Dear Friends,

Our October Theme is:

Is there a better time for hunting a gap in my knowledge than an ISM Retreat?! :) Which gap, namely? There is something in me that is pushing me to want to be my own boss. Something related to me wanting to be an active male; not that a passive male is really a male anyway. But it appears as a sense so far, so I want to hunt it!

Please enjoy Lady Elizabeth's most revealing and gentle sharing!

With all my love,
(BH)
Milen

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My Dear Friends,

Happy Month! Happy Octob(e)rrrrr!

This Southern Hemisphere gal’s body is already experiencing the lower nightly temperatures!

This month welcomes all our ISM Residential Retreat attendees to Varna, Bulgaria, and I am most looking forward to meeting up with each one next week – already! Yikes, the time is winging its way faster now!

Our theme for this month - "Hunting a gap in our knowledge" dovetails beautifully with our theme for the Retreat - “Living Impeccably”.

In “our” numerology 2025 is the year of completion – 9 – and the vibration of 2026 – 10 – is already making itself felt.

“The number 10 is the number of impeccability through the repetition of the old. The meaning here is that if we try to avoid our challenges, then because we cannot have gaps in our knowledge, our dreamers sooner or later bring those challenges back into our lives so that we are forced to face them again. But even if we do not try to avoid our challenges, it is in practice, because of our lack of experience, very seldom that we get all of the knowledge out of our challenges the first time round.

Therefore once again, challenges are repeated from time to time so that we can have another chance at getting as much as possible from out of those challenges.

In this way we learn to become impeccable in our thoughts, our feelings, our actions, and therefore also our perception.”

Way back in 2017 I landed up zigzagging all over the world, and by September, after I had arrived back in Europe from Siberia, I even had to make an unplanned lightning trip back to South Africa to apply for a visa for Greece so I could facilitate a course there early that next month.

During that course I found myself waking up after a few hours sleep each night and simply put it down to the normal adrenalin increase of being fully on purpose for a few days. Little did I know that this symptom is one of the first signs of burn out!

And by November, after an annual 10-day detox recovery at a spa, my body just rebelled – and that was it. It ran out of petrol!

Apparently, I recovered remarkedly quickly – yet another mark of a soul in a hurry! Lol! -and since then I monitor my sleep quality like a hawk!

So this summer, once again, my body stopped me in my tracks, literally. I am on the mend now, albeit wobblily, and with each activity I am striving to find balance. I do need to check in with dear ones every now and again to see if I am “pushing it”, and then get surprised when they say yes, because it all felt so gentle! Lol!

I have been tracking to see how far back this state of mind originates and so far I am landing on the choice of being the 6th out of 7 kids and the resultant need to compete for attention down at the bottom of the food chain! Lol! Overachieve will do it! Trying constantly to prove I am not not important - as opposed to trying to prove I am important.

I have my work cut out for me this month! 😊

I invite you to join me on this hunt for a gap in your own knowledge, without blame or self-judgment. Just impeccability – which is

“To do*/act to the very best that I can at any given moment in time using all the information and the knowledge that I have – in that moment!

*Doing = Your feelings, actions, words, thoughts must all be in sync."

Have fun with our theme this month, my friends!

With all my love,
(BigHugs)
Elizabeth

Milen Ivanov
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