Thursday, September 7, 2017
Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Willie (Hamlet: Act 2; scene 2)
Can I say, "It's all good!" when I am refraining from judgement? I hope so because that has become my new mantra lol. Really though...it is all good isn't it? Maybe all there is is good...removing the dualistic nature of our perceptions. :) Everything we see as less than good is just illusion.
I mean I am learning that everything just is...and by just being...it is wonderful.
All is well!
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Suspend All Judgment Today
Today I suspend all judgment and stay open to all life has to offer.
Loosely paraphrased from a Deepak Chopra guided meditation that came up when I had my eyes closed so I cannot cite the source lol.
Okay so today I am going to suspend all judgment. That means no labelling, defining, determining if something is good or bad, right or wrong, worthy or unworthy...It means putting away explaining, describing and analyzing.
Now what is a writer supposed to do with that?lol.
Blog for today then....
All is well!
Loosely paraphrased from a Deepak Chopra guided meditation that came up when I had my eyes closed so I cannot cite the source lol.
Okay so today I am going to suspend all judgment. That means no labelling, defining, determining if something is good or bad, right or wrong, worthy or unworthy...It means putting away explaining, describing and analyzing.
Now what is a writer supposed to do with that?lol.
Blog for today then....
All is well!
Monday, September 4, 2017
Another Video
So here is another practice video. I see what has to be done to make these things better lol. I will keep trying but in the mean time...if one single person gets something positive from the message, it is well worth any criticism or exposure of my imperfect technique and appearance.
I also like that it gives me a chance to practice my speaking...I am pretty rusty. I like to just sit in front of the camera and let er rip without any prep. Half of the time I have no idea what I am going to talk about until I open my mouth. That way I know it is coming from the most sincere part of me. It is challenging but I like the flow of it. It helps get me back into the speaking arena.
Still going to keep the videos here, with limited exposure. I won't do anything but put them here and I will wait for some internal message to do otherwise. My gut will tell me when it's time to share myself more. Right now I am content with what I have.
I do not put a lot of effort into getting my blog out there, either. I tell few people...do not advertise other than maybe giving the site name out on my bios when I submit for publications. Though I want people to have access if it is going to help them in anyway to read my stuff (and I have to tell myself it will help someone lol or else I wouldn't be writing). I am not sure if I am ready for a lot of viewers or readers at this point.
My goal is not to get numbers, to get the million hits (not that I would turn my nose up at that lol). My goal is to get a message out there...one person at a time...to practice and perfect my learning, my growing, my writing and my speaking as I do. I guess that makes me pretty narcissistic, doesn't it?
You might be thinking, "That's good crazy lady because those videos are never going to compete with other you tube videos. I would watch a thousand funny pet or people falling down videos before I watch another one of yours!" I am okay with that lol. I don't want to compete.
Which is a good thing since my stats are so unpredictable...yesterday I had 39 hits ( I was like Wow!!) and today I had two and I think both came from me. lol. Most people get excited when they hit the 6 digits in hits...I get excited when I hit the 2 digit numbers lol.
I guess, when I look at this process I think: It really isn't about "me". Whatever it is that is compelling me to do this, you to do whatever it is you may feel pulled to do, doesn't get lost in the little "me" dramas of the world.
It's all good. It is all so very good.
Practice Video Three: A little more on Waking Up
I also like that it gives me a chance to practice my speaking...I am pretty rusty. I like to just sit in front of the camera and let er rip without any prep. Half of the time I have no idea what I am going to talk about until I open my mouth. That way I know it is coming from the most sincere part of me. It is challenging but I like the flow of it. It helps get me back into the speaking arena.
Still going to keep the videos here, with limited exposure. I won't do anything but put them here and I will wait for some internal message to do otherwise. My gut will tell me when it's time to share myself more. Right now I am content with what I have.
I do not put a lot of effort into getting my blog out there, either. I tell few people...do not advertise other than maybe giving the site name out on my bios when I submit for publications. Though I want people to have access if it is going to help them in anyway to read my stuff (and I have to tell myself it will help someone lol or else I wouldn't be writing). I am not sure if I am ready for a lot of viewers or readers at this point.
My goal is not to get numbers, to get the million hits (not that I would turn my nose up at that lol). My goal is to get a message out there...one person at a time...to practice and perfect my learning, my growing, my writing and my speaking as I do. I guess that makes me pretty narcissistic, doesn't it?
You might be thinking, "That's good crazy lady because those videos are never going to compete with other you tube videos. I would watch a thousand funny pet or people falling down videos before I watch another one of yours!" I am okay with that lol. I don't want to compete.
Which is a good thing since my stats are so unpredictable...yesterday I had 39 hits ( I was like Wow!!) and today I had two and I think both came from me. lol. Most people get excited when they hit the 6 digits in hits...I get excited when I hit the 2 digit numbers lol.
I guess, when I look at this process I think: It really isn't about "me". Whatever it is that is compelling me to do this, you to do whatever it is you may feel pulled to do, doesn't get lost in the little "me" dramas of the world.
It's all good. It is all so very good.
Practice Video Three: A little more on Waking Up
The Chaos of Waking Up
The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.
Georges Bataille
Not fun!
Waking up is not always a lot of fun! That is what I am discovering as I stumble through this process. As we wake up to the reality of who we are, we gradually shed the layers of what we are not, one level at a time.
Debridement, as it is called in the nursing world, is often times a painful process. It is painful to lose the things we once identified as 'self'. You too may look down as I did when I left the full time job I loved in 2011 because of illness and say, "Oh my...there goes another layer of my flesh! Ouch!"
A certain vulnerability arises with this shedding of the familiar, as hidden parts of self become exposed for the first time. The tissue is raw and tender. Ego is confused and reactive!
We breathe and meditate our way through it. It may take years to find a certain healing at this level. Once we accept that the layer is gone and the new skin underneath begins to granulate and heal we may slip into a type of pseudo relief. It "stings" less and we feel the benefit of being free of this layer. We feel less constrained and restricted. Our outer forms do not feel so tight anymore. "Awe!!!" We sigh, "I am here!'
An assumption is sometimes formed when we reach this point that we have finally transcended the layers of ego! We are healed! We have awakened!
Wrong!
If you are like me when I got to this point, you may feel the less than gentle tearing away of another layer of ego as an even more tender and reactive layer is exposed to the air. A place that was hidden from conscious view by ego thoughts, years of positive affirmations and superficial thinking is now open for you to see. Yuck!
What we are shedding layer by layer
In the first layer we shed we let go of, often reluctantly, a lot of the things we identified with in the physical world: maybe a job, a certain bodily functioning, a reputation, money, group identity and superficial thinking. By superficial thinking I am referring to all the things we told ourselves to make us feel better on that level.
Sure we have some positive, life affirming thoughts, some echoes of affirmations we repeated in the mirror over and over again and some learning that was definitely beneficial within the ego's top layer. All these things are in the conscious part of our mind and have positively influenced our lives to some degree. They do not, however, have as much power over our lives as the psyche lesions that lay beneath the second surface.
Once the conscious layer is pulled away...we experience pain, reactivity and chaos in our lives once again and this time it is even more intense. Why? Because now we have the sub conscious belief core exposed. We catch ego standing in his undies.
Facing What We Really Believe
You may be shocked at this level to see what you really believe when you look out at the world, others or self without the cushioning of external thinking. Affirmations don't cut it at this level. Your ego reality is here.
I found myself looking out through these new eyes that were clearer and not liking what I saw. I saw that my beliefs were different than my thoughts! I really do not trust the world to provide for me, no matter how I fooled my conscious mind otherwise. That is why I spent my life doing to the point of pathology.
I do not trust people. I suddenly saw ego in everyone, not just myself. I found myself questioning how people could actually "care" when we can't even see beyond our ego needs. I saw that people didn't trust me or each other either.
Then there was this mirror effect thing happening with me. Every not so nice behaviour I witnessed in another person ...I recalled when I did the same or at least thought of doing the same to another being. I actually seemed to feel the pain I caused or could have caused other people or other living things. It was overwhelming. I couldn't relieve that pain by judging, projecting, blaming others for their behaviours as ego encourages us to do, anymore. Their behaviour was suddenly my behaviour. And vice versa.
My deep seated unworthiness was exposed. I realized how I truly did not believe I deserved the good things in life. That shocked me..."How can I be that pathetic and not know it!" I said to myself. I looked around me and seen that this sense of unworthiness for all the abundance life has to offer was not just in me. It seemed to be everywhere. Beneath the superficial proclamations and claims of ownership, few people feel worthy. It made me sad!
As ego was no longer acting as my confidence, I found myself shy and awkward again around people. I felt I had no value to others. I was not understood. I was not seen. I wasn't functional enough for this functional world. I no longer felt I belonged in certain groups. I no longer wanted to belong in certain groups because it was too awkward. Egos, I realized as I looked about me, could only relate to other egos. Without my ego value, what was I to other people?
I also could no longer run from the emotions I had stuffed because they were now right there in front of me. I had to deal with the many memories I had supressed just so I could get by in ego's superficial world throughout my life. There was no more running away...my ego is tattered and torn and now offers flimsy protection. I thought I felt raw with the debridement of the first layer. With the second layer gone there was nothing to hide behind anymore. Ego was exposed completely...and like a cornered beast it had no choice but to fight back.
The Chaos of Ego Exposure
Now that ego was exposed and bleeding at the deepest level...I got to see just how infected everything really was. All this infection was hidden for decades beneath the layers ego provided. It was making me sick, blocking my life energy and preventing me from feeling peace but I couldn't see it until the surface layers were removed. Ego likes to do its work sublimely, under the surface...unseen etc. It could no longer do that.
Ego is not happy being exposed like this! It has nothing to hide behind anymore. It has no way of tricking us and fooling us away from spirit anymore. And like the purulent drainage on most infected lesions once the old tissue is removed, ego will drain away. Ego is draining away and that is what I am feeling. It is resisting big time. It is trying to cling so it doesn't drain completely away.
Right now things feel chaotic. Physically I feel unwell ...possibly worse than ever. Emotionally I am a mess as I am forced to deal with the stuff I repressed. I have no idea how to balance myself between the physical world and the spiritual but there is no going back. I have no idea how to do this awakening thing lol.
Sometimes I feel like I am cracking up. I just want to run away and hide somewhere . Really! I wonder if this is the point of awakening where some people decide to join cloistered convents, or monastic traditions. It seriously has even crossed my mind. Part of me wants to hide away from this physical world and all its demands. I just want peace and quiet.
Then I remind myself of something I know in my core. This is simply a stage of the healing I asked for. If I want to live in spirit, live in peace free of ego's claims on my mind...I have to remove layer after layer to get to the source of the problems so I can truly be healed. I am healing!
Dig Deep!
The issue that prevents absolute wellness for most of us is deeply rooted in our subconscious minds. We often have beliefs in there we are not even aware of. We have unresolved conflict, emotions and memories that can not be released unless we expose them and do the work of processing through them. We need to expect that we have to remove layers in order to get to them.
Sure it is a painful process but surface healing is not healing. In order to get life to flow freely through us so we experience the peace and the wellness that are our birthrights we need to dig deep to get to the source of the problem. We want the damns to be removed, the negativity to be released. Don't we?
Maybe we need to suffer a little bit so that can happen.
A momentary sting is worth a lifetime of wellness, peace and abundance... isn't it?
A Book to Help
If you are experiencing some chaos in your own life Steve Taylor has a wonderful book that may help better explain that this is a normal stage in the Awakening process. I just finished it and it has cleared up some of my confusion. At least now I know I am not completely bonkers lol. I am just letting loose some "anguished poetry" on my way to where I want to be. You may be doing the same. :)
Taylor, Steve. (2016) The Leap. The New World Library
All is well in my world.
Georges Bataille
Not fun!
Waking up is not always a lot of fun! That is what I am discovering as I stumble through this process. As we wake up to the reality of who we are, we gradually shed the layers of what we are not, one level at a time.
Debridement, as it is called in the nursing world, is often times a painful process. It is painful to lose the things we once identified as 'self'. You too may look down as I did when I left the full time job I loved in 2011 because of illness and say, "Oh my...there goes another layer of my flesh! Ouch!"
A certain vulnerability arises with this shedding of the familiar, as hidden parts of self become exposed for the first time. The tissue is raw and tender. Ego is confused and reactive!
We breathe and meditate our way through it. It may take years to find a certain healing at this level. Once we accept that the layer is gone and the new skin underneath begins to granulate and heal we may slip into a type of pseudo relief. It "stings" less and we feel the benefit of being free of this layer. We feel less constrained and restricted. Our outer forms do not feel so tight anymore. "Awe!!!" We sigh, "I am here!'
