Here are our growth motivations published on social media in 2024:
Reality is my teacher and my deep conscience is my guide.
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Reality is my teacher and my deep conscience is my guide. My trustworthy guide.
And so, for that reason, I have come to the decision to stop social media posts for the summer. It is not an easy decision to make but it feels, in depth, the right one.
I wish you a happy summer or winter (depending on where you live) and may you go back and integrate some of the growth motivations over the last few months.
Perhaps you could explore some of the in-depth decisions you have made recently. What have been the benefits of making them?
Hope to see you again soon, when I’ve recovered and touched on some new awakenings to share with you.
Bye, for now.
Enjoy the journey!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 26 24.6.24
Resonance is calling…
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Each of our pivotal centres (thinking “I”, body, sensibility, being, deep conscience) expresses itself differently.
Our core being is always communicating if we are open to listen. One way it expresses itself is through its language of resonance, “attunement” or natural “rightness”.
– Recall a moment in your life when you have had an experience of deep “resonance”.
Perhaps around:
- a response to a work of art, music or writing
- an experience in Nature
- what comes alive in you during an interaction with another person(s)
- a deep recognition of a truth outside of your normal thinking box
- etc, etc.
– How did it express itself in you? Use your own words to describe your inner experience as far as you can.
– Then, when you’ve finished, name the sensation you’re left with.
What have you discovered new about yourself?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 25 17.6.24
Feeling your feelings…
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It sounds odd but do you really FEEL your feelings?
Or instead, do you:
- resist or fight them?
- escape from them?
- minimise them?
- overidentify with them?
- imagine them?
- glorify or demonise the pleasant feelings?
- glorify or demonise the unpleasant feelings?
- interpret them?
- judge them?
- etc.??
If you’re curious to know yourself better…
From your experience, ask yourself:
– Do you allow yourself to FEEL your feelings – at least for yourself?
– If so, when and how do you do this?
– If not, why not? What do you do instead?
– What are the benefits and disadvantages of your behaviour towards your feelings?
– What sensation is left in you at the end of this?
– Have you discovered anything new?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 24 10.6.24
What are you feeling below your neck…?
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Last time we looked at living in our heads. Let’s practise something different!
A simple way to distinguish a thought in our head from something else is to pause and notice what’s happening below our neck.
This means locating it in our body.
Our body grounds us in present reality. It’s trustworthy, unlike our minds that can take us on long journeys disconnected from reality.
Whether this is new or familiar to you, why not observe with curiosity…
– Pause at different times and ask yourself:
– What am I feeling below my neck?
– Where can I locate it in my body?
– Is what I’m feeling purely physical (e.g. stiff knee, relaxed body)?
– Or does it have some psychological content (e.g. butterflies in my stomach, lethargy around doing something, buzzing euphoria, etc.)?
– I may like to note down what I notice. After a few days, have I discovered anything new for myself?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 23 3.6.24
Living in your head…
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Sometimes we’re not aware of how much we live our life in our heads!
It can often drive us crazy as we go round and round, dealing with life from our thoughts and ideas.
Originally a defence mechanism, it can become an engrained habit. Do you recognise yourself here?
Let’s take a closer look.
From your experience:
– What are the benefits for you of dealing with life from your head?
– What are the disadvantages?
– Do you feel called to face life and manage it from a different place in you? Write down your answer as fully as you can.
– What sensation is left in you at the end of this?
– Have you discovered anything new?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 22 27.5.24
Being firm and loving to myself…
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Instead of judging myself and putting myself down, which makes me a perpetual victim, I need to stop allowing myself to be critical and abusive to myself and instead set loving boundaries for myself.
If you want to take responsibility for yourself, try these steps:
- Notice a situation when you are criticising yourself.
- STOP. (PACE)
- Pause and disconnect. Imagine you are going into neutral (like gears in a car) (SPACE)
- Then connect to the love and care you have, or would like to have, for yourself. (EMBRACE)
Keep going back to this simple process every time you find yourself under pressure, thinking negative thoughts about yourself, or just feeling lost and unsure.
What effect does it have on you? Write it down…
At the end of a few days, consider what has grown in you.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 21 20.5.24
SPACE…. PACE…. AND EMBRACE
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Three useful words that remind us to put a breaker between our triggers and our reactions:
SPACE:
When something uncomfortable, difficult, confusing, etc. happens, we need to pause and step back for a moment .
