November 2006 - Stress Alive

There are many ways to gauge the success (or failure) of the 'war on terrorism'. Are there fewer attacks? Are more allies piling into the fray?

DO PEOPLE FEEL SAFER?

Before addressing this question, one must ask 'how are people getting their information about terrorism?' Today, when so much of the news, publications, and other forms of propoganda are geared to influence and spin, it's difficult to collect relevant information. It is out there, and if one chooses to become aware, it will take a commitment of time and energy to become so.

In this age of infobytes which are more about blather and spin, ignorance becomes dangerous. Not bliss. Because, as individuals get all worked up and lathered by the spinners and 'reporters', their stress toxins are elevating into 'fight or flight' mode. If this elevation persists, then there may be dire consequences on a psycho-physiological level, for years to come.

Not unlike the issues of one suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, signs and symptoms emerge when one is threatened with no sense of empowerment that they are able to constructively organize around the threat.

DO YOU FEEL SAFE WITH THE PRESENT APPROACH TO TERRORISM?

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Today Is Lost In Yesterday & Tomorrow

November 26th 2006 14:17

YESTERDAY--

What so many people cannot let go of. Memories may be good, yet if that is where the focus remains, then that is called 'living in the past'. Memories may be bad, such as severe trauma. Body and mind, holding on to what in all essence needs to be cut loose. Some call this hell.

So many people are stuck in yesterday.

TODAY--

In the moment, Being present. Stopping and smelling the roses. Being alive, now. Actually, all we are truly capable of is being alive, NOW. The rest is simply subterfuge? Focus on the present, today, and that is what moves energy into the future.

The hippies did it. "Be here now", they chanted. Weren't they just a bunch of drug taking, copulating dirt bags? Or were they on to something?

Recovering addicts do it. "One day at a time", this implying that today is where the attention must stay.

Success strategists suggest that, while today is important, it is essential to plan for the future. Being overly identified in just today, as the motivational mantra goes, is to have no stewardship over tomorrow.

TOMORROW--

Ah, elusive tomorrow. When I will be all that I can be, and everything will be good. It is great to have plans and intentions for tomorrow. Then you can say, "I have plans and intentinos for tomorrow." This is a valued statement, and many will then pat you on the back.

It does, though, come back to today. What is being done today to move energy toward tomorrow?

MY SYNOPSIS---

Today is where our primary focus must remain. This empowers us to be alive and enjoy our every moment. It truly is all we really have. Today. And this is what moves us into the future. Attention today, aligned with intention for tomorrow.

Yesterday can intoxicate and polute today if we allow this to happen. Bad memories will be toxic. Good memories for some will lead to a stuckness that is falsely identified as comfort zone.

Learn fom the past, yet do not become stuck in history.

Tomorrow is tricky and slippery. We all know, in our heightened levels of consciousness, that there is tomorrow. Unless...all sorts of things can take tomorrow away. Another reason to live in the moment.

Yet, I agree with the success motivators. Planning for tomorrow is what will make success and achievement more likely. The trick is to not become so obsessed that you forget about living today.

Live today, colored by yesterday, with direction into tomorrow.

ARE YOU IN TODAY, YESTERDAY, OR TOMOROW?

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Those Pesky Emotions!!

November 24th 2006 12:55

"My heart is source of emotional experience and expression, and I express my emotional experience in a way that is compatible with the nature and integrity of the moment."

Emotions are more than mysterious feelings. They are bio-chemically active processes within our mind-body system. A mindful awareness and approach to our emotions is key.

Many go through their days in knee-jerk reaction to this or that, spewing their mindless emotional experience all over the place. Very disturbing and very disruptive. This is not healthy, and not necessary.

It may take some practice to learn to simply be with what you are feeling, but to do so will empower you beyond what you could imagine. Our emotions, our passion, are our source of personal power. Coming to terms with anger, sadness, loss, frustration, anxiety, and even happiness and glee, will go a long way toward freeing you up to truly and deeply be you. Very significant. After all, you is the best thing you have to offer to others.

Mindfulness of our emotional experience requires awareness of when it is appropriate to express your feelings, and how. There are times when your emotional processing is better done in private. And other times when totally indicated while communicating with others. Each individual must find this balance.

My heart is source of emotional experience, and I express my emotional experience in a way that is compatible with the nature and integrity of the moment.

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As If Today Were My Last

November 22nd 2006 12:49

So often when one is nearing death, personal values and priorities seem to emerge and prominently surface from the depths under which they have been buried. Years and years of living a life of superficial immediacy can become a distraction from what has possibly been identified as important, deep, and meaningful. Even the misperception that death is on the approach may be significant enough to feed a re-orientation to the things that possibly matter.

