Take a day off from saving the world

[thepainterdoug]

This is what came to me this morning while waking.

I, as many of you are working tirelessly to get the word out, help uncover, research, share and educate others for the good of everyone, for the saving of our freedoms and society.

In doing so, I am loosing concentration on my own life, goals and so on, enduring daily stress, while probably alienating freinds etc, and thats part of the price.

And what for again? Well I believe it must be done. I believe it is essential to make the difference we each can make. And it is working, and it all takes time.

But I needed to remind myself to give myself a break. To let it go for some time be it a day or a week. It will be what its going to be.

Today after this post, I am going to try to do this very thing. Not close my eyes, but just take a break. NOt stress and worry as much. Get back to my life and my callings here.

As Bob Wiley played by Bill Murry said in the great film "What About Bob",

"Im on vacation from my probems"

[wondering]

Thank you, Doug. MUCH needed advice! ✌️, Diane

[Agape]

If possible :) Like many others I’m mostly volunteering this life time and dabbing in countless services ( from subjects studied ) to humans, naughty spirits, angels, animals and other inhabitants of the Universe.

But no one can help himself from being himself than themselves alone.

Most people don’t take the chance to experience themselves in full so they’re in life long search for more and better opportunities, realisations and advanced versions of themselves.

See Elon Musk..

In 1953 Verner Von Braun said the leader of future Martian colony would be Elon (https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mars-scientist-braun-b1879535.html%3famp)

See where we all go with this.


Besides that: most people I’ve genuinely tried to help on specific task in their lives securing their successful and safe passage - whatever it meant- later graciously “forgot” how much it all mattered to them at that point and simply vanished from being even friends.

Then comes the time when we are left with very small bodies,
growing disheveled head and petty neurosis about the droplet left on friends table,
hoping it does not contain nanobots..

and that’s about the time to take rest from humanity.


🌵

[Chip]

Thank you Doug
I’ve become more aware of this need over the past few years and have borrowed from my workout routine some ideas that have helped me.
Specifically I look at my research time as sets which require a rest period as well.
All of which is guided by intuitive timing (listen to the gut).
As an aside- I’ve always based my workout patterns within a 3,6,9 relationship- either 3 sets or 3 minutes of rest or I do 3 sets, 6 sets and 9 sets-or some other variation (Tesla was speaking to all of us).

[Open Minded Dude]

Great post. Just saying we should do it every day for a few minutes or an hour. Be creative, walk the dog or alone in nature, meditate, listen or play music, etc. We need to shut it all off as often as we can. Then we have enough energy to successfully engage all this stuff again.

[thepainterdoug]

Agape/ sounds like a life of service which is a good life. and i was born in 1953 thanks for the info.

Chip/ yes Im doing the same, at least trying to. An hour or so a day, then let it be

same open M Dude!!

and thanks diane!!! love to all

[Tyy1907]

Timely message for me personally. Thanks Doug.

[pyrangello]

I step back usually daily to re-adjust and re-group. Sometimes in the late part of the day I may just stop welding and grab a cold irish guiness and take 30 minutes. Then I'll go back at it for a few hours. Speaking of Vernor Von Braun , My great uncle who is passed now worked with Von Braun and was one of the 7 engineers that designed the space shuttle engines (the first ones) . Wish he was still around I would have tons of questions for him, he was a very cool uncle.

As for being here in the Avalon family, this can be very intense posting here , lots of passion many of us hold, lots of caring where we are all going as ONE forward in this world together, at this moment of time and space . It is that passion and caring that we continue to inform and teach each other daily. And sometimes very emotional . Its ok to step back once an a while and take a break , actually its very healthy to do so.

[thepainterdoug]

Thanks Pyrangello, fellow welder! My friend Carol Rosen says she worked with him in the latter days. Its mentioned in Greers film .

[Sérénité]

Good advice! Im finding the need to shut off every few days to recharge.
And I am very conscious I just seem to be in survival mode as opposed to living mode.