TAKE SPACE
PACE:
We need to recognise, honour, and respect our own pace and not automatically adapt to that of others. Our pace is unique to us and we can learn to cherish it and use it wisely for our own momentum. Do we need to slow down? Speed up?
CHOOSE YOUR PACE
EMBRACE:
Instead of resisting, opposing or fighting against our reality, feelings, etc., we need to embrace them. “I’m feeling sad, angry, confused, hurt, frightened…” We need to hold and embrace ourselves with our feelings, our vulnerability etc. just like a parent just being present with an upset child.
EMBRACE YOURSELF IN YOUR REALITY
Using these 3 steps consecutively, in any order, is the most effective for a complete first aid self-care package!
Why not practice it once a day for the next few days when you remember….
What do you notice?
What are the benefits?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 20 13.5.24
Setting loving boundaries….
In the last growth motivation post we looked at how blame is a distraction – a negative behaviour that we mistakenly think is protecting us but, in reality, takes us away from our truth!
One resource that does protect us in a healthy way is our ability to set loving boundaries. In this way, when others make mistakes with us, we can honour our true selves by putting a line in the sand and saying, “no further, no more”, expressing it with love out of RESPECT for ourselves, the other, and the connection between us.
How easy is setting loving boundaries for you to do?
– If you can set them, how do you do it? What’s your process? What are the benefits?
– If you can’t set loving boundaries, why not? What do you need to receive, or to be in place, in order to practice it more?
– What have you discovered about yourself that is new here?
If any of this is challenging for you and/or you would like help, don’t hesitate to ask for it from a PRH practitioner.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 19 6.5.24
Beyond the distraction of blame…
When things don’t turn out the way we wish for, or expect, we often respond by blaming – blaming others and/or ourselves.
Blaming keeps us at a cerebral level, protecting us from truly feeling what has been touched in us through the circumstances.
Blaming creates, or recreates, a dominated-domineering dynamic. Win or lose. Right or wrong. Hero or villain. Me or you, etc, etc.
Blame can be very seductive because it fuels any fire of injustice or anger, it solidifies any victim and/or persecutor identity, and it reinforces old, familiar neurological patterns in the brain.
But BLAME IS A DISTRACTION! Instead of helping us get closer to the truth, It takes us away from our Truth. The more we continue to blame, the further we remain from our true selves.
If you want to stop this tendency and take more charge of your own path into fullness of being, you can do the following exercise for yourself.
– Name a situation when you have been thrown off track by circumstances – however big or small.
– Do you blame someone (others and/or yourself) or something for things turning out like this?
– What benefits do you get from blaming in this way?
– What disadvantages are there to blaming like this?
– Now, PAUSE. Get out of your head. Put your attention below your neck and locate a FEELING in the face of what has happened. e.g. anxiety, anger, sadness, blankness, shock, etc.
– Name and describe this feeling as fully as you can. Own it and honour it. It is yours. It has messages for you.
– Who, or what, can support you in giving space to this feeling?
– Having honoured this feeling, what can you now sense that perhaps you couldn’t before e.g. I feel relief, more a sense of myself, more clarity, self-dignity, compassion for myself, etc.?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 18 29.4.24
Valuing our values…
Our values are those qualities that we consider most important in life – both in ourselves and in others. e.g. integrity, respect, kindness, generosity, commitment, etc., etc. There are so many, of course!
Do you really value your core values? Or do you hardly think about them and tend to take them for granted?
Here’s an opportunity to get to know yourself better. Take your time. You may surprise yourself…
– Write down 10 values that are essential to you.
– From these 10, choose the 3 that are MOST essential to you.
– How do you generally live out these 3 values in your daily life? Note some examples.
– How can you bring these values even more consciously into your life?
– What has this self-enquiry given you that’s new?
Valuing our values is a way of deepening our sense of self and can bring clarity and high octane fuel to our way of being and doing in the world.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 17 22.4.24
What does this awaken in you?
– Anchor yourself in your curiosity to know yourself better.
– Whether you have much experience of PRH or not, what does this notice of a world-wide professional community awaken in you? Name your inner sensation clearly.
– Take the time to explore your sensation, describing accurately what you are sensing at every moment.
– When you’ve finished, note down anything that’s new, or has taken on more prominence for you.
– Feel free to share this in the comments! We would love to hear it.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 16 15.4.24
What have the 4 pillars done for me?
After exploring our relationship to the 4 PRH pillars in the last growth motivation post, let’s take a look at their tangible benefits in our life.
