Metta In May
Hi my friends. Metta is the practice of loving kindness, both sending and receiving this gift. Last April I decided I’d give this a try for the month of May. I recall the physical calm, a sense of freedom in my mind, and most profound was the warmth and openness happening in my heart. The heart is the seat of our greatest understanding of how we co-create by accepting and allowing, softening and expanding. Our inner speech, I believe,calls events into existence and shapes our experience of life. Let our words be loving. Why not take a little time each day to experiment, connect with and...
Read MoreBeing a patient patient
Recently I discovered two life altering incredible projects, a medical research one and a documentary film that together, just might change diabetes care for good! I will attach the link below so you can watch the trailer for yourself. It’s called Patient 13 and it’s chronicling a huge advance in public health care. http://www.patient13thefilm.com/ I am completely enamored with this for several reasons and want to gather excitement from any other interested corner of existence that I can! 1. I have lived with type 1 diabetes for almost 25 years and would love to see a cure for...
Read MoreOn listening or not to our heads
I want to be thought provoking, this is why I write others, to engage and inspire, yes? A great exercise in and of itself I often imagine. Well a favorite commentator/writer had a piece on NPR yesterday, Andre Codrescu, entitled “An Argument For Living The Inner Life Without Your Own Thoughts” and it totally rang hilariously true for me. (Posted on January 29, 2013, 3 minutes long) So, he doesn’t miss his thoughts, when he’s got the axe and he’s chopping away, realizing the “rhythmic exercise is a wonderful thought suppressant!” Opening his piece...
Read MoreUniversal needs….we got em
Several months ago I found a document that listed a slew of universal needs we have and was pretty interested in the descriptions of each. Some are more obvious than others, but the 4 I have listed below seem especially interesting to me and so I thought I would share the verbiage with you. We each have our life experiences and semantics to narrate the meanings and associations we have with these broad human social needs. The last 2 caught my attention and reminded me of the work I do. I began to think about how we commune with ourselves when we settle into the massage table for some...
Read MoreMia’s manual labor – driving ahead… what do I see?
So as an Aries, planetarily speaking, I am supposed to be visionary or a pioneer of sorts. A little contemplation and dreaming is in order as I attempt to find my vision for my labor. Instead of allowing our current collective economic instabilities to dominate my feelings and fears (which is known to happen with too much NRP in the car) I will give my trajectory a more exploratory and experimental bent. A few weeks back I was wondering quietly to myself how I could sort of rise above all the news and my growing consciousness that manual labor in general is dying in the country...
Read MoreWater is always underfoot… stay cool and patient my friends
As summer starts crackin its firey whip, it’s important not to let the heat cook our insides. I happen to love that exhausted feeling of being out in the sun too long but of course a cool dip in a pool or the ocean takes that dry heat to a whole new fresh feel once you are cooling off. I am an Aries and true to name often get fired up, ahead of myself and impatient with things. I often don’t see it coming and since my fuse can be rather tethered and short I get wind of it as I am blowing my flames. I often forget that my body, me, the stuff I am made of needs water and more than...
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