Here and Now...What's Happening?

[1inMany]

Posted by Anchor
I would hope you don't worry too much about it.

Yes and No. I am not dwelling on it, if that's what you mean. I simply feel like I am not in control of my emotions as much as I was even a week ago. I intuit it is important to stop and give these emotions room to breathe, to be. And typically after breathing they float away on a cloud. I just want to be careful that I do not allow anything negative, emotions I'm speaking of but truly anything negative, to root.

My focus, each hour actually, is that this time is different. I am excited about the opportunities that lay ahead, who I am realizing I am, and the process of transformation (even though, yes, it can be quite difficult). I try to allow thoughts and feelings to come and go, and when they are sitting with me or consuming me, I look to the Angels. If I still see them, which I do (and hope I always will), I talk to them. Of course, if I'm in earshot of anyone I talk to them in my head...but really, really loud so they can hear over all the ruckus.

This will be different. This will be shedding the old and embracing the new. The balance will be here! I said so, and so it is.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)

Posted by Swan (here)
I passed the tree I understood.
And today, when I passed the tree, she felt happy

Marieke heard her communicate to her that she wishes to have the ground beneath her cleared of the compost belt that was there.
We promised her to make work of that, but we forgot about it, because it wasn't high on the 'to do' list.
1,5 years later, our son was crying in his bed, late in the evening, so I went up there for comforting him and talk about what was going on.
He told me that the big tree in the garden was so sad because we haven't cleaned the ground there. (Mind you, he didn't know anything about what was communicated between Marieke and the tree).

I am silenced, Wakytweaky.

Posted by Caren (here)
Hello Mitzvah.. thanks for sharing that - Shirley and Jenny reunited after many years apart.
I'm so moved after watching the love and compassion between those two beautiful elephants; I have no words..

Thank you for saying what I couldn't, Caren.

Mitzvah, no words in the dictionary to deliver the beauty of their friendship. Priceless.

Posted by Mitzvah (here)
What a heartwarming story this is about a reunion between old friends who'd been separated for over 20 years. It gives one pause in recognizing how we are all truly one Loving family of travelers, trying to find our way Home, and helping our Beloved companions along the way:

http://www.myamazingearth.com/2012/0...fter-20-years/

[Eram]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

I am silenced, Wakytweaky.

This is the actual tree (can't find the picture where it is photographed on a sunny day).

[DeBron]

Was thinking I am not as strong as I should be so started my 100 push ups minimum workout.

Basically do 100 push ups each day minimum. Gonna add squats today as well. Most people say you should not workout everyday but that is if you want to make your muscles bigger. I don't. I want increased strength with little increase in size.

I am really just doing a variation of what I did in high school and my goal will be to do daily what Hershel Walker does ie. Instead of lifting weights, he has a daily regimen of 3,500 sit-ups, 1,500 push-ups and eight mile runs.

Got a long way to go before that.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

I am silenced, Wakytweaky.

This is the actual tree (can't find the picture where it is photographed on a sunny day).

You never told me you lived in heaven, or is that what 5D looks like?

[Carmody]

To a certain extent, size and power in musculature, are related. endurance is, er, more the idea of changing the body's ability to process. The repetition does get easier, regarding endurance training. Like training for size, endurance requires similar extremes of working on the body's ability to process.

That all dials, no matter where they are, are pushed to new limits. like a balloon that is pressurized, the surface tension is nearly equal in all areas. no spot is less important than the other. In endurance training, helping the body's ability to process becomes key.

What you will find in endurance training, is that the given motion becomes the trick. In size training, the stressing of the muscle is done in specific and complete ways, to alter the size. In endurance it is almost the same, but the trick is the peristaltic pumping action, to remove the lactic acid, to aid the flow....and the other half...the speed of the repetition, as a pair- becomes key. Control of the two, as a specific motion and stressing, that is the trick.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by DeBron (here)
Was thinking I am not as strong as I should be so started my 100 push ups minimum workout.

