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Which do you have problems or challenges.
Do you hear the difference in the two words?
One makes you feel limited; it is like a thorn in the side, an irritation that is always there that you cannot get rid of. The other is more optimistic; it is something to rise above, to be conquered.
Which would you rather have in your life?
I am often guilty of seeing problems instead of challenges. I am working on the more optimistic challenges instead of dwelling on the problems. It is hard work and I don’t always succeed but at least I do see the difference and am trying.
If you live a thankful life, you will live a happier life.
Go on a walk today while the Turkey cooks and before the game starts and look at everything through new eyes.
Be in the moment. Be grateful for what ever you see. Be grateful even for the cracks in the sidewalk. Ask those with you to be silent and just listen to the sounds around them for a few minutes. Then be grateful that you can hear such sounds.
Come home and have a Great Day.
I just watched “Mr. Bean’s Holiday”. It was rather silly, but every once in a while you need a silly movie.
I started thinking about his holiday. It was not what he wanted or how he had envisioned his vacation. But it sure would be one he would remember and cherish the rest of his life.
Have you ever had a vacation like that? I have. A good friend and I took a 7 day vacation one Thanksgiving to a Jack Tar Village in St. Kitts. We love telling the story of the clock that lost 10 minutes an hour that we did not realize until 2 days latter and we tried to fix but caused it to explode, about the tub’s water valve that came off in our hands shooting water all over the place, the sliding door that would not close and trapped the attendant on the balcony who came to help us with it. Then there was the broken electrical line that blew out the electricity to the rooms but don’t worry the resort had back up generators, for the casino. Every day and almost every hour was an adventure. For families these vacations are bonding experiences. These events become inside jokes.
Maybe that is the way we should look at the hardships in life. Not as hardships but as bonding moments. Just take them in stride and go with the flow. Then when you get to the other side you can look back on it and say “wow, that was exciting” and you will have something to talk about.
In other words, don’t have died before you die. Live, Love and Laugh.
Watch out. Stress can lead to a lot of problems. Sometimes when stress is not acknowledged, mainly because you do not even realize it is there, it will show up in other forms. Its most common form is a physical ailment due to a decrease in the immune system such as the shingles I have recently been dealing with.
Stress can also mess up your hormones. That is why a woman who is stressed will quit having periods. I have also found out that the stress that messes up the hormones can also cause hot flashes for a woman (guilty again).
Stress is insidious in our society. If you can keep it from bothering you, it won’t affect you as much physically. How to keep it from bothering you? Meridian Tapping is good, but if you do not even realize you are being stressed you won’t know to tap for it.
If you can keep a fun and playful attitude about life and what is happening around you and even to you, you will fare much better. So it is an attitude adjustment that is required. Just need to realize that life is suppose to be fun not a drudge. So play with life, play with energy, experiment. Maybe that is something I can tap on.
It has been a week and a half since my Shingles started showing up. I have been taking a lot of IB and doing a lot of meridian tapping. Saturday and Sunday my system started rebelling about the IB so have cut back on that substantially and am actually feeling pretty good. The rash is looking a lot better and I even felt like going for a morning walk this morning.
I felt a shift in the pain yesterday morning when I started tapping for my skin. I wanted to send it love and support. It has been good to me and I have tried to take care of it. I thanked it for being such good skin for me and I was sorry that this virus was attacking my first line of defense. When my skin suffers I suffer. I felt some better after that and did not even need any pain medicine last night.
I really do think the tapping has helped me. I decided I don’t want this pain or this ailment and I don’t need it. That brings me to why do some people insist on holding onto their pain. When I told people I had shingles, they were very sympathetic and would tell me about some they knew who had shingles several years ago and still had the pain from it. Why were these people still holding on to the energy of pain?
I work with people, helping them let go of their pain. But some people want to hold on to the misery, the pain. Why? What do they gain? Attention that they wouldn’t get otherwise? Pity? But the pain inhibits you in living your life to the fullest.
