The problem with listening to music thru headphones is I get it nice and loud and really get into it and it’s too easy to forget I’m singing and dancing to something no one else can hear. Wait, that’s my life…

Jeffrey Austin Smith

My friend Jeffrey Smith is doing research for a book which involves the subject of prayer and how to use it. After seeing Dr Dossey on Oprah “Super Sunday”, Jeffrey contacted him about his book “Healing Words” and this is what he emailed  back.

An interview with Larry Dossey, MD

Dr. Dossey, what is spirituality?

Dr. Larry Dossey http://www.dosseydossey.com

For me, it’s simply a sense of connectedness with a higher power — a reality beyond the self or ego.  People have different terms for this, such as God, Goddess, Allah, the Tao, Universe, and so on. I favor “The Absolute,” because this term is refreshingly free from any particular religious connotation.  Spirituality is not the same as religion, which involves specific behaviors, rituals, and beliefs, usually among a community of like-minded believers.  People can be spiritual without being religious, and vice versa, or they can be both or neither.

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Please count the number of electrical outlets you are using in the room you are in right now. Now use that as a metaphor for how you’ve been using your own energy and you wonder why  you’re exhausted… Ok, as you were.

Great inspiration!  Partial transcript of Joe Rogan & Bryan Callen on Haters and Inspiration at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4O3U220GE&feature=share

“The beautiful thing about technology is you can spend your time listening to music and reading about what Lady Gaga wore to the gym, or you can open your mind to a whole world out there.  See someone doing something well and be inspired by them. It’s supposed to inspire you. If you open yourself up to something beautiful and great and let that really be effective, be astonished by it, be scared by it, whatever it takes, you will find way more strength in that surrender to The Beautiful than you will when you close yourself off.  All of us, all of us  have this notion to go “F**k this, I’m closing myself off from this…  In order to be a real man or a real woman, you have to earn the whole thing.  And the crazy thing is that, to be The Man, to get to that point, to BE The Man, you have to literally never NOT EVEN POSSIBLY be the man because you have to get to the zen state of “there is no The Man,” it’s all about the work, what genius you’re putting out, whether it’s music, whether it’s writing, whatever it is, it’s about finding that Real, Pure Place so there is NEVER The Man.  That’s when the muse kicks in, the idea of this all comes from Somewhere else, it’s like maybe it is just an attitude that allows you to bypass the ego. “

HELP ME FIGURE. DOES SHE HAVE ENOUGH?

Domino says to me, “I wonder if I have enough plywood to board up the windows if we get a hurricane this year.”  I love tasks like this: helping someone make use of what they have.  You can help me figure it out.

The windows measure:
48 x 48 front bedroom
48 x 48 back bedroom
36 x 36 kitchen window
24 x 60 east of chimney
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I believe people can stay friends after breakups.  Just because you love each other doesn’t mean you have to be together.  Just because you’ve lost the lust for a mate, doesn’t mean you can’t stay happily together.  Just because you argue doesn’t mean you have to split up.  Just because you split up and separate doesn’t mean you have to divorce.  Just because you divorce doesn’t mean you can’t still hang out together for mutual interests.  If each one follows their heart, they may indeed part ways but still everyone wins and you can have the best of all worlds when you understand that.  The person I care the most about in the world is an ex boyfriend who’s married to a friend of mine.  She’s is the perfect mate for him and he adores her and goes out of his way to do for her.  He’s a do-er, constantly coming up with something to delight her.  He and I talk on the phone every few weeks and that fulfills something deep within me that no one else fills.  Do we want to be together now?  I believe his response to that jokingly posed query years ago was “There’s not enough therapy in the world for that to happen.” Which proves my point. Continue reading →

Beverly Marie Gelb-Ceroy

“I believe that when we set foot on the PATH, people, thoughts and things drop away from us as they no longer FIT who we are becoming. Like losing a great deal of weight, you have to release your old wardrope, some of which you may still love but it just doesn’t fit any longer. I also believe that allowing ourself to be Guided is part of the process and this is where it gets tricky.  We’ve never really Allowed this fully before.  When I don’t know what to do, I say this prayer from Neale Donald Walsch:  “Dear God, something beyond my current understanding is before me, the understanding of which would change EVERYTHING.  Please Show me the Way.” Then I go about my days…..until I AM shown my next step. The Buddah says: ” when in doubt do nothing.” Allow the next step REVEAL itself to you.” Beverly Marie Gelb-Ceroy

The above was in response to:  What about vows when life choices and intentions change?

On Facebook tonight, my roommate wrote:  “If your assistant doesn’t assist you, hire me: I will make you laugh and feel light-hearted all day, I can answer your phone with a smile and treat your customers and your business with the upmost respect and care, I’m completely computer literate and genuinely a really nice guy, I can make your life so much easier, but you don’t know how wonderful I am, because you accept applications online only, so we have never had this discussion, or the one about what I cannot do. What I cannot do is pass your background check or the judgements you make as a result of it. ”  I responded, “What might help is if you had not checked you had a felony conviction on the application when you do not have a felony conviction, you ditzoid.”  Just sayin…

Domino writes: “Impasse: my husband & I have slowly drifted far apart as I’ve embraced world views beyond fundamentalist Christianity. I’ve walled off part of myself from him as a result, because even things like non Christian music and yoga are sinful and not even open for discussion, so my exploration of other religions and views I do entirely hidden from him.  About 10 years ago after much thought and prayer, I thought my life’s purpose was to become a Unity minister.  I wanted to leave advertising and go to seminary. This totally freaked my husband out, and he very bluntly stated that he would never be married to a minister. That destroyed my world, I struggled with depression and coming out of it forced me to reexamine all my views about God and the Bible.   He has no idea who I am anymore, and I know he would never accept it.  That leaves me basically without a life partner on a soul level, for the rest of my life unless I would leave him. But leaving him would be devastating for him– emotionally, financially (I’ve been the breadwinner the last 22 years), and since divorce and remarriage is a sin to him,  he would live the rest of his life without a partner. So I see my choice as either to remain in a dead relationship or cause much suffering to someone I vowed to love. Neither choice feels good to me.  I’m not looking for “the answer”– just curious about your perspective.”  I posed the question on Facebook and got interesting responses:

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