Basically do 100 push ups each day minimum. Gonna add squats today as well. Most people say you should not workout everyday but that is if you want to make your muscles bigger. I don't. I want increased strength with little increase in size.

I am really just doing a variation of what I did in high school and my goal will be to do daily what Hershel Walker does ie. Instead of lifting weights, he has a daily regimen of 3,500 sit-ups, 1,500 push-ups and eight mile runs.

Got a long way to go before that.

DeBron, I don't think I've done a total of 100 what are they called? Push ups (I know) in my entire life.
That is unless you call these push ups. (potatoes potAHtoes)

...........................Going, going, gone.....................................................

[ulli]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
bear in mind, my current living room, that I'm sitting in, right now, is 28ft x 16ft, with full 8 ft ceilings.
....

And I use a really good knife. Less equipment. I just sprung for a toaster last year. I'm into bagels these days. Oh yes! a coffee pot, though trying to end that relationship. (and a microwave oven mostly to thaw out the bagels) If push comes to shove, coffee pot and micro out; juicer and water distiller, stays.

Books...my rule is/was only 100 (was in the thousands, that’s a conservative number). Thank you, iPad!

Clothes, once I left teaching, I saved thousands and space. Small business out of apartment =

My family loves to invite me to help pare down.

Never sure which discipline is more important, keeping the hoarding instinct in check, or doing physical exercise.

Astrologically speaking, the worst culprit is the moon, or the sign of Cancer, or the 4 th house.
Also Aquarius, ( Uranus) but there is a different motive...and the look of their garage is different than that of the moon hoarders.
Which Aquarius nothing is thrown away because of the crazy inventor image that is being nurtured.
More technology stuff than Cancer, who hoards general household and comfort zone things.
Taurus hoards too, because of the need to impress and be a good host...so there it goes into things of value, and beauty.
Taurus doesn't want change which would be inevitable when getting rid of things.
Stark minimalism belongs to the sign of Capricorn (Saturn restricts) also Virgo, who is careful about spending money in the first place. This is just a general idea...until someone knows their full chart it's hard to see if it is true.
My Leo mother has everything perfectly decorated, but she was a hoarder, and had many full closets in the end. She had several Cancer planets, and Mercury opposite Uranus....could not throw anything away. People thought it was because she had lost everything in the war. But truth is, she lost everything, because she was already like that before the war. If you throw nothing away, then fate will come and do it for you.
Life has to flow, but humans like to block that flow.

[PurpleLama]

These were the first words spoken by my son, saying it back to my wife, when he was nine month old. Nobody believed us, but we both heard it, very clearly.

Posted by Mitzvah (here)
Two days ago my little grand-daughter, Ryder (turning 1 year old on October 17th), who lives right next door to Bob and I with her mother and brother, spoke her first full sentence, and she spoke it to me. She said (and I'm over the moon thrilled with joy!), to me, this: "I Love you." I Love you! Her first sentence ever spoken ever and it was one such as this. Ryder is a darling hearted being, and we love her beyond words.

[ulli]

Posted by 1inMany (here)

Posted by Anchor
I would hope you don't worry too much about it.

Yes and No. I am not dwelling on it, if that's what you mean. I simply feel like I am not in control of my emotions as much as I was even a week ago. I intuit it is important to stop and give these emotions room to breathe, to be. And typically after breathing they float away on a cloud. I just want to be careful that I do not allow anything negative, emotions I'm speaking of but truly anything negative, to root.

My focus, each hour actually, is that this time is different. I am excited about the opportunities that lay ahead, who I am realizing I am, and the process of transformation (even though, yes, it can be quite difficult). I try to allow thoughts and feelings to come and go, and when they are sitting with me or consuming me, I look to the Angels. If I still see them, which I do (and hope I always will), I talk to them. Of course, if I'm in earshot of anyone I talk to them in my head...but really, really loud so they can hear over all the ruckus.

This will be different. This will be shedding the old and embracing the new. The balance will be here! I said so, and so it is.

