Monthly Archives: October 2009

Choosing your thoughts is a daily yoga. Recognize the reflections around you.

I wrote in Getting so caught in our own spin that we don’t see our own wobble about friends on the fast track whose lives are a routine of hurried sameness. They don’t have time to think about what they’d prefer instead, it’s all they can do to think about everything they have to think about to keep their current life in motion.  No room for new thoughts.  No time for new thoughts.  That’s what their programmed mind keeps telling them.  I’m not much different.  I have the same thoughts, I just act on those thoughts far less often than I used to. I still feel rushed.  I still feel the sense of urgency to do, do, do. I just recognize now that they are simply thoughts, and I can choose to release the thought and not act on it, and not react to it. A friend told me she was surprised and glad to read that I have the same thoughts.  She said I always seem so calm and centered, she imagined I only had calm thoughts.  That really made me laugh. The only difference is that – now – I just recognize they are simply thoughts, and I release the thought. I am the one in charge of what thoughts I choose to think.  I am not always in charge of what thoughts pop into my mind, but I am in charge of what thoughts I choose to continue to think.  I am in charge of how I react to each thought. Continue reading

Getting so caught in our own spin that we don’t see our own wobble

Caught up in the spin

Caught up in the spin

I woke up this morning realizing I had not written a blog post yet. I usually write it the evening before.  I was so busy yesterday doing final layout for the November Horizons Magazine that I worked through the evening and then just went to bed.  As I came in here this morning, nothing came to me to write about, however I knew that, as usual, as soon as I sat at the keyboard, something would come to me.  It didn’t.  So I opened an email from a friend.  I’d ask him how he was doing and he responded, “I guess I’m OK. Are you picking up something? I’m not aware of it. You know, the top that wobbles as it spins may just be aware of the spin, not the wobble.  I admit I’m not taking the best care of myself. I’ve done a couple of classes with X, and I’m still going out with Y. Any of these things could signal something is out of balance, but still I’m choosing to do them. I thought that was an insightful observation.

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Paula Deen’s Ignorant Comment: Ignorant as in she doesn’t even know why it’s offensive

Ignorant comment of the hour by Paula Deen: “Is he from this country?”  Paula Deen had a bit of a freak out last week on the set of the “Today Show” after an NBC staffer accidentally walked into the shot and hid behind a kitchen island.  “Oh my goodness, can you all see? What is he doing in here? Does he work here?” Deen asked Al Roker as she prepared her Nutty Orange Coffee Cake to promote the New York City Wine & Food Festival. “He doesn’t have a gun does he? Should we pull out our knives?” Roker laughed along with Deen, although it became a bit awkward after he asked her what she was making.  “Nervous. That’s what we’re making — nerves, nervous,” she said. “Is he from this country?”  To say that the staffer, an olive skinned, Mediterrean looking gentleman, was embarrassed is an understatement.  Had he been blonde haired and blue eyed, there would have been no drama and no story.  And a joke is a joke but that was just ignorant and offensive. Continue reading

No Permit For Sweat Lodge, Dispute Over Who Constructed It, Let The Games Begin

Deaths at Sweat Lodge Bring Soul-Searching. SEDONA, Ariz. — Authorities continue to investigate how two people died and more than a dozen others were overtaken during a ceremony at  James Arthur Ray’s new age Spiritual Warrior Retreat. The authorities say that Ray’s employees built the wood-frame lodge, which was wrapped in blankets and plastic tarps. A spokesman said Ray’s contract with the Angel Valley spiritual retreat called for Angel Valley to “design and construct” the sweat lodge. Sheriff’s Office spokesman said the office stood by its contention that members of Ray’s staff built the sweat lodge. Angel Valley’s owners declined to comment on the contract.

