Many years ago I heard that Larry Hagman (JR Ewing from Dallas, or otherwise Master from I Dream of Jeanie) practice a day of silence every week. So for an entire day, every week, he wouldn't speak.
I was fascinated by this.
Anyone who knows me probably doesn't associate silence with me as a person. Fair enough. One of my Aunty's had a friend who liked to call me Have-a-chat... So, if you don't know me personally, that should give you some idea of my nature ability to remain silence for me than three minutes together...
The thing is, since have kids, and now with having four kids, and a husband who is home all the time, I CRAVE silence.
Today, for instance, Dave has taken the three big boys to where he used to live as a child. It's pretty much an all afternoon excursion so it's only been me and the little fellow at home. Ari doesn't talk a lot yet, and is quite happy to amuse himself in silence, which has meant having an almost completely silence home and I'm LOVING it. I'm soaking it in like a hot bath on aching muscles!
There is another thing about silence that allures me. Maybe I would be a better friend if I didn't talk so much. Maybe I'd listen more. Maybe I'd be SEEN to be listening and that would comfort my friends more?
And also, I can't help but think it must be like a cleanse for the spiritual body to just not talk. In silence you can be more aware of Spirit and listening to what the universe is telling you?
I'm very tempted to adopt a day of silence each week, maybe even committ to a month of silence when Ari is a bit older?
Friday, October 2, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Law of Attraction...
Katiekoo asked if I have seen "The Secret" and "What the Bleep". Well, I have seen The Secret, but not What the Bleep.
When The Secret came out, I have to admit I was a bit miffed. This is because I've lived most of my conscious life by the law of Law of Attraction, without having a name for it. I always believed, as long as I can remember, that my thoughts created my reality.
I'm not exactly sure when I read it, but at some point around the age of 9 or 10, I read about a theory seeing as everything is made from molecules, it might be that our brains actually translate molecules through our senses, in a way "creating" what we see, hear, smell, feel and taste. This is why people can look at the same thing and see different things based on how their brain perceives things based on previous life experience.
Some sort of study has been done on babies where the baby was either blind folded or deprived of light or something in first two years of life, and they found that those children had irreparable vision damage, whereby their eyes just didn't work properly because of a lack of experience which help develop synapses in the brain, or some such things...
I also had a few experiences whereby, I'd lied about something happening to me, only to have the thing I lied about ACTUALLY happen a short while later... Not good, made me wary of what I create with my words, LOL...
Might sound like a load of superstitious bunk, but there you have it, from a young age, I came to believe that I created my own reality, through perception and statement of fact (be it true or created fact) and therefore I had to be very careful about what reality I was creating...
So, then about 4 years ago or so, The Secret came along, and I was miffed. Miffed because a) it's so NOT a secret and b) it became so very twisted and "marketable" that I think for many people it lost it's power as a principle to live by and became a self-fulfilling "cult status" gimmick...
So, yep, have lived my life by the principal of Law of Attraction, but not as a result of The Secret or What the Bleep...
Those of you who have spoken with me about this a bit will know that I believe if you can't be happy with what you have RIGHT NOW, then no amount of manifesting STUFF is going to make you happy. Likewise, if you CAN be happy with what you have right now, then you're already one of the richest people on the planet, and like attracts like.
I always believe we have enough money in our house, FOR EXAMPLE (money does not equate to happiness, but this is one concrete example I can refer to), and we always do, in fact, we're flowing in the stuff - but maybe not by the terms some would believe. For me, "flowing in it" means we can pay the rent each month, our bills are all prepaid each billing period, and we have enough to do other fun stuff, like visit my parents with the kids, or go to the Melbourne Internation Film Festival.
We aren't buying our own house, we don't have a flash car (we don't have any car atm, LOL), we're not going on any overseas holidays any time soon, and yet, we have everything we need and some of what we want too... That, to me, is "flowing in it"...
I believe if I bemoan being poor, not being able to afford to buy a house or a flash car, or whatever, then I attract that negative attitude, which stops me enjoying what I have now and then I act in such as way as to create the reality I believe I have - of being poor... So, instead I choose to focus on the amazing abundance in my life (and yes, I do kind of flinch at the overuse of the term "abundance" but honestly, that word does suit our situation, our life is abundant!)...
When The Secret came out, I have to admit I was a bit miffed. This is because I've lived most of my conscious life by the law of Law of Attraction, without having a name for it. I always believed, as long as I can remember, that my thoughts created my reality.
I'm not exactly sure when I read it, but at some point around the age of 9 or 10, I read about a theory seeing as everything is made from molecules, it might be that our brains actually translate molecules through our senses, in a way "creating" what we see, hear, smell, feel and taste. This is why people can look at the same thing and see different things based on how their brain perceives things based on previous life experience.
