deepening the start of your day
At the beginning of each day, you have the opportunity to enter energetically into collaborating with the ‘new’ that Life constantly offers us.
With what do you fill the first moments of your day? (see previous growth motivation post)
With:
· thoughts?
· feelings?
· a combination of thoughts and feelings that go in a loop?
· physical sensations?
· an aspiration or sensation emanating from your inner being?
· something unconditional or transcendent, at the very core of your being?
e.g. Gratitude, Joy, Peace, Love, Inner Freedom, etc.
At WHAT LEVEL do you choose to enter the new day?
Note it in your observation journal. After a few days, do you notice anything?
Enjoy co-creating with Life at the start of your day! You can join Its deeper energy stream and ground yourself in the Unconditional every morning!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 12 20.3.23
How do you start your day?
Waking from nightly sleep offers us the chance to ‘begin again’ each day.
Do you use this opportunity wisely?
Are you reactive or pause-active (see recent post) when you wake?
REACTIVE when you wake. For example, you:
· don’t pause
· are in the past or future
· slip into instinctive or semi-automatic patterns – very often fight or flight
· are ‘closed’
· are filled with thoughts and feelings
· continue with your automatic patterns, often caught in a loop
PAUSE-ACTIVE when you wake. For example, you:
· pause
· take a moment to be present to all your inner reality
· are ‘open’
· connect to your inner being and/or your life dynamism
· consciously choose how you are going to move forward
You could observe yourself over the next few days, and ask:
– With what do I fill the first moments of my day?
– Do I tend to be reactive or pause-active at the start of the day?
What are the consequences of this for me?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 11 13.3.23
How “pause-active” are you?
Faced with any situation, event, encounter, stimulus, etc. we are often reactive – responding instinctively by habit and/or from self-protection.
Sometimes we can be proactive – responding creatively from a place of self-empowerment, foreseeing what is required from, and for, the bigger picture.
Our recent post covered “the art of creating pause”. What that means is:
· PAUSING before a stimulus
· RE-ALIGNING within yourself, and (often)
· CHOOSING from a more solid and life-affirming place in you, in order to
· ACT from there
If you’ve practised that – congratulations – you’ve been pause-active!
Over the next week, why not observe yourself and note down at the end of the day how often, on a scale of 0-10, you were pause-active.
After a few days, what do you notice?
Do you experience any benefits?
What, if anything, does it call you to?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 10 6.3.23
What does “inner harmony” mean to you?
We all have ideas about everything. What are your IDEAS about inner harmony?
Take some time to pause, reflect, and write them down as they come to you.
Now feel into your EXPERIENCE of inner harmony (as opposed to your ideas about it). If it is simpler, connect with your deep aspiration for inner harmony or your intuition as to how you sense it would feel.
How does inner harmony feel in your body?
What elements does it have?
Take all the time you need to feel into this and describe it as fully as it comes to you.
What arises in you after this exercise?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 9 27.2.23
Nothing to say …
What do you do?
In certain situations, you feel an expectation (from yourself or others) to say something or express yourself, but nothing comes spontaneously.
How do you react to this? Here are 3 possible types of reaction…
· Nothing to say….what do you do? 1
Do you struggle and fight with it, and try to overcome your lack of inspiration? (Must try harder). Then you speak from a place of obligation and perhaps respond by “babbling”.
· Nothing to say….what do you do? 2
Do you close down, freeze, go numb, unable to think properly and just want to disappear?
· Nothing to say….what do you do? 3
Perhaps you accept your reality, trust, are patient and present – open to the bigger picture, and confident in your own reality, truth, and pace?
Try observing when you’re “lost for words”. What’s your experience of this? What do you notice?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 8 20.2.23
The art of creating pause
What happens next?…
Every day, all day, we face the unexpected. This can be at best disconcerting, and at worst, traumatic.
What happens next?
We tend to react automatically (fight, flight, freeze, frolic, etc.)
To stop feeding these defence mechanisms, we need to rise above them and create a buffer between stimulus and response.
A buffer is a healthier way to honour and protect ourselves.
We need to pause….
Pause.
…so we can then inhabit a fresh space.
In that space all is possible.
There, we touch on our potential for life, choice, freedom and the new.
There, we are empowered.
Then, we can reset and recentre, anchored in our deepest truth.
Practise the art of creating pause and see what it brings you.
Friendly warning!
Be prepared for a greater sense of autonomy and true empowerment as you practise this regularly!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 7 13.2.23
Pause….and consolidate who you truly are
Before embarking on anything, it’s worth pausing and connecting consciously to your inner core.
Why?
Because an important means of growing into our true self is to be aware in the now moment of our gifts and inner stronghold. We expand by acknowledging who we are.
Like a traveller who knows what they have in their backpack or suitcase for support and help on their journey, we can travel with more confidence, clarity, and well-being when we know what inner resources we are carrying.
Try it for yourself…
What gifts, qualities, deep values are alive in you at this moment?
· Locate them in your body
· Write them down
· Feel them
What benefits do you get from this exercise?
If you wish to get to know your inner core in more detail, the PRH workshop “Who am I?” or the module “Discovering the Core of my Identity are ideal for this.
The Personal Growth Programme (FPM) uses this method of ‘pause and consolidate’ for filling in your growth path in your yearly plan.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 6 6.2.23
Making changes …. how to start
Whether integrating what’s new in your life or being proactive to live more in alignment with your true self, YOUR MOTIVATION to do so is what launches and drives you and keeps you going.
Consciously getting in touch with YOUR MOTIVATION and embedding it through writing, will give you energy, focus, purpose, meaning and drives momentum.
Try starting any project, undertaking, or period of time, with connecting to YOUR MOTIVATION.