An assumption is sometimes formed when we reach this point that we have finally transcended the layers of ego! We are healed! We have awakened!
Wrong!
If you are like me when I got to this point, you may feel the less than gentle tearing away of another layer of ego as an even more tender and reactive layer is exposed to the air. A place that was hidden from conscious view by ego thoughts, years of positive affirmations and superficial thinking is now open for you to see. Yuck!
What we are shedding layer by layer
In the first layer we shed we let go of, often reluctantly, a lot of the things we identified with in the physical world: maybe a job, a certain bodily functioning, a reputation, money, group identity and superficial thinking. By superficial thinking I am referring to all the things we told ourselves to make us feel better on that level.
Sure we have some positive, life affirming thoughts, some echoes of affirmations we repeated in the mirror over and over again and some learning that was definitely beneficial within the ego's top layer. All these things are in the conscious part of our mind and have positively influenced our lives to some degree. They do not, however, have as much power over our lives as the psyche lesions that lay beneath the second surface.
Once the conscious layer is pulled away...we experience pain, reactivity and chaos in our lives once again and this time it is even more intense. Why? Because now we have the sub conscious belief core exposed. We catch ego standing in his undies.
Facing What We Really Believe
You may be shocked at this level to see what you really believe when you look out at the world, others or self without the cushioning of external thinking. Affirmations don't cut it at this level. Your ego reality is here.
I found myself looking out through these new eyes that were clearer and not liking what I saw. I saw that my beliefs were different than my thoughts! I really do not trust the world to provide for me, no matter how I fooled my conscious mind otherwise. That is why I spent my life doing to the point of pathology.
I do not trust people. I suddenly saw ego in everyone, not just myself. I found myself questioning how people could actually "care" when we can't even see beyond our ego needs. I saw that people didn't trust me or each other either.
Then there was this mirror effect thing happening with me. Every not so nice behaviour I witnessed in another person ...I recalled when I did the same or at least thought of doing the same to another being. I actually seemed to feel the pain I caused or could have caused other people or other living things. It was overwhelming. I couldn't relieve that pain by judging, projecting, blaming others for their behaviours as ego encourages us to do, anymore. Their behaviour was suddenly my behaviour. And vice versa.
My deep seated unworthiness was exposed. I realized how I truly did not believe I deserved the good things in life. That shocked me..."How can I be that pathetic and not know it!" I said to myself. I looked around me and seen that this sense of unworthiness for all the abundance life has to offer was not just in me. It seemed to be everywhere. Beneath the superficial proclamations and claims of ownership, few people feel worthy. It made me sad!
As ego was no longer acting as my confidence, I found myself shy and awkward again around people. I felt I had no value to others. I was not understood. I was not seen. I wasn't functional enough for this functional world. I no longer felt I belonged in certain groups. I no longer wanted to belong in certain groups because it was too awkward. Egos, I realized as I looked about me, could only relate to other egos. Without my ego value, what was I to other people?
I also could no longer run from the emotions I had stuffed because they were now right there in front of me. I had to deal with the many memories I had supressed just so I could get by in ego's superficial world throughout my life. There was no more running away...my ego is tattered and torn and now offers flimsy protection. I thought I felt raw with the debridement of the first layer. With the second layer gone there was nothing to hide behind anymore. Ego was exposed completely...and like a cornered beast it had no choice but to fight back.
The Chaos of Ego Exposure
Now that ego was exposed and bleeding at the deepest level...I got to see just how infected everything really was. All this infection was hidden for decades beneath the layers ego provided. It was making me sick, blocking my life energy and preventing me from feeling peace but I couldn't see it until the surface layers were removed. Ego likes to do its work sublimely, under the surface...unseen etc. It could no longer do that.
Ego is not happy being exposed like this! It has nothing to hide behind anymore. It has no way of tricking us and fooling us away from spirit anymore. And like the purulent drainage on most infected lesions once the old tissue is removed, ego will drain away. Ego is draining away and that is what I am feeling. It is resisting big time. It is trying to cling so it doesn't drain completely away.
Right now things feel chaotic. Physically I feel unwell ...possibly worse than ever. Emotionally I am a mess as I am forced to deal with the stuff I repressed. I have no idea how to balance myself between the physical world and the spiritual but there is no going back. I have no idea how to do this awakening thing lol.
Sometimes I feel like I am cracking up. I just want to run away and hide somewhere . Really! I wonder if this is the point of awakening where some people decide to join cloistered convents, or monastic traditions. It seriously has even crossed my mind. Part of me wants to hide away from this physical world and all its demands. I just want peace and quiet.
Then I remind myself of something I know in my core. This is simply a stage of the healing I asked for. If I want to live in spirit, live in peace free of ego's claims on my mind...I have to remove layer after layer to get to the source of the problems so I can truly be healed. I am healing!
Dig Deep!
The issue that prevents absolute wellness for most of us is deeply rooted in our subconscious minds. We often have beliefs in there we are not even aware of. We have unresolved conflict, emotions and memories that can not be released unless we expose them and do the work of processing through them. We need to expect that we have to remove layers in order to get to them.
Sure it is a painful process but surface healing is not healing. In order to get life to flow freely through us so we experience the peace and the wellness that are our birthrights we need to dig deep to get to the source of the problem. We want the damns to be removed, the negativity to be released. Don't we?
Maybe we need to suffer a little bit so that can happen.
A momentary sting is worth a lifetime of wellness, peace and abundance... isn't it?
A Book to Help
If you are experiencing some chaos in your own life Steve Taylor has a wonderful book that may help better explain that this is a normal stage in the Awakening process. I just finished it and it has cleared up some of my confusion. At least now I know I am not completely bonkers lol. I am just letting loose some "anguished poetry" on my way to where I want to be. You may be doing the same. :)
Taylor, Steve. (2016) The Leap. The New World Library
All is well in my world.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Feel Good
It is so simple....
Just do whatever you can
to feel good!
Well from that, I exclude anything that harms self, other beings or the planet. Just in case you are thinking at this moment, "Man! It would feel sooo good to go over and punch my complaining neighbor right in the gut right now!" Please don't do that. That will not make you or especially he/she feel better.
Do what you can to feel good: change your thinking, stop your thinking, distract, walk away from a situation, give a hug, get a hug, go for a walk, definitely spend time in nature, take a shot of your beloved children or pets when they are behaving perfectly ( you may need a camera with the fastest shutter speed for the fraction of a second that lasts:), sing, dance, laugh, listen to great music...do something...anything that makes you feel good.
It is from that place of feeling good that you become aligned with the Universal Supplier of Everything Good :). Healing will begin!
All is well!
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Feeling Good One Tap at a Time!
You are an extension of pure, positive energy. Therefore there is nothing more important than that you feel good.
Abraham
Feeling Good!
It is all about feeling good isn't it? When we talk about healing ourselves, others or the world it is essential that we feel good! When we feel good the beautiful, abundant life force is flowing through us. We are well...we look at others as well...and by recognizing only their wellness potential...they become well...the world eventually becomes well. In that place of well being we can take healing action. Healing begins with feeling good!
When we feel less than good...something is up. We are not reaching our wellness potential. We have an energy block somewhere...emotions are trapped...blocking the flow of this energy through us and out of us. We can not heal others or the world without this energy flow. We need to heal first and we do that by releasing these patterns of resistance.
Let's Review
A little review on the steps to healing (according to Miss Know-it-All in her Healing 101 class for absolute beginners lol):
- Recognize how you are feeling physically and emotionally.
- Determine the thought patterns that brought on these less than well feelings
- Change the thoughts until you feel better one small step at a time
- Recognize the behaviours involved in this less than healthy pattern of being
- Take full responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and behavioural choices
- Accept the situation
- Let it and all the feelings of resistance go
- Make better choices next time
According to Jon Burras (n.d.) an energy healer, whose article I just happened upon this morning, "Under the wellness model healing will occur when the energy begins to flow unimpeded once again." Once the energy begins to flow again we are free but how do we get it to flow?
One Way to Reopen the Flow:
In my search for articles to assist me with energy healing, I also happened upon a video about tapping the Thymus...which lead to articles and more videos on tapping the Thymus gland to help us release energy,
I used to teach Anatomy and Pathophysiology so I am aware of what the Thymus is and what it does for body function. The Thymus is a small gland that sits in the middle of your chest directly below the sternum (breast bone). In an infant it is about the size of a fist but as we age the Thymus shrinks. It's function is to make T cells which are the very important helper and suppressor cells needed for immune function and regulation.
Chinese and Yogic healers believe that the Thymus is also important for keeping our "Life energy" high. Tapping it, according to an article in The Underground Health Reporter, will help to restore what the ancient Greeks called the "Thymos" or vital life energy. (n.d.)
How to Tap the Thymus
Well I am no expert but what I understand is that all one has to do is tap the sternum directly above the Thymus with the finger tips or the flat end of a cuffed fist in a One-two-three waltz like Rhythm. Check out the video links below.
Please note that I can not attest to the validity of any of this information. I am going to try it out myself and see what happens. I will tap for five minutes 2-3 times a day while I affirm my wellness and the wellness of the entire world. I will visualize a free flow of energy (light) going through me and from me to everyone and everything as I do.
I'll get back to you in a couple of weeks to let you know what I have experienced or learned.
For now...I'll do a nice "tap" dance away into the sunset. All is well :)
References
Burras, Jon. (n.d.) Energy and Disease. ?? Retrieved from http://www.jonburras.com/pdfs/ENERGY-AND-DISEASE.pdf
Underground Health Reporter (n.d.) Unblock your Bodies Energy Flow Using a Simple Technique. Underground Health Reporter. Retrieved from http://undergroundhealthreporter.com/energy-flow-thymus-gland/
Videos to check out for the technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wie8H-p-QFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niy2KG4C9_c
Friday, September 1, 2017
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it again!
Paul Bear Byrant
I have been up since three thirty. Not feeling 100%. I am going to use this personal experience again to illustrate my point about healing.
Another look at healing through my own learning
I worked yesterday...and though I went in with the intention of letting others know that I will be limited in my hours, shortening my days, and insisting on balancing my life... I did too much! I slipped right back into the pattern of doing to achieve and to please. I exhausted myself!
That left me with this frustration, confusion and resentment that I didn't want to feel. Those emotions lead to massive damming. :) My energies were blocked. On the way home, I was so full of thoughts that chastised me and left me frustrated, I responded to the gestures of an impatient driver, giving back what I got (if you know what I mean lol). That I know, is not the behaviour of an evolved person lol!
I was blocked and drained for the remainder of the day...not allowing the full flow of life through me. Even my posture was noted to be tight and constrained instead of open and full. So I woke up with a big wad of whatever you want to call it stuck in my chest and thoughts about my ability to work swirling around in my head.
Not what I want. Not what I deserve. Not what I am going to have.
The Unhealthy Behavioural Choice
So what happened to trigger all this? I put my desire "to do" above my desire "to be". I am resentful and angry at myself for allowing this. That right there tells me that I am not aligned with Life, things in me and around me are not balanced enough to accommodate the flow of energy and it is not what I want. :) Today I was not "balanced" in my doing and being.
How to Make it Better
These slips are actually wonderful learning opportunities in disguise. We can make it better!
If you are experiencing an unhealthy energy imbalance you can begin to right yourself with these steps:
When I evaluate my being/doing at the end of the day, I guess I didn't do as badly as I originally thought. I always ask myself if I only had 24 hours left to live... is the activity I am about to do... worth my time and energy? Yeah...it was. Acknowledging the things others do to make the world a better place is a good use of my time and energy. That is the work task that consumed me and put me over my hours.
Anyway...I am suddenly very tired again lol. So I will end my "Miss Know-It-all" session on Healing 101. lol. Hope it helps someone somewhere to know that I goof up in this awakening process more than most. Going back to bed.
All is well.
Paul Bear Byrant
I have been up since three thirty. Not feeling 100%. I am going to use this personal experience again to illustrate my point about healing.
Another look at healing through my own learning
I worked yesterday...and though I went in with the intention of letting others know that I will be limited in my hours, shortening my days, and insisting on balancing my life... I did too much! I slipped right back into the pattern of doing to achieve and to please. I exhausted myself!