Of the 4 tools you have practised:
- (ANALYSIS) Exploring your inner sensations accurately for self-knowledge
- (DISCERNMENT) Making constructive decisions from a place of deep perception within you
- (TIME FOR BEING) Immersing yourself in your essence for greater solidity and inspiration
- (PERSONAL ACCOMPANIMENT) Learning how to be helped in depth, to discover your true humanity…
– what can you say have been the BENEFITS for you and your personal growth?
– how have the people in your life BENEFITED by your use of these tools?
If you’re in the habit of practising all four of them regularly together, what have you noticed about the BENEFITS and ENERGETIC IMPACT of the whole package?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 15 8.4.24
The 4 pillars… and your relationship to them
In PRH there are 4 elements that are the core pillars in the unique method that is PRH Education.
Learning and practising these 4 pillars helps us tremendously along the road of “how to be our true selves” in the world.
They are:
1. (ANALYSIS) Exploring our inner sensations accurately for self-knowledge
2. (DISCERNMENT) Making constructive decisions from a place of deep perception within us
3. (TIME FOR BEING) Immersing ourselves in our essence for greater solidity and inspiration
4. (PERSONAL ACCOMPANIMENT) Learning how to be helped in depth to discover our true humanity
All of them can and need to be learnt and practised in order to gain mastery of them.
Perhaps you have a favourite PRH pillar, one you’re more familiar with and which is your “go to” pillar.
– Which one would that be? And why?
– Which pillar needs more of your attention? Why is that?
– What is your motivation to explore your relationship to these pillars further?
– Do you have any questions regarding any of these pillars?
Ask! We’re here to help you!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 14 1.4.24
Refresh yourself!
How often do you refresh your self-image? Do you do it consciously?
If the answer to these two questions is “not very often”, “never” or “no”, then you could be unwittingly holding back your inner alignment, growth and potential!
Many of us don’t realise that it doesn’t matter how much growth, healing or restoration we achieve, if we don’t update our self-image, we will continue to fall into the same negative patterns and life-diminishing behaviour.
Unless we refresh our system, our “computer” will not perform and flow optimally.
If we don’t upgrade our software, we will continue to function with old programs, even if we think, or hope, that things will be different.
The results can be disappointing, confusing and, sometimes, very demoralising.
“Why am I still dealing with this after so much time, effort and resources put into my personal growth journey?”
We tend to think refreshing or upgrading our self-image is something that happens automatically. But it doesn’t. In fact the neural pathways in our brain will continue to make old connections unless we make a CONSCIOUS CHOICE to change them.
Both personally and professionally I have seen people’s quality of life turn around when they make a commitment to update their self-image in line with their present reality.
What are you left with at the end of this?
If you have any questions please post in the comments section below.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 13 25.3.24
Interested…?
Attracted…?
Committed!!
We might address a task, relationship or set of circumstances from one of these three approaches.
If you’re INTERESTED in something, you’re connecting to it cerebrally. “It’s a good idea, it makes sense, it offers possibilities, I’m curious, etc.”
If you’re ATTRACTED to something you’re approaching it through your feeling centre (sensitivity). “I like this, it gives me pleasure, security, comfort, and feeds my preferences, etc.”
If you’re COMMITTED to something you’re relating to it from your core self. You are fully engaged with it. “I feel a conviction about this which overrides any difficulties, temporary lack of interest, my changing feelings or moods, etc.”
– Choose one or two activities or tasks that you’re planning to do or have been asked to do. For each one:
– Are you interested in it?
Are you attracted to it?
Are you committed to it?
Take the time to write down everything that comes up in you in response to these questions.
– Which approach is the most satisfying for you in the long-term and has more meaning for you, and why?
– What have you discovered new about yourself?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 12 18.3.24
Doing, having and being…
As living beings, we have essentially three ways of functioning: DO, HAVE, and BE.
For many societies it has long been a priority, and a symbol of success, to DO and to HAVE, rather than to BE.
Let’s take a look at your experience of this dynamic and its balance in you:
– When you woke up this morning, what was your priority for the day ahead of you?
– TO DO?
e.g. thinking of your agenda, obligations, activities, for the day – and how to accomplish them, etc.
– TO HAVE?
e.g. thinking of your possessions, clothes, money, safety, happiness, relationships, and how to keep them, etc.