Some sort of study has been done on babies where the baby was either blind folded or deprived of light or something in first two years of life, and they found that those children had irreparable vision damage, whereby their eyes just didn't work properly because of a lack of experience which help develop synapses in the brain, or some such things...
I also had a few experiences whereby, I'd lied about something happening to me, only to have the thing I lied about ACTUALLY happen a short while later... Not good, made me wary of what I create with my words, LOL...
Might sound like a load of superstitious bunk, but there you have it, from a young age, I came to believe that I created my own reality, through perception and statement of fact (be it true or created fact) and therefore I had to be very careful about what reality I was creating...
So, then about 4 years ago or so, The Secret came along, and I was miffed. Miffed because a) it's so NOT a secret and b) it became so very twisted and "marketable" that I think for many people it lost it's power as a principle to live by and became a self-fulfilling "cult status" gimmick...
So, yep, have lived my life by the principal of Law of Attraction, but not as a result of The Secret or What the Bleep...
Those of you who have spoken with me about this a bit will know that I believe if you can't be happy with what you have RIGHT NOW, then no amount of manifesting STUFF is going to make you happy. Likewise, if you CAN be happy with what you have right now, then you're already one of the richest people on the planet, and like attracts like.
I always believe we have enough money in our house, FOR EXAMPLE (money does not equate to happiness, but this is one concrete example I can refer to), and we always do, in fact, we're flowing in the stuff - but maybe not by the terms some would believe. For me, "flowing in it" means we can pay the rent each month, our bills are all prepaid each billing period, and we have enough to do other fun stuff, like visit my parents with the kids, or go to the Melbourne Internation Film Festival.
We aren't buying our own house, we don't have a flash car (we don't have any car atm, LOL), we're not going on any overseas holidays any time soon, and yet, we have everything we need and some of what we want too... That, to me, is "flowing in it"...
I believe if I bemoan being poor, not being able to afford to buy a house or a flash car, or whatever, then I attract that negative attitude, which stops me enjoying what I have now and then I act in such as way as to create the reality I believe I have - of being poor... So, instead I choose to focus on the amazing abundance in my life (and yes, I do kind of flinch at the overuse of the term "abundance" but honestly, that word does suit our situation, our life is abundant!)...
Monday, August 10, 2009
Well, hello there!
If you're one of my regular readers on one of my other blogs, you might be wondering why on earth I would think I needed *yet another blog*... Basically, I want to talk about metaphysical stuff but I'm quite aware that a lot of my readers aren't particularly interested in metaphysical stuff, even to the point where they are afraid of these things, or shy away because they think it's bad or wrong. I have no desire to upset those people in my life :).
What prompted me to start a new blog about metaphysical stuff now, you might be asking? Well, I had a reading yesterday. I had a reading about 3 weeks ago as well, and both really agreed with one another, though neither of the psychics doing the reading knew about the other reading, and I said nothing to either about what the other had said, or that anyone had said anything.
They both talked about my entering a new stage in my life, a stage wholly about me, a stage where everything I'd been learning up to this point would finally start to come together and formulate into my career (though the word "career" was never used, more like "work)... This work that I'm going to be doing is going to bring me wellbeing, both emotional and financial.
I was told I teach people, even when I don't realise I'm teaching people - something I've told many people I know, we're always teaching each other stuff, even when we don't think anything we're saying or doing is even being noticed by other people.
I was also spoken to about my own abilities. Of which I've been quite aware a long time now, but more keenly aware of in the past few years.
Anyway, when I went to the fair with Jayne yesterday, it was pretty much on a whim. D had come home the day before and said there was a fair at our local town hall, and he thought I might want to go. I suggested to Jayne it might be fun to check it out, and she agreed. We got there and it was pretty much what you'd expect. I was quite taken aback by the energy in the sales hall, got a greazy snakeoil salesman feeling about it. A lot of the vendors were very closed people, but one or two were much more open-hearted, and I spoke to one such woman, who had a great warmth about her, she was selling oils with her daughter (I think), who Jayne spoke to, and whole seemed to sense a bit of what Jayne needed yesterday, so that was good.
I decided to check out the readers. At the door to the reading hall, there were two boards with A4 sheets on them with the names of the mediums, and photos and descriptions. My eye was immediately drawn to the face of one elderly woman at the bottom of one of the boards, but I went ahead and read the descriptions from the top, on both sides before coming back to this woman.
Then I walked into the room and around the table, trying to get a feeling for the various readers. I spoke briefly to one lady, and took her pamphlet, but I was looking for the lady I saw on the board. There was another reader there, who wasn't doing a reading, and as I passed her, she said, "It's cold in here today, isn't it?" I smiled, but I wasn't feeling cold, and even though her table was free, I knew she wouldn't be well tuned at that time. Then I found my lady, and she was busy, and booked out for an hour, so I waited.