That left me with this frustration, confusion and resentment that I didn't want to feel. Those emotions lead to massive damming. :) My energies were blocked. On the way home, I was so full of thoughts that chastised me and left me frustrated, I responded to the gestures of an impatient driver, giving back what I got (if you know what I mean lol). That I know, is not the behaviour of an evolved person lol!
I was blocked and drained for the remainder of the day...not allowing the full flow of life through me. Even my posture was noted to be tight and constrained instead of open and full. So I woke up with a big wad of whatever you want to call it stuck in my chest and thoughts about my ability to work swirling around in my head.
Not what I want. Not what I deserve. Not what I am going to have.
The Unhealthy Behavioural Choice
So what happened to trigger all this? I put my desire "to do" above my desire "to be". I am resentful and angry at myself for allowing this. That right there tells me that I am not aligned with Life, things in me and around me are not balanced enough to accommodate the flow of energy and it is not what I want. :) Today I was not "balanced" in my doing and being.
How to Make it Better
These slips are actually wonderful learning opportunities in disguise. We can make it better!
If you are experiencing an unhealthy energy imbalance you can begin to right yourself with these steps:
- Recognize the physical feelings in your body. In me I felt completely exhausted and hours after I experienced chest pain.
- Recognize the emotional feelings that preceded or are going on concurrently with the physical feelings. In my case: frustration, resentment, self-blame (emotions that are often linked with the cardiovascular system btw)
- Determine what types of thoughts led to the emotional experience. Take a moment and think about it. You do not necessarily need to know exactly what you said to yourself at the time the emotional reaction started (if you can that's great...but if you can't, don't sweat it.) Just try to determine what subject matter you were thinking about. For me, it was something like: "I don't want to be here past my hours. I should be home. I want to help but if I am going to help I have to do it now. I am not getting my stuff done. I am not going to have time to redo the modules to get my certificate. I am so tired. I need to be home. Why am I doing this? Why would this be left to me when I am so limited in hours? Like really... who would do this for me? People do not even consider where I am at...as long as I do! (As you can see the trajectory of thought is going downhill quickly into the self pity and offense collecting dumps. ) Why do I do that to myself! "
- Next see if you can change these thoughts at all just so you feel better. You don't have to skip from where you are to ecstasy...you just want to feel better. (Remember anger and blame feel better than unworthiness and despair; frustration feels better than anger and blame; acceptance feels better than frustration etc etc). My change. "I chose to do that. It was a nice thing to do. I like focusing on the positive in people and it gave me a chance to do so. I do like a writing challenge especially if it serves others. I don't need that certificate anyway...I am not really a nurse anymore. (oops! That one sounded a little whiny lol) Sure I need to take better care of myself. I am learning. I don't have to beat myself up when I slip."
- Determine how you feel with each change of thought. How are the emotional vibrations? Moving up the scale at all? Remember you do not have to feel great at this point...just better. If you don't feel better ...try another thought change. When I said, "I don't need that certificate...I am not really a nurse anymore." I could have simply said "I don't need my certificate" leaving that part out that brings up feelings of loss. I could also rephrase...I need to take better care of myself...which adds pressure to an already frustrating situation...with..."I want to take better care of myself." etc.
- Determine what behaviours were involved as a reaction or a cause to the physical feelings. In my case, I worked too many hours, neglected my own self care to fulfill a request, and was not assertive enough. Then when I was frustrated and exhausted on the way home...I reacted to the frustration of another driver stuck in her egoic moment.
- Take responsibility! These are your actions or reactions; your thoughts and your feelings. No one "made you feel' a certain way! No one made you do what you did! No one made me frustrated. No one made me stay past my hours. No one made me pursue that activity...I agreed. I made a choice. Can you learn from this?
- Accept the situation for whatever it is and whatever it offered including your thoughts and feelings. Just accept them!
- Close your eyes, take a deep breath and let them go with the exhalation.
- Now decide how will you do things differently the next time? Well I keep thinking of my reaction with the driver. I ask myself, what would a cool, evolved person have done in that situation? I could have taken a nice deep breath, smiled sincerely in my mirror offering forgiveness before it was even requested and made a peace sign with my fingers instead of the other. :)
When I evaluate my being/doing at the end of the day, I guess I didn't do as badly as I originally thought. I always ask myself if I only had 24 hours left to live... is the activity I am about to do... worth my time and energy? Yeah...it was. Acknowledging the things others do to make the world a better place is a good use of my time and energy. That is the work task that consumed me and put me over my hours.
Anyway...I am suddenly very tired again lol. So I will end my "Miss Know-It-all" session on Healing 101. lol. Hope it helps someone somewhere to know that I goof up in this awakening process more than most. Going back to bed.
All is well.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Oh Those Darn Emotions: A Little More on Healing
You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter.
Joel Olsteen
Don't fight battles...don't cling to that emotion/energy...don't stuff it...don't deny it...just let it be. Recognize it, determine what thought pattern it came from...add a new thought that makes you feel better...you don't have to feel great, just better....and let the emotion go.
Sounds simple, doesn't it?
Well it ain't! lol
It is, however, essential to healing....true healing. Whether it is a physical disorder, a mental health issue or a crisis in faith that is showing up in your life, it is there to show you that you have some emotional energy jammed up somewhere...blocking the sweet, abundant flow of life in you and through you. Ask yourself, "What's up?" wait for an answer. Know that the ailment that presents itself is just a symptom of the emotional energy, and the emotional energy is a symptom of a thought pattern, and a thought pattern is a symptom of a conditioned way of being...If you get to the source of the blockage ...life will flow freely again.
Just let it go!
All is well in my world.
Joel Olsteen
Don't fight battles...don't cling to that emotion/energy...don't stuff it...don't deny it...just let it be. Recognize it, determine what thought pattern it came from...add a new thought that makes you feel better...you don't have to feel great, just better....and let the emotion go.
Sounds simple, doesn't it?
Well it ain't! lol
It is, however, essential to healing....true healing. Whether it is a physical disorder, a mental health issue or a crisis in faith that is showing up in your life, it is there to show you that you have some emotional energy jammed up somewhere...blocking the sweet, abundant flow of life in you and through you. Ask yourself, "What's up?" wait for an answer. Know that the ailment that presents itself is just a symptom of the emotional energy, and the emotional energy is a symptom of a thought pattern, and a thought pattern is a symptom of a conditioned way of being...If you get to the source of the blockage ...life will flow freely again.
Just let it go!
All is well in my world.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
I love looking deep into nature. That is why I like to photograph. I have been looking for some great hummingbird shots this summer, like I was able to get a couple of summers ago...but my looking into nature did not allow for the greatest shots. :) Ego wants me to rationalize here by saying, "Do you have any idea how challenging it is to get a shot of something with that quick of a wing movement? It is not my fault!"
Oh ego...shut up! I didn't get great shots because I was not "there" enough :). I wasn't chosen lol. It is all good.
I would sit outside in front of the feeder, waiting with my camera set at what I think would be the right aperture and shutter speed. I would listen for the buzzing flutter of their wings and position myself accordingly...but it wouldn't matter unless...nature said, "It's time!" lol. She said instead, "Go ahead but I am only reluctantly agreeing to sit still for you until you sit still more!" lol
I will accept her reluctant participation with gratitude. It is all good!
Monday, August 28, 2017
It's All Good!
Sometimes I just have to stop myself in the midst of my questioning so I can look around...so I can see and remember just how good it all is! All of it!
Who says you need to sit still in a room alone?
Sunday, August 27, 2017
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb
I am obsessed with a need to explain this healing thing so that I can understand it. I have always learned better through teaching; and taught better through learning. To me, the two go hand in hand.
I know so little...the more I learn the more I realize that, and ironically the more I realize that, the more I feel this need to share what I am learning. How crazy is that? I want to share the little I learned rather than waiting to know more and than teaching what I know for sure. That method does not work for me because I figure I will never know for sure lol.
Anyway, words can do so little. I read so much and I absorb everything I read but those words are just pointers (as Eckhart Tolle calls them) that lead inward. To me, the wisdom I get from others are like keys that open a door to understanding already in me...I simply remember.
Anyway, it is all good. I will get back to you as I remember more. If it triggers a memory in you...great! If it doesn't...that is okay too. It is all good.
All is well in my world.
Latin Proverb
I am obsessed with a need to explain this healing thing so that I can understand it. I have always learned better through teaching; and taught better through learning. To me, the two go hand in hand.
I know so little...the more I learn the more I realize that, and ironically the more I realize that, the more I feel this need to share what I am learning. How crazy is that? I want to share the little I learned rather than waiting to know more and than teaching what I know for sure. That method does not work for me because I figure I will never know for sure lol.
Anyway, words can do so little. I read so much and I absorb everything I read but those words are just pointers (as Eckhart Tolle calls them) that lead inward. To me, the wisdom I get from others are like keys that open a door to understanding already in me...I simply remember.
Anyway, it is all good. I will get back to you as I remember more. If it triggers a memory in you...great! If it doesn't...that is okay too. It is all good.
All is well in my world.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
What is Healing?
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the person who has the disease.
William Osler
This look at holistic healing is consuming me because I am not sure I am articulating clearly enough to enhance my own understanding. It's still all about me and my understanding, isn't it? lol.
I guess what I wanted to say is healing occurs with the most general of diagnosis, with wholeness and at a much deeper level than can be understood by our limited mindsets.
The Most General of Diagnosis
We do not need to be so specific in the cause of our issues. We really do not need to make distinctions at the cellular level, the organ level, the system level, the physical organism level( the body) vs the mind or spirit level, the individual human level, the humanity level, the being level, the planet level etc etc etc.
If we or anything in this universe are experiencing anything but the perfect flow of energy, peace and joy that all life is meant to experience...we need healing. It doesn't matter if you call the resistance problem through a diagnosis... cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. It doesn't matter if you call it schizophrenia or a border line personality disorder. It doesn't matter if you call it sin or a crisis in faith...we have a problem that needs healing.
Healing is healing and it involves absolutely everything. So why do we need to break the thing that needs healing down into tiny sections that we can label and diagnose as being the problem?
Say what, crazy lady?
I am still stuck on breaking down problems under specific labels and diagnosis's . I still have a tendency to break down my life issues into spiritual, mental/emotional or physical.
In the physical realm I subdivide again...and see my physical problems of pain and a lack of energy as following under one of three body system issues: gynecological, muscular skeletal and cardiac.
Now I was professionally trained indirectly using the medical model. I became obsessed with a need for one clear and specific diagnosis to explain my health issues. I knew if I did not have one, I would not receive the social respect, assistance and support required to accommodate my life. I would not be validated. I wanted that validation. I thought I needed it. I thought I needed that specification.
Wholeness
I now know that a medical diagnosis that is clear and succinct will not heal me. It will lead simply to a band aid being put over one of the many lesions which is merely a symptom of a systemic disease. By systemic, I mean whole system not body system.
My cardiac condition, my muscular condition, and my gynecological condition are just symptoms of a greater disease. My body "malfunctioning" is just a symptom of a greater disease. Any thing my whole being registers as "unhealthy" is just a symptom of a greater disease. Any problems within humanity simply is a symptom of a greater disease.
And by disease, I mean: Dis-Ease.
Are you getting that?
Resistance
What is this greater disease? It is resistance...resistance to the truth of who we are, what life is, from where we came and what is possible for us. Resistance causes physical pain, cell destruction, fatigue, blocked energy, depression and spiritual deprivation. It causes what we know as disease: dis-ease.
It doesn't matter where it manifests or how it manifests...if we are not living, expanding fully...if our world is not expanding with us...than we are resisting something.
The Taoist leader Lao Tzu called the flow of life, "the way" and felt that all problems arose because of our resistance to it.
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them. That only causes sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in any way they like."
Letting Go
Healing is letting go of resistance. If I want to fix my heart and my muscles, my thinking, my feeling, or my lack of spiritual connection...I simply need to stop resisting...to let go and let life flow through me.
I am not so sure how to do that yet. So I will get back to you lol.
All is well.
Check out:
The Tao Te Ching...chapter 46
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Beware: Ego Clings!
Drop the negativity that your mind has created about the situation and that serves no purpose whatsoever except to strengthen the false sense of self.
Eckhart Tolle
Ego Clings!
I was very sad yesterday! And I was embarrassed, ashamed and angry at myself for being sad.
I could observe myself sitting at a staff meeting suddenly feeling all discombobulated, confused, surprised and yes...ashamed of the feelings that were suddenly overwhelming my experience. I told myself, from this wise place I was somehow stepping away from, that it was all just another ego inflammation and it will pass.
Ego Stings!
