By Bart Sharp

“Mommy I am not enough for you!” The young daughter cried. The mother looked upon her daughter with frustration and bewilderment thinking, “ I was just asking her to take a bath and telling her the value of it. Why was she reacting in such an extreme way?” This is an experience friend of mine had with her daughter a few days ago.

The real question was, “ What was the little girl not saying that was expressed through her statement of angst?” As children do not always have the tools or capacities to express how they feel, so it comes out skewed instead. To be able understand the situation we cannot judge the content of what the girl said but ask what she could not express. The fact of the matter is the young lady’s father had been experiencing much failure and stress in his personal life. The daughter was a witness to his challenges. It was too much for her accept that her father was an extreme emotional pain. The best strategy that she could create was to perceive the best in her father and repress her own fears.

The repressed feelings of her father’s angst needed to come out somehow and generally they are expressed with the person we feel safest with such as a parent, sibling, friend or spouse.  Since the little girl had not identified what her fear was it came out when stressful interaction occurred with her mother.

When we interact with children or adults who have become reactionary our 1^st response should be a willingness to perceive into their world. To know that the expression of the negative emotion most likely has nothing to do with us but is letting out an deeper feeling inside. If we can listen without becoming defensive we may be able to see into their world. To be a witness to their pain and stress. When we do see them in pain that opens the door to a compassionate interaction. The child is not wrong for having the expression, they are in pain. Then we can explore that process with them or allow them to express the pain.  If a child or an adult can get to the source of why they are discombobulated then we are on the road to healing with that person in a greater way.

By Bart Sharp

I had a teacher once who told the class that he was a master manipulator, he manipulated to get people to grow, manipulated to draw people to his classes and manipulated in a variety of other ways. As I contemplated these comments I realized that it was not utilizing his real power. Theoretically speaking if we are functioning from a place of our infinite power would we really need to manipulate?

Manipulation is a necessary part of living on this planet, we all do it to some degree. The clarity that I wish to have with manipulating is whether I am doing it out of fear or in a way that facilitates a greater consciousness or good.

When we are using manipulation in a business setting such as a healer or counselor, we may be sending subtle messages to our clients to please return to us, which may be a form of neediness. Need and lack come from a place of fear. A less conscious perspective would be lying to our clients to come back, that they have defects that need our help.

An example of doing a healing business from a base of power would begin by believing in our own power, that we have something genuinely powerful within us that is so valuable that is a gift to others. That commitment to be that gift leads us on a path to constant exploration of self so that we empower our body mind and spirit. It is the path of the holy person. When we function from that perspective do we really need to manipulate others in order for them to come back? We facilitate not control. We offer tools, guidance and perspective so that others may find their own healing them selves. We do not do the healing but the expanded power with in us facilitates a greater space that opens people’s souls. Then they can choose how deeply they are able to walk into that world and heal. It is a twofold relationship as opposed to the healer that is superior, manipulating that brings the gift down to others. True power has an equal footing so that both parties have responsibilities and grow together.

The we receive as a healer or counselor is that we find it easier to detach from others problems or their lives.  We are not holding them up by placing our selves above them, as if we are carrying them.  We simply provide a honest service knowing that we did our best to facilitate change, because we have lived so strongly in our growth it is a great gift that we give to our clients.

By Bart Sharp

Scott Peck said that real love was listening. Quite profound thoughts. As I observed others I see that listening is one of the most difficult skills for anyone to possess.  It maybe why we pay therapists and counselors big bucks and keep coming back to them because they are such good listeners.

When people interact the desire is to express.  It feels so good to speak and be hopefully heard.  For many the ego desperately wants to express. However, if everyone’s intent is on speaking, who is really listening?  What do we really want to do with our expression but to connect with another person.  If connection is truly what our deepest desires, listening is the path to be there.

People are less impressed by all the great information you have.  Instead people are more drawn into another when they feel that they are understood and cared for by that person. Listening opens that door.

When we do listen, literally ask your body to listen with full intensity. By simply asking your body to do that you are more conducive to do so. It is a message into your conscious and unconscious mind to be more receptive, it does influence your attitude.

If one can listen with full intensity and not judge anything a person says they create an atmosphere that is safe and nurturing. It is a true act of kindness. If a person can be present without any defensiveness, they open an awareness that allows their heart to open while they are listening. When we listen with an open heart the depth of our perceptions of another person’s reality opens in a much expansive way. The heart perceives in a way the mind cannot comprehend so listening has an extra dimensional perspective. We see a more holistic viewpoint of what the person is communicating to us. We are open to comprehend a more profound wisdom by listening to another with our heart.

