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• Lessons from Repetition

  by Timothy Hayes February 25, 2010
  The Mindshifters group watched the first half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce, "Empowered to Heal". This lecture discusses observations about how we are energetic systems and not "physical bodies". This week my learning is about the importance of repetition for the material I find most valu...

• Introduction to A Course In Miracles with Advanced Understanding

  by Timothy Hayes February 21, 2010
  Last Tuesday evening the Mindshifters group watched the second half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled, "Introduction to A Course In Miracles with Advanced Understanding". While we have watched this lecture several times already, there is always something different which catches my attention....

• Why Is This Happening To Me Again?

  by Timothy Hayes February 4, 2010
      Last night the Mindshifters group watched the first half of the lecture, "Why Is This Happening To Me Again?" by Dr. Michael Ryce. The points that jumped out at me during this viewing were the following: 1) In the period of time that it takes for my brain to fire 10,000 units ...
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• The Living Matrix

  by Timothy Hayes January 27, 2010
    Last night the Mindshifters group did something we have only done one other time in the last four years. We watched a movie which was not one of Dr. Michael Ryce's lectures. We watched the movie, The Living Matrix, which talks about the integration of the science of Quantum Physics into...
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• Getting The Stress You Need

  by Timothy Hayes January 7, 2010
      The Mindshifters group watched the second half of the lecture, Getting The Stress You Need, by Dr. Michael Ryce. (www.whyagain.com) One of the primary messages of this lecture is that once the human mind sets a goal, it remains set and active, even if unconscious, until the...

• The Power of Forgiveness

  by Timothy Hayes January 5, 2010
      The core tool of Dr. Michael Ryce's work is The Reality Management Worksheet, and the process he refers to as Forgiveness. The definition of Forgiveness in this work is very different from the definition I grew up with. I was raised to believe that to forgive someone m...
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• Building New Brain Cells - An Example/Analogy

  by Timothy Hayes January 4, 2010
      So, we have discussed the idea of needing to question whatever it is we think we know, in order to be open to learning new things. We discussed how the lecture on A Course In Miracles makes a major point about how it is our limited perception which causes most of the pain, suffer...
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• Building New Brain Cells - The Eyes To See and The Ears To Hear

  by Timothy Hayes January 4, 2010
      When we finished watching the lecture, "Introduction to A Course In Miracles - With Advanced Understanding" by Dr. Ryce ( www.whyagain.com ) and the thing that struck me the most as I watched this lecture, yet again, was the level of understanding that I received on several key p...
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• Healing Through Relationships - Dr. Michael Ryce

  by Timothy Hayes January 3, 2010
      Last night our Mindshifters group watched the first half of the Dr. Ryce lecture titled, Healing Through Relationships. The things which jumped out at me were Dr. Ryce's definition of a Bias, as being "unperceived brain cell energy". He went on to say that any Bias becomes the...
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• Mindshifters - The Shadow Effect and Codependence to Interdependence

  by Timothy Hayes January 1, 2010
      Last week the Mindshifters group was without our usual DVD collection and a member brought in the DVD The Shadow Effect from Debbie Ford. While this movie makes several of the same points that Dr. Ryce makes in his lectures, the whole tone of the movie was dark and rather pessimist...

• The Laws of Living - Dr. Michael Ryce

  by Timothy Hayes January 1, 2010
      This week and last, we watched the video of a lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled, "The Laws of Living". In this lecture Dr. Ryce points out the dramatic difference between a natural law and the laws of man. A natural Law is simply a description of how things work. When we function ...

• Purpose Personal Power and Commitment part 2

  by Timothy Hayes December 31, 2009
      On Tuesday, the mindshifters group watched the second half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled, "Purpose, Personal Power, and Commitment".  The theme of the second half of this talk was about the process of denial and suppression and how it leads to discomfort and dis-ea...