tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32073896647389880012024-02-19T03:26:44.864-07:00WALKSTRONG ~ www.walkstrong.cawalkstrong.ca BLOGWalkStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01449969530731189406noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207389664738988001.post-21868439813199771092015-10-16T18:40:00.002-06:002015-10-16T18:40:32.698-06:00" Overwhelmed ... "<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
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How I would describe the last few months. I guess really just overwhelmed with ... life. Getting complacent. But thinking I was really listening and having the ability to control. And so I experience the discomfort and suffering that is now present.</div>
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This time has been the toughest in 5 years. Life was going well and I felt I would live despite the cancer. I’ve been trusting in situations that required discernment. I realize I don’t have that ability. I needed to apply my own inner wisdom at times rather than following others advice. But I didn’t. I feel like I was on a magic carpet ride but now there is no carpet. So presently, with only moments to rest, recuperate and recover, it is all coming up to the surface. They are difficult to confront and let go. At times bringing on so much emotional pain to the point of nausea. Yet the only way I can start over is to forgive myself. My natural instinct is to blame myself, beat myself up, begin to forgive and then let go. But that is exhausting and I don’t have the time to carry such a burden for so long.</div>
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Dark thoughts linger often and easily shift my thinking. At times feeling like I am facing mortality directly in front of me, I try to maneuver, manage and cope. Using all the tools and techniques, mantras, gems and affirmations, just praying for a moment of peace. They do come and once they leave, I try to recreate the feeling. But it doesn’t work that way. I realize my magical thinking started at a very young age. Trusting, giving, sharing and trying to live with an open heart, with no discernment. </div>
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I was fortunate to be given what I wanted when I was a child. And if I didn’t get it, I manipulated the situation in my favor. Perhaps we all can relate. But this habit didn’t leave. As I started to grow, I gravitated towards friends who would support that, even if it did more harm than good to myself and those I love. And if the support wasn’t there, abandoning the situation, because it wasn’t me, it was them. I thought I worked through this. Instead I put myself out of balance by not trusting myself. And maybe I still gravitated towards what I want to hear rather what could is possible. </div>
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I also realized that I was trying to detach enough, so I would minimize the suffering that may come upon my demise. Another way to control the situation, but wanting lose relationships because they are a part of me. Who I am today. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels like a while since I wrote a post. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s not to say I haven’t been writing as I am working on my personal story.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started this a long time ago, but had to many triggers that were allowing me just put it away for another day.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now, through my writing, a great deal of insights are appearing.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am grateful for the realization that life truly is love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love. How we express in many different ways. One way is Support. Supporting others when in need. I have been so fortunate to have my family and friends that have been on this journey with me. Their constant love, guidance and compassion is present and consistent. And regardless of whatever is going on, they are familia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here today, with more insights and realizations … it is up to me. To honour what I speak, what I advocate. Believing that anything is possible and miracles do happen. Trusting in the unknown. And walking the talk of all the previous blog posts I have written. I thought I was, at least my ego kept telling me. But somewhere in the subject matter of cancer, I wasn’t listening to my inner guidance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Support is available always, if we just look. And by forgiving and lovingly releasing the past, others can step in and help. There is no baggage, drama, or unresolved feelings. It is just a loving presence when it is so needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forced to <a href="http://mcayzer.blogspot.ca/2015/09/slow-down.html" target="_blank">slow down</a> and just be has been a blessing in some way. I don’t wish the pain and discomfort but when you slow down, things don’t seem as they might have at one time. And so I am grateful for the realization that life is love … anything else is meaningless. </span></div>
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<br />WalkStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01449969530731189406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207389664738988001.post-14563531478110077042015-09-09T18:33:00.000-06:002015-09-09T18:33:14.406-06:00" Slow Down ... "<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #444444; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">
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There is something to be said for being viewed as “so strong”. For the past five years, specifically since this cancer diagnosis, others tell me how strong I am, how brave I am, how courageous I am ... so what happens when the strong, courageous & brave get sick? ... ah wait for it ... crickets.</div>
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This year I completed my <a href="http://www.albertahotyogateachertraining.com/" target="_blank">yoga teacher training</a>. It took most of the first quarter of 2015 and was really something that I did for me. The training was phenomenal and intense. I found myself along side twenty-somethings, trying to keep up. Sometimes taking on two hot yoga classes a day, I knew I was pushing myself, but I felt strong and I felt capable. I recognized that all my insecurities were on display and I had choices at times to cower and give up. I didn't share with many that cancer lives with me. I didn't want it to be a crutch, burden or reason to be any different. And I had lost my close friend Mary earlier in the year. I knew her death was a push for me to do whatever I wanted to do, <b>now</b>. She inspires me to this day to live beyond a cancer diagnosis, to live life fully as long as I am alive.</div>
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Then came the summer ... teaching classes at schools, visiting public places and ... I started coming down with a nasty cough. Yet life seemed full of opportunities and I didn’t want to slow down. But as we know, there is a time to rest and pay attention to your body. Being sick is one of those times. </div>
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So I kept pushing and working through whatever this body was going through and sometimes ignore the signs ... slow down. Ignoring because deep down I had another voice wondering if I was simply running out of time? The five year prognosis mark was creeping up, the time frame given for my <a href="http://www.walkstrong.ca/" target="_blank">mortality</a>.</div>