But it was so hard not to feel the sting of it...to disconnect from the sad tale of woe ego was whispering in my ear ( not literally lol) making me the main character, someone to pity, someone who has a right to be resentful.... someone I don't want to be!
Memory after memory, thought after thought popped into my head reminding me of my fall from a position of being respected, valued, a controlling and meaningful force in this ego dominated world to what was perceived as nothing but a second thought in people's minds.
I looked around the table at all the smiling and kind faces and realized they have no idea how much I lost or what I am going through and they do not want to know because they really, really do not "have time" to care. Nor should they be filling their head with my perceived problems (which actually just became "problems" as I sat there allowing ego to spin its little web). Why was I focusing on their reaction to my story?
My story, "other" story just gets in the way of what we have to do, does it not? It will get in the way of their ego needs. This is the way of the work place life. This is the way of our busy world. This is the way of an ego dominated society. People do not have "time" to think too much about each other. It was a very sad realization and it floored me. Ego wanted me to feel sad!
I succumbed. I felt good and sorry for myself lol.
Ego Remembers its Losses!
I had the sense to know that this sudden trip down self-pity lane was totally irrational and unhealthy. I couldn't understand why I was there...right where I left off in June...but there I was.
I asked myself while I sat there: Why am I so sad? Why am I thinking of all these experiences? Just to explain why I was feeling what I am feeling? Why am I so hurt just because people do not "seem" to care about me the way I expected them to care? I don't want them focusing on my problems because I don't want to focus on them...so why am I feeling so dejected? I am further advanced than this aren't I? Should I not be beyond all this ego stuff in the waking up process?
I was so confused and could only understand that I was thinking and feeling loss.
What I perceived I lost in the work place environment : my physical ability to do my job, my job in terms of the courses I loved to teach and felt I shined at, my puffed up ego status, my reputation, recognition, other trust in my integrity (that was a big one for me), consideration from others in my time of need, three quarters of my salary, my financial stability, my license and title as a nurse because of my lack of hours...were really nothing...no thing....They do not make me. They do not define me. They are not me! I know that in the core of me.
Ego Grieves!
So why then do I grieve it all so when I walk through those doors? Why does my ego get so inflamed when I am surrounded by my team...people who are all kind and good...who are not even aware of my experience? Because they aren't aware of my experience?
I grieve the loss of that feeling of being valued, cared for, "seen". I miss knowing that I fit in. (or believing I did :)) Without my ego identification, I don't know my value and my worth to others anymore. Even though it was only ego value before...I miss not having it.
Others seem okay with that because they do not want to have to bump into anything "heavy" as they busy through their work hours, anyway. I am a reminder of life's heaviness. It is best to keep it all hidden away. That is the way of our world. I understand that
Oh my...how does that sound for a whingey tale of drama lol?
No one is doing anything wrong. It just is what it is. I just had expectations of my false self that were not realistic. That's all.
I had expectations of my ability to keep up in ego's world when I wasn't meant to. That's all.
I just had expectations of other people and my work relations that were not realistic :) . That's all.
I had expectations of my work environment that were not realistic. That's all.
And life had some lessons for me. It wanted to show me how I was putting my mental and physical energy on the unrealistic rather than the real. That's all.
My life is no one's 'problem' but my own. My feelings are no one's responsibility but my own. :) And they are only "problems' if I choose to make them so.
Ego Questions!
As I sat there I wondered about staying. I questioned if this ego inflammation was good for my health? I still do. Is it worth pushing myself beyond my presently perceived limitations in an environment that reminds me of loss? That triggers my ego slips so dramatically?
Ultimately, Ego is no Match For Spirit!
I was going to get up from that table yesterday but something stopped me. I heard a little voice in my head saying.."What a wonderful learning opportunity for you to do what you need to do...get beyond the ego, get control of your thoughts and feelings, find peace and compassion in a situation that does not seem peaceful externally. If you master this lesson, you got it made!"
"Besides...how are you going to pay your damn mortgage if you don't?" lol
Moral of this big long boring story:
Spiritually: Waking up is not always an instantaneous leap from ego to joy. The ego is tenacious...it clings. It will get inflamed from time to time. We will slip into our thinking as I did yesterday. We can feed each slip with more negativity or we can get beyond it.
I want to get beyond it. The fact that we can be aware of ego when it is acting up is an amazing thing. It shows me that I am waking up...I just have a way to go yet. :)
Psychologically speaking: We also need to grieve our losses...all of them...even the "unreal" ego ones. Supressing and repressing them will only lead to them popping up out of the blue every now and again. Grieve them and be done with them.
Though I haven't a clue how, I have to grieve my perceived losses and unreal expectations so I can release them.
I know where I want to go. I know who I want to be. It isn't that narcissistic, negative, dramatic , self pitying false self I was yesterday. My ego, my life circumstances, and my environment do not define me. I do.
It is all good.
All is well in my world.
Eckhart Tolle
Ego Clings!
I was very sad yesterday! And I was embarrassed, ashamed and angry at myself for being sad.
I could observe myself sitting at a staff meeting suddenly feeling all discombobulated, confused, surprised and yes...ashamed of the feelings that were suddenly overwhelming my experience. I told myself, from this wise place I was somehow stepping away from, that it was all just another ego inflammation and it will pass.
Ego Stings!
But it was so hard not to feel the sting of it...to disconnect from the sad tale of woe ego was whispering in my ear ( not literally lol) making me the main character, someone to pity, someone who has a right to be resentful.... someone I don't want to be!
Memory after memory, thought after thought popped into my head reminding me of my fall from a position of being respected, valued, a controlling and meaningful force in this ego dominated world to what was perceived as nothing but a second thought in people's minds.
I looked around the table at all the smiling and kind faces and realized they have no idea how much I lost or what I am going through and they do not want to know because they really, really do not "have time" to care. Nor should they be filling their head with my perceived problems (which actually just became "problems" as I sat there allowing ego to spin its little web). Why was I focusing on their reaction to my story?
My story, "other" story just gets in the way of what we have to do, does it not? It will get in the way of their ego needs. This is the way of the work place life. This is the way of our busy world. This is the way of an ego dominated society. People do not have "time" to think too much about each other. It was a very sad realization and it floored me. Ego wanted me to feel sad!
I succumbed. I felt good and sorry for myself lol.
Ego Remembers its Losses!
I had the sense to know that this sudden trip down self-pity lane was totally irrational and unhealthy. I couldn't understand why I was there...right where I left off in June...but there I was.
I asked myself while I sat there: Why am I so sad? Why am I thinking of all these experiences? Just to explain why I was feeling what I am feeling? Why am I so hurt just because people do not "seem" to care about me the way I expected them to care? I don't want them focusing on my problems because I don't want to focus on them...so why am I feeling so dejected? I am further advanced than this aren't I? Should I not be beyond all this ego stuff in the waking up process?
I was so confused and could only understand that I was thinking and feeling loss.
What I perceived I lost in the work place environment : my physical ability to do my job, my job in terms of the courses I loved to teach and felt I shined at, my puffed up ego status, my reputation, recognition, other trust in my integrity (that was a big one for me), consideration from others in my time of need, three quarters of my salary, my financial stability, my license and title as a nurse because of my lack of hours...were really nothing...no thing....They do not make me. They do not define me. They are not me! I know that in the core of me.
Ego Grieves!
So why then do I grieve it all so when I walk through those doors? Why does my ego get so inflamed when I am surrounded by my team...people who are all kind and good...who are not even aware of my experience? Because they aren't aware of my experience?
I grieve the loss of that feeling of being valued, cared for, "seen". I miss knowing that I fit in. (or believing I did :)) Without my ego identification, I don't know my value and my worth to others anymore. Even though it was only ego value before...I miss not having it.
Others seem okay with that because they do not want to have to bump into anything "heavy" as they busy through their work hours, anyway. I am a reminder of life's heaviness. It is best to keep it all hidden away. That is the way of our world. I understand that
Oh my...how does that sound for a whingey tale of drama lol?
No one is doing anything wrong. It just is what it is. I just had expectations of my false self that were not realistic. That's all.
I had expectations of my ability to keep up in ego's world when I wasn't meant to. That's all.
I just had expectations of other people and my work relations that were not realistic :) . That's all.
I had expectations of my work environment that were not realistic. That's all.
And life had some lessons for me. It wanted to show me how I was putting my mental and physical energy on the unrealistic rather than the real. That's all.
My life is no one's 'problem' but my own. My feelings are no one's responsibility but my own. :) And they are only "problems' if I choose to make them so.
Ego Questions!
As I sat there I wondered about staying. I questioned if this ego inflammation was good for my health? I still do. Is it worth pushing myself beyond my presently perceived limitations in an environment that reminds me of loss? That triggers my ego slips so dramatically?
Ultimately, Ego is no Match For Spirit!
I was going to get up from that table yesterday but something stopped me. I heard a little voice in my head saying.."What a wonderful learning opportunity for you to do what you need to do...get beyond the ego, get control of your thoughts and feelings, find peace and compassion in a situation that does not seem peaceful externally. If you master this lesson, you got it made!"
"Besides...how are you going to pay your damn mortgage if you don't?" lol
Moral of this big long boring story:
Spiritually: Waking up is not always an instantaneous leap from ego to joy. The ego is tenacious...it clings. It will get inflamed from time to time. We will slip into our thinking as I did yesterday. We can feed each slip with more negativity or we can get beyond it.
I want to get beyond it. The fact that we can be aware of ego when it is acting up is an amazing thing. It shows me that I am waking up...I just have a way to go yet. :)
Psychologically speaking: We also need to grieve our losses...all of them...even the "unreal" ego ones. Supressing and repressing them will only lead to them popping up out of the blue every now and again. Grieve them and be done with them.
Though I haven't a clue how, I have to grieve my perceived losses and unreal expectations so I can release them.
I know where I want to go. I know who I want to be. It isn't that narcissistic, negative, dramatic , self pitying false self I was yesterday. My ego, my life circumstances, and my environment do not define me. I do.
It is all good.
All is well in my world.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
A little more on the topic of healing...
I can't let this go! lol
I am not saying that there is no place for specifics, no place for medicine or no place for surgical intervention (disassembling)...I am just saying we need to prioritize the whole when we think of "healing."
We all need to look at the person as whole and not a form broken in specific areas. There is something unseen that keeps us whole and keeps us connected to each other, all beings and life, right?
Whatever you label this force that allows your heart to beat, your lungs to expand, your muscles to move as...you must understand by now that something inside you is allowing all this to happen. That it is the same something in me, and the man down the block and the cat on your lap and the birds outside your window??? Even if you have physical abilities, limbs, organs, memory, cognitive ability, feelings, pieces of your so called identity removed from you...you are still whole, right? Wholeness occurs at a deeper level than can be understood using our five senses.
This Life- force, universal- force, God-force, field, energy field...whatever it is... is what brought you here and you are an intricate, miraculously composed, and technologically advanced creation. Every function in your body, for example, is expertly designed and cannot be the result of some random mutations. What created you and What powers you has to be pretty amazing stuff, right? It has to be pretty powerful, pretty wise, pretty capable of providing and ensuring wellness. Don't you think?
When we notice that our bodies, our minds, our emotions are not working at 100% why do we automatically assume that something outside us is responsible...that this force that brought us into being is not working for us or through us...is not capable of preventing that something in this big bad world from causing a random malfunctioning in this perfect design? Why do we look at it as a malfunctioning, in the first place? Why can we not see how we are resisting the truth of what is?
I am a bit sleep deprived and challenged with words this morning so I may not be saying what I want to say.
I guess, what I wanted to say is: it is all good. We just need to trust this force within us (which I call God btw) to do the healing....and the healing comes when we know we are not broken and never were. This level of knowing, however, is something few of us will reach in this lifetime. We may catch glimpses of that truth but we will remain stuck in the laws of the physical world as long as our minds are...we will succumb to "diseases" that this life force that runs through us does not recognize as being real, but some "perception" brought on by a disconnect to our energy flows.
In physicality, without our tapping into this knowing, physicians provide an amazing service. We need them to diagnose us, sometimes targeting specific cells, and we need them to prescribe medicine, treatment or to remove diseased parts. Their role is valuable and much appreciated.
In the ideal world of our knowing who we are and from whom we came, things could be different. If we could get to that ultimate knowing, however, their roles would be obsolete...because we would heal by simply letting go of all resistance that keeps us from being what we were designed to be. We would not look to beings outside ourselves...we would heal ourselves.
Need to rush off! I will try to make my point clearer the next time.
All is well.
