River's Chi House

Retreat Relax Reflect Release Reflect Release

I want to tell you about Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit. It is not exactly Uncle Remus's Briar Fox and Brer Rabbit. You can find the original story at the following link. http://www.otmfan.com/html/brertar.htm The Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit I want to tell you about are within all of us. Our conditioned and unconscious mind or ego is our Brer Fox. It is made up of many things including our false beliefs and understandings, or lack of understanding, relative to any difficult situation we encounter in our lives. Will Rogers use to say, "It is not what you know that can hurt you. It is what you know that ain't so." The Brer Foxes within us are always preparing traps for us. I call these traps Tar Babies. A tar baby is any thought or emotion or situation that we encounter that gets us angry or hurts our feeling or makes us lose it in one form or another. It is any situation, thought or emotion that gets us stuck and makes us feel shame and regret later for what we said or did to...

I really have no idea what is going on here and I doubt most people who say they do. My best guess and hope is that we are amazingly Beautiful Beings, who chose to incarnated on this planet in a material body to have a incredible experience. I believe that the journey is so beautiful and complex and overwhelming that we lost our sense of who and what and where we are. Because we have become disoriented and confused we, more often then not, have a very difficult and confused and painful experience while in the body on this planet. So what can be done to make this journey more beautiful and less painful? I have asked myself that for decades. I have seen, when working with people in healing situations, that most pain and suffering comes from confusion and ignorance about how to understand the many situations and experiences they find themselves having to confront. I have found that true for myself personally. Our choices in all kinds of situations are, more often then not, made in hig...