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There doesn’t seem to be a clear-cut answer of what to “do” when sick. Moderate exercise seems to kick start the immune system into fighting off yucki-ness. But intense and vigorous exercise may increase your susceptibility to being sick. Everyone has a home remedy and the staunch medical professionals will tell you that you are too late to do anything ...</div>
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And of course I ask myself ... how and why? A guess-timation of what the cause may be. Perhaps wondering with all the natural goodness in my lifestyle, where sickness can find a home? Simply a waste of time. Because I finally realized that the big factor of stress has to be considered ... again. Stress produces the hormone cortisol which turns off the production of cytokines, the molecules that encourage an aggressive immune response. Stress of job changes, relationships losses and lifestyle changes, all nicely packaged with a big bow ... yeah a perfect environment to allow yourself to break the self down.</div>
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So ... personally speaking ... 6 to 8 weeks of trying to naturally fight off this “heaviness” has resulted in learning that when I am sick, the best approach is to lean into it, specifically lean into the pain when it appears. This in itself has been a very difficult but awakening process. Pain has truly been my teacher. Days and long nights of intensity, realizing that there is no control only acceptance to what is occurring in that moment. Resistance is futile! I have had to yet again, take inventory of my body and the stress levels in my life. I have had hard conversations around this with loved ones, which initially can cause aversion but can help uncover where there may be opportunities to make changes. I am grateful for those words of direct wisdom. Sometimes it is the unconscious, unsaid, unstated tension that starts to simply wear us down. </div>
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With this in mind ... I ask those of you who are reading ... please take the time to take notice. We are capable of many great things but there comes a time to take a load off. <span style="color: #674ea7;"><i><b>Take notice and take care of YOU, now</b></i></span>. You don’t want to spend the first half of your life carelessly so that the rest of your life you have to make up for it. Getting sick is a time to rest, recover and reflect. Bring the body back to balance and trusting, this too shall pass. But if we take note now, we can learn and attempt to prevent ourselves from dealing with a more sufferings like this in the future.</div>
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<i>“ … And the night goes by so very slow</i></div>
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<i>Oh I hope that it won't end though</i></div>
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<i>Alone</i></div>
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<i>But the secret is still my own</i></div>
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<i>Till now I always got by on my own</i></div>
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<i>I never really cared until I met you</i></div>
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<i>And now it chills me to the bone</i></div>
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<i>~ Heart ~ Alone ~ </i></div>
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The origin of the word <b><span style="color: #38761d;">ALONE </span></b>comes from the Middle East in around the 1300s, from <i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">al</span></i><span style="color: #38761d;"> all + </span><i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">one</span></i><span style="color: #38761d;"> one</span>. The word itself can be viewed as all one rather than the sad reference it has today.</div>
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Being alone doesn’t mean you are anti-social or unwanted ... some sorry state that is colorless unless reinforced by others … implying the sadness, isolation and longing for companionship. Rather, being alone begins with embracing solitude. </div>
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We recognize the benefits and joys within fulfilling relationships with other people, yet on your own, you begin to grow as a person. You get a chance to recharge and you get a chance to reflect more. As we spend time by ourselves, we don’t have to bother with processing the thoughts and feelings of others. It is a time when we focus inwards. </div>
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With this awareness of what you want, you may start doing thing you actually enjoy as well as become more productive with less distractions. You may even have a sense of independence, confidence in your ability to actually be alone. The anxiety or burning desire for others begins to fade … and you get some distance from constantly trying to keep other people happy … simply, that constant interaction is not required. </div>
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When we consider the most important relationship is with one self, we must be happy to give happiness to others. Otherwise we are depleted, drained and have nothing really valuable to offer. This internal new found happiness has always been within us. Alone time or solitude allows us gain access to it and to not be concerned with validation or approval. So as we begin a journey of self discovery, we learn to be okay as we are, on our own or if we prefer with others. That interaction becomes a choice not an obligation or burden, where we can reveal who we really are.</div>
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Emotionally charged conversations and opinionated views fill our lives. With this, it is hard to distinct and understand what IS and many triggers can result in blaming others. If powerful enough, it can damage and destroy years of connection ... or it can dissipate altogether from a lack of emotional energy or changing the environment surrounding it.</div>
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The middle way begins with courage and patience and can result in love, compassion and clear thinking. This begins with probably the one of the most difficult things I am trying to practice ... not taking things personally. When we are comfortable with who we are and our life, we become less affected than someone who is at odds with themselves and feels insecure. Because when we are unsure, we feel the need to prove a point. The more comfortable and secure we are within ourselves, our hearts and minds, the less we will let external events or the opinions of others affect who we are.</div>
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And so the middle way is between the extremes of indulgence and self-denial, free from sorrow and suffering. It is about learning to embrace the change rather than seeking resolution. We let ourselves open and relax in the middle and we discover, life is manageable. We realize that it is not our task to create the ideal, it is our task to see how it is and to learn from the world as it is. And we understand that for the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough. </div>
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“ ... I feel like I'm walking a tight rope, without a circus net</div>
