How Awake are You? |
Waking up isn’t serious business, in fact, waking up often leads to much more humor, a greater degree of playfulness and enhanced enjoyment of each moment of life. |
While you may consider yourself awake, I promise you that you aren’t fully awake, neither am I. Some of the relevant questions to ask yourself, are: “Are you more awake today than you were yesterday?”; “Are you more awake now than you were a month or a year ago?”; "Do you know how awake you are? Not compared with someone else, but compared to how awake you have been."
As they age, many people become less awake. They get stuck in their beliefs and caught by the endless menial demands of all they must do.
Have you noticed that some people are more awake than others?
I have, and I got very curious about how we could all wake up and take notice more fully.
I have been exploring degrees of awakening for three decades and I have learned a lot about waking up. One of the first things I learned is that waking up is important. In fact, it may well be our primary purpose on Earth.
We, in the West, tend not to place much value on waking up. We think that it really can’t be measured and we often get so busy we forget the relevance of waking up entirely.
I would like you to ponder for a few moments what it would be like to be more awake, alive, alert, and present each day. What would it be like to wake up in the morning dazzled at what it is like to live, noticing all that is around you, being grateful for each moment and thankful for everything you see, hear and feel.
If you would like to deepen and enhance your process of waking up, then please read on.
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Why Come to a JS-Course (Jerry Stocking Course)?
 JS-Courses will assist you in waking up, becoming much more curious (like a child), and enhancing your self expression. It isn't that you are asleep now, but you aren't fully awake either. We live in a kind of limbo between sleeping and waking.
As you wake up you will become happier, healthier and wiser. You will be more present, peaceful and passionate, not passive, unsettled and indecisive. You will live life as though it matters each moment, but without seriousness.
Waking up can provide everything and anything you want in your life.
We live in a very busy world and we seldom take the time or have the space to get a really good look both at what we want from our life and who we are. JS-Courses provide a catalytic crucible in which what doesn’t matter will burn away and what will remain is who you really are.
I have been leading JS-Courses for 28 years. In that time I have seen many people before and after their JS-Course experience. I have also spoken with people before attending a JS-Course, as they decided to come, and after they attended. I promise you: “If you knew what was available at one of these JS-Courses, you would come NOW.”
JS-Courses provide a safe, intimate and relaxing space to look at your life, to listen into what really matters to you and to gain perspectives from the depth of who you really are. JS-Courses support you in waking up!
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Inner Alchemy To be announced
Embracing Being (weekend JS-Course):
NYC, NY June 4-6, 2010: Join us for the fun!
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Personal Renaissance Course-
Mini Personal Renaissance (Five day JS-Course):June 17-21, 2010. Course almost full, act fast! Order Recordings of last course by calling 800.899.2464 only 99 dollars!
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"Jerry is the American version of Obi Wan Kenobi.
His light saber cuts through your patterns of illusion and leaves you rolling on the floor laughing."
Barry Kilzer, Carmel Valley, California, USA, planet Earth
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Three things you will find in every JS-Course:
Each JS-Course includes dancing: It may be possible to learn about reality without dancing, but why bother?
Each JS-Course includes lecture: I talk a lot during JS-Courses and I invite questions from anyone at anytime. I never know what I am going to say until I say it. This is part of what makes JS-Coures so much fun.
Each JS-Course includes novelty: When you bust up your patterns you realease energy and create novelty. This makes life interesting, unperdictable and wonderfully energetic.
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Open Your Heart!
 At a JS-Course you will learn how to deal with difficult emotions. Not only deal with them, but you will learn how to embrace difficult emotions and use them to empower yourself.
May I tell you a story?