– TO BE?
e.g. becoming mindful of, and quietly and easily connecting to, your inner core – and to what springs naturally from there – and sensing how that feels in your body at that moment.
– What order do you prioritise these three ways of functioning in your life generally?
– Is that deeply satisfying for you?
If so, express what you feel
– If not, why not? What’s not satisfying about it?
– Have you learned anything new about yourself here?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 11 11.3.24
Where do you find peace…?
Here are some suggested steps:
- First of all – what is PEACE for you?
Take time to feel into this question and write down exactly what comes up from within. You might be surprised at what appears beyond your previous ideas about it. It might help you to experience and understand something new about yourself.
- Then, note down whether your PEACE was focused on and describing external conditions or your internal state.
- Was your PEACE conditional?
In other words, does your peace depend on things being in order?
How much do you struggle to gain order to be able to find peace?
What are the implications of that for your life?
PRH Education shows you how to walk the path to UNCONDITIONAL PEACE.
This depends on order, yes… but inner order.
When things are aligned within us, a sense of peace emerges from deep within.
Any PRH teaching will set you on the path to this and give you the tools and resources you need.
Meanwhile, you can start the process by focusing within you right now.
- Ask yourself: Where do I locate in my body my ability to feel peace, or my aspiration to feel peace? I begin to describe the sensation. I stay close to it and continue with it as far as I can.
- What effect does this sensation have on:
- my body?
- my thoughts?
- my feelings?
- my deep self?
and what effect do I sense it has, or might have, on:
- those around me?
- my relationship to my material environment?
- Finally, what have you learned new about peace?
What overall sensation are you left with?May peace take its unconditional place within you…!
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 10 4.3.24
The tip of my shoe…
When you have a mountain to climb, or a task that feels overwhelming, or are in a fog of chaos and confusion, what do you do?
André Rochais (1921-1990), the Founder of PRH, was a grounded visionary.
His advice was to keep your gaze on the tip of your shoe.
In other words, focus on the immediate and take the first step with what’s in front of you, and then focus again and take the next step, etc.
Proof of the success of his strategy is his legacy of our international School of Education, spread over five continents, in the area of personal, relational and transpersonal spiritual growth.
– What does “Keep your gaze on the tip of your shoe” awaken in you?
– If this advice resonates with you, describe your experience of it and/or what it touches on deep within you.
– If it doesn’t resonate with you, what do you feel instead?
Generally, how do you deal successfully with overwhelm, or a major or complex task?
After journaling on this, have your discovered anything new about yourself?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 9 26.2.24
Tribe or team?
What’s your mentality?
Belonging to tribes is part of our lives from the very beginning: family tribe, work tribe, shared beliefs/activities tribe, friendship tribe, national tribe, etc.
Through our tribes we tend to get our need for belonging met.
They also often give us a sense of identity.
But TRIBE MENTALITY, focused on a need for survival (e.g. I surrender my sense of self for the tribe, my tribe over your tribe, etc.) can also cause division and conflict, and stagnation of innovation.
Belonging to a TEAM implies purposeful collaboration and contribution for an end result.
We know how productive and satisfying working together is in teams in sport, work, voluntary activities, etc.
But do you have a TEAM MENTALITY for your different kinds of relationships? Couple, family, work colleagues, friends, community, doctor, growth accompanist, etc.?
With a team mentality, everyone’s role, voice and contribution counts.
Whatever the circumstances, “we’re in this together!”
With a team mentality, there’s no place for the needy child, nor the rebellious teenager. However, the responsible, forward-looking adult discovers their place and gives fully for the common goal, and for the good of all.
If tribes function as teams they tend to be healthy and exhibit signs of success that radiates to others.
Humanity and our planet need unifying teams, not divisive tribes.
A new collaborative energy is on its way!
– How can I be part of this new collaborative energy?
– Where in my life could I function with more of a team mentality?
– What changes in me when I feel I’m in a team?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 8 19.2.24
A stone in my shoe ….
…what do I do?
Even a tiny stone in our shoe can make walking very uncomfortable and difficult.
How do you respond to this situation?
– Do you stop immediately and take it out – wherever you are, whoever you’re with?
– Or do you try and ignore it and walk on in discomfort until it’s unbearable?
– Or something else?
– What are your reasons for doing what you do?
– What are the consequences?
– What does this say about you?
– Does this tendency reflect a greater pattern in your life around something that irritates you that’s in your power to change easily?
Perhaps take a short time (sooner, later, or never!) to reflect and write down your responses.
