Working is like being in a Sauna - talking of which I did 8hours on Thursday with a half hour break then again on Friday without a break - Sat urday was spent buying and preparing food for the 14 or 16 Americans arriving, it was quite a challenge as I haven´t done anything like this in years but it was OK everything came back and I didn´t get at all stressed, trouble came when trying to take gazpacho and chickens in olive oil up the virtually vertical climb up to the hotel, but only one small leakage LOL. Having delivered the meals early evening we came back and went and baby sat for Leigh n Keith who were celebrating 8 years together
Sunday I just chilled had no energy to do much at all, just read and listened to radio.
Monday morning when I got up Stinky seemed to be in distress, yowling with pain, so it was decided that Del would run me up to La Era and then come back and check Stinkers and if still yowling to take him to vet, well it didn´t quite work out like that as the guests wanted me to do a big shop for them rather than cleaning, so once Del had finished cleaning the pool we headed back to the village, called in to check Stinkers who was still in pain so w boxed him up and took him off to the vets, 4 years ago he developed kidney stones and was put on a special diet which he has been on ever since, the food is supposed to prevent the stones, well it has for a long time but he has them again so 2 injections and a different food which breaks down the stones and then I went and did the shopping while Del and Stinkers found a nice shady breezy spot to wait in - it turned into a very long day by the time we had delivered and put away groceries, did a little more cleaning and then got home. Yesterday Stinkers seemed much better but still needed to go for another vet check and another jab poor fella, well that has made a dent in my dentistry money, but I am not complaining he is very precious to me and I am glad that I actually had enough money on me to have him seen to, apart from that little jaunt I just plittered about the home catching up on washing and all the other mundane duties that needed attending to.
I am still having problems with my right shoulder and as Del found last night it is originating in my lower back, so I must be twisting myself when cleaning, probably the baths hey ho guess it it one of the changes with age, being tall has advantages and disadvatages like everything else, and bending and lifting have always been weakeners for me.
Well I must walk up to the bread shop and collect pan to take up to La Era and see what today hold for me.
The village is preparing for the Feria which starts tomorrow night as does Alora, so roads are closed the stalls are setting up and generators appearing along the road side.
I am hoping to catch up with my mail etc later today and hopefully share some of the goodies that have come through
For now The Wisdom of Surrender seems in keeping with what I am experiencing in many ways, on many levels
kepp on growing and glowing folks much love light to you
The Wisdom Of SurrenderResistance Equals PersistenceWe all know the feeling
of being repeatedly haunted by the same issue, no matter how we try to ignore
it, avoid it, or run away from it. Sometimes it seems that we can get rid of
something we don’t want by simply pushing it away. Most of the time, the more we
push away, the more we get pushed back. There are laws of physics and
metaphysics that explain this phenomenon, which is often summed up in this pithy
phrase: That which you resist persists.Resistance tends to strengthen the
energies it attempts to oppose by giving them power and energy to work against.
Additionally, resistance keeps us from learning more about what we resist. In
order to fully understand something, we must open to it enough to receive its
energy; otherwise, we remain ignorant of its lessons. There is a Tibetan story
of a monk who retreats to meditate in a cave only to be plagued by demons. He
tries everything—chasing, fighting, hiding—to get the demons out of his cave,
but the thing that finally works is surrender. He simply lets them have their
way with him and only then do they disappear.Now, this wisdom must be applied
practically. We are not meant to get ourselves physically injured. Instead, this
story speaks of how, in essence, our demons are inside of us. What plagues and
pursues us on an inner level has a way of manifesting itself in our environment
in the form of people, events, and issues that appear to be beyond our control.
But all these external expressions are reflections of our insides, and it is
inside ourselves that we can safely experiment with surrendering to what we fear
and dislike. It may feel scary, and we may find ourselves in the company of a
lot of resistance as we begin the process of opening to what we fear. But the
more we learn to surrender, and the more the demons that plague us disappear in
the process, the more courageous we will become.
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