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You are walking into the ocean and big wave comes and knocks you over. You find yourself lying on the bottom, with sand in your face. Gasping, drowning, searching for a way. And you have a choice ... you keep lying on the bottom or stand up and start to keep walking out to sea.</div>
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It is easier to keep lying on the bottom because you know that there is another big wave approaching, possibly to knock you down further. And so you ask yourself, do you want to live? There is something within you, that answers YES ... and in that moment when you decide to cultivate courage and bravery ... humour arises. Because you realize that the waves never stop coming but they may seem to get smaller. You realize that you may just need float on your back rather than swim against the current. </div>
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There is a softness and vulnerability that emerges during this time, with your best qualities come out of suffering. When these things happen in our life, and we choose to get up, and keep walking out to the sea, we are not shielding ourselves. We are not guarding ourselves. We are real.</div>
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“ … Dear God the only thing I ask of you<br />
When I'm much too far away<br />
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Naturally during times of illness, great pain and suffering, we may gravitate toward a spiritual practice, as it provides a way sometimes to heal the grief, sadness and bitterness all held up in our hearts. Spirituality can be a means to cope.</div>
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Yet personally speaking, it isn’t about have a better connection with God. It is about having a better connection with Life. Not believing that a Divine being out in the Universe will grant me immortality, rather I’ve been exploring the dysfunctional relationship I have had with life … </div>
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Each moment, each day, dealing with what comes up … and realizing that when I face a type of suffering, my faith is tested. True faith begins with detachment becoming open to whatever arises, the unknown. An opportunity in the face of this unknown to experience a special kind of peace, that there are infinite possibilities. Faith is about letting go of certain outcome, a certain solution. Faith is about trusting the process. Faith is believing All Is Well, regardless of what is.</div>
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This comes at a time when acceptance is necessary. That a certain solution may not exist. That you don’t have to figure it all out in this moment. And that maybe there really is nothing TO figure out. Shifting to a place of being, and tired of doing. I often think of <a href="http://www.positivehealth.com/article/cancer/life-with-intense-gerson-nutritional-therapy-programme" target="_blank">cancer</a> or any severe illness as a type of dance. Hoping to take the lead and be in control but not knowing it could switch in a moment.</div>
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And so spirituality allows me to shift to a place of acceptance … to manage, cope, deal and thrive, despite of this challenge. Great words to live by and a guiding mantra recited within every day. As I said recently to family, no one said this was going to be easy. Yet having the ability to let go during times of darkness is where my faith truly prevails. </div>
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The catch phrase used these days is “mindfulness”. With many defining it as “heart-mind”, being present and being fully aware in the moment. Mindfulness can be viewed as a holistic approach or tool that can have profound affects on your mind, behaviours, habits, health and well-being. </div>
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Yet mindfulness can and has been overused too. Some consider it a social movement, others a lifestyle trend. When mindfulness becomes something we do than the essence of what it is, fades. Rather, mindfulness is a part of emotional intelligence, empathy, compassion and kindness ... which are our natural states of being. Mindfulness is a constant not something you do once in awhile at meditation class.</div>
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My teacher explains that when practicing mindfulness, an intimately attentive frame of mind arises, where we experience relaxation and alertness, and overall equanimity. Mindfulness is not a badge of enlightenment or a successful achievement. There are no expectations or requirements. Allowing us to BE fully and give permission for others to BE them.</div>
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Being mindful, being present as we are, authentically. Giving our fully attention and awareness to the one in front of us in that moment. Selecting our words with compassion and kindness. And appreciating what life has to offer, regardless of the challenge or joy. </div>
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... its about moments. moments of being true. and being you. moments of listening to your heart. and following where it leads. moments to nurture your soul.and nourish your mind. so find your power. and stop hiding. admit your pain and fears. admit your love. and dare to live. shine your light sweet soul. all the way home ... </div>
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They're smiling at me, I guess they're used to this. </div>
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Recently I was asked this question ... <b>Who is the most important person?</b> As we pondered, the answer came back as the person in front of you right now. Perhaps not the answer you would expect. As we are taught that WE are the most important person in the world. Yet consider this ... the most important person you will ever meet is the one in front of you ... the most powerful thing you will ever say is what you are about to say right now ... and the most important moment in your life is the one you are in at this time. </div>
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We have been in situations where we drift into autopilot and zone out. We are not fully present ... unless the situation changes. A situation like when we meet someone with an impairment, with a disability or something that slows us down. We may begin to articulate our words better, listen fully and simply soften up a bit. We take better care to check for understanding. We become more thoughtful in being present fully, so we don’t miss anything. We allow the person in front of us to be the most important and what we say may be more thoughtful. As for the moment, we only have this one ... and now the next ... and so on ...</div>
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Personally, I remember a time when the company I worked at had a Vice President with a speech impairment. He was young and had suffered a stroke early in life. He was working his way back AND he was our keynote speaker. It took everything in the audience to listen fully, be present fully and completely aware of what was being said. It made us truly listen, really listen.</div>
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So what if we took that approach in every interaction? Not judging those in front of us, but giving ourselves fully and completely in the moment. Are we able to slow the chatter in our minds? And how much extra time would it really take? Yet in a society that is about convenience, it can be a challenge for some to slow down.</div>
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Life is beautiful as it reflects back what is inward. If we feel a void where we are not truly heard, it may be a time to explore if we are hearing ourselves. Our higher self recognizes that those in front of us are another expression of the Divine. So as we treat those in front of us as the most important person in that moment, we are truly giving this gift back to ourselves.</div>
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Times have changed in just a few months ... “</div>
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Experience with cancer has actually given me the gift of a mindfulness practice. Within this practice, I see impermanence more clearly and am developing a wiser relationship with it in daily life. And working on having the ability to face whatever the conditions may be, with intelligence and kindness towards self. </div>
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This mindfulness practice has begun to reveal awareness around the fragility of the body and yet the accessibility towards freedom of mind. This mindfulness practice has begun to reveal the lack of desire to control the uncontrollable. This mindfulness practice has begun with acceptance of what is.</div>
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I use to struggle with the concept of accepting impermanence along with wanting to live as long as I could. Now I see cancer as an encounter with impermanence every day because I see the difference between expectations and openness.</div>
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Openness is our natural state of mind, allowing positive qualities to be experienced and expressed. When facing cancer, openness can be obscured by fears and hopes, and expectations must be met. Openness creates another option, to whatever arises, regardless of the outcome. </div>
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Give yourself permission to remove finite words from your vocabulary. You know the one that you try to live up to but haven’t been able to. The one that nags at you, tells you that you could have done better. And that you gave up too soon. You know the word ... <i><span style="color: #a64d79;">always</span></i>.</div>
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It is simply impossible to always. You say you will always love, but something gets in the way. You say you will always be supportive, but something gets in the way. You say you will always stay till the end, but something gets in the way. Something ... life or you get in the way. </div>
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So it isn’t al-ways. Because if it was, commitment would be fulfilled in al-ways, in any-way. And what are always and forever intrinsically worth? Why is it inherently valuable? <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">It isn’t ... it is the moments and effort that make up forever that hold the value. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"></span></div>
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We have learned that the concept of always and forever as merely a promise to do so is what is expected. Yet our lives are filled with so much fear, pain, hurt, betrayal and lies. We recognize in others the manipulation and deceit because we recognize it in ourselves. And we realize that always and forever doesn’t exist. Because conditions change and therefore the always and forever were actually based on those conditions.</div>
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Our words and intentions are put to the test when someone or something is not in alignment with what we want. When our conditions are not met, we feel it personally. And the years of always and forevers begin to hold less weight. The response is usually to blame the other. They are not the same, they have changed, they have ... yet if your always and forever were authentic, your resolve is un-waivered.</div>
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Layers of forgiveness ... as we continue to break through, we get closer to peace and gratitude. Because we aspire for a lighter heart. </div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">... choosing to embrace the reality of your hurt </span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">and offer forgiveness regardless of the persons response ... </span></div>
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As we sit in silence for months or years, we risk being thrown back to the initial hurt. And we may realize that this hurt has now become a dull and nagging pain. We begin to ask ourselves, have we fully forgiven?</div>
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We have an opportunity to discover that an unwanted root of bitterness may be springing up within. We must be brave and have courage as we begin to peel another layer of that onion, shed a few more tears and go back through the process ... again and again.</div>
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There is an emotional core packed tightly under the layers we have built to protect us from an early age. And we have even more layers to penetrate. As we peel our layers, we learn to trust our heart again, to live and love freely and not to build more layers of protection. </div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">... the cost of forgiveness is great but the reward is even greater ... </span></div>
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This emotional core, out of the blue, at any time, reminds you of the offense ... and you realize you haven’t forgotten it after all. Again, you begin to peel another layer and shed a few more tears. And you believe, finally a step closer to forgiveness.</div>
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Purging your heart of bitterness, anger, hurt or pain begins by choosing to accept life as it is. And like the onion analogy, our layers are our makeup. The more we peel, the more we get to our true self. </div>
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Yet forgiveness can be hard and to continue hold on to some emotional trauma, we block our energy. And, if we cannot process the emotional effects of the event at the time it happens, we shelf the pain and develop coping skills to keep it hidden from ourselves. In essence, we are splitting ourselves into pieces and losing touch with the ones we can’t cope with. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This helps to mask our pain because we are no longer in touch</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">with our whole.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">at the end of the healing process ... </span></div>
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We have been taught that forgiveness is saying sorry to those we hurt. But we intuitively know that it is more about finding the individual truth of what forgiveness is for you, personally.</div>
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Your personal state of forgiveness ... where you find freedom, courage and strength to make the changes in your life to find true joy. Forgiveness begins with self-love ... accepting yourself and others, as is. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Once we view other sentient beings as another interpretation of the Divine, we can begin to practice forgiveness, because we are truly just forgiving ourselves.</span></div>
