Jeddah Mali Q&A Forum

Dear Jeddah
I just got the invitation from Learning Strategies to join your programme. I’m always concerned in case I am taking on yet more studying – I just have a passion for learning! I decided to check out your website and found that the image you use is very similar to my new business card. A synchronicity I’m sure. However my question is I’m not sure if work commitments will permit me to listen to the telephone seminars every or even most weeks. Will I still receive the same benefits from the CDs?
Much love
Lucy

Dear Jeddah

I would like some individual guidance on how to let go of being the victim in a scape-goating dynamic in my family. I use the Sedona Method to let go of the feelings and ’story’ and find this very helpful. If you hae further guidance I’d be grateful to hear.

Hi Jeddah,

I appreciate your sharing. Thank you.

May I ask how does your teachings differ from Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” or are they the same, presented differently?

While I am awakened and pretty much live in the present, I frequently find myself at a low energy level – is there a cause and cure for this? (Must be not enough sleep “staying awake” )

Thank you very much for your pointers.

Eddy

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Delegation.

Dear Jeddah,
My question revolves around my curiosity regarding the link between spirituality and sexuality.
I am a lesbian, and find it challenging to completely accept this reality to myself–
I feel guilty that I am, and sometimes feel that I can “change” or become straight.

Why would I want to change what I am?

Because as I experience daily life, I observe members of heterosexual society have a much easier life in retrospect to loving and creating families–I think children are gifts, and the fact that a man and a woman can love each other deeply and produce a child as a symbol of their love forces me to question why lesbians do not have that same privilege if their love is deep and genuine? Is the universe trying to tell me that I am not on the right path?–or that I am not on the path that would grant me more rewards(ie children, a partner to produce a family where the child feels “normal” in school with a mom and a dad rather than two moms).

The truth is, I cannot turn off my sexuality like a switch. I am attracted to women not only on a sexual foundation, but moreover on emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels–which does not equate the same feelings I have for men. Even when I do find certain men attractive, I don’t feel complete in a relationship with a man as I do a woman.

As a seeker of peace, of truth, and as a seeker of a profound union with my higher self,
and the God/Goddess within/around ,is it okay that I am a lesbian?
And if yes, why is it so much more difficult, complex and confusing to be one in this world?
Your advice would be much appreciated. Thank you, “R”

Hello Jeddah
I have been listening to your cds. The trust and surrender has been making a huge
impact. I had a revelation this morning. I have awareness of the sea of awareness,
but this morning I could see it as a mirror. I know this is probably just a thought or my mind seeing it, but it is so cool to see how like a mirror it can be anything and yet it is nothing in itself. We just put something (a thought) out and it is reflected back to us. I am the most peaceful when I just abide as the sea of awareness and just witness (reflect) what I see without question. But here is a question anyway, I know you can’t really compare awareness to a mirror, but do I have an understanding here?
Love and peace
Jacki

Hi Jeddah,
i have got your very good course “seeds of enlightenment” and it is very great experience for me and really i am so amazed for what i experienced.

i just want to ask you a question about the second meditation called interntion and feedback there is something strange happen to me when i hold the intention for peace, my body moves by its own i do meditation sitting when i hold the intention i start automatically move forward and down and sometimes i lean to the right.

i just want you to help me find out what does that mean?

finally i really want to thank you a lot for all what you do.

Aloha Jeddha
What is your take on using a Mantra during meditation and doing japa during the day? It seems to me that since the nature of the mind is to think, one might as well give it something juicy to chew on, rather then the usual worries, fears, etc. What say you?

My belief is that the ground of being and all manifestation is love. But my mind can’t reconcile what appears to be the basic cruelness of nature and the suffering it imposes on it’s creatures with this basic belief. I recently watched a documentary about the very loving primates, the Bonobos. Aside from their unusually gentle and loving ways, they showed a primate who lost it’s mother and discussed how the natural response from the group was to psychologically banish it’s orphans. When other primate children in the group treated the orphan roughly, their mother’s would step in and rough up or bite the hand of the orphan till it bled. It was apparent that the orphans great loss would result in living a life of being ostracized and abused. Suffering in humans can lead to awareness. What is the purpose of this apparent injustice and suffering seen throughout nature and in humans in a love based reality? This greatly disturbs me. thank you

Hi Jeddah,

When I was in high school, I had an experience which I could not explaind. It was midafternoon and
all of a sudden everything became on slow motion … including my thoughts. It was as if my thoughts
were floating out like bubbles and you could be aware of them. This happened for a few hours.

