There's this really cool website that gives you a scale of how big earth is as compared to some of the stars out there. It's worth taking a look at.
http://www.kiroastro.com/writings/perspective
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
National Temper Tantrum Day
There's a lot of talk right now about thinking positively, especially concerning the Law of Attraction. I think focusing on the positive is important. I also think it's just as important to honor when you feel shitty. I don't believe it's healthy to wallow in it. Wallowing is not honoring how bummed you feel. Wallowing is holding onto that feeling and not letting it flow through you. Because if you don't let it go, it just stays stuck and then you start to dwell on all the places in your life where things are wrong, and that just creates a downward spiral.
So I was thinking, if we had a National Temper Tantrum Day, everybody could just vent. I suggest we all stay inside and just have screaming fits, or we could have a parade whereverybody did their "I'm pissed" interpretive dance to get it all out. That's why they have Mardi Gras in New Orleans - one night to get it all your vices out because Lent comes in the next day.
I think supressed, passive aggressive anger does more damage than anything. Because then it stews and smolders like a volcano until it just blows.
One of my friends on facebook lost her adoptive son two years ago and it still hurts. When I was on her page, I saw that particular post and also noticed that it was a week old and nobody had commented on it. I posted, "Loss is a bitch. Even when we know that when people die they go into the light where there's nothing but Divine light ant love and hot, naked angels in a jacuzzi with you. On this end, it's still a bitch." What does this say? You're suffering and I see you in your suffering. Most people just want to be seen. Then they're done and they can move on to better in their lives.
So I was thinking, if we had a National Temper Tantrum Day, everybody could just vent. I suggest we all stay inside and just have screaming fits, or we could have a parade whereverybody did their "I'm pissed" interpretive dance to get it all out. That's why they have Mardi Gras in New Orleans - one night to get it all your vices out because Lent comes in the next day.
I think supressed, passive aggressive anger does more damage than anything. Because then it stews and smolders like a volcano until it just blows.
One of my friends on facebook lost her adoptive son two years ago and it still hurts. When I was on her page, I saw that particular post and also noticed that it was a week old and nobody had commented on it. I posted, "Loss is a bitch. Even when we know that when people die they go into the light where there's nothing but Divine light ant love and hot, naked angels in a jacuzzi with you. On this end, it's still a bitch." What does this say? You're suffering and I see you in your suffering. Most people just want to be seen. Then they're done and they can move on to better in their lives.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Millionaires
I attended the Millionaire Mind Intensive with my daughter and one of her friends. It was interesting. Very emotional experience. It was definitely intensive. The seminar was based off the book The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker. He believes that your financial state is determined by how you think about recieving and the habits you form around money. His goal is to inspire people to become millionaires via changing their mindset by taking his seminars.
I realized after taking this seminar that I do not want to be a millionaire. Here's a good story that illustrates where I'm at. I have a friend who does want to be a millionaire and isn't, and finally came to peace with that fact. We were having bread pudding at Lucille's and she said, "Even if I had a million dollars, I would still come here to this place for this bread pudding. I wouldn't fly anywhere else for it, because it's the best bread pudding I've ever had." She saw where she was abundant in the moment.
Mr. Eker asked us to visualize how our lives would be different should we be millionaires. I wouldn't change anything in my life. I live near people I love and I am doing what I love. I went to the Desert Botanical Museum to see the Dale Chihuley show, and it was so magical! My daughter and I went with one of my friends who is a volunteer there and she knew all the hidden, special places there and which one of the volunteers could recite his own poetry. He told us one of his poems. And it was free, because she comped us in.
I think life is pretty incredible. And money? Money is just a tool. I suppose the more of it you have, the bigger the house you could build from that. But in the end, I think the Universe gives you what you need when you need it. For example, I almost always get everything I ask for and it has never mattered what it was I wanted. If I don't get it, there's always a pretty damn good reason why it doesn't show up - which I always find out. And then I'm just grateful that it didn't come my way.
I know hospice workers and when somebody dies, money is never the thing they talk about before they die. It's always about love and being there for each other.
I realized after taking this seminar that I do not want to be a millionaire. Here's a good story that illustrates where I'm at. I have a friend who does want to be a millionaire and isn't, and finally came to peace with that fact. We were having bread pudding at Lucille's and she said, "Even if I had a million dollars, I would still come here to this place for this bread pudding. I wouldn't fly anywhere else for it, because it's the best bread pudding I've ever had." She saw where she was abundant in the moment.
Mr. Eker asked us to visualize how our lives would be different should we be millionaires. I wouldn't change anything in my life. I live near people I love and I am doing what I love. I went to the Desert Botanical Museum to see the Dale Chihuley show, and it was so magical! My daughter and I went with one of my friends who is a volunteer there and she knew all the hidden, special places there and which one of the volunteers could recite his own poetry. He told us one of his poems. And it was free, because she comped us in.
I think life is pretty incredible. And money? Money is just a tool. I suppose the more of it you have, the bigger the house you could build from that. But in the end, I think the Universe gives you what you need when you need it. For example, I almost always get everything I ask for and it has never mattered what it was I wanted. If I don't get it, there's always a pretty damn good reason why it doesn't show up - which I always find out. And then I'm just grateful that it didn't come my way.
I know hospice workers and when somebody dies, money is never the thing they talk about before they die. It's always about love and being there for each other.
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