If I can just get through this, I am going to spend more time with my family, many often think or bargain. Or, I am going to go on a rampage of debauchery as if it is up to me and only me to perpetuate the species, others might hedonistically plan. Whatever the goal may be, it is as if now and only now shall this change or life modification take place

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What I Do Today Moves Me Into Tomorrow

November 20th 2006 12:51

"My mind is source of connection between my attention and my intention, and I know that what I do today will move me into my tomorrow."

We can choose to focus our minds on whatever we want, with some exceptions. Many people choose to go mindless, and not focus on anything of substance. This is not a bad thing nor is it a good thing

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There Is Tremendous Power & Energy In Anger

November 18th 2006 13:28

So many people are so fearful of the kind of anger that may evoke such a statement. Anger is intense, and is remarkably powerful. Shakes one right out of the numbness that is often associated with dissociation and simple retreat from the complications of modern life.

Anger, yes this is what I shall address. So, please, clean out your hearholes

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More Sex!!

November 16th 2006 18:47

Grunt, grunt. Ooh, ahh. Ooh, Ahh. Pant, pant. Aieeegghhiiieee!!!

Joel lay in the aftermath of love-making, feeling spent and blissful. Yet, as he often does, Joel wonders if it was as good for Lori as it was for him.
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My Dog Does Not Hold Grudges

November 14th 2006 12:35

Puck is a Corgi, and he smiles often. Even when he is not able to eat horse feces or go for a walk or chase the cat all over the place, he smiles.

If I forget to feed him and he eats an hour or so late, he just flows with it. If he doesn't get a walk or run for a day or two, he is so 'in the moment' that he seems cool with it

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It's About Simplicity, Dammit!!

November 12th 2006 13:50

I become irritated when this thing called life makes me get serious. As if there are things more important than kicking it, having a good time, laughing, and the like. That's my default--ease.

Yet, there are these other things in the soup. Money, sickness, politics, religion, meaning of life, hatred, laws, and all other things that interrupt the easy-going way of being. I really don't have time for all that. I mean really, what's the point

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Your Personal Mission Statement

November 11th 2006 13:47

Business and corporations typically put together a mission statement that identifies who they are, what they do, and how it will be of service to their clientele. When kept simple, and if truly expressive of who they are and where they want to go, these mission statements can become an integral part of an overall campaign of promotion.

I have been working with individuals in the creation of personal mission statements. In so many cases people do not think about who they are, where they have been where they are now, and where they want to go. Our work creates some clarity relative to this, and offers empowerment to move 'effectively' into the future. Proactively rather than reactively

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Humor Bomb

November 8th 2006 06:49

It’s not that I prefer to think of things in such a destructive way. With such violent language. Yet ‘Humor Bomb’ seems the most apt description of what I prescribe to so many people in so many circumstances. “Learn to laugh,” I implore, “or you will wither and waste away in the toxic juices of your hyper-serious self importance.”

When parents and teens engage in the perpetual battle signified by the proverbial generation gap, a Humor Bomb could be just the remedy to point out the ultimate inane and preposterous positions on both sides of the spat

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Defining Moments

November 6th 2006 13:30

Every life has its’ defining moments. In terms of archetypes, this can be seen as the Night Sea Journey so eloquently depicted by Homer in The Odyssey. Odysseus, en route home, experiences many a defining moment in his twenty-year journey. The many ordeals at sea each had a sculpting and molding on his ever-maturing psyche.

These defining moments, often stressful, bring flavor and meaning to life. There is a pattern that occurs, possibly unrecognizable with anything but hindsight. We may be aware that we are in the midst of a ‘night-sea journey’, yet the luxury of reflection comes typically after-the-fact

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High Blood Pressure: A Way Of Life

November 4th 2006 21:29

Embrace your high blood pressure as a symbol of the lifestyle you have chosen to sustain. Wear your elevated systolic and diastolic numbers like a badge of honor, saying to all that you are proud and happy with the lifestyle you have achieved, and will not let some silly thing like hypertension stop you.

Minimal exercise allows you to avoid sweat, sore muscles, enhanced circulation, and the effort of engaging the body

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You Are So Cute In Your Angry Need To Have The Last Word

November 3rd 2006 13:15

I suppose I overlook that my 14y/o son is clinging to his emerging sense of identity when he "debates" so many "issues" that I had not realized were such fodder for conflict. I suppose it may have come off a bit condescending when I told him how cute he is in his seemingly angry need to have the last word. I suppose that may have been my attempt to have the last word.

Hmmm. I suppose I can deceive myself and say I was only trying to communicate with him on his own level. I suppose a therapist-type would suggest that I was full of the feces

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