I am not saying that there is no place for specifics, no place for medicine or no place for surgical intervention (disassembling)...I am just saying we need to prioritize the whole when we think of "healing."
We all need to look at the person as whole and not a form broken in specific areas. There is something unseen that keeps us whole and keeps us connected to each other, all beings and life, right?
Whatever you label this force that allows your heart to beat, your lungs to expand, your muscles to move as...you must understand by now that something inside you is allowing all this to happen. That it is the same something in me, and the man down the block and the cat on your lap and the birds outside your window??? Even if you have physical abilities, limbs, organs, memory, cognitive ability, feelings, pieces of your so called identity removed from you...you are still whole, right? Wholeness occurs at a deeper level than can be understood using our five senses.
This Life- force, universal- force, God-force, field, energy field...whatever it is... is what brought you here and you are an intricate, miraculously composed, and technologically advanced creation. Every function in your body, for example, is expertly designed and cannot be the result of some random mutations. What created you and What powers you has to be pretty amazing stuff, right? It has to be pretty powerful, pretty wise, pretty capable of providing and ensuring wellness. Don't you think?
When we notice that our bodies, our minds, our emotions are not working at 100% why do we automatically assume that something outside us is responsible...that this force that brought us into being is not working for us or through us...is not capable of preventing that something in this big bad world from causing a random malfunctioning in this perfect design? Why do we look at it as a malfunctioning, in the first place? Why can we not see how we are resisting the truth of what is?
I am a bit sleep deprived and challenged with words this morning so I may not be saying what I want to say.
I guess, what I wanted to say is: it is all good. We just need to trust this force within us (which I call God btw) to do the healing....and the healing comes when we know we are not broken and never were. This level of knowing, however, is something few of us will reach in this lifetime. We may catch glimpses of that truth but we will remain stuck in the laws of the physical world as long as our minds are...we will succumb to "diseases" that this life force that runs through us does not recognize as being real, but some "perception" brought on by a disconnect to our energy flows.
In physicality, without our tapping into this knowing, physicians provide an amazing service. We need them to diagnose us, sometimes targeting specific cells, and we need them to prescribe medicine, treatment or to remove diseased parts. Their role is valuable and much appreciated.
In the ideal world of our knowing who we are and from whom we came, things could be different. If we could get to that ultimate knowing, however, their roles would be obsolete...because we would heal by simply letting go of all resistance that keeps us from being what we were designed to be. We would not look to beings outside ourselves...we would heal ourselves.
Need to rush off! I will try to make my point clearer the next time.
All is well.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Healing: Letting Go of Resistance
No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.
Deepak Chopra
Another day of recovery for me so I am a little slow on the draw. :)
Been experiencing a lot of the pelvic pain again over the last 48...keeping me up at night, pacing etc. I want to take this pain experience into my understanding of the difference between the over-specification and the generalization of wellness or lack of.
The Specific Diagnosis for a Lack of Wellness
"Peri-menopausal exacerbation of Chronic Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis with a growing chocolate cyst left ovary," is how I would diagnosis my condition if I were doing the specializing and division thing. Of course, in order to diagnosis this way if I were a Gyne, I would have to do laparoscopic examination to view and dissect and remove tissue to determine the validity of this diagnosis...which we are not going to do. Menopause and the expected end to this problem is too close to bother with all that nonsense. (I just know without doubt this is what it is.)
Of course I am not qualified to make any medical diagnosis' or even agree or disagree with a medical diagnosis...I did not mean to allude otherwise in this or other posts. I also do not want to bore you with the details of my health issues. Just trying to make a point.
Let's Take Steps to Generalize
I could remove some of the specification and make a more generalized diagnosis: pelvic pain due to a gynecological condition.
From there I could generalize a bit more to encompass the body as a whole: physical fatigue, aggravation of other physical conditions and discomfort related to pelvic pain.
From there I could generalize further: pain and fatigue leading to a sense of being physically unwell.
From there I could take it to: inability to think clearly and positively, to feel peppy, happy and energetic, or to be spiritually present due to physical focus.
Finally, further into generalization: a sense of being less than well due to a blockage of Source energy flow. Imagine seeing that diagnosis on a medical chart lol, but is that not ultimately what it is?
To me, these are all accurate diagnosis' (some of them are nursing diagnosis,' btw, so I can get away with creating them lol) . Yet they are all going to lead to different solutions and modes of healing, are they not? Which one, then, will determine the ultimate healing?
What Diagnosis will Lead to Fixing the Problem?
Let's just look at the two ends of the spectrum to answer this question. What will lead to ultimate healing: the very specialized form of diagnosing or the very generalized?
From the Specific:
If I were to accept the first diagnosis (that I have given myself btw...lol). I would have dissected the physical from the entire being, the yin from the yang within me, the reproductive system from all other systems in my body and the endometrial cells from all other cells. I would accept a very "specific" something at the "specific" cellular level as the source of my problem with being well.
That diagnostic solution will involve cutting into my body, removing pieces of tissue and organs in order to rectify the problem. The endometriosis will not go away...it will, until I finally hit full menopause, just keep building up somewhere else. The pain might temporarily go after I endure six weeks of post operative recovery but unless all reproductive tissue (which can be, by the migrating tendency of endometriosis, anywhere in the body by now) is removed that will never be a guarantee.
With patience and time, however, nature will fix this problem on her own. When estrogen, progesterone, LH, and FSH finally subside with the natural aging process...menopause...these cells will no longer be fed, will no longer bleed or cause problems related to the bleeding.
Scientifically, the above diagnosis makes absolute sense to me. It explains the scientific cause of my pain. I see it. I understand it. It is very logical.
It does not, however, lead to healing. And it is healing that I want more than a diagnosis.
To the General:
What about the last diagnosis: A sense of being unwell due to a blockage of Source Energy? Does it sound like a bunch of woo-woo nonsense to you? Quackery?
When I look at that with my scientific mind that was trained in nursing under the medical model...it looks like quackery. It is too general to make sense to me. Yet when I think of it in terms of its healing potential ...I say, "Yes! That's it!"
If we remove all the specifics in healing and see it simply as a letting go of resistance to a natural, inherent flow of wellness that is always flowing through us because we are just extensions of what Einstein called " the field" and others called "Source energy" ...then this diagnosis should make sense.
All pain, all so called illness whether it be physical, mental or emotional is simply resistance to what is. We unknowingly block that energy with our resistance. We block the grace, the ease, the peace that we are meant to feel with our resistance. The resistance is simply the "dis" in front of the "ease" that is our birthright. If we knew that ...truly knew it...we were never be sick.
Bruce Lipton, in his wonderful book, The Biology of Belief(2005) shows evidence of how we know that even at the cellular level but allow ego and others outside ourselves convince us otherwise.. My misbehaving endometrial cells know that I am wellness and that balance, healing and restoration are mine once I believe it to be true in my mind.
These "specific" cells may misbehave to get my attention but it wouldn't matter if it was these cells or my myocardial cells acting up. It wouldn't matter if it was my mind, emotions or body taking me from spirit. We do not need to get that specific. Discomfort, pain, what we call "illness" is simply a means of communication that reminds us that we are resisting this beautiful and divine energy from flowing through our lives. That's all.
The above diagnosis is not saying we are unwell...we simply have a sense...a belief or ego interpretation that we are unwell...we have that because we are blocking Source Energy with our resistance.
That general diagnosis above leads to healing. It leads to healing of not just one minor physical issue but absolutely everything! By accepting it, it heals everything! How amazing is that? I choose the general over the specific.
I love this quote from Deepak Chopra, a medical doctor who sees the "whole" and "general" picture.:
Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it is not even mentioned in medical texts.
Where to go from Here?
I know so little. I am not sure how to let go of resistance. I don't even know where and how I am resisting. Right now...it is enough for me to know that I am and that is the source of my perception of a wellness problem.
I am well. I have always been well. I will always be well but somehow I am resisting the energy that is wellness. Are you?
I will figure the rest out eventually.
All is well in my world.
References and recommended readings:
Lipton, Bruce. (2005) The Biology of Belief. Authors Pub Corp
Chopra, Deepak...absolutely everything he has ever written :)
Deepak Chopra
Another day of recovery for me so I am a little slow on the draw. :)
Been experiencing a lot of the pelvic pain again over the last 48...keeping me up at night, pacing etc. I want to take this pain experience into my understanding of the difference between the over-specification and the generalization of wellness or lack of.
The Specific Diagnosis for a Lack of Wellness
"Peri-menopausal exacerbation of Chronic Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis with a growing chocolate cyst left ovary," is how I would diagnosis my condition if I were doing the specializing and division thing. Of course, in order to diagnosis this way if I were a Gyne, I would have to do laparoscopic examination to view and dissect and remove tissue to determine the validity of this diagnosis...which we are not going to do. Menopause and the expected end to this problem is too close to bother with all that nonsense. (I just know without doubt this is what it is.)
Of course I am not qualified to make any medical diagnosis' or even agree or disagree with a medical diagnosis...I did not mean to allude otherwise in this or other posts. I also do not want to bore you with the details of my health issues. Just trying to make a point.
Let's Take Steps to Generalize
I could remove some of the specification and make a more generalized diagnosis: pelvic pain due to a gynecological condition.
From there I could generalize a bit more to encompass the body as a whole: physical fatigue, aggravation of other physical conditions and discomfort related to pelvic pain.
From there I could generalize further: pain and fatigue leading to a sense of being physically unwell.
From there I could take it to: inability to think clearly and positively, to feel peppy, happy and energetic, or to be spiritually present due to physical focus.
Finally, further into generalization: a sense of being less than well due to a blockage of Source energy flow. Imagine seeing that diagnosis on a medical chart lol, but is that not ultimately what it is?
To me, these are all accurate diagnosis' (some of them are nursing diagnosis,' btw, so I can get away with creating them lol) . Yet they are all going to lead to different solutions and modes of healing, are they not? Which one, then, will determine the ultimate healing?
What Diagnosis will Lead to Fixing the Problem?
Let's just look at the two ends of the spectrum to answer this question. What will lead to ultimate healing: the very specialized form of diagnosing or the very generalized?
From the Specific:
If I were to accept the first diagnosis (that I have given myself btw...lol). I would have dissected the physical from the entire being, the yin from the yang within me, the reproductive system from all other systems in my body and the endometrial cells from all other cells. I would accept a very "specific" something at the "specific" cellular level as the source of my problem with being well.
That diagnostic solution will involve cutting into my body, removing pieces of tissue and organs in order to rectify the problem. The endometriosis will not go away...it will, until I finally hit full menopause, just keep building up somewhere else. The pain might temporarily go after I endure six weeks of post operative recovery but unless all reproductive tissue (which can be, by the migrating tendency of endometriosis, anywhere in the body by now) is removed that will never be a guarantee.
With patience and time, however, nature will fix this problem on her own. When estrogen, progesterone, LH, and FSH finally subside with the natural aging process...menopause...these cells will no longer be fed, will no longer bleed or cause problems related to the bleeding.
Scientifically, the above diagnosis makes absolute sense to me. It explains the scientific cause of my pain. I see it. I understand it. It is very logical.
It does not, however, lead to healing. And it is healing that I want more than a diagnosis.
To the General:
What about the last diagnosis: A sense of being unwell due to a blockage of Source Energy? Does it sound like a bunch of woo-woo nonsense to you? Quackery?
When I look at that with my scientific mind that was trained in nursing under the medical model...it looks like quackery. It is too general to make sense to me. Yet when I think of it in terms of its healing potential ...I say, "Yes! That's it!"
If we remove all the specifics in healing and see it simply as a letting go of resistance to a natural, inherent flow of wellness that is always flowing through us because we are just extensions of what Einstein called " the field" and others called "Source energy" ...then this diagnosis should make sense.
All pain, all so called illness whether it be physical, mental or emotional is simply resistance to what is. We unknowingly block that energy with our resistance. We block the grace, the ease, the peace that we are meant to feel with our resistance. The resistance is simply the "dis" in front of the "ease" that is our birthright. If we knew that ...truly knew it...we were never be sick.
Bruce Lipton, in his wonderful book, The Biology of Belief(2005) shows evidence of how we know that even at the cellular level but allow ego and others outside ourselves convince us otherwise.. My misbehaving endometrial cells know that I am wellness and that balance, healing and restoration are mine once I believe it to be true in my mind.
These "specific" cells may misbehave to get my attention but it wouldn't matter if it was these cells or my myocardial cells acting up. It wouldn't matter if it was my mind, emotions or body taking me from spirit. We do not need to get that specific. Discomfort, pain, what we call "illness" is simply a means of communication that reminds us that we are resisting this beautiful and divine energy from flowing through our lives. That's all.