Techniques useful to open heart listening are:

1. Do not judge the person for whatever they say, have done or are a part of their state of being. Be in a total perceiving mode. Even simple judgments such as not liking their shirt creates at some level a type of separation.

2. Bring as much internal focus on to your heart while you are listening to the person.  Keeping your focus on your heart guides you to listen without your ego or your mind being so dominate.  A kinder and more perceptive side emerges from within you.

Through these two simple disciplines that are much easier said than done as we open to heart centered awareness.  Our intensity to be in those states of mind is the key. Our innate wisdom will do the rest if we maintain our intensity to be non-judging and heart-centered.

When I first started this technique I was listening to my former wife who was complaining about a situation.  My previous pattern would be to defend myself through a self-created defensive posturing by the fear that she might attack me.

On this day I decided to do it differently as a teacher told me of these heart centered techniques. The first thing I did was perceive what was happening inside me and I saw that my heart was stiffening and I could feel the defensive shield building around me.  The next step was to visualize the defensive shield dropping. It was quite easy I just imagined these barriers that were around me falling to the wayside. It was easier to do than I can explain it. Next I listened to my former wife without saying a word.

Then something phenomenal happened that I’ve never felt when someone was angry around me. I could feel my heart getting larger, expanding while it relaxed into this position. As I heard my spouse’s angst it was now easy to see that her aggression had nothing to do with me. In the past I was always afraid that it was about me and it would lead me to a defensive posture. When I became defensive something in my former wife would become fearful or suspicious about my negative reaction. She could sense the wrongness or fear in me. Then she would become more reactionary to me instead of the issue at hand. Through my fear I was attracting the aggression to come to me.

As I listened to my former wife with my heart open I could feel how stressed she was, how she was in pain. Then I truly realized, it had nothing to do with me.  In a narcissistic point of view I always believed that the situation had something to do with me. When in actuality, other people’s problems have little to do with me.  Now I can listen through my heart instead of my ego, which fostered my fear-based narcissism.

Then I said something caring at the moment I felt it was profound because it was so simple. I said, “ Wow, that really sounds painful for you to not be understood by your friend.”

She turned back to me not in anger or aggression but compassion and said, “ Exactly, she can never get it how I felt and it drives me crazy.”

In that instant we were having a discussion in angst where neither one of us were wrong. It was a simple conversation of sharing. I was always afraid of being labeled as wrong and being victimized that I never listened beyond my defensive posturing with people that had aggressive tendencies. It was as simple as letting my defenses down and opening my heart to another possibility.

As I learn to listen more from my heart I have been enlightened with more possibilities. I can see so much deeper into another person’s point of view.  I see aggression has less to do with anger but more with shame, pain or fear.

I now see that people’s aggressiveness or anger has less to do with me. It was only in my childhood where that was dangerous as I was around several angry people much of the time. All too often we apply our past to the present in an unconscious way. Being in heart consciousness always guides us to being present in the now with myself.

Communing With Nature

Class  By bart Sharp

Sunday, April 29th, 9:30AM to 12:30 PM

At The Barton Creek Green Belt at Highway 360 In front of

red brick office complex.

Call 512 809 6807 to reserve your spot.  $30.00    www.bartsharp.com

Learning to commune with nature teaches you how to perceive the energies of trees, the forest and the earth.  On a deeper level it teaches you the basic tools on how to perceive energies inside of yourself and others as well.

A walk in the woods can be an experience of perceiving of multitude of vibrations from tree and plants.  Each plant possesses an individual energy flowing in harmony with the forest.  Bart shows us the how to connect to that type of consciousness.  Since learning these tools Bart has changed how nature interacts with him.

Learn how you can instill this deep calm in your body and release emotional traumas stored within us.

Nature has taught me so much about my own inner world.  You can learn how to use nature to facilitate your own growth as well.

Nature gives you an easy way to learn and develop your psychic abilities.

Learn what many of our spiritual masters have known through out history.  Nature is a guiding light to finding oneself and connecting to a higher source.

Bart will be using some of the techniques from my upcoming book “The Healing Planet” as part of the class.  To learn more about Bart Sharp and  go to www.bartsharp.com

Email heartofturtle@earthlink.net or call 809 6807 to RSVP by Sat. April 28th

If postponed by rain will be rescheduled Sat. May 5th  9:30

By Bart Sharp

Lately I have been around several vegetarians and being the curious person I am I perceived into their bodies to see what they energetically feel like. Part of my perceptual abilities is feeling the vibrations of others, their vibrations correspond to the type of people they are. Vegetarians generally have a higher vibration, there is a lightness about them. If I compared the same type of person who ate meat, generally speaking the vegetarians vibration would be higher.