Her reading was very simple, she spoke about D, and a lot about me and my own temperament. She got stuck on one card, just couldn't interpret it sorrounding me. It had to do with hopes and fears (the placement), and was a gregarious man, who people like, he had the gift of the gab. She drew other cards to try and clarify, and got a beautiful woman who had worked hard and saved (who she thought was me), then an opportunity coming, but not to jump at it right away because something hadn't manifested yet...
But on the whole the reading was good.
There was a hermit card in my future, which suggested I'd walk a solitary path and sometimes feel very much along, but she said to stick with it because from this I'd gain great wisdom (she felt this path was not new to me, and it isn't)...
Anyway, the thing that prompted me to start this blog was how exhilarated I felt after this, but how, by the time I got home, I felt like I had all these fly away strands of energy attached to me, and I felt tired. I feel this way every time I come from crowded places with lots of energy bubbles (I'll talk about energy bubbles another time). I've found showering helps immensely and I believe that's because these strands are positive ions, that attach with close encounters with other people, and negative ions in the running water knock these off the body. It's pretty much like grounding.
Something else. This woman wanted to hug me after the reading. I had sat there watching her doing readings and she hadn't hugged anyone else, so I took this to mean she sensed something about me. I don't know what. It was a big old bear hug, and contrary to my usual anti-hugging stance, it was a NICE hug!
Ok, that's enough for a first post. Hope you keep ready!
Blessings
What prompted me to start a new blog about metaphysical stuff now, you might be asking? Well, I had a reading yesterday. I had a reading about 3 weeks ago as well, and both really agreed with one another, though neither of the psychics doing the reading knew about the other reading, and I said nothing to either about what the other had said, or that anyone had said anything.
They both talked about my entering a new stage in my life, a stage wholly about me, a stage where everything I'd been learning up to this point would finally start to come together and formulate into my career (though the word "career" was never used, more like "work)... This work that I'm going to be doing is going to bring me wellbeing, both emotional and financial.
I was told I teach people, even when I don't realise I'm teaching people - something I've told many people I know, we're always teaching each other stuff, even when we don't think anything we're saying or doing is even being noticed by other people.
I was also spoken to about my own abilities. Of which I've been quite aware a long time now, but more keenly aware of in the past few years.
Anyway, when I went to the fair with Jayne yesterday, it was pretty much on a whim. D had come home the day before and said there was a fair at our local town hall, and he thought I might want to go. I suggested to Jayne it might be fun to check it out, and she agreed. We got there and it was pretty much what you'd expect. I was quite taken aback by the energy in the sales hall, got a greazy snakeoil salesman feeling about it. A lot of the vendors were very closed people, but one or two were much more open-hearted, and I spoke to one such woman, who had a great warmth about her, she was selling oils with her daughter (I think), who Jayne spoke to, and whole seemed to sense a bit of what Jayne needed yesterday, so that was good.
I decided to check out the readers. At the door to the reading hall, there were two boards with A4 sheets on them with the names of the mediums, and photos and descriptions. My eye was immediately drawn to the face of one elderly woman at the bottom of one of the boards, but I went ahead and read the descriptions from the top, on both sides before coming back to this woman.
Then I walked into the room and around the table, trying to get a feeling for the various readers. I spoke briefly to one lady, and took her pamphlet, but I was looking for the lady I saw on the board. There was another reader there, who wasn't doing a reading, and as I passed her, she said, "It's cold in here today, isn't it?" I smiled, but I wasn't feeling cold, and even though her table was free, I knew she wouldn't be well tuned at that time. Then I found my lady, and she was busy, and booked out for an hour, so I waited.
Her reading was very simple, she spoke about D, and a lot about me and my own temperament. She got stuck on one card, just couldn't interpret it sorrounding me. It had to do with hopes and fears (the placement), and was a gregarious man, who people like, he had the gift of the gab. She drew other cards to try and clarify, and got a beautiful woman who had worked hard and saved (who she thought was me), then an opportunity coming, but not to jump at it right away because something hadn't manifested yet...
But on the whole the reading was good.
There was a hermit card in my future, which suggested I'd walk a solitary path and sometimes feel very much along, but she said to stick with it because from this I'd gain great wisdom (she felt this path was not new to me, and it isn't)...
Anyway, the thing that prompted me to start this blog was how exhilarated I felt after this, but how, by the time I got home, I felt like I had all these fly away strands of energy attached to me, and I felt tired. I feel this way every time I come from crowded places with lots of energy bubbles (I'll talk about energy bubbles another time). I've found showering helps immensely and I believe that's because these strands are positive ions, that attach with close encounters with other people, and negative ions in the running water knock these off the body. It's pretty much like grounding.
Something else. This woman wanted to hug me after the reading. I had sat there watching her doing readings and she hadn't hugged anyone else, so I took this to mean she sensed something about me. I don't know what. It was a big old bear hug, and contrary to my usual anti-hugging stance, it was a NICE hug!
Ok, that's enough for a first post. Hope you keep ready!
Blessings
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