The above diagnosis is not saying we are unwell...we simply have a sense...a belief or ego interpretation that we are unwell...we have that because we are blocking Source Energy with our resistance.
That general diagnosis above leads to healing. It leads to healing of not just one minor physical issue but absolutely everything! By accepting it, it heals everything! How amazing is that? I choose the general over the specific.
I love this quote from Deepak Chopra, a medical doctor who sees the "whole" and "general" picture.:
Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it is not even mentioned in medical texts.
Where to go from Here?
I know so little. I am not sure how to let go of resistance. I don't even know where and how I am resisting. Right now...it is enough for me to know that I am and that is the source of my perception of a wellness problem.
I am well. I have always been well. I will always be well but somehow I am resisting the energy that is wellness. Are you?
I will figure the rest out eventually.
All is well in my world.
References and recommended readings:
Lipton, Bruce. (2005) The Biology of Belief. Authors Pub Corp
Chopra, Deepak...absolutely everything he has ever written :)
Sunday, August 20, 2017
The Impact of Over-Division: A look at the Medical model
Health is a state of the body. Wellness is a state of being.
J. Standford
Healing the Three Parts of Self
If we are wanting to heal, we likely perceive we have something to heal from. In our western culture we have a tendency to divide our "brokenness" into three separate compartments: spirit, mind and body. If we need to heal the spirit...we seek a spiritual healer or counsellor; if we need to heal the mind we seek the help of a psychological healer ( a counsellor, psychologist or psychiatrist) and if we believe we need to heal the body we often seek the help of a physician.
The Divisional Tendency of Medicine
When we seek the help of medicine we divide even further...we can then begin to divide the body into sections and specialities.
Medicine dissects the body from the mind and spirit, the systems from the organism, the organs from the systems, the tissues from the organs and the cells from the tissues to get to the root of the problem ...it disassembles the whole ( in a sense breaking it up) in order to fix it and make it whole again. Does that make sense?
My Own over Specification Experience
I spent years trying to get a "specific" diagnosis, to determine what "specific" organ in a "specific" organ system was malfunctioning in my body, and what "specific" part of that organ was not doing it's job correctly and even went down to what "specific" cells. I was so desperate to get to a "specific" solution to my health issue that I willingly went from one division to another...I went from general practice, to internal medicine, to cardiology and than to several sub specialities within the cardiology field.
There was a "minor" issue discovered by each sub speciality involving different "specific functionings" of my heart. Because the specialities were so divided...none of these little issues were examined as a whole...they were not put together in one package. One speciality only saw the mitral valve issue, one saw the coronary vasospasm, one saw the inappropriate tachycardia, one saw the bradycardia, one saw the atrial flutter(irregular heart rhythm) and one saw the dyskinesia(abnormal movement) on the right ventricle...each thing by itself was so minor it was passed off as insignificant and not a valid cause for my perception of limited energy. Each sub speciality did not see what the other sub speciality saw.
Each sub speciality...then...made the conclusion. "If this minor cardiac anomaly that I picked up is not responsible for such complaints of physical limitation...there must be something broken elsewhere in the patient leading to such complaints...likely the mental dimension. Her illness then most likely is mental rather than physical.Therefore this is not my problem to solve." The file gets closed.
It is amazing how quickly information about a person's assumed "defective nature" gets communicated from one speciality to another when the objective facts don't lol.
I am not putting down or judging the specialities. I am just trying to make a point as to where we are going with this division. I understand the mind sets to some degree but by breaking the heart into pieces and into different "specific" functions these subspecialties' do not see the whole. They do not see how cardiac functioning will be impacted when all the so called insignificant things are put together. They only allow themselves to see what their eyes are trained to see. If they do not see the whole, communication as a whole team is fractured. The less specialized field of cardiology just hears that everything is insignificant from each subspecialty therefore she must have other issues. Internal medicine passes it off as insignificant and general practice, if it is so inclined, can do the same. (Luckily for me that wasn't the case.)
The Impact of No-Wholeness
The impact of the wholeness of the cardiac complaints on the patient's life then gets diminished...the physical limitations do not get viewed in terms of how they impinge on the whole of the person ( financially, professionally, mentally, emotionally as well as physically etc). The person's holistic limitations do not get viewed as to how they impact a social network ( family {with diagnosed or non-diagnosed cardiac conditions}, community, work force). The impact of communities with individuals that are not well do not get viewed in terms of how they impact society as a whole and from there the human race as a whole and from there all beings as a whole. It goes on and on...all because we need to be so specific...to dissect and divide the whole.
We do not need to be so specific then...maybe that is not the answer. Maybe the medical model is one of those things we revere and accept that should actually be questioned. Maybe we need to stop assuming that healing will occur with scalpels ( the real and proverbial kinds) and start trying to heal with sutures that sew people back into a whole picture.
I am not putting down physicians...I am just being honest about the mental paradigm they are trained under. I appreciate and value what they do and what they did for me but I think we need a little bit less dissection and divison and a little more "wholeness' in our approach to wellness. Don't you?
Hmm! But that wholeness doesn't start with "changing and fixing" the ideologies of allopathic medicine.
It starts with us and how we divide our own beingness into three separate parts. We need to start looking at the mind, body and spirit as one integrated being. That is where wholeness will start. There is where true healing will start. That is where the knowing that we are and always were well will start.
Hmm! Some food for thought.
All is well in my world.
.
J. Standford
Healing the Three Parts of Self
If we are wanting to heal, we likely perceive we have something to heal from. In our western culture we have a tendency to divide our "brokenness" into three separate compartments: spirit, mind and body. If we need to heal the spirit...we seek a spiritual healer or counsellor; if we need to heal the mind we seek the help of a psychological healer ( a counsellor, psychologist or psychiatrist) and if we believe we need to heal the body we often seek the help of a physician.
The Divisional Tendency of Medicine
When we seek the help of medicine we divide even further...we can then begin to divide the body into sections and specialities.
Medicine dissects the body from the mind and spirit, the systems from the organism, the organs from the systems, the tissues from the organs and the cells from the tissues to get to the root of the problem ...it disassembles the whole ( in a sense breaking it up) in order to fix it and make it whole again. Does that make sense?
My Own over Specification Experience
I spent years trying to get a "specific" diagnosis, to determine what "specific" organ in a "specific" organ system was malfunctioning in my body, and what "specific" part of that organ was not doing it's job correctly and even went down to what "specific" cells. I was so desperate to get to a "specific" solution to my health issue that I willingly went from one division to another...I went from general practice, to internal medicine, to cardiology and than to several sub specialities within the cardiology field.
There was a "minor" issue discovered by each sub speciality involving different "specific functionings" of my heart. Because the specialities were so divided...none of these little issues were examined as a whole...they were not put together in one package. One speciality only saw the mitral valve issue, one saw the coronary vasospasm, one saw the inappropriate tachycardia, one saw the bradycardia, one saw the atrial flutter(irregular heart rhythm) and one saw the dyskinesia(abnormal movement) on the right ventricle...each thing by itself was so minor it was passed off as insignificant and not a valid cause for my perception of limited energy. Each sub speciality did not see what the other sub speciality saw.
Each sub speciality...then...made the conclusion. "If this minor cardiac anomaly that I picked up is not responsible for such complaints of physical limitation...there must be something broken elsewhere in the patient leading to such complaints...likely the mental dimension. Her illness then most likely is mental rather than physical.Therefore this is not my problem to solve." The file gets closed.
It is amazing how quickly information about a person's assumed "defective nature" gets communicated from one speciality to another when the objective facts don't lol.
I am not putting down or judging the specialities. I am just trying to make a point as to where we are going with this division. I understand the mind sets to some degree but by breaking the heart into pieces and into different "specific" functions these subspecialties' do not see the whole. They do not see how cardiac functioning will be impacted when all the so called insignificant things are put together. They only allow themselves to see what their eyes are trained to see. If they do not see the whole, communication as a whole team is fractured. The less specialized field of cardiology just hears that everything is insignificant from each subspecialty therefore she must have other issues. Internal medicine passes it off as insignificant and general practice, if it is so inclined, can do the same. (Luckily for me that wasn't the case.)
The Impact of No-Wholeness
The impact of the wholeness of the cardiac complaints on the patient's life then gets diminished...the physical limitations do not get viewed in terms of how they impinge on the whole of the person ( financially, professionally, mentally, emotionally as well as physically etc). The person's holistic limitations do not get viewed as to how they impact a social network ( family {with diagnosed or non-diagnosed cardiac conditions}, community, work force). The impact of communities with individuals that are not well do not get viewed in terms of how they impact society as a whole and from there the human race as a whole and from there all beings as a whole. It goes on and on...all because we need to be so specific...to dissect and divide the whole.
We do not need to be so specific then...maybe that is not the answer. Maybe the medical model is one of those things we revere and accept that should actually be questioned. Maybe we need to stop assuming that healing will occur with scalpels ( the real and proverbial kinds) and start trying to heal with sutures that sew people back into a whole picture.
I am not putting down physicians...I am just being honest about the mental paradigm they are trained under. I appreciate and value what they do and what they did for me but I think we need a little bit less dissection and divison and a little more "wholeness' in our approach to wellness. Don't you?
Hmm! But that wholeness doesn't start with "changing and fixing" the ideologies of allopathic medicine.
It starts with us and how we divide our own beingness into three separate parts. We need to start looking at the mind, body and spirit as one integrated being. That is where wholeness will start. There is where true healing will start. That is where the knowing that we are and always were well will start.
Hmm! Some food for thought.
All is well in my world.
.
Energy, Healing and Resistance
Be the energy you want others to absorb.
A.D. Posey
Oh My! Another series of thoughts begin in my mind therefore another series of posts will be written here. Oh how this questioning thing inspires ideas, allows for creation and drives one completely batty! lol
I have been thinking.
Here, I write and speak about getting beyond thinking...and yet...those 60,000 thoughts keep churning in my head. I call this inspired thinking though...different from the churning of tired old repetitive and negative thoughts that take up so much of our mental energy. These inspired thoughts feed us with energy...take us to higher places...allow for expansion through creation. (Well that is how I rationalize it anyway :))
So I have been thinking about healing, energy and the only thing in life that prevents healing...resistance. There is so much I want to understand as I seek healing...so much I want to pass on to others as I learn. I don't know where to begin.
I want to heal from my own physical condition that I perceive limits me. I want to heal from the hold my ego has on me leading me into pathological doing , and unhealthy thought patterns that cause less than life enhancing emotional reactions and therefore impinge on health.
I equate healing with peace. I believe we need to reach that level of peace before we can truly embrace wellness in the holistic way it is meant to be embraced.
So what kinds of questions, ideas or possible avenues to take my writing get spun as I think on this matter?:
All is well in my world.
A.D. Posey
Oh My! Another series of thoughts begin in my mind therefore another series of posts will be written here. Oh how this questioning thing inspires ideas, allows for creation and drives one completely batty! lol
I have been thinking.
Here, I write and speak about getting beyond thinking...and yet...those 60,000 thoughts keep churning in my head. I call this inspired thinking though...different from the churning of tired old repetitive and negative thoughts that take up so much of our mental energy. These inspired thoughts feed us with energy...take us to higher places...allow for expansion through creation. (Well that is how I rationalize it anyway :))
So I have been thinking about healing, energy and the only thing in life that prevents healing...resistance. There is so much I want to understand as I seek healing...so much I want to pass on to others as I learn. I don't know where to begin.
I want to heal from my own physical condition that I perceive limits me. I want to heal from the hold my ego has on me leading me into pathological doing , and unhealthy thought patterns that cause less than life enhancing emotional reactions and therefore impinge on health.
I equate healing with peace. I believe we need to reach that level of peace before we can truly embrace wellness in the holistic way it is meant to be embraced.
So what kinds of questions, ideas or possible avenues to take my writing get spun as I think on this matter?:
- I want to understand the difference between holism and this over specialized and divided vision of wellness that the world has adopted with the medical model.
- I want to understand energy...where it comes from and how it can be allowed to flow more abundantly through us
- I want to understand what healing really is in holistic terms
- I want to understand resistance to healing and how to let it go.
All is well in my world.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Practice Video One Part Two
Here is the second part of the first video. I had to use a cliff hanger by cutting it in two to keep you in suspense lol.
https://youtu.be/pVBUdSAWfDU
On Energy and Healing
It is amazing how energy levels are transferred even over video screens.