Once upon a time there were three bears. Big Bear was huge and strong and powerful. Middle Bear was very sensative and emotionally turbulent. Little Bear was barely a bear at all, so young, precoscious and mischevious. Long before Goldy Locks ever arrived on the scene, the three bears had a difficult time getting along. Big Bear knew so much, was wise far beyond his years and gained constant infinite perspective by realizing that everything is connected, purposeful and perfect. Little Bear was a know it all. He believed anything he thought and expressed himself with profound insecurity that he didn't seem to notice. Little Bear wanted his way--always wanted his way. He would throw tantrums if he didn't get just what he wanted when he wanted it. Middle Bear was caught in the middle. She completely loved Big Bear and Little Bear, but was always caught between them. She would try and please Little Bear, by getting him what he wanted before he wanted it--a practice she seldom succeeded at. Middle Bear would try and explain to Big Bear that Little Bear was really a very good little bear.
Extrapolating from this story, imagine that each human being contains aspects of all three Bears and that these three Bears are continually trying to relate to each other. Big Bear is the belly, the deep infinite universal part of you. Middle Bear is the heart, everything you feel. Little Bear is the mind, a precocious little scamp if ever there was one. Middle Bear has to mediate between the infinite, Big Bear, and the finite, Little Bear. To do so she needs to feel love for both infinite and finite. She needs to embrace how things are and listen to Little Bear, not believing a word but still listening and loving. She needs to buffer Big Bear a bit from the mundane world as Big Bear is simply too big to dance here on Earth. Middle Bear needs to open her heart to both the tiniest and the biggest things at the same time. JS-Courses are all about opening your heart and discovering infinite love for Little Bear and finite appreciation for Big Bear so that the three bears can live happily, peacefully and gracefully ever after.
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"Jerry’s work shows me how to bring more of who I am to my patients, and find more of who they are in front of me; a consistent benefit to us both."
John Farrin, MD, Emergency Physician.
"This work has brought new meaning to my life. I can stop pretending to be who I am not and be who I really am. I feel more alive with all my feelings. It's nice to notice my body."
Dorothy Harrison, FL |
"Jerry Stocking is to self discovery movement what Warren Zevon was/is to the music industry. Both are immensely more knowledgeable than their peers at their respective craft. Yet both remain relatively unknown because of their commitment to not sell out to culture demands."
Patrick Finnegan,
Minneapolis, MN |
Three more things you will find in every JS-Course:
Each JS-Course includes exercises: The exercises are the backbone of a JS-Course in that they provide the opportunity to convert theory into practice, integrating the ideas from the JS-Course into every aspect of your life as you syncronize mind and body.
Each JS-Course includes laughter: The very process of learning about yourself is fun and freeing; it has you meet many funny and wonderful people (all you) on the way to finding out who you are.
Each JS-Course includes intimacy: You will get to know your fellow travelers at a very deep level and learn to love them independent of their content or yours. |
Self Expression,
Celebrating
Who You Are:
The ability to express yourself is vital to human health, it enhances relationships and makes life much more rewarding. JS-Courses support self expression on several levels. In order to express yourself you need to be continually growing in your perception and understanding of who you are.
Socrates said, “Know thyself.” There is no better place than a JS-Course to get to know yourself. JS-Courses are about getting to know yourself at the level of process. To discover your underlying, deep patterns. As you discover them you also find out that trying to change them is unnecessary, just bringing attention to them has life become a dance of celebration.
As you get to know yourself more fully you will begin to discover that you are both “good” and “bad”, “right” and “wrong”, “happy” and “sad”. Getting to know yourself is a process of integrating many parts of you without preference. It is about getting to know everything about yourself.
The process of getting to know yourself is endless, in JS-Courses you will speed up the process and learn many ways to enhance it. New YOU discoveries will naturally express themselves when you speak to other people, when you write, when you create, and when you are enhancing your curiousity and willingness to learn.
Expressing the new You, will be easy and effortless and will allow other people to contribute to you deeply as you contribute to them. JS-Courses are a microcosm for this process. In your JS-Course you both learn a lot about yourself and begin expressing what you are learning. Expressing what you are learning enhances the connection between mind and body--a connection which guarantees that the results you begin creating in the JS-Course transfer effortlessly to every aspect of your life.