– What emerges?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 7 12.2.24
Come to your senses!
Our last post “Where are your ears?” made reference to our sense of hearing. The same post could have referred to any of our other senses: sight, smell, taste, touch/feel.
– Which is your predominant sense?…
There will be one sense that you tend towards, whether you know it or not.
You might discover it in the way you talk. e.g.
· that SOUNDS good
· I SEE what you mean
· I have a good NOSE for creative people
· that video left me with a nasty TASTE
· that STRIKES me as interesting
Now let’s go deeper!
Your sixth sense (intuition, gut feeling, etc.) underlies all of these.
– How much importance do you give to your sixth sense?
– What does your sixth sense feel like?
– How do you pay attention to it?
From your experience:
– What are the benefits of listening to your sixth sense?
– What are the consequences of not listening to it?
– What’s your SENSation at the end of this?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 6 5.2.24
Where are your ears?
In other words, where do you listen from?
And what do you listen to?
– Are your ears on the outside or the inside, or both?
Do you tend to prioritise the noise going on outside of you,
rather than listening to your inner world?
– Are your ears in your head?
Listening for the language of thoughts and ideas, what is logical, familiar, structured, etc.?
– Are your ears in your sensitivity (feeling area)?
So you listen primarily for feelings, what makes you feel good/not good, safe/not safe, etc.?
– Are your ears in your body?
Listening to its messages of what resonates physically or psychologically for you, and naturally gives you energy, or well-being – or not?
– Are your ears in your inner being?
Listening for truth, resonance, potential, deep connections, including to the transcendent?
– Are your ears in your deep conscience?
Open to another level of wholeness, freedom, inclusivity, expansion, wisdom, peace, unity?
– Take some time to observe at different times where your ears are, and then note down what you notice and feel.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 5 29.1.24
Inspiration is free!
Our #1 resource for becoming our true selves is INSPIRATION.
Inspiration doesn’t depend on us.
It comes from beyond us, cuts through all our other levels and brings something to life within us.
We don’t even have to be ready for it – but it can help to be open and available.
Sometimes asking a simple question can make us more receptive.
Try asking yourself:
– What do I need to be inspired in, to help me with this challenge, situation, relationship, etc.?
– And then listen to the sensation that comes up in you.
– Make a note of it.
– Then stay open to receive that inspiration, without being fixated on how it will come.
– Notice how it feels to stay open.
– What benefits of this practice do you note?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 4 22.1.24
Your resources – an underrated and untapped resource!
Whatever situation you find yourself in, e.g. ready to cultivate something (see last post), facing a challenge, dealing with daily life, etc. how much thought do you give to your resources for support?
Consciously noting your resources brings huge benefits to you, your life and your environment. Let’s give it a go!
Note your present reality and something specific you are facing, e.g. several important tasks to complete today.
What external resources can you rely on to help you? e.g.:
- someone I can delegate a task to
- an online app to help plan my time
- my phone to send some quick messages, etc.
- food for nourishment
- etc.
What internal resources can you rely on to help you? e.g.:
- my capacity to prioritise
- my common sense
- my efficiency
- my ability to pace myself
- my determination
- knowing I have experience of having done similar things before
- etc.
– How does it feel to know you are equipped with these to help you?
– If you find yourself still focusing on LACK, rather than LIFE, what resource/s can help you there?
– At the end, note your final sensation and what you have gained from this process.
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 3 15.1.24
2024 – What do you feel called to cultivate?
At the beginning of a new year, we often think about making changes.
Many of us focus on getting rid of things, or behaviour, that no longer serve us.
But let’s take a different, more abundant approach and look at what we are DRAWN TO CULTIVATE this year.
Cultivating is a miraculous process that uses all aspects of our humanity, e.g.:
- our creative energy
- our gifts and skills
- our connection and interaction with elements in our inner or outer worlds
- our freedom to choose
- our capacity to create something out of nothing
- our openness to a bigger picture, plan or purpose
- etc.
Here are some simple examples of what you could cultivate:
- More space in your home
- More unconditional love toward others
- 1 constructive habit per month
- Regular quality time with your partner/child, etc.
– What do you feel called to cultivate in your life this year? Choose 1 – 3 things.
What is the motivation behind each one?
– How do you feel after doing this?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 2 8.1.24
Fill in the blank! What is calling to be lived through you in 2024?
Robina Scott – PRH England Educator
Week 1 1.1.24