Steps to Awareness

Happy 4th of July holiday weekend to you :)

I'm starting to understand things more and more... It's like the more answers I seek, then the more information comes in.

It feels pretty awesome, as though things I was blocked from understanding or knowing before are now open, open as I am willing to walk through those doors and then maintain that level of awareness with my thoughts, feelings and actions.

There is less hurt, there is little confusion. There is just life going smoothly and a feeling that there are so many blessings I couldn't see before. I'm effective where I used to be blind and/or stuck or frustrated.

My anger is dissipating. In its place is coming a kind of compassion. Not getting involved in the dramas of pain I used to see in other's lives - yet knowing it isn't at all easy to live life like that. Instead of judging, there is a degree of understanding. So its both separate - and not.

You who read my various blogs over the last 3 years and left such wonderful comments over the years, thank you...

You gave me stepping stones to healing, to comfort, to learning, to gradually changing the very way I think... Every piece of information led to another, and I keep searching for answers, answers that now come more easily. Clarity feels awesome !!!

I still have gajillions of things to learn. I choose to. *Light* for my highest good. Woo-woo as it sounds, I don't know how else to express it, that joyous thrill moment of light bulb of "I get it ! I understand. I see."

I used to use blogging as a means of social communication.

From here on out, it will be more of stating awarenesses and learnings. I am going to change the focus, and am choosing to find those few blogs and people who are on a similar path of exploring...

Thank you for all you have given me. Without you, none of this would be possible. May you be blessed in return a thousandfold.

"Genuine. Sometimes I'm a genuine sweetheart. Sometimes I'm a genuine..." (author - me)

Be Back Soon

Taking a bit of a blog vacation :)












"Genuine. Sometimes I'm a genuine sweetheart. Sometimes I'm a genuine..." (author - me)

High Maintenance - A Positive Perspective

There's a certain joy that comes with being tidy. Aside from the feng-shui aspect of things being neat, it just flat out feels good, being organized and meticulous does.

Not to the degree of the all labels facing the same direction kind of thing, but just the sense of care and welcome that comes from attention.

Messes and clutter seem to repesent issues that haven't been faced, stuckness, holding on to things that haven't been worked on and resolved. The whole pat rack thing seems to be as much psychological as it is demonstrably physical.

When you walk in someone's home and it is immaculate, it makes it look easy, as though there's nothing to do.

The reality is though, that it comes from constant maintenance. A hundred small things, all taken care of as they happen.

Kitchen countertops wiped down, garbage disposer run with some baking soda in it to keep it smelling fresh. Items taken from the pantry put back where they belong. Packages past expiration dates thrown out. Dishes washed, dried and put away.

Mail opened, sorted and junk mail thrown out, with bills paid, stamps on envelops and then mailed. Old phone messages deleted, a fresh pad and working pen by the phone.

Garbage taken out, a new drawstring trash can liner put in every night. Old roses with drooping blooms and shedding petals thrown out, new blooms cut from the garden, fresh water in the vase... Old magazines replaced with current issues.

Dusting, vacuuming, tidying, organizing, regular clutter removal... Touch up painting, burglar alarm and appliance service, all of the things that make a home function smoothly and make it look as though nothing needs to be done - when in fact things are constantly being done.

It doesn't happen by accident. It takes time, effort, thought, motivation, responsibility and desire. The end result is pleasure.

Sometimes it seems as though each aspect of our lives, successfully done, is the result of high maintenance. Be it our careers, our bodies/appearance/health, our emotional growth, our intellectual development, our educations, spiritual development, intimate and platonic and family relationships, any of it, all of it...

What area of your life are you proud of maintaining ?

"Genuine. Sometimes I'm a genuine sweetheart. Sometimes I'm a genuine..." (author - me)

Point of Origin

Those all just feel so good, those images... There is such an upliftment in them, it's palpable...

Do you ever ask for awarenesses ? As though if you are truly seeking an answer, you'll get information that guides you in an effective direction of growth ?

Are you ever trying to go to sleep, and all of a sudden you have one of those light bulb moments/thoughts - something you just have to get up and write down because you think it matters somehow ?

And this was it : "The biggest pain(s) in most people's lives is not taking responsibility for their part in its point of origin.
And then not (stopping it) making a different choice at that point.
Therein lies heartache and stuckness, or pleasure and freedom..."

WHAT DO YOU FEEL RESONATING INSIDE WITH TODAY'S POST ?

"Genuine. Sometimes I'm a genuine sweetheart. Sometimes I'm a genuine..." (author - me)

Happy Father's Day

"Genuine. Sometimes I'm a genuine sweetheart. Sometimes I'm a genuine..." (author - me)