They have us in a state of perpetual limbo it seems and so, long term ambitions and goals seem fruitless right now.

But thanks for the much needed trigger to remind me that I need to switch off from it all more.
I have way too many tabs open on the brain browser ha

[Gracy]

Heya Doug! Well for me, I've some time ago dropped the trying to save the world mentality, in lieu of first the saving of myself mentality. Like the old adage of if you're on an airliner in distress and the oxygen masks drop down, you're not saving anyone, until you have your own supply of oxygen, and then, and only then, can you realistically start seeing to others.

So to put it in real life daily practice, for starters, am I going to be ok if things turn to s##t? Am I good mentally, am I good physically, do I have sufficient supplies on hand, do I have the means to defend my home, do I know how to grow food, etc.

From there it can begin expanding outwards. Do I have some skills to be of assistance to friends family and neighbors, am I on good terms with friends family and neighbors, do I have what it takes to keep my cool during said period of time, etc.

If I'm not at least somewhat confident in those basic fundamentals, then I feel I have no business in trying to "save" others.

So let's say we have those basics firmly in our hip pocket. For starters, I do my best to compartmentalize, on a daily basis, the concerns I have with whatever is, and whatever could possibly go wrong in this world.

To the best of my knowledge I'm awake, and aware of world events as they unfold on a daily basis. Other than that, daily life still has it's demands, and there's also still much enjoyment to be had. You know, eat, drink, be merry sort of stuff? :beer:

Now if someone has noticed that I'm a bit different from the pack, and chooses ask about it, then I'll speak as freely as the situation seems warranted, but I'm not going to possibly alienate them by trying to ram things down their throat (for their own good supposedly).

There's a lot of simple country folk around me in my area, who haven't hardly a clue as to things discussed in places like this, but the last thing I'm going to do is think of them as "sheeple". They're good people, and they also know things I don't.

I don't feel that they need "saving", and that's a big burden lift right there. For all I know they may save my life one day.

So, I just try and always keep in mind that for all of her problems, this planet is a beautiful place to exist, and I'm grateful for my existence here. Oh, and she's also a quite powerful being, that should never be forgotten! Things have been dire before, they're dire now, and there will likely be dire times in her future.

Knowledge is both a blessing and a curse, which it is is up to us, to a point of course. Like the Serenity prayer so wisely says:


God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.

That's just me anyway. :bearhug:
s0ZZHNRHA2g

[thepainterdoug]

Thanks Gracie. and yes I have taken note of your unique place here. Its good to hear your centered in yourself. One needs to take care of home first, before helping others, which reflects my political view as well

I write my post with it understood for me that i have a large tank and reserve within. but no matter how much one has, all need rest and reflection.

with that said, we are in extraodinary times, and i feel we must all participate in some way to some degree.

thanks for the eagles song!

[Mike Gorman]

You are absolutely On-Target mate, on this community we have a much larger proportion of folks who feel the plight of the world more acutely, who know that TRUTH is not being given, that the Normies are in grave peril and they could very well carry us all over the cliff in their well-intentioned but incredibly ill-informed way.
I agree, take time for your own life, and well being - everyone deserves holiday at least once a year!
All the best to everyone.

[thepainterdoug]

thanks Mike and well said. yes, take us over the cliff with them is a concern.
thats why i have a hard time seeing this as "live and let live"

[ExomatrixTV]

Long time ago in the mid 1990s (I was already very pro-active in all kinds of activism like organizing conferences, producing alternative media, giving lectures etc. for years in Amsterdam) ... I told this on Local 'Exposure TV' & 'Exposure Radio' Amsterdam:


"If you fight & expose injustice 24/7, day in day out and do not know how, (or forgot) to enjoy life as well ... you already lost"

John Kuhles
Summer 1995


... In other words ... it is perfectly okay to take a time-off once a while ... @thepainterdoug (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?21016-thepainterdoug) :happy dog: :playball: :car: