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The Power Of Privacy
March 5, 2008
The Power Of Privacy
A desire for seclusion may come over you today as you question the disassociation you feel from life’s rigors. You may be in a quiet and reflective mood that compels you to put aside your obligations for the day in order to seek out the soothing embrace of a private personal space. The lingering effects of recent stresses can weigh heavily on your heart and mind, leaving you feeling exhausted, tense, and distracted. Time spent in solitude may provide the perfect antidote. There, away from worldly stimuli, you can look within yourself in order to determine the cause of your anxiety. You may discover today that your yearning for rest and relaxation was not a passing fancy but a very real need communicated to you by your body and your mind.
Each of us needs to retreat into a private place from time to time to recharge our physical, intellectual, and emotional batteries that are drained by our many worldly endeavors. Many people fear this type of isolation, however, because they are unsure what notions will arise from the quagmire of their unconscious minds when they do not have the noise of the world to shield them from their innermost thoughts. Privacy and solitude afford us an opportunity to rest after periods of intense labor and reconnect with the quiet voices of our inner selves. When alone, nothing will come between us and the rejuvenating powers of deep, introspective reflection. The solitude you sink into today will provide you with the peace you require to understand the true nature of your needs.
From the Dailyom.com
Right Where We Are
Right Where We Are
Enlightenment At Home Many spiritual seekers feel called to far-flung places across the globe in the interest of pursuing the path of their enlightenment. This may be the right course of action for certain people, but it is by no means necessary to attain an enlightened consciousness. Enlightenment can take root anywhere on earth as long as the seeker is an open and ready vessel for higher consciousness. All we need is a powerful intention and a willingness to do the work necessary to move forward on our path.
In terms of spiritual practice, at this moment there are more tools available to more people than at any other time in history. We have access to so much wisdom through the vehicles of books, magazines, the Internet, television, and film. In addition, the time-honored practice of meditation is free, and sitting quietly every day, listening to the universe, is a great way to start the journey within. There is further inspiration in the fact that the greatest teachers we have are our own life experiences, and they come to us every day with new lessons and new opportunities to learn. If we look at the people around us, we may realize that we have a spiritual community already intact. If we don’t, we can find one, if not in our own neighborhood then online.
Meanwhile, if we feel called to travel in search of teachers and experiences, then by all means we should. But if we can’t go to India, or Burma, or Indonesia, or if we don’t have the desire, this is not an obstacle in terms of our spiritual development. In fact, we may simply be aware that our time and energy is best spent in our own homes with our meditation practice and all the complications and joys of our own lives. We can confidently stay in one place, knowing that everything we need to attain enlightenment is always available right where we are.
From the Dailyom.com
Bad day at the Office
This is awesome.
Jeff Foxworthy on Colorado
( It was only a matter of time before Jeff Foxworthy took a couple of shots at Colorado !):
You are a Coloradoan if …………
1. You switch from “Heat” to “A/C” in one day.
2. You know what the ” Peoples Republic of Boulder ” means.
3. Your sense of direction is: towards the mountains and away from the mountains.
4. You’re a meat-eating vegetarian.
5. The bike on your car is worth more than your car and you have your own special bike lane.
6. You’re able to drive 65 miles per hour through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without even flinching.
7. You take your out-of-town guests to Casa Bonita even though you would never go there otherwise.
8. You think your major food groups are granola bars, tofu and Fat Tire Beer.
9. You design your kid’s Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
10. You think that sexy lingerie is wool socks and flannel PJs.
11. You know all 4 seasons “almost winter, winter, still winter and spring blizzards
12. You’ve been tear gassed in a riot to celebrate a CU/CSU victory.
13. You can never figure out why your out-of-town guests faint from altitude sickness on a picnic to the mountains.
14 You can drive over a 12,000-foot pass in 4 feet of snow, but can’t get to work if there are 4 inches of snow.
15. You know the ‘correct’ pronunciation of Buena Vista .
16. When you visit friends at sea level, you can drink a case of beer and not get a buzz.
17. Your car insurance costs more than your car.
18 You have surge protectors on every outlet.
19. April showers bring May blizzards.
20. ‘Timberline’ is someplace you have actually been.
21. You know what a ‘Chinook’ is
22. You know what a ‘ Rocky Mountain Oyster’ is.
23 You know what a “fourteener” is.
24. .But you don’t know what a “turn signal” is.
25. A bear on your front porch doesn’t bother you nearly as much as a Democrat in Congress does.
26. Your golf bag has a 9-iron, a 3-wood and a lightning rod.
27. People from out of state breathe 5 times as often as you do.
28. Having a Senator named Nighthorse doesn’t seem strange.
29. Thunder has set off your car alarm.
30. You have an $800 stereo in your $300 truck.
31. You think a red light means 3 more cars can go.
32. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!!
33. You know where the real ” South Park ” is.
34. You can recognize the license plates of all 50 states on sight.
35. Driving directions usually include ‘Go over_________ Pass. ‘
36. You’ve ‘checked for ticks.
37. You’ve dressed in shorts, sandals, and a parka with a hood.
38. You’ve gone snow skiing in July and………
39. You’ve played golf in January and…….
40. They were in the same year!
41. You’ve urinated on the Continental Divide just so it could run into both oceans.
42. You know what a down slope and an up slope weather pattern is.
43. And the most important: You get a certain feeling of satisfaction from knowing that California and Texas are both down stream.
44. You actually understand these jokes and send them to your Colorado friends.
Life As It Is
Making Life Work For You Sometimes we have so many varying responsibilities in our lives, ranging from work obligations to caring for children to running a household, we feel we cannot possibly make it all work. We may feel overwhelmed in the face of it all, ending each day feeling hopelessly behind schedule. However, regardless of how frustrating this can be, these are the parameters that make up our lives, and we owe it to ourselves to find a way to make it work. Rather than buckling under the pressure of an impossible to-do list, we might take a moment to view the larger perspective.
Like the president of a large organization, we must first realize that we cannot do every job ourselves. The first step to sanity is learning how to delegate some of the responsibility to other people, whether by paying someone to clean our house or trading childcare duties with another parent. In addition, we might find places where we can shift our expectations in ways that make our lives easier. For example, expecting ourselves to create a healthy home-cooked meal every night after a full day of work, errands, or caring for an infant or toddler may be a bit excessive. We might allow ourselves to order in food once in a while without any guilt. Accepting the adjustments needed to make our lives work is an essential ingredient to being at peace with our situation.
At the end of the day, we must come to terms with changing what we can and accepting what we cannot change. Sometimes the laundry piles up, a sick child demands more of our attention than usual, and we temporarily get behind with our schedule. Accepting this momentary state of affairs and trusting in our ability to get back on track when the time is right, we gracefully accept our life as it is, letting go of perfectionism and embracing life as it stands.
(from the DailyOm.com)
Gathering Our Straying Thoughts
Gathering Our Straying Thoughts
Centering Ourselves When our thoughts are scattered in several directions at once and we are no longer conscious of what we are doing or why, it is time to center ourselves. When we center ourselves, we begin by acknowledging that we have become spread too thin and we are no longer unified inside. Our thoughts might be out of sync with our feelings, and our actions may be out of sync with both. The main signs that we need to center ourselves are scattered thoughts and a feeling of disconnection or numbness, as if we are no longer able to take anything in. In addition, we may feel unfocused and not present in our bodies. Centering ourselves is a way of coming to terms with all the different energies within us and drawing them back into ourselves.
Centering yourself means that you are working from or being aware of the core of your being in the solar plexus area of your body. At first it may not make sense, but as you progress you will understand what this feels like. We naturally know how to center ourselves when we take a deep breath, for example, before making a big announcement or doing something big. Another way to center ourselves is to sit down and engage in breath meditation. We can start by simply getting into a comfortable upright position and noticing as our breath enters and leaves our bodies. Our breath flows into our center and out from our center, and this process can serve as a template for all of our interactions in the world. In conversations, we can take what our friends are saying into the center of our beings and respond from the center. Our whole lives mirror this ebb and flow of energy that begins and ends at the center of ourselves. If we follow this ebb and flow, we are in harmony with the uni! verse, and when we find we are out of harmony, we can always come back into balance by sitting down and observing our breath.
When we sit down to center ourselves we can imagine that we are gathering our straying thoughts and energies back into ourselves, the way a mother duck gathers her babies around her. We can also visualize ourselves casting a net and pulling all the disparate parts of ourselves back to the center of our being, creating a sense of fluid integration. From this place of centeredness, we can begin again, directing ourselves outward in a more intentional way. What do you think?
From the Dailyom.com
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