I just reviewed this video to see if it was coming up...and I got so very tired as I was watching it. I remembered how tired I felt when I was doing it after about 8 minutes...I felt peaceful...but I was physically very tired and the more I spoke the more tired I got.
I relived that fatigue as I watched myself on screen. How would that energy transfer to others who are viewing?
It also made me think about my energy and energy in general. If energy is what heals and healing is a general thing encompassing all parts of the human being, not specific to one organ or system malfunctioning, nor making distinctions between mind or body... and if I was on purpose doing what I was supposed to do spiritually... should I not have been able to transcend my fatigue making me all energetic and peppy? I must have been resisting wellness somehow or the process of relaying a message in those moments? And I caught that resistance on camera?
At the same time...it is amazing that I was able to complete those videos at all considering how I was feeling that day. Something greater than me got me through those 15 minutes of speaking. No...I wasn't peppy but I did what I felt needed to be done and I felt okay doing it. What got me through was the energy that comes with a higher purpose, maybe? Is it possible that the more I seek a higher purpose the better I will feel? I do look much more energetic in the following videos.
Now I am full of questions about energy, healing and resistance lol...just because I watched my video. Silly how my menopausal mind works.
All is well.
On Energy and Healing
It is amazing how energy levels are transferred even over video screens.
I just reviewed this video to see if it was coming up...and I got so very tired as I was watching it. I remembered how tired I felt when I was doing it after about 8 minutes...I felt peaceful...but I was physically very tired and the more I spoke the more tired I got.
I relived that fatigue as I watched myself on screen. How would that energy transfer to others who are viewing?
It also made me think about my energy and energy in general. If energy is what heals and healing is a general thing encompassing all parts of the human being, not specific to one organ or system malfunctioning, nor making distinctions between mind or body... and if I was on purpose doing what I was supposed to do spiritually... should I not have been able to transcend my fatigue making me all energetic and peppy? I must have been resisting wellness somehow or the process of relaying a message in those moments? And I caught that resistance on camera?
At the same time...it is amazing that I was able to complete those videos at all considering how I was feeling that day. Something greater than me got me through those 15 minutes of speaking. No...I wasn't peppy but I did what I felt needed to be done and I felt okay doing it. What got me through was the energy that comes with a higher purpose, maybe? Is it possible that the more I seek a higher purpose the better I will feel? I do look much more energetic in the following videos.
Now I am full of questions about energy, healing and resistance lol...just because I watched my video. Silly how my menopausal mind works.
All is well.
Happiness Directions: Step Ten: Commit to Finding the True Self
If we only look within, we will see the Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror...Turn in! Look within! Know thyself!
Satchidananda (The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, page 115)
Hmm! The last step to take...the one that will ultimately take us to our destination...is a commitment to find the true Self or what Patanjali referred to as the Purusa. We begin that path home when we turn inward. We can read all the scriptures from all the great religions, study the teachings of all the great philosophers, explore and examine the scientific breakthroughs of all the greatest minds in the world...but we will never know truth until we commit to finding it within us. We will, as Satchidananda explains in his translation of the Yoga sutras, be wasting our time.
If we want happiness we will find it on our road to enlightenment. The light that guides the world is not out there...it is inside you. Peace is found in stillness. Happiness is found in peace...and the joyous rapture of being is found when we discover who we really are.
It is a process...it will require practice and a commitment on our part to get there. First we must be willing to sit still and turn our focus inward so many times a day and eventually we will see the light. We must commit to a prayer, meditation, mindfulness practice...whatever works in turning our focus away from the externals and inward toward the Truth.
That doesn't mean we cannot read the scriptures or study the greats. Oh no...the teachings of others can be a great aid to our understanding, guiding us inward. But stillness, quiet and soulful reflection are the only things that will truly get us there.
Seek the true Self within you and you will soon find yourself to be far on your journey towards the happiness that is yours for the asking.
All is well in my world!
References
Sri Swami Sathidananda (2012) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Buckingham: Integral Yoga Publications
Satchidananda (The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, page 115)
Hmm! The last step to take...the one that will ultimately take us to our destination...is a commitment to find the true Self or what Patanjali referred to as the Purusa. We begin that path home when we turn inward. We can read all the scriptures from all the great religions, study the teachings of all the great philosophers, explore and examine the scientific breakthroughs of all the greatest minds in the world...but we will never know truth until we commit to finding it within us. We will, as Satchidananda explains in his translation of the Yoga sutras, be wasting our time.
If we want happiness we will find it on our road to enlightenment. The light that guides the world is not out there...it is inside you. Peace is found in stillness. Happiness is found in peace...and the joyous rapture of being is found when we discover who we really are.
It is a process...it will require practice and a commitment on our part to get there. First we must be willing to sit still and turn our focus inward so many times a day and eventually we will see the light. We must commit to a prayer, meditation, mindfulness practice...whatever works in turning our focus away from the externals and inward toward the Truth.
That doesn't mean we cannot read the scriptures or study the greats. Oh no...the teachings of others can be a great aid to our understanding, guiding us inward. But stillness, quiet and soulful reflection are the only things that will truly get us there.
Seek the true Self within you and you will soon find yourself to be far on your journey towards the happiness that is yours for the asking.
All is well in my world!
References
Sri Swami Sathidananda (2012) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Buckingham: Integral Yoga Publications
Friday, August 18, 2017
Practice Video One: Waking Up, Part One
Okay here we go! Video One: Waking Up Part One.
It is absolutely amazing watching myself think about these videos lol. I see how much ego still reigns in my life. I worry about how they will be received, how I will be judged but more than that I catch myself wondering, "Who am I to think that I can teach this great message publicly, (without hiding behind anonymous words as I do here)...who am I to think I am chosen to do so? Is that not ego talking?"
This fear of judgment and this idea that I am not worthy enough to do what we are all here to do...causes a feeling of anx. That is ego!
I choose otherwise. I choose peace....and these videos will help me to get beyond ego, one way or another lol. I may reach no more than one questioning soul but if I do not at least try, I will reach no one at all.
Imagine what today would be like if the great philosophers and thinkers of the world did not "put themselves out there" by stepping up to share their ideas. So many of us would still be stuck in limited perspectives, suffering because of it. They had so much more to risk than we do today...they could and many were persecuted and put to death because of their speaking up.
What do we risk? A bit of social exposure, vulnerability, possibly rejection, criticism, or a damaged reputation...all things that truly do not matter in the big scheme of things? I am, by no means, comparing myself to the great thinkers of the world lol. I am just trying to make a point: We all have some valuable truth to share that has the potential to make the world a better place. Do we not? Are we not than obligated to share it?
After all that rationalization lol I am not sure how to share a private video so this may or may not be accessible to you. I am trying.:)
All is well in my world!
It is absolutely amazing watching myself think about these videos lol. I see how much ego still reigns in my life. I worry about how they will be received, how I will be judged but more than that I catch myself wondering, "Who am I to think that I can teach this great message publicly, (without hiding behind anonymous words as I do here)...who am I to think I am chosen to do so? Is that not ego talking?"
This fear of judgment and this idea that I am not worthy enough to do what we are all here to do...causes a feeling of anx. That is ego!
I choose otherwise. I choose peace....and these videos will help me to get beyond ego, one way or another lol. I may reach no more than one questioning soul but if I do not at least try, I will reach no one at all.
Imagine what today would be like if the great philosophers and thinkers of the world did not "put themselves out there" by stepping up to share their ideas. So many of us would still be stuck in limited perspectives, suffering because of it. They had so much more to risk than we do today...they could and many were persecuted and put to death because of their speaking up.
What do we risk? A bit of social exposure, vulnerability, possibly rejection, criticism, or a damaged reputation...all things that truly do not matter in the big scheme of things? I am, by no means, comparing myself to the great thinkers of the world lol. I am just trying to make a point: We all have some valuable truth to share that has the potential to make the world a better place. Do we not? Are we not than obligated to share it?
After all that rationalization lol I am not sure how to share a private video so this may or may not be accessible to you. I am trying.:)
All is well in my world!
Happiness Directions: Step Nine: Choose Peace
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
Unknown
I love the above quote and it definitely speaks to step nine on our road to happiness. If you want to be happy...you first need to feel peace. To get to peace you must take full responsibility for how you feel.
Your happiness is not determined by the events that surround you or the things that happen to you. Blaming them will only keep you stuck on this side of peace.
Your happiness is not determined by the behaviour of other people. No one is responsible for how you feel but you. We often hear others or ourselves saying, "He made me mad!" "She hurt my feelings!" "He is making me miserable!" etc etc...don't we? We tend to think, in our egoic states, that other people are responsible for making us happy. We look to "special" others to take on this role and fulfill our lives for us, becoming totally miserable and unhappy when they fail to do so, don't we?
Truth is...no one outside yourself is responsible for your feelings but you. These "special" people were not put on the earth to "fix" you, "fill your empty spaces", make you whole and complete. If they do not have the power to make you feel good...then they do not have the power to make you feel bad. Unless of course, you let them. That is your choice, your doing and your responsibility.
Even if the world around you crumbles to pieces you cannot blame your unhappiness on life circumstance...on the random events that cause suffering. These things do not have the power to cause suffering in you...only your choice of thought and reaction to them has the power to cause suffering. Once again...it is all up to you.
So instead of choosing to feel miserable over the behaviours of other people or life being life...take responsibility for what you allow in that wonderful mind of yours. Choose peace rather than "this"...this , whatever it is, that does not serve you.
Seek to be peaceful in the midst of chaos, negative judgment, or the nasty behaviours of others. See that peace as your responsibility and no one or nothing else's.
Responsibility is also your power. You have the power to make your life everything you want it to be when you take full responsibility for your feelings.
Choose peace and the door to happiness is sure to open for you.
All is well in my world.
Unknown
I love the above quote and it definitely speaks to step nine on our road to happiness. If you want to be happy...you first need to feel peace. To get to peace you must take full responsibility for how you feel.
Your happiness is not determined by the events that surround you or the things that happen to you. Blaming them will only keep you stuck on this side of peace.
Your happiness is not determined by the behaviour of other people. No one is responsible for how you feel but you. We often hear others or ourselves saying, "He made me mad!" "She hurt my feelings!" "He is making me miserable!" etc etc...don't we? We tend to think, in our egoic states, that other people are responsible for making us happy. We look to "special" others to take on this role and fulfill our lives for us, becoming totally miserable and unhappy when they fail to do so, don't we?
Truth is...no one outside yourself is responsible for your feelings but you. These "special" people were not put on the earth to "fix" you, "fill your empty spaces", make you whole and complete. If they do not have the power to make you feel good...then they do not have the power to make you feel bad. Unless of course, you let them. That is your choice, your doing and your responsibility.
Even if the world around you crumbles to pieces you cannot blame your unhappiness on life circumstance...on the random events that cause suffering. These things do not have the power to cause suffering in you...only your choice of thought and reaction to them has the power to cause suffering. Once again...it is all up to you.
So instead of choosing to feel miserable over the behaviours of other people or life being life...take responsibility for what you allow in that wonderful mind of yours. Choose peace rather than "this"...this , whatever it is, that does not serve you.
Seek to be peaceful in the midst of chaos, negative judgment, or the nasty behaviours of others. See that peace as your responsibility and no one or nothing else's.
Responsibility is also your power. You have the power to make your life everything you want it to be when you take full responsibility for your feelings.
Choose peace and the door to happiness is sure to open for you.
All is well in my world.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Choosing Peace of Mind When it Comes to These Darn Videos :)
Before I get on to Step Nine: Choose Peace....I need to get back to these videos because they are consuming me lately lol. They are disturbing my peace because I am allowing them to. This is supposed to be an effortless activity coming from within me...not based on ego or the little "self" .
Truth is, I feel compelled to create them even in all their apparent imperfection. I feel the need to share my learning with others. It is purely a "spiritual" inclination. Yet...there is ego sitting in the director's chair shaking his finger at me as he yells into his big cone thingy, "Cut!!!!" There are too many takes and too many less than perfect moments captured on screen to call it "effortless" and "sincere".
I do not want this to be about the appearance of me or the video. I want it to be about the message. At the same time...I know as a Toastmaster and as an educator who lectures ++...if we want to get the message across, we need to present it in a way that will move people and get them to listen. Judgments are formed quickly and sometimes once they are formed they make challenging walls to get through.
I know I can do better. I do speak...so that is not an issue ( you may disagree once you see me stumbling over my words in one of these videos lol); improving the lighting and audio is not a big issue either. It can be more professional. Yet the more I focus on the "techniques" the less I speak from the heart ...you know? The more it becomes about "presentation," the less it becomes about the message. Presentation is ego; the message is spirit. I want spirit to take the reins here.