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“ ...<span style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"> </span>All that You are is so overwhelming</div>
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I’m overwhelmed, I’m overwhelmed by You</div>
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You are Beautiful, You are Beautiful ... </div>
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You are Wonderful, You are Wonderful ... </div>
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You are Glorious, You are Glorious ... “</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-shadow: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Realization ... people live by creating stories about a lot of things that aren’t really happening. In our mind, you decide to create a story and in a brief instance, everything that could go wrong in your mind does. You’ve just created this fabulous story of woe and misery. And now your dealing with the stress that comes with it. But the catch is, it’s not reality ... yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-shadow: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is wild to watch how the mind creates and how we begin to manifest the very thing we don’t want. Humans gravitate towards the what they don’t have so that they can procrastinate, bitch and complain ... and blame someone else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-shadow: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Being overwhelmed is a feeling. When things seems bigger than they are to handle. There is some truth to that. Trying to “handle” it all. This is the time when our minds start to wreck havoc. They focus on everything all at once ... resulting in anxiety and stress. </span></div>
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Dealing with cancer is like pandora’s box. Full of surprises. I use to believe that my body betrayed me and just gave up. </div>
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I bought into the idea that I would grow up, get an education, get a good job, get married, have kids and all would be well ... exactly as planned. But when the bubble burst, all that was left was guilt ... that if I had just been a better daughter, sister, wife, friend, employee ... that I would not have got cancer-ed. I didn’t understand why others habitual behaviours didn’t lead to an illness. I had enormous guilt within me and societal influences supported my delusional mind. </div>
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So I am learning to gift myself the ability to rest my mind, when I choose, to observe my thoughts without judgement by focusing on one conscious breathe ... meditation. I am learning to take my power back, learning to find joy in this journey and to shine this light within until my last conscious breathe.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN';">And for the days that it seems so very hard to deal ... those days I tell myself ... </span><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">it’s okay, you’ve done what you could, ease up and meet yourself at a softer place, let yourself rest, taking what you need, releasing what you don’t, you are safe, you are loved, you are protected</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN';"> ... while taking that one conscious breathe.</span></div>
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Cause I love you too much</div>
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Ev'ry time I kiss your sweet lips</div>
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I'm such a fool for your charms</div>
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Like to hear you sighin'</div>
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Cause I love you too much ... “</div>
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There is something that many of us have felt. The fear of loving too much. When you form an attachment to a living being, eventually one will die. Perhaps why we feel life is so precious and unpredictable at the same time. These attachments are always changing and the change it brings can result in fear. </div>
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We choose to love and take the risk of loss. I am understanding that the way we deal with loss has a lot to do with whether or not the loss heals and strengthens us or harms and weakens us. Reactions and responses to loss are so individual where there is no place for judgement. Allowing to be what it is, a process.</div>
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From a spiritual perspective, suffering and loss can open our hearts. When we begin to look at it at a global level, suffering is a part of human incarnation, as is death. Death is not the end, but part of a process. </div>
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So where is the fear coming from? ... Our ego. To our ego, love is dangerous. Rejection and conflict can be threatening and cause pain. The idea of too much love is our ego’s way of protecting itself, shedding doubt, and becoming defensive or offensive. Ego becomes uncomfortable and therefore reacts in a way of either attraction or aversion. Ego fears we will abandon separation and self- protection and it fears its own undoing in love.</div>
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“ ... I put these things aside for years</div>
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'Til laughter took the place of tears</div>
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It's like I was asleep yet now I'm here</div>
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I put these things aside for years</div>
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'Til laughter took the place of tears</div>
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It's like I was asleep yet now I'm here</div>
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I'm here (it's cosmic) ... “</div>
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For those that believe in the concept of karma, believe that our loved ones appear in our life due to karmic debt. At least that is the Buddhist view.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">“At present, we are closely linked with our parents and our children. We feel great affection for them and have incredible aspirations for them. When they suffer, or anything undesirable happens to them, we are more upset than we would be if such things had happened to us personally. All this is simply the repayment of debts for the harm we have done each other in past lives.”- <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Patrul Rinpoche</span></span></div>
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Imagine ... the person you love in this moment, may have been someone you loathed in a previous life. And they may become your rival in the next life. As my teacher explains to us, this is the cosmic joke. The endless cycle of attachment and aversion that eventually causes suffering for everyone involved. And if you aren’t sure, observe how children turn on their parents and how your greatest love can become your ex-partner.</div>
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Equanimity ... loving all sentient beings equally. It is about boundless love, which has the power to heal and transform. And you begin by consciously expressing your love to your special ones ... and spreading this outward to those in your life. </div>
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A practice, with a sense of humour that helps to deal with life on life's terms. Personally, I am finding that a sense of humour is essential. It keeps me from taking myself too seriously. It helps me realize it is a cosmic joke and not a serious affair. When we get serious, we are praised, respected and honoured. But are we having any fun?</div>
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By listening to and analyzing the words I use on a regular basis, I can learn to stop unconsciously programming myself to have limitations. My own words tell a tale. And listening to the words I say, explains a lot about what’s going on inside my head. </div>
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Mindfulness practice helps me to gain the ability to pay attention to these words. I am discovering that I often use self-limiting words before I even had a chance to think about them. My subconscious chooses safe words that make unimportant things feel huge, and words that allow me wiggle room to procrastinate safely. Simply put ... weak language is a subconscious attempt to avoid responsibility.</div>
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And I am called out on it, frequently, by my teacher. Words that make me weak. Words that make me sound like a victim. Words that give me an easy way out to blame someone else when it all falls apart.</div>
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Need, Can’t, Try and Bad ... within these words tell you different than reality. An unconscious box around solutions, limiting my creativity and failing to accomplish anything useful. Unaware of how I may be robbing myself of my power or destroying any hope for innovative thinking. </div>
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I am learning that unconsciously our brains listen and because it cannot understand context, it creates confusion and subtle stress. I am learning that using words that mean the same thing to my conscious brain and my unconscious brain, feels good. </div>
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My ego took a good bruising last night when I got called out on the specific word, try. Try seems to be a word that has two meanings. Growing up, we were told to learn something, practice it and keep trying. Seemingly a ‘normal’ way to encourage to do better. Now, trying seems to presuppose a likelihood of failure, subconsciously planning to fail. The advice ... don’t try, DO </div>
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On the eve of another birthday, my mind is wandering. Wandering, wandering ... I never really thought I would get to the age of 46 ... not because I am a pessimist but because of being <a href="http://www.walkstrong.ca/" target="_blank">cancer-ed</a>. </div>
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Ah yes, for those who have had a similar experience, you don’t really forget. All the memories of ‘that’ day, being diagnosed, can come rushing back at any moment, triggered by anything remotely to do with the dis-ease. But rather than choosing this to be viewed as a weakness and being a ‘victim’ to the thought, I am opening to the insights offered. </div>
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My most vivid ‘memory’, the one that did the most damage was my prognosis ... 5 years at best. I have this attachment because I speak to it, still to this day. And I write about it, as here present in these words. Load on the intense programming, patterning and hypnosis of how, what, where, when and why an ill-ness is an ill-ness. The triggers are present because my mind has been so deluded to the idea of being cancered. </div>
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And so here we are ... on the eve of another birthday and 4.5 years being cancer-ed. My mantra ... so far so good ... probably because it is a bit of a safety net, a precaution or a disclaimer. With no claim to being “cured” because, I am not. </div>
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In those moments of weakness, when I say aloud, I don’t know how much more of this I can take, I hear within, count your blessings, they will multiply. But how? Begin with breath. Our sacred connection to the Divine. And that is where my gratitude begins. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">And so tomorrow at first light, I hope to graciously take my first breath, arms and heart wide open ... birth of a new day.</span></div>
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Spending time in the mountains, when you get out of the city, there is an energetic shift. The shades of color, sounds, birds, insects, animals, running water ... has a soothing effect on the mind. And not only because you get away from the intensity of the city, but because these sounds consist of vibrational frequency, which is measured in Hertz (Hz). </div>
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<a href="http://www.432hertz.com/432hz_Healing.html" target="_blank">432 Hz</a> is the harmonic intonation of nature. This vibration can make your body and the organic world which surrounds it, resonate in a natural way. A sense of peace and wellbeing is available in those moments. So as we open our ears we help our bodies release emotional blockages and expand consciousness. 432Hz allows you to tune into the knowledge of the universe around us in a more intuitive way.</div>
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With our bodies made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies, frequencies affect frequencies. And with these, our bodies are estimate to be about 70% water, experiments have shown how we alter our own vibrational state based on every expression through sound, emotion, or thought ... which influences everything around it, much like a drop of water creating a ripple effect.</div>
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It is believed that the 432 Hz vibrations with the Universe, unifies the properties of light, time, space, matter, gravity, magnetism, biology, DNA code and consciousness. It is believed that our atoms and DNA start to resonate in harmony with the spiraling pattern of nature, resulting in our sense of connection to nature magnified. </div>
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All the years are passin' bye and bye,</div>
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Just about a lifetime to explain,</div>
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Those moments when you move past the body, past the surface and you face the mirror of your own faults, your own limitations, your own darkness. Your responsibilities, your choices ... everything in your life is all down to you.</div>
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How do we learn to deal with this revelation and how do we move through it. We keep going, acknowledge it and own up. And we tend to measure our strength by it. Yet our minds will create doubts and escape thoughts when the mirror is reflected back. Unless we shift from thinking to awareness.</div>
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Thinking is thought intensive while awareness is presence or simple attention in the moment. Thinking is when our mind creates thoughts about the situation we are in. Awareness is when our attention is focused on the situation simply observing with our senses. We are aware thought what we see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Thinking separates us from the immediacy of the situation as awareness gives us direct perception of the situation ... allowing us to perceive it more accurately.</div>
