With information coming in from all around, I’ve been feeling out of sorts these past few days. I’m worried that I’m backsliding to my old ways of allowing outside forces to disrupt my practice of being peace. What happened to being in the present (Eckhardt Tolle), taking 15 minutes to do anything (FlyLady), and going with the flow?
My flow and my routine have been interrupted, but rather than stew about it, I’ve finally decided to write it down in this post. Writing is literary art, and as with any art, one keeps working at it to improve, spending time on task. Like a painting, a piece of writing evolves. Writing can be therapeutic too. So here goes. What might be bugging me?
The information that is coming in is of a spiritual nature, from meditating, dreaming, reading, and other people. It’s from practicing the “relax, open, and smile” of qigong. Seek and ye shall find. Ask and it shall be given to you. Right in front of you. Oh, boy! I trust myself and the messages. I welcome them, but I want to take time to sort them out.
In the past seven days I learned that Alan Holt Jr. (art fan), David P. Eldredge (teacher), and Norman Bode (neighbor) died. I can’t say I was close to any of these Hawaiians, but each did touch my heart in his unique way, and I knew he cared. I guess I’m grieving. I remember what the intuitive Camille said to me: “You came into this life to assist with grief, but it is not appropriate to take other people’s grief.” (Okay)
I’m slightly anxious about my eyes. Nothing serious, but the optometrist recommended I visit the ophthalmologist about a wayward eyelash that’s the apparent cause of chronic irritation. So I’ve made an appointment. (Good)
Regarding my body, some aches have returned. Is it something mechanical like my chair? Not enough tai chi—I skipped a couple of classes—or too much? The TMB syndrome (Too Many Birthdays)? Was it from Stephen’s guided meditation last week when I sent a grounding chord from my root chakra at the base of my spine to the middle of the earth? (Hmmm)
Could the soreness be from carrying our baby granddaughter? Ayla, who is an absolute delight, and her entourage come to the studio four days a week now, and I get to do some weight lifting. It’s a very pleasant distraction, though. This week DH and I introduce her to my favorite food, poi. (Wonderful)
Or maybe it’s the shoes thing. Now that’s a problem. I don’t like to wear shoes, at least not the closed-toe kind. I’m hard to fit, my toes need to be able to wiggle and breathe, and recently I haven’t found any that are comfortable, supportive, and stylish. This matters because in six weeks I’ll be on my way to Austria where I will be on a boat as well as on cobblestone streets, and where both the air and the ground will be much too cold to wear sandals like I do in Hawaii. I have large feet, thanks to my Hawaiian and Hakka Chinese genes combined. They’re not just long, they are wide. Wider than M, but not as wide as W, depending. I’ll probably end up turning my trusty lavender snow boots into all occasion footwear and let it go at that. (Good bet)
Lately, too, I’ve added the Ka Lahui Hawaii website, http://kalahuihawaii.wordpress.com, to my “want to do” list.
I want to make and sell more paintings, and . . .
Hey, you know what?! I think I need some REIKI! Can anybody come out on Friday? It will be my treat.
Copyright 2009 Rebekah Luke
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Ohhh, Momi, I hope you’re feeling better. We all have our ups and downs. Remembering to be present helps. Have you read Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose? He tells how and why to be present. As for Furlough Fridays, what a mess. I hope as communities we can all be creative so that something good will come of it. For example, that is one reason why I set up Reiki Fridays. Do you believe there is a (real) reason for everything? And, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade? 😉 Take care, now. Malama.
Rebekah, I think we both have the age thing going on. I was in Honolulu on Saturday, went to the football game with my son & my daughter-in-law. Got tired after tailgating and yelling for the team during the game. Went to the dental U.H. School for my daughter-in-law as she needs patients to clean on Monday and got way out of balance; doing the teeth thing makes me ill. Came home Tuesday night tired and sick. I feel sad for our children who are not in school on Fridays if they are unattended . . . they are just losing all the way around. I think you and I are people who just pick up on everything around us, people and things, and we really Feel a lot, so it is hard to hash it all out without just plain wearing ourselves out totally, and sometimes just being sad for loss of people we know or don’t know.