Sometimes we need to just sit back and watch the world go by. My dad loved doing that. He was a people watcher. He loved to go to the mall and just sit and watch the people. Sometimes he would sit in the garage and watch the people going up and down the road.
My husband and I go walking in the mornings and there is often some one sitting on their front porch or in their garage watching the world go by. We always say “Hi” to them and if we are too slow with our greeting they will yell out “Good Morning” to us.
This gives a person a relaxing start to the day. It is a reassurance that the sun also rises, that life goes on.
Yesterday I asked how to keep your negative emotions from causing physical problems when you don’t even know you are having negative emotions.
I think one of the major preventative modalities may be a daily meditation. I usually do a morning meditation but sometimes it is not convenient. I was traveling in Arizona the first week in November returning home on the 8th late at night. There was only one day I did any meditation while on the road. I started having various health issues the Sunday I returned and the suspected shingles showed up on Friday.
Would the illness not have shown up if I had been meditating? I don’t know for sure but whenever I don’t meditate for a week, I have a hard time getting back in the swing of meditating. That relaxed state of being is sometimes elusive and I have to have several days of trying for it before I succeed.
Why would meditating help? It provides a centering, a space of time of being in the now or being totally present. I think that is like providing an uncluttered place in your thoughts and emotions. It is like a clean house. When the house is clean you feel more relaxed (at least if you are a women). Meditating provides that house cleaning that allows you to relax and be more settled in the turmoil that may be raging around you.
How do you meditate? I’ll cover that tomorrow.
I took a day off Monday. That was my self-pity day.
I went to the doctor and confirmed what I suspected. I have shingles. I have not been to a “real” doctor in 6 years. Most of my complaints have been handled by using EFT, NAET or some other form of energy medicine. But reading about the shingles online scared me into making an appointment.
I am glad I went. There are some medicines that can make the virus more manageable and between that and using my energy modalities, I expect to have an easier time of it. In fact I am feeling much better this morning.
In looking up Shingles in “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die…” book it says the underlying emotions are: Fear that things won’t work out the way we want, Being over-sensitive, On-going tension concerning a situation and Hostile energy being manifest. What is insidious is that I don’t feel any of these, at least not to the extent that my skin would break out in this virus. But then again that is why it came out in another form. If you have an emotion that is so buried that you don’t know it is there, it will eventually come out in some form.
So how do you keep your body at peace? How do you stem these emotional outburst before they cause physical damage? I’ll think about that tomorrow.
The world is not perfect. I guess that is nothing new. But do we really want a perfect world?
What would a perfect world look like? No conflict, no challenges, nothing to overcome. Just the right temperature, good food for all, whatever kind of housing you with to live in. Would this be heaven or hell?
I remember a “Twilight Zone” show where a gangster type died and found himself in a big casino where he could never loose. At first he was in “heaven” but all the wine, women and constant winning started getting to him. He was more than bored, no challenge, he wanted out. It finally dawned on him that he was not in heaven but in hell.
We need the challenge, the adversity. That is why we come to this plane: to experience something we cannot get on the other side in the spiritual realm. So rejoice in your challenges, say thank you to those who throw roadblocks at you, they are helping to strengthen you in a way you could never do on your own.
Yesterday I mentioned the “Fruits of the Spirit”: Love, Joy, Hope, and Peace. These are innate to you. They are who you really are. We bring the negativity onto ourselves and insist on carrying that burden, but that is not who we are.
When you do Meridian Tapping or EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) you release the negative emotions, they seem to disappear, but the positive ones are not affected.
The body has an energy system called the meridian that runs through it. The negative baggage tends to clog the lines. Just like putting pressure to a clogged drain line with a plunger will unclog a drain, putting extra energy into the energy system of the body will help unclog the meridian.
What is so bad about a clogged meridian? The way I see it is that the fears, anger, worry, regrets, jealousy and all the other negativity we have clog the lines and when the lines clog we can get sick or sometimes just get more build up of fears, anger, worry, regrets etc. So if your life seems to be dominated by a specific negative emotion, you may have a blockage and build up going on. Do some tapping to help relieve the problem.
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