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And so do we attempt to deny thinking? Not possible. Denying any form of thought is denying awareness itself. To deny thought is to make an assumption that is not based on reality. Awareness is empty and not a form or a thing. IT has no qualities, no beginning and no end. It is neither good or bad, right or wrong, here or there. It is non dual.</div>
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Awareness is awake right now, always, ready and present. It is prior to anything you think about yourself. The thought based, time bound story of you is fiction. It is peaceful and still. it is presence awareness.</div>
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And so if we take a moment to suspend thought in order to directly recognize awareness, we reveal who we are. In that moment, we allow ourselves to fully arise ... and observe ... non conceptual awareness.</div>
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My practice is teaching me freedom is not what I thought it was. Not freedom as defined in the West ... freedom to do what we want and not have to do what we don’t want. Rather the practice teaches that freedom is freedom from desire and aversion. Freedom from want, not freedom to do what we want. And this view is what I continue to develop.</div>
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I begin by noticing what is happening within the body and the mind. The sensation and emotion. I notice the impulse and urge to do something to change the moment. And I notice how both the sensations change and urges come and go. Consciously aware of their changing nature, their ebb and flow, the impermanence. And I repeat and repeat ...</div>
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As I practice this approach, I realize that I can begin to cope with what is happening in the present moment. Reminding myself that we are stronger than we believe we are and it is the fear of the future, not the present, that compels us. Hence when I remain with my urges in the present moment, I experience and I remain with what is. I don’t have to act or react, I can just be and accept. Path of least resistance.</div>
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Watching the rise and fall, the coming and going of the urge to change the situation ... I become aware of my strength to resolve. I watch the strength of the compulsion rise and then it falls away again. And I don’t have to stop it and I don’t have to run away from it. I let it pass. Just notice it and go on with life. Perhaps learning that I do not have to react to every urge ... that I can be non-reactive and I can surf my urges.</div>
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Kundalini is a Sanskirt word meaning coiled. It is used to modify the word Shakti, which means the spiritual power dwelling within every being. This sacred inner presence is the Divine within, the sacred light and love and life that illumines each of us and guides us to union with One. This inner Divine Guide is the very source of our manifest existence, and its constant striving is for our union with our true Self.</div>
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Kundalini Yoga is a type of yoga that uses specific pose sequences or kriyas, hand postures or mudras, mantras or sounds and meditations to elevate and uplift the practitioner. It is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmukh_(yoga_teacher)" target="_blank">practice</a> designed to awaken the Kundalini Energy, which is the creative and Divine power located within the body, coiled at the base of the spine. The kriyas and meditations were created by the ancient Kundalini masters to raise the Kundalini energy to create harmony, balance, and bliss within the body, mind, and spirit. </div>
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Kundalini Yoga originated in India thousands and thousands of years ago. The poses, meditations, and mantras were considered sacred and were passed down from teacher to student only once the student had proved themselves worthy to learn them. In the Kundalini culture, Harbhajan Singh Khalsa also know as Yogi Bhajan is respected and loved for sharing the light and knowledge he had of Kundalini Yoga.</div>
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It is believed that to raise ones Kundalini increases consciousness and one-ness with the Divine. And with the use of various breathing exercises carry life-giving energy into the body, reviving and renewing the body and mind at the cellular level. Once the Kundalini has been awakened, individuals may feel a variety of experiences including sensations along the spinal cord, trembling, tingling sensations, waves of heat, bursts of joy and even transcendental visions. With some believing that activating the Kundalini energy begins the path toward Enlightenment.</div>
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Though I don't understand the meaning of love</div>
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Took it for granted when you lifted me up</div>
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I am going through hell ... </div>
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You cut out all the noise</div>
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And now that I can see mistakes so clearly now</div>
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Healing requires living in the present and taking one’s energy back from past traumas and hurts. Because directing thought and energy to the past diverts vital life force from existing cells and organs that need that energy to function and heal. </div>
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Simple yet not easy ... the reality is that not everyone wants to heal because healing is unattractive for some. The fear of change, refusal to give up being a victim and once again, living in the past are all obstacles to our healing. But why would we nurture the past .... to keep it alive because of the bitterness about what happened. That story of how awful we were treated is a hook, a trigger, a crutch ... to use whenever we feel like a victim. </div>
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Forgiveness ... releasing the control that the perception of victim hood has over our psyches. It is about how we view life. When we can begin to see a hurtful act as part of life process ... as a message or challenge instead of a personal betrayal, vital energy flows back into the physical body’s energetic field. </div>
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My health care practitioner often speaks to me about the illusion of being a victim. Too often I have held onto wounds and grief longer than is healthy. And I recognize that these wounds and grief can be used as a means to manipulate and control others. At times when I express a hurtful event, I am reminded how quickly I gravitate to the negative, how deep the patterning is to expect the worst and how easily I would give up my power. The awareness allows the thought or belief causing suffering to ease up or even fade once the insight is revealed.</div>
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Living in the now, in the present means walking around without wound currency. We all have it and some feel theirs is a bit more valuable than another. Yet true healing requires change. And from experience it is easier to claim not knowing what to do next, when in that exact moment you do know ... the courage to act. </div>
