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.

By Bart Sharp

Welcome all, this is the third year I have sent out a predictions paper.  My process is to ask to connect to the consciousness of the world, ask questions about what is happening in the consciousness of the planet and write it down.  I kind of see it all as getting in touch with the heartbeat of the world and see what shows up. Of course, this is all seen through the eyes of my values so it is likely bias.  Please do not bet the farm on these predictions, it’s all in good fun.

Overall, a softer year.

2012 is an opportunity to transcend without so much confrontation.  However confronting issues makes the journey a faster.

This is the beginning of a new era of the feminine power, we as Americans have an opportunity do not take the masculine action plan and fall into a more relaxed invitation of the feminine.  We will all (male and female) see how the feminine power of healing, expression, communication and self-identity emerge in the world.

A connection to mother earth is more available and her nurturing presence.

The economy will increase surprisingly fast, fears we have held in 2011 are not confirmed so many decide to release their fearful grip a little bit more.

Obama will win in November in a landslide.  However Rick Perry is not done, only as a presidential hopeful.  Will he come out of the closet, “Brokeback Perry?, No, he is a Republican.

Austin will not have a drought but it will be really hot.

2012 is a year to begin new projects in a way you never have before.  Do not fear in thinking too big.  Especially the internal side of us can stand some projects as this allows the feminine to emerge even more.  A year to calm ourselves down, it all begins with us.  It is a good year to generate your life through prayer, angels, your higher self or other spirits as all of this stuff will be much easier to access.  Prepare to take off if you wish to fly, however it is good to let go of old baggage before taking off as it will always be a drag on your travels and increase your aging.

The evangelic politic action groups will take severe setbacks as more people realize god is a personal relationship not a literal interpretation.

2012 is a year for personal action, if we learned anything from 2011 is that if we wish physical change in the world we have to do something about it.  Small steps are predicted but a whole lot of them.

It is the year of the heart, more people realize the power of their own hearts using unconditional love, changing their surroundings in subtle but profound ways.

The year of the Saint.  The New Orleans Saints will win the upcoming Super Bowl.

As a Mayan shaman told a group this past summer, there are two basic things we all need to do a lot more of: plant more trees and love each other.

I hope 2012 is a great year for everyone.

Bart Sharp

By Bart Sharp

With Marci Steinberg and Ajna Star

Saturday, January 28^th, 10:00 AM til 5:30 PM

www.bartsharp.com

512 809 6807

Please R.S.V.P by 1-26-12

Cost for creating a greater power within you, $100

The impetus of wealth, good health, sexual energy and high spiritual being source comes from a power deep within us. The deepest sense of our being human begins there, the innate ability to create in these four areas is powered in our deepest being, the 2^nd chakra.

In the upcoming class,” Accessing Our Core Being” we will explore the limitations that keep us from flowing freely inside of us and develop our most important personal power area. It will be a day of energetic activations, guided visualizations, Access Energy Transformation clearings and each person will receive a private individual session (Marci Steinberg or Ajna Star) of energetic bodywork connecting us into our body in a way that we have never experienced before.

By the end of the day we will experience what it feels like to be more vibrant, grounded and connected to the source of power that is naturally you. Handouts Included.

Bart sez: “Doing six hours plus of energy work can break-down our defenses and we become new energies so something more real can be perceived in our 2^nd chakra and how we manifest our lives.”

New clearings and activations.

Chakra Healing by Ajna Star improves chronic, severe, and/or traumatic issues of the emotional, physical, and/or metaphysical aspects. This is done in two ways through Ms. Star as an empath and a conduit for channeling divine light of needed frequencies into the related chakras: The transference of energy via spontaneous chi-gong, and/or being in a meditative state when visually reading the client’s chakras.

Buffing by Marci Steinberg is a key component to getting you out of your head and into your body. It is the use of vibration, with a massage tool, that is used on your body as you breathe in a particular way. The vibration will interrupt your holding patterns that will release from your body and nervous system.  This allows the body to release and let go of stress, patterns, traumas and issues.

By Bart Sharp

Magic in this reality is not with a wand like Harry Potter, although there are magical aspects of Harry Potter that we can learn from.  Magic is this reality is creating life in ways that goes beyond the rules and sometimes logic.  Things happen, spontaneous, unpredictable, we manifest our dreams and pull the things we value into our life.  We can do this easily but most likely not under our time schedule.  A magical life does not come from lack but of wholeness.

Magic is formless.  There are no formulas to follow, cookbooks or structures to it.

The more present you are in each moment you generate the power of magical creations.

Living your life in a question, with curiosity, discovery and opened facilitates magical occurrences.

We are all magical and we consciously and unconsciously create with our thoughts, words and actions.

Magic shows up in unpredictable ways.

Magic does not happen in the future or past but present.

Joy (when everything feels complete in us) is directly connected to magic.

Magicians work from a relaxed state not from trauma, adrenal glands, anxiety, force or negativity.  Relaxed creates the invitation.