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What do you find your mind drawn to? What seems to be entertaining you? What do you think about in a more consistent manner? Are we compelled to be thinking in a certain way? Can we re-train our little brains to entertain another possibility? We seem to want to find someone else or a situation to point at and say (with shock), OMG! How could they do that? Look what they did! Look what they're wearing! I'm never going to be like .... _______________ fill in the blank here... (could be my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, like her, like him, like them....) And we wonder why we have conflict????? Let's try to look at the GO sign... not the STOP sign! If your focus seems to want to go where you're not getting positive benefit... you can re-train and consider an alternative. We cannot change our default thinking.... however, we can expand, add and choose a more beneficial focus.

We often already have the answer we seek, we just don't want to listen! Yabutt!

http://www.familyhealthguide.co.uk/depressed-elderly-cheer-up-with-tai-chi.html Interesting! I've been thinking about teaching tai chi at the senior's home and this helped.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-marion/lost-beatles-photographs_b_840775.html#s258101 I could probably never get enough Beatles info (getting nostalgic) and this is an interesting add...

Ok.... riddle me this.... What can't be Googled????????

Only 6 more days before the youngest leaves on his worldly adventure to New Zealand... leaving us... (sigh)...(bigger sigh)... alone! I'm very excitied for him. He's worked so hard to have this in his life and I know he'll be challenged, extended and enjoy. I admire and respect his ability to suspend fear and create! Thank God for technology so we can pretend he's physically closer...Watch out world... he's coming atchya.

Anyone want to join these people?

Does your cat constantly climb up your screen? Mine does.... We have two of them that like to climb, scratch, claw, defecate, and then purr their way into my heart... It's not fair!

There are always points of conflict and struggle that seem to naturally occur in relationships. Most people are uncomfortable and fearful of these times and even when not, the situations are often mishandled. It seems that it may be benficial, more productive and efficient if we were to establish more reasonable terms of engagement that are less conflictual, less volatile and more understanding and peaceful... at least that would be my preference. Let's say you see two children arguing or fighting in the school yard. You intervene and "break up" the fight. If you were to ask, "OK, Who started it?". What response would you expect? Typically you'll see two fingers pointing at each other and the verbal response will be... "he (or she) did! It is as if we actually believe at that point of conflict that "he (or she) made me do it!" It all his (or her) fault! If this is really true then, we actually lose complete control of our own bodies (and mind...

We have all heard it (and perhaps said it) before.... this is not re-inventing nor inventing the wheel.... BE GRATEFUL !... you know.. you should be more grateful!... Count your blessings! yeh, yeh, yeh... enough already. We typically have a defensive responsive at the time because we're busy not being grateful and don't want to hear... blah, blah, blah... Why should I be more grateful when I don't have what I want? or what I have... or at least part of it... sucks!? Don't most of us think that... perhaps quietly, secretively? We have this seemingly innate need to believe in our own deprivation. We can easily focus on what we don't have, or on what we do have that’s wrong… rather than looking differently at the reasons why we have what we have. I need to tell you that it's a different experience when you realize that we are creators, or at least co-creators of our lives. It is not the external that is creating the belief in deprivation... it is our interpretatio...

If you've been watching or listening to the news lately, it's hard to avoid hearing about the catastrophic occurrences right now around the world... What thoughts come to your mind???? I reminds me somewhat of how I felt when I heard about the first plane hitting the World Trade Centre. I was driving my son to school and listening to the radio... by the time I got home the second had hit and I was mesmerized and in shock, spending the day glued to the TV... indelibly etched into my little brain! But I remember sitting in my classroom in grade five when the announcement came over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been assassinated! How could a nine year old even know about that stuff? and yet I still remember being struck with a powerful sense of grief and fear. I remember hearing and talking about how he had saved the world from the possible destruction from the Bay of Pigs conflict... we had to hide out under the stairs with our meager food provisions in case of nucle...

Most of us consider love to be something desirable and often missing from our lives. It is important to consider how we are defining that experience/feeling/behaviour. What is love to you? It's no wonder we get confused about that elusive concern! Recently Exhart Tolle was interviewed about love in relationships and I thought that his comments were worthy of repeating... His web site is http://www.eckharttolle.com/ Th following is an exerpt of that interview: ET: What is conventionally called "love" is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which can only come to you in the state of surrender. The ego uses that person as a substitute to avoid having to surrender. The Spanish language is the most honest in this respect. It uses the same verb, te quiero, for "I love you" and "I want you." To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner ...

Okay... here's the big one! (and yes it is my obvious exploitation of an individuals condition). How do we go about healing a mind that some have said is self-imposed ego maniacal; suffering from organic psychosis, too many drugs, too much alcohol, organic brain disorder... etc. Some people are angry, some won't watch his show anymore, some profess to never having had liked him; some think he's evil; some think he shouldn't deserve to be a father, and some, are envious and jealous. I want you to expand your thinking for a moment and consider the reason that we notice or pay attention to all of the apparent problems we see in another? What is it about us... you know that part that makes it impossible not to look at an accident as we drive by? that makes it impossible for us to not know about Charlie Sheen? Are we genuinely concerned? or quietly entertained in some way? I'll be the first to put my hand up to admit that it's entertaining in a bizarre, surreal kind ...

I have been graciously invited to speak at the All Saints Church in Collingwood March 16 on the topic (of all things!) of An introduction to Spiritual Healing . My fear is that if any of the participants read this beforehand, they may not attend, however, my guarantee to them is that they will all feel/be healed by the end of the experience! This topic is probably a book on it's own and I'm sure I could/will receive many arguments and contrary opinions. I hope that you consider the following... People are searching these days, perhaps more than they ever have for a solution to their distress... relationships are difficult, finances are challenging, feeling depressed, disconnected and alone. What's the answer?????? The self-help industry is bulging with various explanations, providing what appear to be viable, plausible answers. We can find 1,000 different ways and an equal number of steps we need to take to get what we're looking for... but what is it we are all seekin...