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It's not a statement as much as just a move of passion<span style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"> ... “</span></div>
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Emotion, beliefs, creativity, intuition and wisdom originate in a dynamic chaos of energy field ... the Aura. This vital life energy that surrounds and permeates from each physical body. And each energy field constantly interacts with the fields of other living beings and with stimuli in the environment ... everything that affects the body must first pass through this field ~ the basis of ancient Eastern Medicine.</div>
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Our energy body is a template for the physical body. And emotional energy resonates with life experiences with belief systems literally encoding themselves within our cell tissues. We use our life energy to promote fear or love and it manifests in our biology. With prolonged weakness in the field we have physical symptoms leading to possible dis-ease.</div>
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The key is to address imbalances and blocks at the energy level of the body. Natural health techniques such as pranayama breathing, qigong, tai chi, yoga, earthing, prayer, acupuncture, homeopathy, flower essences, deep muscles massages, reiki and meditation strengthen our fields. These therapies can nudge an incoherent field of normalcy.</div>
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Medical intuitive read energetic patterns when trying to figure out patient conditions. An example, Dr. Carolyn Myss diagnosis chronic fatigue syndrome as an energetic disorder of the first chakra and affects people who feel very vulnerable and insecure. These people try to be all things to all people, and they connect to more people and projects than they have energy for ... and the immune system weakens.</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> ... Cancer is considered to be energetic components of the past. Unfinished business. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">People with cancer are considered to be </span>more<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span>connected<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> to the past than to the present.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">When energy is used to keep one's past alive instead of in the present where it is needed to maintain cell tissue, malignancy develops ...</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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Consider this, wherever thought goes, energy and life flows. So do we realize how much energy we spend on past injuries, regrets and losses. Hence training, such as mindfulness, helps to disconnect our energy circuits from people or objects that drain us. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">My practice is helping me to check in often and notice where my thoughts are.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Are they with me in the present or have they drifted to the past, the future or with some person or object?</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Using learned techniques, the practice is showing me how to detach from the connection and literally call my spirit back.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">And the realization every time is it is a practice, not a one shot deal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">“every choice that enhances our spirits strengthens our energy field; and the stronger our energy field, the fewer our connections to negative people and experiences” ~ <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Dr. Caroline </span>Myss<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 16px;">For some, having too much negativity in their field may not get them sick ... for</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 16px;"> others like me, cancer has signified the beginning of my spiritual journey. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 16px;">As I continue to focus on what can be learned through this ill-</span>ness<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 16px;"> or dis-ease, as a healing experience, I lighten my emotional body and support my soul journey.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Gurmukhi MN'; font-size: 16px;">Inevitably restoring my energetic field for the time I have here in this physical body.</span><br />
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The life long practice of letting go of negative emotions, whether they are directed towards others or self. Love is the potent healing force for the body and spirit. And only now am I beginning to recognize that positive and negative energies are real forces that affect my physiology immediately. And that living with gratitude in a way that respects my spiritual integrity enlivens this loaned body where my soul resides, today.</div>
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It’s a pretty cool feeling to be at a ‘certain’ age, learn something new which ignites your passion for the subject itself ... my personal experience with yoga teacher training, and specifially ... Yin Yoga.</div>
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Yin Yoga as its roots in the Taoist healing arts. It was a merging of an elemental based healing art called Tao Yin and a creative/fluid practice of animal forms. The philosophy being that the human being can shape-shift their energy to align with the five elements: Earth, Wood, Fire, Water and Metal–to heal, rejuvenate and regain primal range of motion.</div>
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Personally, Yin Yoga has brought the essence of each asana to life. Visualizing the shapes, their shifts in energy and their ability to constant change. Yin naturally mimics animal forms and because animals have their elemental integrity in tact, they call upon their distinct kind of movement to function. This imagery helps me to recognize how we can call upon our own distinct kind of movement, naturally & organically.</div>
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And for those who practice Yin, we understand the three tattvas ... play with your edge, resolve to remain still, hold for time. Waiting for the invitation to go deeper within a meditative state and holding beyond those first couple of minutes when we just stretch and stress the connective tissues and fascia ... and beyond that threshold ... we meet the Yin in the pose.</div>
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Personally, I have embraced the whole miracle of Yin as it resonates deeply ... getting out of the way to allow something greater to feed, nourish and heal the mind-body. Yin allows me to either dance with the energy or stay right at the eye of the storm ... that place I anticipate between trust and fear. </div>
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Beyond gratitude, Yin has helped me to place trust in the wisdom on the mat ... and extended further ... into the rest of my life. Yin has supported and encouraged me to find a place of surrender where a layer of surrender, I didn’t existed let alone I could access, starts to peel away. Beyond gratitude for the allowance, the space to be, and accept what is, with clarity and resolve ... </div>
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