Would there be any explanation to this?

Hi Jeddah

I have landed in a mind confusion, and would appreciate your thoughts. When focusing on the present moment in meditation, my focus is regularly distracted. Then I try to be in the present moment by registering the experience of being distracted. So there kind of is a distracted mind and an observing mind (at the same time or sequentially?), yet, both minds are of one and the same source (I assume). For example you could be distracted for reasons of compassion, but then have this “un-compassionate” observer in you at the same time. Would you have a suggestion on how to best unscramble this battle of mind(s)?

Many thanks

Anbai (newbie)

Hello Jeddah,
I have a problem I haven’t seen addressed anywhere else, and I have to admit that it does sound rather unusual. During meditation several years ago, I began hearing music. At first, I thought it was the Bani (Music of the Spheres). For several days, the music was very beautiful and had much variation. Then one day it seemed to be an entire hour of jazz, which would have been very interesting if I actually liked jazz. Over the next day or two, it developed into a series of tunes that I soon recognized would play an entire series of music on a time frame of approximately 22 hours or so, at which point the same tunes, in the same order, would begin again. The music ranged from western-sounding cowboy-type music, and Spanish Flamenco, to tunes such as one might hear on Broadway, to even opera. At various points I could hear people clapping and whistling, such as in old fashioned Burlesque shows, and in the operatic music, I could even hear a man singing words, but they were in no language of which I am aware, such as the classical German, Italian, or French. I could hear the music quite plainly, as if a radio or stereo were actually playing in the room. Also, during several of the songs/music, I could hear a horse neighing, always at the same points in the 22-hour cycle. While I have had so-called mystical experiences, I have never run across anything like this, and I might add that I am definitely not prone to hearing things. By the way, none of the voices were speaking directly to me, so I am pretty sure I am not schizophrenic.

At first this was intriguing, but as time went on, this became very annoying, to say the least. After several weeks of this, it became quite distracting. The music had become quite loud, and after several months I was beginning to worry about my sanity as far as having music blaring in my ears all day is concerned. A teacher with whom I had been working at the time suggested that I had stumbled upon a memory; she admonished me to stop it, but would not tell me how. I began noticing that the music would recede into the background if I was having a conversation with someone else. This showed me, at least, that where I was focusing my attention affected how much I heard of the music. I am also aware that I created this scenario somehow, and it has shown me that whatever we focus upon manifests. But enough of this lesson already! Using this information, I have tried everything I know to stop this music totally whenever I do happen to hear it, mostly by turning my attention elsewhere, the idea being to break apart the energy by not focusing on it. This has worked faily well, to the point it has receeded very much into the background. However, whenever I am quiet (such as meditating or perhaps reading my email), I will sometimes still notice it even if I am not looking for it (and I never consciously look for it anyway).

I try to stay balanced about this whole thing, but I must admit that I find it frustrating to have not been able to meditate for several years because of this. Every time I try to do so, the music slowly starts becoming louder again over a span of a week or so. I dearly wish to take your course with Learning Strategies, beginning next month, but I am afraid the music will start up again and I won’t be able to concentrate on your teachings or on the meditations. I would deeply appreciate any help, ideas, or feedback that you can give me as to what this is, and how I can stop it totally.
With Many Thanks and Deepest Appreciation,
Cheryl

Dear Jeddah
I continue to listen to “seeds of enlightenment” It has helped me beyond words. I continue to notice more how my mind operates. I am noticing this “constant witness” is always present, it has no beginning or end.I am noticing how I create suffering through resistance which is very contracting. I am noticing how when I’m aware of something I’m not identified with it. I want to thank you so much for making these cd’s. I look forward to the next series Embracing Freedom.
Much Love
Jacki

I’m still fresh from attending Jeddah’s Changing the Paradigm of the Planet Retreat. It was absolutely awesome in supporting my growth toward being more of who I really am in All my Light, Power, Love and Humility–to name only a few of the qualities I am. I am now more steady in Conscious Awareness in the Current Moment and all the potential therein and in the underlying Belief. It was wonderful experiencing Jeddah first hand in all her Serenity and Unconditional Love, and in all the Like-Beings she drew together, and being encouraged daily that no matter how often we forget, our Magnificence is Always Available to Us as we Choose to Be Aware of it.