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Only by opening ourselves to inner reality do we open to the possibility of love. Action and choices are needed: we can accept;... we can reject; we can withdraw. We cannot make it happen. Love chooses us. -Marion Woodman

Practice for the day: Ask yourself many times, Am I awake or am I asleep? Photo: Rick Schultz

We've all heard about the golden years whether we are referring to latter years of life or of a former generation. Please note there is no such thing. People have always been what they are. Read the oldest literature you can find and you will soon realize people are just what they have been and are today. What changes is technology which in turn places different demands on people. The primitive man was highly intuitive and this was necessary for the life-style. Today we let technology tell us what is what and thereby altering our natural functions. It is ever more important we tune into our bodies to maintain any semblance of health.

Therapy is soul work. Soul is the animating principle of our being and that is why it is important to employ breath work, meditation, dance, art, etc. We awaken and heighten our senses. Today leave your thoughts behind for a while and go into the body. Much love to all of you.

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Meditation = the gateway drug for maintaining mental health. It matters not what form of meditation is employed, walking, breath work, mantras, etc. but only that we shut down the mind for a time each day.

So you have body inflammation? Do these breathing exercises to eliminate the inflammation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BNejY1e9ik

"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his live." Jung, MDR, p.193

"...there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life." Jung, MDR, p183"...there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life." Jung, MDR, p183

I saw a question posed on another page, How long does healing take? First it depends on what does one desire to heal, a physical injury? A psychological wound? If a psychological wound, then both in an instance and all of this life. Stop thinking and breathe. All is well in this instant. A life time because we are never done quieting the mind.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes-Charles BukowskiThe trouble with a mask is it never changes-Charles Bukowski

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it. -Charles Bukowski

Some days life is about cooking for a child.

Judith Herman on trauma: ...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defences.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? Leonard Cohen This is a new day. What wonders may be?How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? Leonard Cohen This is a new day. What wonders may be?

Sharing the teachers that I respect; listen and learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwZsydIpe2U

Which songs/artists do you like to listen to in the morning?

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves. (p.97) The Body Keeps Score, Van der Kolk

Trauma and EMDR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53RX2ESIqsM

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. -Neil Gaiman A reminder to tend your dreams.

Have you had an NDE? Do you talk about it? I have been studying this for a while and what I have learned is that when a person has had such an experience they have greater insights, can hear, sometimes see people who have gone to another dimension. I find the study fascinating so fascinate me with your story.

Live and let live. If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place. --William Glasser

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. -Neil Gaiman

Sunday poetry: If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire... For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in! --Shel Silverstein See more