In my community of friends and acquaintances many of the vegetarians place a great importance on their diet. Many of these vegetable lovers have made their practice highly significant in their life. It almost appears to be a religion for them as I detect subtle levels of self-righteousness in their dietary practice.

I bring this up to make a point on the topic of religion and self-righteousness. Whenever we make a belief defined that it is better or lesser than something it is a judgment. Whenever we judge we limit our perceptions. When people judge their religious beliefs as above others they are dangerously close to not growing in their self-growth practice. Through the judgment of superiority people no longer see the full picture, the label creates the message they have already all that they need in their growth in that area.  It shuts down our ability to grow.

It is the dangers of defining us whether it be as a Catholic, a vegetarian or a Democrat if we make ourselves exclusive through these definitions we close down our ability to see something greater or other alternatives. We are ready to have the answers to our definitions therefore part of our unconsciousness and consciousness stops attracting the curiosity to become more. The self-righteous vegetarian or religious affiliate may stop seeing ways to become more expanded in their lives because they have all the answers that they desire.

I like the approach of humility and embracing the fact that I have limitations. The more open we become to seeing our limited self in a curious way we are open to growth. Some of our greatest growth comes not from spiritual practice, diet or religious affiliation but through knowing us with the most clarity as possible. The inner journey is a constant exploration and I am not sure if all the answers will ever be discovered. As a matter of fact, that is the beauty of it.  My ability to be wrong, having limitations and allowance of it creates an openness to discover.  My power can continually grow in that self-created environment.

By Bart Sharp

I was talking to a friend who had returned from a workshop the previous weekend. When he was flying home that Sunday night he was energized thinking of all the possibilities of what he could do with his business from the concepts learned. However in a few days the Jazz had worn off and he actually felt a bit depressed.

My friend was riding on the enthusiasm of the powerful motivational speaker and everyone at the workshop.   The stimulating ideas, the inner power of the presenter and dynamics of the group itself flowed into everyone attending the class. Everyone leaves enlivened by the experience. After a few days the connection is lost and people return to their solitary energetic being.

All too often when we meet with other people and make plans, brainstorm on the topics that we feel engaged and passionate about there is a flurry of energy within us. Our ideas and dreams get bigger than our practical ability to accomplish them. The dynamics of the group stimulates us, the sympathetic nervous system goes into action mode and we take off. That is what the sympathetic does, takes action.  However, we get absorbed so strongly by the energy of others it can over stimulate our nervous system. So a high-powered workshop may affect us in several ways.

One thing we need to remember is when we are stimulated by such ambitious goals made in these semi-heightened states of awareness that we often make grand plans that we do not follow through on.  First we should not judge ourselves harshly for not fully following through, getting caught up in the moment is somewhat normal. However, it is not natural for many bodies to stay in such a high energy all the time. We can later have energy lags that can last from hours to sometimes days. If we get caught up in criticizing ourselves in collapse from those judgments a can feel even depressing.

For some working in an environment that is bombarded by intense team members does get goals accomplished. It has a lot of great benefits. Some people react well to this environment, others do not. It is more of a classic extrovert that can arise in such gregarious surroundings. Those who have the tendency to be introverted need to realize that they need to balance the social time with time alone.

Particularly for the introverted personality the underbelly of such drive often requires a relaxed, reflective time as well. That is when we stop and contemplate our actions and decisions. We can allow ourselves to have the meditative perspective which opens us to the parasympathetic nervous system. This is the other side of our nervous system that is related to sleep, meditation and use the more softer side of creative thinking. It is also a time that we connect to a higher source and see a bigger picture of how our actions affect the greater whole.

So when we are creating ideas, business plans that are driven by the high-intensity power we can limit our creativity by always pushing through our days. When we can permit a more natural flow that is conducive to our bodies functioning of slowing down to the parasympathetic pace we can include a broader perspective in what we produce.

If we wish to create  more creative products and ideas we have to allow ourselves to slow down into that relaxed, parasympathetic state of being. I like to think of it in terms of masculine and feminine. The masculine drives and gets the job done. The feminine opens the perspective of seeing how the product fits into a greater whole, the emotional aspects of it and is an opening to imagination that goes beyond the masculine perspective.

So after we have planned are great ideas with great zest and enthusiasm. It is a good idea to set them aside and get quiet. Let the ideas simmer into the unconsciousness of the feminine and parasympathetic nervous system. We all too often cannot rationalize the benefits of slowing down and seeing a bigger picture. If we wish to see a bigger perspective that are rational mind has yet to concoct we have to slow down for the larger expanded picture can be fully seen in our awareness.