Try another Bahai prayer...the words are transformative. Google Baha'i and 'refresh and gladden my spirit'....
It is short but has never let me down....instant change in countenance.
Remember, when praying you are talking to yourself. The question is....which self?

[Carmody]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

I am silenced, Wakytweaky.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMVq8idgG9Y

[RunningDeer]

Deleted out of respect for 1ofMany and Ulli.

[araucaria]

The Diceman Cometh!

Amazon bringing reading material , on Ulli's recommendation, as usual without the cup of coffee. It'd better be good

[Carmody]

Diceman?



Is this again, like mother and her traveling spoon? First, my mother has to sleep in her car, traveling 1500 miles each day, to feed me two spoons of vinegar, now..the Diceman? (my humour is straight up and sometimes pythonish-dark. Ok, almost all the time.)

[aranuk]

Hi there Ulli. About 20 years ago Ronnie (RD Laing) was giving a talk at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh my home town. Five hundred people were there to listen to the talk about Holiness and Wholeness. The talk lasted about an hour and it was a very interesting one. Not only an interesting talk, but an interesting show as well. RD Laing had a microphone on a stand and had his two hands in his trouser pockets most of the time. Quite a casual posture you are thinking. Well errr, yes but what was so "casual" was he was playing with himself thoughout the entire talk.
The talk was organised by a Jungian Psychiatrist who was the daughter of another Jungian Psychiatrist who was one of Jung's students, who had recently passed on. After the "show" was over Ronnie was invited back to the lady doctors flat for drinks as were a few others including my two friends and my wife. When we arrived at the flat Ronnie was sitting on a chair in the kitchen where there was food on the table. At his feet were two young women around 21ish looking up to him as if he were God himself. I introduced myself and we shook hands, he had by this time removed his hands to where they could be seen. There were roughly 25 people there and no smoke was to be seen, obviously a no smoking house. No ashtrays to be seen anywhere. After about 10 minutes into conversation with Ronnie he asked me if I had any cigarettes and I said yes, but I mentioned that I didn't think smoking would be in order here. He asked me for one and I lit it for him, after all he was famous and also the guest of honour too. He authorised me to join him so I nervously did as he asked. The host after all was not going to repremand me and ignore Ronnie. We chatted for about an hour and almost smoked a pack between us. Then we went into the sitting room and joined the guests. In a lull between polite conversations Ronnie asked my friend where he could obtain two concubines for the night. WOWEE what an ice breaker it was. My friend replied that he was a married man annd had no idea where to find such a concubine let alone two. After that we all left and Ronnie walked down the street with a young lady on each arm! Ulli, what about that?

Stan

[araucaria]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Diceman?



Is this again, like mother and her traveling spoon? First, my mother has to sleep in her car, traveling 1500 miles each day, to feed me two spoons of vinegar, now..the Diceman? (my humour is straight up and sometimes pythonish-dark. Ok, almost all the time.)

Sure. Your Ma Gog will never find little Gog at this rate.
Here's a Diceman epigraph for you Carmody. It's as far as I've got.

I am Zarathustra the godless: I still cook every chance in my pot. Nietzsche

Would that be a glass pot on a gas stove I wonder?

[1inMany]

Ah, sweet! Thanks, Ulli

O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit. Purify my heart. Illumine my powers. I lay all my affairs in Thy hand. Thou art my Guide and my Refuge. I will no longer be sorrowful and grieved; I will be a happy and joyful being. O God! I will no longer be full of anxiety, nor will I let trouble harass me. I will not dwell on the unpleasant things of life.
O God! Thou art more friend to me than I am to myself. I dedicate myself to Thee, O Lord.

