How The Feminine Community Changed my Life
I was at a crossroad in my life when a friend of mine Marty Weiss, told me to say three gratitude's or blessings before I go to bed at night. A few weeks after I started to do this, I received the invitation to join a Feminine Community class in Maui with a group of women from around the world. I had recently left my home and marriage of almost eight years to find my purpose when I sustained a back injury while taking care of my 100 year old patient Stephen (pictured below with me). For the first time in my life I found myself on disability receiving just a portion of my meager paycheck. I received my last disability check two days after the call to go to Maui and decided spontaneously to accept the invitation. The following events in this blog unfolded sequentially on the warm sunny island of Maui, in the company of other curious women from around the world and this changed the course of my life.
Going to Hawaii was on my mental vision board for a while, so when the opportunity presented itself I jumped at it without any thought of what the purpose of the trip really was, all I heard was Feminine Community and since I'm writing a book dedicated to women in relationships who give too much too soon, this caught my attention. I was told there would be four days of training and four days of FUN, my mind locked on the fun part like a torpedo headed for its target. If you are reading this and you happen to know me "need I say more"?
I was impressed when we arrived at our destination to see that it was a gated community. I stepped out of the cab which brought me from the airport and into my dream life. As I walked into the villa which I was about to share with five amazing, unique women from around the world, I was blown away by the sheer opulence of the home we would be living in for the next eight days. As I opened the door and got a glimpse of the interior decor I yelled WOW this is the life. I immediately felt like I had stepped into one of the homes featured in the Home and Entertainment magazines.
The next morning I awoke to what looked like the rain forest, a tropical paradise, our villa was surrounded by bamboo and tropical plants and flowers. The night before, our coach who was staying in the other villa with another group of equally amazing and unique women, gave us the itinerary for the next day. I was ecstatic when I heard, "ladies your first class will begin this evening from seven to eleven, until then you can just enjoy the beauty of Maui, do whatever lights you up".
As we walked to the beach I had a mantra, I kept repeating to myself, this life was meant for meeee..As we crossed the street and walked through the huge gates I looked up and saw in front of me what looked like a palace, it was the Wallea Waldorf Astoria. We needed to walk through the scenic gardens of this magnificent hotel to get to the most beautiful beach with blue green water. The tide was coming in and the waves were rolling and collapsing with its own rhythm against the sand. We spent several hours swimming, playing, floating, laughing, hugging just a bunch of carefree women showing up and enjoying each other.
This was the beginning of four days of pure pleasure, laughter and fun. We got to know each other on a deep meaningful level. We role played and discovered that what lights us up and gives us energy is what we should be doing. We were each interviewed in a unique way to find our purpose and which was meant to show us what we should be doing with the rest of our lives. The concept was simple, when you are in service to others and you find out what people want and give it to them, you will find that your own success will be greater than you can possibly imagine. If you enjoy and have fun in what you do money will soon follow. We learnt that instead of working in isolation we need to support each other and play games on a team.
Each day was filled with incredible fun, we snorkled, snuba, some of us took the repelling water fall challenge, drove the winding road to Hana, visited the Lavender farms and saw the Fleetwoods in concert. We all got dressed up and had dinner at the Wallea Waldorf one evening.
We were having an extraordinary amount of fun yet it was extremely productive and highly effective..and instead of four days of work and four days of fun we had all eight days of FUN. These playful games in Maui showed me the power of serving others, having fun and playing on a team. This expanded my vision and made me receptive and able to see that what came next was just a natural progression in my metamorphosis...
On my flight back from Maui, I received a link to Martin Sage's blog http://www.martinsage.com/?m=1 where I found a post he quoted from -Robert DeRopp
The Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The game can be played only by people whose observations of themselves and others have led them to a certain conclusion, namely, that man’s ordinary state of consciousness, his so-called waking state, is not the highest level of consciousness of which he is capable. In fact, this state is so far from real awakening that it could appropriately be called a form of somnambulism, a condition of “waking sleep”.
Once a person has reached this conclusion, he is no longer able to sleep comfortably. A new appetite develops within him, the hunger for real awakening, for full consciousness. He realizes that he knows only a tiny fraction of what he could see, hear and know, that he lives in the poorest, shabbiest of the rooms in his inner dwelling, and that he could enter the rooms, beautiful and filled with treasures, the windows of which look out on eternity and infinity.
The timing was perfect, this propelled me to begin playing "The Master Game" I invite you to play with me.
The timing was perfect, this propelled me to begin playing "The Master Game" I invite you to play with me.