And, it’s pretty wacky but: Sweat Lodge Did Not Have Permit. If you’re going to operate in the world of man, you gotta operate by their rules. That includes amending contracts in writing, such as when who constructs the sweat lodge changes.  I’ve learned if someone wants a contract, there is no such thing as a verbal amendment.  The purpose of a contract is to outline responsibility of the parties in the event of a worst case scenario.  It’s like a prenuptial agreement.  You have to operate with the end in sight.  And take responsibility when the contract shows one party liable, if the other party actually did the work. Continue reading

Even the Maya are sick of Mayan Calendar 2012 hype

I opened a can of soup last night and the expiration date on the top was December 2012.  It was right after I read this: Even the Maya are getting sick of 2012 hype MEXICO CITY – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.  Or is it?  “Definitely not,” the Mayan elder insists. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”   Next month, Hollywood’s “2012” opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

Now it makes sense. Last month I had a couple of mainsteam type friends ask what I thought was going to happen in 2012 at the supposed end of the Mayan calendar.  They know I am not into all the end time prophecies and channelings.  They said they’d seen it in the mainstream news and it was being talked about in the media. I’m like Abraham-Hicks: I think it is a non-date for a non-event.  Unless, of course, mass consciousness makes something happen because they are focused upon it.  Now I realize the reason for the big overflow into the mainstream media is because there is a movie!  Of course! Continue reading

Nationally Known Astrologer and Author Dikki Jo Mullen on The Runes Sunday Oct 18th at Yoga Shakti Mission

Dikki Jo Mullen

Dikki Jo Mullen

This Sunday 18 October Dikki-Jo Mullen will give a presentation on “The Runes” at Yogashakti Mission from 9;00 – 10:00 AM. The runes are sacred letters from the Northern Mystery tradition. They have been in use since about the year 900 AD and are thought to come to us from Odin (Woden), God of Wisdom. He received them in a sacred trance after hanging upside down in Ygraddisdill, The World Tree, for 9 days and 9 nights. Odin relates to the planet Mercury. The word rune means to whisper in Old Norse, suggesting sacred truths. This Sunshine Lecture will introduce you to the runes both as healing charms and as a method of accurate divination. Yoga Shakti Mission is located at 3895 Hield Rd NW in Palm Bay, FL 32907, phone 321-725 4024  www.yogashakti.org

Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died. Creating New Neurological Pathways

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — As Arizona authorities on Saturday investigated how two people died and more than a dozen others were overtaken during a ceremony at  James Arthur Ray‘s new age Spiritual Warrior Retreat near Sedona, questions arose about the circumstances surrounding the simulated Native American rite.  A sweat lodge is similar to a sauna. Traditional lodges are usually made of willow branches and covered in canvas or animal skins, and are not meant to be air-tight. The authorities said that the lodge at Angel Valley was covered in plastic and blankets.  Questions have also arisen about the length of time the people were in the lodge — about two hours. A ceremony usually lasts no more than an hour, Joseph Bruchac, an expert on Native American traditions and author of “The Native American Sweat Lodge,” said. Continue reading

Sweat lodge victim’s family says she was in shape at spiritual retreat. How did James Arthur Ray attract this?

Yesterday I wrote at 2 die, 19 sickened at Sweat Lodge in James Arthur Ray’s Sedona Spiritual Warrior Retreat: SEDONA, Ariz. – A sweat lodge became the scene of a police investigation when more than 20 people became ill and two later died.  Self-help author James Arthur Ray (who appeared in The Secret) rented the facility as part of his Spiritual Warrior Retreat.

Today’s news:  Sweat lodge victim’s family says she was in shape.  I notice a few things that seem out of place in the story, but since I wasn’t there, I can only go on what the media reports (uh oh). Continue reading

Deleting 200 Emails, Starting Over

Last week I deleted more than 200 old emails from the begining of the year.  These are mostly notes about websites that people want me to look at, or business opportunities friends are trying to rook me in inviting me to, or Paypal receipts waiting to be printed, or emails from publicists about their clients’ latest books and cds, with articles to be considered.  I open the emails when they come in, then I save them as new until I have time later to go through them.  Since the beginning of the year, for the first time I got 300 emails behind. And that’s without making time for a personal life!  My friend Beth has 1,000 emails waiting to be read, and even she makes time for vacation cruises every few months!  I could learn from her, however I don’t want to be 1,000 emails behind. Continue reading