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The Wisdom of Crocodiles

Despite all the ups and downs of it all, I have come to realise one thing. Be true to yourself. It may sound clichéd and slushy. Interpret it as you may, you will anyway.

But eternal truths are simple in essence. And they live just beneath the “spin” of our lives. And god knows I had enough spin to cut my way through. By spin I mean what others would have you believe is true. The spin of the beliefs and perceptions you have “taken” to be true from your childhood or your teacher in sixth grade.

Even better are the beliefs you don’t even know you have lurking beneath in those watery depths of your sub-conscious.

And this is what I love about what I do for myself. What I do for others. I love being in the laboratory with them as we mix up their beliefs and perceptions. Shake up the various potions and solutions of their lives. Watch the amazing “chemical” transformations as old beliefs, patterns dissolve and new crystalline structures emerge.

This is what I’ve done for myself. I’ve reinvented myself more than once. I’ve refused to buy the labels people choose to stick on me. To be the sum total of all the “bad” things that have happened to me.

Now I am thinking, feeling, being for my self and who I am really am.

Hence the line on my business cards which says, “Change the Who am I, to Who I am.” I mean it. I live it.

And that does not mean that every day is a bed of roses. Far from it, some days the view from the deck is clear, blue sunny skies. Other days the outlook is a bit foggier. This is life as it. Each day must be navigated through.

But I love sailing in unknown waters. It’s when I learn the most about myself. Even though the natural instinct is to “stick” to what is known. We all know that one.

But once you’ve mapped a course through one set of alien surroundings your weaponry starts to expand. You have more resources the next time you go there.

And of course, the real secret, “sshh...” (finger to the lips), in case anyone hears, is to let go. There I said it. It slipped from my mouth.

And that’s what I’ve done to all the horrible things in my life. Healed them and let them go. Yanked them like barnacles from my shell and tossed them back into the sea where they belong.

Here is a poem I wrote about it.

There is nothing I
Can write
That could make
Me more patient
Understand that
The tale must be
Allowed to unfold
The wise man says
The gate cannot
Be opened from
The outside
Only from within
So I plumb the psyche
That cave within the
Snow
And I am poised
One foot after another
A tongue of flames
I softly whisper
What would you
Have me do?
Look into the pool
Of water
And you will see
Your face
Walk away from the
Blind alley of the intellect
And know thy self first.

Living a 1000 lives

By the year 2000 I would say the process of “healing” had begun. I mean what was bottled up had started to begun to be released for the first time.

Again, it had all been “kicked” off in rather a dramatic way in July 1999. But the dense thick fog had started to begun to lift. The veil had begun to part.

I guess I was always different. And no matter how hard anyone tried I never would fit into one of their boxes.

And despite all the wounds, traumas, shattering of the soul I have experienced. I still believed it would change.

And of course, I am relaying my story here. I am expressing what I saw, felt, heard and touched. The full Technicolor movie of my life to date is being streamed out.

And that’s why some times I feel like one thousand different lives have been lived. Maybe I have. Maybe I am.

Until…we meet again to break the rules!

Love,

Rita x

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