Hidden rage, driven to deeper depths, finds its way to expression through other. All are one. What one does not wish to express, other must. Energy moves stealthily among the many like an unseen ghost having its way. Niceness belongs to anger and anger to niceness. Choose passive nice-ity over holding lines and anger seeps into the masses to explode.
Entire cultures value nice and turn heads while buried anger arises elsewhere. Fingers pointed and blame placed, “look at that horrible display of rage! Tsk, tsk!” Black and white, Democrat and Republican, Middle East and Western culture: Which will ascend to top? Balance aloof while perspective remains broken and unwhole.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Positive Process
All too familiar, the collapse of downbeat events holds tightly to the heart and mind as though nothing good has ever happened. Long held habits of mentality speak over and over of what goes wrong. Dreams come true? Psyche clings hard to the one familiar truth of - no.
Anxiety runs through nerves at a quick and steady pace while mind skips round in chaotic search for the familiar discontent only to find none. What, what, what? Wishes come true? What? The mind denies the unfamiliar righteousness as a safety mechanism. Renovate Self to recognize joy as harmless becomes the new task. Movement from disappointment to fulfillment is barely recognizable, as joyful zest becomes the engine driving positive process until at last – it is the new familiar.
Anxiety runs through nerves at a quick and steady pace while mind skips round in chaotic search for the familiar discontent only to find none. What, what, what? Wishes come true? What? The mind denies the unfamiliar righteousness as a safety mechanism. Renovate Self to recognize joy as harmless becomes the new task. Movement from disappointment to fulfillment is barely recognizable, as joyful zest becomes the engine driving positive process until at last – it is the new familiar.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sovereignty
Sovereignty:
Deep in the core of Self lies the authority to wrestle down inner demons to cooperative, sedentary status. Costumed in fear, demons render powerless that which is supremely powerful. Self possesses complete power to discern lines that others may not cross, complete authority to value Self regardless of outside opinion. No one at any time has any power to influence a conscious state, unless such power is given.
Give away sovereignty and lose Self to other. Retain authority over Self, alone and no other, to gain freedom and connection within. Willingness to stand for something, to take a strong position and hold it even when it’s hard is to gain Self. The Universe will test on this. Fear and insecurity will thrive as life’s challenging maze is traversed. The way out of the maze? …follow heart, especially when it’s hard.
Eleanor Roosevelt understood sovereignty over Self and used it well. I offer several quotes from her here.
Available: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/eleanor_roosevelt.html
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
• Friendship with ones self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
• We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all.
• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Deep in the core of Self lies the authority to wrestle down inner demons to cooperative, sedentary status. Costumed in fear, demons render powerless that which is supremely powerful. Self possesses complete power to discern lines that others may not cross, complete authority to value Self regardless of outside opinion. No one at any time has any power to influence a conscious state, unless such power is given.
Give away sovereignty and lose Self to other. Retain authority over Self, alone and no other, to gain freedom and connection within. Willingness to stand for something, to take a strong position and hold it even when it’s hard is to gain Self. The Universe will test on this. Fear and insecurity will thrive as life’s challenging maze is traversed. The way out of the maze? …follow heart, especially when it’s hard.
Eleanor Roosevelt understood sovereignty over Self and used it well. I offer several quotes from her here.
Available: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/eleanor_roosevelt.html
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
• Friendship with ones self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
• We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all.
• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Mining the Psyche
Precious gems, gold and silver line the inner reaches of the psyche. Digging deeper into the darkness searching for treasure to pay off the gods and demons, a strike is had and it’s payday. Tears scale cheek as jewels are extracted from the crevasses of karmic wounding. Painful cries resound as fear is seen and reckoned. To what end does this process continue?
Karmic wounds, present as fear, rise to the surface where the light of day shines like a beacon calling forth the demons to be recognized and embraced. Yes, embraced. Like all living things demons want to belong somewhere, want to be welcomed and will fight to the death to be so. Judgment of fear grows it strong and fierce, while tolerance brings it meek and mild. Fear reacts powerfully to fear and like all things, openly to acceptance.
Treasure cached in the psyche as fear is mined until it is dispelled and replaced with loving tolerance and trust. The light of day shines into the deep cracks erasing the effects of wounding in spite of the wound remaining. That one sliver of gold must remain to keep the psyche in check, to force it to remain humbly human.
Karmic wounds, present as fear, rise to the surface where the light of day shines like a beacon calling forth the demons to be recognized and embraced. Yes, embraced. Like all living things demons want to belong somewhere, want to be welcomed and will fight to the death to be so. Judgment of fear grows it strong and fierce, while tolerance brings it meek and mild. Fear reacts powerfully to fear and like all things, openly to acceptance.
Treasure cached in the psyche as fear is mined until it is dispelled and replaced with loving tolerance and trust. The light of day shines into the deep cracks erasing the effects of wounding in spite of the wound remaining. That one sliver of gold must remain to keep the psyche in check, to force it to remain humbly human.
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