new group in March

* free at last * free at last * free at last * free at last *

NEW PROCESS GROUP - starts March 27th -
on Saturday mornings at 10:00 - 11:30 -
in Los Feliz - $ 20.00 per session.

SHAME & SELF-SABOTAGE
Stop self-sabotaging your happiness!
It really IS possible to FIND RELIEF
from emotional suffering
without resorting to substances to ease the pain.
You CAN heal and outgrow
toxic shame from your childhood and move on!

A childhood of abandonment and confusion,
where our needs have NOT been met –
can leave us with needs
that we experience as insatiable.

This new group addresses shame and guilt -
which many survivors act out through
addictive and other self-defeating behaviors.

In the healing environment of a therapy group
you can identify with other people
who have gone through similar experiences.
We will explore together
how to establish self-confidence and implement change.

You deserve understanding, support, and encouragement
while you learn to
give yourself permission to have a good life!

Please let me know if you are interested
or pass it on to a friend - 310-617-9324
- www.jasminrogg.com - jasminrogg@hotmail.com

* free at last * free at last * free at last * free at last *

INVOCATION

* the magic of the spoken word * the magic of the spoken word *

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ongoing meditation group on Monday mornings 10:00 – 11:00 am
at my office on 337 South Beverly Drive # 101, Beverly Hills 90212
(between Olympic and Wilshire)

Explored audible verbal invocation for our purposes –
stating our desire for prosperity out loud and with confidence.

In this case we expressed that we are in the process of
manifesting a new way of life, full of good energy.
With joy, self-confidence, and a sense of deserving a good future
we clarified our main purpose for this project.
We verbalized specifically
what it is that we want to create.
Listening to ourselves, we liked what we heard.
We made a decision to repeat this exercise
in addition to the meditative visualization on a daily basis.

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God,
and the word was God” – King James Bible

* the magic of the spoken word * the magic of the spoken word *

my hero

My Sponsor, Hero, Mentor, and Role Model

While most of us whine about the economy
and nurture resentments
and desires about what would make us happy
…
my sponsor Nico (58) and her husband Larry (65)
are going to Haiti to help out.
Nico, who has been clean and sober for over 20 years,
has only recently recovered from severe illness and surgeries.
Larry, a retired firefighter,
who has been clean and sober for about 30 years,
has already been to New Orleans last year
to aid Katrina victims through the organization
“Hands on Disaster Relief”.
I am so proud to know these two angels personally
and glad to have them in my life for over eleven years!

“If someone saves one life,
it is as if he saves the whole world” - Third Book of Moses

make it reeal

make it real make it real make it real make it real make it real

ongoing meditation group on Monday mornings 10:00 – 11:00 am
at my office on South Beverly Drive # 101, Beverly Hills 90212
(between Olympic and Wilshire)

MAKE IT REEAL
LOVED today’s topic – the essence of visualization.
Explored the duality of potential and material –
how the mind’s electrical signals (as we visualize things)
brings them into reality by moving them from potential to material …
FANTASTIC stuff!!!
But we don’t even need to understand it!
All that’s required is
that we IMAGINE ourselves being amidst the desired world …
utilize the power of concentration and focus...
and enjoy joy and gratitude beforehand
(bring some patience, too...)
That’s how it goes.
In the meantime we create hope, confidence, good energy,
and a great Monday morning mood to get the week going.

make it real make it real make it real make it real make it real

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ongoing meditation group on Monday mornings 10:00 – 11:00 am
at my office on 337 South Beverly Drive # 101, Beverly Hills 90212
(between Olympic and Wilshire)

COLLAPSE THE DISTANCE
what a fun and insightful meditation group today!!
We came with high expectations
and we left empowered and self-confident –
well, let's just say we felt confident to take on the day
and the week with our new attitude...
and we did understand that lack of self-confidence
is at the root of our alcoholic mind set,
and we have been manifesting a life
based on our negative self image…
in order to allow abundance
we make the change here and now to believe in ourselves –
this will collapse the distance to the object of desire,
which for us right now is success and prosperity.
…and so we visualized…

visualize & materialize & visualize & materialize

Tarzan

Visuals

Imagine holding a baby that’s smiling at you, filling your heart with joy and love through the trust it has in you.

Or imagine holding a cat or dog that looks into your eyes. Love is love. It’s all the same…

Imagine being Tarzan, aarroooooh! swinging from tree to tree on the giant lianas in the jungle. What joy to be so free, strong, and powerful!

Know that you are the baby, the loving little animal, the strong human, and the jungle. The life and love is IN you - ready to be manifested through the power of your mind whenever you choose to do so…

Use your powers to take good care of yourself on this lovely day!