So what I will do is publish them here....just here...share or link you few who follow my blog to the videos. Just so that I am not holding back because of ego. I am confident that the videos will gradually improve in quality as I continue to make them...and the message will become more clearly expressed!
I just need to keep reminding myself and you...that it isn't about me. I mean it is because as I am sharing this message I do feel sincerely connected, you know? I feel what Joseph Campbell would call...bliss. It is such a calling (or what psychiatrist's would call a pathological compulsion lol) now that if I do not create them I will not feel at peace. Hmmm! But it is still beyond my puny little needs.
I want to be at peace and I want the world to be at peace. If my words move others in that direction...even if it is just by moving their big toes a quarter of an inch toward it lol...am I not obligated to share them? Will I not feel unsettled until I do?
I don't know but I will try. :)
Judge me as you see fit...but I strongly encourage you to listen to the message beneath the imperfections
All is well in my world.
Truth is, I feel compelled to create them even in all their apparent imperfection. I feel the need to share my learning with others. It is purely a "spiritual" inclination. Yet...there is ego sitting in the director's chair shaking his finger at me as he yells into his big cone thingy, "Cut!!!!" There are too many takes and too many less than perfect moments captured on screen to call it "effortless" and "sincere".
I do not want this to be about the appearance of me or the video. I want it to be about the message. At the same time...I know as a Toastmaster and as an educator who lectures ++...if we want to get the message across, we need to present it in a way that will move people and get them to listen. Judgments are formed quickly and sometimes once they are formed they make challenging walls to get through.
I know I can do better. I do speak...so that is not an issue ( you may disagree once you see me stumbling over my words in one of these videos lol); improving the lighting and audio is not a big issue either. It can be more professional. Yet the more I focus on the "techniques" the less I speak from the heart ...you know? The more it becomes about "presentation," the less it becomes about the message. Presentation is ego; the message is spirit. I want spirit to take the reins here.
So what I will do is publish them here....just here...share or link you few who follow my blog to the videos. Just so that I am not holding back because of ego. I am confident that the videos will gradually improve in quality as I continue to make them...and the message will become more clearly expressed!
I just need to keep reminding myself and you...that it isn't about me. I mean it is because as I am sharing this message I do feel sincerely connected, you know? I feel what Joseph Campbell would call...bliss. It is such a calling (or what psychiatrist's would call a pathological compulsion lol) now that if I do not create them I will not feel at peace. Hmmm! But it is still beyond my puny little needs.
I want to be at peace and I want the world to be at peace. If my words move others in that direction...even if it is just by moving their big toes a quarter of an inch toward it lol...am I not obligated to share them? Will I not feel unsettled until I do?
I don't know but I will try. :)
Judge me as you see fit...but I strongly encourage you to listen to the message beneath the imperfections
All is well in my world.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
From blogging to vlogging
I made videos! And they are awful lol!
Appearance: The lighting is terrible...one side of my face is in shadow, I look like a 99 year old chronic smoker with oscillating fan eyes...I am as grey as the walls I was videotaping in front of (was having chest pain yesterday and it usually leaves me with the loveliest colour:)), and my hair is all over the place. (Man...I have no problem with the way I look in general...but do you think I should have at least combed my hair before getting in front of the camera? Should I worry about my appearance just enough to be you tube ready? lol)
Sound: the audio leaves a lot to be desired, yet it clearly picks up the Roomba as it came knocking on my door, D.'s voice outside my window and my daughter doing baby voices for my dogs.
The Speaking: had a lot of menopausal moments as I spoke off the top of my head, I used words that do not even exist in the English vocabulary...ones that I made up on the spot as I combined parts of other words together (I wonder how often I subconsciously do that ?) , I went blank on the names of the hundreds of philosophers I have studied over the years only remembering Pascal for some reason and I mentioned him twice (mini-mental time?), I stumbled over my quotes, I used too many ahs and ums to pass the Toastmaster's "ah-counter" test and sometimes did not finish a train of thought...I also spoke for too long (the 7 minute speech is ideal...I doubled that and then some, to the point You tube insisted on 2 different videos lol).
The Message: The message was perfect because it didn't come from me. I was just simply passing on an eternal truth that is my obligation and my blessing to share. The sincerity of that goes beyond all the ego dominated stuff above.
The message is not about little "me"...it is about so much more. It is the message and a desire or need to share it that has led me to my blog and to the creation of these videos, in the first place. The fact that they and I appear so imperfect should not take away from the value of that message.
Maybe...in fact...they should enhance it. Very imperfect appearing human being with limited videotaping skills relays a message we can all benefit from, a message that can not be diminished by ego appearances and judgment.
For that reason I may publish those videos here(but nowhere else)..."may"lol....I still have a big fat ego I need to tame a bit before I display my obvious imperfections to the world.
Subsequent videos will definitely be better. If I am meant to share the learning I have stumbled upon in this manner...the way will be paved for me. I just had to take the first step which I did. The rest is not about me at all.
It is all good
Appearance: The lighting is terrible...one side of my face is in shadow, I look like a 99 year old chronic smoker with oscillating fan eyes...I am as grey as the walls I was videotaping in front of (was having chest pain yesterday and it usually leaves me with the loveliest colour:)), and my hair is all over the place. (Man...I have no problem with the way I look in general...but do you think I should have at least combed my hair before getting in front of the camera? Should I worry about my appearance just enough to be you tube ready? lol)
Sound: the audio leaves a lot to be desired, yet it clearly picks up the Roomba as it came knocking on my door, D.'s voice outside my window and my daughter doing baby voices for my dogs.
The Speaking: had a lot of menopausal moments as I spoke off the top of my head, I used words that do not even exist in the English vocabulary...ones that I made up on the spot as I combined parts of other words together (I wonder how often I subconsciously do that ?) , I went blank on the names of the hundreds of philosophers I have studied over the years only remembering Pascal for some reason and I mentioned him twice (mini-mental time?), I stumbled over my quotes, I used too many ahs and ums to pass the Toastmaster's "ah-counter" test and sometimes did not finish a train of thought...I also spoke for too long (the 7 minute speech is ideal...I doubled that and then some, to the point You tube insisted on 2 different videos lol).
The Message: The message was perfect because it didn't come from me. I was just simply passing on an eternal truth that is my obligation and my blessing to share. The sincerity of that goes beyond all the ego dominated stuff above.
The message is not about little "me"...it is about so much more. It is the message and a desire or need to share it that has led me to my blog and to the creation of these videos, in the first place. The fact that they and I appear so imperfect should not take away from the value of that message.
Maybe...in fact...they should enhance it. Very imperfect appearing human being with limited videotaping skills relays a message we can all benefit from, a message that can not be diminished by ego appearances and judgment.
For that reason I may publish those videos here(but nowhere else)..."may"lol....I still have a big fat ego I need to tame a bit before I display my obvious imperfections to the world.
Subsequent videos will definitely be better. If I am meant to share the learning I have stumbled upon in this manner...the way will be paved for me. I just had to take the first step which I did. The rest is not about me at all.
It is all good
Happiness Directions: Step Eight: Be Grateful
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos into order, confusion into clarity...
It turns problems into gifts,
failures into successes,
the unexpected into perfect timing,
and mistakes into important events.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today and
creates a vision for tomorrow.
-Melody Beattie
How could I even pretend to be able to say it any better than that? So beautiful and true are her words. Gratitude brings happiness!
All is well in my world!
References
Beattie, Melody (1986) Codependent No More. Hazeldon
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Side Note: Wisdom is not about knowing more
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
I should be expecting a visit anytime soon then? Because I feel I know so little right now. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. :)
If this not knowing was good for Socrates, lol, it is good for me.
All is well!
Socrates
I should be expecting a visit anytime soon then? Because I feel I know so little right now. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. :)
If this not knowing was good for Socrates, lol, it is good for me.
All is well!
Monday, August 14, 2017
Happiness Directions: Step Seven: Accept Where You Are Here And Now
Always say 'yes' to the present moment...surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life-and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart Tolle
Just say yes!
By saying yes to life as it is right here and right now we take a giant leap towards happiness. We get rid of our clinging to past memories that bring us down and keep us stuck...we stop projecting into a future that never comes and we start embracing the only time we have to live in, which is right here and right now. Your life is only going on in this present moment. If you want to be happy it is now!
Buddha taught that everyone of us can live happily right here right now. Thich Nhat Hanh in peace is every breath (2011) explains Buddha's teachings this way: "Fully available to the present moment, we discover we already have enough conditions to be happy-more than enough, in fact. We don't need to go looking for anything more in the future or in some other place. That's what we call abiding or dwelling happily in the present."(page 77)
So...no matter what is going on around you or in you, simply be aware of it and the moment that exists within it. It is in that moment that you want to live. Accept it. Embrace it! When you do, your life might just start to work for you rather than against you! Happiness is here and now!
All is well in my world.
References
Thich Nhat Hanh (2011) peace is every breath. New York: Harper One
Tolle, Eckhart (2010) The Power of Now. New World Library.
Eckhart Tolle
Just say yes!
By saying yes to life as it is right here and right now we take a giant leap towards happiness. We get rid of our clinging to past memories that bring us down and keep us stuck...we stop projecting into a future that never comes and we start embracing the only time we have to live in, which is right here and right now. Your life is only going on in this present moment. If you want to be happy it is now!
Buddha taught that everyone of us can live happily right here right now. Thich Nhat Hanh in peace is every breath (2011) explains Buddha's teachings this way: "Fully available to the present moment, we discover we already have enough conditions to be happy-more than enough, in fact. We don't need to go looking for anything more in the future or in some other place. That's what we call abiding or dwelling happily in the present."(page 77)
So...no matter what is going on around you or in you, simply be aware of it and the moment that exists within it. It is in that moment that you want to live. Accept it. Embrace it! When you do, your life might just start to work for you rather than against you! Happiness is here and now!
All is well in my world.
References
Thich Nhat Hanh (2011) peace is every breath. New York: Harper One
Tolle, Eckhart (2010) The Power of Now. New World Library.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
A Little More on Choices
At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Before I leave Step Six behind...I want to write a little more on the possibility of metaphysical choices that were made long before we show up here in physical form. I understand that many of you will have a hard time with that possibility...goes against what you may have been brought up to believe. I just want you to imagine, if you can, what it would mean if it were true.
If you chose what body you would show up in...how it would look, how it would feel, if it would last for 90 years or 10, if it would suffer with pain or be so physically fit it would constantly adorn medals around its neck, if it would starve or be overfed, if it would be underweight or overweight, tall or short, fully abled or limited...if you chose that...who would you have to blame for realizing you were in that body?
Would you not put away the notion of blame, judgement and learn to accept...knowing that there was a higher reason for this choice?
Would you not question that, though your body may differ from others, that it was perfect just as it is to God and the world beyond form...after all it was something you chose! ? Would you not embrace your body and the circumstances you find yourself in instead of hating and resisting? Would you stop regretting and resisting what is...and see it being exactly what it is meant to be...heck...what you asked for?
If we looked at who we are right now in physicality, where we are, what shows up in our lives...as choices we have made for a higher purpose would we not be happy with our lives?
Hmmm! Just something to think about.
All is well in my world!
Thich Nhat Hanh
Before I leave Step Six behind...I want to write a little more on the possibility of metaphysical choices that were made long before we show up here in physical form. I understand that many of you will have a hard time with that possibility...goes against what you may have been brought up to believe. I just want you to imagine, if you can, what it would mean if it were true.
If you chose what body you would show up in...how it would look, how it would feel, if it would last for 90 years or 10, if it would suffer with pain or be so physically fit it would constantly adorn medals around its neck, if it would starve or be overfed, if it would be underweight or overweight, tall or short, fully abled or limited...if you chose that...who would you have to blame for realizing you were in that body?
Would you not put away the notion of blame, judgement and learn to accept...knowing that there was a higher reason for this choice?
Would you not question that, though your body may differ from others, that it was perfect just as it is to God and the world beyond form...after all it was something you chose! ? Would you not embrace your body and the circumstances you find yourself in instead of hating and resisting? Would you stop regretting and resisting what is...and see it being exactly what it is meant to be...heck...what you asked for?
If we looked at who we are right now in physicality, where we are, what shows up in our lives...as choices we have made for a higher purpose would we not be happy with our lives?
Hmmm! Just something to think about.
All is well in my world!
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