Blocks to self expression are usually just the result of having the perception of who you are be static, when the reality of who you are is dynamic. As you discover the constant blooming of who you are self expression will become a natural, organic process for you. |
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"Jerry will show you how to take any relationship (including the one with yourself) to much, much deeper levels. You'll find out how to jump to the underlying levels of any relationship, the levels that lie beyond words...with anyone at anytime."
Paul Rakovich
"I got involved with Jerry's work because I wanted more success and presence in a corporate environment. Not only have I received both, but the real treasure has been that I am learning how to love and respect my significant other in the way she deserves."
Patrick Finnegan |
"I feel like one of the catatonic institutional patients in Awakenings who has been given a way to wake up to vibrantly live and communicate fully for the first time. Even as I wax and wane in my personal growth, I am fully aware that playing with Jerry will soon awaken the whole world."
Jim Johnson Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist |
Four more things you will find in every JS-Course:
Each JS-Course includes glipses of reality: A glimpse of reality is an end-run around your patterns in which you see who you really are and how things really are. The more of these you have, the more easily you will rid your life of illusion.
Each JS-Course includes your senses: Discovery of basic sensory patterns (NLP) and the way out of them. This makes your world much bigger and has you become much more flexible.
Each JS-Course includes future pacing: Not only will you receive recordings of your JS-Course, but you will get a list of things to practice and the names and addresses of participants to practice with. Many people report long-lasting friendships after attending a JS-Course. Decade long friendships are very common.
Each JS-Course includes follow-up: We are available to you after you attend a JS-Course. You can call or e-mail with your questions and requests for more exercises or play. JS-Courses provide a hierarchy of play that will support you on your path.
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How does a JS-Course work?
JS-Courses, and life, are all about attention. There is an underlying economy of attention. We seek attention, we give attention, we define a good day as a day in which we have received enough attention, a bad day is one in which we lack attention. We all, to some degree, suffer from attention deficit disorder.
 In JS-Courses you will learn to master your attention. You will learn, among other things, that attention isn’t limited. In fact, you are a source of unlimited attention. Attention is your evolutionary gift; it is in your best interest to learn how to utilize attention.
As you embrace and enhance your attention you will discover what creates waking up. Waking up results from putting attention on attention itself. While there is a huge temptation to put attention on things or other people, attention on attention sets you free. As long as we are chasing attention we can’t possibly discover ourselves as creators of attention. In a JS-Course we practice attending to ever smaller, impartial pieces of who we are. In this process we breathe life into witness consciousness. We begin to witness ourselves coming into being. One of the tiny pieces we discover is cause and effect--a very loaded connection. Dipping deeply below cause and effect, we discover stimulus/response couplings.
In a JS-Course you will unwind these stimulus-response combinations that get in the way of you being authentic, intimate and real. You will discover that your humanity, creativity, caring and loving wisdom resides in the tiny spaces between stimulus and response.
When stimulus and response meet they form a bond. This bond restricts flexibility, inhibits creativity, and, after a while, it numbs you. This bond numbs you so much, in fact, that you can’t even remember what life was like as a kid: when you were excited, lit up and passionate about being alive.
JS-Courses bring attention to your patterns which results in gentle and ecological unwinding. Gentleness is an important part of this process. We have all tried to change things exerting control and effort: it seldom works and wears us out.
Splitting an atom produces energy. Splitting the tiny stimulus-response couplings produces energy as will. This energy is yours. This energy can turn back the clock on aging and returning you to the enthusiasm of your youth with the wisdom of the ages.
The key to freeing you from the shackles of repetitious patterns is learning to be a master of attention. Attention is our evolutionary gift--a gift we can use to liberate ourselves. Money is a metaphor for attention. As such, it chases attention attempting to sneak into a more real representation of self worth. Attention is the key to everything we want and need. |
Are You Ready to Get Real?