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join us next monday – join us next monday – join us next monday
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ABUNDANCE MANIFESTATION (2)

ongoing meditation group on Monday mornings 10:00 – 11:00 am
at my office on 337 South Beverly Drive # 101, Beverly Hills 90212
(between Olympic and Wilshire)

Today’s group was on staying with the flow –
being open to give and receive –
and give this new thing some time to gather momentum, too.
Looked at prosperity as a good thing,
and useful for being of service to others, as well.
We discovered crocodiles in the moat of our imaginary castle and
some unwillingness to let the bridge down…
Learned a spiritual technique
for dealing with obstacles and difficult people.
Felt confident and empowered …
just lovely on a rainy Monday morning!
join us next monday – join us next monday – join us next monday

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join us next monday – join us next monday – join us next monday

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ABUNDANCE MANIFESTATION (1)

ongoing meditation group on Monday mornings 10:00 – 11:00 am
at my office on 337 South Beverly Drive # 101, Beverly Hills 90212
(between Olympic and Wilshire)

LOVED our first abundance meditation!
Identified and discarded adverse thoughts such as
“I don’t deserve it; I can’t; I don’t know how;
money is bad.”
Clarified quantum physics aspect –
i.e. what you put your attention on becomes real.
Identified thoughts we want to manifest in reality,
such as:
“I feel worthy and entitled to get a cash refund
for all the good I have done.”
Meditated for 10 minutes,
visualizing joy and abundance entering our lives.
By then we had some WONDERFUL energy going on,
feeling energized, happy, and confident.

… when we left the office,
a woman stopped us and asked us who we are,
whether she could be part of this, whatever it is,
and whether she could hug us…
how's that for having generated good energy?

join us next monday – join us next monday – join us next monday

attitude & grace

this one is dedicated to my son Jesse who turned 30 today

A Child like a Cherry Tree
Raising a child is a little bit like raising a cherry tree – make sure, it is grounded firmly so it can develop strong deep roots that will secure its survival. Try your best to provide a good environment where it gets the energy it needs. Talk gently to it, making sure it always feels bathed in love, but don’t over-do it - interfering too much can be just as damaging as neglect. Provide what it needs reliably, rather than what you want when you feel needy. Make sure you are around all the time for special care when necessary, and for protection from harsh storms or unexpected shocks. Know that it will have to endure some rough times. Early on, while it’s still weak and vulnerable, it needs some support – it can’t carry its own weight yet, it bends too easily and could break. Hope for the hard times to hit when it is big and strong so it can weather them. Be prepared that it will take a long time until it can survive without your help – and don’t expect any gratitude when it reaches maturity. You do it because it gives you joy any time you look at it and watch it grow. If you don’t want to take on such a big and long-term commitment, I suggest you get a poodle or a cat instead.

If it’s healthy and sufficiently cared for, it will blossom and give you cherries – when its time has come. Nothing you do will speed up the process of maturation. Don’t expect that you know it all. It’s a big challenge – be willing to learn. If you don’t care for it properly, you may stunt its growth – it may end up weak or crippled and never blossom or bear fruit. Some injuries early on can never heal - and so it might break during the first storm. Know that whatever you do, it will never ever give you potatoes, even if that’s what you need. At best it can be what it is. When it bears cherries everybody can enjoy them, not just you. Even though you have put so much effort into it, you don’t really own it. It lives and grows because that is its nature. It doesn’t live for you.

this is the disease

there is no tomorrow

At 10:00 a.m... I got a phone call from the neighborhood bar ...

a friend was in there very drunk and asking for help ...

So I called him at the bar and told him that he could

call me back another day when he is not drunk.
He was happy to notice that he had my # in his phone all along,
begging me to come get him,
saying over and over "there is no tomorrow"...

Just came back from the bar.
The guy was happy to see me, but terribly drunk.
He kept insisting to go to the Key Club meeting
(which doesn't exist anymore) and also get another drink,
which the barkeeper didn't give him.
Then he stumbled out, trying to call his son (...),
crossed the street, and left me standing there with tears in my eyes.
Eventually he turned around and waved good-bye.

Hoping that you can stay sober!
It's hard. Most people relapse. God knows I know why...

What happens when we relapse is (among other things)
that we become useless to others,
because we immediately become overly self-involved
...or have been so in order to even relapse.
The truth is - if we REALLY care about others
and how we affect them,
we make it a point to be available, present, and of service.
All that is out the window as soon as we get loaded.