[ulli]

Posted by aranuk (here)
Hi there Ulli. About 20 years ago Ronnie (RD Laing) was giving a talk at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh my home town. Five hundred people were there to listen to the talk about Holiness and Wholeness. The talk lasted about an hour and it was a very interesting one. Not only an interesting talk, but an interesting show as well. RD Laing had a microphone on a stand and had his two hands in his trouser pockets most of the time. Quite a casual posture you are thinking. Well errr, yes but what was so "casual" was he was playing with himself thoughout the entire talk.
The talk was organised by a Jungian Psychiatrist who was the daughter of another Jungian Psychiatrist who was one of Jung's students, who had recently passed on. After the "show" was over Ronnie was invited back to the lady doctors flat for drinks as were a few others including my two friends and my wife. When we arrived at the flat Ronnie was sitting on a chair in the kitchen where there was food on the table. At his feet were two young women around 21ish looking up to him as if he were God himself. I introduced myself and we shook hands, he had by this time removed his hands to where they could be seen. There were roughly 25 people there and no smoke was to be seen, obviously a no smoking house. No ashtrays to be seen anywhere. After about 10 minutes into conversation with Ronnie he asked me if I had any cigarettes and I said yes, but I mentioned that I didn't think smoking would be in order here. He asked me for one and I lit it for him, after all he was famous and also the guest of honour too. He authorised me to join him so I nervously did as he asked. The host after all was not going to repremand me and ignore Ronnie. We chatted for about an hour and almost smoked a pack between us. Then we went into the sitting room and joined the guests. In a lull between polite conversations Ronnie asked my friend where he could obtain two concubines for the night. WOWEE what an ice breaker it was. My friend replied that he was a married man annd had no idea where to find such a concubine let alone two. After that we all left and Ronnie walked down the street with a young lady on each arm! Ulli, what about that?

Stan

That fits right in with the other anecdotes I have.
One friend of mine, who was a photo journalist who had made quite a splash in the sixties when she worked for Nova magazine which now no longer exists.

She wanted to work for him as an assistant and he promptly gave her the job. She appeared on a Monday morning, ready for work, wearing her most expensive Missoni outfit, and was all excited. He had several patients staying at his home, each in their own room, which was locked from the outside. He asked her to go into one of these rooms and simply spend an hour with the patient.
There was no conversation ...and she lasted only a few minutes because the patient decided to piss all over her Missoni outfit. After that she warned people about getting a job with Ronnie.

When he retired from psychiatry, earlier than expected he gave an interview to another friend of mine, a brilliant columnist who was bipolar.
He told her that psychiatry could never cure anyone, and that it was usually the whole family who was crazy, including the ones who appeared most normal, and that the only answer was to have communities taking care of all of their members, lovingly. This touched me very deeply. This is the back story behind this Village, Here and Now. We all interact in such a way that we heal one another. Thanks, Ronnie. Thanks, Stan.

[Jenci]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
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Yes and No. I am not dwelling on it, if that's what you mean. I simply feel like I am not in control of my emotions as much as I was even a week ago. I intuit it is important to stop and give these emotions room to breathe, to be. And typically after breathing they float away on a cloud. I just want to be careful that I do not allow anything negative, emotions I'm speaking of but truly anything negative, to root.

Hi 1inMany

I've been reading your posts on this and just wanted to offer you this perspective for consideration.

The depression/sadness which you keep experiencing goes beyond brain chemistry and genetics.

Each one of us incarnates into a human body to experience something which we choose for ourselves at a higher soul level. For some people it may be what we would label as desireable experiences - happiness, success, fame, wealth, love. For others we are here to experience what we would label as undesireable - sadness, loss, rejection, guilt, shame etc.

At the higher level of soul/self there is no desirable or undesirable. It is just all experience, carefully chosen by us for us as our lesson. We can call this experience we are here for, the core story of our life. When we get to the point where the experience is one of the 'undesirable', the lesson is getting harder but it is a lesson we are ready for.

There is no getting away from the core story that we are here for. Our life will become a magnet for this experience. Whatever we will do, we will find that we will get brought back to the same experience. It may manifest slightly differently each time but it will be just another facet of the same experience, if we look closely enough.