Accessing Our Core Being

Tuesdays, March 6th and 20th, 7:30 PM

By Bart Sharp

512 809 6807        www.bartsharp.com

$30 per class or $50 for both,     Half price if returning from January class

The “Accessing Core Being Classes” are a series shortened from the original class taught this past January. The feedback I got was, “ Bart, you got to teach this again! Soon!” I deeply believe that developing our 2nd chakra is the most important area for us in evolving to higher and prosperous spiritual beings. It is the base source of our potential that facilitates all that we wish to become and create in life.

Learn the tools to build a greater you.

Activating Powers That We Missed As A Child March 6th

The core internal power of us begins in the 2nd chakra and it is created in our early years. Some of us received this and some did not. It is never too late to learn how to build your internal 2nd chakra, the impetus that generates and manifests your dreams. This class specializes in teaching how to activate our early childhood powers and change our core being power.

Manifesting Magic And Money March 20th

There is a special edge to be able to create your life in a magical way.  It is a wonderful power to create prosperity and manifest money easily. This class teaches you how your 2nd chakra can manifest money in magical ways. Learn how you can be more powerful in generating prosperity.

The Home On The Prairie

I was hired to do a ghost busting or entity removal on a home out in the country east of Elgin Texas. As I saw the home from a distance is was easy to see it had been a ramshackled place and I wondered why they spent so much money in restoring it. However it was in a great location on top of a small hill with oak trees framing it, like a beautiful little house on the prairie.

The woman who was hired to restore the home said that everything was so difficult in getting anything done there, it seemed like there was a force working against her and the workers. I was hired to find out what that source was.

The home had been built in the 1920s or 30s and the impression I got was that the house thought itself was dead and wondered why all of these people were here. There are few entities or ghosts here.  Most that were there were on the workers.

So the work here was really talking to the house and letting him know it was being rebuilt and why they decided to restore it into a small schoolhouse. It had been 10 to 20 years with no one living in the place and now it would be used for children with autism. I explained to the home that children would be there and playing in its space and as I did this I visualized within me children happily interacting in the home. Adults were there cooking, cleaning and teaching. It would be a hub of interaction that the home would be facilitating a wonderful growth for all. As I did that the home seem to have more life. Then I asked for angels to come and and fill it with their energy and lastly I visualize the energy of the earth filling the home.

Now the house was getting the concept that it would be a home again, full of life and people enjoying its presence. I was told by the contractor that the rebuilding of the home went smoothly from there.

However I had talked to one of the owners a few years later and found that the home mysteriously burned. The fire department could not determine what was the source or cause of the fire. When she told me that I had to instant knowing that the house really did not want to have a life, it’s life was done and it wanted to move on, therefore it started the fire.

The lesson for me was always listen to what home is telling you. Somewhere, somehow homes have choices and their existence. They can attract distraction just like they can attract and owner that cherishes the space. I would like to think the rundown house I bought 3 years ago somehow wanted me to buy it. Funny enough, I had a vision during the meditation that popped into me like magic showing me home that was going to be mine.  It is difficult to explain but I had a strong premonition that I would be owning that house even though I had no idea where it was. A month later I walk into a home that had the same design and knew it was right for me despite all of the preparation and redecorating that it required. Within 24 hours my bid was accepted and I was on my way for an easy house purchase. Even though the home required hundreds of hours of redecorating it all seem to go on a flow like a synchronicity that was facilitating my life. Homes have the power to make our lives so much easier and greater. The Little House on the Prairie was the opposite of this in that it never wanted to be re-built.

By Bart Sharp

The Home With No Sexual Energy

I was asked to do a ghost busting on a home just a half a mile southwest of  The University of Texas campus  in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Austin. The home was owned by a very wealthy family who decided not to stay in the original home but build a 2^nd home in the backyard. The original home have been used as a study and Playhouse for their children. The people who had hired me were living in the original home as house sitters for the summer.

When I entered the home the 1^st impression I got was lifeless. As I investigated the energy of the home by asking questions and perceiving the response in my body it was clear that there were very few entities or ghost if any. It was quite easy to clear these out.

However the home still felt lifeless. The question was, “ What was creating this feeling of no life within this old home?”