Visualize and materialize what you want.
You WILL get it - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly...
I always visualized being like some of the old-timers I admired.
I wanted what they had - an easy-going attitude, dignity, and peace of mind.
I wanted that and that's still what I want most of all.
Alcohol and drugs NEVER work long enough!
There is always the next morning...

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join me in my new office!!!
or send a friend for
MEDITATION on ABUNDANCE
a ten week meditation series
Inspired by Stuart Wilde’s “The LITTLE MONEY BIBLE” –
The ten laws of abundance
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on MONDAY mornings 10:00 – 11:00, January 11 – March 15
Voluntary contribution $ 10:00 and RSVP appreciated
BUT if you’re NOT working on a Monday morning
AND got no money, you might as well show up…
learn to visualize & materialize prosperity and success
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JASMIN ROGG M.A., M.F.T.
337 South Beverly Drive # 101, Beverly Hills 90212
310–617–9324 jasminrogg@hotmail.com
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pain

letter to my sponsee who asked me to copy it on my blog.
So here it goes:
Good morning, my love,
God IS guiding you.
He is sending you an angel from time to time -
to remind you that the love is WITH YOU,
the life is with you, and the joy is with you -
when you had been thinking it is with ... whom you desire.
Everything is as it is supposed to be.
Life is painful sometimes and we tend to maintain the judgment
that it ought not to be painful.
Pain is what guides us.
Pain is what we learn from.
Pain is the force that promotes development and evolution.
I don't like it, either. Nobody does.
That's how it guides us.
This is your life!
Raise hell if that's what you want to do!
Just remember - it may not get you what you want...
Looks like it's about endurance right now.
I love you very much.

sponsee announcement for the new year 2010

1) We LOVE you very much!
2) We think that we have done some recovery work and LET GO of some misery. This has allowed us to stay sober for NOW.
3) We feel less self-righteous indignation and ACT OUT LESS on urgent impulses.
4) As a result we do NOT VICTIMIZE others who love us, at least not as frequently and persistently.
5) Specifically, we have been working on NOT expressing resentments, judgments, and AGGRESSION - even though we may still feel like we are right and the other person should already f... admit it.
6) We do NOT feel like VICTIMS any more (although we do remember some abuse and wrongdoings of others) and have reduced whiny neediness and self-deprecation to some extent.
7) We have learned to WALK THROUGH our fear without necessarily expecting others to fix our problems instantaneously (even though it may appear like that would be nice).
8) In the early days we have called our SPONSOR on a daily basis to discuss all important decisions - even though we were discouraged from bitching and blaming on such occasions.
9) We try our best to CONSIDER how our behavior affects OTHERS.
10) We make it a point to BE USEFUL.
11) These changes occurred as a result of doing the TWELVE steps on a continuous basis.
12) And so we have found some HOPE and EMPOWERMENT, and we even get to catch a glimpse of SERENITY from time to time. That's good! Just consider where we came from...

Peace & Love, Jasmin & Delphi (sponsor & sponsee)

divine stardust

DIVINE STARDUST

Energy is really all there is. It became matter, which became stars, which became life - we are made of stardust. Tiny particles move endlessly inside each atom. Stars and planets move about their course for eternities. Humans, animals, and plants have a life and pass it on. This is the reality that makes up our material world. There is also another reality, invisible and intangible - the energy inside and between, which vibrates at a different frequency and carries communication. It is the realm of spirit, thought, emotions, and sound, the energy of life, the vibration of love and music. Think of happiness, laughter, ecstasy, the wind, the tides responding to the gravitational pull of the moon. Just think of your fate, which determines time and place of your birth, your family background, and the circumstances of your life and death. The most powerful things are invisible.

The famous teachings explain energy and God. Judaism describes God as the life force. In Christianity, the trinity of God-Father, God-Son, and The Holy Spirit is a metaphor for the creative intelligence (Father), the physical existence (Son), and the individual soul (Spirit), being three aspects of one. Einstein’s famous formula (E=mc squared) implies that mass is a function of energy, which essentially means that matter is energy. According to Newton, energy never ends; it undergoes transformations, but continues to exist indefinitely. Quantum physics demonstrates that everything is forever energetically connected.

We are one with everything, part of eternal creative conscious divine stardust. Our imagination and thoughts are infinite, powerful, and creative and not all that private. Once created, our thoughts exist and travel. What are you thinking? Our feelings are contagious. This is how we fall in love or become infected by hostility.

The Bible says:

“…and the word became flesh”. Look at what you bring into being with the words you speak. Are you nurturing life or destruction? Are you living acceptance or resistance? Are you attracting people and things with your loving energy, or are you repelling good fate by holding on to resentments? How are you managing your fate?

FLY!