If you have the opportunity, note it down in full sentences in your growth journal. Do you notice the difference this simple step makes?
For detailed guidance on this, see our previous post ‘After the WHO and the WHAT, let’s focus on the WHY!’ (26 September 2022)
It doesn’t matter how habitual, familiar, or natural the activity you’re about to start is.
I do this first thing every morning as part of my ongoing collaboration and love affair with Life!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 5 30.1.23
How to embrace what’s new Part 2
Integration
To fully accommodate a new element in our lives, and gain its true benefits, we must play an active part in integrating it.
Integration involves conscious change of one, or more, of the following:
· Change of our ideas
· Change of our self-image
· Change of our behaviour
· A shift in our inner status quo and priorities
What changes have you had to incorporate recently? What of the previous categories do they fall into?
What simple steps do you take to embody any changes consciously and constructively?
Have fun this week noticing how you integrate what’s new for you.
Enjoy evolving consciously!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 4 23.1.23
How to embrace what’s new Part 1
Actively allowing the ‘new’ into our lives is a concrete way of co-operating with our evolutionary reality. Are you up for that?
The new can be:
· an element in my inner or outer life
· an insight, idea or perspective
· a degree of certainty or conviction
· a fresh connection or relational dynamic
· greater resonance
· etc.
You can WELCOME THE NEW with 3 key attitudes:
· Be interested in the new
· Being open to it
· Accepting it
WELCOME THE NEW with key attitude ONE:
· BE INTERESTED in the new before, and as, it arrives – willing, curious about it, with your antennae tuned to it (or attached to habit, the familiar, comfort).
WELCOME THE NEW with key attitude TWO:
· BEING OPEN to it – when something new appears within you or in your life – how do you receive it? With a warm welcome or with resistance, reluctance, doubt, or suspicion?
WELCOME THE NEW by your attitude THREE:
· ACCEPTING it – Can you accept the new, whether pleasant or unpleasant, with its disruption of the status quo? How do you do accept it?
If you feel drawn to try this out, observe yourself applying these attitudinal steps:
· Curious and ready for something new?
· Open to embrace it once it arrives
· Accepting it (despite inconveniences, discomfort, change of self-image, etc)
After trying this for a few days, note any observations in your growth journal. Enjoy collaborating with humanity’s evolution!
Look out for PART 2 on integration of the new. Curious?
PRH (Personality and Human Relationships) is an international school of life-long learning to discover who you truly are and what your purpose is, both for your own deepest fulfilment and for the benefit of humanity and for our global environment
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 3 16.1.23
What if you let go of letting go?
At the start of a new year, a strong transformer energy can lead us to want to make changes.
We often decide to stop, or let go of, dysfunctional or non-constructive habits. Sometimes this works, sometimes not. Perhaps because paying attention to WHAT WE DON’T WANT can just INCREASE OUR UNHEALTHY ATTACHMENT to it.
In contrast, we can try FOCUSING ON what we ASPIRE TO ALLOW more of in our life – and so increase our LIFE-GIVING ENERGETIC CONNECTION to that, and its place in our lives.
Examples of things to allow in:
· tidy spaces
· daily walks in Nature
· conscious breaths
· living foods
· well-being
· loving actions
· people that inspire us
· a journal entry
· a smile for another
· etc.
Listen well to your life force and start with letting just one thing choose you. Practice allowing it space – consistently, but gently.
In our PRH experience we know the power and value of focusing on growing our inner being. As we do so, the more uncomfortable or disharmonious aspects of our inner world lose their intensity and fade in importance. This feels so good, purposeful and solidifying!
Enjoy allowing more Life, harmony, and alignment into your experiencing – and see what happens.
PRH (Personality and Human Relationships) is an international school of life-long learning to discover who you truly are and what your purpose is, both for your own deepest fulfilment and for the benefit of humanity and for our global environment
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 2 9.1.23
Consumer? Informer? Transformer? Part 5
Working together – coherence, harmony and purpose
Consumer? Informer? Transformer?
We live all 3 different energies at different times. They each have their purpose.
True wisdom lies in recognising the best time and place for drawing on each one and offering it with perfect pitch and inner balance.
In order to make our lives truly meaningful and be radiant transformers, we need to:
know the wise use and power of our informer energy
– live our consumer energy in its highest form of appreciation
– bring our transformer energy to the fore
Example: How to approach a New Year’s resolution. Maybe you are tired of being imprisoned by old addictive patterns and want to give up overeating, overdrinking, overthinking, etc.
Step 1 You read reality just as it is (INFORMER energy), being honest with all the facts without any drama or suppression. Writing it down is most helpful.
Step 2. You appreciate all your resources (CONSUMER energy) both inner – e.g. determination, desire for autonomy, etc. and outer – an exercise app, your accompanist, a supportive friend, etc.
Step 3. Then you pause, draw into yourself, let yourself be in the present moment, listen to what wants to live in you and connects you to your inner being (TRANSFORMER energy). You gather and follow up on any inner invitations, keeping connected to the bigger picture. e.g. Just for today, I feel called to breathe fresh air and not to smoke.
Repeat this 3-fold process often to establish your practice and make it a life-giving habit. You will soon see how natural it becomes and how these energies work together to bring significant shifts to your life and your environments.
May this be your first empowering gift to yourself in 2023!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
(An ideal way of learning how to use these 3 energies practically – and grow in the process – is through the learning and practice of the tool of PRH embodied analysis).
PRH (Personality and Human Relationships) is an international school of life-long learning to discover who you truly are and what your purpose is, both for your own deepest fulfilment and for the benefit of humanity and for our global environment
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 1 2.1.23
