Storms pass and sun shines......

Feeling very low on energy this morning, D n I both experinced a dream filled night which leaves us feeling like we still need to rest, D was very restless, he says although he can no longer remember the details his was all about loss and distrust - mmmmmm - all I can remember is one dream concerning Nikki and I was concerned about her - ah well here´s hoping I did some good on other levels :)

"What makes the simple act of shaming or blaming people complicated is the knowledge that they each had a specific history, and the more we know about it the easier it becomes to understand why they did what they did." Godless Morality {Richard Holloway}

"The healing ministry is non-judgemental: those involved in it are encouraged to consider and address their own prejudices and strereotyping to avoid projection of their personal internal codes of behaviour" A Time to Heal

"I tell them that some corporations have to be allowed to die. It´s all right as long as people have the opportunity to move from the dying ones to the ones that are growing. The world is not breaking down. Only some things are breaking down........
....there is no such thing as a "windfall profit" unless it´s taken out of somebody else´s pocket or gained at the expemse of the environment or of future generations........" Hazel Henderson

Stronger Than You Know - Getting Ourselves Worked Up
Our capacity to cope successfully with life's challenges far outstrips our capacity to feel nervousness. Yet in the weeks, days, and hours leading up to an event that we believe will test our limits, we can become nervous. While we may have previously regarded ourselves as equal to the trials that lie ahead, we reach a point at which they near and our anxiety begins to mount. We then become increasingly worked up, until the moment of truth arrives and we discover that our worry was all for nothing. We are almost always stronger and more capable than we believe ourselves to be. But anxiety is not rational in nature, which means that in most cases we cannot work through it using logic as our only tool. Reason can help us recognize the relative futility of unwarranted worry but, more often than not, we will find more comfort in patterns of thought and activity that redirect our attention to practical or engaging matters.Most of us find it remarkably difficult to focus on two distinct thoughts or emotions at once, and we can use this natural human limitation to our advantage when trying to stay centered in the period leading up to a potentially tricky experience. When we concentrate on something unrelated to our worry—such as deep breathing, visualizations of success, pleasurable pursuits, or exercise—anxiety dissipates naturally. Meditation is also a useful coping mechanism as it provides us with a means to ground ourselves in the moment. Our guides can aid us by providing us with a focal point wholly outside of our own sphere.The intense emotional flare-up you experience just before you are set to challenge yourself is often a mixture of both excitement and fear. When you take steps to eliminate the fear, you can more fully enjoy the excitement. Though you may find it difficult to avoid getting worked up, your awareness of the forces acting on your feelings will help you return to your center and accept that few hurdles you will face will be as high as they at first appear.

Looking deeply

The Good In All

Sometimes we find it difficult to see the good in people,
places, or situations that aren’t to our liking. We focus
on the things we don’t like in our lives as a way of
fueling our efforts to create change. There is nothing
inherently wrong with this, and it is one way we make
progress. However, if we get too caught up in this way of
looking at the world, we lose touch with our ability to sit
back and simply say yes to everything on our plates, which
is the true starting point for all successful activity.
Sometimes what we really need is to encourage ourselves to
look deeply into all things in our lives to see the inherent
goodness at the heart of everything.

At the core of this inquiry is the practice of unconditional
acceptance, which can be scary because we feel as if we are
being asked not to change the things we don’t like.
But when we think this way, we are still operating on the
surface of our lives. In order to feel the beauty and warmth
of full acceptance, we have to be willing to sink deeper into
the stratum underlying the external manifestation of our
lives. This deeper place of being is the origin of all lasting
change, yet its paradox is that when we are in it, we often
don’t feel the need to change anything.
From this place, we experience the pure beauty of the process
of being alive, and we see that all things change in their own
time. We don’t need to force anything. If there are things that
we do need to change, from this place of serenity we create
the shift easily, our hands guided by an energy that resides
at the very center of our hearts.

In our active, goal-oriented culture, we learn to distrust
stillness and to engage in busywork on the surface of life.
This tendency can blind us to the good that lies
at the heart of all things. But all we have to do to see
again is stop for a moment,let go of our preconceptions and
our agendas, and settle into the very center of our hearts,
remembering that it is only from here that we can truly see.