Now if this is a really undesirable experience we will do everything in our power to avoid the experience. We may become successful for a while in delaying the lesson but eventually the lesson will come back for us. It may not be this lifetime or the next but eventually there will come a point where what we intended for ourselves to experience, will have to be experienced.

At a higher self level we are patient with ourselves as we watch ourselves avoid what we came we. The HS understands that the lesson was a challenge and even the avoidance of the experience becomes a perfect experience in itself but at some point, during one lifetime there just comes a point where it is time to move on.

It's time to knuckle down and just take the lesson, so we give ourselves a push and that magnet which just attracts the experience in our life, works even more. The experience we have been avoiding gets racheted up to the point where we will not be able to avoid it any more - the only thing left will be to just experience it and be done with the lesson.

The angels that you are looking to are just your higher self in another form. Not only are they protecting you but they are giving you exactly what you want as a higher self, although as a human being you find this undesirable or think that something negative is at play.

Let's say for example your experience is something along the lines of sadness, what does it mean to experience it? I would guess you think that you have been experiencing it for far too long as it is but there is a difference between experiencing something and allowing it to fully express itself and experiencing something with an inner dialogue of resistance.

If this perspective that I am offering here resonates with you, here is a technique which you could use for learning how to experience your feelings.

When the sadness comes and the tears flow take yourself somewhere quiet where you can be alone and comfortable. Notice how attached to the sadness, there is an inner dialogue going on - it's saying why you are sad, how horrible it is, not this again, I need help, when is this going to be over, etc etc.

This is the mind pulling your attention away from the feeling. The feeling is presenting itself for you to experience and you can't fully experience it with attention on the mind and its dialogue. You may think that the sadness is in your mind but it is not, it's actually in your body.

Notice what the mind is doing but don't do anything about it. Simply shift your attention to your body to locate the feeling. Scan your body with your attention and find what is there.

It could be a feeling of pain, tension, resistance or just something not quite right. At this point the mind is likely to really kick up a fuss to get your attention back on the dialogue about what is going on. Just notice this and shift attention back again to the source of the feeling.

Put your hand on where the feeling is, as this can help to physically point out where it is to help focus attention, which will be being pulled away by the noise of the mind.

When you have it located, hone in with your attention with the precision you would if you were focused on threading a needle.

The mind may even start to talk about what you are now doing. Again leave that and shift the attention back to the feeling. As the feeling moves in your body, follow it with your hand. Keep the attention on it. The feeling itself may grow, this is what happens when it gets to express itself how it needs to without any resistance from the mind. Whatever the feeling does, just do the same, leave the mind alone and focus attention on the feeling.

This may take some practice to get to the point where you can truly allow a feeling to be and do what it needs to do. Resistance to it is a strong instinct from the mind but if you ignore the mind and focus the attention on the feeling you will find that you will learn to relax into allowing it to be exactly as it is.

This technique is tremendously powerful. It's unconditional love in action - unconditional love is often misunderstood. It's not about feeling good or better, it's about allowing everything to be exactly as it is.

What you are - your true nature, even beyond your higher self - is pure unconditional love.

This life for you is a challenge, exactly because you are ready for it


Jeanette

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by aranuk (here)
Hi there Ulli. About 20 years ago Ronnie (RD Laing)
......
After that we all left and Ronnie walked down the street with a young lady on each arm! Ulli, what about that?

Stan

That fits right in with the other anecdotes I have.
......

When he retired from psychiatry, earlier than expected he gave an interview to another friend of mine, a brilliant columnist who was bipolar.
He told her that psychiatry could never cure anyone, and that it was usually the whole family who was crazy, including the ones who appeared most normal, and that the only answer was to have communities taking care of all of their members, lovingly. This touched me very deeply. This is the back story behind this Village, Here and Now. We all interact in such a way that we heal one another. Thanks, Ronnie. Thanks, Stan.

Then there is that line:

"Nobody needs a Psyche.... more than a Psyche"

(searching for the reflection that shows the way to healing, one might phrase it)