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I forget the milk!

A friend just passed along a link to an incredible short film... http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=0k4lsi1dql It's an example of what can happen when focus is applied... the ability to being present. Huge amounts of information is absorbed in a short period of time and then, seemingly miraculously, remembered and applied. Does this mean that we all have the ability to do this... seems like quite a stretch for someone like me who forgets the milk and can't seem to find anything in my own house, you know the where's the ........ ? question.... HHHHmmmmmmm..... foooocuuuuussssss. Allow information and the wonderful synapse connection do it's thing without all the interference I present.... regularly. Until later Leland http://www.counsellingandmediation.com/ info@CounsellingandMediation.com (905) 510-9117 (705) 443-8290

Roles & Rules

I often find myself considering the roles that are played out in my life, and the resulting rules that tend to reinforce those roles. You know the ones I mean, child, adult, boyfriend, husband, friend, father, employee, employer, etc. Primiarily the roles are self-defined as we are or think we should be in relationship to others. What I don't often consider is what lies beyond those roles... what do I really think about them?, why am choosing to define them in the way that I do? Let's take the role of father... What rules seem to define that role... be a protector, provider, teacher. Let's see... the more money I provide, the better father I'll be... haven't done so well with that one... Be a protector... hhmmmm... be responsible for having my children not encounter abuse, abandonement, hardship, alienation, lonliness, black eyes, sickness, unhealthy relationships... again, not so good in my department. Okay maybe I'll do better as a teacher... pass along valuab...