The book, Pinocchio, is one of the most translated books of all time, second only to the Bible. Pinocchio is about a little puppet made of wood, who wants to be a “real” boy. He embarks upon many adventures and over and over again he lies, fails and makes obvious mistakes. He seeks his virtue and can’t find it. He resists temptation and succumbs to it.
Even though he fails, he keeps trying and lying. Every time he lies his nose grows longer.
Pinocchio sells so well because it is an obvious metaphor for the human condition. We keep trying to be good. We keep trying to have our lives count, to treat people well, to love and be loved. Yet, we continue to be tempted by all sorts of mischief.
We are engaged in an epic struggle to be real, to get beyond the petty temptations of life and let our spirits bloom on Earth, representing who we really are rather than continuing to pretend to be so much less.
If you would like to be a “real” boy, man or women, I invite you to attend a JS-Course. By attending a JS-Course you will bring attention to the process of yourself unfolding. You will unify parts of yourself. The purpose of attending a JS-Course is not to become perfect, but to realize at very deep levels how perfect you are just as you are. |
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Four more things you will find in every JS-Course:
Each JS-Course includes speed: Your thoughts move at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second. Your thinking is much slower than this. You will lighten up as you speed up your thinking. The world around you slows down relative to you making every aspect of life more manageable and enjoyable. You step from behind the eight ball into the light.
Each JS-Course includes personal attention: We keep JS-Courses small (fewer than fifty people, and often much less than that) so you wil get the special attention you deserve. You are very important to the JS-Course; your presence contributes to both its design and unfolding.
Each JS-Course includes mind/body integration: When you bring your mind and body together illusion has no place to hide, so it reveals itself, its mischief, entertainment value and humor.
Each JS-Course includes breakthroughs: Not only will you think in ways you have never thought before, but so will I. And so will the people around you. In each JS-Course we will explore new territory, that is simply the nature of this work and the nature of the present as well. JS-Courses explore possibility which is fresh, new and unpredictable each moment. You are a continuing unfolding and a creation: so are the JS-Courses. |
Life is fun. Life is funny. We came here to play, uniting the mundane and the spiritual. Laughter is a prayer, crying a celebration, breathing a pleasure. Each moment is a gift; the next moment is a surprise inspiring attention and art.
JS-Courses are about the art of living as art.
Join us!
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Graceful in the Moment: Expanding.
Are you noticing more today than you were yesterday? This may be a crucial question to ask a person who wants to age gracefully.
When we do something new our bodies and our minds are attentive and excited. By excited mind, I am referring to a sense of alertness of your actions and your surroundings when you are engaged with something novel; by excited body, I am referring to the hundreds of synapses firing in your brain and the repeated releases of proteins throughout your body. When you do something for the first time the body supports you in noticing itself and your surroundings and keeps you alert.
When you repeat this behavior your mind is less aware because the pathway has already been forged. Similarly, your body is less aware because of the memory T-cells in your muscles ready to repeat any behavior previously performed. When you do something for the third time, you have begun a habit. This is not a bad thing. These life saving/time saving strategies have been passed on to us through the generations to get us to where we are today. However every asset has the potential to become a liability.
JS-Courses invite you discover how to receive each moment as new, novel and worthy of inspiring attention. Embracing the moment keeps you young no matter how old you are. In the moment age disappears. During JS-Courses you will discover the technologies of being present NOW and you will have the experience of being present as you integrate this knowledge in both mind and body.
Bringing novelty to this moment isn’t about doing something, it is about who is doing it. When who you are is growing, what you are doing doesn’t matter. |
Immortality
We engage in Chi Kung during JS-Courses because Chi Kung addresses energy flow and because Chi Kung is thousands of years old. Each time you do your Chi Kung routines, you tap into the wisdom of the people who lived before you.
Chi Kung assists us in the process of integrating the newest technologies with the oldest wisdom. It allows us to dance with subtle variations because each movement or posture is subtly different each time we do them.
Immortality results when ALL past meets ALL future in the present.
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