Beginners Mind - Part 4
Reflections at the end of the last session of the NLP Practitioner Certification Training
By Berry Moore
Monday morning, the last day of the last weekend of the course, I woke up on the wings of an exquisite dream. I had gone on a journey, and found a remarkable town at the foot of a mountain, next to the sea. The place was seeped in tranquility and sunshine, but the most special thing about this town was that the people in it kept geese.
These were lovely geese: sleek, white, beloved and nurtured by the townsfolk. These geese laid golden eggs, and the people knew that as long as they continued to love and care for their geese, the geese would continue to lay golden eggs. They also knew that if they neglected the geese, the birds would die and there would be no more golden eggs.
In my dream, I went home and told my tall, blonde friend, Vanessa, about the amazing place I had discovered.
“How amazing,” said Vanessa. “I’ll have to go there and see for myself. It sounds like the perfect place in which to make my magic goose medicine, using the gwana and feathers of specially selected geese.”
And off went Vanessa.
It wasn’t long before Vanessa called me to come and see how she had set herself up in the town. When I got there, she showed me an incredibly smooth, clear stream which seemed to come down from the very top of a hill on the edge of town, ending in a rock pool of pretty white river stones. The townsfolk had banked the sides of the stream and the entire scene was one of stunning purity.
“Just look at this amazing place I found. It’s perfect. I want you to climb to the top of the hill, sit down in the stream and slide down,” Vanessa said. “And there’s one point on the stream from which you can see the entire coastline!”
I did as Vanessa asked, and found myself sitting at the top of the stream in water that suddenly wasn’t wet, ready to slide down. As I slid, I realised the stream was actually a flight of stairs which were carpetted in plush silver-grey. The water ran totally clear over the carpet. I reached the bottom, sliding right down until my feet were an inch from the point at which the stream joined the rock pool. Vanessa clapped her hands in delight.
“Well done - you went just as far as I did!” she exclaimed.
I sat there looking out over the blue-est sea I have ever seen, feeling the perfection in the sun, the water and the peace that encased the entire scene.
“Who would have thought I would end up here,” I mused silently, looking around with an intense sense of wonder. “Now, all I have to do is find a house.”
Berry Moore is a holistic massage therapist and metaphysical healer. She is also an AHT trained Master Practitioner of NLP.
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