As I investigated the status of the home by asking questions and feeling the responses that occurred within my body I saw that the home had no connection with the earth. Most homes have a connection with a particular element, it is like the theme of what generates the base energy of a home. If you lived in a home that was on the 3^rd floor of an apartment complex that element might be air. Or a home that was in nature element could be earth or the trees itself. This particular element feeds the home and supports its life force. However this home had no element that supported it. That was where the limitation of this home was and why it was lifeless. The question was now, “ What created the disconnection? And what element was disconnected?”

The most obvious question was, “ Was there a curse placed on the house?” And the answer was yes. Next, I asked how old the curse was and found that it was created in the 1920s.

In the 1920s it was common for household to have live-in servants. In Austin Texas it was most likely the servants were black and they lived in the basement of his home.

The energy of lifelessness of the home was a specific consideration lifelessness but more of the sexual energy that was embodied in the home. Now it was beginning become clear. So I started asking the home, “ What occurred to create the sexual energy to be cut out of the home? And how was that done? ”

Vision came in to me of the man, owner of the home having sex with one of the female  hired servants In the basement. However the servant had another lover who was jealous of this clandestine affair. The other lover had a curse placed in the basement itself. It felt like a voodoo curse and since this curse was connected to the Earth, it only made sense as voodoo is very much an Earth-based religion.

Using a pencil and paper I asked my body to draw the 1^st level of the curse and I started drawing and came up with a square shape of squiggly typed lines. Then I asked for the 2^nd level of the curse in which a cross of ornately shaped lines was exactly within the square. Then a 3^rd level of the curse came which was another square whose corners were exact opposites of the 1^st square of ornately shaped lines. When I finished the drawing it looked like some form of Haitian art. Much to my surprise.

Now the work was easy it was a simple process of removing the curse of each level beginning with the 3^rd level and ending with the 1^st. As I did this I felt the vision of somebody drawing down in the basement these patterns but it seemed like they were not doing it in the location underneath the home but did the drawings/spell somewhere else. That only made sense that the other lover would a voodoo priest or priestess to create such a spell.

The curse itself disconnected the earth from the home, a life force that gave life to the home. Also that life force supported the sexual energy of everybody that lived in the home. I also suspect that the curse connected to the male homeowner to diminish his sexual energy as a way of revenge and maybe to the female servant as well.   Next we simply started to activate the energy of the earth and visualized that energy coming into every place in the home, the floor, the walls the furniture and everything else we could visualize that was a part of the home.

Once the curse was lifted the home felt vibrant, alive. I jokingly told the couple that hired me, “ I believe you have a lot more fun having sex in his home now.”

By Bart Sharp

I was talking to a woman who was telling me she could not understand why her boyfriend was so cruel to her. As she told her story it appeared she was accurate in her boyfriend did do things that were mean and dishonest. However the young woman continued to try to do nice things for him as a way to convince him to treat her better.  She felt he was a more loving man that his actions showed.

There are several things that are misidentifications in the story and the most important one is the young woman cannot change the man by treating him as perfectly as possible. This is a strategy that she most likely learned as a child with a parent that mistreated or abused her.

In a child’s wisdom they see if they can only do everything to make the parent happy, calm and reassure them so the child will receive some kind of approval and/or sane family life. As a child this was probably a brilliant strategy because they are stuck with the parent as he/she cannot get a new person to take care of them that is kind and loving. These children had parents that the child had to contort or distort their own genuine love in order to get love. They could not be themselves. Therefore the child does the kindest things possible to make sure the parent was happy. These kids are quite good at it as it is the only way to survive in an unhappy home environment.

As adults these same children never feel complete in themselves because they were not taught by a loving parent that they were valued and worth loving. In this unconsciousness this neglected adult/child seeks a partner that is much like their parent. The primary reason is because it is what they know and secondary is an unconscious attempt to resolve their relationship with her parents through this new lover. For these abused people they most likely re-create the cycle again and again never believing that they were good enough in the relationship. The fact is they give way too much to this new, abusive adult.

It is a complicated process to learn new ways to attract a relationship that has healthy patterns and is loving. For starters the abuse adult/child most likely does not know what healthy patterns look like and they most likely see a healthy person as boring or unattractive. The person that is bent towards abuse or evil is much more stimulating.

To begin with the adult/child has to begin looking at their old patterns, the behaviors of their lovers and those of their parents. Clarity to see how we’ve created these relationships is paramount. This is a complex process. I find keeping a journal or notebook to document our observations of these areas of her life is the most important starting block.  Spending a part of life alone rediscovering who we are and new way to relate to intimate partners. A process of seeing our past and reinventing a new way to relate. Then step-by-step they begin to attract somebody else in their life that is more loving and different in new ways than the partners or parents of the past.   These new people are most likely more evolved in a different way.