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I am just like you really. Just another person learning to live and explore the possibilities that life holds within itself. Born in Scotland in 1955, I immigrated to New Zealand with my mum when I was 9. Here she remet and remarried my dad. They had been married in Scotland. Dad left when I was 18 months old and they divorced by mail when I was about 5. The story had a happy ending. They were together for the rest of their lives. My claim to fame in teenage was being NZ Intermediate Champion Archer for a few years running. Being an A grade student through college in the 60's and early 70's (Americans - read High School) I felt I only had 4 choices for a career path: Law, Dentistry, Medicine or Veterinary. I thought law was pretty boring at the time and dentistry was boring - pardon the pun - in an even worse way (to this day I hate inflicting pain on people - even if it is supposed to do them good!). So the choice came down to would I rather work with people or animals? I came firmly down on the people foot and I graduated in medicine in 1978 before deciding not to pursue it as a career, much to my mothers chagrin. Instead I opted to follow my passion for discovering what life was about beyond the body and mind. For me, true health starts there. Learning to follow my heart of happiness has not been without it's challenges but it has made me who I am today and opened the doors to further becoming. I left medicine to specifically work with a process called rebirthing, which is about breath and mind work, for which I was one of the main trainers here in NZ for many years. I have renamed the process for myself – Rejoyning. Which for me encapsulates more of the essence of what it is about. During this time I also spent some time in the Himalayas with Babaji. Many believe he is the Immortal Yogi-Christ of India written of in Paramahansa's famous Autobiography of a Yogi. I had read this several times as a teenager and young adult. Usually in the licking my wounds phase of relationship break up when I was wondering what life was all about. Of all the people I have met, he is my most important role model. In terms of demonstrating the heart of happiness I haven't met anyone to match him yet. There is much mystery and intrigue around him and the best book I know on Babaji is I Am Harmony by Radhe Shyam, a retired US lawyer who spent many years with him. There was no mystery and intrigue around being with him though. Life, full on in all its simplicity and rawness, no holds barred, magic moments and a deeply tangible sense of the love beyond all form. In 1988 I was introduced to the idea of creating residual income through working with network marketing by a friend. The idea of building an income stream that would allow me more freedom was very appealing and I started on that journey in ernest but nothing much happened for me for the next 18 months with that company. Then another friend introduced me to another company with some whole food nutritionals that made a significant enough impact on my level of wellbeing to stop me just paying lip service to healthy eating. It also moved me on from the thought that “all disease is in the mind” as I couldn’t argue about how a simple change in what I ate affected so profoundly how I felt. Over the next 4 years I went on to create $100,000 a year with that company, only to have it drop to $0 after a 500% price increase over the next 4 year period. At that point we had two girls and I seriously wondered about going back to medicine to create a more solid financial base to our lives but I looked at my girls and realised I would miss the next 10 or more years of their lives by doing so and that was a price I was not willing to pay. I have evolved on from there to what I share with you now in this site. Sally and I have two girls, Sacha and Alayna, who we homeschool. For more pictures: http://www.myspace.com/daragrennie http://www.facebook.com/darag.rennie For my latest site: http://daragrennie.com
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